Happy Birthday, Leo
July 27, 2008 Astrology, Monthly Horoscopes 3 Comments DonateNB - The readings below can either be read from your Sun Sign - i.e. your birthday - or your Ascendant sign, which is calculated from your time of birth. Try also reading it from your Moon Sign, as Hindu astrologers suggest.
Happy Birthday, Leo
With Friday’s Total Solar Eclipse it’s quite a momentous birthday that will have significance for Leos through the next 6-12 months. It’s a funny thing the way the planets whizz around the Zodiac, sometimes regularly and predictably and sometimes quite erratically. This eclipse is more on the erratic side of things, and I’ll explain more below.
Usually, we can trace an Eclipse on the same degree of the Zodiac every 19 years - for Saros Cycle fans, this is something Zodiacal rather than Nodal. However, occasionally we get a rogue eclipse that doesn’t fit that particular pattern - a little Cosmic Joke, perhaps, who knows? And there’s probably a technical explanation that I once knew and have since forgotten - sorry about that, but forgetting things happens as we get older!!
Eclipses tend to repeat in the same sign for about eleven and a half months - so we usually get two hits in the same sign over a year. Not this time, however - the next one in July 2009 falls in Cancer. So this is a one off, folks, peculiar to Leo on 1st August - no wonder the Chinese are claiming it as their very own Olympic Eclipse! Incidentally, the shadow cast across the Earth by the Moon covering the Sun, falls across Northern Russia and China, where it terminates. This is how we can often predict earthquakes and political disturbances for a nation by tracing the Eclipse’s shadow and seeing which nations it covers. I feel another article coming up - later, I promise!
An eclipse usually leaves its effects over a period of about 6-12 months, over which time many of the predictions are likely to pan out - things like babies being born, older people leaving, creative ventures being launched, money being made and even lost. A time of rich pickings. An eclipse effects us all no matter which sign it falls in and we will respond to it differently each according to our birth signs.
So Leo here we go:
