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NB - 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:

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NB - 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.

Please note that this year is a Leap year, which means that a day has been added to the calendar. so, you may notice that the beginning and end dates in some cases are a day earlier than usual. The Full Moon in Libra, that traditionally heralds Easter, always presents relationship matters in your face, whatever your sign happens to be.

The eclipse on the 1st August is sitting with Mercury in Leo, so I have taken into account the houses that it rules with each sign below as well. Please note that an eclipse can have an effect in your life for around a year.

Aries : 21st March - 20th April

The eclipse falls in your 5th house of creativity, children and romance. If your children are teenagers, they may decide to leave home or go to college that requires many short journeys for you all. If they have already left, be prepared, they may come back for a while and again need you to help them put their futures in better order. Your daily routines could be changed as a result. You may acquire new neighbours who could challenge your domestic peace and quiet for a time, by doing a make-over, for example. A co-worker could cause more work to be put on your shoulders by, for example, going on maternity leave or something similar. In the romance department, if there’s no one on the horizon, then this may change over the next few months, because you’re giving off good energy.

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