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.
Taurus: 19th April – 20th May
The eclipse falls in your 4th house of family and domestic life. This can bring a strong desire to finally start making the changes to your home that you have long dreamed of – so time to make plans. An elderly family member may make demands on you and need you to make new arrangements for their future care in some way. Similarly there may be a new baby in the family, starting a whole new generation of your family, and bringing with it the delights of a new person to love and care for. You may decide to sell your home or be required to do so through changing personal circumstances, which may be more to your liking in the long run. This period will require your usual patience and you will gain a lot from it emotionally, although it may bend your wallet somewhat.
Gemini: 20th May – 20th June
The eclipse falls in your 3rd house of communication, neighbours, siblings and new ideas. This can bring a real change of basic attitude to life by you reading something in a book or seeing it in the media. This can effect the rest of your life and can be very exciting. You are beginning to ask yourself things like “What do I want the rest of my life to look like – and can I change it?” Eclipses can really turn lives around inn this way. You may find that there are also changes in your neighbourhood that require you to make new journeys to get from A to B. You are given a whole new outlook to life by this and may meet some new people along the way. You may find that your siblings’ lives undergo changes, too, like births, divorces, etc. This will require input from you, as well.
Cancer: 21st June – 22nd July
The eclipse falls in your 2nd house of gifts, talents and personal finances. You may find that there are more calls on your earnings and this could bring about some major thinking and rearranging for you to do. This is quite an extraordinary period for you as you begin to flex your creative muscles and have more and more new ideas rising out of your imagination. These ideas when put into form can impact on your financial status and maybe even offer you a whole new way of combining your earnings and your self-expression. A rich time to look back on in later years. You may find that there is a family secret that finally gets aired, to do with a cousin or sibling – and enables many things to be said and cleared away for easier relationships all round. There may also be hospital visits with a family member, particularly grandparents or even siblings of your parents’.
Leo: 22nd July – 22nd August See ‘Happy birthday, Leo’
Virgo: 22nd August – 22nd September
The eclipse falls in your 12th house which is associated with hidden matters coming to light, solitude and research work. Your boss may require you to go for health check-ups, so this could trigger a period of being body conscious, eating a good clean diet and exercising. This is the time to stick to routines, but at the same spending your mental energies on learning new skills that will eventually take you out of the routine into the new. So get the self-improvement CDs onto your MP3 player and away you go! You may be surprised in later months, how what you are now learning can make a huge impact on your well being and career. It could take you light-years ahead of your co workers. At the end of this eclipse process you will feel better about your life than you have for a long, long time.
Libra: 22nd September – 23rd October
The eclipse falls in your 11th house which is associated with social matters, friendships and your objectives. You may meet some new people on holiday who completely turn your world upside down and offer you a bright new future. These changes to your life could demand that you relocate to maybe a new country at most, or a new state at least. This whole period can be very exciting and just sets your social life onto a whole new path. This could be triggered by a close friend leaving and making a space in your life that gets more quickly filled than you may have thought possible. Your business income may need looking after during this time, as you may take your eye off the ball in all the excitement of your new opportunities; so need to just take care of that in these rather tricky financial times.
Scorpio 23rd October – 21st November
The eclipse falls in your 10th house of career and public profile. Your professional life is now going through some huge changes, many of them them brought into being by your own actions,; and some of them through prevailing circumstances around you. Some of these changes may make huge demands on your domestic life and routines, however, if you can find ways of surmounting these obstacles, you will find life becoming more and more to your liking. There may be a house move in the offing. Your friendships are also changing – some areas of your social life had to change anyway. You may be meeting a new group who match your objectives and offer you support in such a way that you feel more confident about realising your goals and making the changes you deem necessary. Just make sure that your taxes and mortgage are taken care of in all the excitement.
Sagittarius 21st November – 21st December
The eclipse falls in your 9th house which matches your energy perfectly. This is a good time for stepping onto a new learning curve and getting your studies sorted with one eye on your future. You may seriously be arguing the toss between taking off into the wild and exploring the world physically or staying home and doing the same thing mentally. This was what the “Gap Year” was designed for – and you’re never too old to take one! Relationships are also up for grabs now, as you may find that one person leaves as a new one comes into your life. It may be someone you meet while travelling who stimulates your hunger for adventure and better matches your new outlook on life. You may decide to go into business with a friend to pool your joint efforts and market them. This could require learning a new skill or taking a journey – no problems there, then!
Capricorn 21st December -19th January
The eclipse falls in your 8th house of shared finances, joint resources, inheritances, tax and mortgages. Your natural abilities for steady forward planning will be much in demand during this period, both for yourself and others. It is good sense to desist from making any major purchases over the next few months that could over stretch your current financial profile. While this does not in any way predict doom and gloom, it is counselling caution. And you may be a good cautious Capricorn – however, remember the 8th house is the house of joint resources, so others around you may not be so cautious. Time to really hold the reins in your own hands. You may feel like learning something new that could impact on your working life – like a foreign language, for example – especially if you are thinking of marketing in another country.
Aquarius 20th January – 19th February
The eclipse falls in your 7th house of relationships, partnerships and the agreements we make within them to ensure peace and harmony. This period will demand much of your patience and understanding to maintain the status quo. For example, someone close to you may want to take time out from the relationship and as a cool Aquarian, you are able to accommodate that without getting in a tangle about it. This is more about them than it is about you. If your relationship is strong you may decide to tie the knot. One way or another it’s going to change in some way. This could be a period when your partner’s earnings change – through a raise, for example. Your natural creativity may take a huge leap into reality and you will find it quite intense to get your ideas sorted. There may be a baby on the way.
Pisces 19th February – 20th March
The eclipse falls in your 6th house of routines, health and service to others. This is a good time to really clear out all the old habits that no longer serve and support you. So get rid of the junk food in your cupboards and fridge and start exploring new cuisines – like raw food, fresh fruit and whole grains. Or trow out the boxes in the attic that you’ve been hoarding for years. Chances are you’ll feel so good after a while that you could feel a whole new career path coming on by advising others in the same. You may find that you have to work hard to convince your partner to follow where you eat. However, by simply following your own new eating patterns, you will be able to teach by example rather than by propaganda. Your relationships at work will change as well during this period as you find that your new habits and self-regard demand support from new like-minded people.
