A total eclipse of the sun will be observed on 1st August 2008. To see a total solar eclipse, you must be standing within the band of its shadow, stand anywhere outside and you only see a partial eclipse.  A solar eclipse is a New Moon that occurs when the moon is on the same latitude as the Earth and the Sun. As this New Moon passes between them  it blocks out the sunlight and casts a shadow across the earth’s surface.

The track of the moon’s shadow on this particular Solar Eclipse will first touch the surface of the earth at dawn in Northern Canada, it then moves across the north polar region and into Siberia, then across the western edge of Mongolia and leaving the earth at sunset in Central China.

It is being highly regarded by the Chinese because it is the eclipse of the Olympics  – hmmm! I wonder who will be eclipsed during the Games? Just a note for the Numerologists – the Games open on the 8/8/08 – the number 8 is the most prestigious number according to the Chinese.

An eclipse repeats its degree every 19 years. One way of looking at what it can bring up on your chart is to ask what was I doing around the beginning of August 19 years ago? I have noticed that clients often say it was when their first child was born, when they got married or some such major event of that importance. 

Many astrologers say an eclipse is only significant if it falls on the Sun, Moon or Ascendant – not so, say I – we are ALL effected one way or another. In my opinion whichever house on your birth chart that the eclipse falls in will be intensified as an issue, rather than just an event.

For example, a client with an eclipse falling in his 8th house of debts, was forced to deal with his debts as a major event and go into a debt repayment scheme. Although he had had many New Moons falling in his 8th previously over the years, it was the eclipse that was in his face, so to speak. And it changed his life – freed him up to look at his future possibilities instead of living in permanent terror. In effect, the Eclipse was the knock on his door. 

So, eclipses are not to be feared – simply seen as a “click” mechanism creating circumstances that can help clear up the old “stuff” in whichever area of your life indicated by where it happens on your birth chart.

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