We’re entering Eclipse season: August 12th & 28th, with two very different eclipses heralding the birth of insight & wisdom about evolving individuality. This time-frame offers clarity of a more personal nature from the recent Barbault’s Basket outer planetary alignments. It offers moments of ‘Oh, I get it now!’. Yet even these moments are of the moment only; must be let go, allowing space for further revelation during the whole month.
Eclipses tend to activate surprising developments or insights that have been naturally gestating without our conscious awareness.
At the first eclipse, a Total Solar Eclipse at 20 Leo, the Moon’s face covers the Sun, shifting the balance of light & shadow. Identity, who we believe ourself to be (the Sun), is overshadowed by unconscious material (the Moon). This offers insight into what aspect of self no longer serves your growth. Albeit surprising, it’s a revelation about identity that is a karmic recalibration. It’s timely, & although it may feel intensely personal, it’s a watershed.
This new awareness leads to a between-eclipses liminal space. Perhaps the feeling of no longer knowing who you are or how to move in life? Feeling directionless or uncertain about yourself, your life or relationships, what you’ve previously thought was real? This is the eclipse window where ‘not knowing’ allows the emergence of new insight or information at the Partial Lunar Eclipse at 4 Pisces on 28 August.
It’s wise to rest in uncertainty, despite it being uncomfortable. Space allows new awareness to emerge beyond your ‘norms’.
The Partial Lunar Eclipse at 4 Pisces on 28th is like a super-charged Full Moon. Being in the sign of Mystery this eclipse calls us to make space for a day or two of quiet, listening in for the deeper emergence of individuality. Aspects at this lunation suggest clear insight, revelations, messages & communications. There’s a calling, even a demand, to act on what is revealed. There’s an unexpected gift being delivered from your soul that comes with urgency. It’s a spark of new life. Who are you to refuse it? Even though it carries the element of uncertainty.
A supportive aspect between Blessing-giver Jupiter in Leo & Master of Manifestation Saturn in Aries on 31st offers a profound opportunity for the mature expansion of individuality. It’s foundation-building after a period of intensity.
The Astrology
12 August: Total Solar Eclipse at 20 Leo includes a Grand Fire Trine at Black Moon Lilith at 26 Sagittarius & Saturn, Athena, Eris, & Vesta at 14-27 Aries.
Also opposing Centaur Chariklo at 24 Aquarius
28 August: Partial Lunar Eclipse at 4 Pisces – The Sun conjunct Mercury at 4/5 Virgo opposes the Moon conjunct the Lunar South Node and is square to Uranus at 5 Gemini
Also in a Grand Water Trine with Mars & Ceres at 5/10 Cancer & Dwarf Planet Haumea at 2 Scorpio
The Sun & Mercury also at the point of a Yod, Finger of Fate, from Pluto Rx at 3 Aquarius & Neptune at 3 Aries.
