The Eclipses Lunar & Solar

March 21, 2024

We are quickly approaching the lunar eclipse at 5 degrees Libra on the early morning of March 25, 2024, and a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. When I took classes at the Carol Writer Institute in Los Angeles back in the early 1990s, there was a saying. “Lunar eclipses take stuff away and solar eclipses bring something new.” This was the mantra I was taught, but then I watched a solar eclipse hit a close friend’s sun exactly; within a day, everything in her life evaporated. It was truly uncanny. She went from buying a beautiful new home with what appeared to be the love of her life, a career to be envied, and a cadre of friends who loved and supported her to a crazy terrible break-up, selling the home they had just bought at a loss and most of her friends ex-communicating her from their social circle. Her career also did a 180 from the trajectory it had been on. In her case, the solar eclipse in Cancer was exactly on her natal Sun in Cancer in her 10th house. It was the most dramatic set of changes I have ever witnessed firsthand. This put to rest that mantra for me. I thought of eclipses very differently. While you could look at it (if you wanted to) as a new beginning for her, it came at the expense of everything she had. It was much more like a death, followed years later by a re-birth. It was NOT a new, lovely direction where rainbows and sunshine danced around her. It made me question this rosy view of solar eclipses and got me thinking about how the ancients (who invented astrology) saw solar eclipses.

Solar eclipses, and actually all eclipses, were seen as negative. Highly negative, which makes sense, the life-giving energy of the sun is swallowed up in darkness. Think about what befell the US the last time we had a solar eclipse in Leo over the majority of the US, we had the cementing of Donald Trump’s kingship. We have a man who felt he should be coronated and remain in office (like a monarch) until he died. He consistently makes arguments about how he’s being persecuted for being held to the same standards of laws as other people. In reality, he’s managed to get away with more than anyone else involved in J-6, even though he was the mastermind behind it. It would be like Charles Manson getting off for the Tate-LaBianca murders because he didn’t technically pull the trigger or stab anyone. He feels a kingly entitlement that the eclipse in Leo ushered into our collective consciousness.