It’s time for a new thread and I am simply going to put a little information out for those of you concerned about how this eclipse affects you. First an explanation of this Eclipse from a NASA website.
“The first solar eclipse of 2005 is of an uncommon type known as either annular-total or hybrid. This is a unique class of central1 eclipse where some sections of the path are annular while other parts are total. The duality comes about when the vertex of the Moon's umbral shadow pierces the Earth's surface at some points, but falls short of the planet along other sections of the path. The unusual geometry is due to the curvature of the Earth's surface which brings some geographic locations into the umbra while other positions are more distant and enter the antumbral rather than umbral shadow. In most cases (like in 2005), the central path begins annular, changes to total for the middle portion of the track, and reverts back to annular towards the end of the path. However it is also possible for the central path to begin annular and end total (e.g. - 2013 Nov 03) or vice versa (e.g. - 2386 Apr 29). Since these events occur near the vertex of the Moon's umbral/antumbral shadows, the central path is typically quite narrow.
The hybrid eclipse of 2005 will be visible from within a thin corridor, which traverses the Southern Hemisphere .The path of the Moon's shadow begins southeast of New Zealand and stretches across the Pacific Ocean to Panama, Columbia, and Venezuela. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes New Zealand, much of the South Pacific, South and North America.” http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/OH2005.html
The ancients felt Eclipses related to the “Kings/Queens” or very important people and nations. Partly because Eclipses so often seem related to massive weather patterns such as the horrific Earthquake in Turkey when the Total Eclipse of August 1999 cast its rays over Europe including Turkey.
The ancients identified Eclipses with powerful figures and took special note if a head of state was born, married, came to power, or died on an Eclipse, mainly because the head of state was visible, the masses were unimportant. I’ve known many people born or married on an Eclipse and they lived quite ordinary lives. Astrologers however do track the pre-natal Eclipse of a person and transiting aspects to that Eclipse can indicate a special period of time or growth for a client.
An Eclipse is usually operative six months before and six months after, although I find that the intensity of an Eclipse can be seen a couple of weeks before and a couple of weeks after, some kind of an event takes place.
For “the masses” look to see if the Eclipse falls across your Sun, Moon, Mid-heaven, or Ascendant and what aspects do you have to those points. Are planets in a close (1 – 2 degree,) conjunction, trine, sextile, square or opposition to any of those points? If so, you may have an event around that. A promotion, a job loss, birth of a child or grandchild, a marriage, a divorce, an accident, a new house, any/all or none of these things might happen. Examples: Two sick and elderly men died on this Eclipse (Prince Rainer and Pope Paul) that alone isn’t as an important event except for the massive changes involved because of their particular station in life. Terri Schiavo passed after 15 years in a PVS, many like her passed as well, but because of the response to her passing and the ensuing fights, it has far reaching ramifications for Congress and for the rest of us, if nothing more than getting our living wills in order.
Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, all manner of massive weather disasters are possible. This Eclipse at 19 degrees Aries is in a close opposition to the Dec. 26 Jupiter Earthquake in Sumatra and there was a post on Astroworld just today (April 6, 2005) informing us of a Volcano going off around Guam, and they will certainly be watching that closely.
We have all had Eclipses hitting personal planets and nothing happened, and Eclipses where something did happen. Once I had the North Node, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Sun, a couple of asteroids and Pluto as a Solar Return, all squared by Saturn and an Eclipse on my Sun for my Birthday (it was a Lunar Eclipse) I waited in hot anticipation for something to happen, I watched that Eclipse coming and going, and nothing happened, except 7 months after the aspect I quit a job I hated. So the Eclipse isn’t always dramatic, however when it is someone of elevated importance it’s not the person but the events surrounding the person so it seems dramatic.
I was somewhat amused by the Prince Charles postponement of his wedding. The Eclipse squares Camilla’s Mercury exactly and is close to an opposition of Charles’ Venus. One of my daughters got married on an Eclipse five years ago, and my youngest daughter (the Eclipse hits her Venus/Pluto opposition) just called her June wedding off completely.
Does an Eclipse cause dramatic things to happen, or just pressure on the Earth? I don’t know. I don’t know if the ancients looked up to the sky and the impact of seeing the Sun or Moon blotted out was so stunning and frightening they simply swept up everything that had happened six months before and six months after an projected it all out onto an Eclipse. Would the world have reacted with such intensity over the Pope’s death (like animals do before a storm or earthquake) if it wasn’t an Eclipse, or would they have simply said “he was a very old and sick man, God Bless him” and leave it at that? I don’t know.
Watch the houses, and the angles, and the planets where this Eclipse falls, not only for yourselves but for your family and let us know what transpired. It’s more powerful however, if it aspects your Sun and Moon, such as, let’s see, oh, Tom Delay. His problems certainly started during the Eclipse cycle; let’s see if they are resolved by the end of the month, as in moving on from Congress. For everyone go buy a lotto on the Eclipse, just in case it is in good aspect to your pre-natal Eclipse and you don’t know it, or in good aspect to a winning chart.
This Eclipse also falls across GWB’s Jupiter in a close opposition, as well as the 2005 Congress Jupiter and the Inaugural Jupiter. Sun and Moon in opposition is a lot of talk and hubris, I would look for a solid din of talk from the Administration. Of course I can hope that since it is an Eclipse of Jupiter their mouth would get them into trouble. Jupiter can do that, just give too much of a good thing leaving those around you bloated and sick. The Eclipse also aspects some Secondary and Solar Arc Progressions in the US Chart such as the Moon, Jupiter and Mars in those charts. With the Eclipse squaring the US Progressed Jupiter, we, the people, may well get sick of it all, we will have to watch and see how well our President and his “outpouring” of grief is received by the rest of the world.
One note of interest on this Eclipse is the “Sun” shining on the real power of the Church, for all who have an interest in how much world wide control they possess. Doesn’t anyone think it strange that after all the wars and plundering over the last 2000 years, the Church has been able to maintain ALL their treasures. Maybe we are beginning to unravel the mystery of who really pulls the strings on the World’s Stage. It will be worthy of note to see who is selected by the College of Cardinals on this Eclipse cycle, and if they change well into their Papacy.
The truth is this present day “world” began with a feudal system; they set up a Monarchy all over the world in every country. Does anyone know how much power Chiefs of all tribes had in ancient times? Periodically the people would “rise” up, they did it in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Europe, there isn’t any Continent that has not had a rebellion over the last 2000 years of “the people” who were tired of being cheated and murdered. The elite would “back off” until they could regroup and find another way to keep their money, lands and power. Just read back to Constantine, the Crusades, that wasn’t a very long time ago historically; you will be able to find the same names the same families traced down to today.
Does anyone ever talk about the Africans who sold their brothers and sisters into slavery for a few beads? Does anyone every talk about the Jews who supported Hitler, gave him money to do what he did? Except for a few notable exceptions they’ve stopped calling themselves “King, Queen” because the masses seemed not to like those titles as a rule. But we still have the same names, same people! These people get into wars with each other and they use us to pay for them and to fight them. We have become part of their drama, but we are not part of their agenda except to figure out how to keep us paying and dying for their power wars and so we won’t rise up against them. What happened to the Czar of Russia is still too fresh a memory.
We are simply observers in this program and every generation had their percentage of observers who already figured all this out. There are people who wrote about it in nearly every two decades and then they died and a new generation comes along to figure it out. Maybe one day, some generation will turn the tide for good, but I’m not sure of that will happen soon, but the internet and communication with other countries might hasten the day. If you really want to take power, don’t charge anything.
We will continue to observe if for no other reason than to pass our stories on to the next generation so one day our young sons, daughter, grandchildren will “get’ what’s going on at a younger age. Our task is to resist where we can, enjoy our lives, pass along what we learn and stay away from the long knives.
Read as much as you can about ‘energy” and how to use it. The Stephen Hawking’s book “Brief History of Time” his colleague, Kip Thorne’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps” are wonderful places to begin. The CD “What the Bleep” and if you can find it, the CD “Mind Walk” are other great resources to begin the process of understanding energy and how we can use that energy to shift into a different dimension, or perhaps the information is showing up now for us to begin the process of understanding the dimension into which we are moving.
Oh and don’t forget the popcorn as we watch them wrestle our power and our money back and forth.