HOW AN ECLIPSE REALLY WORKS
January 4, 2011 Partial Eclipse of the Sun by glenbrook
Yeah, you can read all that dribble drabble from other astrologers, but if you want to know how an eclipse really works read on.
By the way, there is an eclipse today. A partial solar eclipse in the sign of Capricorn at 13 degrees 39 minutes. No, there's no big universal thing about to happen because of this. Astrolgers wax on about them because it is something to talk about. But most eclipses will have nothing to do with you. Eclipses are very personal. And they only affect you if you have a planet within 3 degrees of the sign that it is in or its opposite -- which in this case would be Cancer. Otherwise, no affect whatsoever in your life.
But if you, like me, have a 12 degree Mars in the 12th House of Pisces, the eclipse today will hit you. And something will be eclipsed. It won't be anything much, and I find often it is your social life. Once I sent out invitations for a Christmas party and they came back to me (because they were over-sized envelopes without the extra postage) just before the event-- which was, of course, cancelled. That's a party that got "eclipsed."
The eclipse unlike so many reports most often will affect you in the week prior. Some astrologers think it is six months here, six months there. That, when you think of it, doesn't even make any sense. They would all start overlapping. Another example of astrologers micromanaging.
So back to the eclipse today. I went to a New Year's Eve party at the home of friends with a Cuban man that was disarmingly charming. We drove from Hollywood over Laurel Canyon (quite the winding road) in a convertible with the top down and opera blasting. I used my coat as a blanket. It was quite exhilerating, extraordinary and just fun.
I got to the party and he mixed a vodka and cranberry juice for me. Drank that, chatted and was getting quite merry. So I mixed another. My date was in an unknown location at the time. And then it happened. I got deathly sick. Just ridiculously sick. I went outside and sat there for at least an hour thinking I was going to die. People kept coming and going, including my date, and bringing me things like water and bread. Didn't make a bit of difference.
Then when no one was around except Albert, I threw up four times. Lovely. Albert and I washed the patio with bottles of water and it wasn't long before I could feel the cold so I knew I was getting better. Party eclipsed. Mars is violence and the 12th House is ruled by Pisces which rules alcohol. That's an eclipse. It happened on the 31st four days before today. And it's over.
Hope you, unlike me, had a better result if you were one of the people affected. But it isn't the weight of the world. Usually just an inconvenience. Ocassionally, there is another event going on in your chart and the eclipse serves as a timer, but you would need an astrologer to judge that. And an eclipse could manifest days after the event instead of before. But most likely, that one is over, and it won't be until June that we have another one.
THE ECLIPSES IN 2011
Four partial solar and two total lunar eclipses take place in 2011. This 4:2 combination of solar and lunar eclipses in a single year is rather rare with only six cases during the 21st Century (2011, 2029, 2047, 2065, 2076 and 2094). The first and last eclipses always occur in January and December.
The dates and types of eclipses during 2011 are as follows.
2011 Jan 04: Partial Solar Eclipse 2011 Jun 01: Partial Solar Eclipse 2011 Jun 15: Total Lunar Eclipse 2011 Jul 01: Partial Solar Eclipse 2011 Nov 25: Partial Solar Eclipse 2011 Dec 10: Total Lunar Eclipse