Lunations: Eclipses – Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses 2020

Lunations: Eclipses 2020

 

Current & Upcoming Eclipses

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On this Page/Table of Contents:

Understanding eclipses – overview

New! Lunar Eclipse – January 10, 2020

 Solar Eclipse – December 26, 2019

Or, skip to Solar Eclipse in Capricorn Horoscopes

The meaning of eclipses in the houses

Upcoming Eclipse Dates: Table

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Lunation (or New Moon and Full Moon) charts have been used by Mundane Astrologers for many centuries. In later times, people began to compare them to their natal charts.

The New Moon<, or Conjunction, is used when you want to start something new or try to break some old patterns. That is the time of the month when you would attempt to start or do these kinds of things. The New Moon is the time of internalizing and looking within yourself.

The Full Moon, or Opposition, is the time when you would try to accomplish the things that were started on a New Moon. The Full Moon is when you look to external events or things get beyond your control.

Things to look at when comparing the Lunation charts to your own:

• Houses that the Sun and Moon are transiting in your natal chart.
• What aspects do the Sun and Moon make to your natal planets? Are the majority of those aspects easy or hard?
• Astrologers also look at the transits to the Lunation charts, particularly to the Moon.

Eclipses

An eclipse is a far more potent lunation. Look to the house the eclipse falls in your natal chart. The affairs of that house will be activated. Does the eclipse fall on a planet in your natal chart? That planet will also be activated. The sign of the eclipse plays a role in the likely events that the eclipse will trigger.

Many people tend to fear eclipses, simply because they often bring about a crisis of sorts that leads to a significant event or change. However, this event or change can be very positive.

Eclipses are tied to changing circumstances. However, we are usually the ones to precipitate or to attract changes because our “inner guides” know that we need it. Human beings are progressive by nature, and although we might stay in situations that are making us miserable for longer than we should, deep down inside we know that change is necessary for growth.

See also: How to interpret transits of the eclipses to the birth chart.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Several eclipses occur every single year. They occur in one particular sign and its opposite sign several times in a set spanning about two years approximately every nine years. For example, eclipses occurred in Cancer-Capricorn from 200-2002, then 2009 to 2011, and now from 2018-2020. Although they are notable and important in astrology, mainstream media has recently been making a big deal of these fairly regular occurrences, leaving some in a panic or expecting a lot more from the eclipses than they warrant. It’s important to note that eclipses alone are not responsible for dire events in people’s lives.

 

Astrological Significance of the Eclipses

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Recent & Upcoming Eclipses:

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***A Lunar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Cancer on January 10th, 2020.***

Astrological Significance of the Lunar Eclipse in Cancer

About the Lunar Eclipse on January 10, 2020

As noted above, a Lunar eclipse is an especially potent lunation, in this case, a potent Full Moon. Lunar eclipses are relationship-oriented. The “crisis” that these eclipses tend to elicit is a crisis of lack–a time when we suddenly realize a great need or want. The impact of the crisis can act to sever a relationship–it’s possible. But it can also bring two people together with a sudden awareness of a great need for each other.

Although Lunar eclipses are more relationship-oriented than Solar eclipses, they are not always about relationships between two people. They can trigger awareness of need in other areas of our lives, such as our relationship to work, to our health and bodies, and so forth. This is a time when matters come to light–things that have been brewing under the surface.

When a Full Moon occurs, we can suddenly burst forth with proclamations and outpours that seem fresh and new, simply because they are not yet rationalized. A Lunar eclipse is a more potent Full Moon, and its effects tend to last longer. Many astrologers believe that the effects of a Lunar eclipse last approximately six months.

The Lunar eclipse on January 10th, 2020, occurs when the Moon is at 20 degrees of Cancer, opposing the Sun at 20 degrees Capricorn, and is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse.

Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Cancer-Capricorn axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants. The Cancer-Capricorn polarity concerns the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturance (represented by Cancer) versus the public life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn). Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn.

In some ways, this polarity deals with the balance between unconditional love and conditional love. Cancer encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public or professional lines. While Cancer may be content to be dependent, Capricorn urges us to be grown-up and responsible. Cancer represents the origin, and Capricorn represents the goal. The Full Moon illuminates these conflicts. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what this Full Moon eclipse invites us to do.

This lunation is about balancing our commitment to our career (or responsibilities to the outside world) and families (or personal life). Something has been building inside of us, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the coming weeks and months, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings. We need to express them.

A crisis of sorts (which can be a crisis of consciousness) or sudden awareness of a lack in our lives provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs within the context of the house polarity where the eclipse occurs in our natal charts. Relationships may be challenged, broken, or strengthened dramatically at this time. Our discovery is emotionally charged and dramatic. Epiphanies are likely at this time as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into affirmative action.

Full Moons and Lunar Eclipses bring issues in our lives to fulfillment. Our emotions are heightened, and there is often some sort of drama involved with the house, sign, and any contacted planets activated by the Full Moon.

Look to 20 degrees of Cancer/Capricorn in your own chart (allow up to about a 5-degree orb when examining the planets and points the eclipse aspects). This Lunar Eclipse gives us a cosmic push to make needed changes in our lives. The areas of life activated by the eclipse may see dramatic turns, after which the path is clear to move forward. Note that whatever happens at this time is nothing truly new. The issues have been brewing inside of us, and emotions have been building. Something comes to light at the time of the Lunar Eclipse, and if we get in touch with our emotions, we can get a better idea of what needs to change, or what needs to go.

This Lunar Eclipse in Cancer is bound to thrust us into a state of heightened awareness of flaws in the structures of our personal lives, in our home life, with family and loved ones, and with our feelings of safety, comfort, and sense of nurture. Decisions made now are emotionally-driven. Some of us will be irritable and won’t know exactly why. Others might be in a kind of daze, seeing only what they want to see while their common sense or objectivity is temporarily “eclipsed.” Discoveries are exaggerated, so keep this in mind. Even so, this drama serves a purpose, and while we probably shouldn’t jump to act, we should pay attention to our feelings and discoveries.

With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic “illumination” occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.

The eclipse occurs when the Sun is aligned with (and just days before) the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn. We’re challenged to face our attachments, emotions, and needs for nurture at this time, even though it’s been very much about where we’re heading these days! Note that June’s Solar Eclipse will bring on the new beginnings related to this eclipse’s epiphanies and realizations.

This eclipse occurs at the superior conjunction between the Sun and Mercury, emphasizing the power of words and rationalization. There can be a real dichotomy between what our heads and our hearts are telling us. Nervous tension can result as we feel pressure to make decisions. The Cancer Moon is opposing quite a roundup of planets in its opposite sign, Capricorn, and there can be a sudden awareness of our emotions in the face of the rules and our ambitions. Initially, we can feel extremely sensitive and perhaps somewhat powerless. However, our feelings count, and we’ll see and feel their power now, paving the road for new directions.

This is a time to continue to clear up past patterns that have been holding us back from personal fulfillment, particularly those that are home or family-centered or that revolve around our work-home balance and attitudes toward comfort and responsibility. There will be more work to come in these areas, but for now, we are experiencing a greater awareness of problems and especially lacks or flaws.

Through events, circumstances, and epiphanies occurring around the time of this eclipse, we learn that we need to get in touch with our needs for nurture, family, comfort, familiarity, and love in order for our lives, including our professional lives, to be full and worthwhile.

So, it will be important to avoid talking too soon on a matter, since we can be quite sensitive to words now, and it’s all too easy to misrepresent ourselves. We become aware of where we have been overdoing our ambitions, need for status, or obligations to the outside world perhaps to avoid facing our needs for nurture, comfort, unconditional love, and family.

Full Moons are always good for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can see where to bring back balance. Our larger work should be on reaching a good balance between our focus on personal and private lives and our professional or public duties, responsibilities, and goals. Enlightenment now provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs, which can ultimately lead to positive actions and decisions. There can be a heightened awareness of flaws in our current systems and structures. There can also be an urgent or sudden need/desire to express ourselves, and a strong compulsion to come to a resolution of a problem.

This eclipse is the one in a series of eclipses that fall along the Cancer-Capricorn axis. It can be viewed as one of several cosmic pushes regarding the themes it is stimulating, although this set is nearing an end this year. The greater awareness of problems and especially lacks or flaws in our relationships that have been stimulated with recent eclipses can motivate us to take action.

On January 9, 2001, a Lunar Eclipse fell in Cancer at approximately the same degree as the one occurring this year. It might be helpful to think back to issues in your life that were in effect around this time in order to get an idea of how this 2020 Lunar Eclipse affects you. Others at a similar degree occurred on January 9, 1982, and January 9, 1963.

You can also look back in a general sense to eclipse sets occurring along the Cancer-Capricorn axis as the current one in effect from July 2018 to July 2020 for more information gleaned by looking to the past to understand themes in the present and future. The last time we had a set of Cancer-Capricorn eclipses was from July 2009 to July 2011. These are also periods of your past, if applicable, that may have had similar themes to this current eclipse set. Of course, even if they occurred at similar degrees, the other planets were represented differently, so the issues will not be identical, but certain themes can emerge.

Cancer-Capricorn Eclipse sets (upcoming, current, and some in recent history):

• July 2027 to July 2029
• July 2018 to July 2020
• July 2009 to July 2011
• July 2000 to June 2002
• July 1990 to December 1992
• July 1981 to June 1983

The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Cancer-Capricorn axis only (there were other eclipses between these since they overlap – the full chronological list of eclipses is at the end of this page):

• Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2018 July 12 at 22:47:47 at 20° Cancer 41
• Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2019 January 5 at 20:28:05 at 15° Capricorn 25
• Total SOLAR Eclipse 2019 July 2 at 15:16:06 at 10° Cancer 38
• Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2019 July 16 at 17:38:06 at 24° Capricorn 04
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2019 December 26 at 0:13:00 at 4° Capricorn 07
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 January 10 at 14:21:10 at 20° Cancer 00
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2020 June 21 at 2:41:19 at 0° Cancer 21
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 July 5 at 0:44:16 at 13° Capricorn 38

If this Lunar eclipse forms a conjunction (aligns with) a planet in your chart, you may feel its intensity more than others. If the Lunar Eclipse is conjunct your Sun, for example, it can act as a charge of energy. The desire –or necessity– to turn over a new leaf is strong. A significant other or the public can play a large role in the events of your life now. In major aspect to the Moon, a Lunar Eclipse can trigger major changes in your living situation and personal life, including personal relationships. Circumstances that significantly change your daily routine and domestic world can arise.

Possible issues for the eclipse’s transit to natal houses: A Lunar Eclipse in the first house, it may be time to change your image or redefine your personality in some manner. Finding a balance between autonomy and dependence is what this eclipse is about for you. Your emotions are on your sleeve right now. It is a good time to put your needs first, but doing so with respect for others will take you further. Whether you can succeed as a leader is “tested” right now. There may be some drama involving a significant other.

A Lunar Eclipse in the second house, you may get a cosmic push to make necessary financial changes in your life. Sharing issues come into focus, as do issues of power–what’s yours and what’s mine. Your comfort zones matter, and now is the time to take care of your own needs without eclipsing the needs of others. A financial settlement, the beginning or end of a particular debt, and other such scenarios can be part of the picture now.

A Lunar Eclipse in the third house, there may be some sort of drama surrounding communication, modes of transportation, schooling, mobility, neighbors, or siblings. Daily routines can change dramatically. There may be a major event in the life of a sibling. There could be a publishing offer or you might be in a position to promote yourself. Travel or education plans may come to fruition. You might gain an entirely different perspective on a matter.

A Lunar Eclipse in the fourth house, domestic conditions are illuminated. House repairs, family dramas, and other such issues need serious attention. The demands of your personal life are now paramount. Striking a balance between energy spent on work and energy spent on domestic matters is essential now. Balanced attention to your public and personal lives is what you need to focus on. It’s time to prioritize. A major career project can come to fruition or completion.

A Lunar Eclipse in the fifth house, a romantic affair may be tested. If love is true, there’s nothing to fear. The demands of your larger goals in life may have been eclipsing your pleasure-seeking activities. Also possible, your children may be going through their own changes and “stages”, and need more attention now, or a child could be experiencing a major new beginning. Some might have a child. A new creative project might begin now.

A Lunar Eclipse in the sixth, there could be changes necessary in your job or health routines. You can use this surge of emotional energy to make positive changes to your routines. Do something to improve your work conditions if they are annoying you. Get going on your exercise or nutrition program that you know you have to do in order to feel more balanced. A work project or a job itself can begin or end now. A physical or mental health issue might come to light.

A Lunar Eclipse in the seventh house, partnerships may be tested, but there is nothing to fear if the relationship is strong. The seventh house represents an important one-to-one relationship–a marriage partner, significant other, business partner, or an adversary. It’s time to strike a balance between your own needs and those of another. It’s time to compromise and negotiate. You might suddenly find yourself with more social opportunities, or you might acquire many new clients.

A Lunar Eclipse in the eighth house, some drama with regards to a spouse’s income, or your taxes, debts, and investments, may occur on a mundane level. It may be time to settle some of your debts, financial or otherwise. What makes you feel comfortable and secure needs to be balanced with attention to other people’s needs and comfort levels. There can be new money coming into your life.

A Lunar Eclipse in the ninth house, your personal beliefs may be tested. Your hunger for adventure or learning may come into focus. All of the attention you’ve been giving to mundane affairs can have you wondering when you’re going to have some fun. You want to take a leap of faith now. There may be an important beginning or culmination in education. If you are in business, a writer, or the like, you might reach a wider audience.

A Lunar Eclipse in the tenth house, you may need to review and change your career goals. Career matters come to a head, but as the seventh house from the fourth, so might a personal, domestic, family, or house and home matter. You’re called to perform, possibly on a moment’s notice, and it’s best to keep your cool and do whatever you can to show your competence.

A Lunar Eclipse in the eleventh house, friendships may be tested, or your relationship to groups or organizations. You’re looking for validation from friends and group activities now. There can be a major event involving a child or a romantic partner, or a culmination of a creative project can occur at this time.

A Lunar Eclipse in the twelfth house, you may recognize an overwhelming need for rest and spiritual renewal. You’ve been busy with all sorts of everyday activities, deeply involved in your work and routines. It’s time to balance your life with some downtime–otherwise, you simply don’t feel whole. There can be exposure of a private or even clandestine matter in some cases. Secrets can emerge at this time, or there can be a desire to do something private, secret, or risky. A work project can come to fruition.

See also my Daily Horoscopes for January 10, 2020, for sign-by-sign interpretations of this eclipse.

 

 

***A partial Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Capricorn on December 26, 2019.***

About the partial Solar Eclipse in Capricorn on December 26th, 2019

This is the fifth eclipse in the Cancer-Capricorn eclipse set (the first was an eclipse in Cancer in July 2018 and the final eclipse in the set will be in July 2020).

A partial/annular Solar Eclipse occurs on December 26th, 2019, at 12:13 AM EST at 4 degrees and 7 minutes of Capricorn. Its effects can be felt up to six months after the actual date of the eclipse. In the Saturn-ruled sign of Capricorn, public life, career, reputation, achievement, and accountability are in sharp focus. This eclipse is about new beginnings regarding all of these matters.

This is a time for setting practical, attainable goals; working on developing maturity and common sense in the personality; considering the future, and preparing for it; focusing on concrete ways of developing self- discipline and self-mastery; finding ways to give satisfying form to wishes; making commitments and recognizing responsibilities; accepting that we are limited, and that, ironically, some of our limitations truly free us to explore deeper dimensions of experience by offering us a secure foundation, and nurturing our dreams in a realistic fashion.

Capricorn teaches us that recognizing our limitations actually frees us to focus on what matters, where we are, who we are, and where we want to go. With the potent Capricorn energy of the Solar Eclipse, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives that will benefit us well beyond this Moon cycle. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to these matters.

Flaws in an important system in our lives are revealed around the time of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. Something ends in order for something else to start anew. We may be called to give up something in order to move forward into a new chapter in our lives. Although the “new” may be unrecognizable, it is important to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown.

The eclipse point itself is aligned with Jupiter and trine Uranus, suggesting we’re wide-open to making positive changes and improvements. We’re optimistic, opportunistic, and progressive. There can be a real sense of excitement, progress, growth, improvement, relief, and release along with our new beginnings now. Saturn and Pluto are heading toward alignment, suggesting that we might need to work hard to achieve our goals. For now, we’re feeling especially hopeful and ready to take on a challenge.

An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is close to the South Node. This suggests that we may be hesitant about making changes, preferring to cling to the past. Letting go of something that has been holding us back is likely to figure. Eclipses conjunct the South Node tend to feel a bit more challenging than those aligning the North Node, at least initially, as we are called upon to give up or release something and to move out of a familiar place or a comfort zone.

 

Those of us with planets and points strongly stimulated by this eclipse can feel especially drained and tired, both physically and emotionally. There is a need to let go, forgive, cleanse, and release. Eclipses can seem to wipe us out before we begin fresh. We may find ourselves completely re-working the area of life ruled by Capricorn in our charts.

Major developments in the personal areas ruled by Capricorn in our charts are likely to occur over the course of the next 3-6 months. Note that this is one eclipse in a series of eclipses falling in Cancer-Capricorn. Not everyone will feel the effect of the eclipse with the same intensity. Those whose personal planets are activated by the degree of the eclipse will most feel its effects on a personal level.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 4 degrees and 7 minutes of Capricorn, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 0 to 9 degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.

Solar eclipses occurred at approximately the same degree as this December 2019 eclipse on December 24, 1973, December 24, 1992, and December 25, 2000. It might help to think back to these periods and consider the themes that surrounded your life at that time in order to get a better understanding of what the current eclipse series might mean for you.

Most recent previous eclipse sets falling along the Cancer-Capricorn axis occurred from July 2009 to July 2011, July 2000 to June 2002, July 1990 to December 1992, July 1981 to June 1983.

Cancer-Capricorn Eclipse sets (upcoming, current, and some in recent history):

• July 2027 to July 2029
• July 2018 to July 2020
• July 2009 to July 2011
• July 2000 to June 2002
• July 1990 to December 1992
• July 1981 to June 1983

The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Cancer-Capricorn axis only (there were other eclipses between these since they overlap – the full chronological list of eclipses is at the end of this page):

• Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2018 July 12 at 22:47:47 at 20° Cancer 41
• Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2019 January 5 at 20:28:05 at 15° Capricorn 25
• Total SOLAR Eclipse 2019 July 2 at 15:16:06 at 10° Cancer 38
• Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2019 July 16 at 17:38:06 at 24° Capricorn 04
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2019 December 26 at 0:13:00 at 4° Capricorn 07**
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 January 10 at 14:21:10 at 20° Cancer 00
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2020 June 21 at 2:41:19 at 0° Cancer 21
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 July 5 at 0:44:16 at 13° Capricorn 38

If this eclipse stimulates your 1st-7th house axis, you are called upon to strike a balance between relationship and self. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore over the next year. You may, for example, receive a cosmic push towards expressing yourself more creatively (especially if 4-5 Capricorn is in the first house) and experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding personal appearance, the body, and one’s image become especially important and, in some cases, critical. Basically, you will be learning to stand on your own two feet!

This sequence of eclipses will alert you to the need to interact with others–either the public or through a close partnership (especially if 4-5 Capricorn is in the seventh house). For some, marriage or divorce will be an issue. For most, carving out a personal identity that includes a significant other who furthers their own personal growth will come into focus. The August eclipse should give you a push towards a stronger identity or a sense of purposefulness through a close partnership.

If this eclipse stimulates your 2nd-8th house axis, you will be called upon to strike a balance between your own needs for security and comfort and the same needs of other people, likely those of a significant other.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the second house, personal finances will come into strong focus. How well have you taken care of your finances? More importantly, have you taken charge of your personal sense of security? If 4-5 Capricorn is in the eighth house, issues of sexuality and spirituality may be a stronger focus. In either case, issues of shared resources, sexuality, and possessions are featured. With this eclipse, it’s time to start fresh with regards to how you go about satisfying your needs for security and comfort.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the second house, take charge of your life by taking the necessary steps to make yourself feel good and secure. You are called upon to make a stand and to tend to your comfort levels. If you do so, the positive effects will ricochet back into your intimate life. If you continue to tend to your partner’s comfort levels while ignoring your own, feelings of resentment and neglect can infect your relationships. Get in touch with what feels most comfortable for you, and the intimacy level in your relationship will step up a notch. If 4-5 Capricorn is in the eighth house, you are learning about the comfort levels of others. Essentially, you are learning to share and to surrender yourself (in a balanced manner!) to intimacy.

If the 3rd-9th house axis is stimulated by this eclipse, issues surrounding learning and sharing knowledge will come to the fore. For some, issues surrounding attention to one’s immediate environment, and branching out and beyond it, are stimulated.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the third house, you are receiving a cosmic push to become more active in your immediate environment (neighborhood, with siblings/relatives, etc.), and/or to learn and communicate facts that fuel your opinions.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the ninth house, you will be learning to expand your horizons, either through contact with people from an entirely different background than yours, travel, or higher learning. Your personal philosophy will be changing, and this eclipse gives you a push towards adopting beliefs that truly work for you in the real world. Other possible issues stimulated include transportation and mobility (for example, some may be learning to depend on others for getting from point A to point B, and others may be learning to take charge of their own mobility), running errands and tending to one’s daily life effectively, and learning about one’s need for self-expression through adventure.

If the 4th-10th house axis is stimulated by this eclipse, issues surrounding public and private lives, as well as attention to career and to family, are stimulated. The fourth house rules our instinctual needs, the domestic scene, our needs for security, and our focus on family and home life as well as relationships with family. The tenth house rules our needs for status, our career and reputation, our worldly ambitions, structure, and our drive for success. Striking a balance between these issues is the focus of this sequence of eclipses.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the fourth house, it’s time to take steps to improve your family and home life. This eclipse is the first cosmic push for you to take charge of your private life. If 4-5 Capricorn is in the tenth house, you are called upon to pay more attention to your career and public life, and to take charge of this important part of your life. Either way, this can play out in a number of ways. Some may have to make some critical decisions due to situations in the life that force them to make choices between career and family goals. Some people are promoted or their career takes a new direction (especially if an eclipse occurs close to the Midheaven). The challenge is to find a healthy balance–to improve home life while at the same time tending to one’s career needs.

If this eclipse stimulates your 5th-11th house axis, social activity is the focus. The need to be appreciated by others, and the need for togetherness with others, comes into play. A love affair may begin or end under this influence. New contacts with others may also occur.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the fifth, you will learn to let go of a fear of taking risks, and to develop the courage to strike out on your own individual and creative path without fear. You are called upon to deal with others in a more personal, involved, and loving manner, rather than falling back on reason and intellect, which detaches you from your feelings. This series of eclipses is about learning to take personal risks, which requires a certain amount of self-confidence.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the eleventh, you will be learning about letting go of your attachment to the drama of romance and personal relationships, as well as your willfulness. You are called upon to learn about the value of the team. You may need to give freedom to your romantic partner instead of expecting him or her to follow a script of your own making. You learn the value of brotherly love and the benefits of a sense of belonging to a community. Events are such that you move towards a more objective approach to your life and you cultivate true friendships.

If this eclipse stimulates your 6th-12th house axis, issues of work and service, as well as health (both mental/spiritual, and physical), come into focus. If 4-5 Capricorn is in the sixth house, you are called upon to deal with the details and practicalities of everyday life, to become more organized, and to take charge of your routines. It’s time to formulate some clear goals and plans. Circumstances are such that you need to develop some healthy habits, routines, and schedules. Believing in a grand plan is fine, but practical concerns need to be dealt with as well. Recognizing your personal limitations in terms of just how much you can give to others and just how much compassion and understanding you can show is essential now. It’s time to structure your life.

If 4-5 Capricorn is in the twelfth house, over the next year you are called upon to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. It’s time to let go of some of your fears that you are not doing enough, to develop more compassion and understanding of others, and to be humble, feeling safe in the knowledge that you (and others) are not perfect. It’s time to let go of some of your obsessions with rules, details, and fears of not doing things perfectly. When this axis is stimulated, issues of guilt, worry, and anxiety become paramount.

Solar Eclipse in Capricorn Horoscopes:

Eclipse Horoscopes

Solar Eclipse in Capricorn December 2019 Horoscopes

Solar Eclipse in Capricorn Horoscopes: December 26, 2019

A Solar Eclipse occurs in Capricorn on December 26, 2019: What this Means for Each Sign

 

The following horoscopes outline some of the ways this Solar Eclipse may affect the zodiac signs. You can read these horoscopes for your Sun sign and/or Ascendant sign. These horoscopes are from my daily horoscopes (Astro Highlights). If you’d like an email reminder of my daily horoscopes, you can subscribe through Astrology Cafe.

Aries

This Solar Eclipse brings heightened awareness and sensitivity to your standing in society and your professional goals, dear Aries, as it happens in the professional or public sector of your solar chart. There can be feelings of excitement or uneasiness, depending on how you handle change, surrounding career, reputation, and life path matters now. There can be an initial feeling of being stuck, blocked, or uncertain of your next step. Going forward, it will be a good time for developing new business plans and goals. A sense of renewal and reinvigoration regarding your career goals is on the horizon. Changes in work, focus, life direction, bosses, authority figures, reputation, or your own authority and influence can occur now and in the coming few months. It’s a time to focus on the elements of your personality that you are projecting in your career or to society, with an eye for improvement. Significant shifts in how others see you can occur now. There can be recognition for your accomplishments.

You are more actively aware of the need to bring added structure or rules into your life, or you might decide you need to improve your performance and general practices so that you can better follow certain rules. This is a phase in which you are exceptionally busy with career or public responsibilities. However, it’s also a time for balancing home and career. Drama or commotion stirred now paves the way for new approaches and new beginnings. A fresh approach is encouraged. Goals for self-mastery and self-discipline should be made at this time. This is a phase when you will be busy with career and/or public responsibilities, and you may encounter some pressure to do so. This eclipse is part of a set occurring from mid-2018 to mid-2020 that encourages you to find a better work-home life balance.

Your goal now is to enter new beginnings with healthy confidence. You have more impact on others than usual, so use this time in the spotlight well, and avoid hasty moves. Making nice with people in high places, teachers, bosses, and parents can figure strongly, and there can be substantial changes in your life when it comes to your own influence or authority or with authority figures in your life. Eclipses often have an effect of wiping out our energy as the slate is cleaned, after which energy slowly rebuilds.

Transits occurring at the time of the eclipse have more staying power than usual since they are tied in with the eclipse energy. A Sun-Jupiter alignment suggests great optimism and opportunity now and in the coming months. There might be a release from restrictive circumstances, such as the end of a payment plan. You are feeling positive and confident about your abilities. Look for distinct opportunities to improve your work, financial state, and reputation. You’re learning to fear recognition less and to put yourself out there with more confidence. It’s the start of a brilliant period for responsibilities, work, and performance!

Taurus

This Solar Eclipse falls in the sector of your solar chart that rules your spirit to grow, explore, and expand beyond the “regular” experiences in your life, dear Taurus. This can bring invigorating events into your life that serve to nudge you out of your usual routine. You are making a break from the past in some manner, which will help clear the path for future growth and development. There may be opportunities to broaden your horizons through travel, education, life experience, or adventure. There can be emerging opportunities to publish or promote your work, share your ideas, and enjoy mind-expanding experiences. Meeting important people through these endeavors is possible.

Transportation issues can also be in focus, with new avenues opening up for getting out and about. This eclipse might also bring some of you into contact with lawyers, professors, or publicists. It’s a good time for exploring the world, or new perspectives, with friends.

The period ahead is excellent for discovering and expressing your need for exploration, travel, learning, new horizons, and spiritual food. This can be a time of a significant publishing, announcement, advancement, or new adventure, whether mental or physical.  Events occurring now and in the coming weeks and months can serve to push you out of your routine. In some way, you are making a break from the past. This eclipse is part of a series of eclipses from mid-2018 to mid-2020.

Often enough, eclipses bring about a small crisis or shake-up that prompts a new direction or the need to venture beyond the usual routine. Eclipse days can be emotionally exhausting, after which energy and motivation slowly but surely rebuild.

Transits occurring at the time of the eclipse have more staying power than usual since they are tied in with the eclipse energy. A Sun-Jupiter alignment suggests an open mind and heart. Wonderful opportunities can emerge related to publishing, promotion, travel, adventure, belief systems, world cultures, higher education, and the law, such that any of these areas, if appropriate to your current conditions, can figure strongly for new beginnings and sudden advancement/focus.

There can be circumstances occurring now that release you from restriction in some significant way, and breakthrough thinking. You’re rising above small problems and discomforts as you tune into the bigger picture and gain perspective. You may discover new and exciting channels for self-expression.

Gemini

With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your intimacy sector, the period ahead is one of empowerment and discovery, dear Gemini. This is a time for working on yourself from the inside out, for addressing dependencies and issues of support, and for improving an intimate relationship. If you’ve been too dependent on others, or the opposite, too proud to ask for help, then you’ll see and feel it acutely at this time, and you’ll want to make changes. The period ahead is outstanding for focusing on issues of intimacy and sharing, as well as for developing self-mastery skills. Goals to reduce debt, to get support, to quit a bad habit, or to understand your psychological workings better are favored now.

If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a relationship or a financial arrangement, then this is a time for coming to terms with the dependency. It can also be a time when you’re wanting/asking for more depth from a project, relationship, or endeavor. Use this eclipse’s positive blast of energy to sort out financial support issues or emotional entanglements as you go forward. If you’ve been going it alone, this can also be an essential cycle for reaching out and finding the support you need. On the other side of the coin, if dependencies have become burdensome or are limiting your growth, now is a great time to work on putting them behind you. Taking small, progressive steps makes the most sense.

When a Solar Eclipse occurs, it’s a time for turning over a new leaf in a particular area of your life defined in large part by where the eclipse falls in the chart. In your solar eighth house, you have a chance to see your inner workings in new, meaningful ways. It’s important to be patient so that things can unfold naturally. Don’t push for clarity, and it will come! Energy levels can be unusually low around an eclipse, and then they’re slowly but surely restored going forward.

Occurring at the time of, and imprinted into the energies of, this eclipse is a Jupiter-Uranus trine. You may enjoy especially revealing dreams, and it may be that something you have kept under wraps comes out into the open quite unexpectedly. The good news is that it’s likely to feel like a sweet release. There are exciting breakthroughs and insights into your own psychology, an intimate relationship, or a support system. You may be relieved of a burden or debilitating secret. Let in the positive energy, and make room for new opportunities. You’re getting inspired in the weeks ahead, and in the coming months, you’ll be motivated to apply your new ideas.

Cancer

With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your partnership sector, dear Cancer, you’re in a strong position for new beginnings regarding your close relationships. Negotiations and one-to-one relationships are highlighted now and in the coming weeks. It can be a time for beginning new relationships or redefining existing ones in significant ways. A stronger awareness of the role someone plays in your life or the need for support and companionship may be in focus now. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a problematic relationship, then circumstances now might push the matter.

When a Solar Eclipse happens, we are still symbolically in the dark, so that today and the next few are suitable for paying attention to news coming in and feelings emerging, but taking new action should wait at least a few days. Energy levels can plummet initially, and then they’re likely to rebuild slowly but surely later. This eclipse is the second in a set of many eclipses that began in mid-2018 and will end in mid-2020.

Important decisions may be required of you in the coming weeks and months, particularly revolving around personal finances and business or personal possessions and valuables. For some, this can be about boundaries in a relationship or your sense of self-worth and how it affects your ability to support yourself or ask for what you want. For Moon-ruled Cancers, any eclipse can bring heightened sensitivity. Because it occurs in your opposite sign, it has more impact on you and possibly a significant other in your life. Changes are in the works.

The months ahead are important ones for exploring your need for partnership, whether this is about starting a significant relationship, committing to enhancing an existing one, or recognizing changing needs regarding relationships, dependence, and autonomy, in general. Take in now, and take action when it feels right. Making contacts or making something public can be themes for some of you in the weeks ahead.

Occurring close to a Sun-Jupiter alignment and Jupiter-Uranus trine, there can be exciting, unexpected opportunities emerging in your social life. You might break out of limiting or restrictive circumstances, or there can be an empowering, uplifting spirit of friendship, freedom, and acceptance with you. It’s all beginning now when you feel more courageous and motivated to make progress. You seem to attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. There can be someone who has an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you.

Changes in how you “do” relationships are in store, and this theme is expected to develop further in January. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current partnership for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves.

Leo

This Solar Eclipse can prompt a refresh or new chapter in your life related to work, health, habits, and routines, dear Leo. It heralds a period when new diet regimes, healthy routines, and satisfying work schedules can be successfully initiated, and current ones improved or revamped. You’re in a strong position to take care of business, handle details, and increase your efficiency. Circumstances around you can force these matters or simply motivate and prompt you to want to make big changes. It’s a good time to recognize and honor your limits regarding how much you can give and do. It’s time to structure your life.

This period is marked by a desire to sort things out and to be useful. Over the coming weeks, it makes sense to take charge of your health, self-care initiatives, and work. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a difficult work situation or job, then this is a time for letting go and starting anew.

Be sure to pace yourself and don’t jump into something without thinking. A new direction will come, and you don’t have to push for it. However, you’ll feel the motivation and courage build, and you’re likely to get to a point where you’re in charge and confident of what you’re doing. Self-improvement is in high focus. Clearing up the clutter is necessary and beneficial now. It’s common to feel tuckered out around the time of an eclipse, after which your energy increases. Solar Eclipses often affect you more than others because Leos are ruled by the Sun, and it makes sense to take a light schedule. New plans and projects are on the horizon.

Note that eclipses often highlight lack or frustrations that motivate us to make changes. Initially, you can feel somewhat drained, after which you’ll feel a surge of optimism and confidence about self-care and self-improvement. A Jupiter-Uranus influence imprinted on this eclipse keeps you innovating and optimistic. You want to upgrade health, work, habits, and routines. You might discover new things to love in your work or everyday life, and events occurring now can increase your commitment to–or excitement about–making improvements. Aim to share your eagerness and generosity. You might discover new ways of taking care of the practical side of life, and it’s empowering and freeing.

Virgo

This Solar Eclipse occurs in your sector of romance, creative self-expression, recreation, children, and hobbies, dear Virgo. Events happening now and in the coming weeks set you up for new beginnings in one or more of these areas of life. Romantic inclinations are highlighted, as are any kind of celebratory, playful, and just-for-fun endeavors. You will be especially aware of your need for approval and feedback from others during this period, deriving pleasure from the ways your creativity impact the world around you. This can be a passionate time for you and a time when you might feel bolder about sharing yourself or your creations than usual.

If you’ve been holding on too tightly to people or projects that have been keeping you from expressing your true self, this is a time for making necessary changes.

You are likely to attract positive attention from others, especially romantically or creatively speaking, in the weeks and even months ahead of you. You may be starting a new hobby, reviving an old pastime, or stepping up a current one. You are making big decisions about recreation, hobbies, love, and children now and in the coming months.

Even if your life seems crammed with things to do, you need to learn to make the most of the time you do have for enjoying yourself. Pace yourself, though, because rushing into something is not advised now. Allow the process to unfold. Eclipses can drain your energy temporarily.

This eclipse ties into a Jupiter-Uranus trine, and the Sun is about to align with Jupiter. You’ll find you’re expressing parts of yourself that the world perhaps has never seen before. It’s a time of golden opportunities for you. Be sure to get out there, make your presentations, get active, and promote yourself in some way or another in the weeks ahead.

The desire to improve your life along romantic or creative lines can be compelling now, and the need to start fresh can become evident. You are rebuilding your motivation and confidence regarding pursuing your heart’s desire or heartfelt endeavors, passions, and loves. Going forward, more opportunities are sure to emerge that serve to awaken hidden or dormant talents, and the ball starts rolling now!

Libra

This Solar Eclipse clears the way for new beginnings, dear Libra, particularly related to your personal life or living conditions and arrangements. It’s time to assess what may have been holding you back from thriving, mainly related to your career and home life. The coming weeks are powerful for taking charge of your home life, attention to matters of security and safety, connecting with family and your own emotions. This eclipse can serve as a cosmic nudge to find your roots, learn your worth, build your sense of security, and focus on building your support system or base of operations.

The coming weeks are ideal for making long-range plans for the future, for any type of reorganizing or even remodeling of the home or home environment, and for family-related activities. There can be the need or desire to put your personal life first now, and changes may be afoot. You’re in an excellent position to start fresh and take charge.

This eclipse is part of a set occurring from mid-2018 to mid-2020 that encourages you to find a better work-home life balance. For some of you, this can mean a new job or job focus and/or moving house. However, for many, it’s about balancing and reorganizing your duties so that you perform better.

You’re coming in touch with basic feelings and needs that you may have overlooked in the past. The Solar Eclipse is a cosmic nudge to pay special attention to your support system as well as the support and nurturance you give others. Improving living conditions and arrangements can be in strong focus. There can be some drama on the domestic front, but this ideally leads to a fresh perspective or a new beginning. Changes and improvements may be necessary as you reorganize your personal life, or shuffle around your priorities.

With a Jupiter-Uranus aspect tied into the energies of this eclipse, family and intimate relationships can improve by leaps and bounds as you discover new and improved ways of relating and interacting going forward. You’re ridding yourself of old patterns that are no longer working in your favor. Moving, renovating, or increasing your feelings of safety and comfort can figure strongly. You’ll also be working on establishing and centering yourself on an emotional level. All of this begins now, although you’ve been building to this theme for some time.

Scorpio

This Solar Eclipse launches a favorable cycle in which to turn over a new leaf with your studies, communications, and connections, dear Scorpio. It’s a great time to learn something new, make contacts, and use the power of communications to move your goals forward. In the coming weeks and even months, you are likely to find new opportunities for learning and communicating or avenues for self-expression. In some cases, this is about transportation and could be prompted by an event that forces the issue!

Developing a mental rapport with others, sharing ideas, and reaching out or pouring energies into your interests and studies can be in current focus and favorable. The period ahead is excellent for taking care of daily tasks with increased and renewed energy, although you could experience an initial feeling of being overwhelmed since eclipses can wipe us out before restoring energy. News can come that steers you in a new direction. You might suddenly want to take a course or begin a new project, for example.

There can be new channels emerging for expressing yourself in new ways or for getting around town! New equipment or transportation options may open up different opportunities and experiences. There can be motivation to let go of outdated attitudes or conditions so that the path is clear for new beginnings. While the eclipse can overstimulate confidence, in the weeks ahead, you’ll get to an exceptional sense of what is truly valuable to you, and also of your own capabilities, aiding decision-making. Take your time on this.

This eclipse occurs around the time of a Jupiter-Uranus trine and Sun-Jupiter alignment, and these energies give the eclipse wonderful character. Look for opportunities in the areas of partnerships, friendships, communications, and studies to get out of a rut. It’s a time for focusing on self-improvement and for taking steps towards a much-improved lifestyle. Transportation or communications channels can open up for you, getting the ball rolling for more improvements and opportunities in the year ahead. You’re inventive, picking up information that others overlook, and connecting with others in fresh, inspiring ways. Others enjoy your ideas and insights. Opportunities pop up that allow you to expand your personal influence.

After the initial energy drain happens, there can be an energetic boost or news or information coming in that positively redirects you. Making long-range plans for improving your experience, particularly when it comes to learning and connecting, is favored. You might also take steps to develop a relationship with a sibling, relative, classmate, or even a neighbor now.

Sagittarius

This Solar Eclipse happens in your resources sector, dear Sagittarius, and you may be making important decisions in the coming weeks related to personal finances, business, and practical affairs.

On another level, this is a time for establishing yourself and discovering and developing your natural talents and personal resources. Your financial status, income, or arrangements related to security and comfort are subject to improvements, changes, and new beginnings. Setting realistic money goals, as well as formulating such things as budgets and other sensible financial planning projects, are especially favored during this time. You might also be discovering ways to increase your income or earning potential.

It’s a beautiful time for earthy, tactile, and comforting activities that help you to feel more grounded and connected. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a lifestyle or financial habits that haven’t been serving you well, this is a time when changes become necessary. New beginnings are in order! This eclipse gives you a fantastic push towards taking better care of your money and resources. Issues of being treated well and with respect can also come into play. It’s undoubtedly a robust period for resolving problems with income, spending, and saving, and it’s part of a series of eclipses in which you explore these themes from mid-2018 to mid-2020.

Configurations occurring around the time of the eclipse influence and color the eclipse’s energies. Notable for this event are the Jupiter-Uranus trine and the Sun-Jupiter conjunction, which infuses this eclipse with optimism, meaningfulness, and opportunity. It’s a brilliant time of new hope and beginnings related to money, talents, and resources.

Aim to seek out opportunities to enhance your sense of comfort, well-being, and security, or to improve your finances. You have the chance in the coming months to discover new or untapped resources on a financial level that can translate to a boost to your financial well-being, and innovative thinking now contributes significantly. There can be nice surprises in your work that help you advance or enjoy your work more.

Capricorn

The Solar Eclipse occurring today is in your sign, dear Capricorn, and it helps pave the way towards significant individual changes in the coming weeks and even months. This is a time for reinventing yourself in some personal way, such as with a new look or manner of expressing and presenting yourself. Think about how you present yourself to others and greet the world, focus on changing personal habits in such a way as to improve your confidence, and concentrate on putting your best foot forward, as this is a time when you will get noticed and make a powerful impression on others.

Circumstances can prompt a rethinking of your general attitude towards new beginnings, bravery, your role as a leader, your independence, and the ways you instinctively defend yourself. This is a time when you can be braver and enjoy new experiences. There can be a tendency to dig in your heels and display your independence now, which may be necessary for personal growth, but care should be taken to stay true to yourself in the process. Get in touch with what you genuinely want, envision it, and go for it, but wait for the dust to settle before going all in. Keep in mind that you can feel a little wiped out around the time of the eclipse before energy rebuilds. This is a critical time for personal goals, revisions, new beginnings, and makeovers (physical and otherwise).

You’ll be getting more attention now so be sure to wear your confidence well. Taking the high road is vital. Going forward, people build their faith in you, and this only serves to motivate you further to present the best version of yourself. You are working towards being more independent, a greater sense of freedom, and more authenticity in your presentation. Ease yourself into this dynamic phase of your life.

Fortunately, aspects occurring around the time of this eclipse in your sign infuse it with wonderful character. You should enjoy more self-confidence, and the projection of a fresh “new you” is bound to attract attention in the coming months. You’re hopeful, and you’re filling with a newfound sense of purpose and hunger for meaning.

Aquarius

This Solar Eclipse launches a period of review, letting go, and recharging your spiritual or emotional batteries, dear Aquarius, as it occurs in your solar twelfth house. This is a time for releasing, purging, and healing. This eclipse encourages you to put certain outdated ventures or situations behind you. It may be a time of withdrawal and retreat in a social sense, of soul-searching, and the seeking out of emotional peace of mind. You’re due for extra time to yourself, or with yourself! If you’ve been neglecting your psychic, spiritual, or emotional needs, then circumstances can push you to pay attention to your inner world now.

There can be flooding of energies now which can be a little disorienting, but going forward, you’ll get a stronger sense of what changes need to be made. If you require solitude, then you’ll find ways to get it. If there have been toxic connections to your past, then you’ll be figuring out how to break ties. If you’ve been giving of yourself too much to your own detriment, this is a time for more dedicated attention to your emotional and spiritual needs.

Over the coming weeks, circumstances seem to conspire to take charge of your health, private affairs, and need to put emotional baggage behind you. This can also be a time for giving more time to a person in need or a major cause. Buried or neglected issues can demand your attention, and working on these can pave the road to future success and happiness. You may be serving, helping, and supporting others or it could be a time of retreat and withdrawal on some level as you work behind the scenes.

This eclipse takes on extra character as it occurs close to a Sun-Jupiter conjunction and Jupiter-Uranus trine. Seek out personal opportunities, particularly related to healing, mental health, emotional wellness, financial support, home, property, and family. It’s a time for freeing yourself from situations that have kept you unhappy, confined, or worried. Improved living conditions can be a significant part of your new beginnings. It’s not the time to rush! You have more preparations to do, but you feel more and more equipped to handle them.

Pisces

This Solar Eclipse places a strong focus on making contacts and reaching out to others, dear Pisces, in both a social and professional sense, over the coming weeks and even months. Events and circumstances are such that they serve to clear the path for new beginnings, mainly related to how you fit in with friends and the community. You become more acutely aware of your position in life within the context of the group, rather than through self-centered focus. Goals that involve networking, making connections with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project or activity, and nurturing goodwill are the focus during this cycle that begins today. Some level of drama may be present now, as the eclipse can serve to shake up your social life to pave the way for meaningful changes. In some cases, friends enter or leave your life during this period.

This is an excellent time to reflect on how you’d like to steer your life in the coming weeks, particularly concerning your “place” in the social side of your life. This period favors formulating goals that have to do with future, long-term happiness, or a sense of mission or purpose, aligning yourself with important causes. This can be a crucial time for delegating, collaborating or calling on a team/help so that you have more time to focus on honing your craft or getting time for yourself.

Developments related to friends, happiness goals, dreams, wishes, new ideas, technology, networking, and teamwork are likely to be significant with long-term effects, setting you on a path for personal changes and new beginnings. If existing friendships are in need of a new focus or a renewed bond, then the energy of this eclipse can help in the coming weeks and months. This is not a time for clarity, but one of faith in the process. Keep in mind that eclipses can feel draining before they build you up.

This eclipse occurs around a Sun-Jupiter alignment, and it harmonizes with Uranus. Expanding your social circle is bound to grow your happiness and satisfaction from more broad-ranging experiences and perspectives. A better, more satisfying social life helps inject more fun and interest into your life in the months ahead. You could be gaining a stronger sense of freedom through fewer inhibitions. Transportation and communications options can open for you, and this can lead to greater opportunities — even life-changing ones.

These horoscopes come from my daily horoscopes. My daily horoscopes are based on daily influences including eclipses, retrogrades, ingresses, and planetary aspects.

 

General: The Meaning of the New Moon in the Houses

 

The following interpretations come from the Day Watch report. See our interpretations of the New Moon in houses here.

New Moon in 1st House This New Moon marks a time of personal beginnings, when you find yourself shot into the limelight and all eyes turn toward you to see what you’re going to do next. This may be somewhat startling, as it’s rather different than what last month brought, and you will need to step up and display your self-confidence in a way that wasn’t called on before. In a volatile situation, you will need to have your wits about you as you will have a particularly high profile. The trick is to handle it with grace and not let it go to your head, as this too shall pass and you’ll want to look back on a performance that maximized the opportunities dropped into your lap.

New Moon in 2nd House For a day or so you may be under pressure to underwrite new projects or finance situations that require sinking money into them. It may seem quite urgent, but it’s a time when everything seems a bit more intense, so you may do well to stand back and take a second look before jumping in with both feet. Wise investments made at this time can bring good returns in the next couple of weeks, but ill-conceived spending could drain you in the same time period. Know you’re right, then go ahead one way or the other, as the one option you probably won’t have is sitting on the fence or putting it all off until later. Strike when the iron is hot or pass the opportunity on to another.

New Moon in 3rd House A flurry of activity for several days can have the phone ringing off the hook as new ideas and propositions that require either your opinion or your decision come your way. Your challenge will be sorting the wheat from the chaff on the fly, and sorting out the confusion that always abounds at New Moon, especially this one. The day is won by multiple, smaller choices made wisely, rather than hanging on a single issue, so don’t obsess but decide quickly and move right along to the next. This is a great time for currying new acquaintances as the air of intensity makes for strong personal connections and breaks through the barriers of unfamiliarity.

New Moon in 4th House This may mark a day or so of raised tensions at home as biological tides run high and elbow room seems harder to come by. However, used creatively, this can lead to new ways of organizing and arranging your personal space so it doesn’t overlap that of others. It’s a good time to start new home-related projects as a way to utilize the extra energy in a constructive manner. Letting out your deeper expressions of feeling to another can make things especially intimate right now, but make sure you express yourself clearly and are not misunderstood. The perfect time to feel “at home” with someone, either literally or figuratively. The only thing you’ll not want to be is idle—the vibes are too intense to just sit on your hands.

New Moon in 5th House Find a party to go to, give one, or just party down where you stand—the astral weather is perfect for it. In fact, anything you do for enjoyment will seem twice as good right now. Play with your children, or just break out the inner child, as you can more easily part with self-consciousness and spontaneity breaks out, well, spontaneously! If you call on the muse for a creative project, she will definitely show up (muses love parties, and children), and you’ll find that your juices flow faster and easier than usual. There can be a fine line between joyous adventure and risky behavior, however, so try to stay on the safe side of the line. A good time to engage, but not be, a designated driver both literally and figuratively, so that you can be safely irresponsible for a while.

New Moon in 6th House A good time to take your blood pressure—if it’s not elevated now, you’re in really good shape. It can be easy to get worried about health matters now, but moderation is the right response. The temptation to throw yourself into a new regimen may run high, but choose your new path well before you embark or it will be a flash in the pan. The same goes for cleaning house in the workplace and starting off on a fresh footing. Make sure you’re not demanding too much of yourself in the long run—you will not always have this much drive, and you don’t want to peter out because you can’t keep up with yourself. A good program is determined by whether you can keep it going on an off day.

New Moon in 7th House: This is a particularly ripe couple of days for finding a new partner or turning over a new leaf with an old partner. You may find a flood of emotional intensity coming your way and how you utilize it could largely shape the direction of the relationship. That means be particularly understanding and realize that though feelings may be overstated at this time and emotions run hot, the message underneath is sincere and needs to be taken seriously. Breakthroughs can occur now that you both might have kept a lid on otherwise, and you’ll be glad you achieved the new closeness, even though you may not be able to keep it going at that level of intensity all month.

New Moon in 8th House You may find turning over a new leaf this month entails tossing out the old and ringing in the new, but you should take a second look before doing that. What you may find much more satisfactory is to simply rework and refurbish what is already there. Sometimes a new paint job makes everything new again, so you don’t have to start over from scratch. They don’t make things like they used to, so preserve what you can. It’s also a good time to initiate that new credit card, but avoid impulse buying, as it’s easy to go overboard right about now. Ditto for mortgage or other loans — a good starting time, but just take what you need and no more.

New Moon in 9th House It’s a great time for planning, cooking up new schemes, or rearranging the way you look at things. Patterns you establish now do not need detailed follow-up until later, so you can stick to generalities until you’ve got it all properly roughed-out. Put on the finishing touches later. New publishing efforts, or any project that generally disseminates what you have to say, are well begun now, and you may find the pressure is on to produce. Avoid hasty commitments, however, as you don’t want to be held to something ill-considered or not fully thought out. Well begun is half done, so be thoughtful, deliberate, and measured in your efforts, even though tempted or even encouraged not to be.

New Moon in 10th House New developments in career matters may have you quite wound up for a couple of days and the pressure to produce can be intense. Too many things happening at once make it hard to keep track of things, but you can’t afford to leave anything out. It is as important to listen at this time as to act. What people are saying to you and about you very much reflects your personal and professional status and you will want to make sure that you are being represented honestly. If you give your résumé a second look, you’ll find there are new things to say about yourself that need to be included. Taking a fresh stance can put you into new places, move you up a notch.

New Moon in 11th House Feelings run high among close friends and an intensity is available right now that can renew the love and passion that first fueled your relationships. It can be worth risking upset to get at what you are really feeling and share it with those that matter the most. Because there’s a crazy atmosphere surrounding it all, you can say things you might have hesitated to bring up and wear your heart on your sleeve without worrying about the outcome. The same ability to burst out of your shell will also aid in getting yourself into new company you might have thought didn’t care about you before. An approach of disarming honesty can make you welcome in unexpected places and bring you valuable allies.

New Moon in the 12th House Eruptions of the unconscious could bring both troubles and personal revelations to the surface right now, so you may want to be careful not to betray secrets or let the cat out of the bag prematurely. Don’t say the first thing that comes to mind, or you may give away more than you intend to. New deals are being struck behind the scenes with a strong sense of urgency, but they are not necessarily justified, so watch that you don’t climb aboard the wrong bandwagon right now. Wait until things come out into the open to make decisions, take sides, even though there appears to be advantage in secrecy. Open covenants, openly arrived at, are the better part of honor.

General: The Meaning of the Full Moon in the Houses

The following interpretations come from the Day Watch report. See our interpretations of the Full Moon in the houses here.

Full Moon in 1st House For a day or so you may find things get fairly wacky in your surroundings, and one of the causes may be you. The time is right (and the pressure is on) to bring critical projects to a conclusion, put on finishing touches, and show the world just what you’re all about. The emphasis is not so much on what you’ve done, but rather who you are, and it’s the right time to let your personality out of the box and shine, shine, shine. The whole set of circumstances may have you a little giddy, but that’s part of the surrounding picture at Full Moon, and this is your time to take a ride on that energy and put your personal mark on what comes of it.

Full Moon in 2nd House Under a little more intensity than usual, it’s time to wrap things up financially, collect on projects that have come to fruition, and generally tie up loose ends. That should mean ending extra spending for a time, as it will be less necessary, but that’s hard to do on a Full Moon, when things are a little crazy and judgment isn’t always on the mark. Still, put your focus on that last payment, that final accessory, as the appropriate approach is to round out what you have done, put on the final touches, and then showcase it. It’s a time to show off what you’ve got and make the most of it, not keep piling it on. You should concentrate on reaping its rewards.

Full Moon in 3rd House Don’t everybody talk at once! That’s what you’re likely to be saying as the volume level around you peaks and everybody is trying to get a message through, including yourself. Full Moon is like that in general, but this time it can be especially wordy as you try to finish up a lot of correspondence and tie up loose ends as the links you have established begin to really amount to something. That means crowding a lot of important last-minute things into the space of a few days, so don’t over schedule yourself in advance. Leave plenty of room open for last-minute situations that come rushing in and demand equal attention. Concentrate on matters that require conclusion and closure right now; save your new ideas for later when they can get proper attention.

Full Moon in 4th House You may find you could use a little more space at home as everyone there, including yourself, is taking up a lot more psychic space than usual right now. That can be claustrophobic and you can get on each other’s nerves—or you can use it as the opportunity to connect more by opening that personal space and letting people in. Or, you can just get out of the house and take a break from it all. Whatever you choose, you will find yourself with matters coming to a head and you’ll be making conclusions about just how well your internal game plan is working out. Literally and figuratively, good fences make good neighbors, but only when located strategically. Time to finish yours, and test it.

Full Moon in 5th House Spontaneity is the watchword right now, and it’s time to kick back and have some fun, especially with close friends and children. If you’re at a party and go just a little bit over the top, you will likely be in good company, as this is a general time of celebration for all. Passion and intensity, on any topic you choose, can run rampant and enthusiasm overflows. If you’re trying to get business done, you’ll be swimming against the tide, so if you have the option, just go with the flow. If you’re working on a creative project, make sure you get the product preserved for posterity—on paper, on film, on tape, on CD. If you’re just going to be pleasantly out to lunch, don’t bother, just enjoy.

Full Moon in 6th House If you aren’t finally achieving something from your diet or exercise regimen, ask yourself why not. This is the time you should be really getting things together and it should be starting to pay off. However, avoid excess and going over the top right now, as you may feel you can do more — and maybe eat more—than you really should. At work, you may feel a little overbooked as tasks multiply and time is short to complete them. Once you’ve put on the finishing touches, you’ll be able to stand back and take pride in your accomplishments. A good time for an office party, if you can concoct a good excuse for one. In general right now, celebrate finished tasks.

Full Moon in 7th House This is a wonderful time to let your partner shine and just lay back and appreciate it all. That can mean enjoying the fruits of your mutual labors wrought by the relationship, or it can mean finally fully connecting with someone you’ve been developing something special with for a while. In either case, the rewards of connecting closely will take center stage, and you can lean on the familiarity you already have to support what comes next. This can apply equally well in business as in romance, as long as you’re dealing with an equal on equal ground. The essence is that you bring things to full bloom right now, so you can begin harvesting what you have sown.

Full Moon in 8th House If you’ve been chasing down that extra credit line, looking for a better deal on a mortgage or equity loan, this is a likely time to pull it all together, as long as you’ve got all your ducks in a row. That may mean scrambling for some last minute details or information to make it under a deadline, but there’s real potential here. It’s also good psychic weather for putting the finishing touches on restoration projects, picking up that antique you’ve been chasing down, and clearing out the cobwebs that may have been settling on lesser-used items. You’ll have the courage to toss out those useless things you’ve been hoarding, and the burst of freedom will do you good. The theme: finish clearing the decks for action.

Full Moon in 9th House Think big, stretch the imagination, push the envelope of your beliefs and feelings—this Full Moon has the potential to be an eye-opener. The energy is in the air to expand your window on the world, especially where it has been an ongoing operation already in the works. The heady feeling of suddenly having put it all together can have you wondering now what to do with it all, but that will take care of itself down the line. Look for good news on the legal front, as things wrap themselves up and come to a conclusion, but don’t count your chickens yet, as it’s easy to overestimate right now. Main issues can get resolved now, as all parties are willing to go an extra mile to agree in principle, if not on the details.

Full Moon in 10th House This may be the perfect time to button down career matters that have been under development for a while. Although the pace may be accelerated and last-minute additions come crowding in, you can have a fuller, rosier picture of just where you stand in your profession and what people think of you. Choose this spot for releasing a shotgun blast of self-promotion, whatever it is you do, as public relations has extra carrying power from this Full Moon. The buzz about you comes in a rising crescendo that peaks now, so start figuring out ways to take it to the bank. Although you may be tempted to squirrel yourself away at home, take time out during these few days to wave your own flag.

Full Moon in 11th House Relaxation, comfort with your surroundings, and the warmth and glow of friendship can be the watchwords of this Full Moon, if you’re willing to disconnect from the daily grind and tap into your personal happy side for a while. Fine food, pleasant company, tales of shared lives and mutual adventures bring a fullness that makes you realize that the good life is about feelings, not money; friendship, not possessions. Satisfaction comes from just letting things happen for a moment and inviting in the blessings that surround you, despite the rigors of existence. If you want a peak experience, it’s in the wings right now, roll it out. Take the time to put the seal on relationships that elevate and support you.

Full Moon in 12th House Although this Full Moon may at times seem to place you between dream and hallucination, it emphasizes the ability to perceive and commune with your inner self in ways you might have been cut off from it. The intensity in the air breaks internal barriers and allows you to heal wounds, now that they have come to light. In more mundane affairs, things being cooked up behind the scenes come to fruition, although you may have to take extra precautions that they don’t come into the light, unless you are fully ready to go public with them. Avoid confrontations right now, which will put you at a disadvantage, use more subtle means to gain your ends when emotions run high.

 

Table: Eclipse Dates & Times for 2018-2024 (Eastern Time)

Total LUNAR Eclipse 2018 January 31 8:26:39
11 Leo 37
Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2018 February 15 16:05:07 27 Aquarius 08

Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2018 July 12 22:47:47
20 Cancer 41
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2018 July 27 16:20:15
4 Aquarius 45
Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2018 August 11 5:57:38 18 Leo 42

Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2019 January 5 20:28:05
15 Capricorn 25
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2019 January 21 0:15:58 0 Leo 52

Total SOLAR Eclipse 2019 July 2 15:16:06
10 Cancer 38
Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2019 July 16 17:38:06 24 Capricorn 04

Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2019 December 26 0:13:00
4 Capricorn 07
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 January 10 14:21:10 20 Cancer 00

Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 June 5 15:12:15
15 Sagittarius 34
Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2020 June 21 2:41:19
0 Cancer 21
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 July 5 0:44:16 13 Capricorn 38

Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2020 November 30 4:29:32
8 Gemini 38
Total SOLAR Eclipse 2020 December 14 11:16:26 23 Sagittarius 08

Total LUNAR Eclipse 2021 May 26 7:13:43 at 5 Sagittarius
26
Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2021 June 10 6:52:29 at 19 Gemini 47

Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2021 November 19 3:57:17 at 27 Taurus
14
Total SOLAR Eclipse 2021 December 4 2:42:51 at 12 Sagittarius 22

Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2022 April 30 16:27:54 at 10 Taurus
28
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2022 May 16 00:13:58 at 25 Scorpio 18

Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2022 October 25 6:48:30 at 2 Scorpio
00
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2022 November 8 6:01:57 at 16 Taurus 01

Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries
50
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2023 May 5 13:33:50 at 14 Scorpio 58

Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra
08
Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2023 October 28 16:23:49 at 5 Taurus 09

Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2024 March 25 3:00:05 at 5 Libra
07
Total SOLAR Eclipse 2024 April 8 14:20:37 at 19 Aries 24

Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2024 September 17 22:34:13 at 25 Pisces
41
Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04

 

See also a larger date range: Eclipse Tables

See also: How to interpret transits of the eclipses to the birth chart.

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