Lunations: Eclipses
Current & Upcoming Eclipses
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Understanding eclipses – overview
New! Lunar Eclipse – November 8, 2022
New! Solar Eclipse – October 25, 2022
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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 year. They happen 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 along the Taurus-Scorpio axis from 2003-2004, then 2012-2014, and then from 2021-2023. Although they are notable and important in astrology, the media can make a fuss 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. However, they’re great for identifying current and upcoming themes in our lives.
Astrological Significance of the Eclipses
Recent & Upcoming Eclipses:
***A Lunar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Taurus on November 8, 2022.***
Total Lunar Eclipse in Taurus: November 8, 2022
Astrological Significance of the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus
About the Lunar Eclipse on November 8th, 2022
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 what we need or lack 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. However, these things are usually about things we’ve buried or kept at bay. A Lunar Eclipse is a more potent Full Moon, and its effects tend to last longer — approximately six months.
The Lunar Eclipse on November 8th, 2022, occurs when the Moon is at 16 degrees of Taurus, opposing the Sun at 16 degrees Scorpio, and is a Total Lunar Eclipse.
Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Taurus-Scorpio axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants concerning the balance between Taurus-ruled and Scorpio-ruled areas of life.
The contrast between earthy, practical, peace-loving Taurus and emotional, transformative, crisis-oriented Scorpio comes full bloom. The Moon in Taurus wants us to find emotional fulfillment through the simple, tangible things in life, while the Scorpio Sun draws our attention to complexities, intangibles, and mysteries.
The Full Moon illuminates this conflict between form (Taurus) and transformation (Scorpio), and between collecting (Taurus) and sharing (Scorpio). Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, we should find a balance between the two energies, and this is what this Lunar Eclipse invites us (or pushes us) to do.
This eclipse is about awakening to the need to enjoy the fruits of our labors and to connect with our desire to take care of ourselves and our needs.
We take an urgent interest in the physical world and in our own sensual needs and desires at this time. While we should watch for stubbornness, some self-interest is healthy and necessary now.
The Lunar Eclipse Chart
This total Lunar Eclipse, the Frost Moon, aligns with Mercury and Venus on the Sun side of the Sun-Moon opposition, and with Uranus and the North Node on the Moon side. It also squares Saturn. It’s the fifth in a set of eclipses along the Taurus-Scorpio axis (the last eclipse in this sign set will happen in October 2023).
This set stirs the need to balance our lives between collecting and sharing, the simple and complicated, tangibles and emotional complexities. Emotions, feelings, and revelations are pivotal–they push things along.
Occurring at the time of a Superior Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury, an epiphany, illumination of a matter, or a clearing of the air is even more likely and significant. We are sharp, communicative, and open at this time, and what we say or write now has a strong impact, for better or worse! An idea or plan can come to full bloom.
Its applying square to Saturn points to blocks, obstacles, hard realities, or disappointments, but keep in mind that these are surmountable and might help us refine and fine-tune our plans.
This is a passionate and creative Full Moon eclipse, ripe with possibilities and learning experiences. Intimate relationship matters, such as personal comfort levels, values, and sexuality, figure prominently.
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 months, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings. We need to express them in some way.
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–everything feels big and larger than life at this time. Epiphanies are likely as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into affirmative action, although there can be some initial level of chaos.
Full Moons and Lunar Eclipses bring issues in our lives to fulfillment. Our emotions heighten, and there is often some drama involved with the house, sign, and any contacted planets activated by the Full Moon.
Look to 16 degrees of Taurus/Scorpio 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.
Eclipse #5 in a Taurus-Scorpio set
This eclipse is the fifth in a series of eclipses that fall along the Taurus/Scorpio axis. We can view it as one of several cosmic pushes regarding emerging themes. The first eclipse in this sign set occurred in November 2021, and the final eclipse along this sign axis will happen in October 2023.
Reactions to eclipses are highly individual–some of us can be irritable and don’t know exactly why. Others might be in a 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–they’re telling us something important.
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 should exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.
We mustn’t ignore the Sun’s role in this eclipse–its Scorpio position in our charts shows where we have focused our energies. Now, with the force of the Full Moon, we’re releasing bottled-up energy.
Our feelings count; we’ll see and feel their power now, paving the road for new directions. However, this can be an impulsive and misguided time to act. It’s better to observe, take in, and process before jumping into action.
Instead, this is an ideal time to work on clearing up past patterns that have been holding us back from personal fulfillment, particularly those centering around sharing, possessiveness, comfort, and self-esteem matters. More work will come in these areas, but for now, we are experiencing a greater awareness of problems and especially lacks or flaws, which are significant.
There can be inflated feelings, and we can wrestle with strong urges and blocks, so it’s wise to sit with our revelations for a bit before taking action. These new realizations are far from discountable–they’re significant. However, they’re bigger than life and, ultimately, the goal is to find a balance.
This Lunar Eclipse can have a way of bringing dysfunctional areas of our lives to our attention. Emotions and realizations feel big. Plans can blossom.
Through events, circumstances, and epiphanies occurring around the time of this eclipse, we learn that we should make a stronger connection to our physical natures and needs. To feel fulfilled, we must acknowledge and embrace our need to take care of ourselves and feel grounded and strong as individuals. Boosting our income can be part of this, and so can more effectively managing other personal resources, including our personal possessions, valuables, assets, and talents.
We become aware of where we have been overdoing our dependence on others, whether emotionally, physically, or materially, and where it’s come at the expense of our self-worth.
This is a time to open ourselves up to possibilities, but we should probably save finalizing plans for a later date.
Full Moons are always helpful for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can see where to bring back balance. Our larger work should focus on reaching a good balance. Enlightenment now provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs, ultimately leading to positive actions and decisions.
There can be a heightened awareness of flaws in our current systems and structures. This eclipse can also bring on an urgent or sudden need/desire to express ourselves, whether verbally or through our actions, and a strong compulsion to resolve a problem.
Context for this Lunar Eclipse–Looking Back (and Forward):
On November 9th, 2003, a Lunar Eclipse fell in Taurus at approximately the same degree as the one occurring now in 2022. It might be helpful to think back to issues in your life that were in effect around this time to get an idea of how this 2022 Lunar Eclipse affects you.
Others at a similar degree occurred on November 8th, 1984, November 6th, 1976, and November 7th, 1957.
You can also look back, in a general sense, to eclipse sets occurring along the same Taurus-Scorpio axis as the current one in effect from November 2021 to October 2023. This can help give more information gleaned by looking to the past to understand the present and future themes:
The last time we had a set of Taurus-Scorpio eclipses was from November 2012 to October 2014. Before that, a group occurred from November 2002 to April 2005, and another from November 1993 to October 1995. These are additional 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 sky looked different than it does now, with planets presenting in various patterns and positions. While the issues will not be identical, specific themes can re-emerge.
It’s also important to consider that the North Node is closer to, or transiting, Taurus during this 2021-2023 Taurus-Scorpio eclipse set. The last set where the North Node was in Taurus was the eclipse set in November 2002 to April 2005. [The Mean North Node moved into Taurus in December 2021, and the True Node moved into the sign in January 2022.]
There is certainly a difference between eclipse sets where the North Node is closer to or in Taurus, as it is for this eclipse, when we’re striving toward incorporating more Taurus energies and themes into our lives, and sets occurring when the North Node is closer to or in Scorpio, when we strive toward Scorpio energies.
And by “strive toward,” I mean that when the North Node is in a sign, we’re learning and incorporating that sign’s qualities so that we can grow, improve, and round out our lives more fully. At this time, we’re learning the lessons of Taurus at the same time as Uranus is changing our expression or perspective on the sign.
Taurus-Scorpio Eclipse sets (upcoming, current, and some in recent history):
- May 2031 to November 2032
- November 2021 to October 2023
- November 2012 to October 2014
- November 2002 to April 2005
- November 1993 to October 1995
- May 1984 to April 1986
The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Taurus-Scorpio axis in this set only (there were other eclipses between these since they overlap – a fuller chronological list of eclipses is at the end of this page):
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse November 19, 2021, at 3:57:17, at 27° Taurus 14′
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse April 30, 2022, at 16:27:54 at 10° Taurus 28′
- Total LUNAR Eclipse May 16, 2022, at 00:13:58 at 25° Scorpio 18′
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse October 25, 2022, at 6:48:30 at 2° Scorpio 00′
- Total LUNAR Eclipse November 8, 2022, at 6:01:57 at 16° Taurus 01′
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse May 5, 2023, at 13:33:50 at 14° Scorpio 58′
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse October 28, 2023, at 16:23:49 at 5° Taurus 09′
This Lunar Eclipse’s Influence on Your Birth Chart:
See also my horoscopes for each zodiac sign for this November 8th, 2022 Lunar Eclipse on Astrology Cafe.
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. This time, this would happen to people born from approximately **May 3-9** of any year. 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: With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
With 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.
***A Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Scorpio on October 25th, 2022.***
New Moon/Solar Eclipse (Partial) in Scorpio on October 25, 2022
About the partial Solar Eclipse in Scorpio on October 25, 2022
A partial Solar Eclipse occurs on October 25th, 2022, at 6:49 AM EDT at 2 degrees and 0 minutes of the sign of Scorpio. Because its effects can be felt up to six months after the actual date of the eclipse, it has more power to affect our personal lives than a “regular” New Moon.
Long-term changes are in the works! In the Pluto-ruled sign of Scorpio, there is now a powerful focus on matters related to intimacy, control, power, money, and sharing. This eclipse might challenge these life departments and present opportunities for new beginnings.
Eclipse #4 in a Taurus-Scorpio set
This Solar Eclipse/New Moon occurs in the sign of passionate Scorpio. It’s the fourth eclipse to fall along the Taurus-Scorpio axis in a set that began in November 2021. This eclipse can be considered one of several cosmic nudges toward creating a better balance between “give and take.” The focus is on new beginnings related to our attachments, intimate life, debts, personal psychology, power dynamics, and self-empowerment.
Eclipses have the power to set up themes for the coming six months. We’ll address matters related to change, transformation, comfort, in/dependence, attachment, sharing, and money in the months following this eclipse. We may feel the need–or desire–to start fresh in these areas. Realizations since May–or strong feelings we’ve experienced in recent months–can propel us forward.
This set of eclipses stirs the need to balance our lives between collecting and sharing, the simple and complicated, tangibles and emotional complexities. Emotional stirrings are motivating.
Occurring in Scorpio, this Solar Eclipse calls us to:
- take steps towards self-mastery and self-empowerment by tackling things that undermine us and that take away our power (compulsive behaviors, addictions, large debts);
- understand that changes and endings are necessary for our soul growth;
- work on learning to merge with another human being on an intimate level without feeling like we have lost ourselves;
- instead of assuming that others do or should see life the same way as we do, strive to understand why others don’t share the same values;
- develop our personal magnetism by working on strength and depth of character;
- release our fear of confrontations and heavy emotional situations, recognizing that although they may be uncomfortable, these situations can lead us toward psychological healing;
- take steps to manage and handle our shared resources with a partner (or ex-partner) in a healthier fashion.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 2 degrees and 0 minutes of Scorpio.
Similar Solar Eclipses occurred on October 25, 2014, and October 24, 1995. An eclipse set along the Taurus-Scorpio axis most recently occurred from 2012 to 2014. Before that, it was from 2003-2004. It can be useful to think back to these periods of our lives and consider relevant themes–this time around, we might encounter similar lessons or further developments along the same lines.
For example, if we were struggling with money or dividing our assets in 2003-2004, and we then saw a period of financial increase in 2012-2014, this 2021-2023 period might pull up a need to reorganize, shuffle around, or otherwise sort our finances.
The Solar Eclipse Chart
Venus is tightly (partile) conjunct this eclipse, emphasizing and reinforcing a challenge to our value system. We could find that people are largely cooperative in our quest, and close personal relationships are deeply involved. There can be situations in which we feel pressured to bring more harmony to our relationships.
It’s interesting to note that a partial Solar Eclipse occurred in early Scorpio, aligned with Venus, on October 25, 2014. Similar themes in play eight years ago can emerge in our lives now.
Occurring in Scorpio, this eclipse is about strengthening our intimate relationships, relationship with debts and attachments, and support systems. It is a time to re-evaluate our relationship with our deeper, most intimate needs and desires and discover what truly makes us happy and fulfilled.
Looking at it another way, it’s about strengthening ourselves from the inside out. We can feel extremes of emotion as our fears of loss, betrayal, or the exposure of our vulnerabilities are uncovered.
It’s also a period for considering new ways to handle support, debt, attachment, or addiction. Fresh and potent energy is with us for taking charge of our lives.
This eclipse can work on psychological levels instead (or in addition). It’s an excellent time to concentrate on what we can do to increase our feelings of self-empowerment. Getting to a healthy relationship with ourselves regarding our balance of supporting and being supported, for example, can be gratifying at this time. It can be empowering to now see where we’ve been attached to things that kept us from growing and feeling worthy, confident, and fulfilled.
We might evaluate where we have been complicating our lives by our love-hate attraction to predicament and conflict or by a feeling that we need someone or something toxic to survive or thrive. Knowing what it is that truly – deeply – touches us improves our intimate relationships and our relationships with ourselves. Our sensual side enhances, and sensual feelings heighten during this period.
Sometimes eclipses bring about events that force us into this position of re-evaluation. For example, on a mundane level, moving or job changes can require shuffling around money sources or a different relationship with our things. Money increases or decreases can prompt new attitudes toward our resources or belongings, and life changes accordingly. Depending on current life circumstances, dealing with an audit or back taxes is another possibility.
We are learning about the balance of give and take during this series of eclipses in Taurus and Scorpio (from November 2021 to October 2023). Circumstances may be such that we are pushed to recognize and consider others’ values rather than expect them to share the same perspective as us. At the same time, we need to discover our own needs and values as individuals.
Our Mission:
We may now need to take steps towards managing and handling our shared resources with others, our debts, or taxes more effectively. Along the same vein, we must consider whether we are contributing our share and earning what we deserve. An intimate partnership may be left behind, or a source of money might end, for example. Either of these situations pushes us to learn to depend on ourselves and recognize that we don’t necessarily need these things to survive.
On the other hand, if we’ve been keeping things to ourselves and avoiding leaning on others, now is the time to reach out and get the support we need.
Ultimately, we are now in a better position to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth and that we can handle these things – that life does indeed go on. We are discovering our inner power.
This eclipse can illuminate our emotional and financial investments and–possibly–challenge them. We might take steps towards self-mastery by tackling things that undermine us and take away our power, such as compulsive behaviors, addictions, or substantial debts.
Solar Eclipse
We might work on intimacy, not only with others but also with ourselves. Connecting with our deeper needs and desires and understanding why they’re part of us is integral to this process. There can be some ambitions or desires that we haven’t acknowledged, for example, yet they exist and drive some of our behaviors. Recognizing and integrating or working through these things can be rewarding.
This eclipse specifically, occurring in Scorpio, is more about attending to the side of the equation that involves our profound connection to someone or something else. It’s a time for investing, or reinvesting, in our intimate world. There is a focus on how we’re growing and evolving, whether we need to clear the way for new projects and relationships or whether we might recommit to things we already have in place.
This is a good time for focusing on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Scorpion–passionate, resourceful, focused, probing, deep, and perceptive–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives.
Scorpio New Moons are generally suitable for working on our self-mastery skills. We may want to pinpoint the things in our lives that make us feel out of control, such as addictions and debts, and work on freeing ourselves of these emotional burdens. We can explore what is missing in our lives that leads us to engage in self-destructive behaviors.
One of Scorpio’s “lessons” involve learning to dig deeper into the mysteries around us instead of always being content with status quo. Taking the time to understand others’ motives can enrich our feelings of intimacy, forgiveness, and sense of meaning.
Scorpio also teaches us that dedication to one meaningful relationship or undertaking can be significantly more satisfying than spreading ourselves around. Here, “quality over quantity” applies. We might want to use this cycle to work on focusing on and developing one special project or relationship to add purposefulness and depth to our lives.
Not a Scorpio? This eclipse still affects you. In fact, everyone has Scorpio somewhere in their chart, and these traits are strong in the corresponding areas of life. See the New Moon in Houses below for more information.
A Solar Eclipse can stimulate a strong desire to take action. However, it will be important to avoid jumping to conclusions and asserting ourselves without considering others’ feelings and reactions. There is a big difference between asserting ourselves from a place of healthy confidence and asserting ourselves brashly and blindly, the latter giving us a false sense of confidence or bravery.
With this potent Scorpio energy, 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 may be revealed around the time of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. Something ends for something else to start anew. We may be called upon to give up something in order to move forward into a new chapter in our lives. Although the “new” may be unrecognizable, it is vital to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown.
An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is closer to the South Node of the Moon. Eclipses close to the South Node tug at us a little harder. We should watch for clinging to things that act as crutches in our lives. There is a need to let go, forgive, cleanse, and release.
Challenges:
We are challenged to open up to the concept that changing, evolving, and transforming can be good for us, even if it means stepping a little outside of our comfort zone.
Significant developments in the personal areas ruled by Scorpio in our charts are likely to occur over the course of the next 3-6 months. While it’s the fourth eclipse in a series falling along the Taurus-Scorpio axis (from November 2021 to October 2023), it’s the first Solar Eclipse in the sign of Scorpio in this series.
Since this is a Solar Eclipse, we may feel wiped out, ignored, or overruled before we are motivated to make a big change or new beginning. In the days surrounding the eclipse, it’s best to take in, observe, and let our intuition work for us. It’s not the time to push.
Eclipses can seem to drain us before we begin fresh, slowly but steadily rebuilding our energy and motivation.
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 feel its effects more strongly on a personal level.
For example, if your birthday occurs on or in the few days surrounding October 25th, it’s a particularly strong time for new beginnings.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 2 degrees and 0 minutes of Scorpio, affecting people born with personal planets and points at 27 to 30 degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) and 0 to 7 degrees of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) most significantly.
Looking Back (and Forward):
A Solar eclipse occurred at approximately the same degree as this October 2022 eclipse on October 25th, 2014, and October 24th, 1995. It might help to think back to these periods and consider the themes that surrounded your life then, if relevant, to better understand what the current eclipse series might mean for you.
The last series of eclipses along the Taurus-Scorpio axis occurred from November 2012 to October 2014, November 1993 to October 1995, May 1984 to April 1986, and May 1975 to November 1976.
There is certainly a difference between eclipse sets where the North Node is closer to Taurus as it is for this eclipse, when we’re striving toward incorporating more Taurus energies and themes into our lives, and sets occurring when the North Node is closer to Scorpio, when we strive toward Scorpio energies. Currently, we’re generally striving toward Taurus energies, and this Solar Eclipse in Scorpio encourages us to get our Scorpio areas in order to ultimately improve the Taurus area of our charts/lives!
It’s useful to know that eclipses occur along a sign axis in sets every nine years.
Taurus-Scorpio Eclipse sets (upcoming, current, and some in recent history):
- May 2031 to November 2032
- November 2021 to October 2023
- November 2012 to October 2014
- November 2002 to April 2005
- November 1993 to October 1995
- May 1984 to April 1986
The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Taurus-Scorpio axis in this set only (there were other eclipses between these since they overlap – a fuller chronological list of eclipses is at the end of this page):
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse November 19, 2021, at 3:57:17, at 27° Taurus 14′
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse April 30, 2022, at 16:27:54 at 10° Taurus 28′
- Total LUNAR Eclipse May 16, 2022, at 00:13:58 at 25° Scorpio 18′
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse October 25, 2022, at 6:48:30 at 2° Scorpio 00′
- Total LUNAR Eclipse November 8, 2022, at 6:01:57 at 16° Taurus 01′
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse May 5, 2023, at 13:33:50 at 14° Scorpio 58′
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse October 28, 2023, at 16:23:49 at 5° Taurus 09′
If you know your natal chart and where 2 degrees Scorpio is in your natal chart, here are the themes you might encounter now:
The following are Horoscopes, based on the solar chart, revealing what this eclipse is likely to mean for each sign of the zodiac: Solar Eclipse in Scorpio Horoscopes: October 25, 2022 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. For ALL signs: This Solar Eclipse is the fourth in a set of seven along the Taurus-Scorpio axis from November 2021 to October 2023. It’s another step in a process that alerts us to how we’re managing our resources and relationships and offers opportunities to improve. 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, get support, quit a bad habit, or understand your psychological workings better are favored now. 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 essential 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, but they slowly and surely restore in the days following, ideally with more authentic motivation and clarity. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a relationship or a financial arrangement, this is a time for coming to terms with the dependency. It can also be a time when you want/ask 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. Transits occurring around the time of the eclipse have more staying power than usual since they tie in with the eclipse energy. Aligned with Venus, this eclipse has much to do with getting along with others, enjoying yourself more confidently, and perhaps employing some charm. Joy, compromise, and connection are important “ingredients” in your success story with money, relationship, and power dynamics. Look for distinct opportunities to improve your intimate life and money situation. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): 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. Similarly, this eclipse can nudge you forward if you’ve been avoiding someone or expressing your relationship needs. 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. 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 Venus alignment suggests much charm, open-heartedness, and kindness or personal attraction surrounding your new beginnings. Joy, compromise, and gentleness are important “ingredients” in your success story with relationships at this time. Changes in how you “do” relationships are in store, and this theme is expected to develop further in the upcoming year. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current partnership for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves. This is an important period for major adjustments and improvements related to your independence and relationships. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): This Solar Eclipse can prompt a refresh or new chapter in your life related to work, health, habits, and routines, dear Gemini. It heralds a period when you can successfully initiate new diet regimes, healthy routines, and satisfying work schedules or improve and revamp current ones. In the weeks ahead, 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 and months, 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 you might want to let go and start 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. It’s best to allow this process to unfold as it will! This eclipse is aligned with Venus and can be about starting fresh in your work or with health and self-care programs, sprouting from loving feelings and wonderful inspiration to make improvements. Charm, joy, compromise, and socializing or mingling can play a large role in your success story now. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): This eclipse sets up a distinct theme: romantic inclinations are highlighted, as are any kind of celebratory, playful, and just-for-fun endeavors. You are especially aware of your need for feedback from others during this period, deriving pleasure from the ways your creativity impacts the world around you. It can be a passionate time for you and a time when you feel especially motivated–even driven–to share yourself or your creations. It’s a potentially magical time for pursuing your joy. There can be a new beginning or approach regarding love, romance, creativity, children, fertility, entertainment, leisure, or hobbies. This New Moon is about starting fresh–you feel inspired and ready to make changes. It’s a good time for feeling optimistic and positive. When a Solar Eclipse happens, we are still symbolically in the dark. As such, the first days following the eclipse are suitable for paying attention to news coming in and feelings emerging, but taking new action should wait. Energy levels can plummet initially, and then they’re likely to rebuild slowly but surely later. For Moon-ruled Cancers, any eclipse can bring heightened sensitivity. Because it occurs in a harmonious sign, this one feels easier on you than usual. While you certainly feel a push to do something special, it comes pleasantly into your life. Venus aligns with the eclipse, and there can be someone who has an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. You may have an admirer! This eclipse is decidedly loving and romantic. It’s a time of new beginnings and pursuing your heart’s desire. Events in the coming days and weeks bring out your feelings, romantic inclinations, and creativity. You are more aware of your need to entertain, be entertained, celebrate, enjoy, and share yourself with others. Your personal magnetism increases. Those things/projects/people that have been holding you back from expressing your true, creative self may come under scrutiny. You’re attracting positive attention from others! Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): This Solar Eclipse clears the way for new beginnings, 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. This eclipse set, spanning from October 2021 to November 2023, is powerful for arriving at a better work-home balance. With this particular eclipse, the focus is taking charge of your home life, attention to matters of security and safety, and connecting with family and your own emotions. It 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. You’re getting 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. 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. 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-nurture and nurture. Letting go of a situation or attitude that has been holding you back may be part of the process. How you support others, and they you, can be important now, and with this eclipse in alignment with charming Venus, it’s a great time to smooth over differences. There could be a previously neglected area of your life that now seems important to revisit. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): This Solar Eclipse launches a favorable cycle for turning over a new leaf with your studies, communications, and connections, dear Virgo. It comes as a powerful prompt to improve your communications. It’s also vital for making new contacts, learning new things, and expressing yourself in new ways (or through different channels). You could find you’re becoming more effective at developing mental rapport with others, or it’s becoming easier to connect and get around. New equipment or transportation options might open up. There can be a powerful drive to let go of outdated attitudes or conditions so that the path is clear for new beginnings. News can come that steers you in a new direction, or you could have a sudden urge to take a course or begin a new project. Personal influence and powers of persuasion are especially strong. The months ahead are robust for learning, making contacts, getting in touch, and using the power of communication to move your goals forward. There can be opportunities for learning and communicating or different avenues for self-expression that transform your life. In some cases, this is about transportation and could develop through 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 figure strongly and benefit you. The period ahead is excellent for taking care of daily tasks with increased and renewed energy. However, you could experience an initial feeling of being overwhelmed since eclipses can wipe us out before restoring motivation. New equipment or transportation options may open up different opportunities and experiences. While the eclipse can overstimulate confidence, you’ll get an exceptional sense of your capabilities and what is truly valuable to you in the weeks ahead. Take your time on this. Because this eclipse aligns with Venus, a money boost could tie in with improvements to your daily affairs and approachability. Others enjoy your ideas and insights, and love opportunities can emerge from your new approach to connecting. You might also take steps to develop a relationship with a sibling, relative, classmate, or even a neighbor. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): 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 discover 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. Notable for this event is a Venus alignment with the eclipse, and relationships, negotiations, and diplomacy can tie in to your success with enhancing your sense of comfort, well-being, and security or 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. With the Solar Eclipse in tight relationship with your ruler, Venus, this is also a strong time for your personal magnetism. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): For best results now, 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. Still, this new energy can originate from a feeling of being overlooked. 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 it’s best to take care to stay true to yourself in the process! Get in touch with what you genuinely want and envision 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. Consider that you may need to clean the slate of inauthentic sources before you “restock” with genuine motivation. 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. Your personal magnetism is powerful. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): 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 around the time of the eclipse in October-November 2022, 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 in alignment with Venus. Seek out personal opportunities, particularly related to healing, mental health, emotional wellness, friendship, and happiness goals. It’s a time for freeing yourself from situations that have kept you unhappy, confined, or worried. Friendship or love 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. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): With this eclipse occurring in your social sector, 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 with this lunation. 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. However, it’s also a time of positive change and improvement. 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. Expanding your social circle is bound to grow your happiness and satisfaction due to an alignment of Venus with this eclipse. A better, more satisfying social life helps inject more fun and interest into your life in the months ahead. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): 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, underappreciated, or uncertain of your next step. From now on, however, you’re in great shape to develop 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 some 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 to improve your performance and general practices to 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. Consider that this eclipse is part of a set occurring from November 2021 to October 2023 that encourages you to understand your needs to attend to your responsibilities to the outside world and your inner world, family, and personal life. Both areas of life will benefit. Drama or commotion stirred now paves the way for new approaches and new beginnings. A fresh approach is encouraged. Eclipses often have the effect of wiping out our energy as the slate is cleaned, after which energy slowly rebuilds–ideally, more authentically. 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. An alignment of the eclipse with Venus suggests opportunities to improve your work, financial state, and reputation, particularly through smoothing over differences, relationships, compromise, and kindness. You’ll bring wonderful energy to your public life, and your powers of attraction will rise. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): There may be chances to broaden your horizons through 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. In the areas of publishing, promotion, travel, adventure, belief systems, world cultures, higher education, and the law, if appropriate to your current conditions, there can be new beginnings or sudden advancement/focus. Transportation issues could be in focus, with new avenues opening up for getting out and about. This eclipse could bring you in 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. With Venus in alignment with this eclipse, a relationship can be integral to your success with fresh starts in these areas of life. Joy, compromise, pleasure, and warmth are key ingredients. You could get funding or other forms of support for your efforts to expand your mind, teach, guide, promote, or connect. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from November 2021 to October 2023): These horoscopes come from my daily horoscopes. My daily horoscopes are based on daily influences including eclipses, retrogrades, ingresses, and planetary aspects, depending on the day! Read more about the day of the eclipse on Astrology Cafe. See more Cafe Astrology articles, horoscopes, astrology tools & tables, and free reports.
Eclipse Horoscopes
Solar Eclipse in Scorpio October 2022 Horoscopes
A Solar Eclipse occurs in Scorpio on October 25, 2022: What this Means for Each Sign
Aries
With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your intimacy sector, dear Aries, the period ahead is one of empowerment and discovery. It’s a time for working on yourself from the inside out, addressing dependencies and issues of support, and 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.
Taurus
With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your partnership sector, dear Taurus, 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.
Gemini
Cancer
This Solar Eclipse occurs in your sector of romance, creative self-expression, recreation, children, and hobbies, dear Cancer. Events happening now and in the coming weeks set you up for new beginnings in one or more of these areas of life.
Leo
Solar Eclipses often affect you more than others because Leos are ruled by the Sun. As such, it makes sense to take a light schedule. New plans and projects are on the horizon, but in the days surrounding an eclipse, it’s best to take things in before jumping into action.
Virgo
Libra
This Solar Eclipse happens in your resources sector, dear Libra, and you might make important decisions in the coming weeks related to personal finances, business, and practical affairs.
Scorpio
This Solar Eclipse falls in your sign, dear Scorpio, 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.
Sagittarius
This Solar Eclipse launches a period of review, letting go, and recharging your spiritual or emotional batteries, dear Sagittarius. Occurring in your solar twelfth house of endings, mental health, privacy, and reflection, it’s a time for releasing, purging, and healing.
Capricorn
This Solar Eclipse places a strong focus on making contacts and reaching out to others, dear Capricorn, in both a social and professional sense, over the coming weeks and 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.
Aquarius
This Solar Eclipse brings heightened awareness and sensitivity to your standing in society and your professional goals, dear Aquarius, as it happens in your solar chart’s professional or public sector.
Pisces
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 Pisces. 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, helping clear the path for future growth and development.
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.
Solar Eclipse
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
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2025 March 14 at 23 Virgo
57
Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2025 September 7 at 15 Pisces
23
Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 September 21 at 29 Virgo 05
Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2026 February 17 at 28 Aquarius
50
Total LUNAR Eclipse 2026 March 3 at 12 Virgo 54
Total SOLAR Eclipse 2026 August 12 at 20 Leo
02
Partial LUNAR Eclipse 2026 August 28 at 4 Pisces 54
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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