Lunations: Eclipses
Current & Upcoming Eclipses
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Understanding eclipses – overview
New! Solar Eclipse – October 2, 2024
Lunar Eclipse – September 17, 2024
Lunar Eclipse – March 25, 2024
Or, skip to The meaning of eclipses in the houses
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.
Generally, you’ll want to use the New Moon, or Conjunction, 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 activate. 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 fear eclipses because they might bring about a crisis of sorts that leads to a significant event or change. However, this event or change can be very positive.
Eclipses tie in with 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. Although we might stay in situations that make 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. Further, eclipses happened along the Aries-Libra axis from 2004-2006, then 2013-2016, and then from 2023-2025. 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 the world and our lives.
Astrological Significance of the Eclipses
Recent & Upcoming Eclipses:
My write-up for the Solar Eclipse in Libra on October 2nd, 2024 will appear here. See my calendar entry for this Libra eclipse.
***A Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Libra on October 2nd, 2024.***
The Moon is New in Libra on October 2nd, 2024, at 2:49 PM EDT.
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra Chart: October 2, 2024
This phase of the Moon occurs at 10 degrees and 4 minutes of Libra.
The New Moon in the sign of Libra starts a good cycle in which to commit to personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Scales.
We have a chance to build our negotiating skills without compromising our principles or needs, and without resorting to appeasement. It’s a time to work on re-balancing our relationships and to recognize our partners as teammates rather than adversaries.
With this potent Libra energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives. Libra teaches us to learn to make peace with those around us and to establish more harmony in our environments, establish a sense of order and balance in our lives, and recognize the value of partnerships. This is an ideal time to work on these skills.
Libra has an innate ability for–and love of–synthesizing opposites. Peace and harmony are the goals, but there’s a fine balancing act involved along the way that requires some commitment and effort.
This New Moon brings fresh and creative energy into our lives, and more specifically, into our relationships. This is a cycle in which balancing our close personal relationships becomes an urgent desire. Negotiations may be especially effective, as we are inclined to assert our needs in ways that don’t offend others. A Mars-Saturn trine can help us see the value of pacing ourselves and keeping our feet on the ground. Libra’s ruler, Venus, also harmonizes with Mars and Saturn.
However, this eclipse is square Mars, and some prematurity is possible. Mercury aligns with the Sun and Moon, pointing to a lot of thought and discussion going into our new beginnings. However, because this is an eclipse, we’re not seeing the whole picture.
As a Solar Eclipse, this New Moon packs more punch! It’s the fifth eclipse in a set of six occurring along the Aries-Libra axis from April 20th, 2023, to March 29, 2025. The first one was a Total Solar Eclipse in late Aries. While we’ve been focusing on building our independence and working on assertiveness, this October eclipse in Libra prompts us to consider healthy relating and how it affects the process.
A Solar Eclipse at approximately the same degree of Libra last occurred on October 3rd, 2005. Before that, it was October 3rd, 1986, and October 2nd, 1978. An eclipse set along the Aries-Libra axis most recently occurred from 2013-2016. Before that, it was from 2004-2006. We might encounter similar themes as we did during these periods.
Major developments in the personal areas ruled by Libra in our charts are likely to occur over the upcoming months.
The above chart is excellent for seeing the fundamental influences and chart pattern of this New Moon. The chart below adds more details with additional points. Click to enlarge:
New Moon in Libra 2024 Chart with Additional Points
This Solar Eclipse is part of a set of eclipses falling along the Aries/Libra sign axis from April 2023 to March 2025:
- Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
- 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
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
***A Lunar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Pisces on September 17th, 2024.***
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces: September 17, 2024
Astrological Significance of the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
About the Lunar Eclipse on September 17, 2024
As noted above, a Lunar Eclipse is an incredibly potent lunation, in this case, a powerful Full Moon.
Lunar Eclipses are relationship-oriented. The “crisis” these eclipses tend to elicit is a crisis of lack–a time when we quite suddenly realize or recognize 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 certainly not always about relationships between two people. They can trigger awareness of what we need or lack in other areas of our lives. For example, they can be about our relationships with our work, health, and bodies.
This is a time when matters come to light–things that have been brewing under the surface.
We can burst forth with proclamations and outpours when a Full Moon occurs. These seem fresh and new simply because we haven’t yet rationalized them. However, they are usually about matters 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 September 17th, 2024, occurs when the Moon is at 25-26 degrees of Pisces, opposing the Sun at 25-26 degrees Virgo, and is a Partial Lunar Eclipse.
Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Virgo-Pisces axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants concerning the balance between Virgo-ruled and Pisces-ruled areas of life.
We are encouraged to find a balance between day-to-day functions and routines, physical health, and the need for order (Virgo) and vision, spiritual health, disorder, and the infinite (Pisces).
Virgo rules the tools and techniques we use to deal with day-to-day life, while Pisces rules the tools we use to deal with our spiritual selves. The key to balance lies in identifying and expressing our spiritual needs while maintaining order in our everyday lives. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire–we would either be living in chaos or excessive order.
In essence, this eclipse is about arriving at a reasonable, healthy, and empowering work-rest balance.
We could recognize where we’ve spent so much time getting our daily lives in order, attending to our physical functions, performing chores and day jobs, and becoming absorbed in our daily routines that we’ve neglected to manage our mental or emotional help, need to pause and refresh our senses, and honor our need for letting go, disconnecting, and detoxing.
We learn, through circumstances, that we need to get in touch with our need for spiritual refreshment, imagination, and compassion to be whole. Some of these realizations or epiphanies may seem difficult at first. However, they are also necessary to clear the way towards a better life with less guilt and less dysfunction, a life we should aspire to.
But first, the eclipse is obscuring our vision, and it’s important to let our intuition kick in before taking action. A Full Moon always magnifies matters, temporarily skewing our judgment, and an eclipse is even more potent. It’s a powerful exercise, but we should engage in some wait-and-see before drawing final conclusions.
Eclipse #1 in a Virgo-Pisces set of 7
This Lunar Eclipse is the first eclipse and the first Lunar Eclipse in a set of eclipses that occur along the Virgo-Pisces axis (the last eclipse in this sign set will happen in February 2027). It’s a Lunar Eclipse-heavy set (six Lunar Eclipses and one Solar Eclipse, which is unusual!).
It’s important to consider the context of the entire eclipse set: this one stirs the need to balance our lives between day-to-day functions and routines, physical health, and the need for order (Virgo) and vision, spiritual health, disorder, and the infinite (Pisces).
As the first in the sign set, this September eclipse can serve as the initial prompt, nudge, or push to make improvements in Virgo- and Pisces-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 25 degrees and 41 minutes of Pisces, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 21 to 30 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) and 0 to 1 degree of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.
The Lunar Eclipse Chart
This partial Lunar Eclipse is configured with Neptune on the Moon side. Its alignment with Neptune and square to Jupiter speak to the extravagant nature of this time, and its harmony with Uranus suggests we’re ready to embrace change and progress. There can be inflated feelings, so it’s wise to sit with them for a bit before taking action.
Occurring shortly before a Mercury-Saturn opposition, an epiphany, illumination of a matter, or a clearing of the air might involve frustrated plans, red tape, or obstructed communications.
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.
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 now. 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 chaos or limbo.
Our Mission:
Full Moons and Lunar Eclipses bring issues in our lives to fulfillment. Our emotions heighten, and drama is often involved with the house, sign, and any contacted planets activated by the Full Moon.
Look to 25 degrees of Virgo/Pisces in your 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 us, and emotions have been building. Something comes to light at the time of the Lunar Eclipse. If we get in touch with our emotions, we can discern what needs to change or what needs to go.
But we should also consider that as one area of our lives magnifies, we could have a blind spot to another.
The range of emotions that Pisces registers is extraordinary, and this could be a time when we feel that enormous range. Around the date of the Full Moon Lunar eclipse, the idealistic side of us comes out full speed ahead.
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 shouldn’t jump to act, we should pay attention to our feelings and discoveries–they’re telling us something important.
With Virgo, we are acutely aware of imperfections. We see the flaws around us and perhaps become very tense and irritable, or we work hard at fixing them. To Pisces, however, imperfection is beautiful. At the time of the Lunar eclipse, we may suddenly see this Piscean “light.”
With the health and service axis (Pisces-Virgo) involved, health or work issues may come to the fore. As well, the ability to set boundaries to the amount of service we render can become a major issue. Situations that test our faith, or magnify our fears and doubts, may be part of the picture. Secrets may be revealed, and these can include discovering secrets of our own nature from deep within. For some, a new “calling” will surface in the coming six months. A new line of work that better matches our inner nature, desire to serve, or emotional make-up may unfold in the months following this eclipse, particularly if the natal Sun, sixth/twelfth houses, or tenth house is activated.
We may discover that we need more rest or attention to our spiritual nature than we are currently allowing ourselves. This is a time when lunar energy emerges and is most powerful. It’s a time when we can tap into our more idealistic, imaginative, and visionary nature. Our hearts open, and issues of trust and faith are in focus. Decisions made now are emotionally-driven.
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 shouldn’t ignore the Sun’s role in this eclipse–its Virgo position in our charts shows where we have focused our energies, sometimes to the detriment of the Pisces area of our charts, and now, we need to find a balance.
Our feelings count, and 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.
It’s also a time to work on clearing up past patterns that have held us back from personal fulfillment, particularly those centering around expressing compassion, taking the time to decompress, enjoying freeform activities, and connecting with our intuition. We might open ourselves up to possibilities, examining the emotions that push to the surface, but finalizing plans should probably be saved for a later date.
We’ll be doing some work in these areas until February 2027, and our greater awareness of problems, especially lacks or flaws–and they’re significant–can ultimately help us make better, more balanced choices.
Our emotions magnify, and we can wrestle with strong urges and blocks, making it better to observe and process. These new realizations are far from discountable–they’re significant. However, they’re bigger than life; ultimately, the goal is to find a balance.
This Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 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 after this eclipse, we learn that we need to get in touch with our needs for a stronger connection to our spiritual natures and needs. To feel fulfilled, we must acknowledge and embrace our need to let go of stress, build our emotional health, and feel and express our compassion for others. Taking more time off from the routine can be part of this.
We ultimately become aware of where we have been overdoing our focus on order and correctness whether emotionally, physically, or materially, and where it’s come at the expense of our spiritual growth.
Full Moons are always helpful for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can intuit where to bring back balance. Our larger work should focus on reaching a good balance. Enlightenment gives us 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 verbally or through our actions. It can also prompt a strong compulsion to resolve a problem.
This eclipse serves as an initial prompt, nudge, or push to make improvements in Virgo- and Pisces-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify. It’s a time to resolve matters, strike a balance, take a lesson, and move on.
However, it’s important to note that we’re temporarily in the dark about a matter at the time of an eclipse, and we’re seeing another area of life as if we’re looking at it through a magnifying glass. It’s distorted—we don’t yet have the full picture. This perspective does help us, ultimately, but it helps to remember that we’re missing something and to defer judgment.
Putting Things into Context:
In 2016, a Lunar Eclipse occurred at a similar degree as this Pisces one (on September 16th), and in 1997, a total Lunar Eclipse occurred at a similar degree. It might be helpful to think back to issues in your life that were in effect in the last four months of 2016 and 1997, if applicable, to get an idea of how this 2024 Lunar Eclipse might affect you.
However, you can also look back in a general sense to eclipse sets occurring along the same Virgo-Pisces axis as the current one in effect from September 2024 to February 2027. This examination can give you information gleaned by looking to the past to understand themes in the present and future.
The following are also periods of your past, if applicable, that may have had similar themes to this current eclipse set:
Virgo-Pisces Eclipse sets (current, future, and some in recent history):
- March 2034 to February 2036
- September 2024 to February 2027
- March 2015 to February 2017
- September 2006 to February 2008
- March 1997 to September 1998
- September 1987 to August 1989
- September 1978 to August 1980
The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Virgo-Pisces axis only (there are other eclipses in different signs between these):
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse September 17, 2024 25 Pisces 41
- Total LUNAR Eclipse March 14, 2025 23 Virgo 57
- Total LUNAR Eclipse September 7, 2025 15 Pisces 23
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse September 21, 2025 29 Virgo 05
- Total LUNAR Eclipse March 3, 2026 12 Virgo 54
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse August 28, 2026 4 Pisces 54
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse February 20, 2027 2 Virgo 06
See more eclipse dates in our eclipse table.
We last had a set of Virgo-Pisces eclipses from March 2015 to February 2017. There may have been similar themes then as this current eclipse set. Of course, even if these past sets 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 Pisces during this 2024-2027 Virgo-Pisces eclipse set than it is to Virgo. The last set where the North Node was in Pisces or close to Pisces was the eclipse set from September 2006 to February 2008.
There is undoubtedly a difference between eclipse sets where the North Node is closer to Pisces, as it is for this eclipse, and one where the North Node is closer to Virgo, since we’re striving toward a different goal, although what we’re balancing is similar.
Where this Lunar Eclipse occurs in your Chart:
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 **September 13 to 21** of any year. The desire –or necessity– to turn over a new leaf is strong. A significant other or the public can play a prominent role in the events of your life now.
In major aspect to the Moon, a Lunar Eclipse can trigger significant 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 you spend on work and energy you put into 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 must do 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 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 must 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 will 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 with groups or organizations. You’re looking for validation from friends and group activities now. A major event can involve 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 and 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 Aries on April 8th, 2024.***
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries Chart: April 8, 2024
About the total Solar Eclipse in Aries on April 8th, 2024
A total Solar Eclipse occurs on April 8th, 2024, at 2:21 PM EDT at 19 degrees and 24 minutes of the sign of Aries. 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 Mars-ruled sign of Aries, there is now a powerful focus on matters related to independence, self-assertion, personal plans, courage, authenticity, and initiative. This eclipse might challenge these life departments and present opportunities for new beginnings.
This Solar eclipse can highlight and challenge our issues surrounding independence and personal courage.
Eclipse #4 in an Aries-Libra set
This Solar Eclipse/New Moon occurs in the sign of straightforward Aries. It’s the fourth eclipse to fall along the Aries-Libra axis in a set of six that will continue until March 2025, and it’s the third solar eclipse in this set.
This eclipse can be considered one of several cosmic nudges toward creating a better balance between “me and us.” The focus is on new beginnings related to our relationships with others and ourselves.
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. Certainly, we may feel the need–or desire–to start fresh in these areas. Realizations, circumstances, or strong compulsions now can propel us forward, prompting a new mission.
The Aries-Libra Eclipse Set
This Solar Eclipse is part of a set of eclipses falling along the Aries/Libra sign axis from April 2023 to March 2025:
- Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
- 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
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
This set of eclipses stirs the need to balance our lives between meeting our personal needs and attending to the needs of a significant other, between independence and autonomy, and between dependence and companionability.
Occurring in Aries, this Solar Eclipse calls us to:
- take action–try something new and innovative, and go at it with enthusiasm and confidence;
- be assertive without being abrasive–take charge of our lives;
- act on a constructive impulse and follow a hunch, take a risk;
- discover the benefits of expressing ourselves with authenticity–express ourselves as we are without putting on airs;
- learn how to rely on ourselves and to be happy about doing so–it will go a long way toward finding inner happiness when we know we can be self-sufficient;
- revitalize ourselves through experiences that break the routine and that involve doing something new and fresh;
- discover our personal courage;
- and start a brand new project.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 19 degrees and 24 minutes of Aries.
A similar Solar Eclipse (at approximately the same degree of Aries) occurred on April 8th, 2005. Previous to that, it was April 9, 1986. An eclipse set along the Aries-Libra axis most recently occurred from 2013-2016. Before that, it was from 2004-2006.
Note that this eclipse is opposite the October 2023 eclipse in Libra.
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 a marriage or relationship in 2004-2006, and we then saw a period when a significant new bond formed in 2013-2016, we might encounter more or further drama about our sense of independence or significant others during this 2023-2025 period.
This eclipse can highlight and challenge our issues surrounding independence and personal courage. We might take steps towards self-mastery and self-empowerment by tackling things that undermine us.
Circumstances nudge or encourage us to see where we haven’t been true to our authentic selves. Ultimately, we position ourselves to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth, and that we can handle these things.
The Solar Eclipse Chart
The New Moon aligns with retrograde Mercury, and it’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings.
As well, Mars, the ruler of Aries, is coming into alignment with Saturn when this eclipse occurs, suggesting the determination to overcome obstacles. However, while we’re ready to work hard and pace ourselves, we can combat some fear of not being number one. Fortunately, we seem to have the tools to work through these issues.
The Sun aligns with Chiron as this Solar Eclipse occurs, giving us further clues as to our current mission. We may feel drawn to problem areas so that we can repair them. We may have the opportunity to find a sense of purpose, increasing our confidence. Still, we might face life lessons that get us in touch with the insecurities that undercut our confidence. In fact, growing and succeeding can involve facing our fears.
It can certainly be a time of building faith or confidence in our skills and talents. Openness and self-honesty are vital now, and the focus may be on asserting ourselves and acknowledging our own needs in healthy doses so that we can bring our “whole selves” to our activities. Getting healthier can be a significant focus for many now. Long-standing physical problems can emerge for handling.
This is a good time for focusing on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Ram–enterprising, straightforward, sincere, brave–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives.
Aries New Moons are generally good for taking action – trying something new and innovative, and going at it with gusto and confidence. It’s a time to be assertive, take charge of our lives, start a brand new project, and discover our own personal courage.
It’s a powerful time to re-evaluate our relationship with ourselves. With this potent Aries energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and thus a New Moon in Aries is especially ripe with opportunity for new beginnings.
Occurring in Aries, this eclipse is about connecting with our motivation, essence, and spirit. Fresh and potent energy is with us for taking charge of our lives.
Solar Eclipse in Aries Themes
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 self-confidence. Getting to a healthy relationship with ourselves regarding our balance between relying on others and ourselves, 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 recognize ways that we’ve felt dependent on others, particularly a partner, to the point that our inexperience with these initiatives informs us that we can’t do them. For example, if a partner has pretty much always handled the paperwork in a relationship, there can come a time when you’re so inexperienced with doing this chore that you feel you need someone to do it for you.
It’s a basic example, but an Aries Solar Eclipse can put us in the position to do something we’ve passed off to others, and it can be a useful lesson when we discover that even though having others help or boost our lives is great, if needed, we can also do these things on our own.
We might evaluate where we have been complicating our lives and compromising ourselves by an unhealthy dependence on others or appeasement of others. Knowing what we want and can do for ourselves improves our relationships and our relationships with ourselves.
Sometimes eclipses bring about events that force us into this position of re-evaluation. For example, on a mundane level, relocation or job changes can shuffle around our duties and priorities, and we need to become accustomed to new routines. Connecting with our needs and desires can change what we do for ourselves and what we do with others, impacting our connections. Dealing with breakups or brand new partnerships can enforce changes.
It can be a time when we stand up for ourselves after a period of catering to someone with the mission to keep the peace at all costs.
During this eclipse set from 2023 to 2025, we’ll likely see more people who’ve felt dependent on a relationship speak up and out, and stand on their own. There can be more major breakups and major partnerings. Working on the self and on marriages or key partnerships is a a strong focus and areas of intense renovation and change.
At a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun’s rays so that it “eclipses” the Sun. Symbolically, the energies associated with the Moon eclipse those of the Sun, so that feelings and emotions dominate over the ego and the will. Everyone will tend to take things personally, but particularly those born under the signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, and those whose planets are found in approximately 19 degrees of these signs.
It can be a time of beginnings and/or endings, and the particular planets involved as well as the house where the eclipse occurs in your chart will tell more of the story. The need to rid ourselves of false images is emphasized, and we tend to turn to the past for answers.
Our Mission:
This eclipse reminds us that we should embrace change. One of Aries’ “lessons” is to show a pure part of ourselves to the world. By acting upon our inner impulses (constructive ones!) without fear, and by abandoning the need to refine these impulses based on what others might want us to do or what others think we “should” do, we learn more about ourselves. If we learn to depend on ourselves, we exude an all-new aura of strength that comes from personal integrity and confidence, and a pure and innocent charm.
With this eclipse, we might experience a strong urge to act on impulse. However, it will be important to avoid jumping to conclusions and asserting ourselves without considering others’ feelings and reactions. There is a massive difference between asserting ourselves from a place of healthy confidence, and asserting ourselves brashly and blindly, which can give us a false sense of confidence or bravery.
Harnessing this potent Aries energy means we can 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 reveal themselves 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.
An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is closer to the North Node of the Moon. While we’re heading into unknown territory in some ways, we have a good sense that we’re doing so to our advantage.
Major developments in the personal areas ruled by Aries in our charts are likely to occur over the forthcoming months.
The above chart is excellent for seeing the fundamental influences and chart pattern of this New Moon. The chart below adds more details with additional points. Click to enlarge:
New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Aries: April 8, 2024 (Additional Points)
We may now need to take steps toward better managing and handling ourselves and our physical bodies. Along the same vein, we must consider whether we are contributing our share to our relationships. It’s possible that a partnership ends or is struggling, and doing things on our own becomes necessary. It may be temporary, but it’s a time to discover our self-sufficiency and self-reliance.
If we’ve been ignoring our needs only for the sake of keeping someone else happy- or for our own peace and sense of harmony- we’ll now feel the need to prioritize ourselves. We’re unlikely to tolerate the situation much longer!
Of course, there is a healthy amount of compromise that’s necessary and healthy–even vital–in our partnerships. This Aries eclipse is not a call to be selfish or self-centered. It’s about attending to our needs for healthy self-assertion, independence, and focus so that we can be better partners when needed.
We should always keep in mind the sign polarity involved with an eclipse–ultimately, we’re striving for balance. A Solar Eclipse in one sign is about working on the traits of that sign keeping in mind the greater goal of integration and balance. It’s not about overdoing the sign’s characteristics and themes.
So, with Aries, we find ways to be a self-starter, connect with our initiative, and develop traits of healthy independence. Asserting our needs can be part of this.
Ultimately, we are now in a better position to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our 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 vulnerabilities and–possibly–challenge them. What happens now gets us to tackle things that undermine us and take away our courage.
Solar Eclipse
This eclipse, specifically in Aries, is about connecting with our inner spark and initiative. It’s a time for investing in ourselves. There is a focus on starting fresh and whether we need to clear the way for new projects and relationships or whether we might recommit to things we already have in place.
Not an Aries? This eclipse still affects you. In fact, everyone has Aries 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.
Challenges:
We are challenged to accept 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 Aries in our charts are likely to occur over the course of the next 3-6 months.
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. This process is useful, however, as we’re now “refueling” with more authentic, more appropriate, and more relevant energy. We don’t need inauthentic goals slowing us down!
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 April 8th, it’s a powerful time for new beginnings.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 19 degrees and 24 minutes of Aries, affecting people born with personal planets and points at 14 to 24 degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.
Looking Back (and Forward):
The last time eclipses fell along the Aries-Libra sign axis was 2013-2016 but, unusually, a Solar Eclipse never happened in Aries during that set.
A similar Solar Eclipse (at approximately the same degree of Aries) occurred on April 8th, 2005. Before that, an eclipse at almost the same degree as this one occurred on April 9, 1986.
The last series of eclipses along the Aries-Libra axis occurred from October 2013 to March 2016, April 2004 to March 2006, April 1995 to March 1997, April 1986 to October 1987, and October 1976 to October 1978.
There is certainly a difference between eclipse sets where the North Node is closer to Aries (as it is for this eclipse), when we’re striving toward incorporating more Aries energies and themes into our lives, and sets occurring when the North Node is closer to Libra, when we strive toward Libra energies.
With the North Node currently transiting Aries, we’re striving toward developing our Aries energies. This Solar Eclipse is a further prompt to get our Aries areas in order!
It’s useful to know that eclipses occur along a sign axis in sets every nine years.
Aries-Libra Eclipse sets (upcoming, current, and some in recent history):
- October 2032 to September 2034
- April 2023 to March 2025
- October 2013 to March 2016
- April 2004 to March 2006
- April 1995 to March 1997
- April 1986 to October 1987
- October 1976 to October 1978
The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Aries-Libra 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):
- Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
- 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
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
This Solar Eclipse in the Houses of your Natal Chart
If you know your natal chart and where 19 degrees Aries is in your natal chart, here are the themes you might encounter now:
The following are Horoscopes, based on the solar chart, revealing what an Aries Solar eclipse is likely to mean for each sign of the zodiac: Solar Eclipse in Aries Horoscopes: April 8, 2024 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. A Sun sign horoscope uses a Solar Chart as its base. 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 six along the Aries-Libra axis from April 2023 to March 2025. It’s another step in a process that alerts us to how we’re managing our relationships, dependencies, and personal independence or agency. This is a time for reinventing yourself in some personal way, such as with a new look or manner of expressing and presenting yourself. 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 energy can originate from a feeling of being overlooked. Circumstances can prompt a rethinking of your attitude towards new beginnings, bravery, your role as a leader, your independence, and how you instinctively defend yourself. It’s a time when you’re braver and enjoying 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 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. Remember that this is another stepping stone in a two-year journey. Keep in mind that you can feel a little wiped out around the time of the eclipse before energy rebuilds. Consider that you must clean the slate of inauthentic sources before you “restock” with genuine motivation. It’s a critical time for personal goals, revisions, new beginnings, and makeovers (physical and otherwise). You’ll be getting more attention now, so wear your confidence well! Taking the high road is vital. As you advance, people build their faith in you, which only motivates you further to present the best version of yourself. You are working towards being more independent, having a greater sense of freedom, and having more authenticity in your presentation. Aim to ease yourself into this dynamic phase of your life. Fortunately, aspects occurring around the time of this eclipse in your sign infuse it with remarkable character. You should enjoy more self-confidence, and the projection of a fresh “new you” is bound to attract attention in the coming months. It does align with retrograde Mercury, pointing to some reticence, a sense of feeling misunderstood, and a tendency to look back before feeling confident about moving ahead. Keep in mind that while your personal plans and initiatives are in strong focus and necessarily so, maintaining some balance in your life when it comes to paying relationships their due attention will go a long way towards success. Soon enough, you’ll be braver and more adventurous, seeking out new experiences, and even if you aren’t consciously trying to find them, experiences will find you! You can be pretty impulsive and filled with energy, but you must pace yourself to make the best use of this time. Express yourself enthusiastically, without apology, but mindfully. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): This lunation gives a powerful nudge to put the past behind you in a significant way. It’s the fourth in a set of eclipses occurring in a two-year journey that are changing your attitude toward work, service, and physical and mental health. You’re focusing on the past and how it has helped and hindered you. 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 April 2024, which can be a little disorienting, but as you advance, you’ll get a stronger sense of what changes are needed. 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 conspire to take charge of your health and wellness, private affairs, and the need to put emotional baggage behind you. It 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 retrograde Mercury. Seek out personal opportunities, particularly related to healing, mental health, emotional wellness, money matters, and personal resources. It’s a time to free yourself from situations that have kept you unhappy, confined, or worried. Finances and comfort matters can be a significant driver of your new beginnings. Concerns about your social life can be strongly on your mind at this time. Don’t let these worries rule your decisions–instead, allow them to inform your next move. It’s not the time to rush! You have some preparations to do, but you’ll feel more and more equipped to handle them as you move ahead. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): This Solar Eclipse spotlights making contacts and reaching out to others over the coming weeks and months, dear Gemini. 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. With this total 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. In fact, the first Solar Eclipse in this set that occurred in April 2023 planted these seeds. Now, you have further reason to want to move ahead. Some level of drama can occur with this eclipse shaking up your social life to pave the way for meaningful changes. It’s possible friends enter or leave your life during this period. However, it’s also a time of positive change and improvement with your sense of community, desire to contribute, and special “happiness” pursuits and goals. It’s an excellent time to reflect on how you’d like to steer your life as you advance, particularly concerning your “place” in the social side of your life. This period favors formulating goals concerning the future, long-term happiness, a sense of mission or purpose, and aligning yourself with important causes. It 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, business income, networking, and teamwork are significant with long-term effects, setting you on a path for personal changes and new beginnings. If existing friendships require a new focus or a renewed bond, then the energy of this eclipse can help in the coming weeks and months. It’s not yet a time for clarity but a period for faith in the process. Keep in mind that eclipses can feel draining before they build you up. You can feel lacking in these areas before you refuel with new, more authentic motivation and energy. Expanding your social circle is bound to grow your happiness and satisfaction due to an alignment of Jupiter with this eclipse. A better, more satisfying social life can boost you. Of course, it’s not always about expansion–in fact, you may need to cut out distracting, inauthentic sources of “happiness” to find what’s right for you. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): This part of your chart rules your reputation, higher goals, life path, responsibilities, and career. A total solar eclipse here challenges you to work on these matters–to give these things your all. 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 with work, focus, life direction, bosses, authority figures, reputation, or your own authority and influence can occur now and in the coming months. In truth, the Solar Eclipse in April 2023 got the ball rolling, and you’re now prompted to work on more improvements. It’s a time to consider the elements of your personality you’re 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. It’s a phase when you can be exceptionally busy with your career or public responsibilities. However, it’s best to keep in mind the overarching goal of this eclipse set: balancing home and career. Consider that this eclipse is part of a set occurring from April 2023 to March 2025 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. It’s also about balancing your attention to your personal world and to the outside world. Drama or commotion stirring now paves the way for new approaches and new beginnings. A fresh approach is encouraged–perhaps even necessary. 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 Chiron suggests opportunities to improve your work and reputation, particularly through honesty, authenticity, and humility. You’ll bring humble energy to your public life. It’s a time to take charge of your life. It’s time to discover and embrace your unique approach to taking the lead or managing others, and as you learn to do so, you’ll find that people more readily see your value. Any insecurities you may have about taking charge of your life and responsibilities may be in the spotlight. While they can be trigger points, it’s a powerful time for acknowledging fears honestly. This eclipse also aligns with retrograde Mercury, meaning you’re looking back–to the past–for clues to how you’ll make meaningful changes to your reputation, responsibilities, or life path going forward. Pace yourself! You won’t yet have all the answers. For Moon-ruled Cancers, any eclipse can bring heightened sensitivity. Because it occurs in a disharmonious sign, this one could feel rather nagging. While you certainly feel a push to do something special, it could feel initially abrupt or intrusive. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): 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. In the weeks and months following this eclipse, there can be possibilities to broaden your horizons through education, life experience, or adventure. Opportunities emerge to publish or promote your work, share your ideas, and enjoy mind-expanding experiences. Meeting important people through these endeavors is possible. New beginnings or sudden advancement/focus arise with publishing, promotion, travel, adventure, belief systems, world cultures, higher education, and the law, if appropriate to your current conditions. 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 major publishing, announcement, advancement, or new extra-curricular activity, whether mental or physical. Chiron in alignment with this eclipse suggests self-honesty, authenticity, and humility can be integral to your success with fresh starts in these areas of life. You could find backing for your efforts to expand your mind, teach, guide, promote, or connect. Your ideas, actions, or words could catch on and influence many. As you begin anew, leaving old pursuits or attitudes behind may be part of the picture. With Mercury retrograde in the same sign of this eclipse, looking to the past and pacing yourself before pushing ahead make sense. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): If you’ve been too dependent on others, or the opposite, too proud to ask for help, 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, get support, quit a bad habit, or understand your psychological workings better are favored now. After 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 get the chance to see your inner workings in new, meaningful ways. It’s essential to be patient so that things can unfold naturally. Refrain from pushing 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. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a relationship or a financial arrangement, this is a time to come 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, you’ll soon find it a great time to work on putting them behind you. Taking small, progressive steps makes the most sense. This eclipse set that’s with you for two years (from April 2023 to March 2025) can see you getting a major loan, putting a major debt or payment behind you, making a significant purchase, or redoing your budget and managing your money or income more mindfully. It’s also a period when you can substantially reorganize your belongings. Transits occurring around the time of the eclipse have more staying power than usual since they tie in with the eclipse energy. Aligned with Chiron, this eclipse has much to do with self-honesty. Humility and openness 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. Because it’s also aligned with retrograde Mercury, you’re looking back before pushing ahead. Not all information is at your fingertips. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): Negotiations and one-to-one relationships are in the spotlight now and in the coming weeks and even months. It can be a time for beginning new relationships or redefining existing ones in significant and possibly sweeping ways. A more vital 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 avoided acknowledging or expressing your relationship needs. A partnership may become more attractive. The months ahead are important 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. Making contacts or making something public can be themes for some of you in the weeks ahead. Aim to take in now, and take action when it feels right! Often enough, eclipses bring about a minor 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 around the time of the eclipse have more staying power than usual since they tie in with the eclipse energy. A Chiron alignment suggests humility, openness, self-honesty, and vulnerability are critical “ingredients” in your success story with relationships at this time. While self-honesty can be a little uncomfortable, it opens doors to healing and growing. We can expect changes in how you “do” relationships to occur and develop further in the period of this eclipse set (since April last year and until March next 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 a decisive period for significant adjustments and improvements related to your independence and relationships. The goal of this period is to bring more balance to your life. At this point in this period, it’s about attending to your close partnerships and relationship with significant others. Note, however, that when a Solar Eclipse happens, we are still symbolically in the dark, making the week ahead of the eclipse suitable for paying attention to news coming in and feelings emerging, but taking new action should wait. With Mercury currently retrograde in the same sector of the eclipse, this should be extended further. Energy levels can plummet initially, after which they rebuild slowly but surely. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): In the weeks and months ahead, you’re in a solid 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. However, in the week of the eclipse, it’s best to take your time and take things in before acting. Not everything is revealed for the time being. However, once past the shift, 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 everyday life, rearranging it to your benefit. This period is marked by a desire to sort things out and to be useful. Over the coming weeks and months, taking charge of your health, self-care initiatives, and work makes sense. If you’ve been holding on too tightly to a difficult work situation or day 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! It’s exhausting primarily because you’re ridding yourself of false goals or inspiration and rebuilding with new, more authentic motivation. This eclipse is aligned with Chiron and can be about starting fresh in your work or with health and self-care programs, sprouting from more self-honesty, humility, willingness to learn and improve, and a more holistic approach. These Chiron traits can play a prominent role in your success story now. Given time, you could intuitively gravitate to a new path of healing or a work method that serves you especially well. It’s also connected with retrograde Mercury, pointing to a need to look back before moving ahead. Do keep in mind that there can be some misleading talk or false leads around this time, and it’s best to allow your mind to expand and stretch so that you entertain new possibilities, but avoid banking on things until you’ve researched them further. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): This eclipse creates a distinct theme: romantic, celebratory, playful, and just-for-fun endeavors and inclinations are in the spotlight. You are exceptionally 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 when you’re incredibly motivated–even driven–to share yourself or your creations. It’s a potentially magical time for pursuing your joy, whatever that is at this time of your life. If you’re unsure, it’s about time you connected with it! There can be a new beginning or approach regarding love, romance, creativity, children, fertility, entertainment, leisure, or hobbies. This New Moon eclipse is about starting fresh–you feel inspired and ready to make changes. It’s a good time to feel optimistic and positive. Still, when a Solar Eclipse happens, we remain 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. Later, they’ll rebuild slowly but surely. Chiron aligns with the eclipse, and you’re more heartfully connecting with your need to pursue your heart’s desire or heartfelt endeavors, passions, and loves. If you are doing something creative, it’s bound to be spirited, honest, and vulnerable. Humble confidence is in the spotlight. You might awaken to hidden or dormant talents. It may even be a time when you attract someone who truly appreciates you for your more unique qualities. You may feel extra sensitive to feedback from others, but this can also open up chances to understand your needs and vulnerabilities more fully. You may be starting a new hobby, reviving an old pastime, or stepping up a current one. This eclipse is warm and romantic. It’s a time of new beginnings and pursuing your heart’s desire. Events in the coming 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 holding you back from expressing your true, creative self may be scrutinized. You’re attracting positive attention from others! New beginnings can come of endings or you’re looking back before moving ahead. It’s a powerful time to set your goals and intentions, although you should watch for jumping into or out of something too quickly. Because Mercury is retrograde in the same sector of the eclipse, brand-new ventures that haven’t been well-researched may not get off the ground. Nevertheless, you’re in a powerful position to work on edits and refinements of existing ideas and projects. 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 because rushing into something is not advised now. Allow the process to unfold, and keep in mind that eclipses can drain your energy temporarily. You may feel some pressure to push something out right away, when in fact, you have the time to roll it out! Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): This eclipse set, spanning from April 2023 to March 2025, is powerful for achieving a better work-home balance. With this particular eclipse–the fourth one in the set and occurring in your home sector–the focus is taking charge of your home life, attention to security and safety matters, and connecting with family and your emotions. It can serve as one of several cosmic nudges to find your roots, learn your worth, build your sense of security, and focus on building your support system or base of operations. The period ahead is ideal for making long-range plans for the future, any reorganizing or even remodeling of the home or home environment, and 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. This Solar Eclipse prompts you to pay special attention to your support system and 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. You mustn’t forget the bigger picture of this eclipse set–you’re trying to balance your inner and outer worlds, ultimately. With this first eclipse in the series, you’re attending to the “inner world” part of the axis. Efforts to improve your fundamentals will go a long way toward the success of this two-year series. Moving, renovating, or increasing your feelings of safety and comfort can figure strongly. You’ll also be working on establishing and centering yourself emotionally in the weeks and months ahead. You’re taking further steps that build on your efforts from the first Aries Solar Eclipse in this set (April 2023). Note that eclipses often highlight where you feel lacking or frustrations that motivate you 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 holding you back may be part of the process. How you support others, and they you, can be more important now, and with this eclipse in alignment with the healer, Chiron, it’s a great time to connect with your vulnerability and focus positively on what needs improving. There could be a previously neglected area of your life that now seems essential to revisit. It’s a time to give extra attention to your loved ones and home and domestic routines, and it’s strong for seeing and confronting your vulnerabilities and needs. Remind yourself that you have time to roll out your changes. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): 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 to make the path clear for new beginnings that get you into a better position to share, learn, move about, and connect. News can arrive 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 powerful. 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. This exhaustion is particularly prominent in the week surrounding an eclipse. 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 and months ahead. Take your time on this. In fact, because this eclipse aligns with Chiron, humility, holism, healing, and honesty could tie in with improvements to your daily affairs, learning, and approachability. Others enjoy your ideas and insights and social 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 as you open up and express the desire to learn from one another. You might find new channels or platforms for self-expression, and these can be more imaginative, creative, and ultimately, more fulfilling. You have a more vital awareness of what’s good for you, which can draw you in a new direction. A humbly confident approach to sharing ideas can be magical now. It’s the fourth of a set of eclipses that span two years and activate an axis of your chart ruling your connections, learning about the world around you, getting out and about, and reaching out to others. These things continue to evolve, and this eclipse continues to push you along a path of improvement. A learning path or project, a style of communication, or even a transportation method may end to make way for a new beginning. It’s a time for new and improved ways of communicating and commuting! But first, you may need to look back before moving ahead. You may experience an initial feeling of being overwhelmed or exhausted before energy is restored. Brand new beginnings are not yet advised, but the effort you put into works-in-progress can be quite rewarding. You may be letting go of outdated attitudes or conditions so that the path is clear for new beginnings at a later date. Watch for exaggeration or obscured/missing information in the news coming in, the people around you, and your own reactions. Do your best to keep your actions and responses moderate as the eclipse occurs. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): 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 and 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 secure. 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 toward 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 over the course of two years. This set began with the Aries Solar Eclipse in April 2023 and continues until the Aries Solar Eclipse in March 2025. The overarching goal during this period is to find a better balance between depending on yourself and others or outside sources. It’s time to pay more attention to the give-and-take in your life. Notable for this event is a Chiron alignment with the eclipse, tying in humility, holism, openness, and healing with your success in enhancing your sense of comfort, well-being, and security or improving 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 economic well-being. You may be confronting fears or insecurities about your talents or earnings, but this opens new ways to heal, improve, and grow. You can come up with some very creative and unique business or money-making ideas, and you can be very resourceful and imaginative when it comes to transforming what you already own or have in such a way that these things are as good as new. It’s an excellent time to take stock of where you’re at in a business venture or with your finances and resources. You may even discover a resource or talent that has been dormant or left unnoticed. Indeed, you’re working toward more confidence in your ability to manifest your desires. With Mercury retrograde in the same area of your solar chart until April 25th, brand new starts are not yet recommended. Until then, you can make a successful fresh start with works in progress. In other words, save significant launches or decisions, but work towards making changes now. Priorities will be easier to see down the road. Depending on your current situation, the following are possible changes during this eclipse set (from April 2023 to March 2025): 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! See more Cafe Astrology articles, horoscopes, astrology tools & tables, and free reports.
Eclipse Horoscopes
Solar Eclipse in Aries in April 2024: Horoscopes
A Solar Eclipse occurs in Aries on April 8th, 2024: What this Means for Each Sign
Aries
This Solar Eclipse falls in your sign, dear Aries, and it helps pave the way toward significant individual changes in the weeks and months ahead. In fact, this eclipse is the fourth of a set of eclipses in your sign and your opposite sign that spans from April 2023 to March 2025.
Taurus
This Solar Eclipse launches a period of letting go, reviewing, and recharging your spiritual or emotional batteries, dear Taurus. Occurring in your solar twelfth house of endings, mental health, privacy, and reflection, it’s a time for releasing, purging, and healing.
Gemini
Cancer
This Solar Eclipse heightens your awareness of–and sensitivity to–your standing in society and your professional goals, dear Cancer, as it occurs in your solar chart’s professional or public sector.
Leo
This total 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 Leo. It can bring invigorating events into your life that nudge you out of your usual routine. You’re making a break from the past in some manner, helping clear the path for future growth and development.
Virgo
With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your intimacy sector, dear Virgo, 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.
Libra
With a Solar Eclipse bringing powerful energy to your partnership sector, dear Libra, you’re in a strong position for new beginnings regarding your close relationships.
Scorpio
This Solar Eclipse can prompt a refresh or new chapter in your life related to work, health, habits, and routines, dear Scorpio. It heralds a period when you can successfully initiate new diet regimes, healthy routines, and satisfying work schedules or improve and revamp current ones.
Sagittarius
This Solar Eclipse occurs in your sector of romance, creative self-expression, recreation, children, and hobbies, dear Sagittarius. Events happening now and in the coming weeks and months set you up for new beginnings in one or more of these areas of life.
Capricorn
This Solar Eclipse clears the way for new beginnings, dear Capricorn, 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.
Aquarius
This Solar Eclipse launches a favorable cycle for turning over a new leaf with your studies, communications, and connections, dear Aquarius. 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).
Pisces
This Solar Eclipse happens in your resources sector, dear Pisces, and you might make important decisions in the coming weeks and months related to personal finances, business, and practical affairs.
The Lunar Eclipse in Libra on March 25th, 2024:
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra: March 25, 2024
See the calendar entry for the Lunar Eclipse in Libra for the details of this lunar eclipse. See also horoscopes for this eclipse in Libra on my Astrology Cafe site.
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 wild 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 chaotic 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. Instead, 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 2018-2027 (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
Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2027 February 6 at 17 Aquarius
38
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2027 February 20 at 2 Virgo 06
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2027 July 18 at 25 Capricorn
49
Total SOLAR Eclipse 2027 August 2 at 9 Leo 55
Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2027 August 17 at 24 Aquarius 12
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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