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MAGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS – HOW SOLAR ECLIPSES BRING NON-LINEAR AND SOMETIMES DRAMATIC CHANGE TO YOUR LIFE

This is one part of my regular postings for each Eclipse Season. You might not have seen it before or might want to read it again (I have revised it a bit.) :-)

A Solar Eclipse is a New Moon during which the Sun and Moon conjunct each other, not only by longitude (degree of a sign), but also by declination, or celestial latitude. That’s why they line up perfectly enough for the Moon to (at least partially) obscure the disk of the Sun.

Some people see this as a metaphor for emotions (Moon) obscuring reason (Sun).

That lunar dominance (lunacy) usually shows up in crazy news stories around eclipse times and we’ve certainly seen that happening recently.

But there’s another form of lunacy that takes place around Solar Eclipses, the kind that happens in personal lives, families, and communities. It seems crazy because it seems to come out of nowhere – it's …

NON-LINEAR CHANGE

When you go to college with a full course of study for four years, you expect to get your diploma and then get a job in a good career. That’s a typical linear progression of changes during a certain phase of life.

But what if, after two years of study, the college suddenly offered you a full degree and diploma and sent you to work for a company, making more money and doing different and more enjoyable work than you ever expected? THAT would be a non-linear change ... shocking and unexpected but (in this example) welcome! Of course, there might be unpleasant non-linear changes, too, but I won’t invent any of those.

Like any New Moon, a Solar Eclipse begins a new lunar cycle. And as at any New Moon, you can see where a Solar Eclipse lands in your natal chart to discover where something new might develop in your life, according to the house, sign, and any conjunctions to natal planets involved.

If a Solar Eclipse conjuncts a planet that rules a house cusp, the new developments might involve that house’s affairs, as well.

A series of New Moons make a linear progression through the signs and through the houses of your chart. The progress of our affairs touched by them usually seem linear. The changes make sense.

But when we have a Solar Eclipse New Moon, something unusual takes place. The energies of the Moon’s North and South Nodes, conjunct and opposing the Sun, move our earthly affairs suddenly, joltingly forward. Things we couldn’t have anticipated happen in ways that seem "out of order."

SUBJECTIVELY, THINGS WE DIDN’T EARN, DON’T DESERVE, AND DIDN’T EXPECT POP INTO OUR LIVES.

Wherever a Solar Eclipse lands in your chart – especially if it touches an angle or conjuncts an important planet – we often see more than just important new developments ...

WE SEE THE ALMOST MAGICAL EFFECT OF INCONGRUOUS, NON-LINEAR CHANGE.

Whatever new patterns start under the influence of a Solar Eclipse New Moon won’t just be felt for the lunation cycle, as is often the case with a regular New Moon. Solar Eclipse changes will likely go on for at least a year or for many years – even the rest of your life. You’re just sitting around, playing a nice game of Monopoly, then suddenly an unseen force moves your game piece. You "skip go and collect $200 – or $200,000!!" Or you “go to jail,” depending.

NON-LINEAR ... INCONGRUOUS ... LIKE THE IMAGINED ACTION OF A TIME WARP OR A BLACK HOLE.

If you think of the times when your life changed in such a way, look back on the Solar Eclipses that occurred within a year before and a year after.

I did that study years ago when I wanted to begin learning about eclipses. What I found floored me – how consistently the big changes I had experienced coincided with the affairs of the houses which had recently hosted, or would soon host, a Solar Eclipse.

I CALL IT THE "BREAKDOWN OR BREAKTHROUGH" EFFECT OF SOLAR ECLIPSE LOCATIONS IN NATAL CHARTS.

Brief examples of my findings in my own chart:

- Two Solar Eclipses, one in 1964 and another in 1965, both landed in my 1st house. (1st House rules Appearance and Self-Perception). I transformed from the one of the fattest, most unpopular kids in school to a beautiful, super-popular pre-teen and teen, who every guy wanted to date and every girl wanted as her bff. I had to completely rethink who I was and how to relate to other people. I was used to kids taunting me and throwing things at me. Suddenly they were all nice to me. I had to learn how to interact all over again. Beauty changes everything!

- Later in my teens, a SE (Solar Eclipse) landed in my 5th (rules love affairs), two months before the start of a love affair that changed my whole life and transformed who I was as a person, forever. My lover/first husband was murdered – with me present – a few months into the relationship, resulting in permanent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—PTSD – from which I still suffer to this day.

- An SE landed in my 7th (rules marriage) ... a few months before my divorce – and also when I moved in with the man who would become my third husband (to whom I am still married today, 30+ years later).

- SE landed in my 10th (rules career) before I made the most sudden and unlikely career change ever, on the verge on not being believable ... I went from farming chickens to writing and directing short films that were translated into dozens of languages and distributed in 60+ countries around the world ... from seeing famous actors on TV to meeting them and directing them on film.

- SE landed in my 9th house (rules faraway places) a few months before I let my husband talk me into suddenly moving 3300 miles away, sight unseen, to a place neither of us had ever visited, knew nothing about, and where I had never wanted to live. (But it was on both our Venus Dsc lines and now I still live here and LOVE it!)

I have many, many more examples in my own chart, my family, friends, clients, and celebrities … not just in natal charts but also using composites. I have also seen it work in the charts for incorporated governments and organizations.

NOTE: I have also searched for correlations of such changes with Lunar Eclipses. Although Lunar Eclipses do seem to have an emotional, unsettling effect for a month to three months, my study did not find the kind of huge, permanent Breakdown or Breakthrough effects I found with Solar Eclipses.

In fact, in my work with eclipses and where they fall in natal charts, I have found Lunar Eclipses to have about 1% of the power of Solar Eclipses to bring significant changes to the native's life.

People have argued with me about this but I am convinced of my findings because of the way I've conducted my research. If someone sees activity in the issues of a house where a Lunar Eclipse falls, they point to that as proof of the Lunar Eclipse's power. But they forget that a Solar Eclipse has already occurred in that house 6 months ago and/or will occur in the house 6 months later. Solar Eclipse effects are super-powerful and can last from a year before to a year after the eclipse.

I can often tell which eclipse (the lunar or the solar) is responsible for changes in the native's life because they will happen at different degrees and often only one will conjunct a planet that rules another house. The additional activation of the affairs of that ruled house provides the test of WHICH eclipse actually sparked the changes.

ECLIPSE READING REALLY WORKS!

And you can USE IT to anticipate where the big changes in your life will likely come from … and INTERVENE with a plan to INTENTIONALLY AND POSITIVELY MANIFEST the energies the way you WANT them to manifest!

BUT DO SOLAR ECLIPSES ALWAYS BRING A REAL BREAKTHROUGH OR BREAKDOWN?

It's a fun exercise to go back and look at where Solar Eclipses have fallen in your chart and can be quite enlightening. But I have this one caveat ... some people feel fear about what they will find and what will happen after a current eclipse. Others feel eager anticipation and get disappointed if they don't experience a life-changing breakthrough.

CHANGE, ALWAYS. BUT NOT ALWAYS EPIC …

We have two or more solar eclipses every year, which, means we either get two in one house or they cover two houses or more each year,

Obviously, some houses have issues that are more "ripe" for huge changes than others. What happened to Tiger Woods, his Big Breakdown (see my other eclipse article containing real-life examples), hasn't happened to him twice each year since then. His profound deception of his wife and the public amounted to nothing less than living a double life, with his acts of betrayal relating to both houses that particular eclipse affected, his 10th (career) and 5th (lovers, sex life).

So something new will always emerge from the natal house where an eclipse falls in your chart. But a huge build up of your energy, your effort, your pain, your need, or your deception will not always be there, ready to pop like a giant balloon, when a Solar Eclipse sticks it like a pin.

However, you can always create enough “ripeness,” in any house, for you to exploit the Solar Eclipse energy into something you'd like to manifest in your life.

You can find the date of every Solar Eclipse that has occurred in your lifetime here:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html

Find the date and you can find the sign, degree, and where each Solar Eclipse of your lifetime landed in your natal chart.

Then determine the house(s) where the next two or three Solar Eclipses will land for you. Proactively plan to pre-empt those Solar Eclipse actions to your liking.

Another resource:

http://www.cafeastrology.com/eclipsessolarlunar.html

Clean up the issues of the house(s) in which they will occur. Make positive efforts in the areas of life ruled by those houses. Then watch the upcoming Solar Eclipses pop those balloons and make the good consequences rain down upon your life like a good karma piñata. :-)

MORE TO COME, INCLUDING MORE REAL LIFE EXAMPLES OF ECLIPSES IN PERSONAL NATAL AND COMPOSITE CHARTS