Ask the Astrologer Twelve: Evergreen Eclipse
Evergreen eclipse quote?
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourg’d by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack’d ’twixt son and father.”
Gloucester in Shakespeare’s
The Tragedy of King Lear (I.ii.57)
Ask the Astrologer Twelve: Evergreen Eclipse
Over the course of the thirty years, or more, I’ve
used, and
reused that quote in its entirety, or just portions of it. I’ve struggled with extant symbols, and the astrological masses who dictate one way to interpret those symbols, and then, I’ve spun this out on my own, in other ways, based upon actual experiences.
In
popular astronomy, one spokesperson used the term “super moon,” and that joined the vernacular.
To me,
what I’ve repeatedly observed, the eclipse functions in a two-fold manner. One is the effect of the lunar cycle, only more so. Like either super New Moon or super Full Moon. Just the effect of the lunation tripled. Doubled. Multiplied by itself, at an exponential rate? Just more, like more madness, more confusion, more certainty, just more of whatever it is. The second effect is that of a simple on/off switch. Depends on what the degree of the eclipse action is at, but that serves as the impetus to make motion. It starts — or stops — events. Drives people forward. Or backwards, depends on how that lands.
Ask the Astrologer Twelve: Evergreen Eclipse
While I get repeatedly asked about the nodes of the moon, the ubiquitous Dragon’s Head and Dragon’s Tail? There is the following Shakespeare passage that deals with such.
“My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous.”
Edmund in
King Lear I.ii.58 (
previous notation, worth a glance.)
While
my original Complete Works of Shakespeare included a gloss about the constellation
Draco, without a doubt, the text refers to the Nodes of the Moon, harbingers of the eclipses.
Ask the Astrologer Twelve: Evergreen Eclipse
Eclipses are neither good nor bad. Eclipse energy tends to concentrate and multiply the lunar effects, and this can be in an exponential rate, depending. Look at where the eclipse falls, at what degree, and then by signs.
It’s roughly an 18-year cycle for all the signs, so, maybe a year and half in each sign, and then, more granular, about every 8-9 years for a complimentary set of symbols. Like a Virgo/Pisces eclipse cycle, followed in roughly 9 years by a Pisces/Virgo cycle.
Similar patterns. Not identical, but eerily similar.
How to interpret the meaning, the symbolism of the various eclipse cycles?
Kind of depends. I toy with them in my
weekly horoscopes, over and over.
The passages from Shakespeare’s
King Lear underscores the accepted knowledge of eclipses, and the importance of the Nodes of the Moon in determining when an eclipse would occur, and for that matter, the “sequent effect” of those eclipses.
But is that really what happens? Eclipses are connected to worldly events, but the true measure of humanity is how one reacts in otherwise highly emotional and potentially unstable times.
Unstable? Yes. Bad? Hardly, unless, you know, you’re resistant to change, like
Scorpio.
Scorpio: “I’m very open to change, as long as it’s my idea.” Or?
“I like changes that I make. I’m open like that.”
There is that.
“I’m very flexible if you do it my way.”
Ask the Astrologer Twelve: Evergreen Eclipse
One eclipse season, I was at the coast, in the nominally winter months. The effects were high tides, higher than usual, lapping at the edge of the more permanent dunes, cold winter breezes whipping sand around my bare feet. The Gulf and the bays were still summer-like warm water, but the outside temperature was frosty.
On the beach, one mid-morning, as the tide was receding, there was a tremendous amount of seaweed and similar detritus washed ashore. Eventually, a groundskeeper-like earth-mover would come along and scrape the new material upwards towards the dune side of the beach.
The Texas Gulf Coast is one of the richest biodiversity zones I’ve ever seen
The cold breezes, warm waters, wet sands, and ultimately, weird fishing experiences all added up. Eclipse seasons aren’t “bad,” but fishing? It was weird. One trip like this, I caught nearly 40 undersized fish. Not big enough for the slot, but lots of attitude so it was great fun. But another eclipse trip and timing I was thinking about? Winter-like weather? Battled waves and wind, only to land a few, big fish. Just a few, but enough to make it worth the trip and interesting enough to make for both good sport and delicious dinner.
“Ain’t nothing like fresh seafood.”
Two trips, similar conditions, and two different outcomes. It’s not predictable, but it was good.
Like the management axiom?
“It all depends.”
Eclipses are neither good nor bad, just more of whatever is accentuated.
If only there as
a guide.
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The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107
