Looking ahead: eclipse actions

“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)

• • The next total lunar eclipse is March 14, 2025, at 23 degrees of Virgo. It’s companion solar eclipse is March 29, 2025, at 9 degrees of Aries

I loved it when quick-hit social-media astrology performers suggested the last eclipse was the final Libra eclipse, but looking at this along an axis and an over-arching pattern? The true pattern isn’t completed until Aries spikes that ball in the end zone of life. Which, I would surmise, is what to expect from the apparent replicable patterns. But wait, there’s more!

Looking ahead: eclipse actions

It might help to track the data points with a some information stacked up next to each other.

• March 14, 2025 23° Pisces Virgo
• March 29, 2025 17° Aries
• The (total) lunar eclipse is Sept. 7, 2025, at 15° of Pisces
• Partial solar eclipse takes place on Sept. 21, 2025, at 29° of Virgo.

Individual meaning? I favor teasing the real meaning in the horoscope at the time.

Looking ahead: eclipse actions

• • Solar Feb. 17, 2026 28° Pisces
• • Aug. 12, 2026 Sol 19° Pisces Virgo
• • Aug. 28, 2026 Lunar 5° Virgo/Pisces
• • Feb. 6, 2027 14° Aquarius
• • Feb. 20, 2027 1° Pisces

Looking ahead: eclipse actions

Passage from King Lear?

• Lear quote 2018
• The Tragedy of King Lear 2017
• Let me say this about that 2022
• Eclipse patterns 2013
• Eclipse cycles 2010

That’s just a cursory search and quick summary.

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There was, at one time, an anthropology theory about stringing together the titles of country and western songs to tell a story itself. Not the lyrics, just the songs’ titles.

The Horse

Music. An alcoholic musician. A blind horse shows up, doesn’t move much. The names, titles, of country songs.

“They listened to records by the Everly Brothers, the Blasters, Merle Haggard, Rank and File, Rush, Gram Parsons, X, Charlie Parker, Los Lobos, Black Sabbath, and Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West.” Page 101.

The Blasters. Rank and File! Gram Parsons, &c. Roots rock. Classic cow punk. The years don’t exactly add up, but it’s interesting. Some years ago, I stumbled into a recent imprint of Charles Bukowski’s poetry. Digging into the narrative, I kept trying to figure out where I heard this kind of story before. Bukowski’s Post Office.

The Horse

More lyrical, but portions of it, as the narrative itself jumps a timeline, portions are that raw, nuanced, but bare minimum prose. Good story-telling. Nuanced and spartan yet layered and rich.