Eclipses are like the regular monthly lunations, but with more far-reaching (6 months to a year) and life defining effects. The signs and houses in your chart that they fall in, coupled with any aspects to other planets or placements, also colour your experience of these astrological events. If closely aligned with personal placements by degree, eclipses may point to transformative times ahead, whether from internal or external circumstances.

With the synergy between conscious awareness (the Sun) and unconscious needs (the Moon), for some of us eclipses can bring emotional challenges, and usually uncomfortable change. They tend to re-awaken the potential inherent in us at birth, sounding a call for us to fulfil our personal destiny, to overcome our fears, taboos, passed-down values, and other restrictions over which we may have stumbled in the past.

Influence in Your Horoscope

With the Moon in the mix, our sense of comfort, security, and belonging may be challenged. Eclipses also embody the energy of the planets or points they aspect in our personal charts. For example, an eclipse on our Venus may be about relationships, finances, social reach, or the balance of give and take. With Mars it is likely about channelling our energy, or challenges to our assertiveness or sexuality. With the Sun, changes are likely in life direction, vitality, or the males in our lives.