Good day, folks!

So this week’s upcoming eclipse is almost exactly conjunct the natal Venus of my chart (and only 2 degrees from the moon).

https://astro-charts.com/chart/7e7558ce2/

Curious what y’all have to say and/or for good resources to exploring transiting eclipses. This one is out of sign, but still feels too close for comfort! Lol.

Obviously it seems I have but one choice when life throws surprises (integrate), but I’m happy to read up on it.

May it be auspicious!

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salveofserpents wrote:Curious what y’all have to say and/or for good resources to exploring transiting eclipses.

I hope everybody enjoyed the Hybrid (i.e. sometimes Annular and sometimes Total) solar eclipse on 20 Apr. Similarly, best wishes for the upcoming penumbral Lunar Eclipse on 5 May, which aligns with Wesak!

There are various ways one can explore eclipses. Here are four such ways, all of which are available in the astrology program Astrolog:

1) Detect eclipses, with settings for both "is there an eclipse anywhere on Earth at this time", versus "is there an eclipse at this particular location at this moment" (the latter of which is based on topocentric positions and takes into account elevation above sea level). Eclipses can be flagged in charts (e.g. aspect grids) and transit calendars, using the "filled in Conjunction" and "filled in Opposition" glyphs.

2) Display eclipses using a "telescope chart" to observe how they appear in the sky. Above is an example animation of a Total Lunar Eclipse. Note the "triple eclipse" at one point, in which the Moon, Earth's Shadow, and asteroid "1100 Arnica" are all overlapping at the exact same point.

3) Detect eclipses involving other planets, e.g. the Moon occulting a planet or a star, or two planets occulting each other. Similarly, detect "lunar eclipses" involving other bodies. These are Opposition aspects in which from the point of view of one of the two bodies on either side of Earth, there's a partial or total occultation involving Earth and the other body. These are often missed in standard astrology software or transit calendars. A "piercing opposition" eclipse can be considered stronger than a normal 2D Opposition, in the same way that a transit/occultation eclipse is stronger than a normal 2D Conjunction.

4) Display eclipses involving planetary moons. Below shows Jupiter over time, in which you can see its moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io pass in front of Jupiter's disk (i.e. transit it) or behind Jupiter's disk (i.e. occulted by it). There are a few "triple eclipses" here too, in which at one point both Ganymede and Europa are involved with eclipses at the same time, and another point in which both Europa and Io are involved with eclipses. Many people were born during eclipses involving planetary moons, but don't know it since they haven't checked!

This Kepler lecture by Maria Mateus taught me quite a but, back at the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmopt5WM9CQ