09/28/2024
The Solar Eclipse of October 2 2024:
On October 2nd at 12:49 PM MDT we have an Annular Solar Eclipse. Solar Eclipses happen during the New Moon Phase and this eclipse may appear as a “Ring of Fire” where the corona of the Sun flickers it's flaming energy as the Moon passes in front of the Sun. This Eclipse also has Mercury combusted or within a degree of this new moon. This means that Mercury is literally burned by the Sun’s energy. This can hinder commerce, communication, transportation systems, relating, understanding. Also the planet Mars is squaring the eclipse from the sign of Cancer and suggests that people's actions can be emotional, irrational In short this portends a difficult time in personal relationships and especially difficult for any process of peace and understanding.
This eclipse is going to especially affect those who have planets or angles in Cardinal signs especially between 3 and 17 degrees pf Libra, Capricorn Aries and Cancer. To understand it’s influence in your natal chart you would look to the house in your chart that has Libra on the House Cusp and one might expect that topics related to that house might be an area of life that is in focus at this time.
Libra is about partnerships, negotiations, diplomacy, balance and the willingness to see another’s points of view. With Mercury being literally burnt by the Solar energy at the time of the Eclipse and Mars squaring the eclipse closely, emotions will be frayed, people will be argumentative, relationships can suffer from the slings and arrows of repressed emotions that surface.
The ideal in Libra would be balance and diplomacy, but in truth with Venus ruling the Libra placements in Scorpio, there may be a tendency to express anger and rage and this is not a time for confrontation. Yet it is likely.
Best advice for we mortals trying to get through our daily lives is to be aware that emotions are surfacing, the collective unconscious is tense, and best not to engage in controversial rhetoric at this time You can’t win!!
The planets are really detrimental to constructive realities right now and it is just best to go about your day and way as best you can. Avoid people, groups or situations that can be inciteful.
