The Solar Eclipse of February 6-7, 2008, in Aquarius

[I Have A Dream]

The Solar Eclipse of February 6-7, 2008 in Aquarius
by Robert Wilkinson

The coming Solar Eclipse will have a very significant impact on us all. All eclipses shut something down, taking away elements of our lives no longer "true" for us. Aquarius is the sign of collective expression, larger ideals, group efforts, and the exteriorization of Leo, the sign of personal love. Thus a form of impersonal love will be shut down, with the void sure to attract new forms of expressing this energy. This eclipse is conjunct Neptune, thus will both trigger and shut down some Neptunian elements of the http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2008/01/spiritual-astro.html">Grand Irrationality.

This Annular Solar Eclipse occurs at 7:44 pm PST, 10:44 pm EST on February 6, 2008, and 3:44 am February 7, GMT/UT. It puts mid-Virgo rising in California, mid-Libra rising in EST, 13 Sag rising in London, 16 Sag rising in Amsterdam, and 22 Sag rising in Estonia. Istanbul has 20 Capricorn rising, Bagdad has 14 Aquarius rising, Johannesburg has 17 Aquarius rising, N. Delhi and Trivandrum both have 30 Pisces rising, while Bangkok has 28 Aries rising and Tokyo has 22 Gemini on the Ascendant. W. Australia has early Taurus rising, Melbourne has 25 Taurus rising, while Brisbane has 6 Gemini on the Ascendant.

In eclipse lore, where the Eclipse is visible will be where the greatest effects can be expected, lasting the number of years that the eclipse is long in minutes. Partial phases of this eclipse are visible primarily from eastern Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, and most of Antarctica. This would seem not to bode well for our Southernmost continent, and therefore will probably impact the rising ocean levels for a number of years to come, with immediate results the next two years plus, due to the eclipse duration.

Though triggering the Grand Irrationality, the New Moon is semisquare Pluto, showing an emergent "crisis of development" and a turning point in power structures affected everywhere. The lunation is part of a grand lineup of points in Aquarius, including Moon, Sun, Mercury RX, Chiron, Neptune, and North Node all in that sign, and so it will profoundly affect the Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo planets and houses in our charts through lessons learned in mid-to-late Aquarius, calling us all to a higher self-expression. I outlined some general influences for this Eclipse stellium in Spiritual Astrology in January-February 2008 Pt. 2.

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