Do the Coming Eclipses Strike Your Chart?

An eclipse is a new or full moon that happens close to the Moon's nodes — the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's. Astrologically they are the year's accelerators: a solar eclipse is a super-charged new moon that opens doors, and a lunar eclipse is a super-charged full moon that brings culminations and reveals. What a regular lunation whispers, an eclipse announces.

A solar eclipse happens at a new moon, when the Moon crosses in front of the Sun — astrologically a seed moment, a beginning that tends to unfold over the following six months, often as events you did not plan. A lunar eclipse happens at a full moon, when Earth's shadow crosses the Moon — a culmination and a release, when something ripens, something is finally seen, and something outgrown asks to be let go.

Eclipses arrive in seasons, roughly twice a year, about six months apart — each season bringing two or occasionally three eclipses within a few weeks. Most years hold four to six in total. Each season falls in a particular pair of zodiac signs, which shifts slowly over the years — so each eclipse season works a specific corner of your chart.

An eclipse becomes personal when its degree lands close to something in your birth chart — on it, opposite it, or square to it. When that happens, the eclipse's acceleration works directly through that planet's territory: an eclipse on your natal Venus stirs love and worth, one on your Midheaven moves your public life. Eclipses that touch nothing in your chart pass as general weather — dramatic in the sky, quiet in your life.

The weeks around each pair of eclipses — roughly a month, twice a year — when the Sun travels close enough to the Moon's nodes for eclipses to occur. Astrologers treat the whole season as charged: events compress, timelines accelerate, and the story an eclipse begins is often finished by another eclipse in the same family a year or more later.

Yes — every eclipse for the next eighteen months with its date, sign, and degree, plus whether each one strikes your natal chart and which house it lands in, is completely free. You'll create a free account so your chart is saved, and deeper transit readings are available in the apothecary.