Eclipses are astronomical events where a celestial body covers another celestial object partially or totally. A solar eclipse happens when the New Moon moves between Earth and the Sun while a lunar eclipse occurs when Earth shadows the Full Moon.
A solar eclipse always occurs about two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse. A solar eclipse is a turbocharged New Moon.
Usually, there are two eclipses in a row, but other times, there are three during the same eclipse season.
Both Solar and Lunar Eclipses always occur when there is a New Moon or Full Moon near the Lunar Nodes, and this occurs every six months. The Nodes are where the pathway of the Moon crosses the Ecliptic from our geocentric perspective here on Earth. The ecliptic is what appears to be the pathway of the Sun on the sky. The Nodes are always in opposite signs and usually the eclipses happen in these signs as well, but in some cases could also occur in the signs next to these ones.
The energetic changes and sift of the Eclipses can be felt and can start in the six weeks prior and can also play out over the next six months following the event.
Solar Eclipses:
Solar eclipses can only occur during a New Moon when the Moon moves between Earth and the Sun and the 3 celestial bodies form a straight line: Earth–Moon–Sun.
There are between 2 and 5 solar eclipses every year.
There are 3 kinds of solar eclipses: total, partial, and annular. There is also a rare hybrid that is a combination of an annular and a total eclipse.
Lunar Eclipses:
The Moon does not have its own light. It shines because its surface reflects the Sun’s rays. A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and blocks the Sun’s rays from directly reaching the Moon. Lunar eclipses only happen at Full Moon. There are 3 kinds of lunar eclipses: total, partial, and penumbral.
The year of 2018 has a total of 5 eclipses; 3 partial Solar Eclipses and 2 total Lunar Eclipses:
– Jan 31st,2018 – Total Lunar Eclipse with Full Moon in Leo
– Feb 15th, 2018 – Partial Solar Eclipse with New Moon in Aquarius
– Jul 13th, 2018 – Partial Solar Eclipse with New Moon in Cancer
– Jul 27th, 2018 – Total Lunar Eclipse with Full Moon in Aquarius
– Aug 11th, 2018 – Partial Solar Eclipse with New Moon in Leo
Astrologically speaking, the Eclipses that are formed across the year are happening on the Leo and Aquarius axes with the exception of one that happens in the sign of Cancer.
It’s a rebalancing of the creative and sharing energies of the individual with the forces of creation and sharing for collective purpose. It’s a process of opening the heart being able to love oneself as well as others while being strong in who we are as individuals as well as who we are as part of a group. So the Eclipses are a universal cleaning modality that helps us humans to re-calibrate and re-align with the other dimensions in order to open to a higher of knowledge and wisdom.
It forces us to heal any part of ourselves that is not in alignment with our higher calling and with the people around us. Being alive on Earth, need to happen for my own good as well as for the good of human kind. It’s a purging process that marks the step that humanity needs to make in order to ascend to the 5th dimension of unconditional love and forming of our crystal bodies.
The partial solar eclipse with the New moon in Cancer is right in the middle between the other 4 eclipses suggesting returning to our feminine power, the magnetic power of the mother earth that creates without doing just by holding the energy (thoughts, visions, feelings, etc.) of what we want to manifest in this world.
Blessings!
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