COUNTDOWN TO THE ECLIPSE (PDF-1216)

The solar eclipse Sunday July 11th at 3:40 PM EDT brings to a close this special 2-week interval between eclipses. I will try in this post to give you a little more of the flavor of both the western and eastern astrological traditions as regards the meaning of eclipses. First, our western tradition. The eclipse will be over Sunday, but this is not the end of the effect of the eclipse. Rather this is more like the beginning, since a solar eclipse is considered like an impregnation, a seed time. Depending on the nature of the seed, what is called the solar tone, and how we receive will be the fruit of the seed -- what comes of it. The seed or tone is placed in the stream of our mind where it may remain dormant for a time since we are usually at first unaware of its message, but sooner or later that inner sound will be heard or read by us. In other words, it is like a script that is placed deep in our mind that we can only read or become aware of over time as it slowly comes up into our mind, and as we can get a handle on it.