The timing of Solar Eclipses is a point of
contention among astrologers, but usually
planets moving across the zodiac degree of
the Solar eclipse up to three months before
and six months after will act as “triggers”
for the Eclipse related events or changes.
Lunar eclipses tend to be more short lived,
kind of like a full moon on steroids, and
emotional or personal in content, while
Solar eclipses tend to be more event or
externally oriented. Both types of eclipses
work to illuminate what’s been hiding in
the shadows.
When we look ahead to 2015 there will
be two Solar Eclipses, the first at 29 degrees
of Pisces on March 20th and the second
at 20 degrees of Virgo on September 13.
The eclipses moving from fixed signs to
mutable signs suggests that rather than
dealing with deeply entrenched and hard
to change social issues, there will be more
of a focus on ways of thinking, communi-
cating and making adjustments to current
situations. Because Virgo and Pisces are
associated with health and illness, I think
these eclipses will bring more focus to
these issues.
On March 20th the Solar Eclipse suggests
a focus on typical Pisces issues, like prob-
lems with the oceans, drinking water and
possibly more troubles with diseases like
Ebola. The eclipse will bring any existing
problems that have been overlooked or
hidden more into the public eye. Because
of the shift of Saturn into Sagittarius,
another mutable sign, we may see more
collective approaches to these problems.
In the chart for this particular eclipse
the Sun and Moon only make one major
aspect, an out of sign trine to Jupiter in Leo.
This suggests that there may be an element
of protection also at work.
The Virgo eclipse in September 2015 may
bring issues related to health-care, grains
and harvests, and workers issues, perhaps
even health care workers. Chiron is oppo-
site the Sun/Moon conjunction in this chart
amplifying the connections to issues relat-
ed to health, healing and disease. Because
the eclipses in Pisces/Virgo continue into
2017 it seems to me these eclipses will rep-
resent turning points in the ongoing Ebola
epidemic and problems finding people in
the medical profession willing to deal with
Ebola patients.
There are many ways to chart the coming
changes in 2015, but looking at the signs
of the Solar Eclipses will often illuminate
areas of crises and change. Eclipses have
the power to heal because once situations
operate more in the open, they can be
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addressed more clearly, and sometimes
solutions can be found.
Henry Seltzer
INCLUDING A LOOK AT THE
NEW PLANET, ERIS
eading into the
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year 2015, as the
current astrology bears
out, we have reached a
peak of painful necessity
for action. I refer here primarily to Uranus-
Pluto, and I would also like to mention
my characterization of the newly named
‘dwarf’ planet, Eris, which I find to be an
excellent indicator for what these fraught
times require of us, in her symbolism as a
feminine warrior for soul-purpose, a fighter
who comes from a place of difficult necessi-
ty to do what must be done, on the basis of
deep need. (The evidence for this point of
view is beyond the scope of this article, and
is articulated in my forthcoming book on
Eris, called The Tenth Planet.)
First let’s discuss Uranus-Pluto, coming to
exact square once more on December 15th,
the sixth of seven exact hits this decade.
The startling thing about the month of
December and the beginning period of
2015 is that Uranus and Pluto stay in sync
with each other after their mid-December
exact hit, never more than 1 degree away
from exactly square until their last exact hit
in mid-March. The intensity of the Uranus-
Pluto combination, signifying a force for
radical societal evolution, has grown stron-
ger each year, from 2009 onward, and I
believe that this first quarter of 2015 will be
the most intense of all. Each individual will
have to make a stand for what they deeply
believe, in order that we as a culture have
any real chance of survival.
And this is where Eris comes in, as spir-
itual warrior. In the December 15th exact
alignment of Uranus and Pluto, she makes
a partile trine with Jupiter that lasts from
mid-November through nearly the entire
month of December, including the power-
ful Winter Solstice of December 21st that
coincides with the Capricorn New Moon.
In this symbolic beginning of the new year,
Eris is therefore quite prominent. It looks
like many will be stimulated to join in the
fight for what will allow the human race to
grow together, rather than to move further
apart.
After this first quarter, the intensity might
slow down some. One interesting thing
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happens, though, also in regards to Eris,
over the summer. The July 15th New Moon
in the 24th degree of Cancer features an
exact square to Eris in Aries. At this same
timing, Mercury and Mars in conjunction
make a partile opposition to Pluto, while
Uranus comes to within 3 degrees of con-
juncting Eris. This could indicate another
season of radical activity, in support of the
fight that has to happen with t he powers
that be, including U.S. energy corporations.
The New Moon of mid-August also aspects
Eris.
So we can divide the year of 2015 into
at least three segments, the difficult first
quarter, and the response to this protract-
ed period of ever-increasing angst, which
by the summer might actually reach epic
proportions, and then the remainder of the
year heading into fall when we might find
that the critical mass has grown for begin-
ning to take necessary action. Curiously, at
the very end of the year, Jupiter in Virgo
again aspects Eris, this time an inconjunct,
and again over a rather long period of time,
within two degrees from late November
through February of 2016, because station-
ing in January 2016. So we end the year as
we started, with a long-term Jupiter-Eris
connection. It seems that at least there is
hope, and that this chance depends on
each one of us stepping up to the plate
and doing our part, with everything that
we have in us. Blessed be. R
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Adam Gainsburg
MARS & VENUS IN THE
LIVING SKY
n 2015 there are
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three Venus-Mars
conjunctions. Any Venus-
Mars contact is a powerful
focus on the inner agreements about what
drives us within, into, and out of relation-
ships. The values (Venus) we hold clearly
drive our actions (Mars), just as our willing-
ness to go it alone (Mars) often attracts or
repels others (Venus).
See Figure 1, following page
The three conjunctions emanate from 7
April 2013 when they both aligned with the
Sun in their respective Gemini Cycles! Both
planets were furthest from Earth: Venus
invisibly transitioning from morning to eve-
ning star, while Mars invisibly beginning his
cycle. At 19 Aries, it occurred in the stars
of the Southern Fish who swims backward
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