Mundane Astrology update -- eclipse charts

[ecosophia]

Wanted to post a heads up -- eclipse charts for the solar eclipse on 26 December 2019 and the lunar eclipse on 10 January 2020 are now up on my Patreon and Subscribestar accounts. Eclipse predictions are an ancient and very richly documented field of mundane astrology, and -- thanks to the many generous souls who have become patrons and subscribers -- I've got the free time at this point to study them and make predictions on that basis.

The short form? Eclipses are always disruptive influences, they run in pairs (you usually get a lunar eclipse either two weeks before or two weeks after a solar eclipse), and they are most powerful over the area from which they're visible. Both these eclipses were visible from Eurasia -- the lunar eclipse from the whole continent and Africa as well, the solar eclipse mostly from a narrow region of south Asia -- and both focus on the western half or so of southern Asia. 

Since I'm gearing up to add two more countries -- India and Australia -- to my list of quarterly ingress charts, I did general delineations for each eclipse, and then examined the charts for USA, Britain, India, Japan, and Australia, giving specific predictions for each country. 

Interested? You'll find my Patreon account here and my Subscribestar account here. On both platforms, eclipse predictions come with the lowest, $5/month patron/subscriber tier, along with quarterly ingress charts for all five countries. 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

These readings are fantastic, not only for the information itself, but as incentive to learn more astrology!

I have a no doubt really dumb question, but it's been niggling since the August 2018 total solar eclipse. We were annoyed at barely being able to see it through the heavy cloud cover all day. Does the diffusion have any mediating effect? Guessing NOT 🙄 Thanks!

[ecosophia]

Nope. Weather doesn't affect astrology, though there's some evidence that astrology affects weather! That eclipse is still in effect, btw -- based on the length of the eclipse, it'll be influencing world affairs until February of 2022.

[(Anonymous)]

So if there's another solar eclipse (since they occur roughly every 18 months somewhere on Earth) before Feb 2022, the new one acts like an Aries ingress, wiping the slate for the most part? Or do their influences merge into more complex motions in space, à la Cos.Doc, so never repeating an identical set of conditions (not even considering differing reactions at the material level, like the example of Canada vs ME).

So then, is there or is there not, "nothing new under the sun"? Seems like a good theme for meditation 😉

[ecosophia]

They all merge together. At any point in time you can have several solar eclipses affecting events on earth, each having its primary effect on the regions where it was visible, and all of them shaped powerfully by the aspects in play at the time they happened. So the set of things under the sun is technically finite but immense in the literal sense of that word -- i.e., too big to measure.

I don't have the mathematical chops to work all this out, but since you've got nine major factors (the luminaries plus the planets), each of which can be in any of 360 degrees, I think that means you've got (360^9) possible positions of the heavens, plus the influence of varying terrestrial locality -- I'm not sure of this, but I think with 1 solar eclipse every 18 months, and (360^9) equaling roughly 10^23, plus the wobbles that put eclipse tracks in different parts of the earth, it seems unlikely to me that a given eclipse will repeat exactly at any point in the lifespan of the solar system.

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking of that eclipse, any chance that you can add an analysis of it to your astrological efforts, since it's still influencing world affairs?

[ecosophia]

Let me see if I can find the time. I'm trying to finish a book project while being bombarded by page proofs from other publishers! (Admittedly this is not a bad thing if you're a writer, but it's keeping me hopping.)

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have any plans to add Canada to the list?

[ecosophia]

That'll depend very much on how much time I can spare. It's certainly one I'll consider if time permits.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course, trouble from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan - and does Afghanistan really have a head of state? - is like colder weather in winter.

[booklover1973]

Funny - but JMG predicts even more trouble than usual, plausibly so after the events of the last days.

[ecosophia]

Ah, but you always adjust astrological indications for local conditions. An aspect that would indicate fierce debates in the Canadian parliament would indicate a spike in car bombings and assassinations in Iraq. Take the base level of trouble in the area from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan; this eclipse indicates that the level of trouble will be significantly higher than that for the four months following the eclipse.

As for the Afghanistani head of state, again, adjust for local conditions. President Ashraf Ghani is as close to a head of state as Afghanistan ever gets.

[(Anonymous)]

Although the Moon is obviously afflicted (it’s a lunar eclipse!) she is in her own sign of Cancer making her otherwise strong. Is that a negative or a positive, i.e. does it strengthen the issues pointed to by the house or does it weaken them?

BTW at the end of the section on Japan you have this “However, Saturn, well dignified in his own sign Sagittarius, rules this house.” It’s obviously a typo, I thought you should know in case you want to fix it.

[ecosophia]

1) That's a question not really dealt with by the texts I have. One of the things I want to do with eclipse charts is compare them to events as they turn out and see if I can refine the established rules a bit.

2) It is indeed a typo; another reader messaged me about it last night, and it's been fixed. Still, thank you for catching it!

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny but the Saturn Pluto conjunction is all over the net but very little mention of the eclipses or the Grand Mutation to come. Is this another example of pop astrology in action?

[ecosophia]

Pluto's a very mediagenic dwarf planet, and yeah, it attracts a great deal of attention from the pop end of astrology. The thing to remember is that most modern astrologers have never studied mundane astrology and literally don't know the first thing about what differentiates it from natal astrology, so grand mutations and eclipses aren't things they know they should track.