This week sees a beautiful Solar Eclipse in the Scorpion.
Can you imagine the awe and wonder of our ancestors as they watched the Sun gradually disappear during an Eclipse, plunging the land into eerie, silent darkness?
If you’ve ever witnessed a Solar Eclipse yourself, you’ll instinctively understand that spine-tingling atmosphere – and you’ll understand why Eclipses are so symbolically powerful in astrology.
Although astronomically speaking this week’s event is a partial Eclipse, it’s no less significant in its astrological energy.
And this particular Solar Eclipse, being in the potent sign of the Scorpion, may bring profound transformation in its wake.
This Solar Eclipse highlights eternal themes of death and rebirth.
The Scorpion’s energy is always deep and often dark – but it’s important not to get caught up in the darkness because the Scorpion also leads us to the light.
This Solar Eclipse is a perfect metaphor for how it’s always darkest before dawn.
In life, we often have to go through the dark in order to reach the joy of a fresh new start, and that’s exactly what this Solar Eclipse offers.
The Scorpionic themes of death and rebirth are not to be taken literally – here death refers to endings of all kinds; the endings that periodically occur for all of us during life’s great cycles.
All Solar Eclipses are also New Moons – so they bring us beginnings, albeit beginnings that often seem to be surprising, shocking, or out of the blue. The new beginning will follow the ending, so any pain will soon give way to hope.
This Eclipse asks us what needs to change in our lives – specifically, what needs to end – and it empowers us to make those transformative changes.
The Eclipse is conjunct Venus, so it will likely have its biggest impact on our relationships or money – or both!
You may face drama in one of these areas of your life, but that drama will be the catalyst you need to create positive change.
The conjunction with Venus also teaches us something else important – that whatever upheaval the Eclipse may bring, love can make it better.
There is nothing that can happen in life that cannot be healed by love.
So we are encouraged to be kind to ourselves during this process and to look out for those around us too. Don’t judge yourself too harshly and try to give others the benefit of the doubt.
Overall then, this week’s Solar Eclipse is an opportunity for change.
Don’t expect the change to necessarily be easy.
Because Scorpion energy feels everything very intensely.
But once the dust settles, seize this chance to make dramatic changes in your life – the Eclipse will show you where they are most needed.
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