Learn Astrology with Mary English
Aug 23, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
This week we arewalking through what Solar Eclipses mean in your chart. Interpreting The Eclipses by Robert Carl Sansky https://amzn.to/4zApoBr This link will show you ALL…
Mary EnglishHost
Now I'm going to start quoting from The Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow, Volume 4 by Marion D.
We're not doing lunas, right? Lunations and eclipses are excellent tools for timing of events.
If you see a Mars square Saturn by either secondary progression or solar arc direction, you know that this aspect is effective for about one year in the life of the person.
How do you know when it may be activated? As explained in lesson 7 transits on page 73 you now realise that a transit may activate the aspect but it may also be triggered by a lunation or eclipse.
An eclipse is the partial or total obscuring of one celestial body by the shadow of another.
This only happens at the time of a new moon, when the sun and the moon are conjunct.
The position of the solar eclipse coincides with the placement of the sun on the day and the hour it takes place.
Now, she says, Robert Jensky's excellent book Interpreting the Eclipses gives more vital information.
In simple terms, not only must the sun and moon be conjunct or opposed, but both bodies must be conjunct one solar or both lunar of the moon's nodes.
For a total solar eclipse to occur, the sun and moon may not deviate more than 9 degrees 55 from the moon's nodal point.
It can, but does not always occur when the orb is between 9.55 and 11 degrees and 15 minutes.
Ancient astrologers felt that an eclipse conjuncting a natal planet was a harbinger of great evil and only occasionally a good event.
Ten years of ongoing experience and investigation have not proven us that this is so.
After all, an eclipse is still a lunation, but neither one activates an event unless that event is clearly suggested by other things in the chart, such as progressions, directions or transits.
If the degree of an eclipse or lunation conjuncts a planet in the chart, It activates that planet, yet the activation may be somewhat dormant until a transit crosses that same point later.
We've not really found that eclipses have much significance and feel they're more or less, no more or less potent than lunations.
Our theory about lunations and eclipses is that they put a spotlight on the house of the natal chart where they occur, thus highlighting the affairs of that house.
Now I'm going to start quoting from The Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow, Volume 4 by Marion D.
We're not doing lunas, right? Lunations and eclipses are excellent tools for timing of events.
If you see a Mars square Saturn by either secondary progression or solar arc direction, you know that this aspect is effective for about one year in the life of the person.
How do you know when it may be activated? As explained in lesson 7 transits on page 73 you now realise that a transit may activate the aspect but it may also be triggered by a lunation or eclipse.
An eclipse is the partial or total obscuring of one celestial body by the shadow of another.
This only happens at the time of a new moon, when the sun and the moon are conjunct.
The position of the solar eclipse coincides with the placement of the sun on the day and the hour it takes place.
Now, she says, Robert Jensky's excellent book Interpreting the Eclipses gives more vital information.
In simple terms, not only must the sun and moon be conjunct or opposed, but both bodies must be conjunct one solar or both lunar of the moon's nodes.
For a total solar eclipse to occur, the sun and moon may not deviate more than 9 degrees 55 from the moon's nodal point.
It can, but does not always occur when the orb is between 9.55 and 11 degrees and 15 minutes.
Ancient astrologers felt that an eclipse conjuncting a natal planet was a harbinger of great evil and only occasionally a good event.
Ten years of ongoing experience and investigation have not proven us that this is so.
After all, an eclipse is still a lunation, but neither one activates an event unless that event is clearly suggested by other things in the chart, such as progressions, directions or transits.
If the degree of an eclipse or lunation conjuncts a planet in the chart, It activates that planet, yet the activation may be somewhat dormant until a transit crosses that same point later.
We've not really found that eclipses have much significance and feel they're more or less, no more or less potent than lunations.
Our theory about lunations and eclipses is that they put a spotlight on the house of the natal chart where they occur, thus highlighting the affairs of that house.
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