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The Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024

The Art of Being

Eclipses involve the eternal dance the relationship between personal
between The Sun (Divine Masculine), identity and sense of self (Aries) and

which “shines light” on things, the reflections we choose to support
facilitating conscious awareness, and and further grow that Self (Libra). The
The Moon (Divine Feminine), which first half of the year will be under the

holds and stores our unconscious beliefs, influence of the very dramatic Total Solar
programs, and patterns of behavior based Eclipse of April 8, 2024, which joins

on our stored memories. Aligning forces with the North Node, Mercury,
with the transiting Nodes of the Moon, Chiron and Eris, all in the sign of Aries.
they occur across the same astrological This eclipse will be especially dynamic

house axis for about 1.5 years, heralding and potentially more transformative than
a “major house cleaning” of the areas of usual, especially in the United States,

life ruled by that axis. A 19-year cycle, which falls in the shadow of the eclipse.
this same eclipse pattern occurred in The eclipse also joins the natal Chiron
2005 and 1986, by day and degree, so, return and forms a challenging aspect to

for the sake of comparison, the same the Cancer stellium in the chart of the
energy dynamic is in play this year. U.S. Many nations, including America,

Eclipses serve as an “evolutionary report are in the throes of a major “identity
card”. Although the pattern repeats, crisis” right now, with core principles
the experiences we create to test it are and current leadership being questioned

different, and, being “older and wiser”, and challenged, both internally and
we will respond to those experiences externally. For the ancients, eclipses

differently, with a higher level of heralded “the rise and fall of kings and
consciousness and maturity. kingdoms”, especially in those lands
falling in the shadow of the eclipse.

The solar eclipses this year will occur
across the Aries-Libra axis, emphasizing On the global front, Martian energy will

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