Solar eclipse in Libra - 3 November 2013

The solar eclipse on 3rd November 2013 is the second one we have this year and in the sign of Libra, the Sun and Moon are joined by retrograde Mercury and exalted Saturn. As opposed to a lunar eclipse which often brings things to a dramatic peak or even end, the solar eclipse is a new beginning. It can be equally as intense as the lunar eclipse but this time around, we often already see the light at the end of the tunnel – or at least have a feeling that things are beginning to turn around. That’s the other thing with the solar eclipse – we start something new, possibly due to outside influences and we make choices based on what came out into the open two weeks earlier during the lunar eclipse but we don’t quite see where we are headed next. Whatever is beginning now starts to emerge and eventually come to its own natural end over the next 2-and-a-bit years. I often include these Moon cycles in my forecasts and as this new Moon is a solar eclipse at the same time, the first quarter Moon on 4th August 2014, the full Moon on 4th May 2015 and the last quarter Moon on 1st Feb 2016 will be important trigger points in what’s beginning to unfold now. How this affects us individually depends on which are of your chart the eclipse falls in, which houses in your chart are ruled by the Sun and Moon and which other planets are aspecting the eclipse – a lot to look at.

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