The moon's node is the path where it crosses the ecliptic or path of the sun. ![]() A new moon constituting a solar eclipse or a full moon constituting a lunar eclipse depends on how near the moon is to its node. The cycle is carried forward by approximately 10 degrees and an eclipse at the same degree of the same sign will occur every 651 years. The eclipse cycle is approximately 18 years when it will occur in the same sign of the zodiac. Eclipses are especially important when affecting the ascendant as this angle is representative of the general well-being. It may just be that the effect of an eclipse is to put some aspect of life into the dark while perhaps highlighting another area requiring attention. As in an eclipse astronomically, so in astrology the eclipse has the effect of overshadowing whatever planet or angle it comes into contact with. So it is that in astrology, eclipses falling conjunct or in opposition to a natal planet has been granted the potential for all sorts of catastrophes. They were regarded as being the portents of evil. ![]() Eclipses have long held great fear for the mortals of this earth.
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