{"id":21484,"date":"2017-08-17T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=21484"},"modified":"2017-08-17T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:57:14","slug":"what-astrologers-know-about-eclipses-that-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=21484","title":{"rendered":"What Astrologers Know About Eclipses That You Don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Change is coming, so what will you do about\u00a0it?<\/h2>\n

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\u00a0by\u00a0Donna Woodwell<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Total Solar Eclipse to oveshadow United States Aug. 21, 2017. Credit: Shutterstock.<\/h5>\n

Eclipse fever is seizing the United States. The nation has ringside seats for literally the \u201cGreatest Show on Earth\u201d\u200a\u2014\u200athe appropriately named \u201cGreat American Eclipse<\/a>\u201d on Aug. 21, 2017.<\/p>\n

Right now, the news is filled with viewing tips and advice for avoiding traffic jams during what\u2019s slated to become the most-watched cosmic event in human history. Experts say 200 million Americans will be able to witness the eclipse at least in part, while perhaps a billion more will tune in online from around the world.<\/p>\n

But, as a former journalist turned professional astrologer, I want to share with you a secret: What astrologers see in an eclipse that you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

(I\u2019ll give you a hint. Astrology predicts massive changes for the U.S. And it also suggests what you can do about it.)<\/p>\n

So, astrology\u2026 really?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First, drop your perception of astrology as merely the mildly entertaining horoscopes you read on the Internet. Those have as much relationship to \u201cAstrology\u201d as fortune cookies have to \u201cChinese Philosophy\u201d (not that I have anything against horoscopes, or fortune cookies\u200a\u2014\u200aboth can be an art form!)<\/p>\n

Astrology is a vast and ancient art. Some form of astrology is practiced by many indigenous cultures around the world as they\u2019ve sought to discover meaningful connections in the appearance of events in the sky with humanity\u2019s more mundane world.<\/p>\n

Over the millennia, astrologers\u200a\u2014\u200athose who studied the heavens in order to interpret such cosmic signs\u200a\u2014\u200ahave devised numerous techniques to tease out the details of what a particular eclipse might mean for nations, their rulers and people.<\/p>\n

The Great American\u00a0Eclipse<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Today\u2019s astrologers are no different. They see this Aug. 21 \u201cGreat American Eclipse\u201d as the harbinger of a major turning point for the U.S.<\/p>\n

While astrologers may not be \u201cfreaking out\u201d (as\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0had it\u00a0in the original title of their recent article<\/a>), they are watching closely as events unfold.<\/p>\n

But how exactly do astrologers interpret events such as eclipses? How does a physical event take on a meta-physical meaning?<\/p>\n

Put succinctly: in astrology\u2019s astro-logic what happens \u201cabove\u201d (in the heavens) is like (qualitatively similar to) what happens \u201cbelow\u201d (in the realm of kickable objects). So what it \u201clooks like\u201d in the sky becomes a metaphor for how it might play out in the course of human events.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s use the Great American Eclipse as an example of how this works.<\/p>\n

Location, Location, Location<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First, the location from which an eclipse is visible indicates the areas of the world ripe for changes in society, cultures or leadership.<\/p>\n

(There\u2019s a reason why ancient kings and emperors beheaded astrologers who failed to predict eclipses\u200a\u2014\u200athey wanted fair warning for threats to the country or their authority.)<\/p>\n

Of course, the \u201cGreat American Eclipse\u201d puts the U.S. in the crosshairs of change.Path of totality of the Aug. 21 \u201cGreat American Eclipse.\u201d Credit:\u00a0NASA.<\/h5>\n

It\u2019s the first total solar eclipse to be visible coast-to-coast across the U.S. in nearly 100 years; the last time was in June 1918. Another pivotal year in U.S. history, 1918 saw a dramatic increase in the size of the U.S. government and armed forces, as the nation sent the first major deployment of troops overseas in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The Aug. 21 eclipse is also the first total solar eclipse to be visible in totality\u00a0only<\/strong>\u00a0from the U.S. since the nation was founded in 1776.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGreat American Eclipse\u201d certainly fits its name.<\/p>\n

Symbolism of Saros\u00a0145<\/strong><\/h4>\n

No eclipse stands alone. All are part of a larger family of eclipses, called a Saros series.<\/p>\n

Each Saros series begins at either the north or south pole. Then over the next 1,300 years, it develops from partial to total as it moves toward the equator, then dwindles back to partial as it ends at the opposite pole.<\/p>\n

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Saros 145 evolves over 1300 years.Watch closely and you\u2019ll catch the Great American\u00a0Eclipse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Great American Eclipse is part of Saros series 145. So, to get sense of how August\u2019s eclipse may play out, astrologers look to past events in the series. For example.<\/p>\n