2008 Eclipses

Here is the data for the coming year. I've attached charts, Solar at the location of greatest eclipse, Lunar at my location.

Annular Solar Eclipse February 7, 2008 3:08:52 UT, Greatest eclipse 3:55:05 UT.
Begin 3:20 UT, end 4:31 UT
Location 64S34.6', 150W34.2
Saros Series 121 60th eclipse
First Eclipse = 0944 Apr 25 10:56:13 TD
Last Eclipse = 2206 Jun 07 15:05:59 TD
17Aquarius45 9th house
Visible in Antarctica and southern regions of the Pacific Ocean. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much larger path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the southeastern third of Australia, all of New Zealand and most of Antarctica.
Duration 1 hour 11 minutes, influence lasting roughly 1 year 2 months.
Past eclipses of this series: Jan 5, 1954 02:32:01 UT 79.1S 120.8W 14Cap
Jan. 16, 1972 11:03:22 UT 74.9S 107.7E 25Cap
Jan. 26, 1990 19:31:24 UT 71.0S 22.2W 6Aq

Total Lunar eclipse February 21, 2008 3:26:05 UT
Saros Series 133 26th eclipse of 71.
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 00:36:35 UT 8:43 pm EST Feb. 20th
Partial Eclipse Begins: 01:43:19 UT
Total Eclipse Begins: 03:01:10 UT
Greatest Eclipse: 03:26:05 UT 10:26pm EST
Total Eclipse Ends: 03:50:57 UT
Partial Eclipse Ends: 05:08:47 UT
Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 06:15:39 UT 12:09am EST Feb. 21.
Moon 1Virgo52, Sun 1Pisces50 at greatest eclipse

Duration, 5 hours 51 minutes, influence lasting roughly 6 months.
Visible throughout most of the Americas as well as western Europe.
Past eclipses in this series: 1954 Jan 19 02:32UT 29Can/Cap
1972 Jan 30 10:53 UT 9Leo/Aq
1990 Feb 09 19:11 UT 21Leo/Aq

Total Solar Eclipse August 1, 2008 10:21:07 UT: Begin 9:23 UT, end 11:20 UT
latitude 65°N 39', longitude 72°E 18'
Saros Series 126 47th of 72
First Eclipse = 1179 Mar 10 07:39:51 TD
Last Eclipse = 2459 May 03 02:35:54 TD
Sun 9Leo32 at greatest eclipse

Duration 2 hours, influence lasting roughly 2 years.
The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China where it will end at sunset.
Past eclipses of this series: June 31, 1954 12:32:38 UT 60.5N 4.2E 8Can
July 10, 1972 19:46:38 UT 63.5N 94.2W 18Can
July 22, 1990 03:03:07 UT 65.2N 168.9E 29Can

Partial Lunar Eclipse August 16, 2008
Saros Series 138, the 29th of 83
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 18:24:49 UT
Partial Eclipse Begins: 19:36:07 UT
Greatest Eclipse: 21:10:09 UT
Partial Eclipse Ends: 22:44:16 UT
Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 23:55:25 UT
Moon 24Aquarius 18 Sun 24Leo21 9th house at greatest eclipse
It is visible primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere as well as eastern South America.
Duration 3 hours 8 minutes with influence for a little over 3 months.
Previous eclipses in this series: 1954 Jul 16 00:20 UT 22Cap57/Can
1972 Jul 26 07:16 UT 3Aq/Leo
1990 Aug 06 14:12 UT 16Aq/Leo

Thank you very much for this information and the charts, AquarianEssence!!!


Carole

You're quite welcome Carole. I'm hoping you and others will post observations of how the eclipse themes have repeated. I'm repeating my prenatal eclipses in August and next week's is conjunct my descendant. When this one occured in 1954 my mother would just be gaining full realization that she was pregnant for the first time, about 2 months along.

The symbols by various authors for this eclipse degree is one that is secret motives, selfishness, bitterness or jealousy, lame legs or feet, isolation from friends and family, sensitivity to cold. That's funny because I have Reynauds, living in cold Michigan. My mother's name was Miriam, meaning bitter. She became very bitter and jealous when my dad left her alone on the night of my birth to go on his first date with my furture step mom.

One says this degree is involved with air quality, gas and gasoline. With it in the 9th, perhaps there will be issues with foreign oil imports or legislation concerning that, especially as it affects home heating and industry, since the eclipse is square the IC/MC at that location. But the positive would be to make gains in the developement of alternatvie energy sources. That would fit well with Aquarius and with Saturn in Virgo which rules corn and wheat. With Neptune so close perhaps there will be a real thrust for using grain alcohol. I know all the technology is there, it only needs the demand.