Eclipse today at 18'11 Gemini

Check out this site for a lot of information...good read.
http://www.astrologycom.com/eclipse.html#lunar

Note worthy is Mars square the nodes at 13 degrees and slowing due to an upcoming retrograde. It has been in its shadow phase since it reached the 3rd degree of Virgo.

Note where the eclipse falls in your chart.

This is a lunar eclipse with focus on women, family and home. Mercury is its ruler.

Note where mercury is in your chart. Mercury is currently in retrograde but slowing down to go direct on the 14th. Very important to communication.

This is a south node eclipse or dragons tail eclipse and generally signals more saturnine qualities... culmination and release as it is a full moon.

Some melancholy, comfort zone impacted, this may be operating on a subconscious level. I know for me yesterday I went to the doctor as I had a fall at work the day before. My blood pressure was 150/100. I was advised to measure the pressure for a week. I recognized how stress and my emotional reaction to events is having a really bad effect. This may be a notice to change how I operate out of fear. Note too that the eclipse falls on my natal sun which square my natal moon. this full moon eclipse awakens very subconscious processes.

Note what planets and angles are with 3 degrees of a conjunction or opposition to 18'11 degrees Gemini. Note houses the eclipse is in as this is what will be impacted as well as traditional meanings of the planets it aspects.

gemini59 said:

Check out this site for a lot of information...good read.
http://www.astrologycom.com/eclipse.html#lunar

Note worthy is Mars square the nodes at 13 degrees and slowing due to an upcoming retrograde. It has been in its shadow phase since it reached the 3rd degree of Virgo.

Note where the eclipse falls in your chart.

This is a lunar eclipse with focus on women, family and home. Mercury is its ruler.

Note where mercury is in your chart. Mercury is currently in retrograde but slowing down to go direct on the 14th. Very important to communication.

This is a south node eclipse or dragons tail eclipse and generally signals more saturnine qualities... culmination and release as it is a full moon.

Some melancholy, comfort zone impacted, this may be operating on a subconscious level. I know for me yesterday I went to the doctor as I had a fall at work the day before. My blood pressure was 150/100. I was advised to measure the pressure for a week. I recognized how stress and my emotional reaction to events is having a really bad effect. This may be a notice to change how I operate out of fear. Note too that the eclipse falls on my natal sun which square my natal moon. this full moon eclipse awakens very subconscious processes.

Note what planets and angles are with 3 degrees of a conjunction or opposition to 18'11 degrees Gemini. Note houses the eclipse is in as this is what will be impacted as well as traditional meanings of the planets it aspects.

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Thank you for the info! This eclipse falls in my 4th house, 4 degrees away from my Neptune. I have been thinking A LOT lately about changing certain habits and addressing what is at the "root" of my life.

I know I am late in responding. darn.

This Lunar Eclipse in Gemini fell in my 4th house, opposing my Midheaven and conjuncting my Chiron, trining my Sun in Aquarius, and opposing my Mars in Sagittarius. The Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius at 3 degress fell in my 9th house, squaring my ASC (29 degrees Aquarius) and trining my Venus in Aries.

What do I get out of this? Since the Lunar Eclipse was ruled by Mercury, and Mercury was doing this to my planets, I guess I would be communicating pretty effectively here-- the square to my ASC could possibly be me questioning my true outlook on my life; how I saw myself and how my being affected by this releasing period changes my self-image--and the trine to Venus making me more comfortable in expressing my feelings.

Which leads to the Gemini eclipse in the 4th house conjunct Chiron. Since it opposed my Mars, I was coming from a place of anger and resentment--in fact, I had so much tension built, that I needed a release, and my natal Mars allowed me to do so. Natal Chiron in the 4th is usual for an unstable upbringing and home life--a wound inflicted upon me at birth, that I use to my advantage in helping others.

Lunar eclipses are about release, and now thinking about this in hindsight is sure interesting. I didn't know at the time there was an eclipse, but after talking with a good friend of mine about our dads (An Aries sun with a Cancer rising), I suddenly became very angry and I just wanted to let it all go. After I got off the phone with him (Mercury and Gemini ruling communications), I sat down and wrote a a three page letter to my dad about how his behavior affected me growing up. He had never shown me what a father was supposed to be--the kind that isn't overtly domineering, spiteful, and controlling--the kind that doesn't fault his first-born son for being born when he was only 24 (which is the age I'm about to turn this February)--the kind that doesn't emotionally abuse or harass his children.

Once I had written it all down, I felt SOOO much better! My resolve is that because he was never fit to be my father, I'm changing my last name (his biological inheritance) to my mother's maiden name. It will be a huge step towards self-healing for me.

I think that fits your eclipse experience to a T. Look at for sun and mars square to that point. Often the same energy will be rereleased.

Gemini59 your chart is a great example of Mercury retrograde linking in very clearly with the subject of this thread - ie - the lunar eclipse that just passed close to your Gemini Sun when transiting Mars had also just squared up to your natal Jupiter. Eclipses on their own are powerful and when combined with other transiting cycles, volatile events may be experienced, as you have shown
socrates asked:

socrates said:

What does this elipse means for Gemini ASC?
And worldwide? Im surprised there was no mention of it at skyscript

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JUPITERASC said:

one possible answer to your question socrates involves a GEMINI SUN in the 3rd house within orb of the total lunar eclipse that occurred just nine hours ago.

What is intriguing is that when gemini59's chart is looked at, the current Mercury Retrograde is clearly linked in with the total lunar eclipse so here's a link to the thread which also gives a link to the natal chart in question http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42721 “Mercury retrograde November 23rd”

gemini59 writes:

gemini59 said:

I am now a firm believer in the phases of a mercury retrograde cycle. And I wonder if it does not start prior.

My truck (mercury rules my third house) was totaled on Nov. 6th the day after Mercury went in to its shadow period.

Mercury goes direct station on monday and will retravel the path. Mercury will pass over the same spot it did when the original truck was totaled November 6th in the next few days

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gemini59 tells us that their truck was totaled on Nov 6th the day after Mercury went into its shadow period. Mercury was at 5 Sagittarius the day the truck was totaled. Also transiting Mars was just three degrees past and separating from an exact square to gemini59's natal Jupiter, (ruler of gemini59's 9th house and in which, five weeks after the truck was totaled, (Note that gemini59 describes the truck as having been 'totaled' and the eclipse in question is a total one) the transiting Sun opposed gemini59's natal sun at the time of the eclipse today on 10 December 2011and Mercury Retrograde has returned to the degree at which the truck was 'totaled'

Looking at the chart we find that gemini59's Sun is at 22 Gemini 28 which is within four degrees of the full moon total eclipse degree Moon 18Gemini/Sun 18 Sagittarius

Furthermore gemini59's Sun is located in the 3rd house so today's full moon total eclipse occurred on the 3rd/9th axis of this natal chart. Mercury, domicile ruler of the eclipse had at the time of the eclipse retrograded back to the exact degree it had occupied at the time the truck was totaled.

the foregoing events clearly show
(a) how eclipse effects can be triggered before as well as after the actual eclipse
(b) how Mercury Retrograde effects begin during the shadow period
(c) how in this case, Mercury Retrograde effects linked to transport and/or travel are clearly linked and/or combined with the effects of a total lunar eclipse occurring on a Mercury ruled Sun located in a Mercury ruled third house

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Related thread on 18 Gemini eclipse http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43367 and also thread on eclipse aspects

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43545

This was my experience from this eclipse.

When the moon was full at 18.11 degrees Gem. this eclipse was in conjunction with my natal Uranus almost to the minute. My natal Uranus is 18.15 and the progressed is 18.09.

In addition my progressed ascendant is sextile Uranus so the eclipse was sextile it.
My progressed sun is trine natal saturn.
As the eclipse was happening my progressed moon was forming a sextile to the progressed sun and natal saturn.

Transiting Uranus is sextile my sun.
Transiting Jupiter is square my sun.
Transiting Saturn is square mars.

How does this affect me - I have been fighting lyme disease for five years.

Uranus influence - I got a low level laser LED device that stimulates acupuncture points to increase endorphins which boosts the immune system.

Sun trine Saturn - My health is improving tremendously. I am capable of doing things I have not been able to accomplish for years.

Moons influence - this is happening right now. My family is also together. I am letting go of the tendency to need to direct everyone in an effort to take care of them. They are cooperating on their own.

Negative transits of Jupiter and mars - I had an infection surface that caused tremendous pain. I started drugs for it and it is now gone.

While the eclipse was happening I used the LED device to treat myself. I felt bathed in cosmic energy. I feel well for the first time in five years. This disease attacks the brain as well as the body. I can think more clearly and I am happier.

But that can change especially when my progressed Mars squares natal Uranus in June! Make the best of the moment and try to avert or minimize a set back.

Mini, what house is Uranus posited? This axis will have been stimulated by the eclipse.

Natal Uranus is in the fifth house.
Transiting uranus is in the second house.
Progressed moon just entered my fifth house. Maybe this has something to do with my adult children.

Natal Saturn is in the seventh house.
Progressed ascendant is in the third house.
Progressed sun is in the second.

With an eclipse to natal Uranus you should expect the unexpected.

Since it eclipsed in your fifth you might look for news pertaining to children, creative ventures, sports, hobbies.

This was a south node lunar eclipse which is more melancholic, low points, letting go of old emotional habits as this is a lunar event. Dragons tail is a comfort zone, and may be operating on a subconscious level.

Hope this helps.

As I was looking thru the US chart it can be noted the the eclipse landed on the nations mars. Mars in a nations chart represents armed forces, infection or weapons, heros, assertion. Odd that the south node eclipse came about the time that soldiers from the conflict in Iraq were coming home. This is release, culimination, lunar=home, melancholy/joy.