Libra Annular Solar Eclipse
Winds of Change
Luna pokes her fickle fingers of fate through swirling dense clouds. Provoking the winds of change, she tickles the dragon's tail with her highly glossed, black-polished nails. “One last time in the sign of Libra,” she croons while Ketu, her South Node, disturbs the airwaves.
Determined to release tattered remnants of undesirable relationship patterns, there’s a now-or-never cardinal feeling in the muted sky. After this eclipse, Luna won’t obscure Sol’s light in Libra again until September 2033 with the North Node and October 2042 with the South Node.
The New Moon perfects on October 2 at 11:49 am PT (your time), a shift-shaping annular solar eclipse visible in Chile and Argentina and viewed as a partial solar eclipse in Hawaii.
What house does Libra occupy in your chart? Significant opportunities to shatter the glass ceiling and rise to new heights of “we-ness” are available. As South Node eclipses denote discharge, it’s time to close out this chapter of your life and bring forth new possibilities signified in your Libra house. If you have planets close to 10 degrees of any of the cardinal signs—Aries, Libra, Cancer, or Capricorn—you may feel the impact of this eclipse more acutely.
A slight orange glow borders Luna’s perimeter. Probing beneath conscious awareness, she summons her wise knowing, a receptive intuitive embrace to release outsourced familial and social programming that blocks healthy connection. Sol, meanwhile, surrenders power for a brief but spectacular time. Rays of egoic particles dissipate, allowing us to transmute the tendency to transgress our needs and feign coherence with others. “It’s time for restorative justice,” Luna whispers. “Can we rebalance the scales of reciprocity?”
Be open to the internal voices asking you to confront habits that create disparity in your closest bonds. Breaking entrenched patterns is never easy, especially when they provide a pseudo safety net, but the stars are in your favor. What needs to change to create harmonious, equitable unions and agreements?
Venus, Libra’s ruler, is deeply embedded in Scorpio's affairs where she feels the sting of exile. From high clouds to the watery realms, Luna holds her breath as she pushes through layers of conformity and expectation. Together, these powerful feminine deities are on a mission to expose toxic fear, shame, and resentments that keep us from living and loving fully.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi
Aphrodite is not alone in this eclipse journey. Follow her deep-sea ripples applying to Mars in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces, down, down to the jagged bottom. There, hidden beneath the crab's hard shell, may be unresolved core issues—family karma that affects how we protect, nurture, trust, give, and receive. Cosmic omens amplify fossilized feelings and default reactions that slosh at the roots of our emotional well-being, especially as they relate to women, mothers, sisters, and the body.
A grand trine (by whole sign house) between these inner planets invites us to swim in the emotional waters of self-regulation. When we can soothe ourselves and care for our tender hearts, we can more readily co-regulate with others in a responsible, mature manner. Heed Saturn’s mandate by realizing good boundaries.
Flying atop a personal drone, Our Lady of Mediation, Luna, also squares a debilitated Mars. From 10,000’, she can see the challenge of rising above the old stories of right and wrong. Using her best diplomatic skills, she invokes softer, more skillful ways to confront the hard things. The greater the desire to transcend, the stronger the pull toward self-protection. Seeing all sides, Luna thoughtfully responds with truthful vulnerability rather than reacting from triggers, directly or indirectly.
Close at hand, tilting the scales of justice from the deepest shadow to the brightest light, Mercury hovers just over one degree from the eclipse spectacle. Still orbiting under the beams of the Sun, he encourages Luna to weigh her options carefully, spatially, and with objectivity.
Rubbing the dark, chipped polish from her nails, Luna breathes surrender. New levels of intimacy and understanding are just a heartbeat away. Given the intensity of this time, it’s okay to polish the mirror for a while before landing vital communications or making big decisions.
Saffron once again offers a beautiful meditation for navigating this solar eclipse in Libra using the crystal Chiastolite.
Consider this:
This New Moon is a timekeeper on steroids. Way beyond the usual 29-day lunar cycle, you can play with different time-keeping increments to track the changes in your life. From October 2004 to March 2006, we experienced a similar eclipse season with the North Node in Aries and the South Node in Libra. You can also look to April 2023, when this eclipse season began in Aries, and last October, with a similar Libra solar eclipse.
Simply put, use this New Moon, the final eclipse in Libra for nearly two decades, to reflect on how you approach relationships differently. The intentions you set now will set a new course as the story continues. The South Node will remain in Libra until January 2025, and change is constant.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Neva Welton is a published author, editor, and co-founder of Astrum Opus. She combines her MA in Counseling Psychology with decades of esoteric and astrological studies to provide astro-counseling sessions. Neva also builds websites for solo entrepreneurs.
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Halle-LUNA! Such brilliant and beautiful invitations, Neva 🥰