Between Shadows and Light: The Impact of Eclipses on Your Chart

Ever wondered how solar and lunar eclipses can shake up your astrological chart? Brace yourself for a cosmic journey as we unravel the mysteries of the upcoming eclipses on October 14th and 28th, 2023. We uncover how these celestial events, occurring at 21 degrees Libra and 5 degrees Taurus, may significantly impact you, particularly if these positions align with any planets or placements in your personal astrology. We also reveal the exact times these phenomena will be visible in the mountain time zone, connecting the dots to the fascinating historical beliefs surrounding eclipses. 

Our exploration doesn't stop there. We dive into diverse cultural practices and traditions associated with these celestial events. You'll hear firsthand about an enlightening experience at a full moon fire ceremony at a Hindu temple. Here, we learned that eclipses are a time for rest, fasting, and family bonding, and certain activities are best avoided during this period. We discuss how the distorted light of the eclipse can impact our intentions and manifestation work. Join us as we challenge the scientific explanations that have stripped away some of the mystery and magic of eclipses, inviting you to view these events with a fresh sense of awe and wonder.

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Episode Transcript

Bootes (00:01):
Hello and welcome to Astrology AF, and today we are
going to be talking abouteclipses because we have one
coming up.

Sunny (00:11):
We do.
We do.
We have a pair of them.
Eclipses come as a pair, asolar and a lunar, or a lunar
and a solar, depending, so butthe next one coming up is
October 14th of 2023, just incase you're listening to this in

(00:32):
the far distant future.
So the one in the one on the14th is at 21 degrees C, and so
I always recommend to peoplethey look at their own chart any
planets at or near, or anypoints placements at or near 21

(00:59):
degrees Libra, because if you dothat's, this is going to be a
more significant event for you.
And Boots, you said you had thetime for this event, which I
did not have.

Bootes (01:12):
Yeah, specifically for I only have the time for when
it's going to be happening inDenver and that will be from 9
14 am up until 12 06 pm.
So 9 14 am to 12 06 pm.
We got about three hours inthere it goes.

(01:34):
Maximum visibility is at 10, 36and 11 seconds am on Saturday,
the 14th.

Sunny (01:43):
Okay, and that is a mountain daylight time, right?
Are we still on daylight?

Bootes (01:49):
Correct, yeah, mountain daylight time.

Sunny (01:51):
The mountain time zone, so if you're in a different time
zone, you'll need to adjustaccordingly.
Let's go ahead and complete theseries.
Let's talk about the nexteclipse, and then I wanna talk
more about just eclipses ingeneral.
The next one is on the 28th, soexactly two weeks after the

(02:17):
first one, and that one istaking place at five degrees
toaurus.

Bootes (02:25):
It won't be visible because that's the earth being
between the sun and the moon,correct?

Sunny (02:32):
True, true, true, these are the last eclipses of 2023.
There were two others they werein April and May I believe but
these two kind of complete theyear of eclipses.
And there's I wanted to talkabout eclipses in sort of a meta

(03:00):
kind of way.
Eclipses are the oldestastrology because they are the
most obvious, visible.
You're walking around doingyour thing during the day and
all of a sudden it gets dark.

(03:21):
That's a pretty obvious sign,you know.
And so the first, the very mostancient astrology, was around
eclipses, and what it came to beassociated with was the death

(03:43):
of a king.
So much so that kings inancient times would step down
and nominate some dude and hewould be king, because during

(04:04):
that eclipse, if the king neededto be killed, according to the
universe, the original kingwould rather this dude take the
brunt.
So this guy who you know, of noimportance, and all of a sudden

(04:28):
he gets to eat the king's finefood and sleep in the king's
fine sheets for a little while,and you know, if he survives,
then he gets.
He gets booted out later.
But it was so pervasive thatthe kings went to these kinds of

(04:51):
lengths to protect themselves,to protect their own, their own
life.

Bootes (04:59):
Right.

Sunny (04:59):
Okay, right, and the point is eclipses are generally
not have almost never been seenas benevolent, as you know, safe
and fun and things that youwould want to invite that energy

(05:27):
into your life.
It's more something that youshould hide from and try to
prevent, not that you canprevent the eclipse, but prevent
the ramifications of theeclipse from touching you.

Bootes (05:47):
Yeah, right, because you want to be able to kind of let
the air out of that balloon onyour own terms or just avoid it
altogether, if you can.

Sunny (05:58):
Right, right, and you were saying something, you were
mentioning something about aceremony that you went to and
they were talking about this.

Bootes (06:07):
Yeah.
So I had the really coolopportunity to attend a full
moon fire ceremony at a Hindutemple with a friend of mine and
he's actually kind of myteacher as well.
It was really interesting.
They were talking about howthis moon precedes the upcoming

(06:31):
eclipse and kind of what theirtraditions for what to do around
an eclipse involves.
And actually it involves moreof a not doing things, it
involves an avoidance of someactivities.
Specifically, what the hostesswas mentioning was that it's

(06:58):
better not to plan any travelDuring this time, to kind of
stay inside and make it a day ofrest, and that it's a really
good time for fasting as well asjust like spending time with
family at home, making it a daywhere you don't try to do much,

(07:19):
because the less you do, theless that can get messed up by
an eclipse.
And they were talking about howmy teacher was talking about
how the light becomes distortedat the time of the eclipse and

(07:40):
so it's just things can go kindof haywire.
Normally a lot of us will tryto make a new moon a time of
setting intentions formanifestation and that sort of
thing, but that around aneclipse you kind of got to be
really careful with stuff likethat, because things might not

(08:05):
be quite as straightforward asyou would normally want them to
be with the working that you'redoing.
I looked a little bit furtheronline and one source was
talking about, in addition toavoiding travel, avoid business
dealings during the eclipse.

(08:27):
And here in the West, andprobably a lot of places in the
world, I know, I have personallyenjoyed the activity of putting
on the glasses the specialultra-protective glasses and
going out to look at the eclipseand to watch the moon come in

(08:47):
between you and the sun, andthat is actually something that
at least this source in Vedictradition was saying is a bad
idea.
That is not a good thing to gointo.
You don't want this light onyou.
You don't want to go so far asto stay inside and close your
curtains because you don't wantthis getting on you.

(09:10):
They talked about bathingbeforehand and bathing
afterwards in order to cleanseyour energy with water, because,
again, you don't want thissticking around.
You don't want this on you, andit really traces back to that
very old tradition inunderstanding that eclipse

(09:33):
energy was the light of lifebeing eaten up by some
mysterious black spot in the sky.
I assume that most of themprobably understood that it was
the moon.
But if I was, you know, farmerJoe out, you know, tending my

(09:53):
wheat or my cows or whatever,and there was just a black spot
coming over the sun, I wouldn'tgo.
Oh hey, that's probably justthe moon.
I'd be like you know, I'd freakout probably.
So they talked about how fastingis a good idea during this
event, and the source that Ifound was saying that food

(10:19):
that's been like, prepared andmade before the eclipse, you
should just toss it out, don'teat it, don't eat or drink
during the eclipse and makefresh food to eat after this has
occurred.
So it was suggesting that forthis fasting period, do it for

(10:40):
the entire thing like that.
You know, for us it'd be 914 to1206.
Don't eat or don't drink duringthat time.
Obviously, I'm not saying thatpeople should do this.
This is just the Avedictradition, eastern Hindu
tradition, that I was made awareof.

(11:01):
Now, some good things that canbe done during this period.
They were saying that prayersoffered through the eclipse are
extra potent and, in thetradition of where karma is
involved, that charity performedduring this time has extra

(11:25):
merit and extra good karmaassociated with it.
So there are some good thingsthat you could do.
They also got into mantras thatcan be repeated throughout the
time of the eclipse andparticular deities from the
Vedic tradition that can beprayed to through this.

(11:45):
But for myself, I think I'mgoing to try and Fasting is just
a good thing to do practice alittle bit of self-control.
I'm going to fast through itand just be praying and trying
to think good things and thebenefits that I want to happen

(12:08):
to the world.
Maybe make some onlinedonations to the largest
healthcare provider in theUnited States.
Go fund me.
That's the one.
So yeah, those were someinteresting Eastern traditions

(12:32):
around eclipses that I thoughtwould be really fun to share.

Sunny (12:37):
I love that, and there's a lot of things that really they
do.
They go a little farther thanmost of the traditions I've
learned from, but they sync upvery nicely Because, yeah, it's

(12:58):
not a manifesting thing.
And that brings me to the pointthat I wanted to make in this
podcast, which is that mysteryand magic are, I think, missing

(13:22):
in our culture.
So don't get me wrong, I amvery pro-science, but science
has taken away the mystery andmagic of eclipses.
If we go back, if we cast ourminds back 3000 years and that

(13:48):
was before science, that wasbefore people could really
explain this phenomenon whathappened and you alluded to this
about your, your farmer, joe,or whatever what there would be
these stories that would be toldabout what would happen, and

(14:10):
you know it would be a turtlewas eating the sun or a frog, or
yeah, just all kinds ofwhatever.
Whatever caught theirimagination.
And what has happened now is andagain, I love science the fact

(14:35):
that we all understand thescience of eclipses, that it's
it's the earth coming in betweenthe sun and the moon or it's
the moon coming in between, youknow it takes away that those

(14:56):
stories seem quite and almostdumb.
You know we're, we're losing.
We've lost, I think, theability to kind of put ourselves
in that ancient mindset, inthat primal what is this, you

(15:27):
know?
And and just experience it.
Because what, what we do now iswe don't experience it.
We just go into our littledatabase in our brain and go oh,
I know what this is.
It's an eclipse, boom and ofend of topic.

(15:47):
Move on and go back to what Iwas doing at work.

Bootes (15:51):
Right, right.
And it makes it so much morefun to or, you know, it adds a
lot of depth to everyday lifewhen these things that come
around, you know, like a clipsets, come around, sometimes
twice a year, to make somethingof it, to acknowledge it, to

(16:15):
have some sort of ritual orceremony, or even if it's just
that you know you internalizesomething around that it adds a
little bit more to theexperience of life, to the lore
of the giant real time, multimillion people, you know, rpg,

(16:40):
that we're all here playing allthe time.
It just makes it moreinteresting if you get into the
lore a little bit and if youacknowledge the specialness of
special things.

Sunny (16:53):
Yeah, and it, you know it doesn't and it doesn't have to
be a big thing.
I mean I did not, I'd neverheard about.
Don't go out so much.
And because my, my prescriptionfor for eclipses is go to my
sacred space, my sacred place,wherever that is.

(17:16):
For many people that is anindoor place If it happens to be
outdoors, like mine is, youknow, I guess I get to decide
which, which one I want tofollow more.
But go, you know.
So go to that space and, justyou know, meditate, pray those

(17:40):
are great things to do and stareat the, stare at the
surroundings.
You know the sky, but don'tlook at the solar eclipses
without protection.
But but, you know, take, letthat be a time apart and spend a

(18:06):
little time thinking about whatthe ancient people would have
thought of this, what ourancestors would have been saying
to themselves about what'shappening.

Bootes (18:22):
Right, and something that I'm thinking of now is that
in the world we live in today,at least in my corner of it,
shadow work is all the rage, andI mean this is about the
biggest shadow you canexperience physically speaking.

(18:43):
So, in that sense of you know,making it a time of inner work
and of prayer, and whatever formthat takes for you, it is maybe
a good time to get down insideof yourself, whether that's in
your special outdoor sacredplace or just in your bedroom,

(19:07):
you know.
Wherever it may be, it is agood time to look inward.

Sunny (19:13):
Yes, yes, yeah.
And what a beautiful symbolism.
Exactly, shadow work under theshadow.

Bootes (19:20):
Yeah.

Sunny (19:23):
So yeah, I would just invite anybody who's listening
to this to enter into the spaceof the eclipses a little bit
differently, to allow back insome mystery and some magic.
Do it, Do it?

(19:46):
Ah well, if anybody else has.

Bootes (19:52):
If you have a tradition that you like to do around
eclipses, we would love to hearit.
Please share with us down inthe comments, on whatever
respective platform you'relistening on, and let us know,
because I am very curious aboutwhat more traditions that people

(20:12):
have around eclipses.
I'm fairly new to doinganything super special around
them, so I'd love to hear moreof what other people have to say
and what their experience hasbeen.

Sunny (20:24):
Yeah, and if you decide to do something and you have an
experience or you have anepiphany or whatever you know
comment that we would love toknow, we would love to have that
conversation with you.
Well, thanks for joining ustoday.

Bootes (20:47):
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