Christmas present awaits us this year, although it’s in the sky
over our tree, rather than under it. At 12:35 pm EST, a partial
solar eclipse will occur at 4 degrees Capricorn. The idea of an
impending eclipse provokes an uncomfortable response in the
public imagination, a response perhaps rooted in our ancestors’
fear of this cyclical darkening of the light. After all,
watching the Sun or the Moon burn out like an old bulb, even if
it’s only temporary, just doesn’t seem to bode very well.
Perhaps a better understanding of what is really taking place in
eclipses can help us to see the promise and potential in them.
changed in astrology and astronomy over the millennia, but
perhaps nothing was more earthshaking among sky watchers than
the Copernican revolution. In advancing the same notions that
got Gallileo arrested, Copernicus knocked us Earthlings and our
presumption off our throne at the center of the solar system and
put the Sun back in its rightful place. Still, modern astrology
continues to operate with