Eclipses don’t just happen in the sky as one-time events. As Bernadette Brady points out, “Each eclipse is a member of a family and each family has characteristics. They belong to larger patterns called Saros cycles and those cycles have a beginning and therefore a graph for the moment of this beginning, the first. eclipse”. This entire cycle can take more than 1,200 years to unfold, producing eclipses once every 18 years. We must bear in mind that eclipses always come in pairs. After the first of the pair occurs, the next occurs approximately two weeks later.

There are many Saros cycles running at the same time, so we have two to four solar eclipses a year, but these individual eclipses that occur in any one year will come from different families, different Saros Series. For example, the cycle that produced the eclipse on Monday, March 19, 2007 began in 1664 and has also produced eclipses on the following dates in the following degrees of the zodiac:

February 1971 – 6 Pisces –

March 1989 – 17 Pisces –

March 2007 – 28 Pisces –

This solar eclipse is known as Saros Series 9 New North (Jansky system of naming eclipses) and on March 19, 2007 it occurred at 28 degrees Pisces. So take a look at your chart and see if you have anything in the late mutable grades. If so, it will have had a much more personalized meaning for you, as you would have been actively involved with an issue or problem that you were running on in your life.

The Saros Series 9 New North natal chart, born on August 21, 1664, has a Venus-Mercury conjunction at the midpoint of Mars / Pluto and Mars at the midpoint of Uranus / Pluto in your natal chart. Therefore, this entire series has a strong physical component in its expression. This can range from wrestling with a new sport or your first yoga class to minor accidents, so if you are considering a topic on your chart, then perhaps you considered how you could use that energy more positively.

Another example is the very recent annular solar eclipse on February 7, 2008 at 18 degrees Aquarius in Saros Series 10 North and the total lunar eclipse on February 21, 2008 at 2 degrees Virgo.

Bernadette Brady, in her book on Predictive Astrology, says of this Eclipse series that there is a strong emphasis on communication. Although setbacks can occur with frustrations and restrictions. Energy is generally low and depleted, so it is a good time to take life easy and not take too many things at once.

The effects of any eclipse usually last for about six months or so. But they can also be felt about a month before it occurs.