Greatest eclipse is at February 6, 3:59 PM in your zone, with the Sun and Moon at 17°37′ Aquarius, near the North Node, 86 percent covered. Where it can be seen: annular path: southern South America, southern Atlantic. Partial: Africa, Antarctica, South America.
The Moon is too far away to finish the job, and leaves a ring of fire in the sky.
In an annular solar eclipse the Moon passes directly across the Sun but is near the far point of her orbit, so she is not quite large enough to cover it. A bright ring, the annulus, is left around her dark disk. The day does not go dark, and the ring is never safe to look at without protection. Astrologers read the annular eclipse as a total eclipse with the center left open, a beginning that shows its shape but not yet its substance.
A ring of fire in mid-Aquarius—the Sun hollowed to a bright circle, the cool current carrying the new through a dark center. What has been quietly masked in one of your systems—a motive, a default, a kind-seeming habit—is being asked to set the mask down. It is a good thing to ask, even when there is no one yet to answer. The future that is pulling forward does not want to be built on a hidden face.
An eclipse at the North Node: the Dragon’s Head, the mouth that swallows the light to make room for something.
This eclipse falls near the North Node, at 17°37′ Aquarius, the degree whose image is secret motives brought suddenly into public light. Astrologers read North Node eclipses as openings: what they bring is unfamiliar, sometimes unwanted, and pointed toward growth. The tradition treats the weeks after as a time when a door that was not there before is found to be standing open, and it does not promise that walking through will be comfortable.
17°37′ Aquarius, the eighteenth degree. Secret motives brought suddenly into public light.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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