The partial solar eclipse of January 14, 2029

Greatest eclipse is at January 14, 2029, 5:12 PM in your zone, with the Sun and Moon at 24°49′ Capricorn, near the North Node. It is visible from Partial only (no totality anywhere on Earth). Visible from northern North America, Greenland, north Atlantic.

What a partial solar eclipse is

The Sun with a bite taken out of it, and most of the world not looking up.

In a partial solar eclipse the Moon covers part of the Sun and never the whole; the umbra misses the Earth entirely and only the penumbra touches it. Depending on where one stands the bite may be a sliver or nearly everything. Astrologers read the partial eclipse as a lighter touch of the same season, weighted by the percentage covered, and tend to give it the sign and degree without the drama.

The reading

A partial solar in late Capricorn—the Sun briefly scored but never fully taken, visible only in the far north. Someone inside you has become a keeper of patterns: you know, now, the difference between a thing woven carefully over years and a thing mass-made. The eclipse is asking what in your life is the first and what is the second—and whether it is time to invest differently. What earns its place on the shelf of discipline is what will still be there in twenty years.

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 24°49′ Capricorn, the degree whose image is a merchant in a small lit-up shop offering rare and patterned things from a tradition far older than the city around it. 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.

The image for 24°49′ Capricorn

24°49′ Capricorn, the twenty-fifth degree. A merchant in a small lit-up shop offering rare and patterned things from a tradition far older than the city around it.

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Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.

Times are shown in your time zone (UTC).

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