An eclipse itself does not make events happen. Rather, it sets up “danger spots” on the astrological charts, so that when one of the major planets afterwards makes transit of the longitude of the eclipse, whether by conjunction or opposition, the signified event may happen.
Examples
Thus the eclipse of 17th April, 1912, which was the precursor of the Balkan War, took place in Aries 27. Now the planet Mars came to the opposition of that eclipse, that is to say longitude of the Sun, on 14th October, 1912, and on that very day war broke out at Adrianople. It is worthy of note that the eclipse line of apparition fell in latitude 43 degree North, and its longitude was 27 degree East of the equinox, which, measured from Greenwich, points exactly to the centre of outbreak, the Balkans. The war took its course, and came to an apparent end, but suddenly broke out again in June, 1913, on the very day Mars came to the place if the same eclipse in Aries 27.
From this we learn that eclipses, or the events signified by them, may remain in latency for many months, and are liable to spring into existence at such times as the major planets transit them. It further informs us that although certain physical effects due to the dynamic action of the luminaries on the earth, such as tidalwaves, earthquakes, and atmospheric phenomena, may take place immediately or very soon after the eclipse, yet there are other events which can only have a human interpretation, and these are indicated by the transits of the planets within certain limits of time from the date of the eclipse.
There is also the lunar eclipse of 12th March, 1914, as the Great War eclipse. This fell in Virgo 21. Its particular pointing I shall deal with in another section. What I would point out here is that this eclipse produced apparently no active results until Mars (here, as in every case, the special indicator of war and strife) passed over the 21st degree of the sign Virgo, which happened on 30th July, 1914, at which time Germany, Russia, and France were suddenly plunged into conflict, Great Britain joining issue in defence of Belgian neutrality, and as an ally of France and Russia, on 3rd August, by declaration of war against Germany. This may be regarded as a coincidence, but if so it should not be forgotten that coincidences make laws.
The transiting planet is not limited to Mars. A Solar Eclipse occurred on 10th June, 2002 at 19 Gemini 54. On June 20 2002 Saturn transited this point. 200 people lost their lives in an earthquake in Bou’in-Zahra, Iran. At least 261 people were killed and 1,500 more were injured. Most houses in the region were single-story masonry buildings, and virtually all of these collapsed. The public became angry due to the slow official response to victims who needed supplies. Residents of the town of Avaj resorted to throwing stones at the car of a government minister.
Note that this eclipse does not pass through Iran, instead it was miles away near Hawaii. The reason can be found by reference to the book “Earth in the Heavens” by Edward Johndro. For beginners Saturn was on the MC of the locality in question. Refer to page 29 of L. Jensens book “Astro-Cycles and speculative markets”
Location
When we find the eclipse taking place in any locality, and that place is also ruled by the sign of eclipse, the effects would be most assuredly felt in that part of the world. But an eclipse need not be visible in a country in order to produce disastrous effects therein, for if it happen in the ruling sign of that country, whether it be the meridian sign or the sign ascending, it will still bring about such disasters as are signified, that is to say, it will signal or portend them. Similarly it is sufficient that an eclipse is vertical without being in the ruling sign in order to produce marked effects. But this will appear on examination, namely, that when the eclipse falls in the meridian sign of a country or city the Government and rulers of that place are effected, whereas if it falls in the ascending sign, the people are principally affected. Also when it is visible in the zenith of a locality that part of the world suffers a series of physical ills, as earthquakes, storms, tidal waves, eruptions, and other evils.
Duration of Effect
Examples
Thus the eclipse of 17th April, 1912, which was the precursor of the Balkan War, took place in Aries 27. Now the planet Mars came to the opposition of that eclipse, that is to say longitude of the Sun, on 14th October, 1912, and on that very day war broke out at Adrianople. It is worthy of note that the eclipse line of apparition fell in latitude 43 degree North, and its longitude was 27 degree East of the equinox, which, measured from Greenwich, points exactly to the centre of outbreak, the Balkans. The war took its course, and came to an apparent end, but suddenly broke out again in June, 1913, on the very day Mars came to the place if the same eclipse in Aries 27.
From this we learn that eclipses, or the events signified by them, may remain in latency for many months, and are liable to spring into existence at such times as the major planets transit them. It further informs us that although certain physical effects due to the dynamic action of the luminaries on the earth, such as tidalwaves, earthquakes, and atmospheric phenomena, may take place immediately or very soon after the eclipse, yet there are other events which can only have a human interpretation, and these are indicated by the transits of the planets within certain limits of time from the date of the eclipse.
There is also the lunar eclipse of 12th March, 1914, as the Great War eclipse. This fell in Virgo 21. Its particular pointing I shall deal with in another section. What I would point out here is that this eclipse produced apparently no active results until Mars (here, as in every case, the special indicator of war and strife) passed over the 21st degree of the sign Virgo, which happened on 30th July, 1914, at which time Germany, Russia, and France were suddenly plunged into conflict, Great Britain joining issue in defence of Belgian neutrality, and as an ally of France and Russia, on 3rd August, by declaration of war against Germany. This may be regarded as a coincidence, but if so it should not be forgotten that coincidences make laws.
The transiting planet is not limited to Mars. A Solar Eclipse occurred on 10th June, 2002 at 19 Gemini 54. On June 20 2002 Saturn transited this point. 200 people lost their lives in an earthquake in Bou’in-Zahra, Iran. At least 261 people were killed and 1,500 more were injured. Most houses in the region were single-story masonry buildings, and virtually all of these collapsed. The public became angry due to the slow official response to victims who needed supplies. Residents of the town of Avaj resorted to throwing stones at the car of a government minister.
Note that this eclipse does not pass through Iran, instead it was miles away near Hawaii. The reason can be found by reference to the book “Earth in the Heavens” by Edward Johndro. For beginners Saturn was on the MC of the locality in question. Refer to page 29 of L. Jensens book “Astro-Cycles and speculative markets”
Location
When we find the eclipse taking place in any locality, and that place is also ruled by the sign of eclipse, the effects would be most assuredly felt in that part of the world. But an eclipse need not be visible in a country in order to produce disastrous effects therein, for if it happen in the ruling sign of that country, whether it be the meridian sign or the sign ascending, it will still bring about such disasters as are signified, that is to say, it will signal or portend them. Similarly it is sufficient that an eclipse is vertical without being in the ruling sign in order to produce marked effects. But this will appear on examination, namely, that when the eclipse falls in the meridian sign of a country or city the Government and rulers of that place are effected, whereas if it falls in the ascending sign, the people are principally affected. Also when it is visible in the zenith of a locality that part of the world suffers a series of physical ills, as earthquakes, storms, tidal waves, eruptions, and other evils.
Duration of Effect
This time-measure of eclipses needs some consideration. It has to be known how long an eclipse can be said to be effective. I use the term for want of a better.
The ancient writers have given a concise rule, which shows that the duration of an eclipse influence is to be measured by the number of hours the luminary is under eclipse from the first to the last contact. If the Sun is eclipsed they will indicate so many years, but if the Moon, then so many months. Thus if the time from first to last contact is two hours in the case of a solar eclipse, the influence of that eclipse will remain over the world for two years, and the transits over the place of the eclipse and its opposition will show the times when crises will take place. And in the case of a lunar eclipse, if the duration from the Moon’s first contact with the shadow to its last contact be six hours, then the effects will last for six months. This observation clearly shows that the ancients were aware that eclipse effects do not happen immediately, but that there is a process of exhaustion, which takes place.
According to Luther Jensen, Sepharial’s rule for finding the duration of the effects of an eclipse is: find the distance of the eclipsed luminary at conjunction or opposition from the Node. Then if 5° be divided by this distance, the magnitude of the eclipse will be obtained. Then for duration-as 1 is to 60, so is the magnitude to the number of months the eclipse will indicate. Thus:
According to Luther Jensen, Sepharial’s rule for finding the duration of the effects of an eclipse is: find the distance of the eclipsed luminary at conjunction or opposition from the Node. Then if 5° be divided by this distance, the magnitude of the eclipse will be obtained. Then for duration-as 1 is to 60, so is the magnitude to the number of months the eclipse will indicate. Thus:
| Distance from Node | Magnitude | Years Duration | Months Duration |
| 0.25° | 20.000 | 100 | 0.0 |
| 0.50° | 10.000 | 50 | 0.0 |
| 0.75° | 6.666 | 33 | 4.0 |
| 1.00° | 5.000 | 25 | 0.0 |
| 1.50° | 3.333 | 16 | 8.0 |
| 2.00° | 2.500 | 12 | 0.0 |
| 4.00° | 1.250 | 6 | 3.0 |
| 8.00° | 0.625 | 3 | 1.5 |
| 10.00° | 0.500 | 2 | 6 |
| 15.00° | 0.333 | 1 | 8 |
There are exceptions to all laws, and reasons for these exceptions, but it is from the coincidence of phenomena that we are able to formulate a law. There are exceptions, for instance, to the tidal law, and although it is the normal fact that high tide occurs twice in a day, yet there are places where there is no tide at all. When a prediction, based on these astronomical factors, turns out to be correct, it is usually referred to by the ignorant as a “coincidence”, by which I presume is meant a coincidence of the event with the prediction, for there is no other coincidence to be noted, unless it be that similar indications are followed by similar events, as in the cases cited above.
Transiting and Aspecting Planets
Transiting and Aspecting Planets
The nature of the planet which transits the place of the eclipse would rationally appear to have much to do with the kind of results that are indicated, as Mars for wars and strife, fires, outbursts of popular feelings, etc., Saturn for mortality and death, famines and privations of all kinds;
Uranus for revolts and insurrections, strikes, and discords and sudden catastrophes causing fractures and dislocations among the people; Neptune for ambushes, secret assaults, treachery and covert malice and intrigue; while Jupiter, through his expansive power, may indicate earthquakes and violent storms, magnificence and extravagance among rulers and people.
Also it should be observed what planets are in conjunction, opposition or quadrature to the eclipse, for these will serve to indicate the causes which lead to the events signified. Thus in the case of the eclipse which happened on 27th July, 1664, being a total eclipse of the Moon in Aquarius 14 we find Uranus in conjunction with the Moon in the sign Aquarius which indicated that mysterious and extraordinary affection of the blood which attended the Plague, and moreover the dislocations and separations which afflicted the people in consequence of their fleeing from the area of infection. The eclipse took place at 11.02 p.m., when the Sun was in the 4th angle and the Moon in the 10th, Mars in the 6th House in Libra, and Saturn exactly on the cusp of the 8th House. These are indications of a raging fever or pestilence and much mortality.
Time Becoming Effective
Time Becoming Effective
Old authors like Ptolemy (Quad. 1, 6) sets out rules on when the eclipse would start to become effective. Their methods are base on the time of day: if it happens closer to the rising or setting, then the effect will be sooner, and vice versa. However, Sepharial believed that such rules are not accurate. He set out two examples:
1. The eclipse of June 6th, 1853, fell on the Midheaven at Panama, and within six weeks there followed a terrible earthquake in which 4,000 people were killed and immense damage done to property. Now, as this was a complete solar one, the duration from first to last contact would be about two hours duration, and this would indicate two years for the duration of the effects. In the locality named the day would be 6h. 20m., and as the Sun was then in the Midheaven, the half of its course would be completed since sunrise. Hence the effects should begin, according to Ptolemy, only after eight months had elapsed, and according to other authors only after three months. But we see that they were realised in rather less than half the time, namely in less than six weeks.
2. The eclipse of May 7th, 1902. There was an eclipse of the Sun which passed over the Antilles, and on the very day of the eclipse there was an eruption of Mont Pelee, in the island of Martinique, which devastated that place completely. Here we find no measure of time, but that which is counted from the meridian.
It is therefore obvious that no correct rule has yet been given as to the time at which the effects of eclipses may be expected to commence. I have found from considerable study that remarkable effects do most assuredly happen at the times when the major planets transit the place or opposition of a preceding eclipse, provided that such transit happens during the period included in the limits of time ascribed to its continuation as determined by the hours of obscuration. But whether these are the first effects which could be legitimately ascribed to such eclipse is a matter which involves rather more knowledge of history than I pretend to. This however, is the most dependable rule that I can offer at the present stage, and that it is a sound and uniformly consistent rule I am well assured.
In the case of the Panama eclipse, for instance, the Sun was totally eclipsed on 6th June in Gemini 16, having N.declination 22 degrees 43 minutes, which answers to the latitude of the West Indies. The eclipse would be on the meridian 8h. West and would affect the whole of the Central American earthquake area. The point, however, is that on 15th July, 1853, we find the planet Jupiter in Sagittarius 16 and Mars in Gemini 16 directly affecting the line of eclipse, while five planets were in Fixed Signs. It would be difficult to find a more luminous illustration of my rule; yet it is by no means an isolated case.
More examples:
B.C. 721, March 19th, a total eclipse of the Moon in the sign Virgo. Babylon was immediately afterwards captured by Sargon. [Reference to the government of the countries by the various Signs of Zodiac, as given by Ptolemy, will show that Babylon was ruled by Virgo].
B.C. 585, May 28th, an eclipse of the Sun, foretold by Thales of Miletus, by which the Lydians capitulated to the Medes and brought an end to the war [for “it happened that as the battle was at its heat the Sun was suddenly darkened and the day turned to night”. Johnson links this eclipse with the prophecy (xiii.-10) about the overthrow of the Babylonians. It happened in Gemini, the meridian sign of Babylon, as Virgo was its ascendant].
B.C. 523, July 16th, an eclipse of the Moon, followed by the death of Cambyses.
B.C.502, November 19th, an eclipse of the Moon, followed by the slaughter of the Sabines and the death of Valerius Publicola.
B.C.460, April 30th, an eclipse of the Sun, followed by the Persian War and the recession of the Persians from Egypt.
B.C.431, April 25th, an eclipse of the Moon, and August 3rd, a total eclipse of the Sun; these were followed by a great famine in Rome, the plague at Athens, and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. [This war lasted for 29 years, and it therefore shows that there is no reliance to be put upon the rule for the duration of the effects according to the hours of the eclipse, for no eclipse of the Sun ever lasted for 29 hours, or more than a twelfth part of it. But it is of interest to note that it took place in the sign Leo, which, according to all old authors, is the ruling sign of the City of Rome, its meridian sign being Taurus, i.e. Italos, the Bull].
B.C.413, August 27th, a total eclipse of the Moon. Nicias and his ship destroyed at Syracuse. [This eclipse would fall in the sign Pisces, a watery sign, and the eclipse of the Sun would fall in Virgo that year, in the constellation Argos, the ship].
B.C.394, August 14th, an eclipse of the Sun. The Persians were beaten by Conon in a marine engagement.
B.C. 168, June 21st, a total eclipse of the Moon. The following day Perseus, King of Macedonia, was defeated by Panlus Emilius.
These eclipses are all from the record of Ricciolus, whose remarks as to their fulfilment are of interest, and to these I have added some comments of my own, the same being included within brackets.
But to come nearer to our own time, we have already cited the total lunar eclipse of A.D.1664, which fell in the second decan of Aquarius, a human sign, in the meridian of London and near to the Midheaven of the City at the time of its occurrence, which was followed by the Plague. There was another of the Moon on January 30th, 1665, which fell in Leo, close to the place of Saturn, in the lower angle of the City of London radix, and which was followed by the Great Fire, the sign Leo being a fiery sign. There was also an eclipse of the Sun on July 12th, in the same year, which fell near the place of Mars in the radix.
Then there are the eclipses at Panama and Martinique, which were immediately followed by great earthquakes in those parts, and which luminously confirm the dictum of Ptolemy that “they operate most efficiously in those places where they are vertical, or where the chief Significator shall pass by their zenith in the time of the eclipse (lib.2, cap.8)”. By the chief Significator I understand him to mean that luminary which suffers eclipse. This agrees in part with the dictum of Cardan, who says that “eclipses operate most particularly in those parts that are governed by the sign in which the eclipse takes place, and those also where it is visible”.
Transits to Individual Horoscope
But we may now turn our attention to the significance of eclipses in individual horoscopes, these being of more particular interest to students of astrology, besides being more easily verifiable by reason of the closer scrutiny we are disposed to give them.
In May, 1902, there was an eclipse of the Sun which fell in Taurus 17, in direct opposition to the place of the Sun in King Edward VII’s horoscope (November 9th, 1841), and the Sun at his birth was afflicted by the semisquare aspect of Saturn and the semisquare aspect of the Moon, as well as the square aspect of Neptune. It was, therefore, a vulnerable point. The king was to have been crowned at the end of June, but from consideration of this portent I was able to say that His Majesty would not complete his intention, as at that time he would be suddenly struck down by an illness, which I verily thought to be mortal, incidental to the excretory system. This I caused to be known to many students of astrology prior to the event. As events turned out the king was suddenly taken ill on the eve of his coronation by a severe attack of appendicitis, which required immediate operation. It was not until August following that the ceremony took place.
Prior to this event there had been an eclipse of the Sun, total, in the last degree of Scorpio, which took place on the 22nd November, 1900. This was close to the opposition of the Ascendant of Queen Victoria’s horoscope, the Node being exactly on that point of the zodiac. Within two months the aged, venerable and much beloved sovereign passed away, death taking place on the 22nd January, 1901.
The death of King Edward, so clearly foreseen and predicted by me in the current almanacs of the year 1910, was duly signified by the large eclipse of the Sun which took place in Gemini 26, in close opposition to the Ascendant of the royal horoscope and near the opposition of Saturn, which was rising in the horoscope in square aspect to the Moon. The king died on the 6th May, 1910, within two or three days of a solar eclipse in exact opposition to the place of the Sun in his horoscope, the eclipse taking place in Taurus 17 and the Sun at his birth being in Scorpio 17.
The same event was duly signified in the Prince of Wales’ horoscope, for on the 4th June, 1909, there was a total eclipse of the Moon in Sagittarius 13, which fell in direct opposition to the place of the Sun in the radical horoscope of the Prince, the Sun being here the natural Significator of the father, as already laid down in the rules concerning the interpretation of eclipse influences.
On the 26th September, 1912, the Moon suffered eclipse in Aries 3, the Moon at that time being close to the meridian of the horoscope for London. Very serious indeed were the political and constitutional changes that took place immediately after this eclipse, and when in the following year the Sun was eclipsed in Libra 6, close to the opposition of the radical Ascent, following upon the eclipse of the Sun, visible in England, on the 17th April, 1912, in direct opposition to the place of Saturn in the King’s horoscope, there was undoubted danger of war. For Saturn was at birth in the 7th House, and two eclipses thus happening in the 7th House disturbed the validity and integrity of treaties and agreements existing between the Crown and the rival Power, so that within a year of the last event the Great War broke out, and was very clearly foreseen and predicted in the current almanac under the months of July and August, 1914, the exact date of Germany’s declaration of war with France and that of our declaration against Germany being given as dates of international crisis, wholesale expenditure on munitions of war, intense public excitement and depression on the Stock Exchange.
Now the use of the “Ready Reckoner” will inform us that the Node is passing through the sign Aquarius in 1915 and reaches 9 degrees 43 minutes of that sign on the 1st January, 1916, its course thereafter being through the first degrees of Aquarius until by retrograde motion it reaches Capricorn 20 degrees 21 minutes on the 1st January, 1917. Inspection of the Table of Lunations on page 36 of that work shows a lunation in Aquarius 13 which will be within 18 degrees 36 minutes of the Node, and therefore will constitute an eclipse of the Sun. Also another which falls in Leo 6, and which again will be a solar eclipse. Also by the addition of 15 degrees to the positions of the lunations there given, it will be seen there is a partial lunar eclipse at the end of Capricorn in January.
Now it happens that the planet Mars in the royal horoscope was in Leo 5 in the fifth division of the heavens, and therefore this eclipse of the Sun in Leo 6 is extremely inimical to the firstborn of the progeny, from which we see that there are sudden alarms and dangers attaching to the Prince, and as in the month of January, 1917, the Moon is totally eclipsed in the sign Capricorn and near the place of the progressed Sun in the Prince’s horoscope, now in square aspect to Saturn, there are manifest reasons for suspecting some calamity.
There is a total lunar eclipse in January, 1917, which falls close to the Ascendant of the horoscope of Kaiser Wilhelm II., and it is followed in August, 1917, by a transit of Mars over the place of the eclipse and a transit of Saturn in opposition to the place of the Sun at his birth (January 27th, 1859), which signifies the end of the Hohenzollerns.
The eclipse of the Moon in March, 1914, which fell in Virgo 21, was in direct opposition to the Midheaven in the Kaiser’s horoscope, and this signifies his downfall and the loss or eclipse of the whole of his tenure and possessions. Also that solar eclipse of 1916, which falls in Leo 6, is close to the opposition of the radical Sun in the 8th House of the horoscope.
The eclipse of the Sun, August 21st, 1914, fell at the end of Leo, close to the place of the Sun, Moon and Saturn in the 11th House of the horoscope of Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, and clearly indicated the ruin of his hopes and the great evil done to him by his treacherous ally, who first deceived and afterwards exploited him. It was a clear case of “God save me from my friends! “ This eclipse pre-signified the end of the House of Hapsburg.
It would hardly be consistent with our views of the scientific precision of astrology to adventure further in regard to the future without adequate data, and doubtless sufficient has been said to indicate the course that is followed in judging of the effects of eclipses. If a list of the various eclipses during the course of an individual’s life is taken and compared with the various positions of the Significators – the Midheaven, Ascendant, Sun and Moon, in the horoscope – and also with the places of the planets, it will be abundantly shown, not only that they indicate periods immediately following the eclipses which have proved unfavourable to the fortunes or health, but also that the nature of the planet involved has been indicative of the nature of the affliction, taken in relation to the sign in which that planet is found, and also the house in which it falls in the horoscope of birth, and this whenever an eclipse has coincided with one or other of such radical places. Instances might be multiplied indefinitely, but the insistent repetition of these indications can only be adequately appreciated by one who is continually occupied with the examination of the horoscopes of individuals.
More examples:
B.C. 721, March 19th, a total eclipse of the Moon in the sign Virgo. Babylon was immediately afterwards captured by Sargon. [Reference to the government of the countries by the various Signs of Zodiac, as given by Ptolemy, will show that Babylon was ruled by Virgo].
B.C. 585, May 28th, an eclipse of the Sun, foretold by Thales of Miletus, by which the Lydians capitulated to the Medes and brought an end to the war [for “it happened that as the battle was at its heat the Sun was suddenly darkened and the day turned to night”. Johnson links this eclipse with the prophecy (xiii.-10) about the overthrow of the Babylonians. It happened in Gemini, the meridian sign of Babylon, as Virgo was its ascendant].
B.C. 523, July 16th, an eclipse of the Moon, followed by the death of Cambyses.
B.C.502, November 19th, an eclipse of the Moon, followed by the slaughter of the Sabines and the death of Valerius Publicola.
B.C.460, April 30th, an eclipse of the Sun, followed by the Persian War and the recession of the Persians from Egypt.
B.C.431, April 25th, an eclipse of the Moon, and August 3rd, a total eclipse of the Sun; these were followed by a great famine in Rome, the plague at Athens, and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. [This war lasted for 29 years, and it therefore shows that there is no reliance to be put upon the rule for the duration of the effects according to the hours of the eclipse, for no eclipse of the Sun ever lasted for 29 hours, or more than a twelfth part of it. But it is of interest to note that it took place in the sign Leo, which, according to all old authors, is the ruling sign of the City of Rome, its meridian sign being Taurus, i.e. Italos, the Bull].
B.C.413, August 27th, a total eclipse of the Moon. Nicias and his ship destroyed at Syracuse. [This eclipse would fall in the sign Pisces, a watery sign, and the eclipse of the Sun would fall in Virgo that year, in the constellation Argos, the ship].
B.C.394, August 14th, an eclipse of the Sun. The Persians were beaten by Conon in a marine engagement.
B.C. 168, June 21st, a total eclipse of the Moon. The following day Perseus, King of Macedonia, was defeated by Panlus Emilius.
These eclipses are all from the record of Ricciolus, whose remarks as to their fulfilment are of interest, and to these I have added some comments of my own, the same being included within brackets.
But to come nearer to our own time, we have already cited the total lunar eclipse of A.D.1664, which fell in the second decan of Aquarius, a human sign, in the meridian of London and near to the Midheaven of the City at the time of its occurrence, which was followed by the Plague. There was another of the Moon on January 30th, 1665, which fell in Leo, close to the place of Saturn, in the lower angle of the City of London radix, and which was followed by the Great Fire, the sign Leo being a fiery sign. There was also an eclipse of the Sun on July 12th, in the same year, which fell near the place of Mars in the radix.
Then there are the eclipses at Panama and Martinique, which were immediately followed by great earthquakes in those parts, and which luminously confirm the dictum of Ptolemy that “they operate most efficiously in those places where they are vertical, or where the chief Significator shall pass by their zenith in the time of the eclipse (lib.2, cap.8)”. By the chief Significator I understand him to mean that luminary which suffers eclipse. This agrees in part with the dictum of Cardan, who says that “eclipses operate most particularly in those parts that are governed by the sign in which the eclipse takes place, and those also where it is visible”.
Transits to Individual Horoscope
But we may now turn our attention to the significance of eclipses in individual horoscopes, these being of more particular interest to students of astrology, besides being more easily verifiable by reason of the closer scrutiny we are disposed to give them.
In May, 1902, there was an eclipse of the Sun which fell in Taurus 17, in direct opposition to the place of the Sun in King Edward VII’s horoscope (November 9th, 1841), and the Sun at his birth was afflicted by the semisquare aspect of Saturn and the semisquare aspect of the Moon, as well as the square aspect of Neptune. It was, therefore, a vulnerable point. The king was to have been crowned at the end of June, but from consideration of this portent I was able to say that His Majesty would not complete his intention, as at that time he would be suddenly struck down by an illness, which I verily thought to be mortal, incidental to the excretory system. This I caused to be known to many students of astrology prior to the event. As events turned out the king was suddenly taken ill on the eve of his coronation by a severe attack of appendicitis, which required immediate operation. It was not until August following that the ceremony took place.
Prior to this event there had been an eclipse of the Sun, total, in the last degree of Scorpio, which took place on the 22nd November, 1900. This was close to the opposition of the Ascendant of Queen Victoria’s horoscope, the Node being exactly on that point of the zodiac. Within two months the aged, venerable and much beloved sovereign passed away, death taking place on the 22nd January, 1901.
The death of King Edward, so clearly foreseen and predicted by me in the current almanacs of the year 1910, was duly signified by the large eclipse of the Sun which took place in Gemini 26, in close opposition to the Ascendant of the royal horoscope and near the opposition of Saturn, which was rising in the horoscope in square aspect to the Moon. The king died on the 6th May, 1910, within two or three days of a solar eclipse in exact opposition to the place of the Sun in his horoscope, the eclipse taking place in Taurus 17 and the Sun at his birth being in Scorpio 17.
The same event was duly signified in the Prince of Wales’ horoscope, for on the 4th June, 1909, there was a total eclipse of the Moon in Sagittarius 13, which fell in direct opposition to the place of the Sun in the radical horoscope of the Prince, the Sun being here the natural Significator of the father, as already laid down in the rules concerning the interpretation of eclipse influences.
On the 26th September, 1912, the Moon suffered eclipse in Aries 3, the Moon at that time being close to the meridian of the horoscope for London. Very serious indeed were the political and constitutional changes that took place immediately after this eclipse, and when in the following year the Sun was eclipsed in Libra 6, close to the opposition of the radical Ascent, following upon the eclipse of the Sun, visible in England, on the 17th April, 1912, in direct opposition to the place of Saturn in the King’s horoscope, there was undoubted danger of war. For Saturn was at birth in the 7th House, and two eclipses thus happening in the 7th House disturbed the validity and integrity of treaties and agreements existing between the Crown and the rival Power, so that within a year of the last event the Great War broke out, and was very clearly foreseen and predicted in the current almanac under the months of July and August, 1914, the exact date of Germany’s declaration of war with France and that of our declaration against Germany being given as dates of international crisis, wholesale expenditure on munitions of war, intense public excitement and depression on the Stock Exchange.
Now the use of the “Ready Reckoner” will inform us that the Node is passing through the sign Aquarius in 1915 and reaches 9 degrees 43 minutes of that sign on the 1st January, 1916, its course thereafter being through the first degrees of Aquarius until by retrograde motion it reaches Capricorn 20 degrees 21 minutes on the 1st January, 1917. Inspection of the Table of Lunations on page 36 of that work shows a lunation in Aquarius 13 which will be within 18 degrees 36 minutes of the Node, and therefore will constitute an eclipse of the Sun. Also another which falls in Leo 6, and which again will be a solar eclipse. Also by the addition of 15 degrees to the positions of the lunations there given, it will be seen there is a partial lunar eclipse at the end of Capricorn in January.
Now it happens that the planet Mars in the royal horoscope was in Leo 5 in the fifth division of the heavens, and therefore this eclipse of the Sun in Leo 6 is extremely inimical to the firstborn of the progeny, from which we see that there are sudden alarms and dangers attaching to the Prince, and as in the month of January, 1917, the Moon is totally eclipsed in the sign Capricorn and near the place of the progressed Sun in the Prince’s horoscope, now in square aspect to Saturn, there are manifest reasons for suspecting some calamity.
There is a total lunar eclipse in January, 1917, which falls close to the Ascendant of the horoscope of Kaiser Wilhelm II., and it is followed in August, 1917, by a transit of Mars over the place of the eclipse and a transit of Saturn in opposition to the place of the Sun at his birth (January 27th, 1859), which signifies the end of the Hohenzollerns.
The eclipse of the Moon in March, 1914, which fell in Virgo 21, was in direct opposition to the Midheaven in the Kaiser’s horoscope, and this signifies his downfall and the loss or eclipse of the whole of his tenure and possessions. Also that solar eclipse of 1916, which falls in Leo 6, is close to the opposition of the radical Sun in the 8th House of the horoscope.
The eclipse of the Sun, August 21st, 1914, fell at the end of Leo, close to the place of the Sun, Moon and Saturn in the 11th House of the horoscope of Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, and clearly indicated the ruin of his hopes and the great evil done to him by his treacherous ally, who first deceived and afterwards exploited him. It was a clear case of “God save me from my friends! “ This eclipse pre-signified the end of the House of Hapsburg.
It would hardly be consistent with our views of the scientific precision of astrology to adventure further in regard to the future without adequate data, and doubtless sufficient has been said to indicate the course that is followed in judging of the effects of eclipses. If a list of the various eclipses during the course of an individual’s life is taken and compared with the various positions of the Significators – the Midheaven, Ascendant, Sun and Moon, in the horoscope – and also with the places of the planets, it will be abundantly shown, not only that they indicate periods immediately following the eclipses which have proved unfavourable to the fortunes or health, but also that the nature of the planet involved has been indicative of the nature of the affliction, taken in relation to the sign in which that planet is found, and also the house in which it falls in the horoscope of birth, and this whenever an eclipse has coincided with one or other of such radical places. Instances might be multiplied indefinitely, but the insistent repetition of these indications can only be adequately appreciated by one who is continually occupied with the examination of the horoscopes of individuals.
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