eclipsed

Change is inevitable - no matter how much it surprises or how we resist. Around the world the Ring of Fire has been restive. 

Also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. 

Seventy-five percent of earth’s volcanoes - more than 450, are located along the Ring of Fire. Ninety percent of earth’s earthquakes occur along its path, including the planet’s most violent and dramatic seismic events. 

Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park on the island of Java, Indonesia

In Negros Island where I was born and grew up, Mount Kanla-on had been spewing volcanic ash and shaking the earth since September 2024. Folks have been displaced and evacuated from its vicinity. Farms have been abandoned and left follow under sulfur fumes. 

All await in suspense and suspended time - though life must go on and nothing stops. It simply continues to vibrate in a way no one could anticipate or deny - only stronger, more noticeably. 

In astrology, our relationship to this is magnified and multiplied by different cosmic events - such as transits, aspects and, significantly, solar and lunar eclipses. 

Eclipses often serve as checkpoints to reflect on influx and outflow - opportunities, connections and growth in our lives. Lunar eclipses shed light on what may have been obscured. While solar eclipses offer fresh starts.

In 2025, we will experience four eclipses that have the potential to usher in transformative revelations and exciting new beginnings. Those born under mutable sun signs - Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces - are more likely to feel these lunations most potently. 

To this day, superstitions persist about eclipses. Many cultures still believe that eclipses are evil omens that bring death and destruction. One of the most pervasive is that eclipses are dangerous to young children and pregnant women. 

Many people, even in our modern times, won’t venture outside during a solar eclipse because of the belief that they will be harmed. Fortunately, most now know that solar eclipses are nothing to fear and can enjoy them for what they are. 

A rare and beautiful celestial event that may mark change more indelibly.