Solar Eclipse in Aries — the article

On April 8th at 2:21pm EDT,  a powerful New Moon/Solar Eclipse becomes exact in 19.5º of Aries. This launches a new Moon and Eclipse cycle.

As we remain in Eclipse Season until April 18th, the coming weeks could offer some tailwinds that carry us to significant breakthroughs; we are invited to learn how to be conscious creators, mindful of how our thinking and choices affect our personal and collective experiences.

As best you can, trust that whatever is leaving is making space for something better — the more willing we are to change, the easier it will be.

Stay grounded and flexible — and don’t jump the gun for the next 2-3 weeks — if you feel compelled to do something, do your best to observe the urge — unless it is connected to something that happens organically — if you are ambivalent about taking an action, better hold off until Eclipse Season ends on April 18th.

Solar Eclipses are extra-powerful New Moons that occur approximately every six months. This Eclipse cycle will be in effect until March 2025; this is the first Solar Eclipse of this year and the second in Aries in this Eclipse cycle. You may also want to watch my Solar Eclipse video.

The first Solar Eclipse in Aries (connected to the current Eclipse cycle) occurred on April 20th, 2023. What have you discovered about your physical vitality and self-identity since then? Where are you asked to get out of your comfort zone? Has this been a humbling experience so far?

During a Solar Eclipse, the Moon momentarily interrupts the normal flow of Solar Radiation, reorganizing our consciousness to a higher level. Solar Eclipses indicate the beginning of a new experience, project, or cycle.

This Eclipse is a Total Solar Eclipse and a SuperMoon!

This will be the third of three Super New Moons in a row, and as some of you already know, SuperMoons occur when the Moon is at its closest distance to the Earth (at the time of a New Moon or Full Moon) and are more powerful. This means greater awareness of the issues connected to the particular New Moon energy.

Total Solar Eclipses happen when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth. The Moon will completely cover the Sun.

This Total Eclipse will be visible in North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. It will begin over the South Pacific Ocean. The first location in continental North America that will experience totality is Mexico’s Pacific coast.

The path of the Eclipse continues from Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Small parts of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the Total Solar Eclipse.

The Eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. It will exit continental North America on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

No matter where you are on the planet, however, the effects of the Eclipse will be transformative globally. Solar Eclipses, in particular, often correspond to significant endings and beginnings.

They occur close to the same degree every 19 years, and the last time we had a New Moon/Solar Eclipse in this particular degree and sign — while the North Node was traveling through Aries — was on April 8th, 2005.

We will likely experience a resonance between now and that time — “resonance”, not repetition — so think back to the Spring of 2005 and ask yourself: Were there any significant endings and beginnings? What was important to me back then? If I were to take those priorities to the next level, where would that next level find me?

For more guidance on those questions, it is best to take a look at our Natal Charts — the House placement of the Eclipse will indicate which area of life is the readiest to embrace a healthy sense of Self and rise to a new level of consciousness around independence and forging our path, gently and holistically.

Feel free to watch my webinar “Eclipse Season & the Mercury Retrograde” to see how the Eclipses impact your birth chart. You can get this 95-minute webinar here.

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Eclipses are a time for clarifying and affirming our highest path. We are bound to experience a release and recalibration of some sort because old programs will get deleted and new ones downloaded– and for this Eclipse, this is especially true in connection with our relationship to our human identity and our sense of agency in the world — in other words, how capable we feel to get things done.

This begins with our role in our interactions with others, whether we can be direct about our personal goals and passions and inspire others to follow our example.

Solar Eclipses are an excellent time to go within, to seed anything we would like to integrate and understand better about ourselves over the next six months until the next Solar Eclipse (Oct. 2nd, 2024) — we’ll dig into this in more detail towards the end of this video/article when we talk about setting Solar Eclipse Intentions.

Setting Intentions for Solar Eclipses differs from a regular New Moon! So stay tuned!

The Sun and Moon are connected to one of the Moon Nodes during an Eclipse, alternating between North and South Node Eclipses, emphasizing the evolutionary upgrades available to us during those times.

North Node Eclipses help us move towards…

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North Node Eclipses help us move towards a new exploration of an energy that promotes our Soul’s evolution. They ask us to focus on the energies of the sign involved in the Eclipse (Aries, in this case) and work with the lighter/higher frequencies of those energies as much as possible. They highlight our ability for individual and collective growth and evolution.

Eclipses are crossroads or turning points along our Soul’s Journey. They are often marked by events or situations that signify a critical shift in our lives, nudging us to change and grow or face more significant difficulties at the next turning point.

In this case, the next turning point will be on July 10/11th — when the Sun in 19.5º of Cancer squares this month’s Solar Eclipse degree.

A couple of things to note for this Solar Eclipse chart:
* The Sun and Moon align with the North Node, Chiron, and a retrograde Mercury in Aries!
* Venus will be in Aries as well, at the time of the Eclipse, sextiling Pluto in Aquarius
* Mars, the ruler of Aries, currently in Pisces, aligns closely with Saturn

Before we go any further, let’s first talk about the sign of Aries:

This Solar Eclipse in pioneering, fast-paced Aries focuses more on our independence and dynamism  — you could say that we seek a healthier relationship with ourselves, one in which we are neither too caught up in our passions and enthusiasm for life nor too divorced from such feelings and pursuits.

A healthy sense of Self and rising to a new level of consciousness around forging our path will also get a lot of focus.

Whether or not we have natal planets in Aries, we all have Aries somewhere in our birth chart, representing where we seek to develop a courageous heart and discover what we are capable of when pursuing our passions.

This is an excellent time to reevaluate our relationships with our human identity and discover who we are, what we are passionate about, and which path will take us forward, so check in with yourself: What came to mind when you read this?

We are asked to be unafraid to embrace who we are and inspire others by forging our own paths. Ask yourself: Where am I being called to take a risk and try something new?

What is the next step toward becoming an increasingly healthy, strong, and independent person unafraid to pursue personal goals and desires? One who speaks up for what needs healing in our society around the toxic masculine?

This Eclipse helps us be more aware of how passionate we are about life or what’s missing to get us back on track with our passion projects.

Now let’s talk about some of the aspects in this Solar Eclipse chart:

The Sun and Moon align with the North Node, Chiron, and a retrograde Mercury in Aries! 

This tight line-up of planets and the North Node in Aries strongly emphasizes doing our individual healing around the masculine energies in our world.

We may feel more physically sensitive or humbled by our current human journey and must remind ourselves to see ourselves and everyone else out there as “human”.

Compassion, love, and understanding are required individually and collectively if we want to move our relationship with the masculine to a higher vibrational place. We are invited to be compassionate leaders, embracing our humanity and inspiring others to do likewise.

This can be a very humbling experience.

Ask yourself: Could I show the world, by example, what it looks like to be a humble and compassionate leader who inspires and doesn’t judge?

With Mercury involved, we also need to think about how to best talk about our childhood (or ancestral) wounding.

When we share, open up about what feels uncomfortable (or where we feel separate from others), and talk about what triggers us, we take another step towards wholeness. And that’s part of the healing process.

Our past wounding (and ancestral wounding) makes us more sensitive to certain things, and that is why we experience triggers.

Being human means being “imperfect”; there is no shame in that. Our so-called imperfections open hearts and create and spread compassion, and this is precisely what heals everyone’s wounding and sensitivities, including our own.

Ask yourself: Could I give myself 5% more permission to be “imperfect”? Could I acknowledge my sensitivities that stem from past wounding? Could I love myself because of those so-called imperfections and sensitivities? What might change if I stopped trying to fix myself?

Double-check: Does blaming or judging myself for being “imperfect” or “overly sensitive” serve me? How about when I do that to others? Who is served when I do this?

Could I be open to the possibility that my “imperfections” and sensitivities — whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual — exist to serve not only my evolution but also that of humanity? If that were true, what else would need reevaluating?

Since Mercury is also in its retrograde phase at the time of the Eclipse (April 1st-25th), we may need to take note of things that come up right now and come back to them when Mercury is in its post-Shadow phase (after the Retrograde phase has ended).

We talked about all of this in much greater detail in my webinar: “Eclipse Season & Mercury Retrograde”. Again, you can get this 95-minute webinar here.

Let’s talk about Mars, the ruler of Aries: Mars is currently in Pisces and makes a close alignment to Saturn.

Mars’ close conjunction to Saturn in Pisces adds a message to take it slow and steady and focus on a spiritual understanding of ourselves and life.

If we want to make progress right now, we must take it one step at a time. As best as you can, be sure to have a solid connection to your intuitive Self before zooming ahead. In other words, go within before going without…

Ask yourself: How present can I allow myself to be? What’s in the way of my achieving this? Where might taking it slow and heeding my intuitive knowing pay off down the line?

How could I take 5% more responsibility for a stronger connection to my divinity and all of life?

Where do I experience flow? How might I achieve 5% more flow in my life? If the flow knows where to go, could I simply trust where it takes me? What is getting in the way of me trusting the flow of life?

Venus will also be in Aries at the time of the Eclipse, sextiling Pluto in Aquarius. 

With Venus in Aries, spontaneity and independence are essential to us. We also have more energy than usual and are more likely to want to get out of the house and be active with others.

The Sextile to Pluto in Aquarius is an opportunity to take a courageous and independent approach to social interactions.

Ask yourself: What if I saw the value of my impact on humanity as a collective? What if I trusted that a process is unfolding toward greater empowerment in the world?

If this was the best time to deepen certain relationships with like-minded people, who would I want to reach out to right now?

Jupiter & Uranus, both in Taurus, are moving closer and closer to each other. They will reach their conjunction on April 20th, at 22 degrees of Taurus, at which point they will start a new 14-year cycle.

The last Jupiter-Uranus cycle started on June 8th, 2010 at 0º of Aries. That cycle is coming to an end now, and the next one will bring more focus to our relationship with, and enjoyment of, the physical realm.

Honoring ourselves and our values is also emphasized here, as is breaking away from “old habits” and ways of connecting with the physical realm that we have outgrown or need to change. This is particularly true for our body, finances, our planetary home, etc.

A conjunction always represents a new beginning. This Jupiter-Uranus alignment represents radical leaps in our thinking and culture, and breakthroughs in science, so we are bound to experience some sudden shifts in relation to the physical world.

The last time these two planets aligned in Taurus was May 1941, in 24.5º.

We will talk in more detail about this powerful alignment in our next Forecasting Forum on Wednesday, April 24th. Join us live or register and watch the recording later!

This alignment in Taurus will also be discussed in the next Soulivity Today Morning Show: “Hot Astrology Friday”, on April 19th! Click here to join us live OR watch the replay

To Sum it all up, being open to trusting the process and keeping our hearts courageously open is vital!

This Eclipse in Aries invites us to be brave and alive to life’s possibilities and get out of our comfort zones to pursue emotional satisfaction.

While flexibility and open-mindedness are always helpful, they are essential now, so notice when you are digging your heels in about something — it’s usually a sign that you have some underlying anxiety about something else.

Take a deep breath, get centered in your body, close your eyes, and focus on your third eye.

Embracing our own humanity and practicing self-compassion, especially around our inner processes and limitations, provides an opportunity for great healing.

Eclipses are times of uncertainty, Uranian in nature — so anything could happen between now and the end of Eclipse Season, which in this case will be April 18th. It is important to remember that Eclipses open the door to the next level of our Soul’s evolution.

As best as you can, allow for new templates to download, stay centered, and do your best to ground from within — try using conscious breathing and conscious mental flexibility — and best of all, see if you can move to the “observer position” when it comes to the emotional and mental body.

Again, flexibility and open-mindedness will help for the next 2-3 weeks (until April 18th) while we are still in Eclipse Season.
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Since Eclipses are so powerful, they require a bigger orb than a regular Full or New Moon. I usually use a 5º orb instead of 2º… so since this Solar Eclipse takes place in 19º24’ of Aries:

Do you have your Ascendant, Career Point (or personal planets) in 14-25 degrees of Aries, Libra, Cancer, or Capricorn? If so, you may feel the effects of this New Moon more strongly; this is also true for those of us who have our Ascendant or Sun-sign in Leo or Cancer (the Sun rules Leo, the Moon rules Cancer)

Setting Intentions for a Solar Eclipse is a little different from the regular monthly New Moon process — after all, we are setting them for the whole 6-month Eclipse cycle rather than just the next 28 days.

Solar Eclipse Intentions are best done 48 hours after the Eclipse becomes exact. This is because we are downloading new templates at the time of an Eclipse, and the energies are pretty intense, so we want to wait until it all settles down a little before setting our intentions — that said, it’s best to avoid setting them during a Moon void of course.

Given all this, here are the best and most potent times to set your Intentions for this Solar Eclipse: Between 2:21pm on Wednesday, April 10th, and 6:04am on Thursday, April 11th. Then again, from 8:59am on April 11th until 2:21pm on Friday, April 12th. Note that all times above are given in US Eastern Time — i.e., the New York time zone.

Set powerful intentions — remember, they cover the next six months — and if possible, align them with the Aries energy!

If you live in a timezone other than EDT and converting time zones isn’t your thing, I suggest joining my Facebook page and following me on X (Twitter), as I post reminders on those platforms when it’s time to set your intentions.

If you want more details on setting Intentions, please click here.