Weekly Hello

We here in Britain will be celebrating the last days of summer on the upcoming bank holiday weekend – America has an extra week to go until Labor Day. Lucky them! I rarely enjoy this weekend simply because it marks the end of long summery days and the onset of the mulchy season. And we have the perfect astroscape for an ending – a lunar eclipse in Pisces. It is a partial lunar eclipse, although a large part of the Moon will be blocked by Earth’s shadow and it will assume an ominous red-brown colour. You’ll be able to see it, cloud cover permitting, across a large swathe of the northern hemisphere and South America.

Astrologically speaking it is a hugely significant eclipse, since it not only comes at a time when so many situations hang in the balance, but it is closely squared by Uranus, the planet of revolution and revelation. Like all full moons, it comes with the theme of closure and completion, of endings and conclusions, but with the added Uranus effect, any endings are likely to be abrupt and appear out of nowhere.

Could there be a sudden end to the war in Ukraine or the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz? Maybe. We can always hope. And eventually those conflicts will end. But the thing about eclipses is that they preside over developments we simply could not have imagined.

My video on this eclipse will be posted tonight (Saturday) and aside from looking at the global portents for this mighty event and the first couple of weeks of September, I will take you through it sign by sign.