Solar Eclipse

I was watching a YouTube video titled Eclipses, Red Cows And The Apocalypse by World Astrology Report which is quite a good channel for Mundane Astrology news. The coming solar eclipse will occur at 1:20am, Jakarta time, on April 9th 2024. Figure 1 shows a chart drawn up for that moment in Jakarta. The conjunction of Sun and Moon will occur in 19°23' of Aries.

Figure 1

The video makes reference to NASA's eclipse website that features two interesting charts showing the path of the forthcoming eclipse across North America as well as the path of the previous annular eclipse that occurred on October 14th 2023. The paths intersect at San Antonio in Texas. See Figures 2 and 3. Saint Anthony of Padua was Saint Francis of Assisi's most famous follower. For more information follow this Wikipedia link.

Figure 2: source

Figure 3: source

The video makes the point that the five red heifers, that are currently in Israel and due to be sacrificed at Passover on the Mount of Olives within sight of the Al Aqsa mosque, came from Texas. The Passover holiday begins before sundown on Monday, April 22, 2024, and ends after nightfall on April 30, 2024. The Hamas attack on Israel began on October 7th 2023, a week before the annular eclipse.

The presenter in the video sees the conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus at the time of the eclipse to be a potential portent of a holy war which would certainly break out if any attempt was made to demolish the Al Aqsa mosque.  It can be noted that Chiron is in 19°24' of Aries at the time of the eclipse. See Figure 4 detail.

Figure 4

Texas is also currently ground zero for the entry of illegal immigrants into the United States  so April promises to be an interesting month. The eclipse will last for about two and a half hours and the presenter in the video makes reference to Ptolemy who stated that effects of an eclipse can be felt for an amount of time in years equivalent to the eclipse's duration in hours. Thus the effects may be felt for up to two and half years afterwards which take us into late 2027. On April 21st, Jupiter and Uranus will be exactly conjunct in around 21°40' of Taurus.

The Five Phases of Pluto in Aquarius

The title for this post came from a YouTube video I watched recently about the passage of Pluto through Aquarius. Figure 1 shows a screenshot from the video.

Figure 1

Here we see the sign divided into five sections, not all equal, associated with the five visible planets: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. I was familiar with the division of signs into three decanates: the first decanate being cardinal in nature, the second fixed and the third mutable. Thus the first ten degrees of Aries is "doubly" Arian as Aries is a cardinal sign. The next ten degrees is blended with the fixed quality of Leo and the last ten degrees with the mutable quality of Sagittarius.

Figure 2 summarises this with rulerships of each decanate shown. Thus the first decanate of Aries is ruled by Mars the ruler of Aries, the second by the Sun that is the ruler of Leo, and the third by Jupiter that is the ruler of Sagittarius.

Figure 2: source

It's also possible by looking at the Sabian Symbols to assign a significance to each degree of the Zodiac and thus each degree of each sign. However, I wasn't familiar with this type of division of a sign and which is not the same from sign to sign as can be seen in Figure 1. So what's going on? What is the pattern here? Well, it's explained sort of in an earlier video by the same author in which he refers to the divisions as Egyptian terms or bounds. Figure 3 shows a screenshot from the video in which all the divisions can be seen.

Figure 3

This source gives a little more information about terms:

Synonym: bounds

The Latin word "termini" means limits, confines - i.e. not a single degree but an area. In Hellenistic times the terms were called hories.

Traditionally, each sign is divided into five sections of unequal length. One of the five traditional planets (excluding the sun and moon) rules each of these sections. A planet within the segment that it rules is in its own terms.

Ptolemy in the second century CE in his Tetrabiblos described two different types of terms: Egyptian and Babylonian. However, the rationale behind these divisions of the zodiac is lost.

Figure 4, from the same source, shows a clearer image of the Egyptian terms along with the decanates and other divisions:

Figure 4

I guess this sheds a little more light on the subject.