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Taurus Eclipse & Grand Quintile - Weds, Oct. 27 - Thurs., Oct. 28, 2004

As of Wednesday evening Paris time, the Moon is in the last degrees of Aries, opposite the distant planet Huya. It's an appropriate last aspect prior to a potent eclipse across the Taurus-Scorpio axis. Huya involves a mythology of rites and rituals to the dead. We are now entering the Days of the Dead, the last few days of October and the first few days of November, when the veils between the worlds are said to be the thinnest and our deceased ancestors the nearest. This is one of the High Sabbats of the Celtic calendar; its counterpart is Beltane, the celebration of springtime, abundance and fertility.

I was asked by a friend when the last time eclipses came to the Taurus/Scorpio axis, and the answer is in 1994 and 1995. The last lunar eclipse in Taurus was Nov. 18, 1994, and that was a penumbral eclipse, nothing as impressive as the total eclipse overnight tonight. It was the only Taurus lunar eclipse of that whole cycle; and we would need to go back an additional nine years to find another.

But this Taurus eclipse is very much upon us. If you are feeling unusual tension, unease, difficulty or experiencing intense opposition of some kind, try to take it easy and figure out a way to bide your time for the next 12 hours or so. There are sure to be some who are surfing this energy, but those who are more emotionally-centered, watery, psychically sensitive or slightly less than perfectly stable, you might be feeling the tension and heat.

Later this evening, the Moon enters Taurus at 7:27 p.m. Wednesday (Paris time, six hours earlier New York time), and then the eclipse is about 8 hours away. The eclipse, an opposition between the Sun and Moon (also the Taurus Full Moon) is exact at 5:07 a.m. European Time and 11:07 p.m. Wednesday night New York time. So basically the eclipse occurs Wednesday evening Pacific time, late Wednesday night Eastern time, and early Thursday morning London and European time.

Then on Thursday evening at about 7 p.m. Paris time, the Moon moves into position completing a Grand Quintile aspect, making a five-pointed star including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto. The chart for this is posted above. This will hold an effective orb for about six hours. Quintile aspects are patterns that flow. There can be unusual experiences of events opening up, breaking free and moving. Just the fact that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto are meeting in various types of quintiles is impressive. It show an unusual degree of contact between a group of planets all of which work very well together.

We'll see how well they work as the problems and circumstances of our lives work themselves to a new place in the coming day or so, as new information is revealed, deadlocks broken and solutions made obvious.

Much has been written about this event:

http://www.harmonicconcordance.com/NewSite/AstrologicalMusings--Quintiles.htm

I think that Johnny Mirehiel, who makes his interpretations, is a good astrologer -- though remember that the formulas he gives for understanding the aspects are proposals rather than final statements on the subject.

More on the Quintile pattern tomorrow and in Planet Waves Weekly on Friday.

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