This week's Solar Eclipse falls on Sunday at 19 degrees Cancer. Its effects will be rather like a turbo-charged New Moon. Solar Eclipses bring new situations and conditions into one's life. They often coincide with beginnings and endings, and will push you to take the next step on your evolutionary path, whether you are ready for it or not. In the sign of Cancer, issues that arise may involve family members or patterns that were developed during childhood. Changes to your home or family dynamics may occur as a result. Over this week think about taking a reduced schedule so you can handle any issues that might arise.
 
On the 11th we are bestowed with a creative flow and a deep feeling of inner connection that will serve us well at the New Moon in Cancer. This New Moon is a total solar eclipse, but a nice aspect to Mars helps to energize and focus making it easier clarify our desires and intentions.

The New Moon in Cancer is focused in the realm of emotion - Cancer after all is ruled by the Moon and shares its fluid and changeable mood and flow of feelings. Any areas of insecurity that linger in our psyche could arise to the surface to be healed at this time and we may receive a powerful shot of wisdom regarding the way in which we achieve balance in our life - something that requires the healing and release of old hurts and painful judgments.

Chiron, traveling retrograde, will move from Pisces back into Aquarius where it will remain until the beginning of 2011. This gives us an opportunity to bring greater healing through the energy fields through which we attain a higher level of intelligence and awareness. Once Chiron moves fully into Pisces, the focus will change from spiritual intelligence to a deeper and more personal inner connection to life.

Saturn also changes signs when on the 21st it re-enters Libra after completing its journey through Virgo. In Libra, Saturn brings its tests and challenges into the realm of the way we relate to others and how well we create balance and harmony in our lives. Saturn will remain in Libra until October of 2012, so we have a while to get this right.

The Sabian Symbol of the New Moon at 20 degrees Cancer gives us this image:

A GROUP OF SERENDADERS MAKE MERRY IN A VENETIAN GONDOLA

This is a celebratory Moon that promotes good times with those we love. I think it also suggests that we get out on the water!
This solar eclipse, (occurring at the south node), suggests a new chapter for something that is already in play. At 19 Cancer, it can be especially influential for those born on July 11, Oct 12, Jan 9, or April 9; (it can also produce significant impact if it makes a dynamic aspect to your personal chart.) Watch for something or someone of influence from your past (from this life or another lifetime) to resurface. Igniting the Cancer/Capricorn axis, family members and family dynamics are likely to take the main spotlight. (Transitions can occur.) The Cancer/Capricorn axis also puts the spotlight on security needs and measures, (private and personal; public, professional; social/political.) It is an important time of inner world and outer world restructuring. The eclipse can prompt an experiential review of old, outworn and limiting behaviours, and in so doing, brings an opportunity to release them.