Eclipse season
An eclipse season is the window of about thirty-five days during which the Sun travels close to a lunar node. Every new moon in it becomes a solar eclipse, every full moon a lunar eclipse: eclipses therefore arrive in pairs, sometimes threes, roughly twice a year. Because the nodal axis slowly drifts backward, each season shifts about ten days earlier from one year to the next. Astrology reads these as weeks of concentrated change.
How it slips into the calendar
Roughly twice a year, the Sun passes near a lunar node and opens a window of about five weeks. During that window the lunations grow charged: a solar eclipse at the new moon, a lunar eclipse at the full moon, sometimes a third near the edge. And because the nodes drift backward, the seasons slide about ten days earlier in your calendar each year.
How to move through it
Bernadette Brady showed that every eclipse belongs to a family, the Saros cycle, whose tone it carries. Without going that far, you can live an eclipse season as a few weeks when things settle faster than usual. Note what is closing and what is opening, give yourself a little slack, and let the big decisions ripen until the window has passed.
Sources
- , The Eagle and the Lark (1992)