Solar Eclipses for 2011

Solar Eclipses are very important in astrology.  They represent the only time during the year when you can actually make a dramatic impact on your life.  In 2011, there are four of them: January 4, June 1, July 1 and November 25.

What is a dramatic impact on one’s life, you may ask?

It means that you can change your life and go into any direction you choose.  It means that if you don’t like the way your life is going, you can change it in a positive manner and the effect will last until the next eclipse.

No matter whether you can see an eclipse or not from your home is irrelevant.  The energy of the eclipse affects the whole world and the whole day from midnight to midnight.

So what should you do on an eclipse?

I love explaining to my students and clients what they should do on an eclipse.  It’s very simple and practical at the same time.  Do whatever you want to be doing for the next six months.  So, if you want to start looking for a new job, send out your resume on that day. If you are trying to sell your home, talk to a realtor that day or drop into a realtor’s office OR put your house up for sale on an eclipse for extra energy in selling it quickly. If you like your job, get to work on time, be friendly, have lunch with co-workers, etc.  Do contact people you would like to have in your life more than you do now.  You can email, write or visit with them, it doesn’t matter.  The contact is the important issue.  Put money in the bank if you wish to save more. Go out to a meal with friends or your partner (or children, if you’d like) so that you would have more time and money to do that.  I tell my women students not to pay so that they would not be picking up many of the bills in the future.  If you are ill on this day, unfortunately, you will probably catch every kind of cold to flu or worse during this time period.  So please take care of yourself so you don’t have to worry about your health.

Personally, I read, take the dog for a walk, listen to CDs, watch TV, rest, plan to do a hobby or interest and make sure I either lecture, write or have clients on that day to attract more business.  I contact my family and usually have dinner out with friends and breakfast with my parents.  I email or talk to everyone that I wish to have more contact with until the next eclipse.  

You can start a new redecorating project or personal hobby.  You can take a new class or start a new foreign language series that you always wanted to learn.  Make a home cooked meal for the family if it is your intent to have the family around the dinner table more (but remember, you will be cooking more too).  You can always order pizza!  Tell someone you like/love them.

What shouldn’t you do on an eclipse?

That’s easy to answer.  Do not do housework! (I did housework on one eclipse and couldn't stop cleaning the house, attic, basement, garage and yard for about two years!  I won't ever be doing that again.  Although I like a clean house, there are many more important things to do with my time.) Don’t go shopping on an eclipse or your intent would be to spend extra that you do not have.  Do not schedule any medical procedures or a doctor’s appointment.  (You don’t want to be sick for the next six months, do you?).  Do not pay bills or have a fight with anyone.  If you do, make up quickly so this will not be an issue for the future.  Do not stay home from work on this day or you will be down sized, laid off or fired.  (Several students tested me on this and told me in the following semester that they had gone on unemployment because they all went to the beach on one of the past eclipses!).  If you are home sick from work, put on makeup and get dressed so you will not be lying around watching TV while not being groomed properly. (Men, you don’t have to put on makeup!).  Do not procrastinate or put things off which should be done now.

Don’t do anything you don’t want to be doing over and over again for the next six months or in this case for 2011, until the next eclipse.  It’s like a video that will be playing each day over and over again until the next eclipse. Think about what you want to accomplish and make sure you are doing that exact thing with the people you want to be doing it with.

So all in all, a solar eclipse is a wonderful way or reorganizing your life, bringing positive energy in that you need to make your life complete or to get it on another path.

I hope your eclipses in 2011 are everything you want them to be.