Tracking the Soul’s History with Libran Eclipses

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we're going to take a look at the last four sets of Libran eclipses that we've had. The last four time periods in which we've had Libran eclipses. So that's going to take us back, you know, about 36 years, and we're going to look at four periods.

The most recent four periods in which we've had Libran eclipses; I'm not going to go through each and every eclipse or anything like that. I'm going to give you these periods, and then I'm going to help you look at the whole sign house in your birth chart that the Libra and eclipses have taken place in both historically and in terms of the eclipse that is approaching this weekend. We have a solar eclipse in Libra coming up on October 14. That's the Saturday.

So today, what we're going to do is look back at the previous periods in which we've had Libran eclipses. For some of you, it may be only important to look at the most recent period or to nine and 18 years back, but we will go back sort of 27, 36; they happen around nine-year intervals.

So we're gonna go back all the way into the 80s and work our way forward to the present time, and then we're going to remind ourselves of what topics are most likely getting activated as these eclipses come up both historically and again now.

The reason for doing that is because we want to try to make some connections between what these eclipses have activated historically and what they're doing now because eclipses are the stories that are told throughout moon cycles that are connected over very long periods of time, as opposed to say, an average moon cycle that maybe doesn't have as profound significance because it's not tethered to the nodes of the moon and it's doesn't have these much longer cycles of history behind them.

So it's a good opportunity to do this kind of work today, and hopefully, this will also just prepare us to see, receive, and work with the symbolism of the upcoming eclipse. That is our goal for today.

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The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to go back in time. I am in 1987, and we're going to look at the previous Libran eclipses, the periods in which those eclipses landed from the 80s up to the present day, and then we're going to talk about the specific topics that you are likely to see activated within a not just the present moment, but with some connection to these other historical periods or cycles that have been dating back to some of these previous periods.

Eclipses are like waves that come in big sets, and they're bigger than normal wave sets of the new and full moons, right? So we're thinking about, and these waves have a history; they've been here before we've navigated some of these waves before. But now we're in a new place with a new consciousness, and so we get to navigate them with a new set of eyes, a new set, a new heart, a new way of looking at things, and so eclipses can kind of test us, they grow us they bring transformation, but they also help us to work on patterns that have soul history.

So today, we could think of this as tracking something of the soul's history by looking at these previous periods and reminding ourselves of what topics are likely to be activated and the Libran house in our chart. That's, of course, considering the whole sign. So we're looking at the chart through the lens of whole sign houses, which is the predominant house system in ancient astrology and both the East and the West.

So, at any rate, let's look at the previous Libran eclipses starting April 1986 to November 1987. The South Node was in Libra during that period. Now, for some of us, like myself, I was five to six years old; I was born in 81. So, 86 to 87 was an interesting period of time, but not one that I really remember very well.

One of the things that did happen during that period that I thought was interesting was that it was falling in my sixth and 12th houses; those eclipses were a little difficult in my own memory because my father was placed in his first parish as a minister, and so, you know, that was a move that took us across the country and into my first like church community. So that was a transitional space, pretty typical for eclipses happening in those cadent houses to bring up almost like transitional or liminal spaces. At any rate, that's my memory of that period.

The point would be to look at that period of time, and I'm going to remind you of which house topics are likely active in the whole sign house of Libra after we get through these periods.

So the first one is April 86th to November 87. South Node is in Libra during that time, creating eclipses and Libra, and then you get in; you might have some out of sign eclipses happening around these periods. I just tracked the periods during which the node is actually in the sign of Libra by the mean node measurement. So you go forward, and the next period is going to be from 1995 August of 1995. In August of 1995, the nodes of the moon changed signs into Libra and Aries. Now the north node was in Libra during this period of time, lasting between August 1995 and February 1997.

What's interesting about this period is that my father was once again moved. He was reassigned to a new congregation, a new parish, and we once again moved. Isn't that interesting? I thought that was just a fascinating connection. So, that connection seems to be a recurring one in my chart, not that I completely understand it.

But I thought it was interesting because it represented a social transition for me going to a new school, new church, etc. That was, once again, challenging; you're the new kid and stuff like that. Earlier in my life, this seems to have been part of the pattern; it changes a little bit as I get older.

So August 1995 to February 1997 was also a period in which we had Libran eclipses. Now, of course, they're always paired with Aries eclipses; you can think about it that way, too. But right now, since the solar eclipse coming up, as in Libra, I'm just focusing on Libra.

So here you'll see in December of 2004 that the nodes of the moon, once again, move into Libra and Aries. Again, if you're wondering, I'm using the mean node that there are mean or true measurements; I use the mean; in my practice, I'm not going to spend time talking about the differences in this video.

Between December of 2004 and June of 2006, we had south node Libra and eclipses. What was interesting for me was that during this time, once again, I moved. I moved for the sake of going to graduate school for creative writing. But I moved to a little retirement kind of cabin cottage that my parents had built but were not yet living in on my grandfather's land in rural Michigan, and so once again, there was a move; I had to make new friends socially. So, it was a little bit of a challenging period in terms of integrating and finding my way socially;

I think that it's fascinating that that theme of moving and socializing and finding new social situations was there. It's also interesting to me that this Libran period coincided with starting to study art in graduate school. That was fascinating. Anyway, there's more that I mined from these periods. I don't want to talk so much about my own story today; I just want to give you the inspiration to look back at these periods and see what was happening. So that was 2004, through 2006, south node in Libra.

Now, during that time, it's not as though eclipses are happening the whole time. But the repeating or the recurrence of eclipses should be activating a series of events, experiences, and themes in the whole sign house of Libra in your chart that have some soul history to them. So they should feel like deeper stuff is coming up around those spaces for most people.

Now, there are always exceptions in your birth chart; there might have been a major transit happening somewhere else that really stole the show, and the eclipses were a little muted by the fact that you know, something else was activated. But nonetheless, from 2004 through 2006, south node Libra.

Now, let's bring it up to the most recent period; we're going to go to 2014 to 2015. So here we are in March of 2014, and the north node is now in Libra all the way until October of 2015. So, during this period of time, this is actually the most recent period, in which we had the same eclipse patterns in Libra and Aries. However, this one was with the north node in Libra; we're coming around to the south node. That's fascinating as well.

So one of the things that I find remarkable about this when I was tracking it, again, was during this period, surprise, surprise. My wife and I bought our first home and moved into it, and I thought that it was really interesting that there was another significant move.

However, during this period of time, we were married, and then we had just been married previous to this period start reading, and then Ashley got pregnant with our oldest daughter, and we bought our first home and moved and, so this was a period for me interesting was all about acclimating to becoming a father moving into a new house, you know, my wife being pregnant, but it constituted the first move of, and having my own family and really my own first home, you could call it that way up until then we were, you know, renters and so we're just fine. I'm not trying to say that in a snobby way. It was just the first time owning a home and transitioning into being like having my own family and becoming a father.

It was a really tough period of time, with a lot of work and a big adjustment socially; again, isn't that fascinating? These liminal spaces with social adjustments and moves. They all land in my sixth house, and so the theme of, like, work or study and moves that forced me to change or adapt socially in some way really seems to be the pattern. Really, really interesting. I'm laughing because I'm like, What will this one bring? I hope, no more moves. We've, we're settled in now pretty well. We'll see.

Anyway, I think that you can look at March 2014 through October 2015, which is the most recent period to draw upon when it comes to the ongoing eclipses coming in Libra, and you know, and Aries. But this is, you know, these periods I'm having you look out for the whole sign house of Libra because we have this solar eclipse on the 14th in Libra. So those are our most recent periods.

Now, if we bring it up to the current moment, let's take a look, broadly speaking, at how long we have with the north node of the moon, or excuse me, the south node of the Moon in Libra. So if we track this, we're going to see that the south node of the moon changes into Libra in mid-July of this summer, 2023, and now let's watch it; I'm just going to go month by month, and we're going to see that the south node of the moon gets down to the very end of Libra by December of 2024, but it doesn't fully change signs into Virgo until late January 2025.

So these eclipses and the work in the whole sign house of Libra that this eclipse season is kicking off really last all the way until the beginning of 2025. So, like a year and a half or so, which is pretty, that's pretty much the span of the eclipses, usually about a year and a half for the eclipses moving through the same sign.

Well, what I'd like to do now is I'm going to just remove everything but the south node of the moon, and there we go, and what I want to do is take this just and give you just like a few little hits, of what you can expect for each rising sign.

Now, this is not like a full treatment horoscope; it's just to sort of remind you of the topical domains of life by whole sign house according to your whole sign ascendant or rising sign. So you should listen to this. In other words, for your rising sign, consider this as a whole sign house configuration.

Aries
So, if you're an Aries rising, we're just going to remind you that this is taking place in the seventh house; broadly speaking, that house has to do with pleasure, ecstasy, bliss, and communion with others. It's a social house that is about happiness with other people. But oftentimes, it's spoken about in terms of relationships, sexuality, marriage, and things like that. But that's the area of life that's being activated with some soul history during this upcoming period of time, especially the duration of 2024, but also starting with this next eclipse.

Taurus
If we are looking at Taurus, then we're in the sixth house. Now, I told you I'm a Taurus rising, so I just kind of told you guys some stories. But generally speaking, the sixth is about work and sacrifice, things that we are in the process of building or developing; all the cadent houses can point to liminal or transitional spaces, ones that require a lot of work effort, sacrifice, service, endurance, perseverance, that's pretty common for the sixth house, and also the kinds of conflicts that are coming up and the kinds of crosses that we're asked to carry. The sixth house was called The Joy of Mars and is often a place that pays off but only with The hard work, sacrifice, and service we put in.

Geminis
All right, let's keep going for Geminis, that south node eclipses in Libra land in your fifth house, which is a place that broadly speaking refers to pleasure, just like the seventh. But in this sense, it's not as much about interpersonal pleasure; it could be romantic or sexual. But it's about creative satisfaction and creative fulfillment, which is why it's associated with things like children and pregnancy, sex, and romance, but also anything that's pleasurable or creatively fulfilling. So you look at this house, and you wonder about creative fulfillment if you're a Gemini and what creative development is, what your creative process is, what is bringing happiness, and what isn't. That's the process being activated there for Geminis.

Cancer
Now, if you're a Cancer, it's all about family. It's all about home and living environment. It's about the history of family and marriage and living environment or property or land. It's about things that are deep in the ancestral Well, and that's the cancers with the south node eclipses taking place in the fourth house.

Leo
If you are a Leo, this takes place in the third house. Now, a lot of that is going to have to do with mind, mood, and environment. But also things like siblings, and neighbors and neighborhood and sort of your local scene generally and how it's changing. But I would say, broadly speaking, this place is about learning. It's about adaptation. It's about changing the way you communicate, think, or perceive. It's about changing mood and mind.

So, a change of mood, a change of mind. You know, one of the things that happens for me during third house eclipses I've noticed I do have my Sun and Mercury there. But I like to write a lot, or I find myself needing to communicate or translate what I'm thinking and feeling in terms of different creative mediums. So that can also happen, especially with Venus-ruled eclipses in the third house.

Virgos
For Virgos, this is taking place in the house of resources. That could be money, time, energy, people, things that help you somehow, or things that you're trying to cultivate or develop. So it's not just money. It's this broader area of resources and things that we have or things that we're developing or cultivating, and that can be people or education, anything that really is helping us cultivate our resources, broadly speaking. So, the emphasis is on that area for Virgos.

Libra
Now, we are moving into the first house. Librans have the eclipse taking place in their first house, and that means identity, body health psychology; there's a pretty existential feeling for Librans right now with the eclipses in the first house. Now, that could be about body and health, and patterns of health and disease that you're looking at more deeply. But it also has to do with self, that sort of self-concept and the need to individuate sometimes; we have to go back to go forward; we have to look at old things in order to let go of them and evolve. So personal psychological development, individuation, health, vitality, these are the issues coming up for Librans with these eclipses over the next year plus,

Scorpio
For Scorpios, it's 12th House material, which might take you into the domain of the unconscious and especially relationships right Libras, a Venus-ruled sign in the 12th house. So looking at unconscious patterns in relationships, looking at the potential for regression or regressive tendencies in yourself or those that you are close with, looking at secrets or stuff that you're not as aware of that evades your conscious understanding, somehow, undermining, like things that undermine you either from within or without, and the need to get into contact with those things so that you can be healthier, wiser, especially healthier and happier relationships. So that's the Scorpios of the 12th, house eclipses, transitional spaces for Scorpios, too, in relationships.

Sagittarius
Sagittarians, we're looking at 11th-house eclipses, which means that we're talking about cycles, social cycles, networks of friends, and people that you share affinities with socially, religiously, professionally, or academically. People that you learn with people that you share community with and similar ambitions, goals, dreams, or aspirations with it's about patterns that are coming up for review around who you consider your allies to be or friends or people that have a similar life, vision or purpose and it's time to refine or adapt or change socially for Sagittarians.

Capricorn
So, for Capricorns, we place this into the 10th house, a place that has us facing the world and the social reality that we live in. Usually, that translates into professional change. But it could be, more broadly speaking, what ties us to the social world. Where do we find some kind of social participation, that could be through a career, but it also might be just the way that we're known or how we show up in the world playing some kind of social, having a social identity. But then again, I'd say most commonly, you're going to see people dealing with things around profession, career, professional direction, changes in the workplace, and things like that.

Aquarian
For Aquarians. These are ninth-house eclipses, which bring up questions of belief, faith paradigm, and philosophical outlook on life. This is really about looking at the changing landscape of your beliefs, ethics, morals, and political or religious convictions. It could bring up the need to learn or study or find sages, mentors, and gurus. The need to travel abroad to expand one's horizons to seek truth, whether that's through science or metaphysics, the quest for knowledge, and the desire to almost like it's almost like a metaphorical pilgrimage, maybe even literal. But that's where the energy is for Aquarians.

Pisces
Finally, Pisces places the eclipses into the eighth house, a place where you will be examining social contracts, soul contracts, the give and take of relationships, what other people provide, what other people expect, the way that relationships entangle us in situations where we are obligated to other people in complicated and sometimes even terrible ways that we have to, you know, get extricate ourselves from. On the other hand, it's about the give and take of relationships and the way that we have to behave according to various social contracts that are a part of our lives that we need, without which we can't make it.

It's also about death and fear and facing fears, especially in relationships with the Libra and emphasis on Venus. So, what do we fear socially? Or what kinds of fears, inhibitions, or anxieties do we have in relationships? What kind of unhealthy attachments or codependent tendencies do we have? Those will be up for review as well, and it's also about what people grant us or give us as a matter of really liking us.

The eighth house is called the esteem of other people, which can mean that other people look at us favorably and say, you know, I want to help you in some way. I want to, you know, a lot of the best things in our lives come from within, and a lot of the best things come from without. They come from what other people grant us or bless us with either in their presence or their friendship or literal assets that they have. So we're looking at some of those connections with other people, the resources of others, and what is shared for Pisces rising.

So anyway, those are just reminders of the topics of the 12 whole sign houses that the Libra and eclipses will be activating; I just wanted to, you know, give you those reminders of the whole sign houses; some people don't need that reminder, some of you, it's nice to brush up on it. If you know your rising sign, then you should be able to track it really easily with the topics I just mentioned.

Remember the previous Libran eclipses that you want to study with respect to the activation of those topics took place between April of 86 and November of 87. If you want to go back that far, August 95 to February 97 is a little bit more recent.

These are probably the ones that most people will find that their memory serves them, and you can recall what was happening that's December 2004 through June 2006, and then most recently, from March 2014 to October 2015. I hope that your eclipse season is going to be fantastic and that the activation of these topics with the sign of Libra brings new peace.

You know, it's kind of the ability to harmonize or synchronize different parts of your life that may not be clear how they fit together. But one promise of Libran eclipses is that we often find ourselves learning how to harmonize things that at first feel sort of disjointed or out of place or maybe even incongruent in some way.

For example, when I was looking back at the eclipses in my own life, what I noticed was that every single period, there was a social adaptation taking place that was challenging for me. Moving when I was younger, graduate school in a totally new community of people when I was older, becoming a dad when I was a little bit older, and again, being married to becoming a dad and getting our own home.

So I think that one of the things I realized is that Libra generally, the eclipses in Libra will ask us to find some newer, healthier level of social harmonization, and that could be in marriage, but it could it'd be, you know at work or in school or in some other sphere of our lives.

So, one thing that I look forward to with these eclipses is just the knowledge that Libra has this noble, beautiful ability to take difficult situations and find the ideal balance or the way to harmonize over time. So we may have to work with that a little bit, and there's also Aries eclipses, which we're going to talk about; I think those are a little bit more about being going off bravely in a direction that is entirely our own. So that's a counterpoint along with other counterpoints that we can visit when we get to Aries season in the spring, and the eclipses come through Aries because they're a pair they work together.

That's it for today. I hope that this has been useful for you, as always; I would love to hear your stories. If you have a #Grabbed story to share, use the hashtag #grabbed your email us your story, grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. We will see you again tomorrow. Bye, everyone.