Lunar eclipse and solar return

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Lunar eclipse and solar return

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Hello everybody,

I must be the first astrology dummy who's ever posted on this forum, but I dare to do it because I am very curious about something about my new solar return which will happen in a few hours although I was born on May 27 in the afternoon.
I'd like to ask if this eclipse will affect me somehow. My sidereal Sun is at 11°22' Taurus. I only have Uranus in Scorpio at 8°.
I also noticed what some planets in conjunction to MC-IC could mean.
MC/IC 26°32 Taurus/Scorpio
Venus 27°32 Taurus
Moon 25°36 Scorpio

AC/DC 27°56 Leo/Aquarius
Neptune 27°56 Aquarius

Thank you! I apologize for the grammar mistakes.

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Please give us your birth data completely and without modifying. It is also preferable to give the source (so that levels of confidence can be established).

For example: According to Jim's birth certificate, he was born October 10, 1954, 4:13 AM, Rochester, IN.

Most of us prefer to cast the chart ourselves and many of us use a mundane format, so the information you've given isn't useful.

If you prefer, you can enter it in the Archive of Forum Participant thread which is less likely to be found by google.
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Yes, what Jupiter said...

I can tell you two things, though: Since your Sun is (barely!) within 1° of the Full Moon's Sun, you'll at least feel it as a very strong Sun-to-Sun transit for a day or two.

Another possibility - we can't tell without your birth data and current location - is that you have a Moon-Sun aspect in your solar return (which would be important) or Moon would progress to oppose Sun during your solar return year.
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Thank you for your reply, Jupiter Sets at Dawn!
My mother said I was born somewhere between 2.20-2.30 p.m. Last year I tried to rectify my own chart even though I'm not even able to correctly interpret it and I found that some of the most important events of my life happened when the outer planets aspected my angles. I chose 2.26 p.m. because it corresponds with my mother's death, dropping out of university, going back to university in another country and so on.
I was born on May 27 1982 at Rosiorii de Vede, Romania.
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I forgot to mention that I currently live in Bucharest, Romania.
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Jim, thank you for teaching me something new. I saw that next year in March my progressed Moon will opposite the Sun. I'm not sure though and have no idea what it means. I imagine an opposition is not something very good.
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Aspects aren't good or bad. They are strong or weak. Between 0° and 1°, an aspect is partile and very strong. Between 1° and 3°, it's strong. 3° to 6° it's moderate. 6° to 9° it's noticeable, unless there's something else stronger.
Strength isn't the same as expressiblity. The closer to an angle the planets in the aspect are, the more easily the aspect expresses itself.
There are two ways to measure how close to an angle or another planet a planet is. There's longitude along the zodiac, which is what most astrologers use exclusively, and there's measuring along the prime vertical, called mundanely, which we use in addition to longitude.
We mostly don't use houses, btw.

That good or bad stuff is from astrologers using the wrong zodiac trying to make sense of a chart.
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Thanks, Jupiter Sets at Dawn for your explanation. I finally know the difference between a strong and a week aspect. Yay! I guess this eclipse on my Sun has a positive effect. :)
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You're welcome.

Take some time to look around this site. It's a teaching site. If you start at the Home page (index.php) you'll find a section on Natal Astrology (viewforum.php?f=3) that covers things like aspects and angularity and planets and so on. The posts pinned at the top are worth a read. You might find trying to go through the rest a little confusing till you know more.

And questions are always in order.
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Your Sidereal Solar Return occurs tomorrow, May 27, 2021 at 1:22 PM EET. Moon is long past the opposition to Sun but, in your solar return, is opposite Venus and square Neptune - right on the angles in Bucharest. (Some Mercury, too.) It is a year for surrealistic romance, for being utterly intoxicated (in the best and worst senses) with love, romance, or pleasure, for deeply hoping for "too good to be true" and perhaps a little more vulnerable to disappointment and disillusionment if it doesn't come out quite perfectly.

Must of this will come to full flowering in about two months when Moon progresses to the Venus, Neptune, and angle.

You have a strong Venus-Neptune aspect at birth - your closest aspect This will draw it out and amplify it. In a natal chart, Venus-Neptune typically manifests as someone who is idealistic, idyllic, and loves to be enchanted; who is usually comfortably happy, gently romantic, and naïve about people in romance, good-hearted, ingratiating, devoted, and humanitarian.

Furthermore, transiting Pluto is only 0°01' from square your Venus, saying that you're in the middle of a time when dramatic, life-altering changes in intimate relationships occur. I sometimes summarize this as "divorce, elopement - or both!."
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Jim, you made my natal Venus-Neptune trine is extremely happy!!! As you can see I refuse to see the possibility of being disappointed. :) You described so well this aspect! Especially when it comes to being naïve and humanitarian.
I can't go through a divorce because I've single for several years after a long relationship which ended with a great disappointment. But that is in the past.
It was so strange to see you say "deeply hoping for "too good to be true" "because this is what I have been doing for the past 6 months. Even though my life is pretty boring now, I deeply feel I will experience things too good to be true. And not only concerning romance.
I may seem delusional at least :roll:, but this about me seeing God differently. I've been searching for Him all my life and in my mind He was that scary guy who wasn't happy if I didn't do everything as my religion asks me to. During the last few months I've discovered the good and loving God who doesn't want me to beg, but only to ask and I will have it.

My planets are so happy to hear such good news! Thank you, Jim! :)
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V83, happy birthday!

How did your last year turn out? What are you doing for your birthday this year?
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I had a Demi SSR happen at the same time of an eclipse. Extremely strong. Most definitive point in my life. I wouldn't be here without it. Uranus was also involved, exactly.
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