Eclipses,
whether of the Sun or Moon, are significant of evil according to their positions and aspects in the horoscope. For if an eclipse of the Sun happens it will afflict male members of the family, and an eclipse of the Moon will denote evil to female members. Eclipses falling in the sign occupying the 10th or 4th Houses will afflict the parents, and those which fall in the 3rd House will similarly affect collateral relatives, such as brothers and sisters, according to the sex indicated.
The effects of eclipses last for eighteen months, and will be great or small according to the magnitude of the eclipse and considerations due to aspects. When falling on the places of benefic planets or those well aspected in the horoscope, the eclipse will portend good arising out of some catastrophe or bereavement. But when falling on the places of the malefics, or on places in the horoscope that are badly aspected by the planets at birth, they portend nothing but evil.
Falling in other parts of the figure, they are not of such significance, but generally it may be said that eclipses have a detrimental effect on such affairs as are governed by the House wherein the eclipse falls.
It has been said that unless an eclipse is visible in that part of the world where the subject was born, it will have no effect upon his health or fortunes. But this cannot be the case, for then those planets that are beneath the horizon at the time of birth could with equal reason be exempt from any share in our consideration, whereas, on the contrary, we know full well that in whatever part of the circle the planets may be situated at the moment of birth they will affect the life and fortunes in equal degree, but especially such department of the life as may be ruled by the House a planet occupies.
The following is a list of the visible eclipses that will be witnessed in Great Britain during the next ten years:
| 1914. | — | 12th March, Moon eclipsed in the third hour of the morning, nearly total. 21st August, the Sun eclipsed about noon, two-thirds of the disc eclipsed. Total in Sweden and Norway. |
| 1916. | — | 9th January, Moon sets in contact with the shadow. 3rd February, the Sun sets about half eclipsed. Total across the Atlantic. 15th July, Moon eclipsed about three-quarters of its disc in the fifth hour of the morning. |
| 1917. | — | 8th January, Moon eclipsed in the eighth hour of the morning, just before sunrise. Total. 4th July, Moon totally eclipsed in the eleventh hour of the evening. 28th December, Moon begins to be eclipsed just before setting. |
| 1919. | — | 7th November, in the twelfth hour at night the Moon is partially eclipsed. 22nd November, the Sun has one-fifth of its disc obscured near sunset. Annular in the South Atlantic. |
| 1920. | — | 3rd May, Moon totally eclipsed in the second hour of the morning. 10th November, Sun sets half eclipsed. |
| 1921. | — | 8th April, in the ninth hour of the morning the Sun is eclipsed, about five-sixths of the disc being obscured. Annular eclipse in the north. 16th October, the Moon has five-sixths of its disc overshadowed at eleventh hour of the evening. |
| 1922. | — | 28th March, Sun eclipsed in the third hour of the afternoon, about one-sixth being obscured. Annular in Africa. |
The years 1805 and 1917 are great eclipse years, for in both those years there are no less than seven eclipses. From like causes we argue like effects, and therefore we may anticipate a great convulsion in the political world during the year 1917 and thereafter. At that time Mars and Saturn will form their conjunction in the sign Leo together with Neptune, and these successive conjunctions of the three major planets cannot fail to produce great mutations, more especially in those countries that are ruled by the sign Leo.
So far as individual horoscopes are concerned the effects of these conjunctions and the eclipses which fall in the sign Capricornus and Cancer must be judged by the particular Houses of the horoscopes in which they occur. The general effects due to any eclipse or conjunction of the larger planets are distributed and find their expression through individual horoscopes, the influence filtrating as it were through a variety of channels for the ultimate purpose of human evolution and government.