February 06:
Aquarius Solar Eclipse, 2008

Luna conjuncts Sol in Aquarius at the 18th degree. We are ready to remove our masks so that we reveal our true identities within our social circles, or a pretense involved in a game may end so that the real identity may be openly displayed. Conversly, a social mask may be donned in order to express the real identity. Nearby Neptune in Aquarius at the 22nd degree brings humanitarian ideals into the picture.

Mars now direct but still in the retrograde zone in Gemini is trine to Retrograde Mercury in Aquarius at the 17th degree, warning us not to take all communications at face value. Illusions and delusions are in the air and fantasies may have to be ultimately abandoned. Mars (now direct but still in the retrograde zone) is also opposing Pluto in the first degree of Capricorn, so fighting words could be spoken in an intense effort to control an economic and political sphere of influence. The reliability of information containing bellicose words might be questionable. (Mercury is retrograde) and electronically broadcast images and words (Direct Mars in the retrograde zone square Uranus in Pisces) could be particularly unreliable, because the terms used to describe an alleged attack or threat could be rooted in ideology and pictorial imagery (Pisces) rather than fact. Semantically, there could be the false framing of an issue through the dubious use of pictorial language.

Luna conjuncts Sol in Aquarius at the 18th degree. We are ready to remove our masks so that we reveal our true identities within our social circles, or a pretense involved in a game may end so that the real identity may be openly displayed. Conversly, a social mask may be donned in order to express the real identity. Nearby Neptune in Aquarius at the 22nd degree brings humanitarian ideals into the picture. Mars now direct but still in the retrograde zone in Gemini is trine to Retrograde Mercury in Aquarius at the 17th degree, warning us not to take all communications at face value. Illusions and delusions are in the air and fantasies may have to be ultimately abandoned. Mars (now direct but still in the retrograde zone) is also opposing Pluto in the first degree of Capricorn, so fighting words could be spoken in an intense effort to control an economic and political sphere of influence. The reliability of information containing bellicose words might be questionable. (Mercury is retrograde) and electronically broadcast images and words (Direct Mars in the retrograde zone square Uranus in Pisces) could be particularly unreliable, because the terms used to describe an alleged attack or threat could be rooted in ideology and pictorial imagery (Pisces) rather than fact. Semantically, there could be the false framing of an issue through the dubious use of pictorial language.On the other hand, Retrograde Saturn is trining Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn, ensuring that a strong measure of stability, based in a review of past economic structures, will maintain the status quo during a period of sabre-rattling.

There is no fire in this chart, and only a little water (Uranus in Pisces), so that any crisis at this time will not come to much more than a quarrel over old issues. (Direct Mars in the retrograde zone in Gemini). Nevertheless, with Pluto at the very sensitive Aries point, we may expect that some sort of very important global economic restructuring is being effected at this time (probably behind the scenes in circles of power-broking) and will come about during the next two years, which would be the time span for the effect of this eclipse.

Astrologer Stephanie Austin has an excellent Aquarian message:
Article: Stephanie Austin on the Aquarius Solar Eclipse, 2008