Eclipse Impact
Eclipses are not slogans. They are degrees on the ecliptic, marked by a particular Sun-Moon-node configuration, repeating every eighteen years and eleven days as a Saros series. This page takes the next twenty-four months of solar and lunar eclipses and lays each one against your natal chart — exact degree, transiting aspects to natal planets and angles, and the Saros number that holds the long arc.
Saros series, briefly
A Saros is a family of eclipses that share a node, a similar geometry and a slow drift across the latitudes of the Earth over more than a thousand years. Each eclipse you live through belongs to one. Knowing the series lets you compare the current event with its previous occurrence eighteen years and eleven days earlier — same family, similar shape, your life transposed by an octave.
Natal contacts the page reads
For each eclipse the tool computes conjunctions, oppositions, squares and trines from the eclipse degree to your ten planets, the Ascendant, the Midheaven and the lunar nodes. Orbs are tight — three degrees for hard aspects, two for trines — because eclipses are exact-degree events. A wide hit is noise; a one-degree hit is the page worth reading.
State-language reading
The text under each contact does not say what will happen. It says where attention is likely drawn, which house holds the lit area, and which natal theme is now under brighter light. An eclipse on the natal Moon points to where you are emotionally seen; on the Midheaven, where your public direction is being seen. You decide what to do with the seeing.
How it sits beside the rest
Eclipse Impact is the bridge between Eclipse Visibility (the sky question) and the natal chart, transits and progressions (the inner geometry). For deeper time-lord context, pair it with Annual Profections — the profected lord often coincides with the eclipse-touched house, sharpening the year. Lunar Nodes adds the long axis on which all eclipses sit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an eclipse have to be visible to matter?
For natal contact the answer is no — the geometry is the same whether the shadow falls on your roof or the other side of the planet. For lived experience, visibility adds weight. Many people register eclipses they could see more strongly than ones they only read about.
How wide should the orb be?
Three degrees for conjunction, opposition and square; two for trine and sextile. Anything wider lets too much in. The page sticks to these and shows the exact arc-degree of separation, so a one-degree contact is plainly stronger than a two-and-a-half-degree one.
Can I look up the previous Saros eclipse?
The page reports the Saros number; from there you can find the previous occurrence eighteen years and eleven days earlier in any standard catalogue, or just count back. We list the date for the immediate predecessor whenever it falls within the modern era you are likely to remember.
Why does the page sometimes show no contacts?
Because the eclipse degree is genuinely empty in your chart within the chosen orb. That is information too — a quieter eclipse for you, even if the news is loud. Empty here means empty by geometry, not by oversight.