Wonderful observations, Dolores...!

Here's something I found:

www.aquariuspapers.com/astrol...ip.html


(from the above link:)

The Solar Eclipse of August 1, 2008 - Long Range Transfiguration, Tears of Joy

by Robert Wilkinson

The coming Solar Eclipse will have a very significant impact on us all. All eclipses shut something down, taking away elements of our lives no longer "true" for us. Leo is the sign of personal love, creativity, self-dramatization, and our heart-felt pleasures. Thus a form of these will be shut down, with the void sure to attract new forms of expressing this energy. Wherever this eclipse falls in our charts is where we can expect long term endings, but also relief, transfiguration, and the joy of knowing we've made it through the night.

This total Solar Eclipse occurs at 3:13 am PDT, 6:13 am EDT on August 1, 2008. It puts early Cancer rising in Southern California, mid-Cancer in British Columbia, early Leo rising in Miami, and mid-Leo rising in NYC. London and Amsterdam have mid-Libra rising, Tallinn late Libra, Istanbul early Scorpio, Baghdad mid-Scorpio, and Johannesburg late Scorpio rising. New Delhi has mid-Sag rising, Trivandrum has late Sag rising, and Bangkok has mid-Capricorn rising. Perth has mid-Aquarius rising, Melbourne has mid-Pisces rising, and Maui has mid-Taurus on the Ascendant.

This New Moon has no significant forming aspects except a triseptile to Jupiter and a novile to Mars. So I would consider this an important lunation in bringing forth a new public spiritual impulse in all of us taking the forms of cooperation, or friendly competition.

It marks a fork in the road of destiny in how we relate the Cancer-Leo affairs of our lives to our Sagittarius-Pisces affairs, and we'll all be called to some collective-cooperative expansion. We shall experience life's goodness in areas of regeneration, with mid-October, late November, early December, and mid-January 2009 of particular importance due to transits triggering the eclipse effects.

We will have to "retire" from some things at the end of a quest while showing courage as we rehearse patterns to come, and the coming months will again bring a "supreme realization of a life ambition" for those who have practiced their excellence and stayed open to more information. Take nothing for granted, skillfully display your enthusiasms, and find ways to exploit human maladjustments in terms of their larger significance.

Of note is that in our Gemini and Virgo areas we'll experience inner growth and through contemplation we can find serenity and peace of mind, while our Taurus and Libra areas will require more self-control and self-sufficiency than before now, as well as Spiritual strength and knowledge in facing consequences of past actions.
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To bad the USA isn't included in the national and religious revolutions.