Eclipse in its usual meaning is the event when Moon comes in between Earth
and Sun casting its shadow over the Earth. For some time we do not get full
light of the Sun. This is call Solar Eclipse.
There is also Lunar eclipse when Earth comes in between Sun
and the Moon. In this case shadow of Earth falls on moon and we can see Moon
getting eclipsed as Earth moves. We can very well see the shadow of Earth
coming over Moon and slowly covering whole or partial part of the Moon.
Effect of above events affect lives of the people on earth to some extent.
This effect is not remarkable. Astrologically it affects people with weak Moon.
Moon represents the mind of a person and such events could disturb them
mentally to some extent.
Eclipse in Astrology
In Astrology, many terminologies have different meaning. First of all in
astrology "Planet" itself means any celestial body or any node in
space which has an impact on our lives on Earth. Hence Sun and Moon are called
Planets in Astrology although as per Astronomy and Physics, Sun is a star while
Moon is Earth's satellite. Nevertheless in Astrology both Sun and Moon are
considered planet. Not even Sun and Moon, even the nodal points which are
intersection of Earth's orbit and Moon's orbit, notoriously known as Rahu and
Ketu respectively, are considered planets in Astrology. Yes Rahu and Ketu are
just nodal points of intersection of Earth's and Moon's orbit. They are not
physical planets and hence also popularly referred as Shadowy planets.
When Rahu or Ketu is near sun's longitude, Sun is supposed to be eclipsed.
This has a lot of astrological significance. Usually whenever any planet is
very near to Sun, astrologically, that planet is said to be combust which means
that the planet will not be able to have any strength till the time it is near
Sun. All planets be it Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn or Mercury, they loose their
strength when they are very near to Sun. However Sun has no impact on Rahu /
Ketu since Rahu / Ketu are shadowy planets and cannot have any impact of Sun.
On the contrary when these nodal points are very near to Sun, Sun's influence
get reduced. Sun is said to be afflicted by Rahu and Ketu. This is more true
for Rahu which is the only planet that can impact Sun and eclipse it.
In a native's chart if Rahu is very close to Sun in same house then the
significance of the house whose lordship is with Sun gets adversely affected
due to eclipse of Sun.
