Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom, and I'm your weekly horoscope

columnist here on Astrology Hub. And this week I wanted to talk to you about the lunar eclipse in Taurus

taking place on November 8th.

I have to confess something.

This is not a lunar eclipse that I am really looking forward to.

Eclipses can be pretty dramatic in and of themselves, but whenever you have an eclipse involving one of the modern planets, a modern planet is any planet that was discovered after the year 1781.

Before 1781 we had the seven traditional or classical planets, that's the Sun Moon, Mercury,

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

But in 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered.

And Uranus, as we all know, is the planet of revolution and change.

Why is it the planet of revolution and change?

Because Uranus in 1781 was discovered at the exact... of revolution. Anyone who's taken history class knows that those were pretty wild and

rollicking times when it came to overthrowing governments and trying out new

forms of social order.

This is the period of time when Uranus is discovered.

So Uranus essentially, you know,

because it was also discovered at that midpoint between the American War for Independence in the French Revolution.

Also what Uranus did quite abruptly was overthrow the classical order of the seven traditional or original planets.

All of a sudden it wasn't them anymore,

and the club was open to any new one who showed up.

And so Uranus becomes known as a modern planet, simply meaning that it's a planet that was discovered in the modern age.

And on the tale of Uranus was Neptune's discovery in 1848 and Pluto's discovery in the year 1930.

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