Hi there and welcome this is Amanda the founder of Astrology Hub and you're listening to our Week Ahead snapshot with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic calendar

Christopher Wrenstrom. This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice

and how you navigate and weave these energies into your daily life.

Enjoy.

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 upcoming solar eclipse in Scorpio,

which will be taking place on October 25th.

Now, eclipses are really quite significant in astrology. In fact they even kind of carry a little bit of a nefarious reputation.

They refer to the times of year when the lights in the sky go out.

It's literally as if the light goes out in heaven.

This is much more apparent with lunar eclipses

when you can actually see the shadow of the Earth moving over the full moon so that it disappears from the nighttime sky.

It's not as frequently observed with solar eclipses. Those happen to be a little bit more rare when you actually see the sun disappear from the daytime sky because the moon has moved in front of it. But nevertheless,

eclipses were seen as a time when basically the sun or the full moon disappeared from the sky in an unnatural way.

We know that it's because in a solar eclipse the moon moves in front of the sun or in a

lunar eclipse the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and casts its shadow on the moon.

But those mechanics weren't really all that well known in ancient times.

And so for older civilizations and cultures,

it looked as if there was a dragon that was swallowing the sun,

or there was a dragon that was swallowing the moon.

And so these periods of time

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