Lunar Zodiac
Anyone know what zodiac sign the partial lunar eclipse of July 17, 1981 was? Cancer is the solar zodiac.?
I’m looking to know what zodiac the moon was in during the lunar eclipse of July 17, 1981.
The other writers are correct, as far as it goes, that the moon was in the zodiacal “sign” of Capricorn.
Of course, they’re all completely wrong as to which constellation the moon was actually in. The eclipse actually took place while the moon was in Sagittarius, the most southerly constellation. In late June to late July, the full moon is passing its most southerly point, in Sagittarius.
“Signs” of the zodiac were set by the Greeks more than 2000 years ago. Of course, very few of the classical Greeks (and, evidently, even fewer modern astrologers) had any idea about precession, the celestial movement that has made the June-July full moon move from the constellation Capricornus into Sagittarius. (Although the composer of the song “The Age of Aquarius” may have heard of it.)
More than two millennia later, the “signs” of the zodiac are purely imaginary as far as the movement of the heavenly bodies is concerned. The sun from June 22-July 21 passes through Gemini although horoscope-casters (blissfully ignorant of this fact because they probably have never looked up at the stars anyway) still think it’s “Cancer.”
It makes you wonder, doesn’t it! When an astrologer tells you that “Cancer” people possess this-and-that trait and are attracted to persons of such-and-such a sign, he seems oblivious to the fact that the sun (and moon, planets, etc.) are not in that constellation at all! All living “Cancer” people were in fact born when the sun was in the constellation Gemini! Whatever mystical celestial property possessed by the constellation Cancer to make those people “Cancer” cannot possibly apply to them, because they were all born when the sun was in Gemini.
November 2010 – Astrology (Astrological) and Lunar Forecast