I'm in Reykjavik, Iceland, waiting to finally get on a plane to Chicago. My flight from London almost crash landed in the North Atlantic yesterday, but the pilots made it through an electrical overheat under the cockpit and landed the plane at the airport despite the smoke. I spent the night here and I'm really glad to be alive, plus anxious to get back home and pick up my son finally.

Everybody say a little prayer or send good luck vibes or what works for you if you can spare it - that we ALL get home safely without further incident.

I've been wondering how many of us on the flight have placements at 29 degrees (I sure do). What's your eclipse story?

Jessica, I am glad to hear that you are ok! Sending good vibes to you over in Iceland! 

No story yet. Tomorrow is my Career Exploration orientation. The Eclipse is situated in my 4th house and my moon is in Cancer, so that will have a lot to do with it. My natal Cancer moon also opposes my midheaven so career-related stuff are in the works.

So honestly, the story is yet to be written :) I'll see what unfolds tomorrow.  

(((prayers for you!!!!)))

This falls in my 8th House. It doesn't aspect anything, though...I'm finally back in my home after almost a month away. I have a new roommate. I'm pretty sad. I miss my ex, and I miss our life together.

(((JESSICA!))) Glad to hear you are safe! Take care, hope all is well on the way home. 

(((kashmiri)))

You will be ok! Think of this as a new beginning. Aren't solar eclipses good for that? I know it's difficult though so more good vibes to you! 

oh my god jessica! hughughughug I will pray that no other calamities happen. Please let us know that you got home safely.

Lunalie- goodluck!

and Kashmiri, I feel like I missed something- you were in a long-term relationship and just got out of it?  hugs to you too, if this is the case. 

Mine is in my 11th house, but it doesnt really aspect much, although I have been getting a lot of re-encounters with friends, who demand that I speak with them. It's like, a moon-uranian combination - needy, demanding, spontaneous, and somewhat aggrivating. and it's making me anxious because the exact conjunction is tonight and I think I'm going to be flooded with phone calls from these types.

Jessica - CRAP!

(((Jessica))) Glad you are safe!

The eclipse will be right on my MD. I'll be speaking tonight at my film club. This week I'm editing a short film through the club. I'm not crazy about the camera angles but it's coming together. I've been using the club to teach and share. It seems to be good for my reputation/MD.

Met with the ex on sunday who was giving me mixed messages. Was relieved to see that it's time to cut him off. Had notions of staying friends but we having different versions of that. Setting a boundary there. His coming around i feel has been a cock block. Because he says he wants to just be friends but then kisses me etc. Have an interest in a fellow at the club. Mild but enough to not need a cock blocking ex to distort things.

I've been reading up on the eclipse and realized that a solar eclipse is about new beginnings. Very appropriate because I am going through a Pluto transit to my Aries sun in 12th. Since the beginning of June, I have been going through changes - both in my career/working life (gotta love Saturn Return in Virgo) and my internal, psychological makeup. I believe I realize that I have a story to tell now.

I spent a few weeks moping around and holing up in my apartment after my lay off. Many issues came up, such as "Should I change careers?" "What does my partner think of me, now that I'm a deadbeat loser with no job?" "What really drives me?" "I don't want to spend my entire life being JEALOUS and ENVIOUS of other women, but why can't I stop this?" So I let myself sink into this dark place, and while at it, I've dedicated myself to eating well, staying active, and learning how to meditate and practicing yoga - things that should be done during my 6th house Saturn Return and dealing with the Pluto transit.

I must say that holing up is really one of the best solutions for anyone who is going through a hard pluto transit - and a Saturn transit in Virgo. You learn to look into yourself and accept that you have to live with who you are and there's no point hoping and wishing you were someone else. I threw away my everchanging lifelong plans of "perfection" and kept the future open. I stopped trying to control as I finally acknowledged that something bigger is driving me here, and that I trust that this driving force will take me to my destination. I've identified many self-defeating behaviours and thoughts. I'm continually facing my shadow in my (bad) dreams. I am progressing, and as difficult as this is, I feel that I'm becoming stronger - probably feeling like a true Aries for the first time in my life. 

The eclipse, I believe, signifies that I'm ready to let go. I think for the very first time in my life, I know what this means now.

Anyway... :P Back to fun... Sorry I sounded a bit depressing there... HAHAH! :D 

I must say that holing up is really one of the best solutions for anyone who is going through a hard pluto transit - and a Saturn transit in Virgo.

I couldn't agree more. I sold my car last summer, and have been a recluse at home all this summer (purposefully), and I couldn't be happier. There is such a great, rich, inner-world to feed off of when most outside-stimuli have been removed.

I will emerge, but right now I'm accepting that my purpose now is to store up information, security, and confidence (Gemini, Cancer, Leo) for the remaining time. 

No major points in the chart being hit here--closest thing is my mars at 5 leo and MC is at 8 leo-- but yeah, another Pluto Sun trine transit going on here already.

Mainly I have been having issues with callings that I have no idea how to execute (as in get rid of OR fulfill). One of them I thought I'd "grow out of" and never did, and that one (I'll call it #1) seems to be a requirement for #2, which I REALLY wish would go away because it is just ridiculous. It took a long time for me to give in and realize that #2 ain't leaving no matter how much I try to get over it, and #2 would probably rock my world even more than #1 will. I was just looking through a journal of mine from 2008 and I was still angsting over these things, trying to accept them, then saying "No, I need to get over it." Yeah, it's still not working. 

At this point both my mom and my shrink are all, "Just go for them already, THEY AREN'T GOING AWAY." I'm too embarrassed to tell what these things are to anyone else, but if I do them, EVERYONE is going to know what they are. Ack.

So mainly I am just trying to accept in myself that I am going to have to deal with these things, even if I have no idea how to put either of them into action from where I am now. That's my eclipse issue. Beats me how this ties into 9th house--religion, I guess.

Jessica!  So glad you're safe. 

No stories to report here.  Enjoying my day off.  Have been ebaying and thrifting for back to school clothes for the kids.  I just bought a musical reindeer playing banjo tie for John for Christmas.  It PLAYS MUSIC!  (he has to wear a tie at work)  

In other words the shiny chicken is shiny here. 

Jessica - you must be a nervous wreck. I would be. Hate flying over oceans. Hate flying period.

I must say that holing up is really one of the best solutions for anyone who is going through a hard pluto transit - and a Saturn transit in Virgo. The only time I feel OK is when I close the door at home and I'm alone with me to do what I want. My friends and family keep pressing me...what are you going to do and are you going to move. All I want to do is just BE. I feel like a garden that has grown too many vegetables and now needs to be left fallow for awhile longer. Although this seems to be affecting just me and not a lot of other Virgo's in my life. The eclipse is falling in my eighth house. I am not sure how it will manifest. I do have a lot of taxes and inheritance type stuff to deal with.

This eclipse is in my 5th house. It is conjunct my Chiron. It might mean I will learn to be more forgiving?

((((Jessica))))!!  I'm so glad everything turned out okay, am sending prayers that you return home safe to all of us and all those who love you and that you are met with many smiling faces . . .

Traveling mercies to you!

Does the eclipse affect the menstrual cycle ;? 

Its weird.. because 2 friends are late this week. Is it a coincidence,,                      We thought it could be connected with the eclipse. ..    Or maybe we are wrong

12th house.  huge hole in the ass of my pants, in public.  multiple other small disses.  staying home for the rest of the day to transcend my self-pity.

sorry, Jessica, that ROTS. 

mmarianna-

hahahahaha, i'm about to start! maybe they'll get their's tonight or tomorrow...

Thanks everyone - home safe.  Back tomorrow to read all the eclipse stories (and see if we have new ones).  Hugs to kashmiri and Vajra, and thanks to everybody for good wishes!

i just realized something: I feel like a complete hard-ass with some of the people in my life. There have been more than a few people around me lately who seem hell-bent on making *their problems *my problems and I'm being super-crazy-boundary-lady.

Eg: a co-worker freaking out because I didn't tell her my partner and I broke up; our boss did. I think her reaction has become the deal-breaker for me and I've ended the relationship. Privacy is a HUGE issue for me.  I can't tolerate someone expressing propriety over me/my personal life. I just f-r-e-a-k out... 

I wish I could see how this ties into 8th House eclipse action, but it is a bit too foggy. 

jessica did you have rotting shark's head while in iceland? the national delicacy I hear. What were you doing there? I saw someone else with 'session data' after their post and it made me miss you!

((((Jessica))))

in my 10th house trining my natal sun and moon

i'm in my hometown in upstate, new york ...last few days  non-stop visits/meals with friends/family from my childhood...staying at my brother's home (a double capricorn)

leaving tomorrow for san diego .... to meet a new guy.... (taurus!).... having put closure to relationship in seattle..... & nervous about flying after your story jessica!!... oh my goodness, i'm glad you're safe and sound

(((((kashmiri))))   i thought of you a lot when i was in seattle a couple of weeks ago especially everytime i passed highway 5 north - aren't you north there somewhere??  it was so painful for me last summer when i first left my man there....but this summer came full circle and reestablished a friendship....and i left without feeling the huge hole in my heart.....anyway, it's the time that heals & healing waves to you

lunalie thanks for sharing ideas on new beginnings...i'm hoping

Speaking in front of my film club went really well. Later it turns out one of the girls there has a connection with a job I applied for for a 4 month contract. She's going to put in a word for me. I got to know her on the weekend and she's very sweet and hardworking. My position is odd with this capricorn/cancer stuff - since i have saturn in cancer in the 9th house. It's my responsibility to nurture higher education. I'm there to nurture and teach but pluto is affecting how i communicate.

thanks lindsey...i'm just north of the border:) enjoy the rest of your holiday!

well well well...just received an insurance check (quite unexpected as the claim was past deadline) $$ for a contraceptive device. How 8th House/Cancer is that????

Talk about "revealing" things... I recently went to my Career Exploration orientation and I told the career counselor that i was concerned about starting from zero. My soon-to-be former career is very technical in nature so I figured I won't have the skills to switch over to any kind of new career. And then she reveals that I have a solid base of transferrable skills, despite how heavily technical my background is.

Now how cool is that? 

my sun is at 21 degrees cancer. I broke up with my boyfriend today. Very hard to do, although he made it a little easier... or maybe harder,  by being awful.  Somehow I just felt backed into a corner with this one and no other choice seemed possible. Huge eclipse: new start.

((omie))

I am so sorry. :(

Thank you Elsa, you really called it. That mars pluto uranus combo in the 7th  hitting my virgo moon is no joke. I gave it my best shot, and at least my children are at there fathers tonight, so I can be sad.

Damn, omie. I am sad for you. :(

(((omie)))

(((omie)))

omie.... I am so sorry.  (((hugs))).  You can come over for ice cream and wine and bad TV!

It crossed my north node the day of.  Last night an epiphany hit me that I'll probably never get married or have children.

Cool photos!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/the_longest_solar_eclipse_of_t.html

(((omie)))

(((omie)))

thank you. You all are nice.

((Omie))