Eclipse

When a New Moon happens close to a lunar node, the Moon can cover the Sun: a solar eclipse. When a Full Moon does, Earth's shadow can cross the Moon: a lunar eclipse. The geometry lines up during two eclipse seasons a year, about six months apart, so eclipses arrive in pairs or trios and walk slowly through the zodiac as the nodes drift.

Astrologers treat an eclipse as a charged lunation: the usual New or Full Moon reading, louder, and worth taking seriously mainly when it lands close to something in your own chart. Beyond that the sources genuinely differ, some tracking effects across months, others insisting that an eclipse you would never notice is just another lunation.

What the literature does not support is dread. An eclipse is not a cosmic ambush; it is a scheduled amplification. Note the degree, see what it touches in the chart, and watch the month with interest rather than alarm.