They are purgative in their effect upon your life. If you have a clean house, the effect of the eclipse is less traumatic. Key words for Eclipses are emphasis and crisis. An Eclipse highlights the arena of life it touches, which is indicated by your natal chart. If you know that arena contemplate what you would like best to see happen in that arena of life.
Intention is everything.
In general, the first eclipse, a total eclipse of the Sun, falls in the tropical sign of Cancer. Cancer is the archetypical force aligned with motherhood, home and hearth, and of Dianna - the huntress. The Soul family structure is also found in this archetypal force. Light and darkness, good and evil, the conscious and the unconscious are eternal tales that fascinate us all. We gaze into an endless sky - evenescent lanterns of space, curious and searching.