This is a planetary alignment called a Grand Cross. A grand cross consists of four planets making an aspect pattern of two oppositions and four squares. This is the feature for the August Eclipse that has impressed many people and therefore become the focus of so many concerned thoughts and articles. Eclipses occur twice a year, usually in pairs and they fall in the calendar year six months from each other. Solar and Lunar eclipses occur within two weeks of each other, which is the normal lunation cycle.
Many astrologers love to study eclipses and their work has been published through the ages.
Going back to older times before science filled in much about the energetic fields of the sun, moon and earth, eclipses were perceived as very important to the well-being of the people. The event could portend the birth of a person of great importance, as well as end wars and battles. We also know that the darkness that befalls the part of the planet in the shadow of the Moon, brings night dwelling animals out from their daytime resting places. Many people seek out the opportunity to be under the shadow of the total eclipse, to experience the energy changes personally, as the electrical field of that area of Earth is so radically shifted. This eclipse s totality shadow falls begins in the Northern Atlantic, through Europe - northern France, southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, northeastern corner of Bulgaria, Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and India.