About a week or so either way the world will wake up to Venus. There can be a buying spree, increased releases of new musical material, a rash of parties and socializing, as well as the onset of new romantic relationships. Venus will be stationary at 18 degrees 47 minutes of Leo right on the degree of the August 11 solar eclipse. The week before and after Venus goes direct should highlight the events occurring around the solar eclipse. There are two solar eclipses this summer.
Eclipses come on suddenly acting in a lightening like manner.
The effects of a solar eclipse can begin up to a year before and the lunar ones six months prior to the actual date of the eclipse. Situations develop that can crest on the actual date of the eclipse and can be felt from six months to a year after it depending whether it s a lunar or solar eclipse. Actual places along the path of the eclipse will be where it s effect is most pronounced. This is especially relevant to weather and earth disturbances as well as political changes. The path of the August 11 eclipse begins in the North Atlantic moves through England, France and southern Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Northeast Serbia just above Novi Sad, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and India, hitting some major world hot spots.