Lunar eclipse of 10/18/13 has had a special meaning for me. I first started watching the date because it just one day away from the wedding anniversary with my wife, Gayle. I wondered what it might mean as we had planned to go to a special bar on the evening of the 18th, a bar where Carl the bartender is a special friend. On the 19th we had a great lunch planned and a movie and dinner with friends. On the 20th we were going to end the weekend with a visit to see my wife’s friend Bobi and then go to dinner with other friends.
However, it did not workout that way. Bobi died on that Sunday. It was a shock to all of us. While we knew Bobi was dying of pancreatic cancer–the doctors were giving her four months to live and she was into eight weeks since the cancer was discovered. We had seen Bobi early on Friday before the exact time of the lunar eclipse. She was sitting up in bed and talking and seemed as good as could be expected.
However on Sunday we got ready to drop by and see her when her husband Jeff called and said if we wanted to see her alive, rush over. WE did and she died four hours later at 6:30 pm.
Then I remembered something that really made me stop and think. Bobi;s natal moon was at 27 Libra and was conjunct the 25 degree polarity Aries/Libra of the eclipse. Jupiter was at 20 of Cancer making that a T square and transiting Pluto was conjunct her ASC by 45 minutes with transiting Uranus in Aries in her4th. Also transiting Pluto was making a quincunxt to her natal Uranus Mars conjunction in the fifth house at 8 Gemini. Transiting Chiron was exactly opposite her 10 Virgo Sun.
While we were waiting for the funeral parlor people to come pick up the body, I quickly went over her chart on my Iphone. I was overwhelmed by what I saw. Could the eclipse have been the final trigger to her passing from this earth plane? Why couldn’t I have seen it.
Well, I think I was sort of on track when I kept my eye of my anniversary with Gayle. The eclipse really did affect our special weekend. But the impact it had on Bobi’s was greater.
I do not believe in using astrology for predicting death dates. But I do use it for times of extreme stress–especially when within tight orbs. Ad all orbs here were under two degrees. The fine line is I had thought it meant that it would just be a tough day. Pluto had been on her ASC for awhile and had not gone into an exact sq with Uranus. So I thought it would be after the exact grand square that we wold see more deterioration and we would still have Bobi with us for a few more weeks.
I have been a hospice volunteer and know that some hospice people life much longer than diagnosed. I expected that for Bobi–not as an astrologer, but as a friend. I knew we were on borrowed time. Pancreatic cancer is a real killer, usually discovered late and in advanced stages. You can fight it, but you can’t beat it, as Steve Jobs discovered.
So Bobi went with the Lunar eclipse and all the other aspects. I also think that it also had something to do with the idea that she was now for very first time in her life bedridden, had to wear a diaper and was just plain frustrated. She was so strong, that part of her may have just decided to give up the will to fight.
Whatever, Gayle and I have lost a great friend, nearly a sister or family member. And as I write this blog trying to make some sense of this in my craft of astrology, I am waiting to go to the cemetery and have our last good bye.