From the perspective of Astronomy, a Super Moon occurs at the time of the Full Moon, and due to it being close to Earth in its elliptical cycle, it appears larger than usual.
The large size of the Moon is also apparently sometimes due to an optical illusion, due to its angle on the horizon. In any case, in Astrology, a Solar Eclipse more accurately refers to a ‘Super Moon’, based on its actual impact as opposed to its apparent size.
While there are generic interpretations for what the influence of a Solar Eclipse is likely to be, based on Sun Signs alone, the real story is revealed by a closer examination of the Birth Chart to reveal its precise influence and, in a wider sense yet, what is understood as the ‘Chart Promise’, which outlines the finer details and deeper implications of one’s destiny.
Generally, the culmination of a Solar Eclipse as a Full Moon can sometimes be a Lunar Eclipse, which makes it extra powerful. Yet, even in the case of a regular Full Moon, the culmination of the Eclipse becomes official at the exact moment of the Full Moon.
In this regard, the degree of both the Solar Eclipse and the Full Moon offers key insights into understanding its destined purpose. The aspects each makes, the Signs they are in and the Houses they occur in offer further details yet.
As well, the charts as a whole, especially that of the New Moon, reveal the deeper story. While the destined purpose of the Full Moon can be said to become official at the time of the Full Moon, the overall process officially begins at the time of the Eclipse New Moon, but can even be recognized as occurring up to several months prior and following the actual event, all based on the deeper themes of destiny at play as revealed by the Birth Chart.
Generally regarding this specific Solar Eclipse, which occurred at 29 degrees Virgo 05 on September 21, 2025, and which happens to be one of the two ‘Anaretic’ or critical degrees in Astrology. The other is 0 Degrees, which together can be understood as the ‘alpha and the omega degrees of any sign. In the Zodiac as a whole, o Aries and 29 Pisces are the critical degrees, the alpha and the omega.
So, each sign constitutes a fractal of this whole, a whole 12th portion within the whole Zodiac. Critical degree should not be deemed negative, per se’… such literalism does not belong to holism, but rather it simply points to an exceptional perspective to the norm.
Generally, 0-degree planets or points in the Zodiac refer to ‘inexperience’ yet are full of energy and raw potential.
29-degree planets or angles, on the other hand, refer to evolutionary themes requiring patient endurance and overcoming, and what can be described as a longer process of testing and refining to genuinely ‘pass’ and advance to the next level, in accordance with the destined themes involved.
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There is a difference between a planet or angle at 0 or 29 degrees in the Birth Chart, as opposed to that of a ‘Transit’ event, or an event that occurs in real time, yet the ‘influence’ of which is general and collective.
What its specific destined influence implies involves determining how it occurs in the context of one’s Birth Chart.
It can be understood more generally from the perspective of a Sun Sign Horoscope, but can only offer general insights as well, if closer than the wider angle of the fact for society in general, which can be best understood as a ‘naked fact’, but one whose relevance must be transferred to individual persons to reveal its true purpose and influence. In this regard, a ‘person’ refers to any legal entity, such as a country, state, province, corporation or any business or even non-profit organizations, as long as these have some level of official or legal existence. This ‘legality’ refers to our collective agreement, how we co-create reality at collective levels.
It is noteworthy that the New Moon that preceded the 29-degree Virgo Solar Eclipse on September 21, 2025 occurred on August 23 at o Virgo 23, so it too was a critical degree event.
While that New Moon was not a Solar Eclipse, it was significant enough and can be interpreted as playing a key, if background role. This perspective implies a whole understanding that events such as these are not mere ‘particles’ but are aspects of ‘waves’, metaphorical speaking, waves of evolutionary destiny, the context of which becomes increasingly wider reaching, ever further back in time. Initially, it extends back to the beginning of the current Precessional cycle, which can be understood to have begun when 0 Aries associated with the Constellations of the Zodiac aligned with Spring Equinox.
There is debate about where 0 degrees of the constellational belt or the Astronomical Zodiac begins, (which reveals an approximate 24-degree discrepancy based on the accepted rate of precession as 1-degree every 72 years), which amounts to 1728 years, or to 297 A.D. The fact that the Tropical Zodiac was updated some two centuries prior, with full knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes, is also noteworthy, but there is evidence to suggest that it too is incorrect but is the focus of another discussion.
For now, the point is that the current Full Moon on October 6, 2025 is the culmination of a Solar Eclipse.
The exact degree of the current Full Moon, which constitutes an astronomical ‘Super Moon’, occurs at 14 Aries 08 on October 7, 2025, at 3:47 am GST. So, it will occur on October 6 in the evening for all time zones from Eastern going west. Regardless of the time, according to location, the degree is the same. This exact degree of Aries includes thematic influences of Leo and Virgo, thus also by the Sun and Mercury, which are the ruling planets for these respective signs, along with that of Mars, which rules Aries.
In terms of ‘releasing’ what is basically and generally implied by these factors, is letting go of rigid, ego-based, and socially conditioned interpretations which are deemed ‘factual’ and conclusive.
