PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN JULY 1st 2000.

The partial solar eclipse on July 1st 2000 is the first of three eclipses in this calendar month, and this one is only visible from the southern tip of south America. This eclipse is a member of a Saros series which has nearly concluded its cycle. The series began way back in the 13th Century and will finish after just another three similar partial eclipses, over the next sixty years, at the South Pole. The last eclipse in this Saros series was on June 21st 1982, the one prior to this was in June 1964.

The eclipse on July 1st 2000 begins 18.07 GMT and finishes at 20.58 GMT. At the moment of maximum eclipse (19.32) it is Sunset at Gibraltar, local Noon across California, and Sunrise at New Zealand and at Tokyo Japan. The Sun and Moon are at lower culmination at Karachi and at Kabul. The Eclipse at 10 degrees Cancer is conjunct Mars and Venus, (Mars rises at Tokyo) and quinqucx Pluto. This point in the zodiac is occupied by the Sun in the United Kingdom's (1801) national chart.

At the moment of maximum eclipse, Pluto rises across Paraguay and Argentina, Uranus rises at Gorki (USSR) and Ankara (Turkey). Jupiter and Saturn rise over Borneo and Saigon.

Eclipses of the Sun symbolise New Beginnings. This one is closely conjunct Mars hence the New Beginning this time is especially energised, however the placement of the eclipse in the Saros cycle, is near the end. The new message of this particular Saros is likewise nearly at an end. The duration of this eclipse is small. Its influence might be considered by astrologers to be correspondingly small. What is does do is to set the scene for the following Full Moon which is a very strong Total Lunar Eclipse.