Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom, and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on

Astrology Hub. And I want to welcome you to this premium episode of the Astrology Hub

podcast. This week I wanted to talk to you. an Libra on October 2nd.

Now, eclipses have a bit of a reputation in astrology.

That's because they were always associated with the light disappearing from the sky. With the solar eclipse the moon

would move in front of the rays of the sun blocking its light, maybe perhaps in the

middle of the day.

And a lunar eclipse, a lunar eclipse is when the shadow of the earth fell upon the moon,

a full moon, turning it a sort of tawny red brown. These were seen as importance of doom back in the day. People in ancient

times used to view these occurrences as being unnatural. They weren't part of the regular cycle of the moon

moving through all of her lunar faces. They weren't part of the regular cycle of the sun

rising in the east, moving across the sky, and then setting in the west.

How could the sun be blocked from the sky?

How could the light of day suddenly fall into the pitch of night in an instant?

There must have been something wrong about that.

There must have been something ominous.

And the beautiful light of the moon in the evening?

How could that suddenly turn brown and red and

sullied in appearance? Again, there must have been something ominous or evil to

be interpreted from these ideas.

And indeed, in the 2,500-plus year of astrology,

these eclipses were seen as being associated

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