Kabbalah & the August 21st Solar Eclipse
They’re calling it the “All American Solar Eclipse.” During this astrological event, we will see the White House drowned in a cosmic ocean and a wave of social justice comb over the United States. Hopefully.
Dozens of articles are being published every day from astrologers interpreting the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21st. Here, I offer something a little different: a Kabbalistic lens of this event using gematria.
A solar eclipse can only occur at the time of a new month (Rosh Chodesh) on the lunar calendar. Accordingly, August 21’s solar eclipse in Leo will be during a new moon. We know Leo as the lion, the leader of the pride. In esoteric Kabbalah, Leo has another archetype too: the grand magician. America’s leader and shady Wizard of Oz, Drumpf, is perfectly scheduled to return from his vacation at his New Jersey golf resort on eclipse day.
Many astrologers have noted that the election of Trump was a predictable backlash to the Aquarian energy the planet is still adjusting to. While Leo is the sign of “me,” Aquarius is the sign of “we.” Indeed, the influence of the EU and United Nations was seen as a threat to patriotism, and voters resented funding toward groups like NATO.
Trump’s win was the patriots against the globalist humanitarians; an idyllic, innovative world system met with the borders, pride, and aggression of a kingdom. Former President Obama, as some fun trivia, is a Leo and Aquarius ascendant.
The energy of an eclipse echoes for six months in our lives, six being the number of creation, but ancient astrology worked a little differently. For each minute, the eclipse was given one year of influence. This one will last about 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Translating to just under three years of an impact, we will feel this eclipse until roughly the next election cycle in November 2020. I take away a kind of Empire Strikes Back attitude from Aquarius toward this time scale, as if Aquarius is here to reignite the flames of his activists and enable the youth to cause change in the United States.
Kabbalah, however, typically considers an eclipse a bad omen. The sages used the phrase “the stricken luminaries.” An eclipse is an act by the universe casting us into darkness for a time, tempting us to be immoral and judgmental, bringing forth transgressions, sins, and our darkest vulnerabilities. Many of us will feel it, but we’re interested in Drumpf for now.
Consider the length of the eclipse, made of two very important numbers in Kabbalah. 2 minutes is beit, house, while 40 seconds is mem, water. If we imagine the White House as being bathed in cosmic waters, we then find all the elements present within its walls: a Virgo (earth) new moon hiding a Leo (fire) sun while being bathed in water on a Gemini (air) president. Also notable is that the Trump family has only recently made the move into the White House. Melania Trump, a Taurus, is tied to the new moon through the element of earth.
Back to the 40 seconds of water. Let’s take it further.
40 is an auspicious number in Kabbalah, reflected in biblical stories of Moses on Mt. Sinai for 40 days, or 40 days that the rain poured down in Noah’s time to cause the Great Flood. The mikveh must be filled with exactly 40 se-ahs of water for spiritual renewal, and the Talmud states that it takes 40 days for an embryo to form in the mother’s womb. For Jews, we count the 40 days from Elul to Rosh Hashanah each year, a time of great spiritual growth and transformation to purity.
What do all of these reflections have in common?
Starting over. Transitions. Renewal.
We can infer, then, that cosmic waters will be at work in the White House —raining down on the aides, the staff, the family, the cabinet, the lobbyists, and Drumpf himself. But what will the eclipse be doing while filling those walls with flood water? Erase the scandals? Cause a change of heart in Trump toward transgender people in the military? #FreeMelania?
There are a few numbers that carry potential answers.
The eclipse will reach a peak of 81% coverage of the Sun in Washington D.C., Leo’s throne of power in our anti-Aquarian kingdom, at 2:42pm EST.
In Gematria, 81 corresponds to night, covering, yelling, and “to overthrow.” As our capital is covered in night, we can imagine the crowds yelling, oohing, and ahhing at the hidden sun and the shadow of the moon. 81 is fairly straight forward. 81% coverage and 81 means to cover. Great.
81 is also related to circumcision, leading me to wonder if Trump might encounter trouble with his image of masculine power or a new face will gain our attention. Mike Pence, perhaps? Putin? Maybe someone will leak Melania saying he has a :) :) :) as tiny as his hands.
Anyway, the downfall of Mr. Trump’s ego aside, let’s look a little closer at the time of the eclipse’s 81% peak: 2:42pm.
In gematria, 242 is equal to the value of the Lion of G-d and as well as a hearth. We can imagine a vindicator on the White House lawn ready to disrupt and conquer. If these numbers are analyzed separately, a similar sense of the White House facing a heroic enemy is maintained.
As we saw earlier, 2 is the letter beit (house). It is also a prefix meaning “within” or “among.” 42 is quite morbid in contrast to the mundane 2. 42 is terror, sudden ruin, lion, and blade. More importantly, 42 is one of G-d’s unspoken divine names. I interpret this as potential for warfare. Whether that manifests as impeachment, aggression with North Korea, more leaks, a scandal, or something more serious to Trump himself will be interesting in the coming weeks.
This shouldn’t be frightening, though — these numbers are specific to Washington D.C. as a geographic location in relation to the eclipse.
Let’s look at Our Dear Leader Trump’s chart. He is a Leo ascendant at 29 degrees. 29 is the value of a leader, a liar, it is equal to “to crush” or “break,” “to fabricate.” These are recognizable as Trump’s presidential qualities.
Celestially, the eclipse will occur at 28 degrees Leo, a degree shy of Trump’s placement but vastly different in meaning. This is Koach, or Yasher Koach — to have strength. 28 is one of the more important numbers in Kabbalah, assigned also to sin-offering, purity, to shine, to hollow out, and to unite.
Beginning from the coast of Oregon, the shadow will be moving at 3,600 km/h. 360 in Kabbalah is to glow or burn, to chase away; it is the value of the Hebrew for guardian. This will be the first time that a solar eclipse will reach coast to coast in 99 years, bringing that uniting energy and strength across each state before laying itself on the White House lawn in a bath of purifying mem and with a blade like a lion.
Particularly with Uranus involved — the host planet of Aquarius energy ready for a bit of election revenge — I see this eclipse as social justice and humanitarianism at the celestial level winning over xenophobia, isolation, and oppression.
But that could just be the wishful thinking of a Marxist liberal.
Love, light, and peace during this eclipse.
Shalom ❤
