On 20 May 2012 there will be an annular solar eclipse. The Sun and the Moon will be in 00*20’ Gemini. Mars in Virgo will be casting a square aspect to the lunar nodal axis.

The chart below, cast for Brussels, shows the event.

In his Annus Tenebrosus, or the Dark Year, the famous 17^th century astrologer William Lilly presents a method of eclipse delineation, including an interpretation of the effects of solar and lunar eclipses, occurring in each decanate of the Zodiac. As this solar eclipse takes place in the first decanate of Gemini, which is ruled by Jupiter, Lilly’s aphorism is as follows:

[This solar eclipse does] “stir up dissentions, strives, seditions amongst those we call Priests, and all manner of Merchants and Mechanicks of every Order, or any quality that is amongst them; Deadly hatred, contempt of Lawes, neglect of piety and holy duties, doth also…