Due to the Lunar Nodes change of signs, the eclipses of this year occur in both the Scorpio-Taurus axis, of economy and resources, and the Libra-Aries axis, of the self and the other. Notice that for both axis the rulers are Venus and Mars, so they keep on being the dispositors of the Lunar Nodes until Jan 2025. However, they do swop places in Jul 2023, in the sense that Venus who now rules the North Node will be ruling the South Node, and Mars the other way around.
The eclipses of 2023 are:
SOLAR HYBRID – April 20, 4:12 UTC – 29º50 Aries
Saros Solar 129 (which began on Oct 3, 1103)
Path of totality passes over: North West Cape, remote peninsula of Western Australia.
Regions seeing, at least, a partial eclipse: South/East Asia, Australia, Pacific, Indian Ocean, Antarctica.
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LUNAR PENNUMBRAL – May 5, 17:33 UTC – 14º58 Scorpio
Saros Lunar 141 (which began on Aug 25, 1608)
Regions seeing, at least, some parts of the eclipse: South/East Europe, Much of Asia, Australia, Africa, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Antarctica.
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SOLAR ANNULAR – October 14, 17:54 UTC – 21º07 Libra
Saros Solar 134 (which began on Jun 22, 1248)
Annularity, where the Sun forms a ‘ring of fire’ around the Moon, is visible: along a narrow path that crosses the US from Oregon to Texas, Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, and parts of Central America, Colombia, and Brazil. Elsewhere in the Americas—from Alaska to Argentina—a partial eclipse will be visible.
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LUNAR – October 28, 20:23 UTC – 5º09 Taurus
Saros Lunar 146 (which began on Jul 11, 1843)
Regions seeing, at least, some parts of the eclipse: Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, North/East South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arctic, Antarctica.
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