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Breaking out of a very negative situation to a more positive space with many options

This Saros Series concerns itself with breaking out of a very negative situation where no hope can be seen to a more positive space containing many options. A worry that may have been affecting a person will suddenly clear. The solution is shown by the Cosmos and needs to be taken up without too much delay.

Sudden changes in group associations through travel or ideas, with positive outcomes

Under the influence of this family of eclipses, individuals may suddenly change the groups with which they are mixing, either through travel or ideas. However, the separation implied by the Venus-Saturn would produce very positive outcomes. This whole eclipse Series could also talk of suddenly deciding to make greater commitments in a relationship. Either way, the eclipse is gentle and individuals can trust the situations that arise and allow themselves to be led along by their momentum.

Need to make sudden reforms as old ideas or methods fail

This family of eclipses is concerned with the need to make sudden reforms. Old ideas or methods will fail and new systems are required to deal with the events brought by the eclipse. As a consequence, the person will need to think of new ways of handling the issues. Any blocks could be violently or tragically removed.

Opportunities to accept greater responsibilities that come suddenly

Opportunities to accept greater responsibilities can come suddenly into the person's life. These new commitments will most likely come as a result of another individual being unable to carry on. Although the events that herald these opportunities may be difficult, the outcomes in terms of harmony or self-esteem are good.

Successful outcomes to long-term worries or illness

This Saros Series will bring successful outcomes to long-term worries or illness. An issue that has worried or drained the individual for some time will at first seem worse and then clear, with successful outcomes.

Large, ambitious group projects requiring separation or breaking of an existing bond

This is an eclipse family of groups and associations. Its energy is about large, ambitious group projects. These group projects will require a separation or the breaking of a bond that already exists. The individual may well experience this eclipse initially as a separation and then as joint achievement.

Confusion in personal relationships, unexpected financial happenings, and possible illness

A most peculiar eclipse family, heralding an acute time of confusion in personal relationships, unexpected happenings in financial matters, and possible illness. Unrequited love, despair, confusion, a draining of energy, a peculiar turn of events. No important decisions should be made concerning incoming events, as there is too much confusion and possible delusion to make clear judgments.

Expansive energy with underlying frustration, inhibitions, and separation

This family of eclipses has a very similar energy to its North Node cousin: expansive energy under which lies a more sinister flavor. An urge to expand is experienced, but the expansion contains frustration, inhibitions, and loss or separation. Australia's chart seems to be very sensitive to this 13 Series. The first time it affected Australia's chart was 13 South in 1939, the year when Australia went to war. It occurred again in 1975, and that was a year of constitutional crises climaxing in the dismissal of Prime Minister Whitlam. The three times that 13 North affected Australia's chart were: first in 1938, The Empire Games in Sydney; second in 1956, The Olympic Games in Melbourne; and third in 1974, Cyclone Tracy. Darwin, the only city in Australia to be bombed in WW2, was devastated by a cyclone. This event caused the biggest peacetime evacuation that Australia had ever seen. Australia seems to be experiencing this family of eclipses as a striving for group endeavors, in a positive or negative fashion.

Joy through commitment, with good news entailing responsibilities

There is a sense of joy through commitment about this Saros Series. When this family affects a chart, it is a time of good news that entails responsibilities or commitments, but ones in which there is joy in the undertaking. Pregnancy, birth, parenthood are just some of this eclipse family's possible expressions.

Success after long periods of hard work, with an obsessive idea finally accepted

This eclipse family will tend to bring success. There may have been long periods of hard work from which the success has grown. With the Mercury-Pluto content, there is also the potential for an obsessive idea to finally be accepted, which then leads to the promised success of the Jupiter. During this eclipse period, individuals should push for the acceptance of their ideas or methodologies, as this eclipse can bring the long-awaited breakthrough.