Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 – Christ Consciousness

The new moon in Aries on April 8, 2024, is a total solar eclipse. It aligns exactly with Chiron, which makes the meaning of the solar eclipse in April 2024 astrology wounding and healing.

The April 2024 solar eclipse is positively linked to Jupiter. So Chiron should manifest more as healing than wounding and promote a spiritual awakening, or Christ Consciousness.

Solar Eclipse April 2024 Meaning

The strongest aspect in astrology is the Sun conjunct Moon. It occurs every 28 days as a new moon when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun. A solar eclipse is like a regular new moon but is more powerful because the Moon darkens the Sun. The April 2024 solar eclipse is the most powerful type, a total solar eclipse.

A solar eclipse represents cyclic renewal and gives a refreshing burst of energy and initiative. But it also brings emotional balance, not irrationally emotional, and not too cold and calculating. It means all possibilities are on the table, and you can rightly put yourself at the forefront of new plans for the future.

While a new moon lasts for four weeks, the effects of a solar eclipse last nearly six months up to the next solar eclipse. So, the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, is excellent for making a fresh start, turning over a new leaf, or starting a new project. You can also question old habits, behaviors, and beliefs while searching for new and inventive ways to progress.

Solar Eclipse April 2024 Astrology

The New Moon on Monday, April 8, 2024, is at 19°24′ Aries. The solar eclipse has two significant aspects: the semisextile to Jupiter and the conjunction to Chiron. No major fixed stars align with this eclipse.

Solar Eclipse April 2024 Astrology [Solar Fire]

Jupiter Growth

New Moon semisextile Jupiter makes this a positive moon phase and gives new goals or projects a good chance of success. This consciousness-expanding aspect promotes a positive attitude and philosophical outlook that encourages learning, growth and a willingness to do good.

You may become more generous, accepting, charitable, optimistic, and friendly. Problems between people should be easier to resolve. Restrictions and barriers to progress can be more easily removed, leading to greater personal freedom. Positive developments related to travel, religion, immigration, politics, and the law are possible.

Jupiter conjunct Uranus climaxing on April 20 brings exciting surprises and sudden opportunities. Although it can cause unpleasant shocks and rebelliousness, the semisextile to the Sun and Moon makes this a positive influence on the solar eclipse.

Greater flexibility and open-mindedness can lead to creative breakthroughs and solutions to old problems. A sudden financial windfall, promotion, or romance is possible. But the most significant impact of this conjunction should be increased self-awareness and enlightenment through the expansion of consciousness. Amazing revelations are also likely.

Chiron Healing

Chiron is a small Solar System body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus. It conjuncts the Sun and Moon by 0°00′18″, making this total solar eclipse a rare and powerful expression of Chiron energy. Astrologically, Chiron is associated with teaching, wisdom, justice, healing, medicine, astrology and divination.

However, Chiron is probably most associated with wounding. In Greek mythology, Chiron was wounded at the end of his life. He was struck in the thigh by a poisoned arrow. He was in extreme pain and could not heal himself with his herbs, so he sacrificed his immortality. So, Chiron’s wound is not self-inflicted but dealt unfairly by fate. According to Liz Greene:

we have a legacy of unfairly inflicted pain which produces repercussions through the generations. Physical and psychological damage whose causes lie, not in any individual or even parental failing, but in genetic inheritance, or collective disasters such as the Holocaust… belong to the realm of Chiron. ^[1]

The current collective disaster in Palestine belongs to the realm of Chiron. Thankfully, the solar eclipse and Chiron semisextile Jupiter suggest more healing than wounding.

Christ Consciousness

In Christian Astrology, Chiron represents Christ. The solar eclipse precisely aligned with Chiron could mean the return of Christ or that we have the opportunity to achieve Christ Consciousness. Edgar Cayce used this term to describe the awareness of the higher self as part of a universal system.

Christ Consciousness was named after the spiritual elevation Jesus achieved during his mortal life, and is symbolic of the enlightenment attained by spiritual masters after a period of suffering. This is a common concept among many different religious traditions and is not unique to Christianity. As such, Christ Consciousness is available to all those who seek awareness and spiritual awakening, regardless of their personal religious adherence. ^[2]

Christ Consciousness means being kind, compassionate and patient while freeing yourself of judgment, resentment, and fear. It makes it easy to follow the golden rule of treating others like you would like to be treated.

Solar Eclipse April 2024 Constellation

The solar eclipse in April 2024 is in the Sign of Aries, but as the star map below shows, it is located in the Constellation of Pisces. The Signs and the Constellations do not match up. Over the last 2000 years, the Constellations have moved nearly 30° out of alignment with the Signs because of the precession of the equinoxes.

The Zodiac was invented only as a measuring device. The degrees on the ecliptic line in the image below equate to those in the New Moon horoscope. I use the Fixed Star and Constellation like the ancient astrologers, not the Signs and Houses of modern astrology.

Solar Eclipse April 2024 [Stellarium]

The Fishes

Pisces Constellation gives sensitivity, intuition, compassion, understanding, wisdom, idealism and a desire to help others. It encourages you to be honest, just, philosophical, sympathetic, kind, modest, hospitable, considerate and generous. ^[3]

The eclipse conjunct Chiron in Pisces Constellation could cause indecision, anxiety, worry, pessimism, self-pity, and feelings of being persecuted, misunderstood and unwanted. But the positive aspect to Jupiter makes that less likely.

A Green Comet

12P/Pons–Brooks is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. Its arrival would not usually cause a stir, but this green comet should be easily visible during the darkening of the solar eclipse in North America, closer to Jupiter, as shown in the image above.

Perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, is on April 21, 2024, at 22°08′ Taurus. The closest approach to Earth is on June 2, 2024.

Comets cause inordinate heat, pestilence, sterility of the earth, wars and changes in kingdoms, winds, earthquakes and floods, and are assigned to the planets according to their colors. Green corresponds to Mercury, the death of kings, nobles, literary people and youths, and wars. ^[4]

The appearance of comets heralded disturbances in humans, animals, and the weather… They also often heralded the rise of an agent. This agent could be a war leader but might also be a religious leader, reformer, or great trader. The message is not delivered until the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun (April 21). The message alters trade and political arrangements and forms alliances into new patterns – it creates new connections. ^[5]

At the solar eclipse, comet 12p/pons-brooks is at 13°58′ Taurus. It aligns with Gamma Trianguli (13°51′ Taurus) and Delta Trianguli (13°56′ Taurus.) Constellation Triangulum The Triangle gives a just, companionable, truthful, righteous and benevolent nature, with an interest in architecture and Freemasonry. ^[4]

Solar Eclipse April 2024 Summary

The April 8 Solar Eclipse brings positive energy because it is semisextile Jupiter. This link to Jupiter and Uranus expands your mind and heightens your awareness of yourself and your connectedness to everything else. It opens you up to new possibilities.

Exactly conjunct with the solar eclipse, Chiron highlights the deepest wound in your soul. It also shines a bright light on humanity’s deepest wound, currently the tragedy in Palestine. In a positive aspect to Jupiter, Chiron promotes healing and spiritual awakening, or Christ Consciousness.

The influence of the April 8 solar eclipse combines with that of the March 25 lunar eclipse to form an eclipse phase that lasts about six months until the lunar eclipse on September 17, 2024. The lunar eclipse brings love, good fortune, cooperation, and a desire for peace. However, the terms for peace may be unrealistic or suspicious.

The best time for starting new projects is during the two-week waxing moon phase, from April 8 to the April 23 full moon. If the solar eclipse of April 2024 astrology directly affects your Sign, you can read about it in your free Monthly Horoscope. Finally, see Sun Transits for more details about how it affects your natal chart.

Previous Moon Phase: Lunar Eclipse March 25, 2024
Next Moon Phase: Full Moon April 23, 2024
2024 Moon Phases Calendar

New Moon April 2024 Times and Dates

Los Angeles – April 8, 2:20 pm
New York – April 8, 2:20 pm
London – April 8, 7:20 pm
Delhi – April 8, 11:50 pm
Sydney – April 9, 4:20 am

Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 Map

The Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024, will be visible across North America, starting in Mexico, then the USA and Canada. It will then be partially visible in parts of Northern Europe.