Rising Sign Horoscopes for the Hybrid Solar Eclipse in Aries* — April 20, 2023

Hey star-gazers! It’s eclipse season — the time of year when the astro-curious channel their ancient sky-studying ancestors in nail-biting angst over doom-and-gloom prognostications. Sure, the millennia-old sources are replete with warm-and-fuzzy omens of famine, plague and pestilence, but we’ve got enough to worry about these days without dragging livestock, grain and locusts into the mix.

I’m here to dispel any notions around negative eclipse energies by interpreting the upcoming solar eclipse — the celestial promissory note of new beginnings — in a way that’s most conducive to our individual growth and spiritual development. So, with your calendars marked for April 20, 2023, let’s tackle this upcoming lunation.

Hybrid Solar Eclipse

Because of the earth’s surface, a hybrid solar eclipse is one that shifts between annular and total as the Moon’s shadow passes over the earth.

This is important since annular and total eclipses carry much more interpretive weight and significance astrologically than their partial counterparts, and, of course, in analyzing the solar-lunar dynamic of eclipses, some astrological schools believe that the solar eclipses carry the inciting action forward, while the lunar eclipse that follow mirror our emotional…