1) Astrologers pinpointed several pressure areas in 2020 before the start of this year. The first was late January, and we are in the middle of the second period now, with today's Solar Eclipse marking the midpoint of a four week period.

2) Less dramatic than Lunar Eclipses but just as powerful, Solar Eclipses indicate the starting point of significant change, as a result of heavy pressure points that cannot be ignored.

3) It doesn't take a genius to work out how this is panning out on a political level, but this eclipse is also about the Solstice - the Sun's entry into Cancer.

4) Cancer has been battered around in recent years by eclipses (this is the last one of a series over 18 months) and Saturn and Pluto opposite in Capricorn for two years now (Pluto for much longer).

5) Cancer has a hard shell to withstand battery, but at the same time this has had a serious effect on the openness of Cancer, a sign that likes to try to care about everyone and everything.

6) This eclipse is Cancer's first glimpse of not just light at the end of the tunnel, but a real life after, what at times felt like, death. This works for whatever house of your chart Cancer occupies in a sense.

7) But there are yet more serious challenges ahead for everyone this year. Mars goes into Aries next weekend and will stay there until the end of the year. When it stations in September, it will square the Saturn/Pluto conjunction.

8) This represents a whole new set of challenges, and the cardinal energy of conflict and crisis is heightened. You won't find an astrologer grabbing popcorn waiting for that. We're just hoping for the best.