- by Roy Kirkland
Here’s an example of how eclipses can work, even when we are studying an individual with an unknown birth-time. Amy Winehouse, the well-known and infamous British singer, was born 9/14/1983. We can see, from the birthday alone, that the Solar eclipse of 9/11/2007 was on her Sun. If we look up her planets in the ephemeris, we find that Neptune is square the Sun and Mercury, and Jupiter, at 5 Sagittarius, is exactly on the Ascendant of the eclipse chart. This would presage advancement and honor, notice and victory. But her natal Sun and Mercury fall into a grand cross with the eclipse point and the transiting Uranus, Mars and Pluto, with Pluto conjunct the natal Neptune. The nature of this eclipse revealed itself through her drug use (Sun/Mercury to Mars/Neptune/Pluto) becoming public knowledge at the time. It was also an important theme of her hit album, "Back to Black", which was nominated for six Grammy awards. 
She had failed numerous times to get a US work permit or Visa -her Sun was intercepted in the 9th house of foreign travel in the eclipse chart. In late January 2007, she entered an addiction treatment program (Jupiter on the Ascendant) – but Uranus was connected with this eclipse, and Uranus always has surprises in store.
The Solar eclipse of 2/7/2008 occurred less than a week before the Grammy ceremony and featured the eclipse degree, Mercury (travel and communication) and Neptune (confusion) all falling opposite Ms. Winehouse’s natal Venus (artistic performance) and Mars (action and effort). To see the chart of this Eclipse compared to Ms. Winehouse's chart click here. 
Jupiter (victory) is the eclipse lord again, and by most measures, the September eclipse would still be active. Natal Jupiter is within a few degrees of the eclipse chart Ascendant. On the day of the eclipse, the US government denied and then granted her a Visa within 24 hours. Eclipse Uranus (surprise) is opposite the natal Sun (honor) and Mercury (communication, travel) in this chart. But it was too late: she had already made other plans, due to her understanding that she could not come to the ceremony in California. Something had to be done, so a satellite link (Uranus-Mercury) was set up so that her live (Sun), enthusiastic (Mars-Venus), crowd-pleasing (Venus-Moon) performance could be transmitted from London. She won 5 out of a possible 6 Grammy awards.
As a side note, her natal Jupiter was close enough to a square of the Lunar eclipse of 2/20/2008 to provide a boost of luck for her, and she was selected to sing the theme of the newest James Bond movie. As Saturn stationed on that eclipse degree in late April of 2008, she was arrested on drug related charges, and it was decided that she would not do the movie, despite the interest of the lead actor and other individuals involved. Although Uranus is very close to Jupiter, the upcoming forward movement of Saturn in transit may restrict this opportunity, in fact, it’s station may have closed off all opportunities the February Lunar eclipse may have offered, as per the classical rules.
It is easy to see, from a case like this, how overlapping eclipses can powerfully affect someone who has contacts with them, and that even without a correct birthtime, much can be discovered about personal events through the study of eclipses and their transits.
After you get used to finding effective eclipses, add in progressions, directions, returns, profections and other dynamic techniques: you will find that eclipses are signs that point to times full of astrological significance, and can reveal that which is to change and that which is to come.
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Resources:
Books
Charles Jayne – A New Dimension
L. Edward Johndro – The Earth in the Heavens – Wieser Publications
Apotelesmatics – Hephaistio of Thebes – Golden Hind Press
Masha'allah - On the Things of Eclipses of Luminaries, And of Conjunctions of Planets, And of Revolutions of Years - Translated from Latin by Anton Grigoryev
Web Resources
World Astrology - Works from the tradition, primarily on Mundane astrology
Project Hindsight - Translation of Hellenistic and classical works on astrology
Eclipse Data – The most precise eclipse information available
Charts: note - all charts are parallax corrected.
Charts of George W. Bush and Al Gore from Astrodatabank Software
Amy Winehouse birth data courtesy Wikipedia
Charts calculated with Solar Fire Software
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