Autumnal Equinox – Sept. 22, 2025, 18:19 UT

The New Moon in the last degree of Virgo is a partial solar eclipse. The next day is the Autumnal Equinox, when the Sun enters Libra.

In August there was a kite configuration formed by Mars and the slowly moving planets Uranus, Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune. Now the Sun and the Moon have taken Mars’s place at the back of the kite. Full Moon in Aquarius – Aug. 09, 2025, 07:55 UT

Eclipses may bring events that feel “fated”. Now even more so, because asteroid 3811 Karma is in conjunction with the Sun, Moon and Mercury. Asteroid Karma was discovered by astronomer Liisi Oterma in 1953 in Turku, Finland. It is a Main-belt asteroid with a diameter of about 30 kilometers and an orbital period of just over four years. The concept of karma is universal and means the influence of cause and effect. All actions have consequences. Also the lack of action counts. The astrological meaning attached to the asteroid follows roughly the same.

Today the UK, Canada and Australia have recognised the Palestinian state. According to Finland’s constitution, our foreign policy is led by the president in co-operation with the government. President Alexander Stubb has said that he would be ready to recognise a Palestinian state if the government were to propose it. He would have liked Finland to be “on the right side of history”. Shamefully our right-wing government is not willing to do it, Finland is not recognising Palestine.

The solar eclipse and the transiting asteroid Karma are conjunct Finland’s natal asteroid Karma in early Libra and squaring Finland’s lunar nodes and Mercury in Capricorn.

The Full Moon is eclipsing in the sensitive sign of Pisces. Very fittingly, one of the newly named trans-Neptunians, Chiminigagua, is present. The Muisca indigenous people were praising their chief god Chiminigagua by adoring the Moon and the Sun.

The New Moon occurs when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction. The Full Moon is the opposition of the Sun and the Moon. Eclipses can only take place at the New Moon or at the Full Moon and when the Sun and Moon are at or near the lunar nodes. The nodes are the points where the yearly path of the Sun and the monthly path of the Moon intersect as seen from Earth.

The word “eclipse” comes from the Greek word meaning “disappearance”. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, and the shadow of the Earth obscures the Moon. Today the Moon darkens but we are not without light. This lunar eclipse in Pisces occurs at the North node of the Moon. The Sun in the opposing sign Virgo, is in conjunction with the South node of the Moon and Chiminigagua.

Chiminigagua is a scattered-disc object discovered in 2013 by Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. Chiminigagua is a binary. The primary has a diameter of about 740 km and the yet unnamed satellite about 190 km. The orbital period is about 450 years. The orbit is highly tilted and elliptical, typical for the SDO’s.

Chiminigagua was named on Aug. 11, 2025, after the creator god of the Muisca people that inhabit the Andes mountains in the central part of Colombia. When the world was created there was only darkness and the only light was given by Chiminigagua. She first opened her gigantic belly from where light was shining. Then she created two black birds and launched them into space. The birds spread light from their beaks which produced light in the cosmos. Chiminigagua ruled over all the other gods. She was never praised directly, yet through the lesser gods of the Sun, Moon and fertility.

The Sabian symbol for the eclipse is Pisces 16 The flow of inspiration. Like countless generations before us, we can look to the sky tonight and seek inspiration from its lights and their interaction.

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The WGSBN has been busy. Four more large trans-Neptunian minor planets have been named on Sept. 1, 2025. The WGSBN is a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and responsible for assigning names to minor planets.

Cubewano Uni is named after the Etruscan goddess of love and fertility. Its satellite is named after the Etruscan sky god and Uni’s husband, Tinia. Uni’s orbital period is 282 years and its diameter about 660 km.

Another cubewano is named after Goibniu, the Irish god of metallurgy and hospitality. Its diameter is around 680 km and orbital period about 271 years.

Xewioso, approximately 500–600 km in diameter, is named after a thunder god in the mythologies of the Ewe and Fon people of Western Africa. The orbital period is about 231 years.

Rumina is a scattered-disc object named after a Roman goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers. Her domain extended to protecting animal mothers too, not just human ones. The orbital period is 888 years and the approximate diameter 644 km.