An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on September 11, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
Let’s go into the liminal eclipse period, because that’s what we’re in right now. And I want to talk about this because it’s not really discussed.
If you pick up any book on eclipses or do research on YouTube, you don’t really see this talked about. And that’s interesting, because there’s actually quite a bit of literature going back to Charles Jayne and other astrologers from earlier generations. But in modern eclipse discussions, it’s mostly missing.
So basically, the liminal eclipse period is the shadow of one eclipse and the dawn of the next. You’re besieged, if you will, between two eclipses. The dawn of the next eclipse creates a potent and precarious threshold.
We’re in this liminal twilight-zone eclipse period, which is usually a two-week corridor between the lunar eclipse and the solar eclipse, though sometimes it’s reversed. It can be solar followed by lunar.
A Cosmic Crucible, Not a Break
Either way, this period is far from an empty pause.
People act like, “Oh, the eclipse is over, we’ve got a couple of weeks.” No. It’s not an empty pause. It’s a cosmic crucible period where the future is actively being shaped and forged.
During this time, reality itself feels fluid. The veil between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind thins. Hidden undercurrents rise to the surface. Dreams become more vivid. Synchronicities intensify and multiply. And long-buried issues come up and demand attention.
And those long-buried issues can be anything—medical issues, psychological issues, business issues, money issues, relationship issues… A whole set of things. It can even be issues you didn’t know were issues. They all come up, and they all come up now.
What Is the Liminal Eclipse Period?
Again, it’s this threshold space. The unconscious mind becomes extraordinarily active, and it often manifests through vivid dreams, sudden insights, and compulsive urges.
This is also when people break down.
If someone is on a diet, or they’ve sworn off alcohol, or they’re trying to control something in their life, they can relapse during this period. They can break down. And if that compulsion is still there, it’s because they haven’t healed the wound.
They’re feeding their feelings, feeding the wound, feeding the trauma, through sex, drugs, alcohol, rock and roll—whatever it is. If you’re in a liminal place, that’s when you’re most likely to have a breakdown.
But at the same time, the soul recognizes these periods as opportunities for quantum leaps. That’s the positive side. These are periods of opportunity for authentic personal breakthroughs and spiritual evolution.
So you’ve got the negative side, and you’ve got the positive side. But either way, it’s a time of radical instability. It’s a time when the veil thins, and the currents of the subconscious run strong.
Modern practitioners—people who do forecasting, people who use intuition, people who are tuned in—report heightened intuitive abilities during these periods. Prophetic dreams. Sudden breakthroughs. Uncanny increases in meaningful synchronicities. It’s like the universe speaks directly to those who have learned to attune themselves and listen.
People go into deep meditation and have breakthroughs. They get sudden inclinations or hunches: invest in this, sell that, get rid of something, break up with someone, call someone, ask someone to do something. Usually it’s something that’s been brewing for a while.
That’s why these liminal eclipse periods are cosmic thresholds of initiation.
There’s an element of being thrust into alignment with a deeper pattern of destiny. And to navigate this period well, the key is not clinging to control. The key is to remain flexible, receptive, and willing to evolve.
The Six Rules of the Threshold
There are six rules of the threshold. These eclipse thresholds operate according to divine laws that transcend ordinary time and causation. In other words, the liminal eclipse period operates under its own laws.
Its signature effects are radical instability, a mandate for growth, revelation of hidden truths, amplification of energy, and acceleration of destiny.
And by the way, this happens on both levels: personal and collective.
Rule One: Radical Instability
Radical instability means the ground beneath us feels unstable. What once seemed certain can dissolve overnight. And this is why forecasts and predictions and plans often falter during this period. Because unseen variables are in motion and we’re not aware of them.
Let’s use a modern example. You go to Polymarket and it tells you there’s only an 8% chance of a recession. Then one month later, you have the Fed announcing, “We may already be in a recession.”
That’s how this works.
There are a lot of prediction markets now. Polymarket is the biggest, but there are others. And whatever the odds are, those odds can radically change because there are factors that the people setting those odds aren’t aware of.
So plans and predictions fail inexplicably. Not always—but they have to be radically revised.
Sometimes, if something is meant to be, you still achieve it. But it doesn’t happen the way you thought. It happens through revision, disruption, detours, or total restructuring.
The most logical explanation of what happened and how it’s likely to turn out fails.
And you’ll see talking heads come out and say, “Oh, it’s probably this, it’s probably that, therefore we can expect this.” And those predictions will absolutely fail leading up to an eclipse and during this two-week eclipse corridor.
Rule Two: Dramatic Reversals
Eclipses have always been omens of upheaval. Within this liminal window, fortunes can be overturned. Power structures that appear immutable, invincible, and untouchable can collapse in an instant.
In fact, the more indestructible and unquestionable they seem, the more likely they are to collapse suddenly.
We had an eclipse back in 2011. There was a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction that made a direct hit to the eclipse that year, and we saw Blockbuster Video go out of business. At one point, you basically had one Blockbuster for every 30,000 people in the United States. They all shut down within two to three months after that eclipse.
That’s just one example of dramatic reversals. I could give plenty more, but that one is crystal clear.
So you have the fall—an immutable power structure crumbles with shocking suddenness. Then you have the rise—new possibilities emerge from the ashes of the old with startling swiftness.
And then you have the balance—a kind of cosmic justice restores equilibrium through unexpected channels, reminding us divine law operates beyond human understanding.
Rule Three: Evolutionary Mandate
Instability is not meaningless chaos.
I know a lot of Taurus people, Capricorn people, and people with heavy Saturn placements in their chart think any instability is chaotic and destructive. But that’s not true. You need chaos for revolutionary developments. You need pressure for evolution.
There are certain periods where evolutionary pressure increases, and that pressure creates instability. And that instability forces growth. Growth happens through forced adaptation.
This period confronts us with stark choices: evolve, innovate, transcend limitations—or risk being broken by the tides of change. Risk becoming irrelevant.
I was listening to a psychologist recently. He only treats men. He’s a PhD in psychology, specializing in male midlife suicide. And he was saying suicide is no longer just a midlife crisis issue. It used to peak around 43 or 44, and then there’s another batch around 58 or 59. But now it’s creeping down into the late 20s—28, 29.
And one of the reasons, which he made very clear—and there are studies on this, but he also hears it directly from clients—is that men feel invisible. They feel not validated. Not wanted. Not desired. And nobody wants to pay them.
Many are unemployed. Or even if they’re employed, they’re chronically underemployed. They can’t get paid what they’re worth, no matter where they go. They may have a degree. They may be attractive. They may be in shape. They may be well-adjusted individuals. But they feel discarded. They feel like they’re no longer needed.
That is evolutionary pressure in action. That is what happens when you don’t adapt to change fast enough—or when society evolves in a way that leaves people behind.
So the message is simple: unless you evolve, change, grow, innovate, transform, and transcend, you risk being broken by the tides of evolution.
Rule Four: Truth Revelation
In general, secrets cannot remain buried. Even national security secrets—after enough time—cannot remain buried. Suppressed conflicts erupt. Illusions shatter. Denial gets pierced.
This unveiling can be painful, but it’s ultimately liberating. As they say, the truth will set you free. It might suck at first to admit it, face it, confront it, or accept it. But it will set you free. Truth clears the ground for renewal.
We see suppressed aspects of the self emerge and demand integration. We see societal secrets, corruption, deception, and systemic failures exposed. And we see profound spiritual insights about the nature of reality start to surface.
You’re going to hear more announcements. For example: Is there life on another planet? Has that been suppressed? Is disclosure real? That’s going to blow open. You’ll have authorities openly discussing it.
All certainties crumble as new understandings emerge, forcing complete reevaluation of beliefs, relationships, and life direction.
Rule Five: Destiny Acceleration
Time itself feels compressed during this two-week period. Events move with unusual speed and intensity, pushing us onto new paths with a sense of fated inevitability.
We feel compelled by an unseen hand to act decisively. We get sudden knowings, profound insights, and intuitive leaps of understanding without warning.
We experience fated encounters. Many people meet someone and it feels like a soul-level meeting—uncanny timing, predestined, life-changing.
Linear time gives way to Kairos—sacred, meaningful time—where synchronicity replaces causality and destiny moves with the speed of lightning.
Events that would normally unfold over months or years compress into days or even hours.
Rule Six: Energy Amplification
This is one of the most obvious eclipse effects.
The lunar and solar cycles magnify cosmic energies—intangible energies, archetypal energies, call them what you will. They’re not just heightened. They’re supercharged. And they unleash waves of transformation with permanent, lasting impact.
There’s shadow amplification—negative thought patterns intensify, and that produces negative outcomes. And there’s positive amplification—if you stay clear and positive, it can produce remarkable results.
This is energy multiplication. Intention becomes extremely powerful during this period. What your true intention is can manifest much faster.
That’s why the liminal eclipse period is simultaneously the most dangerous and the most opportune time for spiritual work, personal work, transformational work—any work involving intention.
If you’re doing NLP, Tony Robbins-style human potential work, anything where intention plus action creates rapid change—this is a powerful window.
The Collapse of Shared Reality
One of the defining features of this period is the breakdown of consensus reality. People no longer agree on basic facts. Evidence doesn’t even convince anymore. Parallel realities coexist.
And the cognitive dissonance right now is extreme. Honestly, I think it’s greater than it even was in the 1950s.
Let me give you an example. If back in the 1950s—during the last Saturn-Neptune conjunction, around 1952 or 1953—if Truman had come out and announced, “Aliens are here. We recovered downed craft at Roswell. This is what we know,” people would have believed it. The public would have accepted it.
But today, if Trump came out and said, “The aliens are here,” and he showed a video, showed the craft, showed evidence, and went into detail—half the country wouldn’t believe it. Half the world wouldn’t believe it.
Even if China came out with it, then Putin came out with it, and then Trump confirmed it because his hand was forced—people still wouldn’t believe it. Nobody believes anything anymore about anything since COVID.
Since COVID, it’s like the evidence doesn’t matter. People fight about everything. The vax is good, the vax is bad. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, or Bitcoin is the only solution to stop a catastrophic inflationary crack-up boom. January 6th was a deep state intelligence operation, or it was organic and the government was justified in what it did.
It doesn’t matter what evidence you show. Some people won’t believe it no matter what. You can literally show a video of something happening and people will still say it’s fake, or staged, or AI, or propaganda.
So that’s the problem now. We don’t even agree on reality anymore. You can’t even talk facts anymore.
And that’s why, in a period like this—especially during eclipse thresholds—intention becomes more important than ever. Because everything is amplified. Both sides think they’re right. Both sides are operating from completely different versions of reality.
Shadow Amplification vs. Breakthrough Potential
Shadow amplification can show up as psychic attacks becoming more prominent. Unresolved trauma surfaces forcefully. But on the other side, creative inspiration can flow abundantly—especially if you have clarity of intention and purpose.
If you don’t have clarity, people feel depressed. Suicidal. They shut down. They suppress it. They numb out. That’s why I’m bringing this up.
Now, some people won’t be impacted much because the eclipse isn’t really hitting their chart. They’re not being activated in the same way, but many people are.
And if you understand the liminal eclipse period, you can navigate it better. You can use it as an initiation instead of a collapse.
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A trends forecaster, William’s annual global forecasts are backed by a deep study of economies, geopolitics, archetypal cosmology, and modern astrological forecasting techniques. William’s predictions for the outcome of the U.S. Midterm and Presidential Elections are well documented on his blog.
William Stickevers is a strategic astrological advisor, advising clients from 28 countries for nearly four decades with strategy and cosmic insight and foresight to gain an asymmetrical advantage in their investing, business planning and decisions, and to live a more fulfilled life according to their soul’s code and calling.
William has been a regular guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and The Jerry Wills Show, and featured on The Unexplained with Howard Hughes, Beyond Reality Radio with Jason Hawes and JV Johnson, We Don’t Die Radio with Sandra Champlain, Supernatural Girlz, Paranormal Podcast, and Alan Steinfeld’s New Realities. An international speaker, William has lectured at the New York Open Center, Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), two Funai Media events in Tokyo, Japan, the United Astrology Conference (2018), for the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, San Francisco chapters), American Federation of Astrologers (Los Angeles), the Astrological Society of Connecticut, the San Francisco Astrological Society, and in Europe (Munich and Bucharest) and Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama).
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