It's very true that the phenomena that occured on the 8th could both be interpreted as positive or negative, given one's personal experiences and where one finds oneself in life right now.

The world over there is an incredible amount of chaos and tension and the issues brought forth with the eclipse that passed would be very reflective of ones inner experience, and then your immediate experience would be influenced by such. This may be positive for one person or negative for another. This phase that's present is all about Ego, and letting go of that control the Ego wishes to hold onto. The turmoil and negativity we may experience is directly because of this control the Ego continues to have. The moment one relinquishes that Ego control and allow the Higher Self to come into being all the negativity would cease to be that.

Because the 8th was a Lunar eclipse it may be dealing with feminine issues, and with the Solar eclipse (Full eclipse according to sources this side of the world) one would be faced with masculine issues.