I hope this isn't a stupid question...Full Moon/Eclipse.

[kimmerspixelated]

Doesn't an eclipse usually only happen during a full moon? I never really thought of it, before...I am trying to recall some other eclipses...

Now with a full moon, a rare eclipse, AND a winter solstice....???? No wonder there is so much speculation or maybe.... real certainty of the energy involved. I, for one, had a very hard time sleeping last night, finally got up to take a melatonin!

Oh, the pull of our great sister, The Moon!

[Ricochet21]

1. Eclipses

Some Full Moons are lunar eclipses, all lunar eclipses are Full Moons
Some New Moons are solar eclipses, all solar eclipses are New Moons.

They come in pairs, sometimes 3 in a row and appear twice a year.

Solar Lunar
Solar Lunar Solar


Lunar Solar
Lunar Solar Lunar

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Wow, Rick!

I knew I could count on you! Thanks! So...you are obviously into astronomy as well??? Or has it just gone hand in hand??

[Ricochet21]

5. A bit

I actually am bored with astronomy, it's too scientific and doesn't contain truth as astrology does.
We are born of astronomy, I agree. It's pretty.

Early astrologers had to learn to do charts by hand, calculations like my girl and me. New students are quite spoiled by computers because they don't have a geometrical diagram in their head that they can twist and turn and understand. I've done most astrology in my head as I was lying down imagining. We're all different in how we learn.

Yes, I am very aquarian, like you

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Rick, you're infinitely fascinating!

Did you dream of being a full time astrologer as a child/teen? What drew you to your present destiny?

[Ricochet21]

8. It's in my new book, which isn't out yet

I was always watching sun signs
in 1971, some jive woman did my chart and gave me curses
in 1978, an astrology book, The Compleat Astrologer, jumped off of a shelf and into my hands and screamed, "This is what you are supposed to do."

period. distinct. clear. a ok.

I have no idea whether it actually jumped or I picked it up, but it was that clear.
I have not stopped since.

I guess you'd say I'm addicted.

that was your life, 1978

[PhillyGurl]

9. I remember that book LOL

Compleat Astrologer. Ha! That's how I got started too. With a friend. We never stopped!

[kimmerspixelated]

10. What is the title of your book?

I assume you will make an announcement??? I'll definitely buy it!!!!

[murielm99]

12. Gave you curses?

[Celebration]

2. eclipse of the moon is the very fullest moon

During a full moon, the sun is on the opposite side of the earth from the moon, and therefore fully shines on all the moon. But, if it is TOO full, then the earth's shadow gets in the way of the sun shining on the moon, and the shadow crosses the moon.

Yes, this is amazing. I am feeling a bit edgy myself, and that isn't particularly characteristic. Wonder what the ERs will be like tonight?

Eclipses have freaked me out a bit ever since reading Thomas Hardy novels, LOL.

[kimmerspixelated]

4. Refresh my memory.

I adore Thomas Hardy, but it has been awhile since I engaged in one of his novels. Which one, or do they all contain eclipses??

[Celebration]

6. wasn't it Return of the Native?

Something I read in high school. I think that was it. I forget exactly what it was........maybe a marriage proposal during an eclipse or something? Okay, that would REALLY freak me out. I'm going to do a web search.

"The scene in which Eustacia finally agrees to marry Clym occurs on Rainbarrow and is lighted by a moon that slowly moves into an eclipse. The symbolism of Rainbarrow has already been mentioned, and certainly Clym's meeting Eustacia here, as Wildeve has before, is a sign of his moving into her orbit. If Rainbarrow symbolizes her view of life, Egdon Heath might be said to symbolize Clym's. It might be added that Paris appears here and elsewhere as an ambiguous symbol: it represents all that is lively and worth living for to Eustacia and all that is idle and valueless to Clym.

Hardy's use of the moon as a symbol is noteworthy. When Eustacia makes her appearance on Rainbarrow, the moon begins to go into eclipse; by the time she has promised to marry Clym and they part, the eclipse is almost full. The significance for both their lives is plain enough. When Clym observes the moon before the eclipse and Eustacia's arrival, he sees it as perhaps "some world where personal ambition not the only recognized form of progress" and imagines himself exploring its solitary wildness. Eustacia, after agreeing to marry Clym, reads into it her own meaning: "Clym, the eclipsed moonlight shines upon your face with a strange foreign color, and shows its shape as if it were cut out in gold. That means that you should be doing better things than this." Both readings are idealistic and romantic but represent conflicting images."


Read more: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Return-of-the-Native-Summary-Analysis-and-Original-Text-Chapters-3-4.id-156,pageNum-116.html#ixzz18hKXuNOh

[kimmerspixelated]

11. Wow, that takes me back.. thanks!