Memories of the conjunctionsbetween the Sun and the Moon

A Stumbler by the name of RobinEdgar posted about the religious and mythic meaning of the eclipse... and that got my neurons firing about the various eclipse episodes in my life.

Being caught in the shadow of the 8.11.99 eclipse in France altered and amplified my life and aspirations. I wasn't able to make it to the eclipse in Africa six months ago, but there will always be next year (or, the next 18 months ).




Aside from the '99 event mentioned above (which was blocked by clouds at the last minute), I have been fortunate to observe: an annular eclipse on the Ohio State campus in 1994; the partial lunar eclipse that preceded the total solar in 1999; a total lunar eclipse in January 2000; the Christmas eclipse in 2000; the barest, spine-tingling glimpse of the partial solar eclipse in 2002; the total lunar eclipse during the Harmonic Concordance on 11.8.2003; the 10.28.2004 total lunar eclipse from the side of a road in Qatar; and, most recently, the 10.3.2005 annular solar eclipse while standing at the base of the Great Pyramid at Giza... to say nothing of many other alignments and apparitions.


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Eclipse stylistics in full effect!