Greatest eclipse is at March 3, 11:33 AM in your zone, with the Moon at 12°51′ Virgo, near the South Node, 100 percent covered. Where it can be seen: total: Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas. Partial phase visible from Europe and Africa at moonset.
The whole Moon in the Earth’s shadow, red as a coal, for as long as an hour.
In a total lunar eclipse the whole Moon passes through the Earth’s umbra. She darkens from one edge, turns the deep red or copper that the newspapers call a blood Moon, holds that color for up to an hour and three quarters, and then brightens from the other edge. The color depends on the dust and cloud in the Earth’s air that night; after a large volcanic eruption the Moon can nearly vanish. Astrologers read the total lunar eclipse as the strongest of the lunar kind, a Full Moon’s revelation with nothing held back.
The Moon enters Earth's shadow fully in Virgo and goes the color of old blood. Somewhere inside you, a steady hand is quietly settling an old hysteria—not by force, but by the authority of attention that has finally seen clearly. What has been turbulent for so long that the turbulence began to feel like devotion? The Virgo sky knows the difference between real tending and rehearsal. Some of what you have been polishing has already asked to be set down.
An eclipse at the South Node: the Dragon’s Tail, which lets the light go and takes what was finished with it.
This eclipse falls near the South Node, at 12°51′ Virgo, the degree whose image is one voice holding steady in a room gone into panic—the still center that a crowd will find if even one person holds it. Astrologers read South Node eclipses as releases: what they take is familiar, sometimes clung to, and already spent. The tradition treats the weeks after as a time when something leaves that was going to leave anyway, and it counsels letting it, since what the Tail takes it does not give back.
12°51′ Virgo, the thirteenth degree. One voice holding steady in a room gone into panic—the still center that a crowd will find if even one person holds it.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
Times are shown in your time zone (UTC).