Greatest eclipse is at August 28, 4:12 AM in your zone, with the Moon at 4°51′ Pisces, near the North Node, 97 percent covered. It is visible from Visible across Americas, Europe, Africa, west Asia. Deep partial—96.6% of Moon enters umbra.
The Earth’s shadow takes a bite of the Moon and gives it back.
In a partial lunar eclipse only part of the Moon enters the umbra; the rest stays in the faint penumbra. A dark, often reddish bite moves across her face over an hour or two and withdraws. Astrologers read the partial lunar eclipse with the weight of its depth: a Moon three-quarters covered is nearly a total, and a Moon barely grazed is nearly a penumbral.
The Moon enters Earth's shadow all but completely in Pisces—a partial that came within a breath of totality. Deep water, and something communal rising through it: the small, various offerings of many hands, the gathering in which no single voice is the whole service. What rises in you is not only yours, and it is asking to be brought into a room that holds more than you alone. The hours are porous; the tide is moving toward a further shore.
An eclipse at the North Node: the Dragon’s Head, the mouth that swallows the light to make room for something.
This eclipse falls near the North Node, at 4°51′ Pisces, the degree whose image is a community gathering where small things are offered and passed between hands. Astrologers read North Node eclipses as openings: what they bring is unfamiliar, sometimes unwanted, and pointed toward growth. The tradition treats the weeks after as a time when a door that was not there before is found to be standing open, and it does not promise that walking through will be comfortable.
4°51′ Pisces, the fifth degree. A community gathering where small things are offered and passed between hands.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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