Greatest eclipse is at August 2, 2027, 10:06 AM in your zone, with the Sun and Moon at 9°55′ Leo, near the South Node, 100 percent covered. Where it can be seen: total path: Spain, north Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia. Partial: Europe, Africa, Middle East, India.
The Sun goes out at midday and the stars come back, and every bird stops singing at once.
In a total solar eclipse the Moon covers the whole disk of the Sun for those standing in the path of her umbra. The sky darkens to a deep twilight, the temperature drops, the horizon glows in every direction, and the Sun’s corona, the white atmosphere never otherwise seen, stands out around the black Moon. Totality lasts from a few seconds to a little over seven minutes. It is the rarest thing in this app to see with one’s own eyes, and the tradition reads it as the strongest of all eclipses.
A total solar eclipse in early Leo, six minutes and twenty-three seconds of darkness at the middle of the day—the longest totality of the twenty-first century, the path running from Spain across north Africa to the Arabian Sea. The sky will not be this hushed again in our lifetime. For just under seven minutes the field of the world is un-floodlit: every blade and every web holds a drop of something that had been there all morning, waiting for the eye to slow enough to see. When the light comes back, the field is still wet with it. Notice what you almost wept for while the heart's own sun was subtracted. Some beauty only reveals itself in the interval between two blazes of light.
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 9°55′ Leo, the degree whose image is early dew sparkling as the sun floods the open field. 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.
9°55′ Leo, the tenth degree. Early dew sparkling as the sun floods the open field.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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