Greatest eclipse is at December 31, 2028, 4:51 PM in your zone, with the Moon at 10°34′ Cancer, near the South Node, 100 percent covered. Where it can be seen: total: Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia. Partial phases: Americas at moonrise/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.
A total lunar in Cancer on the last night of the year—the Moon going fully into Earth's shadow as the calendar turns. A small laughing figure is in the corner of the room, making faces at the year you are releasing: the self-importances, the grave postures, the small tyrannies of the twelve months closing. The clown is not cruel; the clown is merciful. Some of what you were taking seriously can be let go with a smile. The hearth will still be lit in the morning.
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 10°34′ Cancer, the degree whose image is a clown holding up the faces of the famous in caricature. 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.
10°34′ Cancer, the eleventh degree. A clown holding up the faces of the famous in caricature.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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