Greatest eclipse is at December 20, 2029, 10:41 PM in your zone, with the Moon at 29°18′ Gemini, near the South Node, 100 percent covered. Where it can be seen: total: Americas, Europe, Africa, west Asia. Mid-totality favors Atlantic basin.
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 at the final breath of Gemini, four days before the solstice—the Moon in full shadow, the year running down into its longest night. A season of display is ending: the parade that walked the boardwalk in the brief warm months, the ones who were watched and the ones who watched them, and the quick summer that believed it would not end. Not every word still needs to be spoken. Some rooms will be kinder for what you choose to leave unsaid in them as the year goes dark.
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 29°18′ Gemini, the degree whose image is a procession of beauty on public display, the watchers and the watched part of one performance. 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.
29°18′ Gemini, the thirtieth degree. A procession of beauty on public display, the watchers and the watched part of one performance.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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