Greatest eclipse is at November 25, 2030, 6:50 AM in your zone, with the Sun and Moon at 3°02′ Sagittarius, near the North Node, 100 percent covered. Where it can be seen: total path: southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho), Indian Ocean, Australia. Partial: south Africa, south Asia, Australia, Antarctica.
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 in early Sagittarius—the Sun fully hidden as the path crosses Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, the Indian Ocean, and Australia. A very small figure in you is taking its first step. The one before this was also a first step, and the one after it will be too, for a while. For the minutes of totality, the arrow is not drawn back; it is simply held. What you are learning to walk toward on the other side of that held breath is what you are now free to aim at.
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 3°02′ Sagittarius, the degree whose image is a small child learning to walk with the steady encouragement of their parents. 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.
3°02′ Sagittarius, the fourth degree. A small child learning to walk with the steady encouragement of their parents.
Every eclipse has a family. Its elders came eighteen years before, a third of the world to the west.
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