Total Eclipse of the Heart (Moon)
Were any of you in the States up early/late enough to catch any of the total Lunar eclipse last night?
If you were hoping to get my new anime season preview, sorry, but I'm still waiting to watch a couple more shows, so that's on hold a little. Instead, I thought I'd wax a little on the subject of last night's celestial event.
Last night's lunar eclipse, I'm sorry to say, was one that I missed. Couldn't help it. Have to be at work at 9:00 EST this morning so there's no way I could stay up to watch it, no matter how much I wanted to. Worse yet, this was the last total Lunar Eclipse in the States for another five years.
Events such as eclipses are not themselves all that rare. But the ability to view them from any one part of the world is limited. That is why certain customs and religious ideas are so intricately tied to various celestial events. Wishing on a shooting star, for example, is based on the idea that a shooting star is rare. But, as we know, shooting stars are actually pieces of space debris passing through the atmosphere, and can be seen constantly if one is looking hard enough at a sufficiently clear and dark night sky.
Even so, there is a mysticism that persists with events such as solar and lunar eclipses, or even the clockwork arrival of a full moon. Throughout the Moon Sagas of my Book of the Shadows particularly I make subtle plays at this mysticism. I set birthdays to the winter or summer solstice, the longest and shortest nights of the year, respectively. I have characters born under a lunar or a solar eclipse.
These are some of the most basic allusions used in writing. Whether you're reading my stories or an actual good author's writings, keep an eye out for mentions of certain things like this; there's usually some meaning behind it.
If you were hoping to get my new anime season preview, sorry, but I'm still waiting to watch a couple more shows, so that's on hold a little. Instead, I thought I'd wax a little on the subject of last night's celestial event.
Last night's lunar eclipse, I'm sorry to say, was one that I missed. Couldn't help it. Have to be at work at 9:00 EST this morning so there's no way I could stay up to watch it, no matter how much I wanted to. Worse yet, this was the last total Lunar Eclipse in the States for another five years.
Events such as eclipses are not themselves all that rare. But the ability to view them from any one part of the world is limited. That is why certain customs and religious ideas are so intricately tied to various celestial events. Wishing on a shooting star, for example, is based on the idea that a shooting star is rare. But, as we know, shooting stars are actually pieces of space debris passing through the atmosphere, and can be seen constantly if one is looking hard enough at a sufficiently clear and dark night sky.
Even so, there is a mysticism that persists with events such as solar and lunar eclipses, or even the clockwork arrival of a full moon. Throughout the Moon Sagas of my Book of the Shadows particularly I make subtle plays at this mysticism. I set birthdays to the winter or summer solstice, the longest and shortest nights of the year, respectively. I have characters born under a lunar or a solar eclipse.
These are some of the most basic allusions used in writing. Whether you're reading my stories or an actual good author's writings, keep an eye out for mentions of certain things like this; there's usually some meaning behind it.
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