Eclipses

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Eclipse

 

Eclipses are not rare phenomena, there can be as many as in q single

year, yet the solar eclipse is visible from only a small area and is an

evanescent as the wind. The real experience of the eclipse is that we stare into

a temporary shadow of the Earth or Moon – into a shadow which is made possible

only by the pyrotechnics of the Sun. The absence of light is one thing: the

coldness, the silence, and the unaccustomed view of the stars at midday, is

another.

 

‘The Sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has spread

over all’

 

Greek Poet Theoclymenus.

 

 

 

It is unlikely that anyone who witnesses a lunar or solar eclipse at first hand

in modern times is likely to be frightened. Eclipse has personal significance

only when it falls upon a degree already activated in the personal horoscope.

This important rule has nothing to do with eclipse-visibility.

 

The hermetic tradition states that an eclipse offers an inner

entrance to the spiritual realms, even with in the soul of Man. A person steeped

in this arcane lore may see the dark body of the Moon boring a hole into space,

creating a safety-valve for human passions-a tunnel leading towards the world of

the Gods.

 

 

 

In the fourteenth century, many European astrologers traced the

beginnings and duration of the terrible plague of 1345, which we call now the

Black Death, to the lunar eclipse which occurred on the evening of 18 March

1345. Following astrological tradition, few astrologers of the day claimed that

the eclipse actually started the plague, yet some at least were convinced that

it’s explosive charge merely at a difficult cosmic moment. The eclipse was exact

at 9:28 pm, with Moon in 7 degrees of Libra. Geoffrey of Meaux paid attention to

the Black Death. Geoffrey tells us the eclipse took place one hour after the

rising of the Moon, and was visible for a considerable time. The difficult

cosmic moment was represented by the powerful groupings of the remaining planets

into two zodiacal signs. At the time of this lunar eclipse two massive groups in

the airy Aquarius and the fiery Aries. Spreading along the trade-routes from

China, the plague had reached Egypt by 1348, and very

quickly spread into Europe. It is claimed that between 1347 and 1351, 75

million people died of the disease.

 

Of course, the Death did not reach Europe until sometime after the

eclipse of 1345. According to Geoffrey of Meaux, the eclipse lasted for 3 hours,

29 minutes and 54 seconds. Had Geoffrey applied the traditional rules, that

effect of the eclipse will last for an equivalent number of years as hours of

duration in the eclipse itself, and then his prediction would have been more

accurate. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it was believed that the

contagion was carried in the air (hence the importances of the lunar eclipse in

the air-sign Libra and the gathering of planets in the air-sign Aquarius). It

was not until medical investigations into a plague that ravaged Bombay in 1896

that scientists recognised that the bubonic plague was transmitted by fleas. The

stiking thing is that the eclipse of March 1895 (when the Indian plague is said

to have started) was in the same degrees at that eclipse which is claimed to

have begun the mediaeval Black Death from which, from

1345 onwards, wiped out millions of people in Europe.

 

Solar Eclipse of 26 March 1895 05:31 Aries

 

Solar Eclipse of 18 March 1345 06:14 Aries.

 

 

 

Very little study has been done of the relationship between eclipses and

diseases, yet there does appear to be some connection between this degree of the

Aries-Libra axis and epidemics.

 

 

 

In 1876 there was an outbreak of plague in India, which became so virulently

epidemic that it even attracted a special report from the bureaucracies of the

British government in India. On 25 March 1876, there had been a solar eclipse in

5:32 Aries. The year 1894 saw a vast sweep of plague through Iran and central

Asia, through Russia, as far as China. Although this had begun late in the

previous year, there was a solar eclipse on 29th September 1894 in 6:04 Libra,

on the same Aries-Libra axis.

 

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

A. Ramani.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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