It is easy to see how the Church could interpret the darkening of the day or a blooding of the night as a time when there is a weakening of human nature, an increase of avarice and stupidity and a proliferation of both good and bad demons over the face of the Earth. Without the knowledge of our interconnectedness, our dream-like existence on the earth realm, our understanding of the cycles of nature, it is perfectly understandable to feel the End is Nigh, or the God is angry, when the sky inexplicably blackened, the birds stopped singing and the stars could be viewed during the day during a Solar Eclipse, or that the Moon reddened during a Lunar Eclipse. Perhaps this stems from the intentional suppression of wisdom during the violent medieval evangelical Christian period in Europe, when any information that prompted self-knowledge was vigorously destroyed. But the mistake of correlating physical with psycho-spiritual has resulted in turbulence through which eclipses are interpreted, not lest if you consider the prevailing consciousness within whom those medieval philosophers were writing their predictions. And yes there are other significant physical changes on the earth during an eclipse such as crescent shadows being cast from the light filtering through leaves on trees plant sap rising significantly and local temperatures can drop up to 20 degrees or more near a total eclipse of the Sun. Okay, so there are more earthquakes and earth tremors recorded around the time of an eclipse (particularly lunar eclipses) and those events can be very impactful on the communities that experience the Earth shaking. If you think the hysteria over Mercury retrograde is silly, then if you scan across websites and blogs that seek to interpret the human impact of an eclipse, you would swear that we’ve not moved on much from the Dark Ages – doom, fear and negativity.
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