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| The Final Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse |
If you saw it you can tell your grandchildren in later years. If not, have a quick scan through our gallery or through the liveblog below, and then tell the grandchildren.
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| Post-totality, 4:38am BST, mid-Norfolk, UK -- just before the clouds rolled in... |
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| The perigee full moon, or supermoon, appears red besides a spire of the Cologne cathedral Photo: EPA |
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| The partially eclipsed blood moon over Las Vegas Photo: Reuters |
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| The blood red moon over Glastonbury Photo: Getty |
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| Super Blood Moon in its partial phases over #Iowa. |
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| 'Super Blood Moon' sits over Kelpies |
Observers in the British Isles have to wait until the morning of Monday, January 21 2019 for the next total lunar eclipse visible from these shores, but it will only be a "normal" one.
Eclipse facts
The supermoon, where Earth's satellite is near its minimum distance from our planet, means that the Moon will appear 7-8% larger in the sky.
The moon may look rust-coloured during a total lunar eclipse - giving rise to its nickname Blood Moon. This is because the Earth's atmosphere scatters blue light more strongly than red light, and it is this red light that reaches the lunar surface
During the eclipse, the Moon lies in front of the stars of the constellation Pisces
Rare supermoon lunar eclipse began at 1:10am (BST)
• Clear skies over much of the UK allowed fantastic views
• The celestial event had not occurred since 1982 - and will not be repeated until 2033.
Stargazers in Scotland have been treated to a good view of Sunday night's lunar eclipse and "supermoon".
A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in its closest part of orbit to Earth, making it appear larger in the sky.
In the beginning there was total love, unity and perfection. The universe was complete within itself, a unified field of Being. There was no awareness of itself, it merely was. It encompassed everything but was nothing. Then there was a sudden change: a spark of desire was ignited — the desire was to know itself. This desire propelled the forces of the universe to separate into two contrasting parts. These two parts are known as the masculine and feminine energies, the Masculine being of will and expansion and the feminine of nurturing and receptivity. And thus duality was born.
During this journey of expansion and exploration, the universal consciousness could only learn about itself through direct experience — by experiencing all aspects of what it can be. So, during the recent cycles we have been experiencing, we – the universe – have been learning about the different aspects of ourselves through separation. We have experienced the feminine without the masculine and the masculine without the feminine. During these times, we have embodied one of the other, and collectively learned to suppress the energy of the opposite. A perfect example of this is matriarchal versus patriarchal times. During the times of matriarchy, we lived in harmony with the earth and nature, we built our societies on the understanding of nurturing and receptivity, but we did not expand our collective selves or direct our will toward new directions. This left the masculine energy suppressed and wounded, and that suppressed energy rebelled. More recently, we have lived under patriarchal rule, where our will and direction has been prioritized, suppressing the divine feminine and her nurturing nature and wounding the feminine energy of the earth in the process.
We all carry within ourselves a deep wound and sense of lack rooted in that original separation; that formation of duality. This feeling is what propels us to explore in the search for completeness and perfection. However, that feeling that can only be fulfilled through the balance of the feminine and masculine energies within ourselves. We are now at the point in our evolution where we are finding the missing parts of ourselves. Many of us have been soul-searching and healing these wounded parts of ourselves, loving and forgiving all aspects of ourselves. Through our devotion to the wisdom of this inner unification, we have begun bringing balance and harmony into our lives. This is the reunion of the feminine and masculine, a process through which we will continue to expand in new directions (masculine) while nurturing (feminine) those around us and the Earth we are a part of.
With the Full Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse in Aries (new directions), the final blood moon of the tetrad, we are being offered a new beginning. It is time to embody the unified masculine and feminine within ourselves, and to begin manifesting it into our world; through the philosophies we embody (Saturn in Sagittarius), the decisions we make (Mercury Retrograde in Libra), the structures we build in our lives (Pluto in Capricorn), and the influence we choose to have on the world around us.
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| Donald Urquhart captured images of the "supermoon" and eclipse over Dumfries |
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| Donald Urquhart |
NOTE--This phenomenon of the lunar eclipse and "supermoon" together was last observed in 1982 and will not come again until 2033.
Ref: http://raisingvibrationsastrology.com
http://www.bbc.com/news
I saw the supermoon on sunday evening..it was amazing..
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