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Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon) tomorrow (Oct. 8)
Tomorrow MORNING is a total lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes completely through the Earth’s dark shadow, or umbra. During this type of eclipse, the Moon will gradually get darker and then take on a rusty or blood red color. The eclipse will be visible throughout most of North America, South America, eastern Asia, and Australia.
The full eclipse will start at 6:25 a.m. ET, NASA says, and last until 7:24 a.m. ET.
Because it happens right after the perigee, the closest point to Earth in the moon’s orbit, this blood moon will be nearly the size of a super moon — appearing 5.3% larger than the previous blood moon on April 15.
For more NASA Map and Eclipse Information.
“Death: Sacred, Necessary, Real” by Rev. Michael Dowd
This article is reblogged from The Huffington Post.
Everything we value is possible only because of death. The ancients couldn’t have known this truth revealed by science. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high. Death is no less sacred than life. Read More
What to look forward to in October at HP
This Month at HP
This month, we continue our early fall theme: “Life and Death“.
Oct 5 “Death: Sacred, Necessary, Real” by Michael Dowd
Oct 8 “Vulture” by Robinson Jeffers
Oct 12 Postpagan Ceremony & Ecology by Glen Gordon
Oct 15 Mid-Month Meditation: “Breaths”
Oct 19 Starstuff, Contemplating by Jon Cleland Host
Oct 22 Samhain poem by Linette Jensen
Oct 26 A Pedagogy of Gaia by Bart Everson
Oct 29 The Wheel of Evolution by Eric Steinhart: Samhain
Oct 31 DE NATURA DEORUM: “On the Road with the Wild Huntsman” by pagainaidd
HP Calendar for October
Oct 2 Gandhi’s birthday and International Day of Non-Violence
* first Monday in October is World Habitat Day
October 8 – Total Lunar Eclipse. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes completely through the Earth’s dark shadow, or umbra. During this type of eclipse, the Moon will gradually get darker and then take on a rusty or blood red color. The eclipse will be visible throughout most of North America, South America, eastern Asia, and Australia. (NASA Map and Eclipse Information)
Oct 12 Cosmic Calendar: First photosynthesis occurs 3 bya
Oct 16 World Food Day
Oct 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct 29 Cosmic Calendar: Oxygenation of atmosphere occurs 2.4 bya
Oct 31/Nov 1 Neo-Pagan autumn cross-quarter day (Samhain) / Halloween
Oct 31 Anniversary of the publication of The Spiral Dance and Drawing Down the Moon
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“The Death of Everything” by Brock Haussamen
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published at Brock Haussamen’s blog 3.8 Billion Years.
I wrote last year about my five fears of dying. They included four familiar ones—fear of pain and fears of letting go of my life and my ego—along with one that is hazier and less familiar. This is the fear, as I wrote then, that when I die “the rest of the universe will end also. It’s a quirk of the brain, I think—a spinoff of trying to imagine nothingness.” This fear is not severe or continuous—it comes in flashes—but it is recurring. I don’t know if others have this experience. I haven’t read or heard that they do. I grant that this fear may have some roots in my particular psyche, but I also suspect that others have probably felt irrationally that their death will in some way threaten things or people beyond themselves. Read More
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