So, there was much drama about the solar eclipse here in the UK - on Wednesday 12th.

I've already had several clients tell me all about their experience of gathering in a designated spot - which turned out to be chockablock with eclipse fans - to watch the event.

As for myself - I'd forgotten when it was, until someone reminded me on the day - by which time I thought "well, I'm not prepared & I have work -

so that's that". Lol. I like to be properly prepared for things.

So - I'm wondering if anyone else would like to recount their story of their experiences?

Ironically - the last client of the day that I was expecting cancelled due to an emergency - and, I then promptly went to bed.

I... was ASLEEP during the solar eclipse 🤣.

What a waste of the magickal "alignment of 12 planets" plus an eclipse!

The ritual I could have performed - the poems I could have written - the visions I could have seen!!! 🙀

Forgive my melodrama. It's the beginning of my 17 day summer holiday and I'm extremely happy.

What did YOU do on the Eclipse?

We thought we could watch out the roof window, but then the sun sank below the top of the hills just before it was due to happen....

They should schedule it better next time 😉😂

5 hours ago, Tanga said:

So, there was much drama about the solar eclipse here in the UK - on Wednesday 12th.

I've already had several clients tell me all about their experience of gathering in a designated spot - which turned out to be chockablock with eclipse fans - to watch the event.

As for myself - I'd forgotten when it was, until someone reminded me on the day - by which time I thought "well, I'm not prepared & I have work -

so that's that". Lol. I like to be properly prepared for things.

So - I'm wondering if anyone else would like to recount their story of their experiences?

Ironically - the last client of the day that I was expecting cancelled due to an emergency - and, I then promptly went to bed.

I... was ASLEEP during the solar eclipse 🤣.

What a waste of the magickal "alignment of 12 planets" plus an eclipse!

The ritual I could have performed - the poems I could have written - the visions I could have seen!!! 🙀

Forgive my melodrama. It's the beginning of my 17 day summer holiday and I'm extremely happy.

What did YOU do on the Eclipse?

You where not alone, I slept to. Was so tired and ill.

I deliberately skipped it. I’m a lunar gal, and I just cannot get myself worked up about solar events 😁.

I'm maybe in the minority, but I have never been worked up about eclipses, or tried to see one. Basically, they are predictable, and are nothing more than one celestial body passing in front of another one in an orderly fashion, temporarily blocking our view.

Now that we know it's not some dragon eating the sun (which would have been exciting, to say the least), an eclipse is just a transitory event. It's like another shopper blocking your aisle with a grocery cart while they contemplate cans of tuna.

I get more excited by meteor showers or Northern Lights, or cloud formations, or storms. Each is more of a random phenomenon than eclipses. Mind you, I live in Scotland now, which is not a great place to foster the hobby of astronomy! This year, the cloud cover was so thick we hardly even noticed the daylight dropping during the eclipse. I mean ...we weren't even at the supermarket when the grocery cart blocked the aisle. 😜 Missed it completely.

Edited Saturday at 04:48 AM2 days by Chariot

22 minutes ago, Raggydoll said:

I deliberately skipped it. I’m a lunar gal, and I just cannot get myself worked up about solar events 😁.

Well, it WAS also a lunar event, without the moon, there would not have been an eclipse!

@Chariot

"one celestial body passing in front of another one in an orderly fashion"

🤣 so true actually (but "orderly fashion" made me giggle 😁)

58 minutes ago, karma_eleon said:

Well, it WAS also a lunar event, without the moon, there would not have been an eclipse!

Well yes, but by that definition I could also say that whenever I’m working with the moon, I’m also working with the sun… given that I wouldn’t see the moon without the sun. Those who get me, get me 😁

2 hours ago, Raggydoll said:

Well yes, but by that definition I could also say that whenever I’m working with the moon, I’m also working with the sun… given that I wouldn’t see the moon without the sun. Those who get me, get me 😁

This made me think of this cartoon ...which is signed by the German cartoonist Martin Perscheid.

Edited Saturday at 08:25 AM2 days by Chariot

🤣🤣🤣

These were not the answers I was expecting! You guys make me Lol and you rock!

What a classic finish with the vampire cartoon 😂.

@Libra 58 I am sorry to hear you were ill. I hope you are recovering...

30 minutes ago, Chariot said:

This made me think of this cartoon ...which is signed by the German cartoonist Martin Perscheid.

Love it! 🤣

For me it’s also a matter of culture and beliefs. Sól/Sol and Máni/Måne (the Norse sun goddess and moon god, respectively) are siblings. One would not exist without the other, but you can still have a practice that focuses more on one than the other.

Also, I was born at night, under a dark moon, so I’ve always felt very attuned with the moon and especially its darker phase 😊

As most of my friends know (because I mention it every time) my beloved and I met during, and because of, a solar eclipse - the partial eclipse on 11th May 1975. Eclipse watching on the science block flat roof at school. It was quite cool up there, and this tall bloke a couple of years above me had a black coffee . . .

The rest is history.

So we always try to view them if we can, lunar eclipses too, and always with a coffee, well two coffees these days LOL

But we were also out for several nights watching the Perseids @Chariot - hope you got some nice views? So, just happy nerds really (he has no spiritual approach to it)

PathWalker

2 minutes ago, PathWalker said:

As most of my friends know (because I mention it every time) my beloved and I met during, and because of, a solar eclipse - the partial eclipse on 11th May 1975. Eclipse watching on the science block flat roof at school. It was quite cool up there, and this tall bloke a couple of years above me had a black coffee . . .

The rest is history.

So we always try to view them if we can, lunar eclipses too, and always with a coffee, well two coffees these days LOL

But we were also out for several nights watching the Perseids @Chariot - hope you got some nice views? So, just happy nerds really (he has no spiritual approach to it)

PathWalker

Oh...... how romantic! 🥰.

Goodness me.

BANG go the old traditional woes of seeing an eclipse in the sky - for you.