Opposition to Trickster Being Eclipsed!

December 20, 2010
6pm PT, 9pm ET

From NASA (author Tony Phillips):

Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth’s shadow. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy shadow.

The eclipse begins on Tuesday morning, Dec. 21st, at 1:33 am EST (Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST). At that time, Earth’s shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the “bite” to expand and swallow the entire Moon. Totality commences at 02:41 am EST (11:41 pm PST) and lasts for 72 minutes.

If you’re planning to dash out for only one quick look -­ it is December, after all -­ choose this moment: 03:17 am EST (17 minutes past midnight PST). That’s when the Moon will be in deepest shadow, displaying the most fantastic shades of coppery red.

Why red?

A quick trip to the Moon provides the answer: Imagine yourself standing on a dusty lunar plain looking up at the sky. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside down, completely hiding the sun behind it. The eclipse is underway. You might expect Earth seen in this way to be utterly dark, but it’s not. The rim of the planet is on fire! As you scan your eye around Earth’s circumference, you’re seeing every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all of them, all at once. This incredible light beams into the heart of Earth’s shadow, filling it with a coppery glow and transforming the Moon into a great red orb.

Back on Earth, the shadowed Moon paints newly fallen snow with unfamiliar colors–not much luster, but lots of beauty.

Enjoy the show.”

Coincidences (UPDATED): This lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. “Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21,” says Chester. “Fortunately we won’t have to wait 372 years for the next one…that will be on 2094 DEC 21.”

Meanwhile – Great Trickster News: a Coyote (nick-named Holly = “life-force”) rescued by Chicago Fire Department. High marks to Chicago AGAIN.
“This is a life experience for me,” said Miguel Hernandez, who pulled the coyote aboard. “I’m just happy she’s rescued.”

“I was sent this by a relative in Chicago. I live in Scottsdale, Arizona and we do not treat coyotes at all like the suggestions in this comments section.
Harm a coyote, rattlesnake, or javalina and you’re going to jail. Not to make it out of balance with all the other suffering in the world endured by all, however, coyotes are part of the balance of nature in Arizona and to watch it take place in my backyard is quite a privilege. It’s cold here (well, relatively speaking) and they have their winter coats (as compared to the “dusty” brown when it’s in the 100’s at midnight) and they are spectacular animals.”

HOLLY FOR MAYOR

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“It’s amazing how good she looks. She’s looking alert and bright and she’s definitely very responsive. She’s in a cage with blankets,’’ Travis said.

The coyote was be taken late Friday to Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation in the suburbs, where she will be evaluated and released back into the wild.

“I can’t believe how lucky she was to be rescued. It could really have been a bad day for her,’’ Travis said.

Stella Coyote approves this message….and is snoozing more comfortably next to me, glad that her and all of our ambassadorial function is miraculously working.

She recommends that we avail ourselves of the opportunities generously provided by this Solstice Eclipse:

“May ignorant human disrespect for Coyotes – be eclipsed by informed reverence for all life….”

“May the rough music of the mob be eclipsed by the lyrical melody of the Trickster Redeemer!”

and all that can be symbolically teased forth…

Please prepare list: “As the Moon is eclipsed so may (fill in the blank) be eclipsed by (fill in the blank).”

Last time Lunar Eclipse happened on Winter Solstice was 1678.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2010_lunar_eclipse

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