So yesterday morning in the wee hours there was a full lunar eclipse, the first one to occur on a solstice in something like 500 years. We won’t have another until 2094. Being into the paranormal and mythology, I have always been fascinated by the role of the solstice in various lore. To add a lunar eclipse to that already rich tradition just makes my imagination SPARK. The darkest night and longest night, all wrapped up in one.
I had absolute intention of staying up to watch it, but well, I didn’t make it. And even though I woke up to go to the bathroom at the right time, when I went outside it was CLOUDY. So unfair. But some kind soul filmed it and made a time-lapse video, so those of us with lousy weather or, you know, jobs, still got to see the cool.
What kind of story does that make YOU envision?
7 thoughts on “Inspiration Alley: Solstice Eclipse”
Oh, man, that was so awesome. I wanted to stay up, but it was probably cloudy at my house, too.
It was kind of spooky, especially with the music. It almost made me want to dream up a whole new creature that no one has written about yet. :0)
I missed it also. In fact, I had no idea we had one until your post. The video makes me think of the novels which talk about the blood red moon.
This makes me think of a sense of urgency. As you said the other day, the whole event lasts only four hours, and to me it seems like a cosmic stopwatch, counting down. To what, I don’t know, but you’re right — there’s certainly a lot of potential in such an event. Great video, thanks for posting!
That’s very cool…thanks for sharing it Kait. All I got was a pink cloud, LOL, which was kinda cool in the night sky.
Thanks for the video link! I shared it with my family. Yesterday morning, I wrote down on a piece of paper on the kitchen island ‘Moon..eclipse…tonight’. But, of course, after a long day, I forgot about it that evening. Any stories I can think of would be dark…very dark…but the light returns at the end.
Oh, Michelle, everything you write is dark. 😛
It was much too cloudy here in our corner of Oregon last night… As it almost always is. It *is* Oregon, after all.
This immediately makes me think of some kind of prophetic alignment for a kingly event or return or something. My books have a lot of Celtic imagery… This plays right into my imagination. High time for battle, I think… “The mountain bleeds when the moon runs red….” Ooh, I might have to work that in to my WIP, “Bloodbonded.” 🙂
Thanks for the video… Us poor souls who live where the sun rarely shines appreciate it!
Amy