March 3, 2007 residents in the eastern third of the United States will have the chance to view this season's Total Lunar Eclipse, which begins with the Moon entering the umbra of Earth's shadow at 4:30 p.m. EST on March 3, followed by totality beginning at 5:44 p.m.  The deepest eclipse will occur at 6:21 p.m. and the event will conclude when the Moon leaves the umbra at 8:12 p.m. EST.  Residents in teh western part of the U.S. will get their chance to see this year's second Total Lunar Eclipse on August 28, so not to worry if eclipse gazing is your thing.

 

For ancient cultures it was not a matter of becoming frightened by such events as eclipses so much as it was a matter of striving to understand what do we experience as raying toward us on moonbeams or as raying out from us in the sunlight that is then altered when an eclipse occurs?  Eclipses happen with rhythmic regularity each year, although the place on the Earth where they can be seen changes~it is all in a continual cycle of becoming.  Check out our Fairy Tale Moons subscription service, and any of our other products and workshops to find out about this year's eclipses and the other exciting night sky events that this year holds.