Solar Eclipse by Howard Russell Butler, 1925.
Eclipse Season and Pop Astrology
By Thea Wirsching
A solar eclipse will occur on October 14, 2023, first visible in the United States in Oregon around 9:15 a.m. and then cutting across North America through Texas and on into Central and South America. Those not in the direct path of the eclipse but living in adjacent areas may still be able to glimpse a partial eclipse that morning. You may remember personally witnessing (or viewing online) the ‘Great American Eclipse’ of August 21, 2017 and how riveting it was to watch the Moon devour the Sun’s light. That was a total solar eclipse—the annular eclipse coming up in October features the Moon at such a distance from the Earth that it will appear slightly smaller and thus won’t completely obscure the Sun’s light. We will see a ring of solar fire encircle the Moon instead.
In the twenty-first century, we exist in an awkward relationship to the visually uncanny phenomenon of the solar eclipse. We can now predict eclipses with incredible accuracy in terms of both their timing and their areas of visibility. Nineteenth and early twentieth century travellers were the first to take advantage of the astronomical refinements that allowed for such precision; in 1878, thousands of tourists poured into Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas by train to witness the Rocky Mountain Eclipse. Enlightenment science had succeeded in leaching the primal fear associated with these events by offering up mechanical explanations and precise predictions, and so Victorian eclipse-seekers were presumably activated by one object in trekking far out to America’s West: wonder.
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In the twenty-first century, we exist in an awkward relationship to the visually uncanny phenomenon of the solar eclipse. We can now predict eclipses with incredible accuracy in terms of both their timing and their areas of visibility. Nineteenth and early twentieth century travellers were the first to take advantage of the astronomical refinements that allowed for such precision; in 1878, thousands of tourists poured into Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas by train to witness the Rocky Mountain Eclipse. Enlightenment science had succeeded in leaching the primal fear associated with these events by offering up mechanical explanations and precise predictions, and so Victorian eclipse-seekers were presumably activated by one object in trekking far out to America’s West: wonder.
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