Solstice Eclipse, First In 456 Years, Could Be A Bad Omen

First Posted: 12/18/10 02:51 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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The Montreal Gazette:

OTTAWA -- This year's winter solstice -- an event that will occur next Tuesday -- will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn't been seen in 456 years.

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OTTAWA -- This year's winter solstice -- an event that will occur next Tuesday -- will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn't been seen in 456 years.
OTTAWA -- This year's winter solstice -- an event that will occur next Tuesday -- will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn't been seen in 456 years.
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03:29 PM on 12/25/2010
What complete and utter nonsense.
09:39 PM on 12/21/2010
Bad Omen? You do realize this site is so full of woo woo crap?
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yakmeat
My bank account is emptier than my micro-bio.
02:52 AM on 12/21/2010
Watching the eclipse right now from Montana. Clear, cold night with beautiful stars. With even a modest pair of binoculars, a beautiful gradient from red-orange to intense white is visible as full eclipse approaches. Life is good. :)
03:12 AM on 12/21/2010
Lucky you... :) It's raining cats 'n dogs here in SoCal...
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HeevenSteven
20 Minutes into the future.
07:10 AM on 12/20/2010
911 Truthers think it's a conspiracy..
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fishnetdiver
God hates facts!
06:07 AM on 12/20/2010
"Wiccans also see great significance in the unique coupling of the masculine energy of the sun and the feminine energy of the moon..."
gonna be a lot of Barry White playin' in the sky...

hope I can see it...so far our '10 Day Outlook' shows it being an overcast night...
11:28 PM on 12/19/2010
I went and checked this, and I think they incorrectly quote the date for the last lunar eclipse that overlaps a solstice -- looks like 1553, not 1554.

Not that it makes a big difference --- ! It was before even I was born.
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italianchoctaw
Artist / Passionate defender of nature and animals
11:09 PM on 12/19/2010
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon....

Bring on the light!
10:15 PM on 12/19/2010
So what happened in 1556 if this is an omen?
06:56 AM on 12/20/2010
Not much
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556
It's just mystic math and physics cracked most of that facade away long ago, at least for some of us.
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NobodySince1980
09:52 PM on 12/19/2010
One could only view this as a bad omen if they were of the same belief that the world end in Dec, 2012.
07:02 AM on 12/20/2010
I cant wait to see the look on the doom-sayers faces on Dec 22, then later on Jan 1, 2013, then sometime further still; around June 2020. All that whining of Armageddon is nothing more than human self loathing on a grand scale.
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NobodySince1980
10:40 AM on 12/20/2010
Too funny!
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JayMonaco
04:17 PM on 12/20/2010
Seriously, it could lead to some really great parties, though. Think about it.
09:22 PM on 12/19/2010
Here's an interesting astrological interpretation of this auspicious occurrence.
http://www.mydailyastrology.net/join/news/lunar-eclipse-december-21-2010
03:13 AM on 12/21/2010
Thxs for the link... :)
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JLB98
08:39 PM on 12/19/2010
yea we are all going to feel the need to get naked and run through the woods while screaming the lyrics of lady gaga song or what I call a Saturday night.
08:13 PM on 12/19/2010
A good time for the US to have a false flag and blame Iran or N. Korea.
07:04 AM on 12/20/2010
Good thing we don't have a Reichstag.
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GeorgeMilquetoast
Striving for a mediocre amount of mediocrity
07:22 PM on 12/19/2010
A celestial occurrence that means absolutely nothing other than moving objects in space do indeed move and align in both curious and meaningless patterns.
07:34 PM on 12/19/2010
Precisely. Let's not start stock piling food and water just yet, folks.
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hellotiki
Born in a log cabin.
07:16 PM on 12/19/2010
Nostradamus predicted mass suicide caused by a creature called a "Beiber."
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05:10 PM on 12/19/2010
Here's one - clearly, this is Obama's fault.