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

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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Comments

[cleanhippie]

03:29 PM on 12/25/2010

What complete and utter nonsense.

[AngryMimi]

09:39 PM on 12/21/2010

Bad Omen? You do realize this site is so full of woo woo crap?

[yakmeat]

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. :)

[BluePlanetEarth]

03:12 AM on 12/21/2010

Lucky you... :) It's raining cats 'n dogs here in SoCal...

[HeevenSteven]

07:10 AM on 12/20/2010

911 Truthers think it's a conspiracy..

[fishnetdiver]

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...

[palindrom]

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.

[italianchoctaw]

11:09 PM on 12/19/2010

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon....

Bring on the light!

[zerorest]

10:15 PM on 12/19/2010

So what happened in 1556 if this is an omen?

[ChristopherAtom]

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.

[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.

[ChristopherAtom]

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.

[NobodySince1980]

10:40 AM on 12/20/2010

Too funny!

[JayMonaco]

04:17 PM on 12/20/2010

Seriously, it could lead to some really great parties, though. Think about it.

[shantialoha]

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

[BluePlanetEarth]

03:13 AM on 12/21/2010

Thxs for the link... :)

[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.

[sparkey]

08:13 PM on 12/19/2010

A good time for the US to have a false flag and blame Iran or N. Korea.

[ChristopherAtom]

07:04 AM on 12/20/2010

Good thing we don't have a Reichstag.

[GeorgeMilquetoast]

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.

[BebeLush]

07:34 PM on 12/19/2010

Precisely. Let's not start stock piling food and water just yet, folks.

[hellotiki]

07:16 PM on 12/19/2010

Nostradamus predicted mass suicide caused by a creature called a "Beiber."

[getoffmedz]

05:10 PM on 12/19/2010

Here's one - clearly, this is Obama's fault.