The American Aleph and Tavs 2017, 2023 and 2024
The American Aleph
The American Aleph
The American Aleph
An original map by Sand depicting the American Aleph, a hieroglyphic pattern formed by mapping the three complete solar eclipse paths of Aug. 21 2017, Oct.14 2023 and Apr 08 2024.
There has never been such a tightly formed obvious Aleph over the interior borders of any nation in at least the last thousand years.
A Tav is a Cross, the last letter of both the ancient Hebrew and Egyptian alphabets. The Aleph is an A, the source of our modern letter. They are the first and last letters, the Alpha and the Omega essentially..
The April 8 2024 eclipse creates all three letters within minutes by crossing the lines created by the first two eclipses from south to north.
Click world crosses section and American maps to consider peculiarity.
Full descriptions of individual eclipses below.
The American Tav
The American Aleph
The American Aleph
An original map by Sand depicting the American Hepton Tav formed by the Total Solar eclipses of 2017 and 2024. The apex is over the area known as Little Egypt Illinois. Closest town is Makanda.
This is the first time two total eclipses separated by less than ten years have crossed over the USA since its founding. In fact, they are the first overland total cross in the area of the USA since 1451.
Click American Maps since 1492 to determine peculiarity.
Part of the Monday Hepton Series. What's a Hepton? Click here
full descriptions of individual eclipses below
The Texas Tav
The American Aleph
The Texas Tav
An original map by Sand depicting the Texas Tav mapping the intersection of the Oct.14 2023 Ring of Fire and the Apr 08 2024 Total eclipse which occurs 177 days later.
There has never been any two complete eclipses make a cross over the area of the USA within such a short time since at least 1492.
The apex of the Texas Tav is in the Hill Country of Texas west of San Antonio. Closest town is Utopia Texas.
See American Maps since 1492 to determine peculiarity.
full descriptions of individual eclipses below.
The Great American Eclipse August 21 2017
The American Aleph
An original map by Sand depicting the August 21 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.
Great American Eclipse 2017 Aug 21
Hailed as the “Great American Eclipse”, the eclipse of 2017 Aug 21 was by far the most watched solar eclipse in American history. There was a great run-up in publicity to the eclipse, and many towns along its path held watch parties and celebrations. It has been said that the movement of people towards the narrow path of totality was the greatest single short-term migration in the nation's history, with millions positioning themselves for the sight of a lifetime, as daylight turned to darkness with the passing of the moon in front of the face of the sun.
We can use this eclipse as a test case for the idea of “reading” an eclipse like a song or a poem maybe. Three Main Aspects; The Time (History), The Space ( Geography) and The Main Characters.
Astronomical facts about the Aug 21 2017 eclipse:
• Type of eclipse: Total
• Saros Number 145
• Duration of totality along center line of maximum eclipse: 2 minutes and 40 seconds
• length of path: perhaps 8000 miles long or so
• width of path, almost exactly 70 miles wide
• Locating: At eclipse, the Sun was in the paws of the lion of the constellation Leo. The star Regulus (the “King Star”) was in conjunction with and clearly visible near the eclipsed Sun.
• Maximum Eclipse: Giant City State Park, near Carbondale, Illinois.
Geographical Peculiarities of the August 21 2017 Total Eclipse:
USA Divided: The USA was closely divided geographically by the eclipse. Approximately 2 million square miles of USA were to the north of centerline (including Alaska) and around 1.8 million square miles below. It was also closely divided well along the contiguous 48 states. 23 states had center line of totality either pass through them or were north of the line of totality. 25 states had the center line of totality either pass through them or were south of the line of totality.
Odd Spot of Maximum: Maximum Eclipse of the entire 9000-mile path occurred near Makanda, Illinois. Remarkably, Makanda (known as the “Star of Egypt”) is also at the apex of the cross, the intersection of the two eclipses of 2017 and 2024.
Cross in the Cross: In the heart of both eclipses, 10 miles from Makanda, is the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a 111 foot cross that was once the tallest cross in the western hemisphere.
Relation to 1918 Hepton: First cross-country USA eclipse in 99 years, since June 8 1918. That eclipse had a similar path but slightly convex to this. It featured totality at Mount Saint Helens. The 1918 eclipse was also a Hepton eclipse with a corresponding US eclipse exactly 2422 days later, on Jan 24 1925. Those paths did not touch.
Rare Cross-Country: It was one of only three Pacific to Atlantic USA total solar eclipses since the nation's founding (2017, 1918 and 1806)
Only in the USA: The eclipse touched no other national boundaries besides the USA. The last solar eclipse to have that geographic distinction occurred in 1257 AD (519 years before nation's founding) and it will not happen again until 2316 (199 years after the 2017 eclipse).
Touched most states ever: The eclipse touched 14 states, the most ever up to that time for an American Total eclipse. The April 8 2024 American Eclipse exceeds it, touching 15.
Near the center of the USA: The line of totality went within 50 miles of the geographic center of the contiguous USA (Lebanon, Kansas at 98.4% totality) and within a hundred miles of the population center of the US (Hartville, Missouri at 97.5% totality)
Nice Weather: The weather was exceptionally fair for most of the nation, making for good viewing.
Extended Peculiarities of the August 21 2017 Eclipse:
First in 38 years: The 2017 Total Eclipse was the first in the contiguous USA in 38 years. The last one before 2017 was on 1979 Feb 26, with totality in the northwest, including Mt. Saint Helens one year before her eruption. The 2017 eclipse brought 98.4 % coverage to Mt. Saint Helens.
Seven Cities named Salem: Salem, Oregon (the capital of Oregon) was the first major city in the US to see totality. Salem is shorthand for Jerusalem, means “peace” in Arabic and is related to the Hebrew “shalom”. The eclipse path passed over 7 towns named Salem in The US. They were nearly evenly spaced along the line —in Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky and South Carolina.
Echoes of Government and Lincoln: The eclipse was first visible on US soil at Government Point, Oregon. The first town in totality was Lincoln City, Oregon, It also went over Lincoln Point Wyoming and Lincoln Nebraska (the state capital) --99.6% at Lincoln Missouri and 98.4% totality at Lincoln's Birthplace in Kentucky.
Nashville: First total eclipse over area of Nashville, Tennessee since 1478. But, of course everyone knows real country music had already been eclipsed for some time. Country Music Fact: #1 country song at time of eclipse. “Body like a Back Road”(“I know every curve like the back of my hand”)
Leaves USA at Slave Port of Charleston: Eclipse exited the USA with center line at Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston was the largest slave port in North America. More than 200,000 Africans passed through the port of Charleston in chains, between the founding of the Carolina colony in 1670 and the prohibition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808. Interesting juxtaposition entering US at Salem and exiting at Charleston.
Interesting Historical Yearly Anniversaries of 2017
• 500thanniversary of Protestant Reformation (Began 1517 Oct 31)
• 500thanniversary of first defeat of Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas at Battle of Champton in what is now Mexico (1517 Mar 25)
• 500thAnniversary of first official European delegation to China (1517 Aug 15)
• 100thanniversary of Balfour Declaration proclaiming Jewish homeland (1917 Nov 2)
• 100thanniversary of US entrance into World War One (1917 Apr 6)
• 100thAnniversary of Russian Bolshevik Revolution (Oct 1917)
• 100thanniversary of birth of John F. Kennedy (1917 May 29)
• 50thanniversary of Jewish control of Jerusalem (6-7-1967)
• 50thAnniversary of American “Summer of Love” (1967)
Sevens and 70's
• 7 months exactly after Donald Trump's first full day in office (1-21-2017), who won the presidency by 77 electoral votes, and assumed his first full day when he was 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old. (Trump was born the day of a lunar eclipse Jun 14 1946)
• 70thanniversary of beginning of Israeli war of modern nationhood (November 1947)
• 70thanniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (early 1947)
• 70thanniversary of founding of CIA (1947 July)
• 70thanniversary of Roswell “Flying Saucer” incident (7-7-1947)
• The eclipse path was 70 miles wide.
• Saros 145, the character eclipse, is composed of 77 events. 2017 Aug 21 is its 22nd.
• 2017 was Hebrew Year 5777.
Historical Calendar Peculiarities—Calendar date August 21st
Two other great eclipses occurred on the date of August 21 in the 20th Century.
August 21 1914 World War One (Saros 124)--One of the most clearly ominous eclipses in modern history. Fighting begins in worst slaughter in human history to that point just as total solar eclipse divides Europe, Ottoman Empire, and Russia.
August 21 1933 Jerusalem Ring of Fire--As Nazis seize control in Germany, ring of fire eclipse in Jerusalem and Baghdad (Babylon).
Saros 145 Recent History and Character
Saros are repeating characters (every 18 years 11 days and 8 hours- or 19 eclipse years). Saros 145 creates the August 21st 2017 Great American Eclipse. Here are last 5 eclipses for Saros 145 before 2017- see them go backwards 18 years at a time:
August 11 1999- Europe/ Mideast/ South Asia---Saros 145 created the last complete solar eclipse of the second millennium. One of the greatest eclipses of all time. Totality from Nineveh, Iraq to Hitler's birthplace in Austria to France and England.
Jul 31 1981 USSR-The last decade of the Soviet Union's power begins with a cross-country eclipse that touches no other nation.
Jul 20 1963 Japan to USA- 18 years after atomic bombs ,total eclipse begins in Japan six years to the day before moon landing
Jul 9 1945 USA to USSR Atom Bomb Eclipse-Total solar eclipse travels from the USA to USSR one week before the detonation of the first atomic bomb.
6-29-1927 England to USA Beatles Premonition Eclipse – Liverpool England to USA exactly 14 eclipse years (4851 days) before the birth of the Beatles oldest member, John Lennon, on 10-9-1940. All the Beatles will be born in Liverpool.
What's next for Saros 145? It is scheduled to return on September 2 2035, when it brings totality for the first time in centuries to Beijing, the capital of China. Totality also in Pyongyang, North Korea and north metropolitan Tokyo.
This material is from Sand's book: Eclipse Witness: Supernatural Patterns int the Cosmic Clock
See world crosses section and American maps and Saros Cycles to consider peculiarity.
The Great American Ring of Fire october 14 2023
The American Aleph
An original map by Sand depicting the Great American Ring of Fire 2023 Oct 14
Astronomical facts about the eclipse:
• Type of eclipse: Annular (Ring of Fire)
• Saros Number 134
• Duration of totality along center line of maximum eclipse: 5 minutes 17 seconds
maximum eclipse occurred off eastern coast of Nicaragua
• length of path: perhaps 8000 miles long or so
• width of path, roughly 125 miles wide
• Zodiac: officially in constellation Libra ( though perhaps more like Virgo,,,ask your local astrologer)
Great American Ring of Fire October 14, 2023
2023 is the Second of Three American eclipses in Seven Years
The the path itself is very balanced in relation to North and South America. You can find that illustration farther down in the section. It is the most balanced eclipse path between the continents since Europeans arrived in 1492.
October 14 Facts and Peculiarities:
Almost Columbus Day: October 14 2023 is 531 years and two days from the “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. 48% sun coverage at his landing site in San Salvador Bahamas.
Anniversary of First Crime of Conquistadors: Oct 14 2023 is the exact 531st anniversary (Oct 14 1492) of Columbus' abduction of 7 native youth to serve as guides; the first colonial crime in the Americas.
The Metonic just left Columbus Day: The last complete eclipse on this eclipse Metonic occurred on Oct 12 1977, the 485th anniversary of Columbus Day. That total eclipse began over open ocean and traversed no land until it crossed Colombia, the only nation on earth named for the explorer.
Eisenhower vs. Hitler Rematch: 2023 Oct 14 is the 133rd Birthday of Dwight Eisenhower, born October 14 1890. Another complete eclipse occurred six months earlier on Adolf Hitler's 134th birthday on April 20. He was born April 20 1889. Eisenhower and Hitler were enemies in World War Two.
Peculiar distance from Mayan Apocalypse: 2023 Oct 14 is exactly 555.5 eclipse years from the “Mayan Apocalypse” total eclipse of August 8 1496 (Saros 127) which brought terror to the Aztec and Mayan tribes just as Spanish Conquistadors were arriving.
Extended Peculiarities of October 14 2023 Ring of Fire
North and South America: This is the first complete solar eclipse to connect the USA and South America (including full annularity at Panama Canal) since the USA's founding in 1776. The path connects North and South America with a complete Solar Eclipse for the first time since Oct 13 1632—391 years and one day before this Oct 14 2023 eclipse. The path touches 9 nations, a difficult geographic tightrope, perhaps the most ever for an eclipse in the Western hemisphere.
Latitude coincidence: The beginning spot of the eclipse in the Pacific Ocean is approximately 49.5 degrees latitude, which is also the same as the northernmost latitude of the northern boundary of the contiguous USA, 49.5 degrees at Angle Inlet, Minnesota.
Lincoln Anniversary: The 2023 eclipse enters the USA 10 miles south of Lincoln City Oregon exactly 167 eclipse years (57,879 days) after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14/15 1865.
Oregon: Newport, Oregon and a few other small settlements occupy the only tiny strip of land to receive complete eclipses in both the 2017 Aug 21 total and 2023 ring of fire solar eclipses. Salem just misses annularity. Eugene is in path.
Nevada: Annularity misses Las Vegas by a hundred miles (but still has 82 % coverage).
Utah: The eclipse crosses Utah, staying south. where it passes over several national parks and monuments including Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, Canyonlands and Bears Ears. Only small towns are in the path.
Colorado: Extreme SW Colorado in path, including Cortez. Anasazi ruins of Mesa Verde are in path.
Navajo Nation: Eclipse path crosses 3 of the four sacred Navajo Mountains (“corners of the Navajo Universe”)- Navajo Mountain in Utah, Mount Taylor in New Mexico and Hesperus in Colorado. Passes over Window Rock, Arizona—capitol of the Navajo Nation.
Path covers the entirety of Lake Powell in Utah, site of the damming of the Colorado River canyon system, perhaps the greatest ecological catastrophe in the history of America.
It passes over the center of the cross of the Four Corners, the only place in the USA ( and the world?) where state political boundaries form a cross.
New Mexico. Annularity includes Chaco Canyon; ceremonial center of the lost Anasazi civilization. Acoma Pueblo is in Annularity, the oldest continuously inhabited village in North America (since 1150 AD). Eclipse passes over Santa Fe—the oldest and highest capitol city in America. Annularity in Albuquerque. Path crosses Los Alamos NM Laboratory (birthplace of Atom Bomb) and Roswell, NM where “flying saucer” event occurred in 1947, and real space aliens have shops on Main Street.
Oct 14 2023 in Texas:
Midland Again: Path heads over West Texas, crosses Midland, home of George HW Bush's oil business in the 1950's and the boyhood home of George W. Bush. Second USA annular eclipse in a row to touch Midland (and third in a row to directly impact it).
Columbus and Midland: May 20 2012 ring of fire ended at sunset over Midland, making Columbus Death day (May 20) and Columbus Crime Day (Oct 14) anniversaries enshrined in consecutive Ring of Fire eclipses both crossing Midland. The two Midland rings of fires are exactly 12 eclipse years apart.
Intersection with 2024 Total: The path intersects with upcoming 2024 April 8 eclipse path in the hill country west of San Antonio. Apex of intersection is just north of the town of Utopia. Exact apex appears to be Sabinal River south of Lost Maples State Park. Sabinal means “Cypresses” in Spanish. Exact Apex is near Piece of Heaven RV park and Hacienda Del Sol (Plantation of the Sun) Cabins.
Uvalde: The town of Uvalde, where 19 children were massacred in 2022, is in path of both eclipses.
San Antonio is in Annularity, the largest city in the nation to receive annularity in this eclipse.
The Body of Christ: Perhaps most striking of all, precise centerline of eclipse path exits the USA directly over Corpus Christi, or “Body of Christ”, one of the only towns named that in the world.
Central America: Annularity in every nation in Central America except El Salvador (the Savior).
South America: Of course, being a Columbus Anniversary Eclipse, the path bisects the nation of Colombia 46 years and two days after their unique Columbus Day eclipse of Oct 12 1977
Brazil: The Ring of Fire crosses the northern entirety of the Brazilian state of Amazonas to exit the Americas at city of Natal (Nativity), very near the extreme northeastern tip of South America, the closest spot in the Americas to Europe. The eclipse also covers city of Joao Pessoa, the easternmost spot in all the Americas and the 3rd oldest city in Brazil.
Saros 134 Recent History and Character
Saros are repeating characters (every 18 years 11 days and 8 hours- or 19 eclipse years). Saros 134 creates the October 14 2023 Great American Ring of Fire.
Here are the last 5 eclipses for Saros 134 - see them go backwards 18 years at a time:
• 2005 October 3-Madrid Ring of Fire: Madrid Spain directly in Totality, along with Algiers...path cuts through Africa, including Kenya.
• 1987 Sep 23- USSR Fall Equinox: 7 weeks before Estonia became the first state of USSR to declare its independence. Eclipse also over China.
• 1969 September 11- South America: Just missing the northern border of Chile, where a CIA coup ousts and kills President Salvador Allende four years later on September 11th 1973. 9-11 Metonic first appearance in centuries.
• 1951 Sep 1 -Jamestown, Virginia to Africa Ring of Fire: Eclipse path traces path of the first slaves brought by British colonists on 8-20- 1619 back to their homeland of Angola 331 years and 11 days later -see also 7-11-1619 Luanda Angola Eclipse
• 1933 Aug 21 Jerusalem Ring of Fire -mentioned earlier.
See world crosses section and American maps to consider peculiarity.
Full descriptions of individual eclipses below.
The Great North America Eclipse April 8 2024
2024 April 8
An original map by Sand depicting the Great North American Eclipse
Great North American Eclipse: April 8 2024
Astronomical facts about the eclipse:
• Type of eclipse: Total
• Saros Number 139
• Duration of totality along center line of maximum eclipse: 4 minutes and 27 seconds
• length of path: perhaps 10,000 miles long
• width of path: 124 miles wide
• Maximum eclipse occurs near Nazas, Mexico
• Locater: Sun and Moon eclipse in Pisces between Mercury and Venus
Peculiarities Apr 8 2024 Total Eclipse
Even number: All individual and collective digits of the 4-8-2024 eclipse are even numbers. This is the first time this has happened since a partial solar eclipse on Jun 6 886 AD.
Easter: Occurs eight days after Easter, the closest any solar eclipse can astronomically occur to Easter. Easter is March 31, the first Sunday after full moon after Spring Equinox.
Buddha Birthday: April 8 is traditional birthday celebration of Buddha (Japan)
All three Nations of North America: April 8 2024 eclipse is the first total solar eclipse to cross all three nations of Mexico, USA and Canada overland since their founding. You have to go back to 664 AD for any path like the 2024 path. It will be the last total eclipse to touch all three nations until 2316. It is the only total solar eclipse to travel south to north overland border to border in US history.
The Most states ever for Total: The 2017 USA eclipse touched 14 states, the most states of any total eclipse in US history. The 2024 eclipse outdoes it by one, touching 15 states.
Last US Eclipse for a long While: It will be the last complete solar eclipse in USA for 20 years (until Aug 22 2044). This will be the longest stretch without an eclipse in USA since 1782 to 1806 24-year stretch.
New Madrid Fault: Totality over New Madrid, Mo, epicenter of largest earthquakes in USA history (1811/1812)
The Most People Ever in USA: The eclipse will cover far more metropolitan cities and go over more Americans in one path than any total eclipse in the nation's history.
Lots of Cities: Just some of the cities in the path of Totality-: Del Rio, Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Texarkana, Little Rock, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Dayton, Akron, Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Burlington, Montpelier.
Near the Center again: The path passes within 50 miles of the geographic population center of the USA (Hartville, Missouri—with 99% totality)
Second line of Tav: It forms a balanced curved cross or x (Hebrew Tav) with the August 21 2017 eclipse
Mexico and Canada too: Crosses more metropolitan populations across nations of Mexico. USA and Canada than any other complete solar eclipse in the history of the western hemisphere.
Mexico: the eclipse first enters the North American continent with centerline directly over resort city of Mazatlán, it also traverses cities of Durango and Torreon (“tower”), site of the 3rd tallest statue of Christ in Latin America. Maximum Eclipse (4 minutes 27 seconds) of entire eclipse occurs near city of Nazas, an Arabic word for evil eye and shorthand for Nazareth. The eclipse exits Mexico at Ciudad Acuna to enter USA at Del Rio.
Canada: the eclipse scrapes the northern Toronto Metro area, and fully covers Montreal (founded in 1642 as Villa Marie or City of Mary).
Exits at St.John’s: Eclipse exits North American north (99.24% eclipse) at St. John's, Newfoundland. St. John's is the oldest city in Canada, and one of the oldest European settlements in the New World, founded by the British in 1497. Saint John as in John the Apostle, writer of the Book of Revelation.
First Canadian Total in 45 years: This is the first Total Eclipse visible from Canada since February 26, 1979, more than 45 years. There was a potent Ring of Fire in the midst of the pandemic on Jun 10 2021.
Specific US Geographical Peculiarities of the April 8 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Let's trace the path from Texas to Maine and look at peculiarities in each of the 15 states
Texas Historical and Geographical Peculiarities April 8 2024
Big Texas Cities: Path manages to pass over 3 of the four largest cities in Texas—San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth. Together they are home to more than 12 million people. Also in the path are several other large cities, including Plano, Del Rio, Waco, and Texarkana.
Texas Tav: the two eclipses of 2023 Oct 14 (Ring of Fire) and 2024 Apr 8 make a geographical X over south Texas. Texas is the only state in the USA with the letter x in its name. The center of the X of those two paths is near town of Utopia.
Uvalde Again: The eclipse passes over the town of Uvalde, site of the massacre of 19 schoolchildren in 2022 just as the 2023 Ring of Fire does.
Odd Waco Anniversary: Eclipse passes over the site of the Mount Carmel Branch Davidian Massacre in Waco, Texas, where 76 people, including 25 children, were burned to death exactly 30 solar years plus one lunar year before this eclipse (30 Years 11 months and 20 days) on 1993 April 19.
Dallas and JFK: The eclipse passes directly over Dallas, their first total solar eclipse since 1878 and only their third total eclipse in nearly 500 years. Dallas is the site of the most notorious murder in modern American history, the assassination of John F. Kennedy on 1963 Nov 22. Total eclipse occurs in Dealey Plaza, site of the shooting, 60 years and 137 days later at 1:40 pm Daylight Savings Time, very near the time of the shooting, which was at 12:30 pm Standard Time.
LBJ in the Path: The eclipse passes over both the birthplace/boyhood home (Stonewall, Texas) and death place (Johnson City, Texas ) of Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's successor to the Presidency.
Interesting anniversary of JFK Eclipse: The eclipse of April 8, 2024 is separated by exactly 110 eclipse years ( which is 220 eclipse seasons) from the Kennedy Death Premonition Eclipse of 11-22-1919. That amazing 1919 eclipse occurred exactly 44 years before the murder of JFK and passed over both the Texas Capital of Austin and Stonewall, Texas, home to a then ten-year-old Lyndon B. Johnson, who would replace Kennedy on 11-22-1963. See USA Eclipses and Kennedy section.
More Bush in the Path:The Eclipse passes over ranch of George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas and his family's current residence in Dallas. The preceding Ring of Fire 177 days earlier on 2023 Oct 14 passes directly over his boyhood Home of Midland/Odessa Texas.
Space Shuttle Columbia: The eclipse passes over site of Columbia Space Shuttle disaster near Dallas on 2003 Feb 1, during George W. Bush's Presidency, seven weeks before the US invaded Iraq in March of 2003. Columbia is the female national personification of the United States, a historical name also applied to the Americas and to the New World.
Arkansas and Clinton: Totality over the birthplace/boyhood home of President Bill Clinton (Hope) as well as his adult and governor's home in Little Rock. Also pPasses over the town of Clinton, Arkansas.
Tennessee sees totality in only a few square miles, touching only a tiny corner of the state, the port of Cates Landing, one side of an oxbow of the Mississippi River across from New Madrid, Missouri...epicenter of the great New Madrid earthquakes (Dec 16 1811 to Feb 7 1812)
Little Egypt Apex: Sections of Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky will see their second total eclipse in 7 years. That area is known as “Little Egypt”. Center of the apex of the USA total eclipse cross is very near the township of Makanda, Illinois—once known as the “Star of Egypt”. The exact apex appears to be on the east side of Cedar Lake at Salem Road.
Missouri is the state crossed most dramatically by the x created by the two eclipses of 2017 and 2024. The 2024 eclipse touches no major cities in Missouri, though many smaller towns.
Kentucky: Paducah is eclipsed for the second time in 7 years, the largest city in USA to receive totality in both eclipses. Farther to northeast, Abe Lincoln's birthplace receives 98% coverage.
Illinois and Bald Knob Cross: Carbondale and Chester Illinois receive totality for the second time in seven years. As in the 2017 eclipse, the path passes over Bald Knob Cross, near Alto Pass Illinois, once the largest cross in North America and still one of the biggest at 111 feet tall. It is situated on a hill at the highest point in southern Illinois, near Makanda.
Indiana: Most of the state sees Totality, including Columbus, birthplace of Trump's Vice-President Mike Pence. Also in path is Indianapolis, home of ex Vice-President Dan Quayle and politician Pete Buttigieg. Totality over site of Battle of Tippecanoe (1811 Nov 7) in Battle Ground, Indiana at Prophetstown State Park. That battle was one of the turning points in the wars for domination of the American Indians. Prophetstown was founded by Tecumseh, the great Shawnee warrior and Chief.
Ohio: the eclipse hits or scrapes nearly all major cities (totality in Cleveland), though barely the north Cincinnati Metro and bisecting Columbus Metro area. Eclipse occurs exactly 233 eclipse years after the founding of Ohio on 1803 Mar 1. Crosses site of Kent State killings of 1970 near Akron. Ohio was the home of 8 US Presidents.
Mormon Associations: In Ohio, path goes over Kirtland, the early home of the Mormon Church and Joseph Smith from 1831 to 1837. Path goes over Hiram, Ohio where Joseph Smith was famously tarred and feathered. Eclipse Totality goes over Manchester, New York, where Smith claimed to have found the golden tablets from which the Mormon religion is founded. The path very nearly goes over Joseph Smith birthplace of Sharon, Vermont (99.13%). 97% coverage at Brigham Young Birthplace of Whitingham VT.
Michigan sees even less totality than Tennessee, and only the barest few square miles experience total eclipse, in the area of Lost Peninsula.
Pennsylvania: crosses city of Erie. 94.7% at biden birthplace of Scranton.
New York State: In New York, the path follows entire northern border of the state. Totality at Niagara Falls. Centerline of totality in Rochester, Buffalo and Watertown, home of Allen Dulles who headed the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles was born April 7 1893, 131 years and one day before eclipse.
Vermont: Total eclipse in Vermont's two largest cities, Burlington and Montpelier.
New Hampshire: Crosses the little populated extreme north.
Maine: Maine is one of the states most crossed by eclipses in the history of USA. Caribou, Maine is the last major town in the USA to experience totality in the 2024 eclipse.
US/ Canada Border: The eclipse path straddles the USA/ Canada Border for nearly 700 miles-from Toledo Ohio to just south of Quebec City Canada. The path exits Maine, about 100 miles from the easternmost point of the USA, then travels across extreme eastern Canada. The eclipse will have spent only about an hour and a half crossing North America.
Date Peculiarities of April 8 2024 and 2024 in general
Monday: Like 2017 Aug 21 USA Eclipse and both Mideast Cross eclipses, this eclipse also occurs on Monday. It is a Hepton Cycle Eclipse.
Anniversary of Titanic Eclipse: The Titanic Hybrid Eclipse of 1912 Apr 17 (60 hours after the sinking) and the 2024 Apr 8 total eclipse are exactly 118 eclipse years apart—40,902 days
Anniversary of New World Eclipse: The New World Eclipse (1492 Oct 21), which occurred nine days after Columbus landed in the Americas and the 2024 Apr 8 eclipse are exactly 560 eclipse years apart (194,104 days). Eclipse coverage in 2024 is 31% at Columbus landing site in Bahamas
500thAnniversary of sighting of Manhattan: Apr 8 2024 is nine days shy of exactly 500 years from the sighting of Manhattan Island by the explorer Verrazano on Apr 17 1524. New York City sees 90% coverage in the 2024 Eclipse. 400 Years since the first Dutch colonists arrive in New York (1624)
100thAnniversary of end of Indian Wars: 2024 is 100 years after the final US Army skirmish with the Apache tribe, which ended more than 400 years of the North American conquest. (1924)
The character of Saros 139 History and Peculiarities
Saros 139 creates the April 8 2024 Great American Eclipse. Here is the recent past of Saros 139,
Turkish Cross March 29 2006: Began at sunrise over east coast city of Natal (“Nativity”), Brazil— It crossed the Atlantic, Africa, Turkey and Georgia, Kazakhstan, including totality at their unusual Capital of Nur-Sultan, home of the 203 ft Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, a pyramid devoted to reconciliation of the world religions. Paired with Aug 11 1999 End of Millennium Eclipse. The extraordinary design they create is nearly identical to the one they recreate over America between 2017 and 2024. See next page.
1988 Mar 18 Total eclipse in Indonesia, Malay and southern Philippines. Mount Pinatubo of the Philippines erupts 3 years, 3 months and 3 days later in the 2nd largest eruption of the 20th century.
1970 Mar 7 End of 60's USA eclipse...Total Eclipse across southeastern seaboard of USA. 93% totality at Cape Canaveral/ Cape Kennedy 234 days after first rocket to the moon. Totality at Charleston South Carolina, the greatest Slave Port in North America (totality again in 2017). The end of the sixties.
1952 Feb 25 Iranian Shahrud Eclipse ---one of the eclipses that make up the great Shahrud Iran Cross of 1952 and 1954, bordering the US led coup that established the reign of Shah Reza Pahlavi (see historical eclipses for more info).
See world crosses section and American maps to consider peculiarity.
Full descriptions of individual eclipses below.
The American Century/ Amazing Eclipse Peculiarity
The American Century in Eclipses
The American Century in Eclipses
The American Century in Eclipses
Two sets of Eclipses define the American century.
The first set define its beginning...a cross country USA eclipse on June 8, 1918...seven eclipse years ( 2422 days) later, an eclipse cut across the Northern US from Minnesota through New York City.
The second set defines its end...starting with a cross country USA eclipse on August 21, 2017 ...seven eclipse years ( 2422 days) later,, an eclipse cuts south to north through New York State ( the "empire state")...
Between the 1918 and 2017 USA cross country eclipses is 36, 234 days.
Between the 1925 and 2024 USA eclipses is 36,234 days...
Between each matching member of the pairs is 99 years and 74 days...or 1190 months and 13 days...
The True American Century written in eclipses, bracketed by 7 year eclipse pairs.
June 8, 1918
The American Century in Eclipses
The American Century in Eclipses
Illustrated Map of June 8 , 1918 eclipse. Mount Saint Helens in center of totality. Eclipse traveled across the entire contiguous USA before 8-21-2017 was June 8 of 1918, as the US was embroiled in WWI-- and at beginning of the Spanish Flu Pandemic ...note incredible similarity to path of 8-21-2017 USA eclipse.
beginning of US dominance in world affairs.
2422 days from Jan 24, 1925 US eclipse
36,234 days from August 21, 2017 US eclipse
Jan, 24, 1925
The American Century in Eclipses
Aug 21 2017 "The Great American Eclipse"
At the mid-point of the roaring twenties on January 24, 1925, a total solar eclipse across the northern USA from upper Minnesota gives the last total solar eclipse in New York City, the new epicenter of western civilization and empire ( "empire state"). New York was home to the financial and cultural centers of the nation--Wall Street, Broadway and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley---the city was treated to rare clear skies and the eclipse was widely observed--eclipse path crosses the ocean to extreme northern latitudes..Curiously travels over Bob Dylan's birthplace, boyhood home and adult homes of NYC and Woodstock. Near totality at Kennedy Home.
2422 days from June 8 1918 US eclipse
36,234 days from August 21, 2017 US eclipse
Aug 21 2017 "The Great American Eclipse"
Aug 21 2017 "The Great American Eclipse"
Aug 21 2017 "The Great American Eclipse"
Compare the remarkable similarity to the 1918 eclipse illustrated above it is a convex mirror reflection. The USA divided in half on August 21, 2017. 7 months and 1 day after Trump inauguration. First day of the month of Elul, Hebrew year 5777.
36,234 days from June 8 1918 US eclipse
April 8, 2024
Aug 21 2017 "The Great American Eclipse"
April 8, 2024
2422 days after 2017 eclipse, the USA is divided South to North, along with Mexico and extreme Eastern Canada. This occurs 8 days after Easter and 14 days before Passover.
36,234 days from January 24,1925 US eclipse
American Eclipses--Exactly 7 eclipse years apart
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
The USA divided in half on August 21, 2017. 7 months and 1 day after Trump inauguration. First day of the month of Elul, Hebrew year 5777. In Jewish tradition, the month of Elul is a time of repentance in preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Monday April 8 2024
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
2422 days later, the USA is divided South to North, along with Mexico and extreme Eastern Canada. This occurs 8 days after Easter and 14 days before Passover.
The Cross or Tav
The Cross or Tav
The Cross or Tav
Is it a cross or an X over the USA.?The X is The last letter of original Hebrew, Tav, the X is the Omega, the cancellation, the End point. X is the first Greek letter for Christ, the letter that can stand in for his name.
The Hepton Cycle
The Cross or Tav
The Cross or Tav
The total eclipses occur 7 eclipse years (draconic years -346 days) apart, both on Monday --Moon Day. A span of 2422 days. They are part of a unique series of eclipse groupings called a Hepton. Read about the Hepton Cycle by Clicking.
American Judgment Series-2017, 2023 and 2024
USA-Three solar eclipses in 7 years starting in 2017 - See the A?
It's difficult to find any large nation in history so perfectly trisected by solar eclipses geographically as the USA is by eclipses on 8-21-2017 , 10-14-2023 and 4-8-2024...over a 2422 day span.
It is certainly the most unusual configuration in such a short time window as the USA has ever experienced in its history.
The eclipses create an obvious letter A over the United States.
A is for Alpha, Alef ( Hebrew), It's an A that is comprised of three lines, two x's.
The 8-21-2017 and 4-8-2024 are Hepton Total Eclipses, both on Monday.
Hebrew is read right to left..Alef and the Tav
The Alpha and the Omega
The Alpha and the Omega
Paleo-Hebrew was the script in which the Old Testament was written, not the modern script that is currently used
( which was being standardized around 200 B.C.) .
On the left is a Tav--the last letter (22nd) of the Hebrew alphabet-- essentially a cross or X in the above illustration.
On the right is the Paleo-Hebrew Aleph--the first letter of the alphabet. The Tav is being written by the shadow of the moon on both locations.
The Aleph
( where we get Alpha and our letter A)
is written by shadows of the 2017, 2023 and 2024 eclipses on the USA.
The Alpha and the Omega
The Alpha and the Omega
The Alpha and the Omega
Reading right to left, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." --Rev.22:13...
go back and look at the Aleph ( A) over the USA mapped just above left in last section
Total Solar Tav over America-2017 and 2024
Total Solar Tav over America-2017 and 2024
Total Solar Tav over America-2017 and 2024
It's a cross. It's also a Tav, the last letter, the 22nd, of the original Hebrew alphabet. It means truth. In the Greek alphabet, X is the symbol for the letter 'chi. ' Chi (or X) is the first letter in the Greek word for Christ and can stand in for the word "Christ", which is why people can write Happy Xmas. In the early days of the Christian church, Christians used the letter X as a secret symbol to indicate their membership in the church to others.
The above map illustrates the Total solar eclipses of 2017 and 2024 over America, both on Mondays, separated by a 2422 day (7 eclipse years) span.
Tav over the Middle East-2027 and 2034
Total Solar Tav over America-2017 and 2024
Total Solar Tav over America-2017 and 2024
The cross, the Tav, the X is then drawn upon the Middle East is written by eclipses in 2027 and 2034. The first line in 2027 shadows the birthplace of the mystery religions of Egypt, the sun gods of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. It also passes over Mecca. The second eclipse in 2034 could be the most watched of all time, crossing the whole of Africa before departing to the east across Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Tibet and ending in China-- a series of hugely important civilizations.
The above map illustrates the Total solar eclipses of 2027 and 2034 . Once again, both of these eclipses happen on Mondays, separated by a 2422 day (7 eclipse years) span.
Hepton cycle interacting with 2023 Ring of fire
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
The USA divided in half on August 21, 2017. 7 months and 1 day after Trump inauguration. First day of the month of Elul, Hebrew year 5777. In Jewish tradition, the month of Elul is a time of repentance in preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Monday April 8 2024
Monday Aug 21 2017
Monday Aug 21 2017
2422 days later, the USA is divided South to North, along with Mexico and extreme Eastern Canada. This occurs 8 days after Easter and 14 days before Passover.
The Cross
Monday Aug 21 2017
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
Is it a cross or an X over the USA.?The X is The last letter of original Hebrew, Tav, the X is the Omega, the cancellation, the End point. X is the first Greek letter for Christ, the letter that can stand in for his name.
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
A "Ring of Fire"/ Sunflower annular eclipse passes over the western US on 10-14-23 before traveling to the Yucatan and crossing northern Brazil. 177 days before the spring total eclipse.
The new moon after Yom Kippur.
Remember!
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
Remember!
Total and Annular Solar Eclipses are rare. To have three completely trisecting the USA in 7 years is nothing short of incredible . One eclipse is past-the Great American Eclipse of Aug 21 2017, The next total solar eclipse in the USA arrives 2422 days later on April 8, 2024, It will be the only Total solar eclipse to touch all three nations in the 21st Century. The shadow paths of these two eclipses mark an X over America-centerpoint just south of Carbondale Illinois, specifically near Salem Road near east bank of
Cedar Lake.
Ring of Fire- 10-14-2023
Remember!
The total eclipses occur 7 eclipse years (draconic years -346 days) apart, both on Monday --Moon Day. A span of 2422 days. They are part of a unique series of eclipse groupings called a Hepton.
The exact midpoint of the Total eclipses is 1211 days. That date turned out to be Dec.14, 2020...It so happens there was another total solar eclipse then on the other end of the Americas, also a Hepton Eclipse, also on Monday. It coincided with a momentous day in the USA
Monday 12-14-2020- midpoint of USA Monday Judgment Eclipses
Joe Biden is confirmed President by Electoral College
During Electoral College Voting, Hepton Solar eclipse
During Electoral College Voting, Hepton Solar eclipse
The precise midpoint of the 2017 and 2024 USA eclipses was Dec.14, 2020. On that day,, between 10am and 5pm Eastern time, the Electoral College certifies Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice-President of the United States of America.
The Hepton Cycle in action. A significant Monday Total Solar eclipse perfectly spaced between two Total Solar Monday eclipses.
7 eclipse seasons--1211 days-- in either direction brings you to the USA Eclipse Judgments of 8-21- 2017 and 4-8-2024 (which themselves are exactly 7 eclipse years apart).
7 eclipse seasons is 3 and 1/2 eclipse years ...
34 months to the day before USA Ring of Fire.
During Electoral College Voting, Hepton Solar eclipse
During Electoral College Voting, Hepton Solar eclipse
During Electoral College Voting, Hepton Solar eclipse
5,000 miles away, Dec. 14, 2020 Total Solar Eclipse--same hemisphere, same time, at the other end....full eclipse occurred between 9:30 am and 1pm Eastern Standard Time. Very little of the eclipse path passed overland, yet maximum eclipse did occur on land, as it happened. over Argentina near the town of Neuquen (a palindrome). If followed north, Longitude of maximum eclipse intersects with eastern Maine. Eclipse crosses Atlantic and stops just west of Namibia.
more on USA Eclipses, The Second Tav
totally unique 2024
First Tav--Annular 2023 and 2024 Total
First Tav--Annular 2023 and 2024 Total
The April 8 2024 Eclipse will be the only one to cross Mexico, USA and Canada in the 21st Century. It occurs 8 days after Easter on a Monday. Texas will get its second solar eclipse in 6 months.
First Tav--Annular 2023 and 2024 Total
First Tav--Annular 2023 and 2024 Total
First Tav--Annular 2023 and 2024 Total
Here is the cross/ Tav / X / Omega formed by the upcoming 10-14-23 Ring of Fire and the 4-8-24 Total solar eclipses, 177 days apart. They cross in Texas somewhere in the hill country. Exact point where paths cross has yet to be posted on the internet.
Second Tav-- Total Eclipse Tav-2017 and 2024
Second Tav-- Total Eclipse Tav-2017 and 2024
Second Tav-- Total Eclipse Tav-2017 and 2024
And here is the Tav formed by the 2017 and 2024 Total USA Solar Eclipses, their intersection south of Carbondale Illinois, at Salem Road on the East edge of Cedar Lake.
And The Alpha-The sum of the Two Tavs
Second Tav-- Total Eclipse Tav-2017 and 2024
Second Tav-- Total Eclipse Tav-2017 and 2024
Once again, the shadows of the three eclipses which occur within a 7 year span clearly write the letter A upon the United States. It is Alef, Alpha,. Perhaps those who have wisdom will reckon these days.
Interesting Notes about the 2017 Great American Eclipse
1918 and 2017- Cross Country Eclipses
1918 and 2017- Cross Country Eclipses
1918 and 2017- Cross Country Eclipses
Illustrated Map of June 8 , 1918 eclipse. Mount Saint Helens in center of totality. The Last time an Eclipse traveled across the entire contiguous USA before 8-21-2017 was June of 1918, as the US was embroiled in WWI-- beginning of the Spanish Flu Pandemic
Aug 21 2017 eclipse, 99 years later
1918 and 2017- Cross Country Eclipses
1918 and 2017- Cross Country Eclipses
The 8-21-2017 eclipse cut a similar path, though opposite convex to the 1918 eclipse. 97% coverage at Mount Saint Helens. The 2017 eclipse, like the 1918 one, essentially only touched the borders of the USA, and did not touch any other country. ( the 1918 clipped the border of Nassau island). They were the only eclipses in our history to do that.
More on 8-21-2017
Totality over 7 cities named Salem
Totality over 7 cities named Salem
Totality over 7 cities named Salem
There were seven towns named Salem in the path of totality, including the first major city encountering the eclipse, Salem, Oregon. Salem is of course shorthand for Jerusalem. It means peaceful or complete.
Government Point
Totality over 7 cities named Salem
Totality over 7 cities named Salem
The eclipse first was visible on American soil at Government Point, Oregon, a fitting name for an eclipse that would symbolically divide a nation that was already being divided politically. Oregon would become one of the battlegrounds in the 2020 unrest.
The most watched eclipse in US History
The most watched eclipse in US History
The most watched eclipse in US History
This was certainly the most watched total solar eclipse in US History. It was nearby many population centers as it crossed the entire nation. This was the first total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. in 38 years. Feb. 26, 1979 was the last one before that , and it was only visible in the Northwest.
Nashville-Music City, USA
The most watched eclipse in US History
The most watched eclipse in US History
The eclipse passed directly over only a couple of major metropolitan areas, the largest was over the center of American country music--Nashville, Tennessee.
It was the first total solar eclipse visible there since 1478.
Constellations in 2017 Great American Eclipse
Position of Eclipse in Zodiac
Close -up of Leo's paws at eclipse
Close -up of Leo's paws at eclipse
Don't worry, I'm not an astrologer, however--illustration is at the 2017 Moment of Eclipse..The Constellation Leo is on the left...The Lion, cradling the sun and moon in its paws, facing the Crab, or Scarab...The king star Regulus, the Lion's heart, became visible just to the left of Eclipsed Sun
Close -up of Leo's paws at eclipse
Close -up of Leo's paws at eclipse
Close -up of Leo's paws at eclipse
Interestingly, the Sun and Moon are in the paws of the Lion. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah made the Sun and Moon and stars.
The Last american Eclipse before 2017 was Feb 26 1979
Saros 120 same as North pole 3-20-15
Saros 120 same as North pole 3-20-15
Saros 120 same as North pole 3-20-15
On February 26th, 1979 a total solar eclipse ( Saros Cycle 120) crossed 5 northwestern states and bisected Canada on its way to ending in Greenland. Totality in Salem, Portland, Olympia, Moses Lake. Of note, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had just relocated Microsoft from Albuquerque to Bellevue Washington in the weeks before the eclipse. Bellevue had 99.64% totality.
Mount Saint Helens in the Path
Saros 120 same as North pole 3-20-15
Saros 120 same as North pole 3-20-15
Interestingly, totality passed over Mount Saint Helens, which re -awoke with a 4.2 richter scale earthquake March 20 ( Spring Equinox) the following year--Totality at 8:15 a.m.
On May 18th 1980 , 447 days after eclipse - Mount Saint Helens erupted at 8:32 a.m. in a lateral blast directed due north in the direction of Seattle 80 miles away, where the language of the network was being developed at that moment by Gates and Microsoft. Mount Saint Helen's eruption was one of the largest explosions on the planet in the last 500 years.
Coming Soon- 10-14-23-Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire 2023
USA, Central America, Exits Brazil
USA, Central America, Exits Brazil
531 years and two days after Columbus discovered America, an annular eclipse creates a ring of fire from Oregon to Texas and then on to South America October 14th 2023, one of three solar eclipses in the USA in Seven Years
USA, Central America, Exits Brazil
USA, Central America, Exits Brazil
USA, Central America, Exits Brazil
It enters Oregon--center of annularity coming ashore near Florence at 9:05 am. Oregon's second eclipse in 7 years. and heads across the Southwest USA . Crosses Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan, Central America, across the Amazon and exits into the Ocean at Natal, Brazil. Natal is Portugese for Nativity.
Over the Cross of the Four Corners
Over the Cross of the Four Corners
Over the Cross of the Four Corners
The only place in the USA where four states meet and form a cross, the sacred lands of the Four Corners region. The Eclipse path perfectly covers the Cross as it travels over some of the most beautiful lands on earth, including confluence of Green and Colorado Rivers, several national parks and centers of the lost Anasazi Civilization like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.
Corpus Christi--The Body of Christ
Over the Cross of the Four Corners
Over the Cross of the Four Corners
The eclipse exits the USA .
Exact centerline of annularity directly over
the city of Corpus Christi ( Body of Christ) -
The only city in America that bears such a name.
The eclipse then traverses the gulf of Mexico before crossing the Yucatan.
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