The Metonic Cycle is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the phases of the moon recur at the same time of the solar year. 235 lunar months is just 1 hour, 27 minutes and 33 seconds longer than 19 tropical years. Meton of Athens in the 5th Cnetury B.C. determined the cycle to be a whole number of days, 6,940. Using these whole numbers facilitates the construction of a luni- solar Calendar. The Chinese based their calendars on this, the Bahai use it, and it has implications in all major religious calendars.
Every nineteen years will find us at the exact phase of the moon. Meaning if there was a new moon on Dec 4 2002, there will almost certainly be one on Dec 4 2021, as happened. eventually this shists to another date, after 219 years.
The revolution of the earth around the sun and the revolution of the moon around the earth have no particular scientific reason to bear any relation whatsoever to each other...yet they do, creating a nearly perfect match every 19 years...every 6,940 days.
As astonishing as it is to find a point of synchronicity between the lunar and the solar calendars...the draconic reality pushes the envelope of all coincidence to beyond impossibility.
At that same 19 year point where the lunar and solar calendars intersect., we find the intersection of 255 Draconic months... 255 draconic months (lunar nodes) = 6,939.1161 days.20.021 eclipse years (40 eclipse seasons)
Solar Year= 365.24 days. 365.24 x 19 = 6,939.6 days (every 19 years)
Synodic ( Lunar)= 29.53 days.29.53058868 x 235 = 6,939.68days (every 235 months)
That's a difference of only hours, every 19 years!!!
The difference between 19 solar years and 235 lunar months is only about two hours, or 0.086 days per cycle, resulting in a full day of delay every 219 years (12.4 parts per million), roughly twelve cycles.
Now the Draconic ( Eclipse) calendar results from the alignment of the moon in a lunar node about every 346 days, a reality that is completely independent of the solar and lunar cycles.
255 draconic months (lunar nodes) = 6,939.11 days. 20.02 eclipse years(40 eclipse seasons)
That's less than half a day difference every 19 years with the lunar and solar calendars!!!
Not only is the sun the same size as the moon in the sky, but three different calendars all line up to allow for perfection in human observation of time and eclipses.
Sometimes the eclipses show up every 19 years for 3 times in a row on the same date. Sometimes certain dates roll in and out of eclipses for more than a century before fading and moving on.
This is an extraordinary arrangement and absolute proof of a designer God who also intends our educational growth.
Not only is the sun the same size as the moon in the sky, but three different calendars all line up to allow for perfection in human observation of time and eclipses.
To assert these manifestations are coincidence after any genuine open-minded consideration might seem to suggest either aggressive ingratitude or blind religious obedience to a false faith.
Eclipse follow the same date, circulating around it. for about a hundred years or more, before moving on.
During any given century, there are only about 36 given dates for eclipses. These dates are not rock solid, they slide a bit due to international date lines, and astronomical realities.
So we could have, for instance, a Dec 24th date which becomes Dec. 25 for a couple of eclipses, and then reverses course to become Dec. 24th one more time, before leaping ahead to Dec. 26th...at some point it must keep moving to the 27th, 28th and so on...sometimes it will skip a date, but rarely.
the Metoni dates are separated by between 10 and twelve days ( because the actual Saros distance is eleven days 8 hours).. so for instance December solar eclipses are now occurring on or beside Dec 4th, Dec. 14 and Dec. 26th---this happened the last three years...as we experienced solar eclipses on Dec.26th 2019, Dec. 14 2020, and Dec 4th 2021...three December eclipses in a row, each exactly one lunar year apart---354 days..
In the same vein August eclipses are currently occurring around the 2nd, 12th and 21st
latest examples Aug. 21st 2017, August 12 2026 and August 2nd 2027...this same kind of spacing is found through all the months.
The year of Abe Lincoln's birth saw an eclipse on April 14th ( which would be the day of his death 56 years later)...19 years later, there is an April 14 ,1828 eclipse over the Mideast. By the year after his assassination, the metonic date had moved only gradually and there is a partial eclipse on April 15th 1866 visible from North America. By the time of the Titanic, that Metonic had shifted to April 17th, 1912, and then reached to April 19th in the late 20th Century. The next manifestation of that same sliding metonic occurs with the 4-20-2023 eclipse near Australia.
Thus it's possible for a date to shift 6 days over the course of 220 years. This is a constant cycle of flowing and repeating dates..
The Aug 21st Metonic date is a great example and is spotlighted in a section below. Aug 21st 1914 saw the great WWI Eclipse.
19 years later, August 21st 1933 saw the great Jerusalem Ring of Fire. ( Saros 124)
19 years later, The metonic retreated for the August 20th 1952 Ring of Fire ( Saros 134)
19 years after that the Aug 20, 1971 partial. (Saros 144)
Notice how the Saros are exactly 10 cycles apart.
Then the 19 year mark collapses in Aug 20, 1971 ( Saros 154) , but the general metonic reality remains and shifts to compensate for new Saros eclipses and a new 19 year ( and alternating 10 saros )spacing!!!
Aug 22nd 1979 Ring of Fire. ( Saros 125)
Aug 22nd 1998 Ring of Fire. ( Saros 135)
And then, incredibly, after 4 eclipses, the Aug 21st date returns...
August 21st, 2017 ( Saros 145) USA Great American Eclipse--103 years after the first appearance of 8-21 in the WWI Eclipse.
19 years after that is a partial on 8-21-2036 ( Saros 155) and then the Metonic rapidly collapses so that by 2063, the eclipse date is August 24 ( Saros 136)
The Metonic Cycle is perhaps best understood by a series of examples. Therefore I offer you, my ten favorite Metonic Realities of the modern era.
Close, but no cigar. This is not the August 21st metonic! It is the end of its own Metonic run. It is a full two days away and is beginning the collasing transition away from the 19 year perfection. It resolves itself on Aug 20 1906 as a partial, which is part of the Metonic transition. Confusing enough for you?
This is the August 21st Metonic's true beginning. Why? For one, because it is within 12 hours of August 21st anyway...time zones are slightly artificial constructions--days are not.. It is within the day. Two days away are definitely not within the day or the Metonic. One day away is too hard to determine whether its the same day or not, in other words,whether its the same anniversary of the earth revolving around the sun.
But there is a second reason. This unimpressive partial eclipse is Saros 114. The August 21st Metonic is going to run on that line..114 to 124 to 134 to 144 to 154...leaping by ten's. This is the true beginning of the August 21st metonic.
August 21st 1914...Covered in depth in the main history section, a total solar eclipse divides several European Empires ( almost perfectly splitting Eurasia) in the first weeks of fighting of World War One.
One of the most ominous eclipses ever follows 19 years exactly after one of the most ominous eclipses ever. The Jerusalem Ring of Fire occurs in the middle of the Nazi consolidation of power and beginning of Anti-Jewish laws in Germany.
19 years later, Aug 20 1952 Ring of Fire over South America ( Saros 144)
19 years later Aug 20 1971 Partial ( Saros 154)
The 19 year Metonic Collapses and restarts with different Saros lines, these ending in number 5.
It also leaps forward two days, to August 22nd. But remember that is still within the August 21st metonic 24 hour time frame.
August 22nd, 1979 Ring of Fire Antarctica ( Saros 125)
19 years later August 22nd 1998 Ring of Fire Indian Ocean to South Pacific from Northern Sumatra through New Guinea Saros (135)
What a climax to the story of the August 21st Metonic! One of the most important eclipses of all time signals the division and initial throes of dissipation of the Great American Experiment in Democracy.
Th August 21st metonic gives a last little coda 19 years later on August 21st 2036 with a nondescript partial eclipse. ( Saros 155)
By 2044 it has moved to August 23rd ( Saros 126) and by 2063 to August 24th ( Saros 136).
The August 21st Metonic creates two exact 21st eclipses early on ( 1914 and 1933) then shifts away to the 20th and 22nd for 79 years until it returns with August 21st eclipses again in 2017 and 2036.
Contrast this with the September 11 the Metonic, where the three perfect 9-11's all occur in a row in the exact middle of the Metonic. Let's see.
9 days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake an eclipse path of totality stretches from Northern japan to Southern California on September 10 1923. This is Saros 143 on its way to finishing a Metonic that previously contained 19 year stretches between Sept 9 1904 and Sept 8 1885 and will conclude with a 9-10-1942 Partial eclipse ( Saros 153)
It stretches into the new 9-11 Metonic, the last of its Saros Series before it collapses and allows the introduction of the new Saros 9-11 continuum.
, which will use Saros that end in a 4.
First, like the August 21st eclipses , it contains two leap frog eclipses..where the Metonic jumps to September 22nd
Two eclipses leap frog to the far side of the September 11th Metonic to land on September 12th while the last metonic collapses.
19 years later, the September 11th Metonic achieves numeric perfection.
3 weeks after woodstock, 9 days after death of Ho CHi Minh in Vietnam. The 9-11 Metonic asserts reality.
13 years before the 2001 terror attacks, the 9-11 Metonic appears at only one continental piece of land, as a Ring of Fire Sunrise over Mogadishu Somalia--5 years and 3 weeks before American Servicemen encountered one of their worst defeats since Vietnam, the infamous "Blackhawk Down" Battle of Mogadishu.
A blob partial finishes the 9-11 exact Metonic in 2007.
The metonic leap frogs to 9-13 in 2015 ( Saros 125) for a partial, and then falls back to 9-12 for eclipses in 2034, 2053 and 2072...
it finally departs the Metonic completely with a September 14, 2099 eclipse across what used be the USA 98 years and 3 days after the terror of 9-11-2001
As Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the Maximum Expression of American personality in the 19th Century, So John F. Kennedy ( perhaps alongside Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan) was one of the Maximum Expressions of that American Personality in the 20th century. In turn, the American Personality was The maximum expression of personality in the global eye.
John F. Kennedy's birthday and death day have an unusual place in the Metonic Cycle. They reside side by side
John F. Kennedy was born May 29th 1917 and was murdered on Nov.22nd, 1963; the latter date being arguably the most pivotal date in the post-civil war history of the United States, and possibly the modern world.
His birthday and death day are forever enshrined side by side in the cycle of eclipses 177 days apart ( one eclipse season).
As an interesting note, since Kennedy was both born and killed on a Metonic, it turns out he was exactly 49 eclipse ( Draconic) years old when he was murdered.
Because of the realities of rotation and international time zones, leap years and date lines, anniversaries are flexible within one day in the metonic reality. there is no other logical way to do it.
The first eclipses of the 20th century were on the JFK Metonic: May 28-1900 ( which went across eastern USA) and Nov.22nd 1900, back to back.
In 1919 ( when he turned 2) perfect metonic alignment May 29 and Nov.22nd eclipses, back to back.
In 1938, ( when he turned 21) back to back eclipse may 29 and Nov 22nd
In 1946, as Saros collapses, the days stretch on two partial back to back eclipses still on the Metonic 5-30-1946 and 11-23-1946
In 1965, the very first complete eclipses (both Total) on planet earth following his assassination occur on his Metonic..May 30 1965 and Nov. 23rd 1965.
19 years later, his Metonic appears in a ring of fire over Washington DC on May 30, 1984 and Nov. 22 1984...
This pattern then essentially moves on as it collapses with a May 31st 2003 eclipse.
By 2011, it has become June 1st and Nov.25th
The coincidence is worth mentioning: As of course is well-known, two of the intellectual giants of the 20th Century also died on Nov.22nd, 1963, the same day as the President was murdered...
C.S. Lewis, famed Christian apologist and author of the Chronicles of Narnia died Nov 22nd 1963
Also Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and the Doors of perception also died on Nov 22nd 1963...
Huxley once wrote in a letter to his friend George Orwell these words:
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narcohypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience "
Thus we find three of the greatest examples of 20th Century Maximum expression in personality, Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all dying on the same day, a day framed in ecliptic perpetuity with the birth of JFK.
The first solar eclipse of the 20th Century is incredible. It is a Total Eclipse connecting many empires, past, present and future on the JFK birthday Metonic ( he would be born 17 years later on May 29, 1917).
Beginning in the Pacific at sunrise, the eclipse crosses mexico and hugs the US gulf Coast after exiting south of Corpus Christ (98% totality). It brings totality in a thin line to New Orleans, Montgomery, Mobile and Raleigh--exiting at Virginia Beach. 98% totality in Washington DC. 92 % in New York City, 90% in JFK birthplace of Brookline, Mass.
The eclipse crosses the Atlantic to bisect Portugal and Spain, the first colonizers of the New World--entering at famous city of Porto, where the Romans had established major trading operations in the centuries before Christ. Eclipse bisects Spain almost exactly 402 years after Columbus left on his third voyage to the Americas in 1498, and 400 years after Columbus was sent in chains back to Spain for trial in 1500.
The eclipse crosses the Mediterranean and the path of totality directly crosses Algiers, Algeria, and Tripoli Libya before ending a few miles south the Valley of the Kings in Luxor Egypt, which will be revised by two Judgment eclipses in 2027 and 2034 ---134 and 141 eclipse years respectively... Saros 126,
The second eclipse of the 20th century occurs 63 years to the day before the Murder of John Kennedy.
It begins just east of Angola and crosses one of the most infamous slave sources in Africa, Benguela. The eclipse then travels acroos the southern part of the continent, exiting through Mozambique and extreme southern tip of Madagascar. the eclipse path turns north and passes through much of northwest Australia before dying out.
Exactly one lunar year before JFK birthday,In the Final months of World War One, as American forces were fighting to a stalemate in the Battle of Belleau Wood, and the Spanish Flu had begun to rage across the country, a total solar eclipse marks the beginning of the American century, which would come to an end 99 years later with a mirrored eclipse on August 21 2017. Path begins over Okinawa, Japan but touches no continental land besides USA. Hepton Relative of 1-24-1925 US eclipse seen in next section... Saros cycle 126, which reappears in Spanish judgment on August 12 2026...
There is only one other eclipse that year --Dec 3 1918 Ring of Fire over South America, annularity over Buneos aires, 24 hours before great Chile Atacam Earthquake of Dec.4th, 3 weeks after end of World War One...the next eclipse will be on JFK's 2nd Birthday and the Theory of relativity will be proved then.
On John F. Kennedy's second birthday (he was born 5-29-1917), Einstein's theory of Relativity is finally proved by observation of the total solar eclipse. Two teams, one in Brazil and one in Africa take the measurements that prove it correct. The longest eclipse duration (at nearly 7 minutes) since 1416 AD. Saros Cycle 136, one of the stars of the Judgment series--reappearing notably in MIdeast valley of the kings eclipse on August 2nd 2027
177 days later, on 11-22-1919, exactly 44 years before JFK assassination, thereby making the dates of JFK's birth and death commemorated in successive eclipses. Ring of Fire Eclipse. Texas, the state where JFK would be murdered 44 years later is the place where the eclipse begins. Including total annularity in Stonewall Texas, home to a then 10 year old Lyndon Baines Johnson, who would replace JFK as president. Total annularity in the capital of Austin and in Houston.--path crosses almost entire island of Cuba, including Havana, with which his destiny would become so intertwined , then across Haiti, St. Georges's , Kingston, Port of Spain--then across the Atlantic to Africa, where the path reached the countries of Senegal and Mali, both of whose presidents visited Kennedy's White House. Eclipse ended after totality in ancient city of Timbuktu. Saros Cycle 141, which reappears in Austalia Day Spanish Judgment of 1-26-2028
555 days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, on his birthday Metonic ( actual birthday May 29, but we are dealing with hours over the course of decades), 177 days before interacting with Nov.23rd Death Day metonic, with another solar eclipse over Southeast Asia.
Path travels from extreme north tip of New Zealand to Macchu Pichhu Peru, with no land mass in the path between.
. The President is dead. The US is at war in Vietnam.
177 days later. The next eclipse on earth is on the Death Day Metonic--Nov 23rd---thus making the tow next eclipses on earth after the greatest moment in modern USA history occur on the birth and death day of John F. Kennedy.
Eclipse begins at 10pm November 22nd in Boston...see why we must slide around on the Metonic date?
The two year anniversary of the execution of JFK ( due to time zones and Metonic reality)...
A ring of Fire Eclipse again heads to Southeast Asia from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kashmir into Thailand Cambodia and Vietnam ( their 5th solar eclipse in 17 years!) then out through Indonesia and Asia. By the end of 1965 more than a half million US troops were in Vietnam. In the week before the eclipse 240 US servicemen had been killed, the most ever up until that time.
80 to 90% coverage in Solomon Islands, where Kennedy was made famous with his heroism after the sinking of Boat PT 109
Saros 132, which reappears in Tsunami Anniversary eclipse December 26, 2019
A darkening White House from TV footage.( 95% coverage in Washington DC).. May 30 1984 JFK Birthday Metonic. His actual birthday is May 29 but that's how Metonic works, sliding around on the hours around a date...He would have still been celebrating his 77th Birthday 12 hours before if he had not been murdered 21 years before... Ring of Fire begins in Mexico and Crosses eastern USA before heading to Africa...see close path in next picture
Perfect Annularity in Atlanta, MLK's home. 90% in JFK's birthplace of Brookline Massachusetts, 80% in Dallas Texas, where he was murdered. 93% in New York City. annularity along path in the Deep South including New Orleans (birthplace of Lee Harvey Oswald),
The eclipse crosses the ocean and enters Africa over Casablanca ( white house) and Marakesh ( Land of God) --ends in desert of the Sahara
177 days later. Total solar eclipse appearing in the same year as the JFK birthday Metonic for the last time, the 21st anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination is cosmically acknowledged. 2 and 1/2 weeks after the Reagan/Bush ticket sweeps to re-election in a landslide. These metonicly linked 5-30 and 11-22 eclipses are the only two solar eclipses of 1984. The only nation in the 11-22 path is Papua New Guinea, with totality in the capital of Port Moresby.
Saros 142, which reappears in the Electoral College Pandemic eclipse of December 14 2020
New Guinea? One of the most famous war stories in American history involves the heroics of young Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, who miraculously helped save his crew after their small boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer on August 3 1943 in the Solomon islands of New Guinea, inside the eclipse path of Nov 22 1984. The incredible story of JFK's heroism and poise and how native islanders helped save the shipwrecked crew was enshrined in both book and movie, and Kennedy's indisputable bravery helped propel him to the Presidency 20 years later.
November 22 1984 was Thanksgiving Day
An extremely powerful Noreaster began impacting the United States' November 22, 1984, beginning unusually south between Florida and Cuba..
The Presidential elections happened 16 days prior, on Nov 6. It was one of the largest landslides in Us history, with Reagan/Bush defeating the Walter Mondale ticket 525 electoral votes to 13..even winning JFK's home state of Massachusetts with 51.22 percent of the vote.
The number one song in America was "Wake me up before you Go Go" by Wham.
1984 would be the last year that the JFK Birthday and Death day metonics would appear in the same year. They began in 1919, when he was 2 years old. He would have been 77 in 1984. He was killed on his 49th Eclipse Year ( Draconic) Birthday. Both brother Robert Kennedy ( Nov. 20)and son John F. Kennedy Jr. ( Nov. 25)were born around that November Metonic
As the centuries roll, there becomes an alignment of eclipses on the Spring and Fall Equinoxes , as well as Summer Solstice all appearing at roughly the same time on the Metonic Reality. There is no scientific reason for this alignment- it just is.
The last time this pattern showed itself was the mid 1600 to late 1600'ss.
it also happens that the Christmas Metonic rolls in and out around that time. The Winter Solstice is on a different Metonic Season altogether ( last appearance in 1862).
there were solar eclipses on March 18 in both 1969 and 1988 and a partial solar in 2007 on March 19th. all on 19 year anniversaries as the Equinox metonic approached.
Finally, the Spring Equinox Metonic arrived with the North Pole Eclipse of 3-20-2015...
It continues exactly 19 years later with the Great Civilization Eclipse of 3-20-2034, also on the Spring Equinox..
I believe This 19 year boundary provides the frame of the Eclipse judgment
The Autumn Equinox Eclipse Metonic arrived in truth with the Shanghai Ring of Fire of September 23, 1987.
It reappeared for the odd, Guyana/Suriname solar ring of fire eclipse of September 22nd, 2006( which barely touched any land)--also on the Autumn equinox...
It finishes on a September 22nd 2033 Partial eclipse.
The Summer Solstice Metonic first appears as a partial on June 21, 1982.
Next it shows on June 21st 2001, the last eclipse before 9-11.
It then manifests itself in the Great Solstice Pandemic Eclipse of June 21, 2020.
It appears again with a Ring of Fire on June 21st 2039 and collapses with a partial in 2058.
The last Christmas Eclipses on Earth before the 20th Century occurred on Dec.25th 1666 and 1685.
The Christmas Metonic returned in the 20th century.
Christmas in Antarctica Eclipse 12-25-1935
Christmas in South Africa 12-25-1954
20th Century Christmas, a partial
on Dec. 25, 2000...
just t28 days before the 20th Century, a peculiar ring of fire almost at the very south pole.
The first solar eclipse of the 20th Century is a Total Eclipse connecting many empires, past, present and future on the JFK birthday Metonic ( he would be born 17 years later on May 29, 1917).
Beginning in the Pacific at sunrise, the eclipse crosses mexico and hugs the US gulf Coast after exiting south of Corpus Christ (98% totality). It brings totality in a thin line to New Orleans, Montgomery, Mobile and Raleigh--exiting at Virginia Beach. 98% totality in Washington DC. 92 % in New York City, 90% in JFK birthplace of Brookline, Mass.
The eclipse crosses the Atlantic to bisect Portugal and Spain, the first colonizers of the New World--entering at famous city of Porto, where the Romans had established major trading operations in the centuries before Christ. Eclipse bisects Spain almost exactly 402 years after Columbus left on his third voyage to the Americas in 1498, and 400 years after Columbus was sent in chains back to Spain for trial in 1500.
The eclipse crosses the Mediterranean and the path of totality directly crosses Algiers, Algeria, and Tripoli Libya before ending a few miles south the Valley of the Kings in Luxor Egypt, which will be revised by two Judgment eclipses in 2027 and 2034 ---134 and 141 eclipse years respectively... Saros 126,
The second eclipse of the 20th century occurs 63 years to the day before the Murder of John Kennedy.
It begins just east of Angola and crosses one of the most infamous slave sources in Africa, Benguela. The eclipse then travels acroos the southern part of the continent, exiting through Mozambique and extreme southern tip of Madagascar. the eclipse path turns north and passes through much of northwest Australia before dying out.
79 years to the day before Mount Saint Helens erupts, in the great signal of divine consciousness at the birth of the true beast, the Metonic reality is enshrined in the 3rd eclipse of the 20th Century, a total eclipse from the southern tip of Madagascar across Indonesia.
17 years to the day before the Armistice of 11-11-1918 (still US Veterans Day), the fourth eclipse of the 20th century cuts an extraordinary Imperial path.
Beginining at sunrise in Italy ( Annularity in Palermo and Sicily and Malta), the path crosses the Mediterranean to Alexandria Egypt, It crosses the pyramids of Giza and Cairo.It crosses the Sinai Penensula and all possible locations for Mount Sinai, including the likely spot of Jebel al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia ( complete annularity). Crosses extreme southern Israel ( palestine at the time)...80% coverage at Jerusalem. Head across the Arabian Penensula, scraping the northern edge of Medina and exiting in Dhofar.
The path then heads out into the Indian Ocean to reach the mysterious southern boundaries of India.total annualarity at the richest shrine in Hinduism at great city of Thiruvanantapuram and Sri Lanka,
path continues on across the indian ocean to bisect Cambodia, including ancient metropolis of Angkor Wat, before ceasing just after crossing Northern Phillipines just north of Manila. Total annularity at Mount Pinatubo, which erupts 90 years late rin greatest eruption of 20th century on 6-15-1991.
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See JFK birthday/Deathday , Mt.St. Helens and Armistice Day Metonics neatly lined up at turn of the 20th Century
Connecting so many empires. Looked at in depth in main eclipse section. From USA to England to Germany to Mideast to india
After one of the most powerfully symbolic eclipses conceivable tells the story of the 20th century, 4 partial eclipses ( all in the year 2000) bear odd peculiarities to start the 21st
Hmm? Odd day to start with --178 days after August 11, 1999 eclipse...36 days after non-event of Y2K. The most non-descript, inconsequential partial eclipse imaginable, an amorphous blob with only 50% coverage visible only in Antarctica.
This Day in History 2146 years before :
February 5 146 BC--the consolidation of the Roman Empire
The Third Punic war , the last of three between Rome and Carthage, came to an end this day in 146 BC, culminating in the final destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its people, and Roman control over the Mediterranean.
For the first time since Dec 1880, two solar eclipses occur in one calendar month. On July 1st and July 31st, one western and one eastern hemisphere.
Bastille Day July 14 2000 at the midpoint of the two july solar eclipses, the sun let loose one of its greatest solar storms ever recorded.
From NASA: The Bastille Day Flare or Bastille Day Event was a powerful solar flare on July 14, 2000, the national day of France, occurring near the peak of the solar maximum in solar cycle 23. The X5.7-class flare originated from a sunspot known as Active region 9077, which subsequently caused an S3 radiation storm on Earth fifteen minutes later as energetic protons bombarded the ionosphere. It was the biggest solar radiation event since 1989. The proton event was four times more intense than any previously recorded since the launches of SOHO in 1995 and ACE in 1997. The flare was also followed by a full-halo coronal mass ejection and a geomagnetic super storm on July 15–16. The geomagnetic storm peaked at the extreme level, G5, in the late hours of July 15, and registered a DST of -301 nT, causing minor damage to power transformers and satellites and was also one of only two solar storms having registered 9+ at Kp max since 1989, the other being the Halloween solar storms of 2003. Despite their great distance from the Sun, the Bastille Day event was observed by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Due to being the first major solar storm since the launch of various solar-monitoring satellites, the Bastille Day event proved important towards helping scientists piece together a general theory of how eruptions on the sun occur
The last of the four partials of 2000 brings a Christmas Eclipse centered on the USA 8 and one half months ( 260 days) before the events of 9-11-2001 change the world forever.
44% coverage in New York City. 42% in Washington DC. 48% in Kennebunkport Maine.
There won't be another Christmas eclipse for more than 200 years.
these dates align permanently in the constantly rotating Metonic calendar.
May 14th--Date of independence of modern Israel (1948)
June 4th or 5th--Date of beginning of 6 Day war (1967)
May 24th--Birthday of Bob Dylan ( 1941)
July 14--entrance of israel into Canaan at 7-14-1406 BC solar eclipse...also Bastille Day (1789)
In less than 2 and 1/2 years solar eclipses occur on 7-14-1768 ( saros 142) and May 14 1771( 134), June 4th 1769( 114) and May 25 1770 (124).
three of these dates then re-align again ...June 4, 1788 Total Eclipse through Mideast
( Saros 124), May 24 1789 ( Hybrid south pacific--134) and May 14 1790 Partial ( Saros 144)
---notice the linkage of saros last numbers skipping in tens.
This set of eclipses also includes the Titanic Date and Abe Lincoln Assassination of April 14 during a partial in 4-14-1790 just preceding the May 14 eclipse.
Lincoln ( American Maximum Expression) will be assassinated 75 years later to the day. The Titanic 49 years after that. The 1809 Metonic occurs again in the year of his birth, 1809...see Abe Lincoln section.
Five of the most profound dates in modern civilization all within a 709 day span. Yes, Dylan's included. That's what you get for being an example, which he is.
Out of curiosity, the July 4th USA Independence Day only appears once in modern history, on July 4th 1796---the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
May 14 Independence of modern Israel. June 4th beginning of 6 Day War/ May 24 Bob Dylan Birthday...yes i realize Dylans birthday is the 24th and ^ Day War is said to have started on the 5th of June but these are hourly differences swallowed up in the reality of centuries.
There was an eclipse on May 14 1771, exactly 177 years before May 14 1948--the date of modern Israel independence..
The number 1771 is a palindrome of 177. it will be 177 in either direction.
1771 is 1701 years since destruction of the temple in 70 AD.
Also, the number 1948 is equal to 11 times 177.
177 days is the median number of days between eclipses in back to back eclipse seasons. (days swerve between 176 and 178 due to rotations and time zones, but often er is 177)
In 1771 Joseph Eyre publishes Observations Upon The Prophecies Relating To The Restoration Of The Jews, arguably the most important early statement of Christian Zionism,.
israel will be 77 years old at the beginning of the 70th Hebrew Jubilee in 2025.
May 14 is the 134th day of the year. The eclipse of 1771 is Saros 134
77 eclipse years (346.6 days) from 1948 brings us to 2021, which is now.
Saros 134 is the eclipse that brought the Jerusalem Ring of Fire August 21 1933, which was exactly 171 eclipse years after the May 14 1771 eclipse.
it brought the 9-11 Metonic in 9-11-1969.
It brought the Portugal and Spain Ring of Fire on October 3 2005 ( also Algiers and Northeast Africa )
Saros 134 brings the upcoming Great North American 10-14-2023 Ring of Fire.
There are only 36 metonics dates over the course of 150 years. some of these slide over decades a day or two. It is not easy to have your birth and death day in the same Metonic as your lifetime. For instance, in my extended family of twelve persons, none of us have their birthday in their Metonic. You only have a one in ten chance. To have both your birthday and death day as eclipse metonics in your life would be as least one in a hundred.
To have your death day appear as Metonic eclipse in the same year you are born is a lofty chance indeed, especially if you are one of the most important human personalities in the history of the modern world.T But that's indeed what happens with Honest Abe.
Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb.12 1809, the same day as Charles Darwin. Two months later, this Ring of Fire eclipse crossed North America, The southern boundary of eclipse appears to go through Kentucky, Illinois and just above Washington DC in a rough approximation of the Mason-Dixon line.
April 14 is the day of Lincoln's Assassination 56 years later. His death day is proclaimed in a North American eclipse 61 days after his birth.
There is an eclipse on Abe Lincoln's 3rd birthday centered very near to the one that occurred 4-14-1809. The Feb. 12 Metonic and April 14 Metonic continue in profound relation until his death.
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Abraham Lincoln is now 19 years old and his assassination exactly 37 years away. Remember Kennedy's Birth and Death metonics appeared at two years old and twenty one.
An interesting hybrid eclipse to be associated with Lincoln, across the slave coast of Angola through the continent into Arabia (92% in Mecca)...into Himalaya
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Abraham Lincoln is now having his 22nd birthday and a solar eclipse runs through the South and up the eastern United States. Annularity in Washington DC and Cape Cod...Atlanta?
From This eclipse was instrumental in a slave uprising led by Nat Turner. He witnessed this eclipse and took it as a sign from God to begin an insurrection against slave holders.
This 1831 eclipse was the subject of the earliest known eclipse map in the United States, printed in the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Seen above...Great American eclipse.org
Abraham Lincoln is now having his 22nd birthday and a solar eclipse runs through the South and up the eastern United States. Annularity in Washington DC and Cape Cod...Atlanta?
From This eclipse was instrumental in a slave uprising led by Nat Turner. He witnessed this eclipse and took it as a sign from God to begin an insurrection against slave holders.
This 1831 eclipse was the subject of the earliest known eclipse map in the United States, printed in the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Seen above...Great American eclipse.org
From Abraham Lincoln Historical Society/ Lincoln Home Historic Site: In 1831, Abraham Lincoln was a young man of 22 when he and a couple of companions floated down the Sangamon River in a flatboat on their way to New Orleans. In mid-April, he neared New Salem, Illinois,
The people of New Salem first noticed Lincoln shortly after he arrived, when his flatboat became stranded on the nearby milldam. A crowd gathered to watch the group of men work to free the boat--included among them was a lanky fellow who had taken charge. Under his direction, the other crew members unloaded the cargo from the stern causing the flatboat to right itself. The tall young man then went ashore and borrowed an auger from Onstot's cooper shop, drilled a hole in the bow allowing the water to drain out, which caused the flatboat to ease over the dam.
Denton Offutt, who had hired Lincoln to man the flatboat, was impressed with Lincoln's handling of the incident, and awarded him with the offer of a clerk position in his store. However, when Lincoln returned from New Orleans, the store was not yet open, so Lincoln took a variety of other jobs, including helping to pilot a steamboat down the Sangamon River to Beardstown on the Illinois River.
This was where Lincoln lived when he did his service in the military during the Indian wars, Lincoln saw no service, but did help bury five colleagues who had been scalped near Kellogg. Lincoln became postmaster and was much beloved. On April 15, 1837 ( on the metonic exact midpoint between 1809 eclipse and death in 1865), on a borrowed horse, with everything he owned in two saddlebags, Lincoln moved to Springfield, the place he would call home for the next 24 years of his life.
Yes it's April 15th now, but its still the same metonic. When this eclipse begins in 1847 it is still April 14th in much of America.
Abe Lincoln is now 38 years old and in the US Congress. In December of that year, he famously introduces legislation demanding to know the "spot" where hostilities with mexico originated and thus the excuse for the infamous Mexican War, which Lincoln opposed as an imperial land grab.
The Great Saros 136 takes aim at Darwin Australia before it is ever named such.
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Lincoln's birthday appears for the last time as an eclipse during his lifetime on his 42nd birthday.
Feb.12th will not be the date of an eclipse again until the year 2203.
of course, 1850 was the year of the Compromise of 1850... the above eclipse path has apparently nothing to do with that but it does involve Saros 128, which returns for two different USA eclipses of note on 5-10-1994 and 5-20-2012, as well as the great June 1st 2030Athens/Constantinople Judgment Eclipse
Lincoln's birthday and deathday Metonics collapse around the time of his murder (though there will be an April 15th 1866 partial on the ist anniversary)...
However 188 days after his assassination, a ring of fire eclipse perfectly bisects the United Sates of America. 188 days is exactly 7 Draconic months. An extraordinary cross country path beginning by Seattle and Mount Saint Helens and exiting america at slave port of Charleston. Touches both Kentucky and Illinois.
Charles Darwin was born on the exact same day as Abraham Lincoln, Feb 12, 1809. It is surely one of the great oddities of history that two of the most famous and influential people of modern times were linked in such a way. Their fame and influence and deeds were wildly different , of course.
interesting coordination
Born into wealth, Darwin was raised quite differently from the frontier child who shared his birthday. He journeyed to the Galapagos in late 1831, the same year that Lincoln began his life-changing tenure in New Salem, Illinois. In the Galapagos, Darwin made the scientific observations that formed the foundation for his Origin of Species, perhaps the most influential scientific book of all time. In it, Darwin states:
“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals…”
Origin of Species was published Nov.24, 1859. Lincoln announced his candidacy for President six months later...
the Feb 12 Metonic of both Lincoln and Darwin's birth stayed with them their whole lives, for example the eclipse of February 12 1850--though the ecliptic shifted slightly in reverse to Feb.11th for last half of 19th Century
Darwin dies 17 years and five days after Lincoln. He dies 7 years and one day before Adolf Hitler is born on April 20 in Branau Am Inn, Austria..therefore Darwin's Death and Hitler's birth are linked in the Metonic.
At this point, the Lincoln Death metonic of April 14 is shifting. By the Titanic eclipse it will be at April 17 and then it will shift into the Darwin death day of the 19th...Here are the strange watercolor- like bleeds of time as expressed in Metonic reality.
A nearly identical path of eclipse as occurred in the year of Darwin ( and Lincolns ) Birth on April 14, 1809--see above...with path in very similar location to 2-12-1812 and April 14 1809 eclipses--northern latitudes in and around Alaska.
Occurring in the hours before Hitler's 50th Birthday on 4-20.
35 days after Hitler's seizure of Czechoslovakia. 135 days before invasion of Poland.
130 years and 68 days after birth of Darwin, 57 years after his death. Hitler would die 5 years and 11 days later by suicide on April 30, 1945---another metonic
The April 19th Metonic persists through the latter half of the 20th Century. remember that at one time, this was the Lincoln Death Day metonic first expressed in the year of his and Darwins birth in 1809.
The April 19 metonic appears profoundly in the the April 19, 1958 Southeast Asia Ring of Fire 19 years after Hitler pre-birthday eclipse., part of the great Southeast Asia Eclipse swarm.
By the 2020's, the exact Hitler Birth and Death day Metonics of April 20th and April 30th are in full play, taking part in the Judgment series. the Partial eclipse of April 30 2022 ( 77 tears after his death)is followed one lunar year later by the first eclipse ( Saros 129 Hybrid) in the Great Australia Eclipse swarm of 4-20-2023.
That's how three of the most important personalities in history are linked in the incrediblly mysterious Metonic reality.
The first perfect Columbus Day Metonic alignment occurs in the next eclipse after Hitler Birthday/ Darwin Death Day of 4-19-1939.
It is 10-12-1939--447 years since the arrival of Columbus in the New world. ( Saros 123) Total eclipse very near to the south pole 43 days after invasion of Poland.
19 years later it is still paired 177 days apart with Hitler/ Darwin Eclipse with the 10-12 -1958 Santiago Single City total eclipse.
on 10-12-1977 the Columbus Day Metonic creates a total eclipse over Colombia, the only nation on earth named for him on the 485th anniversary of 1492 landing.
the persistent metonic returns for a 10-12-1996 partial eclipse on the 500th anniversary of the 8-8-1496 Mayan Apocalypse Eclipse.
Columbus died on May 20th 1506. His death date exists alongside Columbus Day metonic for 60 years.
It first appears on May 20th 1966, 540 years after his death.
A partial on May 19/20 1985.
USA ring of Fire May 20, 2012
Martin Luther King's Death Day exists alongside Abraham Lincoln's Death Day in the Metonic, separated by one lunar year exactly. When Lincoln's Death Day first appears in 4-14-1809 eclipse two months after his birth, one lunar year later Martin Luther King's death day of April 4th appears in an eclipse on April 4th, 1810, a ring of fire in the Pacific, That exact metonic does not reappear again until April 14, 2200 and April 4 2201. their ten day difference, however , means that the death days are permanently linked in the metonic.
His Birthday of January 15th appears in the metonic first with a January-14 1926, three years before his birth. ( Saros 130 Total), again with a January 14 1945 Ring of Fire and in the very first solar eclipse after the assassination of JFK, a partial on Jan.14 1964.
His precise birthday of Jan-15th finally perfects with solar eclipses in 1-15-1991 (Tasmania and New Zealand--Saros 131) and 1-15 2010 ( Africa to Asia--Saros 141)
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