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What was this journey about? What did you learn or bring back from the experience that was not there before? BTW - if you are uncomfortable with sharing that here (understandably) feel free to either PM me or post it in the Astrology forum (same article posted there).
An eclipse experience casts a 'strange' light upon the earth, often accompanied by a similarly 'strange' feeling or mood shift. Perhaps the awe we feel is part of our ongoing and collective memory that Steiner alludes to, in reverence for the power of the Divine that it and all of nature and the universe represent. Those 'feelings' remind us of our connection to that Divine source. I've had dreams of experiencing eclipses directly (looking directly upon them), which left me with an indescribable feeling of peace and wholeness as the two celestial bodies became one.
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Dover, I'm not sure what this was all about. It happened about 10 years ago, completely spontaneous, and it lasted about 30 seconds. ...wish I had more to report.
Eclipses.
I always thought that eclipses were the harbinger for some really bad times ahead. I never thought of them as benevolent, or a feeling of peacefulness (?)
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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there was an Eclipse at Golgotha (see below)
http://articles.christiansunite.com/article2702.shtmlMuch has been written about these hours of darkness, much which is not warranted by any careful spiritual attention to the story itself. You will call to mind how, at great length many years ago, it was argued that the darkness was that of the sun's eclipse. But that is entirely impossible, for Passover was always held at full moon, when there could be no eclipse of the sun. The darkness has been described as nature's sympathy with the suffering of the Lord, but that is a pagan conception of nature, a conception of nature as having some consciousness apart from God and out of harmony with His work. It has been said that the darkness was brought about by an act of God, and was expressive of His sympathy with His Son. I admit that that is an appealing idea, and has some element of truth in it, in that we may discover the overruling of His government; but to declare that that darkness was caused by God because of His sympathy with His Son is to deny the cry of Jesus which immediately followed the darkness and referred to it. The darkness was to Him a period when He experienced whatever He may have meant by the words, "Thou didst forsake Me"-Matthew 27:46. If I have succeeded in these words spoken in reverent spirit, in suggesting to you the difficulty of those central three hours, then our hearts are prepared for going forward.