On my hunting trip today through the Planet Waves Archives, I stumbled across this piece titled “Understanding Eclipses” and its dramatic formatting with a black background. Fittingly enough, Eric writes there, “It’s a little like when a blackout happens in New York City. Everybody gets a chance to remember something obvious. You can see the stars and planets above the skyscrapers. Nature descends on the busiest place on Earth. People meet one another, especially the ones who only have an electric can opener. I propose turning the power off for one night every summer. But nature has figured this one out already, and twice a year, we get to go through the ritual of eclipses.”
Apparently when they turned the power out, the date for this article got lost in the dark. Judging from the context of the piece and a quick trip to Google, it seems to be spring 2003, leading up to a pair of eclipses in May of that year.
Since we’re in the midst of a pair of eclipses right now, I figure most of us could use all the insight into these phenomena we can get. After all, as Eric also notes, “Eclipses work on three levels, broadly speaking. The first is personal. The second is collective. The third is where the personal and the collective intersect.”
That “third level” will sound familiar to anyone who’s been reading along lately: it carries the same theme as the Aries Point, which is a central factor in our current astrological setup. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get working.
