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Enticed.
Bewildered.
Terrified.
All are time-honoured responses to the moon. Whether you see beauty in a solar or lunar eclipse, or impending doom, will be based on your cultural and social background.
Knowledge, too, plays its part.
For those of us on the surface of the Earth, there are two kinds of eclipse: solar and lunar.
In a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
In a lunar eclipse, it’s the Earth’s shadow that falls on the Moon.
What makes a lunar eclipse different is its scale.
The Moon’s shadow only falls on a small portion of the Earth’s surface, and often passes over quickly.
But when the Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon, its blood-red stained face haunts the entire half of the planet that happens to be in darkness at that time.
Throughout history, though, those that have experienced either event have often felt it was all about them. It was a rare but personal sign from the gods. Therefore, it had to be observed, interpreted, tracked — and predicted.
And all this can add to the eerie red sense of foreboding, doom — and change.