welcome the winter solstice & turn toward the light

video: earth's northern half plunged into darkness by axial tilt!
will the sunlight ever return?*

from ictmn: The winter solstice is almost upon us. In scientific terms, the winter solstice occurs at the precise moment when the axial tilt of earth’s polar hemisphere is the farthest away from the sun. That moment will arrive...at 12:30 a.m. EST (officially occurring on December 22nd) when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun, bringing about the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The winter solstice, by definition, is a term used to describe this single moment when the Earth’s maximum axial tilt to the sun is 23°23’.

international space station's moon transit

French Astrophotographer Theirry Legault captured image, at right, of International Space Station crossing the Moon (near center of picture).  Legault took this impressive shot on December 20th from Normandy, France just a few hours before the eclipse. Please view article and more pictures at Universe Today.

pictures of dec. 21, 2010 lunar eclipse

Lunar eclipse pictures taken from around the world are available at Universe Today.

lunar eclipse to unlock apocalypse?

Nicholas West, in Activist Post entry,considers metaphysical effects on human consciousness of impending lunar eclipse to occur early Tuesday, December 21, 2010. This is a rare coincidence of lunar eclipse and winter solstice, the last incident occurred over a half millenia ago. There is an additional dimension of the galactic crossing of the ecliptic a rare once in 26,000 year event. West explains his article's title, "Will the Lunar Eclipse on December 21st, 2010 Unlock the "Apocalypse?", to clarify "...apocalypse, as it is purely translated, actually means a 'great revealing/revelation' or 'unveiling' or 'end of a cycle'," in contrast, to biblical use of apocalypse that may imply, "...effects from solar maximum predictions, magnetic pole shifts, new galactic radiation fields...".

West describes his view of our world as composed of vibrational waves of energy. The author suggests this lunar eclipse may mark the beginning of the great revealing, it "...may provide a cosmic magnifier for collective thoughts...", a reference to Mike Bara's belief from his book, "The Choice: Using Conscious Thought and Physics of the Mind to Reshape the World".

It is suggested the coming apocalypse is not to be feared but rather embraced as transformational--an enlightenment of what has been hidden! "Many point to our solar system's coming brush with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as a time when new vibrational energy fields will radiate our planet, resulting in a massive transformation in what our conscious mind and five senses can 'decode'," West believes, "...at the very least it provides us with an excuse to have a party and howl positive vibes at the moon and beyond".

december 21, 2010: winter solstice and lunar eclipse

There is a nice treatment of upcoming lunar eclipse in the early am this Tuesday at WattsUpWithThat.com. The deepest coppery red coloring of the moon will occur in the early am hours of December 21, 2010, 3:17am EST, 12:17am PST. This will be the time when the moon is in deepest shadow. The eclipse will last about 72 minutes. It's the first coincidence of the winter solstice and lunar eclipse in over half a millenia! What is the occult significance?