What happened the last time??? 458 Years ago.

lot of people died..

Druids wore thermals?

Wasn't it around the time the planet warmed up for a while?

The moon disappeared then came back.

Was it the same moon?

Nothing.

Nothing at all?

it snowed

The Queen of England farted at the Royal Dinner table. I was there.....

Everyone is dead from the last time this happened.

[link to eclipsesolar.es]

No hell fire?

No brimstone?

OMG so everyone is going to DIE!!!!!

. . . . . .

So true.

1552-53

UH HOOOOOO

Ever heard of Bloody Mary?

whatever you do,don't look at the moon.

Nostradamus was alive

WOW I didnt know that

I've got my pots and pans ready to bang on in an attempt to scare away the demon eating the moon.

1552 was a dud year

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

An otherwise seemingly unexceptionable year in recorded history, the darkened moon happened during a bleak year for Tudor England.

Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for treason that year, while Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Mary of Guise — the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots — became regent of Scotland.

Scientifically, however, it's just a coincidence of natural cycles.

[link to poleshift.ning.com]

LOL...I checked that out also.

Bloody Mary.

Shortly after, there was a major currency recoinage because of the massive debts taken on by the british.

1552-1558 are some critical years for the state-religion relationship and the debasement of currency, at the time.

Interesting question and I did some research about it the other day. The thing is the years are squirrely - I've heard one year and then I heard another. What I did find interesting with one date - it was the 1648 date - was the first time a witch was put to death in America.

The official witch trials came later, but the first witches put to death were 1647 and 1648 in New England.

So there's one thing - again, of course - depending on the date used.

I don't think anyone actually knows the truth of it, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many dates about a eclipse on the solstice.

The last time it occurred was on December 11, 1554.

The only events I've found (via Google) to have happened on that date was Justus Velsius having his teaching license revoked, and Bishop Hooper writing a letter to Bullinger prior to being martyred. Both events were part of the Inquisition.

Interesting about the currency!!!

Rabbinical tradition teaches us that a solar eclipse is a bad omen for the world. A Rabbi Meir said in a recent commentary: “When the luminaries are in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel.” A solar eclipse is a bad sign of trouble for the world and a lunar eclipse is a sign of trouble for Israel. No more than seven eclipses can occur in any one year. Twice in the 20th Century there were seven total eclipses. In the years, 1917 and 1973 were filled with prophetic implications. During the seven eclipses that occurred in 1917:-The Russian Revolution occurred, introducing communism, and World War I was coming to an end.-Occurring in December, the seventh eclipse coincided with General Allenby liberating Jerusalem from 400 years of Turkish rule.-The Balfour Declaration was signed, giving the Jews access back to PalestineDuring the seven total solar eclipses in 1973:-The Yom Kippur War occurred, which could have destroyed Israel-The Arab oil embargo impacted America and the West-Twenty-eight nations suffered from drought-History’s largest explosion occurred on the surface of the sun-America’s U.S. Supreme Court passed the most damnable law of all Roe. V. Wade, opening the door to the innocent slaughter of BILLIONS of unborn babies.Since Israel is on a lunar calendar - based on the cycles of the MOON - any eclipse on the moon is considered a cosmic sign for Israel. The moon has a 29 ½ day cycle. In slightly less than 30 days, the moon enters a four-phase cycle as it moves from darkness to light, and back to darkness. According to Avi Ben Mordechai, in his book “Signs in the Heavens,” with each cycle of nearly 30 days the ancient rabbis understood that the moon was being “reborn,” or “born again.” In the Old Testament period, an entire Jewish festival was proclaimed at the beginning of each month, called the B’rit Chadasha, or the New Moon Festival. During the 1,000-year reign of Christ, the New Moon Festival will be reinstituted.Isaiah 66:23
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

The Moon Of Blood

The inspired Biblical prophets predicted the moon would become blood.

Acts 2:20
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

For centuries, scholars have attempted to ascertain the meaning of this prophecy. Jewish tradition and beliefs may help us explain this passage. In 1996, Israel celebrated the 3,000th year anniversary of Jerusalem - from King David’s conquest in 1004 B.C. to A.D. 1996

On Passover, April 3, 1996, a full lunar eclipse appeared over Jerusalem. A photograph of this eclipse appeared in the Jerusalem Post with the caption, “The Moon of Blood.” When a full lunar eclipse appears, the moon takes on a reddish, almost bloody appearance. On September 26 of the same year, a second lunar eclipse created a blood-like image and was visible in Jerusalem on the eve of the Feast of Tabernacles. A third lunar eclipse (90%) happened six months later during PURIM, the celebration to remember how the famed Jewish Queen Esther defeated the wicked plans of Haman.

Thus, THREE lunar eclipses occurring within one year on or near three Jewish celebration days is almost unheard of. These three “blood moons,” caused tremendous excitement and anxiety among rabbis in Israel, according to the same article. A blood moon, which appeared twice the same year and fell on the first and last feast of Israel, indicated to them this was a cosmic sign from God of impending trouble in Israel. The ancient belief was that a blood moon (lunar eclipse) could symbolize BLOODSHED and WAR.

Since 1996, thousands of Israelis have died in their own land from the suicide attacks of Islamic radicals. Just four years after these events in 2000 the Palestinian Authority launched its most recent intifada or “uprising” against Israel at the hands of the now deceased Yasser Arafat. Three months after the last full lunar eclipse over Israel on March 29, 2006, Hezbollah and Israel were at war for 60 days in a skirmish that exposed the sudden weakness of Israel’s military preparedness under the faithless leadership of Ehud Ohlmert.From a Hebraic understanding, the signs of a sackcloth sun and blood moon can refer to a full solar and lunar eclipse. According to Scriptures, this will be one form of cosmic activity prior to the coming Day of the Lord and the future Tribulation.

The inquisition was going on then?

Kinda like now eh?

I wanna know, Im a budding astrologer,

1552 AD?

Image at link...

[link to www.sciencephoto.com]

Credit: ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Lunar eclipse diagram, 16th century. The Earth is at centre, with the Sun at lower right. The Moon (upper left) is passing into the shadow of the Earth, seen as a lunar eclipse. The text labels are in Latin, including the words for Earth, South (at top), East and West. There are also numbers along the Sun's orbit of the Earth. This diagram is from the 1552 edition of Sphaera Mundi, by the French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Fine (1494-1555). Fine was a writer of many books popularising mathematics and astronomy. Sphaera Mundi (Sphere of the World) was an astronomy textbook with woodcut illustrations by Fine. It was first published in 1542.

Last Edited by DanfromtheHills on 12/19/2010 05:51 PM