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astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic Calendar, Christopher Renstrom.

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Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology Hub. And this week I wanted to talk to you about the lunar eclipse in Scorpio taking place on May 16th. Now, eclipses are a pretty big deal in astrology. They mark the times of year when either the sun or the moon

disappears from view in the sky. It's basically regarded as lights out in heaven. Now there are two types of eclipses in astrology. There are the

solar eclipses and the lunar eclipses. The solar eclipse is basically when the moon passes in front of the sun blocking out its light and it's a very dramatic effect especially when its view during the daylight hours like it was here in America in August of 2017.

A lunar eclipse, a lunar eclipse takes place during a full moon, that is when the sun and the moon are opposite each other in the sky.

Now what happens here with a lunar eclipse is that it's the earth that moves between the sun and the moon and it's the Earth's shadow that's blocking out the light of the moon in the night time sky.

And that is also very dramatic when it's viewed in the evening.

So eclipses, this time of year when it's lights out in heaven,

have always had a very powerful and sometimes dark reputation.

Nowadays, they're a little bit more modified

for the way that we live in the modern world,

but it was still this idea that either the sun or the moon disappearing from view in the sky was seen as a treacherous and dark thing.

It's almost as if the underworld had escaped its place beneath the surface of our world and was now running rampant in the heavens.

And in places like Mexico and in the were always the reaction to a lunar eclipse or a solar eclipse was to take out a drum

and to start making loud noises with it or banging things together to make out make loud noises with it or banging things together to make loud noises with it because they didn't know how long the

eclipse was going to last. It could just be a few minutes or it could be an hour or two.

And what they wanted to do was that they wanted to sound,

they wanted to make loud noises to scare away

any of the underworld demons who had thought

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