If the moon revolved around the Earth in the plane of the ecliptic, every new moon and full moon would be an eclipse, but since the orbit of the Moon is inclined to the ecliptic by 5 degrees, she cyclically moves across the ecliptic, sometimes she is above the Sun-Earth plane and sometimes below it, and so quite literally an eclipse depends on the latitude of the Moon. Only about 16% of syzergies actually turn out to be eclipses. The maximum latitude for the Moon is a little over 5 degrees. 12 times a year or 12.368266 times in the course of a year the Moon follows this pattern, and twice a month she cuts the ecliptic, once at each nodal point. The moon averages about 13 degrees movement a day [ it is faster and slower according to syzergies], it completes her orbit of the ecliptic in one Synodic month, but the Sun moves on average at only 1 degree a day, manages only 30 degrees of movement in that month period of time. It follows at some time during the month the Moon will pass the Sun [conjunction] and a new moon will happen. During that month, the Moon will pass in opposition to the Sun and this creates a full Moon. Most times when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction or opposition the Moon has latitude, and is nowhere near the ecliptic. So eclipses are pretty rare. Because the Moon moves approximately twelve times faster than the Sun, she intercepts the ecliptic 24 times a year; the Sun only manages to be in the area of intersection on two occasions during the year, once at the north node and once at the south node, when this happens there will be a central eclipse of the Sun. There is a two week period on either side of the exact moment of node alignment when the nodes are almost in line with the Sun. A new Moon or Full Moon falling during these periods will usually be close enough to the nodes to cause an eclipse. The closer a Syzergy is to the exact moment of alignment, the more “total “or “central” the eclipse is. When the Moon is within 18 degrees of the node an eclipse may occur. When the Moon gets within 11 degrees of the node, the eclipse will be classed as central. Even at her brightest, the Moon only reflects 7% of the Suns Light.
A solar eclipse is total when the Sun is completely obscured.
It is called annular when the Sun is visible all around the Moon. It is partial when only a part of the Suns disc is obscured.
Lunar
Solar Eclipse
Duration of an eclipse is from first to last contact between the Moon and Sun, it depends upon the anomalies of Sun and Moon. I.e. their distances from apogee, this varies between two hours and five hours, and the period of totality between one and seven minutes.
For those people who read the ‘Kryon’ channelled books, Kryon mentions that the consciousness of “The New Jerusalem” started in Israel with the Eclipse of August 11th 1999, Kryon tells us that the start of the female energy was given to us at that time. So 11th August 1999 is the start of the New age and peace on Earth. The time of the eclipse was 11:09 The eclipse was at 18 Leo 21 and was total for 2’ 23”
