XXII. Brave New World-Mount Saint Helen's and 1984
1979
Feb 26 Mt. St. Helens/Microsoft Total Eclipse (Saros 120)
1984
May 30 Atlanta/ New Orleans/ DC Ring of Fire (Saros 137)
1979
Feb 26 Mt. St. Helens/Microsoft Total Eclipse (Saros 120) The great
harbinger of 1979. Jimmy Carter is in the White House. During the coldest
winter in a century, eight months before the hostage crisis in Iran, ten months
before Soviets invade Afghanistan. America is set to rise again with a new kind
of world dominance, defined by the universal machine that thinks. The eclipse
occurs seven weeks after Bill Gates and Paul Allen move Microsoft Corporation
to Gate's hometown of Bellevue, Washington, 99.6% Totality in Bellevue. The
beginning of the technological era, the final era of the American Empire and
the creation of the last world Empire. The number one song in America was
"Do you think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart. The number one non-news show
was "Three's Company".
Salem,
Oregon is in Totality (it will again be in totality for Aug.21, 2017 USA
eclipse, the only major city that has that distinction). Portland has totality.
Crosses 5 northwestern states before bisecting Canada (Totality in Winnipeg).
Totality
over Mount Saint Helens (122.2 degrees longitude) 388 days before she awoke
with an earthquake on Spring Equinox of March 20 1980. Saint Helens explodes to
the due north in the direction of Bellevue Washington (97 miles away --122.2
degrees longitude) on May 18 1980 in the largest volcanic eruption in modern
North American History.. First eclipse over Saint Helens since Farewell Abraham
on Oct 19 1865.
Saros
Cycle 120:
Again! Saros 120! The last time Saros 120 will touch contiguous USA. It returns
to Alaska US for Bering Strait/ 2,000th anniversary of Jesus Crucifixion
Eclipse on 3-30-2033.
1984
May 30 Atlanta/ New Orleans/ DC Ring of Fire-Almost Total (Saros 137) An interesting annular eclipse that is about as
close as you can get to a hybrid/total.
At its Maximum, the sun is 99.77% covered (near Christchurch, Virginia).
Atlanta is 99.67% covered. What does this mean? It means that the alignment of
sun and moon is almost perfect over the
path. The moon is almost exactly 400 times closer to the earth than the sun. They
almost perfectly fit in perspective. May 30 1984 is the JFK Birthday Metonic.
His actual birthday is May 29 but that's how the Metonic works, sliding around
on the hours around a date. He would have still been celebrating his 67th
Birthday 12 hours before if he had not been murdered. Ring of Fire begins in
Mexico and crosses eastern USA before heading to Africa. Near perfect coverage
in Atlanta at Martin Luther King's Home exactly 5900 days after his
assassination (and almost exactly 17 eclipse years).
95%
coverage in Washington DC, where the Reagan/Bush Presidency was firmly in power.
90% in JFK's birthplace of Brookline, Massachusetts, 80% in Dallas Texas, where
he was murdered. 93% in New York City. Direct path in the Deep South includes
New Orleans (the last of its astonishing 7 eclipses in 500 years, birthplace of
Lee Harvey Oswald and site of the Jim Garrison JFK conspiracy trial),
The
eclipse crosses the ocean and enters Africa over Casablanca (“white house”) and
Marrakesh (Land of God) and ends in desert of the Sahara in Algeria. The last
year of JFK birthday/Death Day Metonic conjunction which began with May 28/ Nov
22 in 1900. The next eclipse on earth after this amazing annular occurs on Nov
22 1984 (the 21st anniversary of his murder) over the site of his famous PT-109
heroics in the Solomon Islands of New Guinea.
Saros
137:
Saros 137 brought the Titanic Eclipse of 1912, the San Francisco Hybrid of
1930, the Korean War eclipse of 1948, 137 returns for the 2020 Father’s Day
Solstice Pandemic Ring of Fire.
