On May 20th, parts of the United States will be able to see their first total eclipse of the sun since 1994. The annular eclipse takes place on Sunday evening, starting at 5:14pm PST.
SUNDAY MAY 20TH, 2012
5:14PM – START OF ECLIPSE
6:30PM – MAXIMUM ECLIPSE
(LASTING 4MIN 40SEC)
7:36PM – END OF ECLIPSE
A variety of parties and events have been planned to celebrate this occasion.
our intention is for this to be a time when we get to taste the village life we all feel missing from our lives, sharing food, song, prayer, dance, art, performance and the day-to-day beauty of being alive.
Focused around a central elemental altar, where offerings and ceremonies will occur throughout the gathering, there is a sacred container being collectively created and held, in collaboration with the Native peoples who have honored us with the use of their land.
Every facet of this gathering is an opportunity for the work, whether it be on dancefloor, in the skill shares, gathering in ritual or connecting with the land and each other.
We do not know exactly what these times hold, but we do know that when we enter this moment together, with real intentions for global healing and awakening, we can participate in these cosmic cycles in the best possible way,
“Hold onto your yoga mats and crystals”… a more spiritually-oriented event is being held at the home of aliens, crystal skulls and the entrance to the underworld, Mt Shasta.
Mount Shasta is believed to be the base of the arch-angel Michael, be a dimensional vortex, and sit above the lost Lemurian city of Telos. It is where the 1987 Harmonic Convergence took place with thousands of people. It is already being covered by the media as “ECLIPSE FEVER!”
Eclipse parties are great fun. As well as your typical Burner crowd, there is a whole scene of Eclipse hunters who travel from party to party around the world. We trekked thousands of kilometers into the Australian Outback in 2002 for the Outback Eclipse festival, to find a thumping bush doof with 10,000 people. There was another party of similar size and remoteness, another 1000 km or so away. A great time was had by all, and watching the eclipse was a magical moment. The Outback grew eerily silent – which emphasized just how much noise of animals and insects there was in the middle of nowhere.