Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Since ancient times, eclipses and comets have been omens of good and bad events. The Babylonian priests saw the connection between geopolitical events on Earth and the movement of the stars in the heavens and gave birth to astrology. But they also could see the cycles in everything and were rather good at predicting eclipses. They could easily impress the naive public that they possessed the power to make the sun disappear on their command. I’m sure someday Biden will probably still have such fantasies. So, is the Total Eclipse of 2024 an omen of a market crash or World War III?
Solar eclipses have been observed throughout history. As expected, they have often been seen as omens and comets. We hear that the star of Bethlehem announced the birth of Jesus. Still, the comet that appeared the night Julius Caesar was assassinated has been historically recorded on coins, proving his divinity. So, was the total eclipse of 2024 a good or bad omen? Some point to the July 18th, 1860 total eclipse forewarned of the coming civil war. Is that what historians will look back on this 2024 total eclipse as a forewarning of war?
The appearance of a comet at the time of Julius Caesar’s death promoted his divinity for political purposes. His nephew Octavian, later to be given the name Augustus by the Senate (27BC-14AD), issued coins with the comet that appeared at the time of Caesar’s death with the legend: DIVVS IVLIVS (Divine Julius). This was self-serving and used as justification for his rule as the first Emperor of Rome, beginning the Imperial Era. But that was not Haley’s Comet.
Halley’s Comet was recorded as early as 467 BC by the Greeks. The Chinese chroniclers also mention a comet during this year. However, the Chinese astronomer Shiji also recorded its appearance in 240 BC. The Babylonians recorded its appearance in 164 BC in two clay tablets in the British Museum. Again, the Babylonians recorded its appearance once more in 87 BC. It was this appearance that lasted for about one month was celebrated on the coinage of Tigranes II the Great, an Armenian king who is depicted here on coins with a crown. It was portrayed as ushering in a New Era of the brilliant King of Kings. Tigranes II the Great issued the earliest coin depicting Haley’s Comet, represented by the star in his crown.
Haley’s Comet appeared around 12 BC and was recorded in the Book of Han by Chinese astronomers of the Han Dynasty. They tracked it from August through October during 12 BC. According to the Roman historian Cassius Dio, a comet appeared almost suspended over Rome for several days at the time of the death of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus’ close friend. He issued a coin depicting Agrippa with a comet above his head, recording that event.
There has been considerable debate about whether Halley’s Comet was also the Star of Bethlehem. Its appearance in 12 BC is not that distant from the conventionally assigned date of the birth of Jesus Christ, which ranges from 6AD to 4AD. This is based mostly on the biblical story of Herod the Great. It was not long before Herod’s death, which is generally attributed to having occurred in 4BC, but even that is disputed.
Referencing the Haley Comet connection, some theologians and astronomers have also suggested that this might explain the biblical story of the Star of Bethlehem and provide a more documented confirmation of his birth coinciding with the time of the death of Agrippa. However, there are also records of other comets that appeared closer to the date of Jesus’ birth. In a 1991 article in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomer Colin Humphreys proposed that the Star of Bethlehem was a slow-moving comet, which Chinese observers recorded in 5 BC.
Then, a third theory was put forth in 2008 by the astronomer Dave Reneke, who argued that Jesus was born in the summer. The Star of Bethlehem, Reneke argued, may not have been a comet at all, but Venus and Jupiter came together to form a bright light in the sky. The Jewish historian Josephus tells us:
“So Herod, having survived the slaughter of his son [Antipater] five days, died, having reigned thirty-four years, since he had caused Antigonus to be slain, and obtained his kingdom; but thirty-seven years since he had been made king by the Romans.”
[War of the Jews, 1:33:8 (665); cf. Antiquities of the Jews 17:8:1 (191)]
Therefore, Josephus is providing key target dates for Herod’s death correlating three events:
Five days after the execution of his son Antipater.
Thirty-four years after he “obtained his kingdom” referring to his conquest of Jerusalem
Thirty-seven years after “he had been made king by the Romans.”
However, total eclipses have also been important omens where people have correlated human events to these events in the sky.
The 1919 eclipse, known as the Einstein Eclipse (Test of General Relativity), also marked the peak in the markets following World War I and the Great Crash. But the total eclipse of August 1932, they said, confirmed the July 1932 low of the stock market in the Great Depression, while others said it forewarned of the new against of Socialism ushered in by Roosevelt. Was the 1932 Eclipse the doomsday omen that would set in motion the debt crisis that would bring the United States down by 2032?
Yet eclipses have also been seen as major markers of events such as the Crucifixion of Jesus. The Christian gospels say that the sky was darkened for hours after the crucifixion of Jesus, which historians viewed either as a miracle or an omen of dark times ahead. Later, historians used astronomy to pinpoint the death of Christ based on this eclipse story. Some historians tie the Crucifixion to a total solar eclipse lasting 1 minute and 59 seconds that occurred in the year 29 AD. In contrast, others say a second total eclipse, blocking the sun for 4 minutes and 6 seconds, aslo took place in 33 AD, marking Jesus’ death.
The Vatican Codex, the oldest copy of the Greek Bible, speaks of the solar eclipse in the Book of Luke. This is supported by a Greek historian named Phlegon, who recorded a solar eclipse in the same period. Phlegon wrote a history entitled The Olympiads, in which he recorded a three-hour eclipse of the sun during the reign of Tiberius (14-37AD). There was also a major earthquake during the reign of Tiberius that wiped out Asia.
In fact, here is a sestertius issued by Tiberius declaring it was issued as relief for the Great Earthquake in Asia, which was devastating. It was so bad that Tiberius waived all taxes for five years and donated 10 million of these coins for the relief of the victims. Yet what is very interesting is the fact that the eclipse of 33AD was also timed with the Great Financial Panic in Rome. The Financial Panic of 33AD provides one of the few detailed accounts of events recorded by the ancient historian Tacitus (56–117AD).
Where a comet (Star of Bethlehem) marked the birth of Jesus, it was an eclipse that marked the birth of Mohammed. The Koran mentions an eclipse that preceded the birth of Mohammed. Historians later tied this to a total eclipse that lasted 3 minutes and 17 seconds in 569 AD. The sun also disappeared for 1 minute and 40 seconds after the death of Mohammed’s son Ibrahim.
Eclipses of the Sun are truly awe-inspiring monumental events that have fostered legends and correlations to world events. Many early cultures have viewed these eclipses as omens of the coming end of the world. The very word “eclipse” is Greek in origin, meaning abandonment, desertion, or relinquishment.
In China, India, Southeast Asia, and Peru, the belief was that great dragons or demons attacked the Sun during such eclipses, trying to devour it. The ancient Egyptian myth of the snake Apep that attacks the boat of the Sun god is believed now to refer to solar eclipses. There was the total eclipse of 1374/1375BC known as the Ugarit Eclipse, recorded in the Early Mesopotamian Records.
“On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance.”
This was the Age of Amarna, which lasted only about twenty years. We know that Ra was the Egyptian Sun God, so we can understand how an eclipse would be very significant to the Egyptians. This Age of Amarna appears to be greatly influenced by solar eclipses. William McMurray and others have written papers suggesting possible correlations between solar eclipses and historical events, like the founding of the city of Amarna. This revolutionary period of the wealthy Pharaoh named Akhenaten dramatically changed every element of the very way of life in Egypt as he pursued his self-proclaimed monotheistic deity, the Aten sun disk. He ordered the construction, from scratch, of an entire city in the vast desert sands of Middle Egypt. He called it Akhet-Aten, the “Horizon of the Sun Disk.” Today, it is called the city of Amarna. The image of Ra, the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun, always appeared with a sun disk resting on his head from this period forward. The Egyptians aligned their buildings to solstices and equinoxes, even at Amarna, as did the Maya in South America.
His nephew Tutankhamun ruled for ten years after him with his incredible wealth, but the young boy king and his court abandoned the city after only three years. The Age of Amarna also coincided with the rise of the warrior Hittite Empire, which fought to conquer Egypt for six decades. This warfare brought the bubonic plague from the East, which devastated both empires, including royalty.
Solar eclipses are never mentioned explicitly in Egyptian writing. The cult of the Sun god Sol came from the East and the Statue of Liberty with the sun rays projecting from her head is a representation of Sol in ancient times. The cult was Sol Invictus, or the invincible sun that reappeared every day. Sol was depicted with rays of sunlight coming from his head.
Not only was Sol the model of the Statue of Liberty, but December 25th was his feast day. It was so popular that the Christians just made it Christmas since they did not know Jesus’ birthday. An eclipse was a serious event since Sol Invictus meant he returned every night after battling against the Moon and appeared victorious.
So will this mark a major turning point as we head into the ECM turn on May 7th? Some markets are making highs and geopolitical tensions are rising. What I find most alarming is the media keeps portraying Putin as threatening the USA. They never heard of the maxim, barking dogs do not bite. The media refuses to look at the American Neocons and NATO who are doing nothing BUT pushing for war. Putin is warning them that he will not go down without a fight. They keep telling everyone in Washington Putin would NEVER use a nuke because he knows we would retaliate. But if I was Putin and my country was being invaded, I would push the button. This idea that Russia can be conquered without firing a nuke is insane and they know that. They are in bed with the Climate Change morons who want to reduce the world population by at least 2 billion if not 4 billion. Putin is trying to talk common sense here but mainstream media refuses to relent.
We are in 19 cycles of 8.6 years from 1860. It does not look good, and this Total Eclipse just may be looked back on by historians as the turning point in human history. We are saddled by the worst political leadership around the world in my lifetime.
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It’s a bad omen for flat Earthers.
It’s a bad omen for ball Earthers.
My sons filled the bed of the pickup with hay bales and we drove north to the 100% path. It was a beautiful drive on a clear day, although the chemtrailing began in earnest around 1pm from the Southeast and continued almost the whole way turning the southern portion of the sky into a hazy mess. We finally crossed into the totality zone and parked alongside of the road. A car full of Hasidic Jews with NY tags stopped next to us and we all watched together. I wanted to ask them about the red heifer thing but decided to keep it to myself. They mostly chittered on in Hebrew, tallits swaying to and fro in the darkening air while boys and I lay back on the sweet smelling hay looking up at the diminishing crescent of the Sun in welder’s masks.
Just before totality someone’s rooster started going nuts, all the rest of the birds that had been chatting it up for the first half got quiet, and a murder of crows began to circle the sky above us as it grew crepuscular, like they were concerned. The temperature drop up there was noticeable, maybe 20 degrees. I can see why it might have freaked out people in times past.
I still cannot work out in my mind why the Moon was not visible in the sky at any point during the day except as it passed in front of the Sun, but I’m obviously stupid and those in the know are such pricks about it they won’t deign to to explain it beyond saying something like it’s invisible because the Sun is so bright, so that’s a mystery that’ll have to wait until I cross over to the other side.
Mostly I just enjoyed spending the entire afternoon with the boys, listening to music we like, talking and stopping in East Lebanon for some Thai food on the way home. I know I’ll always remember it and I hope they do too.
“I still cannot work out in my mind why the Moon was not visible in the sky at any point during the day except as it passed in front of the Sun….”
Indeed. Before I became a flat earther I spend some time thinking that how it was possible that I could see the crescent moon and the sun at the same time on the sky, not even far from one to the other, I was not between them, neither the earth was. Unbelievable how well they rooted out the common sense in children to teach them not to think but accept a fake reality.
Oh good grief. You see the moon when the sun shines on it, day or night. During the eclipse, the illuminated portion of the moon is facing the sun.
So I hear.
Once again I cannot wrap my mind around the claim that the Moon in the sky cannot be seen with the naked eye, regardless of where the Sun is shining on it.
Let me ask you this; when you see the Moon in the daylight sky in all of it’s phases, are you only able to see the reflected sunlight portion, or do you also see the remaining part that isn’t reflecting Sunlight? I see the entirety of the Moon, one portion brightly lit, the other still visible, albeit darker. Just because the Sun isn’t illuminating it doesn’t make it invisible, does it? My senses tell me that even if it is in the New Moon phase, you would see a Moon sized darkening in the sky where the Sunlight is blocked by the Moon. Everyone else seems to think it disappears, like Buzz Aldrin’s claim that he couldn’t recall seeing any stars when he was on the Moon.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1298734/moon-landing-michael-collins-neil-armstrong-buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-nasa-stars-space-spt
It’s a lot like the wearing masks to prevent virus transmission when it says on the box it doesn’t, yet 95% of the population goes along with it because the experts have told you it will. They haven’t actually thought about it, they just follow the recommendation of those they trust to know better.
I understand what you’re saying, I simply do not accept the explanation.
What you are seeing in the dimly lit portion of a crescent moon is earthshine. Reflection of sunlight from earth dimly lighting the dark side of the moon.
And? How does that answer my question? Are you implying that on the New Moon the Earth offers no reflective light? Just because the Sun isn’t shining on the Moon, it doesn’t mean it isn’t shining on the Earth.
I might be completely wrong, I’m just pointing out that logically it doesn’t make sense and that my intuition tells me that the explanation doesn’t scratch that itch you get when you are looking for a satisfactory answer to a legitimate question.
And in light of the last 4 years, if you don’t start asking questions about things that don’t pass the smell test, there’s something wrong with you.
But that’s just like, my opinion, dude.
On the new moon, or during the daylight hours of a very thin crescent, the dim earthshine is completely overwhelmed by the sunlight everywhere else. Earthshine is only really visible during twilight hours. Similar to why you cannot see stars during the day.
I believe it’s because eclipses always occur during the new moon phase when no light is being emitted by the luminary. It becomes translucent; we see right through it, yet it still has the ability to completely obscure direct sunlight. This could be an electromagnetic phenomenon; as in positive (sun) and negative (moon) energies simply canceling the other out. Each provide light but combine them and darkness results. Clearly the bodies are the exact same size and very likely the same distance from earth as well. As they converge and/or mingle, the “eclipse” occurs. It was a wild sight here in DFW! Unfortunate there is so little real world scientific exploration of the thing!
Will 2024 go down in history as the Year of the Stupid Fucking Question?
I think we’ve got our answer.
It will fade away just as the Mayan Calendar and Blood Moon crap.
If people want to frighten themselves, all they have to do is read a Bible! They’ll also LEARN a lot more than they ever will from the fucking MOON!
Some people’s children, man…I tell ya. Life is a trial and we’re all in the dock!
I bet people popped up the economy again, spending a fortune for the end-of-the-world-stocking scenario.
Eh,the show was OK,that said,me shrooms were awesome!
My cucumber seedlings are really starting to take off/saw two pairs of redtail hawks hunting in tandem(never seen that before and they were all adults)so the eclipse was a fun/restful day for me.
I was a bit disappointed with the Haldor kicking up yesterday no dragons appeared but tis early in the season!
Hawks do not hunt together. What really happened was you witnessed a territorial dispute while high on shrooms. I’m glad you enjoyed the trip and I’m happy you made it back safely. The scenery sounded spectacular…what with all those ultra vibrant colors and what not!
yep, it was an eclipse
Putin did it.
I drove 3 hours into Arkansas to meet up with my son and grandson from OK. We met a friend of his at at local eatery, enjoyed a long lunch while visiting and periodically going out onto the patio to see the progress of the moon. As it approached 90%, we went outside and began to watch in earnest. Just before totality, the lights of the surrounding stores & street lights came on. At totality, people began cheering and someone set off a bunch of fireworks a couple of miles away.
I also saw the ’17 eclipse, but this one was a bit different in that we could see an orange light at the bottom of the moon. I assumed it to be a solar flare until we got a high resolution picture from a friend and could see that it was sunlight coming through a gigantic crater. You could also see large craters on the trailing side of the moon in the picture.
The trip home was terrible as all of the people who had traveled to see it left at the same time and got bottle necked at the Mississippi River bridges in Memphirca. My son had terrible traffic, as well when he got to Russelville, as it was closer to the centerline of the eclipse. People traveled a long way to watch this once in a lifetime event. I talked with a woman from Iowa at the gas station, saw a lot of cars from NC, SC, GA, AL, FL & MS. My son noticed a lot of OK, CO and NM cars on his return trip
It was a great day with 3 generations watching God put on a display of his beautiful creation.
PS – On the trip over, I thought it was going to be for naught as the chemtrails were crisscrossing the sky and it was getting very hazy. About an hour before the eclipse started, the chemtrails had finally dissipated and the sky had pretty much cleared up. there were still contrails, but they disappeared in a minute or so. On the trip home, the chemtrails magically appeared. If you did not know better, you would think the chemtrails disappearing was orchestrated by some Benevolent Big Brother wanting his subjects to see the eclipse.
Should have come to Ohio, at least at the daughter’s where she lives (not far from me) there was hardly anybody that showed up for the view. Have to admit it was pretty cool. What was interesting was a small vacant block commercial building next to her (across the alley) somebody had spray painted “Resarch (sic) flat earth” which was in sight the whole time I was out watching.
And of course, the denizen there never miss the opportunity to celebrate the war for independence.
I would have rather stayed in the country, but it was a nice day despite that, all except rushing to eat my dinner so we could get back for 2of4 daughter to tend to the critters before dark (not that we made it anyways).
I could have driven 1 1/2 hour and seen it, but wanted the shared experience with my son & grandson. We are the last 3 males of my family going back to my great-great grandfather.
Yeah, I wasn’t really being serious about coming to Ohio, especially where we were at, which is kind of, one of many, armpits of Ohio.
I have a suspicion that you and I might have been at the same restaurant (within a few yards) at the same lunch time. The patio you mention — Mexican restaurant? Across from the court house on the square?
(I would just say the name of the little town, but it is a place that I have very high regard for and I try to NOT mention its name if I can help it. We already have plenty of newcomers and why advertise for more? And by the way, I lived in Memphis back in the 60s and early 70s. It was so nice back then, it is hard to believe how far it has regressed. And now they have even taken down the statue of General Forrest and dug up his grave.)
I was in a town that has the same name as the first name of an old country singer and we were at a cajun establishment, so maybe the same town, but not the same restaurant. Would like to have met another TBP regular.
Yes, Memphrica has deteriorated significantly. We live an hour east and rarely venture into the city, unless for a Dr. appointment or to shop in the far eastern side of the city, but even that is getting pretty bad.
Hey TN, thanks for the reply, and I know now what town you are talking about — but nope, not where I was after all. I still have a brother and his family in Memphis and I have tried for ten years to get him moved out. I keep hoping that one day he will sell his house and get the heck out. Every year it gets more ghetto and more trashy. There are still a few neighborhoods that look nice, but even the nice areas are getting to be more dangerous. It’s a damn shame when you have to carry a .45 when you mow your own yard.
They tell me there was an eclipse yesterday. Nothing happened. Who Knew?
A major eclipse during a Forth Turning in a nation slowly being destroyed by Globalist sociopaths…what could go wrong. Buy more food and ammo…
Would someone please F**K Joe Biden repeatedly?