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#53 The great American eclipse 2017

Pondering astrology through pinholes

George Wilkerson2017/09/03

Notes

Where were you on August 21, 2017? Thousands of people in North America organized their day around the solar eclipse that crossed the continent that Monday morning. Some had the date marked on their calendars years in advance to stake out a spot along the totality’s path from Oregon to South Carolina. Why?

George Wilkerson muses on the ways the natural and the supernatural eclipse one another in “The Great American Eclipse of 2017.” Though he was only able to observe the eclipse through a sliver of a prison window, Wilkerson offers an expansive and evocative essay on the eclipse and the ways we make meaning of the world around us, how astronomy and astrology shade each other, and what our world-making efforts reveal about the extents and limits of our desires.

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