Penumbral lunar eclipse
The moon will be in Earth’s shadow in a penumbral lunar eclipse July 7 at about the time that it will be rising over Australia after dusk and setting over western North and South America in the early predawn hours. When a blooming Moon is face-a-face an expansive Sun, does an eclipse really matter? The shadowing will not be visible in India. Eclipses pass, just as rainbows do. What remains is the promise of a new beginning.
The July full moon is a “renewal” moon for two reasons. For farmers, it marks the onset of the crop-sowing season. For many others, it is the Day of the Guru – the teacher who shows the path and then steps away from your light, urging you to renew your quest to spirituality.
It is a promising full moon waiting to be harvested by the sweat of one’s own efforts.