All you have to know about the Eclipse Season
An eclipse season is a 35 - days period during which at least two (or even three) eclipses occur. In fact, every year we have from 4 to 7 eclipses within two seasons of eclipses. They repeat themselves in cycles of 173.3 days (more or less six months) and in some years we can also have a third eclipse season between two years, so it’s possible to reach the number of seven eclipses in two years. Eclipse Love. 24″ x 30″, Oil on Canvas, © 2016 Cedar Lee Lunar nodes and the ecliptic: The ecliptic is the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. A lunar node is the point where, in the Earth's monthly orbit, the lunar orbit intersects that plane. We have an eclipse season when - from Earth's point of view - the Sun is close enough to a lunar node for an eclipse to occur . If the Sun is close to a lunar node during a Full Moon, we see a lunar eclipse. If the Sun is close to a lunar node at the New Moon, a solar eclipse occurs. To put it another way, if the Moon becomes New...