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August 11 1999:Memories of the eclipse/alignment

 
 
enough
18:13 / 12.07.01
After posting on another thread,I became curious as to what the other members of the collective experienced on those days in 99 (8.11-8.13) when the world was on the edge of supposed "destruction".I wish to post my experience but I am affraid it would seem to FAR-FETCHED,even for this group.Suffice to say though,it was wierd and exciting to say the least...
What about you people??How did you commemerate the occasion *or* how did it affect you??It's been almost two years...
LET FREEDUMB REIGN
 
 
Ierne
18:18 / 12.07.01
I wish to post my experience but I am affraid it would seem to FAR-FETCHED,even for this group.

Well, now you've gone and tantalized everyone...do tell.
 
 
Frances Farmer
18:27 / 12.07.01
[sniff] ...

... [sniff] ...

... [ sniff ] ...

I think .. I smell.. baby powder..

.. No! Wait! That's RRM I smell!

I guess it can't hurt to take the bait one more time.
 
 
Ierne
18:32 / 12.07.01
Do you mean another "Solomon"-type thread?

if that's the case, maybe run rabbit run should stick to the original plan and keep the story untold.

I cannot take another "Solomon"-type thread.
 
 
enough
18:37 / 12.07.01
I will,but firstI need validation before I commit myself...
 
 
enough
18:38 / 12.07.01
SOLOMON??
 
 
Ierne
19:00 / 12.07.01
It was 8 pages of pure wank that started with international conspiracy based on companies with "Solomon" in their name and ended up being about how everybody should eat raw food. It died with the last version of the barbelith board.

It was heinous! To think I remember as much about it as I do!
 
 
enough
19:27 / 12.07.01
Naw...nothing that convoluted.My experience was real (think VALIS or Invisibles etc...) but to translate it and see it in print/on screen makes me a bit anxious as I draw from the abstract and place it in the mundane.
Did anyone ever read the secret origin of Rex City-zen when it was posted??
My experience was comparable to his...
Should I go on??
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
19:34 / 12.07.01
I would be interested but my own experiences around that time were too personal and, yes, farfetched for me to feel comfortable posting myself.

So while I would be interested in hearing yours I can't ask in good faith since I'm not going to post mine.

But if you need to get it off your chest
 
 
Rex City-zen
19:39 / 12.07.01
The secret origin of...ME???
Aw shucks...that was so,so,year 2000
 
 
Rex City-zen
20:16 / 12.07.01
Did you do anything that would fall into the category of Magic??
 
 
Mr Tricks
23:19 / 12.07.01
Hmmmm . . . I vaguely recall a ritual around that time.

Nothing too significant . .. the Lunar eclipse of that winter's solstise was much more profound.

But tell it as a story Rabbit.
We are all in dire need of the revitialization of Myth. The hero's journey is moot if hir does not return home to tell the tail for EVERYONE's benifit.

perhaps it's telling will reawaken memories . . .

go on . . .

i'm listening.
 
 
Rex City-zen
19:54 / 13.07.01
INDEED!
 
 
Rex City-zen
09:09 / 14.07.01
Yes...tell us of your heroic tale.

[ 14-07-2001: Message edited by: Rex City-zen ]
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
03:14 / 15.07.01
I'm having a hard time putting any events to that date... I /think/ I had an odd experience then... A very odd experience...

However, I also have no real time sense of the last few years. (Starting in late '98) so it's possible I'm talking out my arse.

All I know is that in early August of 99 or 00, I had a very odd experience involving a bit of possibly missing time.

Nowhere near as odd as my Jan 2000 experience, but possibly related...

I'd love to hear other people's stories from that time.
 
 
enough
20:26 / 19.07.01
Sorry this is taking so long...promise to do this.
 
 
Ierne
12:24 / 20.07.01
I've been trying to think back to that period of time, to see if anything
<phreak-ee>
happened to me spiritually.

I remember that up until August 99, I was in a dead-end job at a cheesy talent agency, still recuperating from a major ankle injury that happened in July 98, and still in the throes of my

SATURN RETURN

August 11 per se does not ring a bell. But by the end of August 99 the cheesy talent agency laid me off, gave me lots of severance pay, and I chilled out for 3 months seeing bands, taking photos, reading books at the library, and generally having fun.

I landed my present job right after Thanksgiving 99, and it's great.

[ 20-07-2001: Message edited by: Ierne ]
 
 
Cherry Bomb
12:44 / 20.07.01
Dude, I'm in the midst of my Saturn return right now. And experiencing similar crap things, which are actually forcing me to make some major life moves.

But... August 99 - well two days after the eclipse my grandma died. Saw her 12 hours before she died and she seemed a little off but basically perfectly healthy. Dropped dead the very next day. She & I were pretty tight, and she was a very smart cookie. In fact our last intellectual conversation was regarding that eclipse and the possible repercussions of it. I will say for my family at least her death had major repercussions for all of us.
 
 
captain piss
14:29 / 20.07.01
It sounds like quite a few people had subtle existential or personal traumas during that year - there are phases like that, I notice.
During that period I was looking after my best friend who was going-through a difficult divorce and I was also being dragged over the coals, romance-wise. And loads of other shit.

For the eclipse itself, I actually went to Cornwall and got the whole day-becomes-night-before-your-eyes thing - which bordered on a mystical experience. Just that juddering realisation of being on a planet in space, and the fact that birds and wildlife all went really mental when it happened.
It would have been a really scary event in stone age times, I'm sure- or maybe they had all that figured out.

With all this saturn return talk- it's interesting that I'm in that phase just now (well, I'm 27) and this year does seem to be bringing radical changes in outlook, lifestyle and direction. In a dead basic way - I'm going freelance with work and making a commitment to spending time doing more of the stuff I actually want to be doing, following 5 years in more or less the same job, which i wasn't that mad about.

[ 20-07-2001: Message edited by: Meme Buggerer ]
 
 
Kobol Strom
15:35 / 20.07.01
August 99.I said goodbye to this girl I was seeing in Glasgow.She was taking the train to London for a plane back to canada.I went out to see her in Canada about 4 weeks later,and on day 2 she broke up with me.Ha,two weeks in a foreign country to dwell on that one.Upside was I got a job that I was hoping for ,of which I then grew to hate ,and in January this year I finally left.I don't see August 99 as particularly hot one.I'm not sure if this info is useful to anyone.When is the next alignment?I'd like to know so I can book a holiday on Varuna!
 
 
000
15:41 / 20.07.01
Why don’t you Run Rabbit Run , Lothar Tuppan and Kevin tell us what has happened?
The eclipse of 11 August 1999 was the touching of certain people around our planet, and most of these people have experiencing the oddest things since then and for some it lasted and pieked on July the 7th month of 2000 or as Nostradamus said 1999 and 7 months. He said that “The gates would be opened and the real spiritual awakening would begin then.

I have told mine here on this board already and they told me already so many times that I must be nuts and it has lasted almost a year, that one would presume, that they have no energy left and by now they have gotten used to different kind of minds. So I would say lets share some experiences, it maybe makes you understand what has happen and most importantly why?
Don’t you want to know by now? The reason you started this tread s because you wonder if there are any people out there who have experienced similar things?
If you guys don’t know me and you don’t know and you want me to shed some, please let me know, I will, even if its just to make you see that there are more than you alone.
 
 
Rex City-zen
16:27 / 31.07.01
Laila...your kind words are an inspiration and I for one would like to here your experiences.
 
 
Ierne
17:05 / 31.07.01
Rex: You'll want to go back in the archives and check the "Solomon" thread for that. Not concerning the eclipse specifically, but for a genereal sense of what your no doubt well-meaning thread may let us in for.

[ 31-07-2001: Message edited by: Ierne ]
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
09:41 / 03.08.01
Laila and others,

Well, I'll go ahead and share my tale. The crux of this story is that my memories of the event differ greatly from my friends who were with me.

I remember it was a few nights after the Eclipse proper... My friends Matt, Amy, and Mike went to a park in Northern Kentucky together to just hang out and enjoy the wonderful night. There's this section of the park that is in a deep secluded valley. I learned later that a couple of Wiccan groups and a Shamanic Drum circle use the same area for activities on the weekends. All I knew is that it was a nice area and has always had a very positive "feel" to it. Yes, that's new agey and unspecific, however that's the best way to describe it. I'd also been involved in a few rituals with the circle of friends I was practicing with at the time, at that spot.

It's a nice place... In Devou Park... not too far from where the park overlooks the Cincinnati skyline and the river winds below it like a serpent.

But I digress.

So, we're wandering about and relaxing... it's about 10:30pm or so... and I notice something kind of neat in the valley. The light of the moon (What day was the moon full in August '99?) shining through the trees into the valley had created this beautiful silver raven. Well, it looked like a generic bird type thing but "Raven" is what popped into my head.

We look at at and discuss how cool that is and then I just go ahead and follow my impulses and lay down in it. So, there I am in blue jeans, a black shirt, boots and a light leather jacket laying in the image of the raven with my arms outstretched.

Seemed like the thing to do at the time. I generally do a lot better in life when I live by my impulses.

I then begin to relax, unclenching my muscles and just enjoying the beautiful night and the wonderful night. There's a nice warm breeze around me, ruffling my hair and everything is calm and peaceful... I stay like this for... 15 minutes or so by reckoning, just not thinking too much and soaking up the ambience, as it were. Also, during this time, I get two very distinct impressions, first that my friends (who had been walking around the outside of the valley just looking at stuff) left for a bit, and then that there were more people in the valley... like 10 or so. I felt... it's what some people call "magickal awareness".. that sort of "gnosis-y" feeling is the best way I can put it.

Eventually, I sat up stretched and looked up the hill towards my friends. One of them looks down and points. So I go up to chat.

"Where'd you go?", asks Mike.

"Yeah, head to the bathroom?" asked Matt.

See, what they describe happening in the 45 minutes since I lay down in the valley was that a trick of the light made it look like part of me was fading into the light. I'm wearing dark clothes, that's not too hard to imagine.

However, then they follow up with saying that when they looked back again, I was gone.

Supposedly, in these 30-45 minutes I thought were 10-15, I just up and vanished. My friends had assumed I had just walked off to do something and were not overly concerned. However eventually Amy spotted me down in the bird again.

So we walked about the park some more, talked, chided them on their time sense and brushed part of it off as my falling asleep. I don't recall going to sleep, but it's possible. I also am not a stranger to the occasional time dialation having done work with FOTAMECUS and Ragged Robin.

However the vanishing thing is still a bit odd. There were also some other discrepencies, like my feeling that more people where there and my feeling that everything was nice and warm with a breeze when in fact it was kinda chilly. Of course perhaps I was just getting a nice warm breeze where I was, that they did not.

There's still that vanishing with 3 witnesses thing. They didn't go down and check on me of course, figuring I was off doing my own thing, so it could have been a trick of the light.

Funny Addendum:

So I go home and pop into bed. Next night my ex-gf gives me a ring to tell me about this whacky dream she had about me and aliens the night before. She said that she dreampt I was in the woods, suspended in this silvery light with my arms outstretched. Of course David Duchovny does appear later in the dream but hey, the image was interesting in light of the timing and the previous night.
 
  
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