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To be a bit worried about the eclipse in a woo kind of way

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Caoimhe1922 · 19/03/2015 17:44

A friend of mine ,from many years ago , is a professional astrologer and very much into multi woo stuff. Back in 1999 she told me to be wary of the eclipse as it signified a time of great change when dark forces can bear influence on our lives. Ancient Britons considered an eclipse as a harbinger of bad luck and a change of fortune for the worse.
Yeah, I thought what a load of bollocks. Later that month my exH met the teenage daughter of our friend and began an affair with her. Our marriage failed, my teenage children suffered mentally and had to have counselling and were prescribed antidepressants. I had a near breakdown and also was prescribed antidepressants. I then became ill and had a hysterectomy, then shortly after my op my hormones went haywire and my thyroid shut down. I am on medication re my hormones and thyroid and will be for always, no problem as long as I am well.
That eclipse was the start of a horrendous part of my life and my children's too as they both failed acedemically and neither have reached the potential their earlier years showed.
So tomorrow's eclipse, eh? WIBU to make hats out of tin foil for us all and hide away from the malevolent forces? Will I be safe? Any woo experts that can advise me?

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FuckItBucket · 19/03/2015 17:45

It's just a bit of darkness for an hour.

No big deal. Make the hats though

madreloco · 19/03/2015 17:48

yabu. You might as well be afraid of night time. It's just the ongoing and everyday movement of Big Stuff.
The angle of the sun didn't affect your life before, it's not going to do it tomorrow.

squoosh · 19/03/2015 17:49

I'm sorry you went through such a shitty time in 1999 but please be assured that it had everything to do with a crap man and a poor run of health. It had nothing to do with the eclipse.

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DishwasherDogs · 19/03/2015 17:49

Ds2 came home and said there was going to be an apocalypse tomorrow.
Now that would worry me. :o

expatinscotland · 19/03/2015 17:50

Superstitious nonsense.

ohmychrist · 19/03/2015 17:50

What a load of crap. Of course it doesn't signify anything bad.

squoosh · 19/03/2015 17:50

An apocalypse would be worth rustling up a tin foil hat for!

specialsubject · 19/03/2015 17:52

astrology is not a profession, it has long been discredited. Your mate is a charlatan, a fool or both. (Anyone can write a horoscope)

sorry for your troubles but it is all coincidence. The eclipse is a simple-to understand astroNOMICAL phenomenon.

nauticant · 19/03/2015 17:53

I think, even without an eclipse, you would have been married to a complete twat.

Complete twats do what complete twats do, irrespective of the state of the Heavens.

thenextday · 19/03/2015 17:53

Utter bollocks.

kim147 · 19/03/2015 17:53

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kissedbyamoonbeammyarse · 19/03/2015 17:53

I have the rage. It's not on schedule. I blame the eclipse. MN is quite bad tempered too. The eclipse is definitely a mood changer. Angry

DawnOfTheDoggers · 19/03/2015 17:54

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MagpieCursedTea · 19/03/2015 17:56

The awful time you had was the result of your ex's actions not the eclipse. I'm sorry you went through so much, but you need to place the blame where it's deserved.

fatlazymummy · 19/03/2015 17:56

I can't wait for the eclipse.
I remember watching the eclipse on tv in 1999 (obviously we can't watch it. directly), I thought it was beautiful and unique. I feel lucky to be experiencing another one (though we're only getting 85% here).
It's just a natural phenomenon, OP. Any bad things that happened to you were purely coincidence.

lornathewizzard · 19/03/2015 17:57

You have my sympathies for a crappy time, but it didn't start with the eclipse, it started with your husbands affair. I'm sure many people around the world had a wonderful 1999. And many had a crappy one.

ratspeaker · 19/03/2015 17:58

You do know there have been other eclipses since 1999? Almost one a year.
They've not been visible from the UK though.

Much as the eclipse would be something to blame I doubt the moon passing in front of the sun was responsible for the rotten time you had.

Don tinfoil hat and expect the darkness to drag away all the bad luck back tomwhere it belongs

specialsubject · 19/03/2015 17:59

I am actually filled with anger about your so-called 'friend' who is preying on people at a vulnerable time. I hope you have long ditched her.

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 19/03/2015 18:00

You had an awful time in 1999 because you had the misfortune to be married to an arsehole. The eclipse was incidental and nothing to do with it. There is no more chance of something bad happening to you tomorrow than there would be on any other Friday.

Oh, and your friend isn't a professional anything, she peddles woo to gullible people.

MaryWestmacott · 19/03/2015 18:00

It's ok to have something like this remind you of the start of a bad time for you. Rather like people dreading things like christmas after something bad happening to them at that time one year. But put it in to the same context, of course an eclipse will remind you of last time you saw one, which was at a very difficult time for you, the eclipse didn't cause the bad time, whatever your woo friend said, it just coinsided and it's likely that you will be brought back to that time mentally every time there's another one.

FWIW - the 'bad times' ancient britions were looking out for was things like droughts, floods, crop failures and starvation, disease and death. The last eclipse didn't start anything like that.

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Caoimhe1922 · 19/03/2015 18:01

I'm definitely wearing a tin foil hat ( and my converses, different thread).
I can't help but be worried but thank you all for your pragmatic views and common sense.

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MagentaMouflon · 19/03/2015 18:03

If the eclipse really harbinged (?) doom, it would have been noticeable that everyone had a shit time afterwards. There would have been an upsurge in ill health referral, divorce rates, poor school results etc. which would have been noticed, and that didn't happen.

It's crap that it happened for you Flowers but the fact is people's lives go through ups and downs, and at any given point some will be going up and some will be going down. You happened to have a bad time just after that eclipse, but the law of averages means a certain number of people would have had that happen anyway - but no more than after any other event.

I have had a crap couple of years myself, with some ill health and a tough time personally - it started soon after the olympics and jubilee but they didn't cause it.

In fact you could think of it as the law of averages meaning that this time round, you are due an upswing. (That's not very mathematical but as good a way to look at it as any)

WizardOfToss · 19/03/2015 18:04

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finnbarrcar · 19/03/2015 18:05

Conversely I had a brilliant time after the 1999 eclipse, I'm hoping for similar luck with this one.

YABU. it's a load of old bollocks. In times past they used to make human sacrifices during the eclipse in order to make the sun come back...to them it "worked", specious reasoning at its worst.

WineCowboy · 19/03/2015 18:09

wizard that is the most awesome MN name I have ever seen!!!!!

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