PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE JULY 31st 2000.

In contrast to the partial solar eclipse on 1st July 2000 which belongs to a very old Saros Series, the one on 31st July belongs to a Saros series which is still very new. This eclipse is the 5th member of a series of 71 eclipses. The first eclipse of the series occurred at 20.27 on 17th June 1928, and the series extends for nearly 1200 years. This eclipse is visible from the Arctic, Northern Canada, Alaska and Northern Siberia. The eclipse begins 00.37 GMT and ends 03.49. The Eclipse at 8 degrees Leo is opposite Neptune, trine Pluto and sextile Jupiter. Mars is sextile Saturn, Venus opposes Uranus. The point of maximum eclipse occurs at 02.13 GMT. At this moment the Sun and Moon rise at Kuwait, Bahrain, Gulf States and at Helsinki, the Sun and Moon set over Denver USA, where Saturn at the same moment is at lower culmination. The Sun and Moon are on the MC of Hobart Tasmania. Pluto rises at Reykjavick, Neptune is at lower culmination at Recife Brazil. Pluto rises at Tonga. The Solomon islands are highlighted with Uranus conjunct the MC, (the total lunar eclipse two weeks earlier was conjunct the MC of the Solomon islands). Jupiter and Saturn are due west at Tokyo, Mars rises at Damascus, Jerusalem, Istanbul and Beirut. Mercury rises over Bosnia, Pluto due west at Sicily. This is an interesting although still weak eclipse. In it we may detect a message, a note, a symbol of an as yet new nature.