My personal experience ...
I returned to my home at 7:10am. My home is located in Prescott, AZ.
My morning started about 4 hours earlier at 4:10am chasing the Full Moon Eclipse. Of course, at the end, around 6:00am, I stopped for hot coffee and breakfast. I was so cold, even with two coats and a hooded sweatshirt! When I began, it was only 32 degrees. Was it worth it! Absolutely.
I do not have a good camera, but those interested in images, there are plenty being posted on the Internet from various places around the globe. Ty Lamb here in Prescott took beautiful photos of this Eclipse; the photo above was taken by him.
I said I chased the Full Moon Eclipse. This is true...When I first went outdoors at 4:10am I drove to a few spots I thought might be a good location to view the Eclipse. I was wrong; and drove home and went to my own backyard. Here it was, the right spot. It was dark and I had a perfect place to watch the Eclipse develop.
Personally, the Full Moon Eclipse unexpectedly shifted into a mystical and holy experience.
When I saw the full bright moon begin to disappear, it was like a veil being drawn over it: the curtain at the end of a life-changing drama. I saw it as the end of a phase of my life here on earth.
I waited in silence in the dark. The only light present was from stars and a pale red image where the bright moon once was -- and a sliver of diamond light at the upper right edge of the Blood Moon. I felt myself quietly being changed by this drama happening in the morning sky.
I did not resist, nor did I judge what I was feeling.
I stood silent: waiting for the next part of the drama that I knew would come. It did, and, though I knew what would happen, it was as though I did not really know. How could I know what the next moments would bring to me as I watched the moon being lit again by the sun?
I cried during this silent unveiling of the bright moon. I sensed that a phase of my life closed when the Blood Moon arrived, and an awareness emerged of a new beginning: this unfolded while the Bright Full Moon made its entrance.
I saw with my eyes what my heart was feeling. I stepped with confidence into this experience, embracing all the varied feelings of new beginnings.
I felt rejuvenation. I felt invitation to step into the light of the Bright Moon.
A new chapter in my life opened. I saw this blending with the arrival of my eightieth birthday.
Amazing: and I am grateful.
-- Joseph