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Over the weekend, winter solstice made the big headline on Drudge, with a picture of the moon, because for the first time in 456 years, more or less since the beginning of Protestantism, a lunar eclipse falls on winter solstice. It would be pointless to speculate on the meaning of this or if it has any meaning at all, except that I was struck a few years ago when we here in New England who had been complaining about The Curse for about 80 years had The Curse lifted when the Red Sox beat the Yankees for the pennant during a lunar eclipse. At the end of the game I went outside and sure enough, the shadow was passing across the moon. Eclipse at solstice, the darkest night of the year, might likewise have particular, essential meaning.

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