Lunar Eclipse Symbolism?

Question

I'm curious if others might have given thought to the symbolism of a lunar eclipse? The sun (male) blocked by earth (mother) and casting a shadow on the moon (also feminine).

Any interesting thoughts come to (re)mind here on answers?

Answer 1

The moon turns red, the colour of Mars, god of war.

Famine and pestilence, feminine forms of adversity.

Answer 2

I've never thought of it in that light before. Interesting take on it =)

Answer 3

AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE

Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,

Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine

In even monochrome and curving line

Of imperturbable serenity.

How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry

With the torn troubled form I know as thine,

That profile, placid as a brow divine,

With continents of moil and misery?

And can immense Mortality but throw

So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme

Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies?

Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show,

Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,

Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?

By Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)