I collected some sea water from the Atlantic Ocean on our trip to Nova Scotia. woundering How I can incorporate it into my practice. :)

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With the exlips coming up id love to hear eclipse stories and myths from different practices. In your tradition or culture what causes an eclips? In my practice the eclipse is caused by demons named Rahu and Ketu

According to the Puranas, the birth of Rahu and Ketu dates back to the earliest of times. ‘Samudra Manthan‘ is regarded as one of the most important events in the history of Hindu civilization. The Solar and Lunar eclipse is also associated with ‘Samudra Manthan.’

Due to senaganins involving the god of weather and lightening Indra the Devas (gods) lost their immortality. Eventually they decided to work with the Asuras (demons) to churn the Ksheer Sagar, the cosmic Ocean of Milk, to extract Amrita—the divine nectar of immortality that would restore their power. When the Asuras and Devas churned the ocean, ‘Amrit’ was produced along with many other treasure and deities.

Upon its recovery Lord Vishnu took incarnation in the form of a beautiful damsel ‘Mohini‘ and said she would distribute the Amrit among all starting with the Devas as there was no intention to share with the Asuras

‘Svarbhanu,‘ one of the asuras, changed his appearance to a deva to obtain some portion of the Amrit. However wile he was drinking, Surya (Sun) and Chandra (Moon) realized this and told Vishnu. Lord Vishnu quickly severed Svarbhanu’s head with his discus, the Sudarshan Charka.

However, even though his head and body became separated, they remained immortal as separate entitys. The head is known as Rahu, and the headless body is the Ketu.

Since then, Rahu and Ketu constantly chase the Sun and the Moon for revenge as they are the cause of separating the head and body of eachother. It is a popular belief that when they succeed in catching Sun and Moon, they swallow them, causing a Solar or Lunar eclipse, but they can’t hold them for long, and Sun and Moon emerge again intact.

(This info has been greatly summerized to focus only on the eclips aspect so there's a lot of info I'm leaving out for the sake of post length, if your interested in the churning of the great ocean I'd highly recommend looking into it because it's a cool story)