Did you survive Armageddon?

Sorry, I mean the eclipse.

Sara Burdick
4 min readApr 8, 2024
Photo by my niece

Wow, the lead-up to today was insane, or was it just me?

A state of emergency in some states, schools closed, and conspiracy theorists are out in droves. First, I am an admitted conspiracy theorist, but I like to question everything, including stories that are so bizarre that you can’t help but want to know more.

Yet, at times in nature, things just are as they seem: an eclipse.

The sky gets dark, the calmness in the air, the moon knowing we are all giving her our undivided attention to honor the goddess she is, La Luna.

There have been eclipses before; the last one I remember was driving through California when it got dark and ominous.

I pulled over because I noticed people on the side of the road, and apparently, it was the eclipse. I had no idea.

At that time, I was listening to The Stand by Stephen King; I felt like I was being called into his novel, waiting for an army of trucks to capture me and test me for the virus that would come a few years later.

Yet, in the world of astrology and full moon energies, new moon energies, new beginnings, and eclipses hold significant…

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Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://linktr.ee/saraaliceburdick