appreciate the examples but what do they have to do with the eclipse? any reason related to the eclipse?
The esoteric answer you seek is as follows....."Under normal conditions the evil impulses of
will which are sent out into the cosmos by human beings are, as it were burned up and consumed by the rays of the sun, so that they can injure only man himself, but can do no universal harm
When, however, there is an eclipse of the sun, opportunity is given for the evil which is willed on earth to spread over the cosmos. An eclipse is a physical event behind which there lies a significant spiritual reality. And again, when there is an eclipse of the moon, the ran of today merely says: 'Now the earth comes between the sun and the moon; hence we see the shadow cast upon the moon by the earth." One of the safety-valves which makes its appearance in the cosmos and to which we give the name of a solar eclipse, serves the purpose of carrying out into space in a Luciferic way, the evil that spreads over the earth, in order that evil may work havoc in awider, less concentrated sphere
The other safety-valve, the lunar eclipse, exists for the purpose of allowing the evil thoughts which are present in the cosmos to approach those human beings who are desirous of being possessed by them."