Miller wrote: “To dream of the eclipse of the sun, denotes temporary failure in business and other secular affairs, also…” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Eclipse · Heading 689; source lines 8253–8260 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of the eclipse of the sun, denotes temporary failure in business and other secular affairs, also disturbances in families.
The eclipse of the moon, portends contagious disease or death.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Eclipse · Heading 220; source line 1897 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For one to dream he sees the sun in eclipse, signifies the loss of his father; if he sees the moon eclipsed, it denotes the death of his mother; but if he has neither father nor mother, then it denotes the death of a relation.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Eclipse · Dream section, heading 151; source lines 676–684 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see an eclipse of the moon, denotes that you will lose some female friend--your mother, if she be living. You will experience a great uneasiness on account of a woman. Your sweetheart will prove unfaithful. Poverty will overtake you and misery end your days. To dream you see an eclipse of the sun, denotes that you will lose some male friend--your father, if he be alive; and that you will experience some uneasiness by the means of some troublesome friends; to a woman with child it foretells a son, who will be a great man.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Eclipse · Dream section, heading 150; source lines 4214–4216 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see an eclipse means a loss in business.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Eclipse · Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9850–9853 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Of the sun, great loss predicted; of the moon, small damage, but whatever your wish you will not attain it (Artemidorus). The symbohsm here is apparent.
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