Cosmic Camino

[simeon]

Yes, I'm definitely doing the Camino and will be somewhere between pamplona and Santiago. It will be awesome..... Proper awesome.....
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12

 

[Sailor]

And there is more on the attached files
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/SE2026Aug12T.png
Good luck y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

 

[Priscilla NC]

Cool! But I"ll be 78....

 

[Jeff Zimmerman]

I walked the CF last year from SJPdP to SdC. It was a magical, memorable and spiritual experience. I've started planning a return in 2018.
Yesterday, here in the US, I had another magical, memorable and spiritual experience, a total eclipse of the sun. It got me to thinking how special it would be to be on a Camino during a total solar eclipse. So I searched NASA websites, and discovered that indeed there is going to be a total solar eclipse in northern Spain, on Aug 12, 2026. The path of totality crosses the Camino Primitivo near Lugo, and the Camino Frances near Ponferrada. Most of Galicia and western Castille y Leon will get at least a partial eclipse. So mark your calendars for a Cosmic Camino on Aug 12, 2026. Just 9 more years to stay in shape!

 

[Deleted member 43985]

Great information - That's only 26 kms from Cruz de Ferro and THAT would be an awesome photograph to make! I'm marking that on my calendar too, I only hope I still have that calendar (and two working knees) in 9 years!!

 

[Former member 49149]

Ojalá!

 

[Sailor]

Discussed here

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/12-aug-2026.50200/

Buena suerte y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

 

[CaminoDebrita]

Cool! But I"ll be 78....

And so you shall! Perhaps I will meet you in the Ponferrada area.

I just celebrated "the American eclipse' from my backyard, where we had a five-day gathering and then got up early to prepare for the eclipse--and about half a minute of totality. We opted to stay on the farm rather than travel further south for more of that amazing time.

Interestingly, a huge osprey flew over our pond (two acres, large) for a few minutes, very low, just before it began to become dim. This osprey frequents the area, but has never spent time right above us. It made it all the more interesting. Totality is a stunning thing.

This was the third eclipse I have experienced in my nearly 58 years, the first, in Oregon; the second was on the Baja Peninsula in the early nineties, and included about seven minutes of totality, as I recall; this was the third. Magical.

We had eclipse glasses--the real thing--which I will save for the Spain eclipse. I am delighted to know of it, but guarantee that all of the Camino lovers around the world will be flooding in.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Better start staffing the Pillgrim Office for late August!

 

[Sailor]

Can't make it to Spain for the August 12, 2026 solar eclipse? Then make plans for the one happening on August 2, 2027 [wow, can you believe it, TWO in less than a year, this time in the southern part of Spain, i.e. Malaga]. Buena suerte, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

 

[William Garza]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYE32zUhrhK/
Here is what this person saw the other day!

 

[William Garza]

Ok.

 

[NualaOC]

Forum meet-up in Ponferrada or Lugo?

 

[Priscilla NC]

And so you shall! Perhaps I will meet you in the Ponferrada area.

And well we may meet there! I live near the 'totality belt' of this eclipse -- 99% -- I saw part of it but missed a lot of it due to cloud cover. But it was still a magical and spiritual experience.