That is a solar eclipse, at Nisan, the first month on the Jewish calendar.
Jewish tradition says that blood moons signify importance (or even calamity) to Israel, while solar eclipses signify importance or disaster to the entire world.
65 posted on 02/17/2015 6:47:53 AM PST by SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)