Is wormwood Carrington?

Is Wormwood 

A Carrington Event?

 The “Wormwood” star in Revelation 8:10-11 (third trumpet) is often linked to a Carrington-level solar event, but it’s actually a very different kind of catastrophe from the sixth seal (Rev 6:12-17). Here’s a clean side-by-side so you can see why most people who take the Carrington analogy seriously still point to the sixth seal rather than Wormwood.Sixth Seal (Rev 6:12-17) – the best scriptural “fit” for a Carrington-level CME or superflareSun becomes black as sackcloth

Moon becomes like blood

Stars seem to fall from the sky (or sky rolls up like a scroll)

Every mountain and island moved out of place

Worldwide panic, kings and generals hide in bunkers, begging the rocks to fall on them

A Carrington-level (or worse) coronal mass ejection does the following in real life:Turns the sky blood-red and green for days (auroras at the equator) → moon looks blood-red at night

Can black out the sun with auroral glow or smoke from simultaneous wildfires

Causes bright meteoric flashes and sparks from the ground (people in 1859 thought stars were falling)

Destroys the power grid → global technological darkness, fires, chaos

Governments and elites literally do have continuity-of-government bunkers they would run to

So the sixth seal reads almost like someone who had never seen electricity trying to describe a planet-wide grid collapse plus extreme geomagnetic storm.Wormwood (Rev 8:10-11) – third trumpetA great burning star/lamp falls from heaven

Falls on a third of the rivers and springs

Waters become bitter/poisonous (wormwood = πικρός, literally “bitter”)

Many people die from the poisoned water

This imagery is much harder to map to a solar flare/CME. The classic interpretations are:A meteorite or comet fragment (the “burning mountain” in the second trumpet and the burning star here look like impactors)

A nuclear exchange (fallout poisoning rivers)

A supervolcano (ash cloud with toxic metals turning water bitter)

Literal Chernobyl connection (the Ukrainian word for “wormwood” is чорнобиль / chornobyl — this one got huge play in the 1980s–90s among prophecy teachers)

None of those are solar events. A CME doesn’t fall on rivers and make fresh water undrinkable; it fries electronics and lights up the sky.So why do some people still try to make Wormwood the Carrington event?Usually because they notice that a really big CME can:Trigger enormous solar flares visible to the naked eye (a “blazing lamp” falling)

Cause secondary effects like pipelines exploding or chemical plants releasing toxins into rivers

But that’s a very long chain of secondary consequences, and the text itself never mentions the sky going dark or the grid collapsing — the things that would be the primary, unmistakable effects of a Carrington-level event.Short version Sixth seal = almost a perfect poetic description of a civilization-ending geomagnetic storm

Wormwood = much more naturally reads as an impactor, nuclear fallout, or massive volcanic poisoning of fresh water

So the people who argue “Wormwood is the real Carrington event” are a minority for good reason. The sixth seal remains the far stronger parallel.