The Moon orbits Earth and Earth revolves around the Sun. The moon completes its orbit around Earth in just under a month, thus passing between Earth and the Sun 12-13 times a year. This phase is called the new moon. If the Moon is right in front of the Sun in this phase, we have a total solar eclipse. Generally, however, the Moon passes either above the Sun or below the Sun, because the Moon’s orbit around Earth is not in the ecliptic, which is Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
On March 20 the Moon in fact passed right in front of the Sun in a shadow zone, which rapidly moved up The North Atlantic Ocean west of the Faroe Islands. Therefore, the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 was total in the Faroe Islands. Source
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