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[email protected] (Otto J. Makela) wrote:
David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
I’ve been Crying Wolf for years, but note that Wolf Full Moon
is at 2307 UTC January 6, and coincides with Epiphany this year.
"Wolf Moon" just means a full moon in January, so it has a around a one-in-thirty chance of happening on the 6th (or 19th, or the first
Sunday after the new year, however way it is defined in your country).
What makes you feel there is significance?
Yes, of course the correlation occurs about once every
thirty years, but that still makes it rare.
In the last more than 26 years I have been regularly
attempting global new age onset magickal workings,
and one phase of moon I often aim for completion at
is full moon. But it never has come true yet, and
since the full moon is associated with the wolf (especially
a howling wolf) I say that I have been Crying Wolf.
However in the story of the boy and the wolf, eventually
the wolf does come, and I think an appropriate time
for that would be the Wolf Moon.
Also my cycling through moon phases and special
emphasis on full moon can be considered Sisyphean
moon rock rolling, though I don't know if
Sisyphus ever gets the rock over the top.
And I claim to be the latest in a long line of
human and cetacean avatar types including Jesus,
and Jesus was manifested to the gentiles on
Epiphany, when the magi presented him with gifts.
(Though Eastern churches associate Epiphany with
his baptism, which I consider his anointing by
the divine, which made him a christ, or anointed
one, type.)
Also I claim to be the wolf in Sarah McLachlan's
song Monsters, though I am not claiming to be
the Lamb, which the song seems to indicate.
But perhaps I am grasping at straws by citing
the Epiphany/Wolf Moon correlation, and will
have to wait two more years until my low years
reach the most common seven years plus two
eleven year sunspot cycles.
Anyway, the correlation is just a neat fact, like
occurrences of 11:11 are for some and like a
recurring/lucky 55 (LV in Roman numerals,
which I take to mean LOVE) is for me. There is
no scientific basis for it to be significant,
and no ancient religious basis, but of course
Goddess (who many call God) can work with
modern/ongoing signs.
Followup-to: sci.skeptic
I probably won't check sci.skeptic until Tuesday (I
use different newsreaders out of town and in town)
and expect more readers are on alt.atheism so I
have added alt.atheism .
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David Dalton
[email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "And now the angry morning; Gives the early signs of warning; You must face alone the plans you make; Decisions they will try to break" (S. McLachlan)
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