• Re: Sighting of the moon

    From kami@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Wed Sep 4 18:59:35 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.jewish, soc.culture.china, alt.atheism
    XPost: soc.culture.israel, alt.messianic

    On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:39:18 -0230, David Dalton wrote:

    My latest global new age onset mystic activation attempt
    is as mentioned on the thread �Raven and the First Men, revisited�
    on alt.religion.druid , in which I relate Raven to the dark moon
    that just passed and the Clamshell to the following full moon.


    is there any medication you are on?

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 5 16:31:24 2024
    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.religion.hindu, alt.religion.vaisnava
    XPost: uk.religion.hindu

    On Sep 3, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    My latest global new age onset mystic activation attempt
    is as mentioned on the thread “Raven and the First Men, revisited”
    on alt.religion.druid , in which I relate Raven to the dark moon
    that just passed and the Clamshell to the following full moon.

    My attempt beginning exactly at dark moon failed, but I am
    trying again beginning at earliest waxing crescent, which is
    auspicious for new beginnings in paganism and some
    other religions. However I cannot sight the moon here
    this evening since it is still only at 0.5% and since it
    is cloudy here. So I might have to try again on September 5,
    which is the three-sunspot-cycle anniversary of my sun stare.
    But I always cite the moon. :-)

    Anyway, has anyone on here sighted the early waxing crescent
    of early September, 2024 yet? If not, post a followup when
    you do.

    Also I wonder how past primary ootws (Openers of the Way,
    who I previously called avatar types) would have been
    able to sight the earliest waxing crescent, since like me
    they would have been extremely nearsighted but without
    glasses (which I discarded before my sun stare, so the
    focus formed off my retina, plus it was brief). Maybe
    they relied on other(s) to do the sighting?

    But in the Ganesha tradition, at least on the evening of
    September 6 (when Ganesh Chaturthi begins in 2024)
    it is actually bad luck to sight the moon.

    --
    David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her
    head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (S. McL.)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 6 20:34:31 2024
    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.religion.hindu, alt.religion.vaisnava
    XPost: uk.religion.hindu

    On Sep 5, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    On Sep 3, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    My latest global new age onset mystic activation attempt
    is as mentioned on the thread “Raven and the First Men, revisited”
    on alt.religion.druid , in which I relate Raven to the dark moon
    that just passed and the Clamshell to the following full moon.

    My attempt beginning exactly at dark moon failed, but I am
    trying again beginning at earliest waxing crescent, which is
    auspicious for new beginnings in paganism and some
    other religions. However I cannot sight the moon here
    this evening since it is still only at 0.5% and since it
    is cloudy here. So I might have to try again on September 5,
    which is the three-sunspot-cycle anniversary of my sun stare.
    But I always cite the moon. :-)

    Anyway, has anyone on here sighted the early waxing crescent
    of early September, 2024 yet? If not, post a followup when
    you do.

    Also I wonder how past primary ootws (Openers of the Way,
    who I previously called avatar types) would have been
    able to sight the earliest waxing crescent, since like me
    they would have been extremely nearsighted but without
    glasses (which I discarded before my sun stare, so the
    focus formed off my retina, plus it was brief). Maybe
    they relied on other(s) to do the sighting?

    But in the Ganesha tradition, at least on the evening of
    September 6 (when Ganesh Chaturthi begins in 2024)
    it is actually bad luck to sight the moon.

    It seems my workings could not begin at dark moon but
    instead after my first local sighting of the waxing crescent.

    I viewed the waxing crescent for the first time this lunar month at
    exactly sunset, 7:30 p.m. NDT (2200 UTC/GMT) September 6, 2024,
    almost four days after the exact time of new (dark) moon.

    But that is bad luck in the Ganseha tradition, so perhaps I
    will be accused of being a butter thief. :-)

    --
    David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her
    head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (S. McL.)

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