16 September 2016 – Astro-Weather: Full Moon exact at 11:54am CDT. Since this is the Full Moon closest to next week’s autumnal equinox, it is called the Harvest Moon. In early autumn, the Full Moon rises about half an hour later each night compared with a normal lag close to 50 minutes. The added early evening illumination helps farmers bringing in their crops.
This Harvest Moon also passes through Earth’s outer shadow today, bringing a penumbral lunar eclipse, which belongs to the Saros 147 series, & is number 8 of 70 eclipses in the series.
At the peak, which occurs at 8:44pm CDT, 91 percent of Luna will be immersed in the shadow & viewers across Europe, Asia, Africa, & Australia will see a distinct dusky shading over the Moon’s northern half.
But here in the US our satellite will look completely illuminated all night. You can find it rising in the east around sunset & peaking in the south by 1 am. The Moon lies among the dim background stars of Pisces, due south of the Great Square of Pegasus.
For an Astrosophy take on Virgo see https://sway.com/QHLPDrhBqJZW49FL
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Reineke-Fuchs
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender“, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England & Scotland
1732– In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory & a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants over 30,000 people!
1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 & injuring 400. The bombing was never solved, although investigators & historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, & anti-capitalist agitation in the United States
1922 – Founding of the Christian Community in Dornach by Rudolf Steiner
1925 – (For Fugi) Birthday of B.B. King
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo, at least 1,930 killed
1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City
1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury
1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people
1977 – Deathday of Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano
1978 – The 7.4 Mw earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion
1990 – The railroad between the People’s Republic of China & Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge
1992 – Black Wednesday: The pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators & is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin & Irish paramilitary groups
2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane, killing 124
2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew & passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people
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My POD (Poem Of the Day)
~In the grey twilight, no figs ripened,
No honey dripped from patient trees, no fragrant boughs soothed…
In that place of hidden things
I was made of nothing
The stone was wet & cold
The thick sky loomed
& bid me enter further
~hag
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Eclipse of the Harvest Moon in Virgo
“…When there is an eclipse of the moon, the man of today merely says: “Now the earth comes between the sun and the moon; hence we see the shadow cast upon the moon by the earth.” That is the physical explanation. But in this case also the old initiate knew that a spiritual reality was behind the physical fact. He knew that when there is an eclipse of the moon, thoughts stream through darkness down upon the earth; and that such thoughts have a closer relationship with the subconscious life than with the conscious life of the human being. The old initiates often made use of a certain simile when speaking to their pupils. It is; of course, necessary to translate their words into modern language, but this is the gist of what they said: ‘Visionaries and dreamers love to go for rambles by moonlight, when the moon is full. There are, however, certain people who have no wish to receive the good thoughts coming to them from the cosmos, but who, on the contrary, are desirous of getting hold of evil, diabolical thoughts. Such people will choose the moment of a lunar eclipse for their nocturnal wanderings’.
Eclipses of the sun and moon, recurring as they do in the course of every year, may really be looked upon as “safety-valves.” A safety-valve is there to avert danger, to provide an outlet for something or other — steam, for instance — at the right moment. The lunar eclipse, exists for the purpose of allowing the evil thoughts which are present in the cosmos to approach those human beings who are desirous of being possessed by them. people do not, as a rule, act in full consciousness, but the facts are nevertheless real — just as real as the attraction of a magnet for small particles of iron. Such are the forces at work, in the cosmos.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Human Q’s & Cosmic A.
See you in the shadow
Daisy Hu
