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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Oct 20, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2EA6D6B501DA3CD470000E32538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Oct 20, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2EA5EDEC01A3ADFE70000E32538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > Happy Diwali to any who celebrate it!!   
   >   
   > New moon here will be at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday local time.   
   >   
   > Today on my walk home from Mary’s I stopped in at   
   > Dollarama to get some stuff for another sister. I got   
   > a 173 g bag of snack-sized candy bars and four regular   
   > sized chocolate bars. The total with 15% tax was $9.55.   
   >   
   > I consider that significant since 55 has been my lucky   
   > or recurring number and 55 in Roman numerals is LV   
   > which I take to mean LOVE, and also because of   
   > the timing of new/dark moon.   
   >   
   > I plan to begin another global new age onset mystic   
   > activation sequence at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday and will   
   > list any required changes in a post to alt.religion.druid   
   > just after that.   
   >   
   > However I have said that I don’t expect a correlation   
   > with an existing religious holiday, and this will be   
   > Diwali new/dark moon. (Diwali is celebrated by   
   > Hindus, Jain, Sikhs, some Buddhists, and some   
   > atheists.)   
   >   
   > And also the man who served me at the checkout was   
   > of South Asian descent, and I should have mentioned   
   > the coincidence to him but neglected to.   
      
   And note the following lines from Sarah McLachlan’s   
   song Into the Fire:   
      
   "I will stare at the sun until its light doesn’t blind me   
   I will walk into the fire until its heat doesn’t burn me   
   And I will feed the fire”   
      
   On September 5, 1991 I fulfilled the first line with my sun   
   stare, described on my Salmon on the Thorns web page.   
      
   Perhaps the second line is fulfilled in this Diwali, noting   
   that in DIwali there is much lighting of oil lamps and   
   also many fireworks.   
      
   However I also relate the second line to the story of   
   Kali dancing upon Shiva in the cremation ground   
   to bring forth new fire, which in Hinduism is equated   
   with creativity.   
      
   Since new moon will be at 9:55 a.m., I guess the   
   darkest night is tonight (but tomorrow night is close),   
   but in terms of paganism including druidism the   
   post-new-moon period is more auspicious for   
   new beginnings, which is why I am waiting until new   
   moon to begin my attempt. And if it fails I may have   
   to try again during earliest waxing crescent   
   (“Thou moon of moons and of blessings!”).   
   But the attempt beginning at new moon may not   
   be complete until earliest waxing crescent.   
      
   Anyway, I think that Sarah McLachlan has   
   prophetic dreams special ability.   
      
   And note that from google, "A Guinness World Record has   
   been set after more than 2.6 million lamps were lit in the   
   Indian temple town of Ayodhya, a day before the start of Diwali."   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Early morning, jubilators, up to no good, instigators... Sons of long   
   forgotten races, that the darkest night embraces” (Ron Hynes & D.O’D)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)