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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Sep 5, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2C8A378400A9E54970000FB1338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Sep 3, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2C87B27E00206E2770000FB1338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > 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 dalton@nfld.com 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.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)