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   From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/12/2026 5:42 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > We have very high winds here tonight (W 98 gusts 140 km/h)   
   > and it is waning crescent moon, so the situation is the same   
   > as the night of January 6, 1994, the second night of my   
   > mildest and best waning crescent high. However tonight   
   > there are no signs of a high for me yet, but perhaps a   
   > slight nervousness/anxiety, maybe an anticipation like   
   > Christmas Eve as a child. Also as far as I can remember   
   > I did not have a waxing gibbous moon trial precursor 5.5 lunar   
   > months ago, whereas I had in January 1994.   
   >   
   > Isaac Asimov, in his Guide to the Bible, Volume 1, says   
   > that the cherubim are personifications of the storm and   
   > the seraphim are personifications of the lightning. Three   
   > other of my waning crescent highs (Sept91, Jun93, and   
   > Aug/Sept94) had clear sky lightning at or near the onset   
   > of the highs, while the above-mentioned Jan94 had   
   > highly variable weather. The clear sky lightning I think   
   > was due to solar activity a few days before affecting   
   > the ionosphere.   
   >   
   > Also the night of January 6, 1994 I walked to The Ship Inn   
   > and then from there up Signal Hill, but I am not going to   
   > venture out tonight.   
   >   
   > Asimov also says that the serpent can represent the   
   > lightning, and I relate the Naga water serpent associated   
   > with the Buddha to blue clear sky lightning over water   
   > at the onset of my late August/early September94   
   > waning crescent high.   
   >   
   Thanks for posting this, David. Keep up the good work!   
      
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   has a cause," often expressed through the concept of karma, which   
   signifies the law of cause and effect, meaning every action (cause) will   
   have a corresponding consequence (effect) in this life or future lives;   
   essentially, nothing happens without a reason or preceding action.   
      
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