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   From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/15/2026 10:04 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > I am hoping for a new age to begin at the new/dark moon   
   > in a little more than 2.5 days time.   
   >   
   > I think new/dark moon is what Taliesin (Gwion Bach) referred   
   > to as the crack of the cauldron, and what Mohammed referred   
   > to as the splitting of the moon (the splitting between waning   
   > crescent and waxing crescent).   
   >   
   > However it could be that I will have to wait until the following   
   > new/dark moon, Chinese New Year, which will be on February 17,   
   > which is a significant birthday in my family. And wait, Ramadan   
   > also starts on the evening of February 17. But I don’t   
   > expect a correlation with an existing religious holiday.   
   >   
   > Also January 29 will be the 30th anniversary of the start   
   > of my low/working years, though I did’t begin my workings in   
   > earnest until June 1996 waxing gibbous moon, about   
   > 29.55 years ago. With either number I have exceeded   
   > 29 years (the common 7 plus two sunspot cycles),   
   > I think since the current sunspot cycle is lasting longer   
   > than usual. (Mohammed had 14, Jesus’s 3 plus one   
   > sunspot cycle, and Taliesin had 7). I really hope that   
   > i don’t have to go to 36 years.   
   >   
   This good news, David!   
      
   We have been following you on this list since it's inception as Deja way   
   back when.   
      
   So, I would have replied sooner than 29 years, but before I couldn't get   
   a word in edgewise, what with Tang and cupcake's polemic discussions.   
      
   Keep us updated on your progress.   
      
   "The victory of the Buddha over Mara at full moon against the bodhi tree   
   is equivalent to the psychic death and resurrection of Jesus at full   
   moon, the release of Welsh druid Taliesin from Arianrhod's prison, and   
   the ascent of the Lakota salmon youth shaman from the underworld at full   
   moon, followed 5.5 lunar months later by a mystic high (for Jesus, like   
   the sermon on the mount, for Taliesin, Ceridwen's inspiration, for the   
   Buddha, the blue lightning without thunderstorm of the Naga sepent, and   
   for the native shaman a bow (crescent moon) that holds. It is also   
   related to the Haida story of Raven & the First Men." - David Dalton,   
   May 6, 1997, 12:00:00 AM   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)