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|    Message 89,672 of 90,437    |
|    David Dalton to All    |
|    Re: Trying again    |
|    27 Mar 24 15:10:56    |
      84eb15e4       e41acce5       XPost: alt.religion.druid, uk.religion.pagan, uk.rec.psychic       XPost: alt.religion.shamanism, talk.religion.newage       From: dalton@nfld.com              On Mar 26, 2024, David Dalton wrote       (in article<0001HW.2BB392FD00D65C4E70000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>):              > On Mar 25, 2024, David Dalton wrote       > (in article<0001HW.2BB2526800920A3270000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>):       >       > > I failed again leading up to full moon and then again       > > with full moon onset.       > >       > > Perhaps I should wait for on or about the total solar eclipse.       > >       > > But no, I am trying again (and note that I have made several       > > changes since my last posted attempt, and will list them in       > > a post if anyone asks me to) beginning three hours       > > ago, hoping that the following will prove auspicious:       > >       > > 1. Waning Clamshell Moon       > > 2. the tombstone rolls aside phase of moon (revealing me?)       > > 3. the picture with the “death and impermanence’ poem       > > in The Turquoise Bee book       > > 4. “the hill is shifting sand” (see my signature)       > > 5. waning gibbous moon is a phase of moon when I have never       > > had a significant mystic experience, so may be due for one.       > > 6. for any Christian readers, it is the night of Holy Monday.       >       > That attempt failed again, and I am trying again with three more       > changes, beginning at 2237 UTC March 26, 2024. The       > above six points still apply except that it is now the night       > of Holy Tuesday (Fig Tuesday, which I guess was important       > to Sylvia Plath, plus my poet sister has a potted fig tree       > which I help bring out in the late spring and in in the fall       > every year).       >       > Tonight I have to do some scientific proofreading for       > probably three hours, including more than one Fig. (Figure, ha).              That attempt failed again, and I am trying again beginning       at 2:59 p.m. NDT (1729 UTC) March 27, 2024, so while       the sun is still up, for a change. I had to make one new       change, in who a.s.c. (4) will cover.              Again, did Sisyphus ever get over the top?              --       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)       “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;       And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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