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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   > From the beginning of 1993 to early September 1994 I   
   > three times experienced a 5.5 lunar month (162 days,   
   > 6 Carrington solar rotations) separation between a   
   > waxing gibbous moon trial onset and a waning crescent   
   > inspiration/high onset.  (I predicted the third such high.)   
   >   
   > In the following I refer to the book Taliesin: Shamanism and   
   > the Bardic Mysteries in Britain and Ireland by John Matthews   
   > (with additional material by Caitlin Matthews).  The Aquarian   
   > Press/an imprint of Harper Collins, 1991 ISBN 1-85538-109-5.   
   >   
   > On p.97 as part of the poem The Hostile Confederacy, several   
   > lines read   
   >   
   > "Seven score muses   
   > There are in the inspiration of song;   
   > Eight score in every score   
   > In the great abyss of tranquility   
   > In the great abyss of wrath..."   
   >   
   > The seven score muses I think refers to the number of   
   > lunar months in an 11 year solar sunspot cycle.   
      
   That corresponds to a low years period of seven years,   
   which I am also interested in finding past parallels   
   of.   Some I know of are the seven years that Cu   
   Chulainn spent as hound to the smith, the seven years   
   Finnegas spent fishing for the Salmon of Wisdom   
   before Fionn tasted it, and the stag of seven tines   
   of The Song of Amergin, and the seven years of   
   ascetic years of the Buddha.   
      
   But in my case my low years (which are not very low   
   except in terms of creativity while I am on my   
   current medication regimen) did not end after   
   seven years but have lasted over 18 years (7 years   
   plus an 11 year sunspot cycle) so I hope they   
   will end soon and that I will enter into a period   
   of sustained productive creativity.   
      
   However the fact that I did not come out of the   
   low years after seven years does weaken my argument   
   that I am similar to the above past figures and   
   some others.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "I see my light come shining/From the west unto the east   
   Any day now, any day now/I shall be released" (Bob Dylan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)