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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Today is druid new moon (six days after new moon) and a   
   little while ago I saw the late waxing crescent moon in   
   the blue sky, which is the first time I have seen the moon   
   since waning crescent, since it has been cloudy here the   
   last few days. I think druid new moon is when Breton   
   druids cut the mistletoe with a golden sickle. Here in   
   Newfoundland we don’t have mistletoe (except perhaps   
   in the Memorial University Botanical Garden) so I   
   would substitute dogberry (mountain ash) berries   
   instead, but won’t get to today, and I don’t know if   
   mistletoe berries or dogberries have any medicinal   
   properties but suspect so.   
      
   And tomorrow is first quarter moon which in one tradition   
   is when the Buddha is said to have achieved   
   awakening/enlightenment at the end of his ascetic years.   
      
   Another tradition says it was full moon.   
      
   "The strap that holds the cart in rein   
   Has been let loose by wearing thin   
   By wearing thin, by biting through   
   The shift in power leans to you   
      
      
      
   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.”   
      
   (from Ferron’s song The Cart)   
      
   (I sometimes substitute “dance” for “stand”.)   
      
   --   
   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)   
   “Coming into season this world will flower   
   With the power of love, not the love of power" (Mae Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)