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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 1, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D72D9F701CA09B570000932E38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Feb 20, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2D680D5B00D6A877700003EE038F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > This year Ramadan is expected to begin on the evening of   
   > > February 28 (depending on the sighting of the moon),   
   > > which is also the great planetary alignment, so I consider   
   > > it an auspicious time for positive global changes. Do you too?   
   >   
   > Some may be interested in my   
   > “new moon + planetary alignment attempt”   
   > thread on alt.religion.druid.   
   >   
   > In the third attempt of that thread, it is now after   
   > sunset both here (St. John’s, Newfoundland) and   
   > in Vancouver the night of February 28, and I think   
   > after dawn March 1 in Saudi Arabia.   
   >   
   > In this latest attempt the popthroughs will be reverse   
   > chronological all the way, which means that for Muslims   
   > Mohammed will take precedence over the earlier (thus   
   > later in the sequence) Jesus, Moses, and Jacob if   
   > there is a conflict. Also belief popthroughs take   
   > precedence over non-belief popthroughs if there   
   > is a conflict.   
   >   
   > I have read that Muslims must abstain from sex during   
   > the day during Ramadan but can have sex at night   
   > (after they break their fast) and thus can benefit from   
   > the sexuality aspects of my workings, which will   
   > include most couples becoming optimally sexually   
   > compatible (a minority already were).   
      
   I failed again, and plan to try again after I sight the waxing   
   crescent locally for the first time this lunar month.   
      
   Sunset here is at 5:46 p.m. 260 degrees, West.   
      
   At that time the moon will be at an altitude of 21 degrees   
   at 250 degrees, West-SouthWest, so it should be visible   
   around or just after then, so I expect to begin a new   
   attempt by around 5:55 p.m. (2125 UTC March 1).   
      
   If I fail because the moon is still only 5% full and will   
   be very close in azimuth to the setting sun, I don’t know   
   when I can try again, since it will be cloudy for at   
   least the next two evenings.   
      
   Some planets should also still be visible around nightfall.   
      
   --   
   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 now the angry morning; Gives the early signs of warning; You must   
   face alone the plans you make; Decisions they will try to break" (S.McL.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)