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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On May 4, 2023, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2A035E9200453A9F700004F7A38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > May the Fourth be With You!   
   >   
   > Since it is now 1:01 a.m. NDT (0331 UTC/GMT) May 4,   
   > Happy Star Wars Day!   
   >   
   > I’m still fumbling along on the thread   
   > “Full moon closest to Beltane”   
   > on alt.religion.druid, for any who notice effects.   
   >   
   > Note that that full moon happens to fall on Vesak.   
   >   
   > However that dismays me a bit, since I didn’t expect any   
   > correlation of my success with an existing religious   
   > festival, so I expect I will fail again in my latest   
   > Sisyphean moon rock rolling.   
      
   The full moon also falls on Cinco de Mayo.   
      
   The evening of May 4 to the evening of May 5   
   is also Pesach Sheni, or Second Passover, which is for   
   those who are ritually impure due to contact with a dead body,   
   or who have been on a “distant journey” (e.g. a Wild Rover   
   or prodigal son away in the wilderness).   
      
   From Wikipedia:   
   "One theme commonly expressed for this holiday is second chances."   
      
   --   
   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)   
   "My momma was a waitress; My daddy a truckdriver; The thing   
   that kept their power from them; Slowed me down awhile." (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)