XPost: alt.fan.countries.iran, soc.culture.iranian, talk.politics.mideast   
   XPost: alt.religion.islam, alt.religion   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 21, 2023, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > In article,   
   > David Dalton   wrote:   
   >   
   > > Happy Nowruz (Persian New Year) coming up at spring   
   > > equinox, tomorrow at 6:54 p.m. here in Newfoundland.   
   > >   
   > > From google:   
   > > "Nowruz has been celebrated in Iran and the Persian   
   > > diaspora for more than 3,000 years. Its roots are   
   > > as a feast day in Zoroastrianism, a religion practiced   
   > > in ancient Persia that viewed the arrival of spring   
   > > as a victory over darkness."   
   > >   
   > > So, anyway, I am hoping for positive change for Iranian   
   > > women and girls tomorrow, or at the latest by the   
   > > new/dark moon on the following day. You can follow   
   > > my progress on alt.religion.druid .   
   >   
   > It is a very auspicious time for balance and new   
   > beginnings due to the near correlation of the   
   > equinox, marking the solar new year, and a new   
   > moon, which is a common phase at which a lunar   
   > new year might begin.   
      
   And I just noted that Ramadan began with the early waxing   
   crescent, which I observed for the first time this lunar month   
   almost seven hours ago.   
      
   --   
   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)   
   "I will walk in the garden; And feel religion within; I will learn how to   
   run with the big boys; I will learn how to sink and to swim" (S. Sadaqat)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)