Re: World Rat Day

On Apr 4, 2025, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> Friday, April 4, 2025 is World Rat Day.
>
> From the incident described on
> https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html ,
>
> I am hoping for good returns for the world today (it is now
> already early April 4 here in Newfoundland). But then
> again, I seem to find almost every day auspicious in
> some way, and have had no luck with my Sisyphean
> attempts so far.
>
> From that page, which describes an incident early in 1996:
>
> Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne and
> her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview along the
> Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion rapidly to the edge
> of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We backed up to find it
> was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later thought that it had
> committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated in higher form after
> hitting the "car of ma."

And that brings to mind Ratri, Hindu personification of the night,
who I remember as a character in Roger Zelazny’s SF novel
Lord of Light. But there is more traditional information at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratri .
Anyway, that coincidence is appropriate since much of my
perineum click (short period mula bandha) negotiation with
Goddess (the ruler of the region all/everything) has been
at night, often from sunset to dawn. I liken this negotiation
to Jacob’s “wrestling” with his God (it could be that the
Christian bible says with an angel and the original Jewish
text says with his God) at night.

-- 
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)