Re: Sighting of the moon

On Sep 3, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> My latest global new age onset mystic activation attempt
> is as mentioned on the thread “Raven and the First Men, revisited”
> on alt.religion.druid , in which I relate Raven to the dark moon
> that just passed and the Clamshell to the following full moon.
>
> My attempt beginning exactly at dark moon failed, but I am
> trying again beginning at earliest waxing crescent, which is
> auspicious for new beginnings in paganism and some
> other religions. However I cannot sight the moon here
> this evening since it is still only at 0.55% and since it
> is cloudy here. So I might have to try again on September 5,
> which is the three-sunspot-cycle anniversary of my sun stare.
> But I always cite the moon. :-)
>
> Anyway, has anyone on here sighted the early waxing crescent
> of early September, 2024 yet? If not, post a followup when
> you do.
>
> Also I wonder how past primary ootws (Openers of the Way,
> who I previously called avatar types) would have been
> able to sight the earliest waxing crescent, since like me
> they would have been extremely nearsighted but without
> glasses (which I discarded before my sun stare, so the
> focus formed off my retina, plus it was brief). Maybe
> they relied on other(s) to do the sighting?

It is now 27 hours after dark moon and the moon is 1.2%
waxing crescent. However I doubt it will be sighted before
the evening of September 4.

The Silver Bough thumb

Once in 1997 I thumbed at random a book on Scottish folklore
called The Silver Bough Vol. 1 by F. Marian McNeill. It came
out to a page with this poem on it:

Ri faicinn domh na gealaich uir,
Is duth domh mo shuil a thogail.
Is duth domh ma ghlun a leagail,
Is duth domh mo cheann a bhogadh,

Toir cliu dhuit fein, a re nan iul,
Gum faca mi thu a rithist,
Gum faca mi a ghealach ur,
Ailleagan iuil na slighe.

Is iomadh neach a chaidh a null
Eadar uine an da ghealaich,
Ged tha mise a' mealtainn fuinn,
A re nan re 's nam beannachd!

which translates as:

When I see the new moon,
It becomes me to lift mine eye,
It becomes me to bend my knee,
It becomes me to bow my head.

Giving thee praise, thou moon of guidance,
That I have seen thee again,
That I have seen the new moon,
The lovely leader of the way.

Many a one has passed beyond
In the time between the two moons,
Though I am still enjoying earth,
Thou moon of moons and of blessings!

-- 
David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her
head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (S. McL.)