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 seems my workings could not begin at dark moon but
instead after my first local sighting of the waxing crescent.

I viewed the waxing crescent for the first time this lunar month at
exactly sunset, 7:30 p.m. NDT (2200 UTC/GMT) September 6, 2024,
almost four days after the exact time of new (dark) moon.

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head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (S. McL.)