Re: sighting of the moon

On Mar 29, 2025, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> I gather from new.google.com that, though it is hard to
> believe, that Saudi Arabia claims to have sighted the
> earliest waxing crescent moon today (March 29, 2025).
>
> Also Muslims in North America are supposed to follow
> the Saudi sighting. But for any of you in North America,
> have you sighted the moon yet. I think the earliest I
> might be able to sight it will be just after sunset
> March 30 here in St. John’s Newfoundland. But
> in might be visible in Vancouver this evening (March 29)
> and my baseline (similar to Nazareth to Jerusalem
> for Jesus or Medina to Mecca, or is it the other way
> around, for Mohammed) is St. John’s to Vancouver.
>
> Though I am not Muslim (I have an individual religion,
> and am not recruiting), the earliest waxing crescent is
> important to me as well. It figured in my Silver Bough
> thumb, described on https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/thumbs.html .
> Oh well, I may as well repeat it, and my Koran thumb and
> Koran finger, below:
>
> The Silver Bough thumb
>
> Once in spring 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!
>
> (I have been told that that is of Christian origin.)
>
> On that same page I also describe the following, which may be
> of interest:
>
> Koran thumb
>
> The third thumb occurred early in 1997, not long after I had posted to
> alt.islam.sufism about the blue rose vision, but got no response. At Branwen
> Books, a local pagan-friendly bookstore, I thumbed randomly in an abridged
> version of the Koran, and it came open at the end of the section entitled
> Daybreak, which ends with the two lines
>
> Join the company of My servants,
>
> and enter into My Garden.
>
> That was from p. 141 of The Essential Koran -- The Heart of Islam -- An
> Introductory Selection of Readings from the Qur'an, translated and presented
> by Thomas Cleary, HarperCollins paperback edition 1994, ISBN 0-06-250196-8
> (cloth), ISBN 0-06-250198-4 (paberback).
>
> Koran finger
>
> Feb. 25, 2004: Last night in my room I grabbed my "The Essential Koran" (an
> abridged Koran, but I am not Muslim) and flipped to a page at random
> (completely random, but without thumbing this time, i.e. instead of a thumb
> on the long side I used my right index finger on the top) and read out
>
> "Yaa Siin
>
> By the Recital, rich in wisdom,
>
> you are surely one of the Messengers,
>
> on a straight path.
>
> It is a revelation sent down by the Mighty, the Merciful,
>
> so you may warn a people whose ancestors had not been warned and so they were
> heedless"
>
> etc., including
>
> "Alas for the servants: whenever a Messenger comes to them, they mock him.”
>
> For more background see my Salmon on the Thorns web page, and
> for recent and ongoing updates see alt.religion.druid .

I sighted the early waxing crescent for the first time this lunar
month at 8 p.m. Newfoundland Daylight Time (2230 UTC/GMT)
March 30, 2025, and said “Thou moon of moons and of blessings!”
and received a perineum click (short period mula bandha) immediately
followed by a shakti/kundalini buzz/rush/wave from perineal chakra
to crown chakra, as closure.

-- 
David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"I'm on my way; And I must flag the last train down"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0jjvslUuY (Bill Bourne - Baggins)