Re: sighting of the moon

On Mar 30, 2025, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> 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.

I failed again, and will try again beginning at 12:01 a.m. NDT
(0231 UTC/GMT) April 1, 2025 (April Fool’s Day/Lupus Alert Day)
and if I am successful some effects should be perceivable
within a few hours of that. One effect will be improved
sexual compatibility for most couples (a minority already
were optimally sexually compatible).

-- 
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)