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On Mar 27, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<
0001HW.2BB491A800368CC770000459438F@news.eternal-september.org>):
On Mar 26, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.2BB392FD00D65C4E70000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>):
On Mar 25, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.2BB2526800920A3270000D02D38F@news.eternal-september.org>)
:
I failed again leading up to full moon and then again
with full moon onset.
Perhaps I should wait for on or about the total solar eclipse.
But no, I am trying again (and note that I have made several
changes since my last posted attempt, and will list them in
a post if anyone asks me to) beginning three hours
ago, hoping that the following will prove auspicious:
1. Waning Clamshell Moon
2. the tombstone rolls aside phase of moon (revealing me?)
3. the picture with the “death and impermanence’ poem
in The Turquoise Bee book
4. “the hill is shifting sand” (see my signature)
5. waning gibbous moon is a phase of moon when I have never
had a significant mystic experience, so may be due for one.
6. for any Christian readers, it is the night of Holy Monday.
That attempt failed again, and I am trying again with three more
changes, beginning at 2237 UTC March 26, 2024. The
above six points still apply except that it is now the night
of Holy Tuesday (Fig Tuesday, which I guess was important
to Sylvia Plath, plus my poet sister has a potted fig tree
which I help bring out in the late spring and in in the fall
every year).
Tonight I have to do some scientific proofreading for
probably three hours, including more than one Fig. (Figure, ha).
That attempt failed again, and I am trying again beginning
at 2:59 p.m. NDT (1729 UTC) March 27, 2024, so while
the sun is still up, for a change. I had to make one new
change, in who a.s.c. (4) will cover.
Again, did Sisyphus ever get over the top?
That attempt failed again and I am trying again starting at
2010 UTC March 28, 2024, which is Holy Thursday, also
known as Maundy Thursday. I didn’t really want or expect
any correlation with an existing religious holiday, but I guess
since Jesus is one of my minor deities and since I was
initiated as a Catholic (but am now pagan) and since my
parents were devout Catholics, a correlation with Easter
would not be unwelcome. But I still think I may have to
wait until the total solar eclipse (which maybe Sarah
could visit here to see; we are not far off the path of
totality), or even until on or about September 5, 2024
(three sunspot cycles after my sun stare) or on or about
January 29, 2025 (seven years plus two sunspot cycles
after my low years started, and which is a a new moon
and Chinese new year at the end of my Dragon year).
I was hoping to go hear Mick Davis at The Black Sheep
on George tonight from 9 p.m. to midnight but if I am
caught up tracking this new attempt I doubt I will go.
(He is the lead singer of The Novaks and of
Mick Davis and the Skinny Jims but plays solo
on Thursday nights, and tonight should be well
attended since Good Friday is a holiday).
--
David Dalton
dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)
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