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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 4 02:34:26 2024
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    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. (Follow up if you see it.)

    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 dalton@nfld.com 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.)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 4 18:42:40 2024
    XPost: alt.spirituality.druid, uk.religion.pagan, uk.rec.psychic
    XPost: alt.scottish.clans, alt.folklore

    On Sep 4, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.2C8821DA0032EF2B70000FB1338F@news.eternal-september.org>):

    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. (Follow up if you see it.)

    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!

    According to a news.google.com search for
    sighting of the moon
    it was sighted in Hyderabad (or nearby) on September 4,
    but was not sighted in Islamabad (or nearby) so they
    anticipate a sighting of September 5 there.

    --
    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) “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.)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 6 20:35:09 2024
    XPost: alt.spirituality.druid, uk.religion.pagan, uk.rec.psychic
    XPost: alt.scottish.clans, alt.folklore

    On Sep 4, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.2C8821DA0032EF2B70000FB1338F@news.eternal-september.org>):

    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. (Follow up if you see it.)

    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!

    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.

    --
    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) “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.)

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