The Full Moon on Thursday 17 October 2024 - Hunter's Moon and a Supermoon.

 

Thursday 17 October 2024

The full Moon on 17 October 2024 will be both this year's Hunter's Moon and a supermoon. 

Saturday 19th,  two days later, the nearly-full Moon will encounter the beautiful blue Pleiades open star cluster

The Hunter's Moon is also a reminder of the changing seasons and the inexorable march of time. As the autumn leaves fall and winter approaches, the full moon serves as a symbol of nature's rhythm and the importance of preparation for the colder months ahead.

October's Hunter's Moon was given its name because it was at this time when tribes gathered meat for the long winter ahead. June's Strawberry moon received its name because many strawberries were commonly harvested at that month.

After the harvest moon comes the hunter's moon, in the preferred month to hunt summer-fattened deer and fox unable to hide in bare fields. Like the harvest moon, the hunter's moon is also particularly bright and long in the sky, giving hunters the opportunity to stalk prey at night.

It gets its name from Farmer's Almanac, which states that it's hunting season when the leaves fall and the deer are fat. Hunters can clearly see the animals that have come out to glean because the harvesters have already reaped the fields. Other names for it include Blood Moon, Dying Grass Moon, and Travel Moon.

The Hunter's Moon is a potent period for magical and spiritual activities. Its significance lies in the amplified energies from the thinning veil between the physical and spiritual worlds, making it a powerful time for crafting or charging magical tools like wands, athames, or pentacles.

In European traditions, the Hunter's Moon has also been associated with hunting, feasting, and festivities. The full moon often played a role in the timing of various activities, from sowing seeds to butchering livestock. Many cultures took advantage of the bright moonlight for communal gatherings and fun

Any Moon near the horizon will appear bigger because the horizon provides more size perspective. It's called the Moon Illusion. When you look at a full moon near the horizon, it often looks more red or orange because the light rays have to travel further into the atmosphere before they get to you

Because the approach of winter signaled the possibility of going hungry in pre-Industrial times, the Hunter's Moon was generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both northern Europe and among many Native American tribes.

The Hunter's Moon is also a reminder of the changing seasons and the inexorable march of time. As the autumn leaves fall and winter approaches, the full moon serves as a symbol of nature's rhythm and the importance of preparation for the colder months ahead.

The "harvest moon" (also known as the "barley moon" or "full corn moon") is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date. The "hunter's moon" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century.

The Hunter's Moon can sometimes appear red or orange in color, due to the way that sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere. This is especially common when the moon is low in the sky, such as during sunrise and sunset.

Some Native American tribes call the moon the "Travel Moon," or the "Dying Grass Moon." The Hunter's Moon is associated with the final harvest and was a signal to begin preparing for winter. It is an excellent time to focus your magic on psychic abilities, transformation, cleansing, protection, and banishment

This moon marked a crucial time for hunters to store up meat before winter. The Hunter's Moon also was considered a feast day for Native Americans and many Western Europeans.

Thursday October 17 2024 

Super Moon 

Hunters Moon 

closest supermoon for 2024 

• Harvest Moon
  The full moon closest to the fall equinox, the Harvest Moon may occur occasionally in October. It is during the helpful light of this moon that corn is often harvested. This will be the penultimate supermoon of the year.

 Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such;

 he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. 

The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.

 Like an olive that ripens and falls.

Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew 

  

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality.

We do that with every choice we make. 

Our choices determine the destiny of the world.

 By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality

 In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing.

 No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. 

But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, 

and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man

 as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations

 What you have done is out there. 

And what you have done remembers. 

 

People know what they do

frequently they know why they do what they do 

but what they don't know is what what they do does

  The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, 

but even if it does what problem this really solves 

 

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. 

It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control

 I never found beauty in longing for the impossible 

and never found the possible to be beyond my reach

 One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, 

by means of love, friendship, and compassion

 

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior

 

A prison becomes a home when you have the key

 

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher,

 since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

 Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question 

and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit

 All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge

 

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. 

They are too often praised for being broadminded 

when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything

 

All things of the body stream away like a river, 

all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; 

life is warfare, 

and a visit to a strange land;

 the only lasting fame is oblivion

In life there are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

When we are afraid, we pull back from life. 

When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. 

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. 

If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. 

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

 The more I see, the less I know for sure.

 A dream you dream alone is only a dream. 

A dream you dream together is reality.

 One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

 There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

 One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, 

not being able to understand how it’s happened.

 

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. 

I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: 

the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance

 

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use

  

the rarest of all human qualities is consistency

 

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: 

especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it

 

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. 

They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, 

and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence

  

Words are the clothes that thoughts wear

 

All things fade and quickly turn to myth

 

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

 

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. 

Nothing is by its own nature calamitous 

-- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

  

Everything is relative in this world, 

where change alone endures

 Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, 

but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

 If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all

  

 that we are simply the means of expression of something else;

 that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion

 

Comedy aims at representing men as worse than in actual life 

Tragedy aims at representing men as better than in actual life 

  

Whoever will be free must make himself free. 

Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. 

What is freedom? 

To have the will to be responsible for one's self

  

People who fit don’t seek. 

The seekers are those that don’t fit

 

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. 

I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple.

 I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. 

That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming

"Autumn's Really Here"

 

"Autumn's Really Here" by Telltale, from the Rainbow TV show.wmv (youtube.com)

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things

 

either there will be ground to stand on, 

or you will be given wings to fly.

 

Oxygen is the human body's fuel. 

It powers our brains, organs, and bodily tissues.

 Without a proper supply, our bodies can't function. 

Our brains, hearts, and kidneys can only tolerate a lack of oxygen for a limited time before their cells begin to die: 

about five minutes for the brain, 

about thirty for the heart and kidneys. 

When a patient loses oxygen, doctors know the clock is ticking. 

When a patient codes or loses their airway, a doctor's first priority is to get oxygen flowing.

  a limited time before damage sets in, so  spring into action. 

But in life, time limits aren't as clear.

 It can be hard to gauge whether it's better to hurry up or take things slow. 

We don't always know how much time we have before the clock runs out on opportunity.

 Often, we can't even be sure if our time's passed.

 All we can do is cease the present.

in life, time limits aren't clear.

 

 It can be hard to gauge whether it's better to hurry up or take things slow. 

We don't always know how much time we have before the clock runs out on opportunity.

 Often, we can't even be sure if our time's passed.

 All we can do is cease the present.

 

The idea that the brain can convince the body that a fake treatment is the real thing is called the placebo effect. 

The brain anticipates an outcome and then communicates it to the body. 

And the body responds as if a medication were given when all that was given was a sugar pill. 

Studies have found that under the right circumstances, a placebo can have up to a 72% cure rate, making it just as effective as certain medications. 

So, the lie becomes the truth.

 It has been proven that what you believe can sometimes determine the state of your health. 

So it goes to follow that it can also sometimes determine the state of your life. 

And what you believe can change on a dime. 

What you believe is right, 

what you believe is wrong, 

what you believe you want, 

what you believe you need,

 what you believe you are capable of doing,

 what you believe is a sign, 

what you believe the sign means, 

what you believe you deserve. 

So, if you want to change your life, change your mind. 

And try not to wait too long.

 Sometimes, we have to work extremely hard to achieve focus and perspective, 

everything suddenly becomes all clear.

 You can see your path. 

You see your life. 

You see your purpose and why you are here. 

But just because you see it, 

it doesn't mean you'll live up to it.

 For decades, if we wanted to see inside the brain, we had to inject air into the patient's spinal column. 

It was painful. It was described as torture. 

Then in 1971, a British engineer changed everything when he performed the first CT scan.

 And for the first time, we could see what was happening inside the brain. 

It was painless, convenient, and an absolute game-changer. 

But just because we could now see inside a person's brain, doesn't mean we know what it's thinking. 

 

Philosophers  know nothing about everything. 

Scientists know everything about nothing.

 

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, 

until they know nothing about everything. 

Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less,

 until they know everything about nothing.

 

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art,

 but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

 Thoughts without content are empty, 

intuitions without concepts are blind

 Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. 

If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world.

It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). 

It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise,

 nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins.

 It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is,

 and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

 'It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' 

No, you should rather say:

 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, 

I can bear it without pain, 

neither crushed by the present

 nor fearful of the future.' 

Because such a thing could have happened to any man, 

but not every man could have borne it without pain.

 So why see more misfortune in the event

 than good fortune in your ability to bear it?”

 Without man and his potential for moral progress, 

the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, 

a thing in vain, 

and have no final purpose

To One in Paradise - Poe

 

Thou wast all to me, love,

For which my soul did pine —

A green isle in the sea, love,

A fountain and a shrine;

All wreathed around about with flowers,

And the flowers they all were mine.

 

But the dream it could not last,

And the star of life did rise

Only to be overcast,

A voice from out the Future cries,

“Onward!” while o'er the Past

My spirit hovering lies.

 

Like the murmur of the solemn seas

To sands on the sea-shore,

A voice is whispering unto me,

“The day is past”; and never more

Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,

Or the stricken eagle soar.

 

And all mine hours are trances,

And all my nights are dreams

Of where thy dark eye glances,

And where thy footstep gleams,

In the maze of flashing dances,

By the slow Italian streams.

Thou wast that all to me, love,For which my soul did pine—A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!Ah, starry Hope! that didst ariseBut to be overcast!A voice from out the Future cries,“On! on!”—but o’er the Past(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering liesMute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! with meThe light of Life is o’er!No more—no more—no more—(Such language holds the solemn seaTo the sands upon the shore)Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams—In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.

 

The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crisped and sere --

The leaves they were withering and sere;

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immemorial year: