The new moon tonight is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. I like the new moon best of all moons, much more than the full moon. I love to see it at minimal crescent, when it is all but swallowed up by the shadow of the earth. Tonight the crescent in like a saucer, a little more than the quarter of the circumference of the moon, perfectly poised with its horns up as if to cup the rest of the moon, which makes a perfect ghostly appearance. It makes me ache. For some reason the new moon has always had a powerful gravitational pull on my spirit.
I like this unusual up-pointed crescent, poised on the bottom of its concavity, holding the rest of the moon in embrace. I'm sure I have seen it this way before, but I actually don't remember when.
I like the more common new moon wherein it is open, slightly upturned, like a tilted parenthesis, and I particularly like it when the new moon virtually embraces Venus.
It is a perfect night in North Dakota. I came home from a long day of work, recordings, and meetings, and stood out on my deck looking at the perfection of the moon, and saw my front yard for the first time in four months.
Today we recorded two Jefferson Hours at Makoche Recording Studios, one on the Texas school book fiasco, and the other on what the world needs now to be Jeffersonian. They were two of the most passionate and hard-hitting programs in the history of the Jefferson Hour.
csj
Sunrises, sunsets, moon gazing, star gazing- I can't imagine a better place for these simple pleasures than anywhere along the "sacred corridor
ReplyDeleteTodd S. in Kansas