This website has amazing information and learning tools for checking out the night sky here in Australia. I enjoy the website a lot and I am always reading something interesting there.
Its a FULL Aquarius BLUE MOON ... It goes full at 11.45am tomorrow morning. So in the morning before it goes down in the west it will be very big and beautiful to see.
If you try hard you can hold the moon between your fingers
When the
Moon is in Aquarius, the interest in new, unconventional ventures increases, and your head is congested with original ideas. During these
days you could be selfish, blunt, but you will not refuse help.
Full Moon from my back door
Indulge in
science and intellectual work, and also work, connected with society
(psychology, sociology, astrology). Getting down to tin tacks ( to the knitty gritty) by having deep and meaningful conversations with friends is favorable during this Aquarius moon phase.
The period is good for the people who work with electricity, electronics, technology, researchers and astrologists.
When the Moon is in Aquarius, the friends take precedent over
the relatives. Empathy, Sympathy, love and affection and a careful attitude towards people reaches
way beyond the family unit.
The "Moon in Aquarius" time is favorable for activities and sport, that strengthen the cardiac-vascular system.
If you are handling electrical appliances at home take a lot of care and attention with this task.
Veins, joints, eyes are vulnerable and so surgery to these areas should be avoided around this time.
Pleides visible in the early morning sky in Urunga
A shark in the stars: astronomy and culture in the Torres Strait
By Duane Hamacher
Technology has, without doubt, expanded our understanding of space. The Voyager 1 space probe is on the brink of leaving our solar system. Massive telescopes have discovered blasts of fast radio bursts from 10 billion light years away. And after a decade on Mars, a Rover recently found evidence for an early ocean on the Red Planet.
But with every new advance, it’s also important to remember the science of astronomy has existed for thousands of years and forms a vital part of Indigenous Australian culture, even today. As an example, lets explore the astronomy of the Torres Strait Islanders, an Indigenous Australian people living between the tip of Cape York and Papua New Guinea.
Torres Strait Islanders are a Melanesian sea-faring people whose traditional country comprises 48,000 square kilometres of shallow waters and more than 250 islands of differing geological formation, of which 14 are inhabited.
Culturally, the islands are divided into five groups, represented by the five-pointed star on the Torres Strait flag:
Torres Strait flag. Wikimedia Commons
Top Western Islands
Western Islands
Lower Western Islands
Central Islands
Eastern Islands
There are two distinct language groups:
Meriam Mir, part of the Papuan language family, is spoken in the eastern islands
Kala Lagaw Ya, part of the Australian language family, is spoken in the western, central, and northern islands
Islander culture stretches back nearly 8,000 years, when rising sea levels flooded the land bridge between Australia and Papua New Guinea at the end of the last Ice Age.
Islanders in the northern and eastern island groups are primarily farmers. Those in the western groups rely heavily on hunting and fishing, and those in the central group rely mostly on trade with the other island groups.
Torres Strait and islands. Wikimedia Commons
This shows us that while Islanders share a common way of life, they are a diverse people spread out over a diverse geographic region with very long ancestral links to their country.
Torres Strait Islander culture is closely linked to the stars. They inform Islander laws, customs and practices that are recorded and handed down in the form of story, song, dance, ceremony and artefacts.
Islander astronomy also contains practical information about the natural world, which is essential for survival and cultural continuity. Islander culture is linked to Tagai – the creation deity that is represented by a constellation of stars that spans across the southern sky.
Tagai’s story
Tagai was a great fisherman. One day he and his crew of 12 were fishing from their outrigger canoe. They were unable to catch any fish, so Tagai left the canoe and went onto the nearby reef to look for fish there.
Tagai. Glen Mackie
As the day grew hotter and hotter, the waiting crew of Zugubals (beings who took on human form when they visited Earth) grew impatient and frustrated. Their thirst grew, but the only drinking water in the canoe belonged to Tagai. Their patience ran out and they drank Tagai’s water.
When Tagai returned, he was furious that the Zugubals had consumed all of his water for the voyage. In his rage he killed all 12 of his crew. He returned them to the sky and placed them in two groups: six men in Usal (the Pleiades star cluster) and the other six Utimal (Orion). He told his crew to stay in the northern sky and to keep away from him.
Tagai can be seen in the southern skies, standing in a canoe in the Milky Way. His left hand is the Southern Cross holding a spear. His right hand is a group of stars in the constellation Corvus holding a fruit called Eugina. He is standing on his canoe, formed by the stars of Scorpius.
Tagai, today
Islanders today still consider Tagai and astronomy to be an important aspect of daily life. Tagai is important for navigation, as the Southern Cross (his left hand) points in the direction of south.
The stars tell Islanders when to plant their gardens, when to hunt turtle and dugong, when the monsoon season arrives, when the winds change, and many other important aspects of daily life.
Deep exposure of the Southern Cross – Tagai’s left hand. Wikimedia Commons
For example, when Tagai’s left hand (the Southern Cross) dips into the sea, Islanders know the wet season (Kuki) is about to begin. The rising of Usal and Utimal (Pleiades and Orion) in mid-November tells Islanders that turtle and dugong are mating and that it’s time to plant their gardens in anticipation of the coming Kuki season.
The shark constellation, Baidam, is made up of the stars in the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Major (the “Big Bear”). When these stars appear in the north over New Guinea, Islanders know the mating season of the shark is starting and that they should plant banana, sugar cane, and sweet potato. Lunar phases inform the Islanders of the best times to fish.
Islander astronomical knowledge is deep, and we are currently trying to better understand it for the benefit of future Islander generations.
Now... before anything else, The Sun is a star, Right! Therefore most notable stars are binary stars and the Sun's binary Star is Sirius. That means that Sirius is our other SUN. Sirius is going to be the closest it ever gets to us shortly, this has not happened for 24 thousand years. Note the number 24 .. it is the same as hour hours in a day.
Neptune is on the opposite side of Earth from Mercury! Eight days from now on September 10th 2012 Mercury conjoins the sun right about the same time that Jupiter Venus and Mars form a near perfect line-up that is just on the Earth side of the Sun.
On September 9 -10 Opposition Mercury and Earth cross the Sun. Triple Line Up .. Jupiter Venus and Mars. Conclude that there could be and X or M Flare possible or a filament eruption from the Sun.
Repton Rail Bridge over the Bellinger River
I remember a scripture from going to church, It impacted me a lot but the answers on this were thin on the ground.
A day in the year of the life of the Lord is as a thousand years.
Post Script added:
Creepy Illuminati Clock Counting Down Sept 9th, 2012 / Interesting it counts down to the arrival of SIRIUS our other sun as I like to say in crude terms, but to me it most definitely is.
The world we live in today is a very different world to the times of the past. We are so hooked up to all of this technology we talk about and use in our daily lives, ie the internet. If you are reading this, then at this point we still have internet. I get increasingly concerned about the space weather knocking the entire planet off the electricity grid so to speak. Well wouldn't that change things around the world dramatically. Think about this for a good while. Think what a modern world with no electricity would be like. Something from a horror movie is what I expect.
Strangled on South Arm
I feel prepared in a way. I guess it is because I have lived a lifetime without this stuff and therefore I understand. I grew up in a house that never had an electric stove, we had a wood fire. The fire heated the hot water. We had no washing machine either. I watched Edith do the washing each day faithfully and do the big stuff in the Copper once a week over the fire. Oh yes I remember this well. I remember my green hula hoop and playing with it while Edith did the washing.
So does this mean we may re visit this again in this lifetime of mine? Who knows but some very educated amongst us say we will. I have my seeds, and amazingly enough I still have my many boxes of real books. So many times I was tempted to lose these. A voice inside tells me to hang on to these for now. I often wonder will the kids love my books the way I have loved my books! I do hope that Montana is set up in her own home when my passing time comes. She will love my books but if she isnt set up it will become a burden to her. So for her I hope she is settled.
Always Check the Foreign News Sources as well!!! Iran: Mehr News, TehranTimes China: Xinhua, China.org, Chinadaily Russia: Ria Novosti Israel: Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Haaretz M/E: ArabNews, AlJazeera
There has been some amazing C.M.E.'s coming off of the sun in the last couple of days signalling wild weather ahead. The B.O.M. today released a serious weather warning detailing this in our part of the world. In other parts of the world they are experiencing earthquakes and strange weather occurrences. This Space weather correlation is a very dynamic and spot on technique for weather prediction and it has so many uses. Makes me wonder why the Meteorologists don't use this method for prediction.
Last nights full moon was beautiful looking out of my back door. It was cold and I had the door wide open, who cares about freezing when this beauty is staring down into your house as you cook dinner.
Images by Mezza- Full moon 4th June 2012 / A Sagittarius full moon.
