take time to peek up at the sky tonight, New Year's Eve will be lit by a heavenly blue moon!

Let's hope it's an auspicious omen ushering in the new decade!

:grouphug:

in near fullness on Tuesday night, which was crystal clear, and it was beautiful! So were the stars.

Do not expect to see some sort of atmospheric phenomenon that makes the moon actually look blue.

:rofl:

This one is not an "extra" moon.

If it is full before local midnight, then it must be the second one of the month. Is it not full tonight?

...you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue Moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold

Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
:loveya:

Billie Holiday does a nice version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYjn4JNbHWM&feature=PlayList&p=4AE0B2EAEE289CD4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9

no Mars viewing. :-(

I will definitely go outside tonight and enjoy it.

Gonna be awesome!

Enjoy!!!

Waiting for the sun to go down.

:bounce:

We just got back from a walk on the Coastal Trail. It was beautiful and so much appreciated after all the clouds and fog.

I'd rather have clear and cold the overcast and dreary. Reminds me of Juneau too much.

http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/2009/12/blue-moon-eclipse/

This lunation, occurring on the last day of the year, can help sweep away low-vibration attitudes and situations, generating a force field of joy to bless the New Year.

Joy is usually associated with the winter holidays, as it is with other happy events, circumstances, and perhaps spontaneous epiphanies. Most of us have less mirth than we would like in our lives, especially if past or present circumstances have brought us down. A look at the current news doesn’t do much to cheer us up, with its reports of global warming, the children of Gaza and Afghanistan, innocent prisoners of the war on terror, not to mention the meltdown of the economic system. Although sadness, grief and dutifulness are all natural conditions at some time, it’s too easy to let such feelings become habitual attitudes.

Capricorn Sun is about purposeful effort, and the Sabian degree for this eclipse, describing a clown and the healing power of humor, reminds us that joy is a state of mind, a well-spring in the soul that we can choose to retrieve, independent of circumstance. As Dane Rudhyar says in his commentary, “Laughter deconditions….” In her book, The Manipulated Mind, Denise Winn shares evidence that the ability to laugh in the face of oppression is in fact a key to resist brainwashing and even to survival in concentration camps. Laughter is a synonym of joy, a magical vibration that starts in the emotions and works itself into other areas. Cultivating good cheer can spontaneously unleash a higher way of living: lifting us out of depression and self-pity, accelerating the body’s natural healing abilities, turning on the law of attraction for happy circumstances, success and fun. My husband, psychologist-musician Fernando Ruiz, says violin music clears out bad vibrations. In a similar fashion, in the face of joy difficulties can fade away like fog in the morning sun.

Eclipses help us let go of whatever is needed to move along on the next phase of our growth, Cancer is about emotions. As we move into a year marked by a potentially explosive cardinal cross, we can use the lunation that takes place on its doorstep, connecting to the highest and the best it will offer by taking on the shield of joy.

:D

I'm feeling extra special.

:beer: & :party:

:toast:

by misunderstanding what the Maine Farmers' Almanac, who seem to have been the first to specify certain moons as 'blue', was doing:



According to the Wikipedia page for Blue Moon, there hasn't been one this year; there will be one on Nov 21st, 2010.

Was nice and clear last night, though.

:party: :toast: :bounce: :thumbsup: :loveya: :grouphug: :fistbump: :woohoo: :applause: :patriot: