:הַשָּׁמַיִם מְסַפְּרִים כְּבוֹד אֵל וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדָיו מַגִּיד הָרָקִיעַ
"The heavens recite the glory of God, and the sky tells of the work of His hands." (Tehillim 19.2)
Why extremely rare events keep happening all the time
Something weird seems to be happening in the heavens. This week marks a coincidence of the full moon and the summer solstice. Some astronomers are calling this combination of maximum moonlight and the Northern Hemisphere's longest day a rare event.
It comes close on the heels of last month's rare passage of Mercury in front of the sun, September's rare pairing of a lunar eclipse with a so-called supermoon, the rare 2014 "tetrad" of lunar eclipses, the rare 2012 transit of Venus, and a plethora of once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignments, one earlier this year, one in 2014 and one in the summer of 2013. Next year there will be a rare total eclipse of the sun.
...The funny thing about this week's coincidence of solar and lunar cycles is that astronomers can't decide if we should be more surprised that it's happening or that it hasn't happened since 1948....
A rare coincidence: The full ‘Strawberry Moon’ meets the summer solstice
It’s a once-in-a-generation pairing: the start of astronomical summer and emergence of the full “Strawberry Moon.”
This coming together hasn’t happened since 1967, recalled by some as the “Summer of Love,” and won’t occur again until June 21, 2062 (using Universal Time), according to EarthSky.org.
...1948 and 1967 and now 2016 - what will be yet this year? May, June,...July?
Also Strawberry moon last night, first time since June 1967, Hashem is realigning stuff up there, to bring the world to its ultimate purpose with Nibiru being the grandstand finale.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll add that in.
DeleteH' is showing us the signs of the upcoming Geulah Shleimah. Those who want to see will see. Wonderful websites such as yours increase the number of Jews who will have the opportunity to realize the awesome era we are in.
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Few years ago i had a dream that i was informed that to know that Geula is near i will see a signs in the sky. Considering, that our generation is a look-down 'smart phone" one, and majority is looking down to check the nonsense on the phone very few people are looking up. So the signs in the sky are go unnoticed for them, which is very sad, because Arizal said that gazing at the sky adds to iriat shamaim.
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Chana, loved your comment. How true, didn't think of that. Watching people even while walking talking on their phones (as if speaking to themselves) and others everywhere looking down at their smart phones. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. nili
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