Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Thursday, July 12

 

The Sun

Sun Direction: ↑ 95.92° E
Sun Altitude: 45.61°
Sun Distance: 94.499 million mi
Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2018 8:54 pm (Autumnal)
Sunrise Today: 5:44 am↑ 61° Northeast
Sunset Today: 8:15 pm↑ 299° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 30 minutes

 

The Moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 103.56° ESE
Moon Altitude: 50.75°
Moon Distance: 222423 mi
Next New Moon: Jul 12, 20189:47 pm
Next Full Moon: Jul 27, 20183:20 pm
Next Moonset: Today7:59 pm
Current Moon Phase: Near New Moon (Waning Crescent)
Moon’s Illumination: 0.4%

Source

timeanddate

Before Time Was

 

Before time was, there was The One;
The One was all, and all was The One.
And the vast expanse known as the universe was The One,
all-wise, all-pervading, all-powerful, eternally changing.
And space moved.
The One moulded energy into twin forms,
equal but opposite, fashioning the Goddess and God
from The One and of The One.
The Goddess and God stretched and gave thanks to The One,
but darkness surrounded them.

They were alone, solitary save for The One.
So They formed energy into gasses into suns and planets and moons; They sprinkled the universe with whirling globes and so all was given shape by the hands of the Goddess and God.
Light arose and the sky was illuminated by a billion suns.
And the Goddess and God, satisfied by their works, rejoiced and loved,
and were one.

From their union sprang the seeds of all life, and of the human race,
so that we might achieve incarnation upon the Earth.
The Goddess chose the Moon as Her symbol,
and the God the Sun as His symbol,
to remind the inhabitants of Earth of their fashioners.

All are born, live, die and are reborn beneath the Sun and Moon;
all things come to pass there-under,
and all occurs with the blessings of The One,
as has been the way of existence before time was.

 

—A creation myth by Scott Cunningham