Day: October 18, 2021

Golden Opportunity: How to Make Your Own Safe Food Coloring at Home

I was amazed when I read this article about what manufactured food coloring can do to a person. Than I was excited to read how it explains how to make your own out of vegetables and other things.

Information on how and why to make your own food coloring

It’s hard to imagine birthday cakes without colorful writing, vibrant flowers, or other exciting designs. But the colors in our cakes, candies, and other popular foods may not be as innocuous as their pretty exteriors would lead us to believe.

Research suggests that synthetic food coloring may harm human health in a variety of ways. But in spite of the risk factors, these colorants are cropping up in more foods than ever before. Although they provide no nutritional value, they’re added to a wide range of foods to intensify color or give those foods the color people expect to see.1 (For example, boxed cake batters may be dyed yellow in to look like they’re made from real eggs.)

With a little effort, you can avoid synthetic food coloring. Here’s why

18 October Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

Current Moon Phase

 

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

 Today the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the October 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on October 18 has an illumination of 96%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On October 18 the Moon is 12.76 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 96%
Moon Age: 12.76 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 391,157.34 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 149,007,143.16 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

18 October 2021
05:00 am GMT 4:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:25 Libra 02
Moon:27 Pisces 19
Mercury:10 Libra 09 Rx
Venus:11 Sagittarius 35
Mars:21 Libra 44
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 20 Rx
Saturn:06 Aquarius 55
Uranus:13 Taurus 30 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 55 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 21

True Lunar Node:02 Gemini 15 Rx

Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 29 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):10 Gemini 10
Chiron:10 Aries 00 Rx

Ceres:11 Gemini 52 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 28 Rx
Juno:21 Sagittarius 11
Vesta:14 Scorpio 18
Eris:24 Aries 14 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:2
Air:9
Water:4
Cardinal:6
Fixed:4
Mutable:9

 Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

18 October 2021
07:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:25 Libra 37
Moon:04 Aries 42
Mercury:10 Libra 08
Venus:12 Sagittarius 12
Mars:22 Libra 07
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 20
Saturn:06 Aquarius 56
Uranus:13 Taurus 29 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 54 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 21
True Lunar Node:02 Gemini 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):10 Gemini 14
Chiron:09 Aries 59 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 50 Rx
Pallas:10 Pisces 23 Rx
Juno:21 Sagittarius 21
Vesta:14 Scorpio 36
Eris:24 Aries 13 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:2
Air:9
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8