Day: November 12, 2021

A Thought for Today

Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests today I leave you with this thought….

Norse Runes: Viking Runes, Norse Symbols & Much More to Know!

Archaeology played a big role in making the human race aware of the civilizations from the ancient era. It is now clear that those centuries-old civilizations (like Mayan, Egyptian, and Norse) used unique communicating language in the form of specific Norse runes and carved images on the cave walls.

All or most of these civilizations used these unique methods of communication for thousands of years. They created their own mythologies and holy scripts to promote their culture and rituals to the other parts of the world.

Among all those mythologies and holy scripts, Norse mythology is the one that brings along some exciting and thrilling stories. In fact, there exists a lot of evidence to prove their beliefs and facts in similar regard.

The warriors of this civilization, known as Norse Vikings, used to communicate via Norse Rune stones ( stones carved with random signs and artwork). The Viking runes were their way of expressing feelings, specific events and also the war signs. If you are interested in this aspect of history, then read ahead to gain all the essential information about the Viking runes.

The Viking Runes…

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November 12 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is 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 November 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on November 12 has an illumination of 60%. 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 November 12 the Moon is 8.35 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: 60%
Moon Age: 8.35 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 379,475.61 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,041,621.82 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

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

12 November 2021
04:00 pm GMT 6:00 PM CET
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Scorpio 29
Moon:04 Pisces 27
Mercury:10 Scorpio 49
Venus:06 Capricorn 38
Mars:08 Scorpio 49
Jupiter:23 Aquarius 24
Saturn:07 Aquarius 45
Uranus:12 Taurus 28 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 30 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 39
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 48 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:02 Gemini 09 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):13 Gemini 00
Chiron:09 Aries 02 Rx
Ceres:08 Gemini 22 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 07
Juno:29 Sagittarius 15
Vesta:27 Scorpio 53
Eris:23 Aries 59 Rx
Fire:3
Earth:3
Air:6
Water:7
Cardinal:4
Fixed:7
Mutable:8

Northwestern Hemisphere For 1600 MT GMT 2300 Post 1700 CT

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Denver, Colorado, USA

November 12, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM MST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Scorpio 47
Moon:08 Pisces 16
Mercury:11 Scorpio 17
Venus:06 Capricorn 54
Mars:09 Scorpio 01
Jupiter:23 Aquarius 25
Saturn:07 Aquarius 46
Uranus:12 Taurus 27 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 30 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 39
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 47 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:02 Gemini 08 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):13 Gemini 01
Chiron:09 Aries 02 Rx
Ceres:08 Gemini 18 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 07
Juno:29 Sagittarius 21
Vesta:28 Scorpio 03
Eris:23 Aries 59 Rx
Fire:3
Earth:3
Air:6
Water:7
Cardinal:4
Fixed:7
Mutable:8

Simple Wish Spell

May the Goddess and God

of light and love,

grant me my wish

and quite my heart.

I place my desire in your hands,

For you to do as you will

and I deserve.

So mote it be

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 November 12

M33: The Triangulum Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Bernard Miller

Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other’s grand spiral star systems. As for the view from planet Earth, this sharp image shows off M33’s blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy’s loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 4 o’clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33’s population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe.