Day: March 18, 2022

19 March 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest Southern Hemisphere’s 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 was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon.

Visit the March 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on March 19 has an illumination of 98%. 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 March 19 the Moon is 15.99 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: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 98%
Moon Age: 15.99 days
Moon Angle: 0.53
Moon Distance: 377,499.47 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,966,088.97 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

Celtic Tree Month of the Alder Moon: March 18 – April 14, 2022

From LearnReligions.com

At the time of the Spring Equinox, or Ostara, the Alder is flourishing on riverbanks, roots in the water, bridging that magical space between both heaven and earth. The Alder month, called Fearn by the Celts, and pronounced fairin, is a time for making spiritual decisions, magic relating to prophecy and divination, and getting in touch with your own intuitive processes and abilities. Alder flowers and twigs are known as charms to be used in Faerie magic. Whistles were once made out of Alder shoots to call upon Air spirits, so it’s an ideal wood for making a pipe or flute if you’re musically inclined.

From Ireland-Calling.com

Alder tree in Celtic mythology – balanced between male and female –

Fearn, F – The alder represents the third letter of the ogham alphabet ‘Fearn’ and the fourth month in the Celtic tree calendar.

In Celtic mythology, the alder tree was symbolic of a balance between female and male principles since it possesses both female and male catkins on the same branch.

The alder is a member of the birch family generally found near streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands. It is known for creating a fertile, lush environment for surrounding animal and plant life.

Tree of fairies for the ancient druids

The druids also associated the tree with courage and the evolving spirit, and linked it with death and resurrection. This belief was shared in Austria too, where the wood of the alder was thought to make the dead come back to life.

Alder wood good for building

The sap, leaves and bark of the alder were all used to make dyes; green from the leaves, red from the sap and brown from the bark. The dyes were often used to tan leather. Wood of the alder is flexible and resistant to the rotting effects of water.

Due to these qualities it was often used to build bridges, pipes, milk pales and pilings for causeways across marshlands. Parts of Venice were built on alder pilings.

In medicine, the alder leaves and bark, which contain tannins, were used as an antiseptic and an astringent to treat skin wounds, rashes and swollen glands.

According to the Woodland League of Ireland, the value of the alder to the Irish in the past was for making clogs, masts of ships and shields. Alder wood was particularly impressive as a shield.

It is so hard that if an opponent buried his axe in the shield, he would find it almost impossible to withdraw it. This would render him defenceless and an easier target to attack.

The alder supports more than 70 different insects, many of them specific to the alder, meaning they can’t survive on another tree.

Discover more about the alder in this video from the Irish Woodland League

March 18 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.

2022 March 18

A Filament in Monoceros

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari

Explanation: Bluish reflection nebulae seem to fill this dusty expanse. The sharp telescopic frame spans over 1 degree on the sky toward the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen within the Monoceros R1 cloud complex some 2,500 light-years away, bluish IC 447 is on the left, joined by a long dark filament of dust to IC 446 at lower right. Embedded in IC 447 are young, massive blue stars much hotter than the Sun, whose light is reflected by the cosmic cloud of star stuff. Observations reveal that IC 446 also contains a young stellar object, a massive star still in an early stage of evolution. The dark filament of dust and molecular gas joining the two star-forming regions is over 15 light-years long.

March 18, 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Custom 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 was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Full Moon phase. During a Full Moon the moon is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth and is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon will be visible throughout the night sky rising at sunset in the east and setting with the sunrise the next morning. The point at which a Full Moon occurs can be measured down to a fraction of a second. The time it takes between full moons is known as a Synodic month and is 29.530587981 days long. Keep track of all the Full Moons throughout the year on the Full Moon Calendar >

Visit the March 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Full Moon Phase

The Full Moon on March 18 has an illumination of 100%. 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 March 18 the Moon is 14.95 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: Full Moon
Illumination: 100%
Moon Age: 14.95 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 382,254.06 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,924,377.11 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 want to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

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

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Los Angeles, California, USA

March 18, 2022
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Pisces 19
Moon:06 Libra 33
Mercury:14 Pisces 42
Venus:11 Aquarius 47
Mars:09 Aquarius 30
Jupiter:18 Pisces 12
Saturn:20 Aquarius 46
Uranus:12 Taurus 16
Neptune:23 Pisces 05
Pluto:28 Capricorn 11
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 52 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 27 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):27 Gemini 00
Chiron:11 Aries 32
Ceres:09 Gemini 02
Pallas:12 Aries 18
Juno:17 Aquarius 47
Vesta:03 Aquarius 54
Eris:24 Aries 03
Fire:3
Earth:4
Air:8
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:8
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

March 18, 2022
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Pisces 14
Moon:05 Libra 25
Mercury:14 Pisces 33
Venus:11 Aquarius 42
Mars:09 Aquarius 27
Jupiter:18 Pisces 11
Saturn:20 Aquarius 45
Uranus:12 Taurus 15
Neptune:23 Pisces 05
Pluto:28 Capricorn 11
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 52 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):27 Gemini 00
Chiron:11 Aries 31
Ceres:09 Gemini 00
Pallas:12 Aries 16
Juno:17 Aquarius 46
Vesta:03 Aquarius 52
Eris:24 Aries 03
Fire:3
Earth:4
Air:8
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:8
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

18 March 2022
03:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:27 Pisces 59
Moon:02 Libra 01
Mercury:14 Pisces 07
Venus:11 Aquarius 27
Mars:09 Aquarius 15
Jupiter:18 Pisces 07
Saturn:20 Aquarius 44
Uranus:12 Taurus 15
Neptune:23 Pisces 04
Pluto:28 Capricorn 11
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 54 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 58
Chiron:11 Aries 31
Ceres:08 Gemini 56
Pallas:12 Aries 10
Juno:17 Aquarius 40
Vesta:03 Aquarius 45
Eris:24 Aries 03
Fire:3
Earth:4
Air:8
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:8
Mutable:6

18 March 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Custom 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 was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Full Moon phase. During a Full Moon the moon is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth and is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon will be visible throughout the night sky rising at sunset in the east and setting with the sunrise the next morning. The point at which a Full Moon occurs can be measured down to a fraction of a second. The time it takes between full moons is known as a Synodic month and is 29.530587981 days long. Keep track of all the Full Moons throughout the year on the Full Moon Calendar >

Visit the March 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Full Moon Phase

The Full Moon on March 18 has an illumination of 100%. 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 March 18 the Moon is 14.95 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: Full Moon
Illumination: 100%
Moon Age: 14.95 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 382,254.06 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,924,377.11 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 these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

18 March 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Pisces 12
Moon:04 Libra 51
Mercury:14 Pisces 29
Venus:11 Aquarius 40
Mars:09 Aquarius 25
Jupiter:18 Pisces 10
Saturn:20 Aquarius 45
Uranus:12 Taurus 15
Neptune:23 Pisces 05
Pluto:28 Capricorn 11
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 53 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 59
Chiron:11 Aries 31
Ceres:08 Gemini 59
Pallas:12 Aries 15
Juno:17 Aquarius 45
Vesta:03 Aquarius 51
Eris:24 Aries 03
Fire:3
Earth:4
Air:8
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:8
Mutable:6

 

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

18 March 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:27 Pisces 59
Moon:02 Libra 01
Mercury:14 Pisces 07
Venus:11 Aquarius 27
Mars:09 Aquarius 15
Jupiter:18 Pisces 07
Saturn:20 Aquarius 44
Uranus:12 Taurus 15
Neptune:23 Pisces 04
Pluto:28 Capricorn 11
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 54 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 58
Chiron:11 Aries 31
Ceres:08 Gemini 56
Pallas:12 Aries 10
Juno:17 Aquarius 40
Vesta:03 Aquarius 45
Eris:24 Aries 03
Fire:3
Earth:4
Air:8
Water:4
Cardinal:5
Fixed:8
Mutable:6

 

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

18 March 2022
06:00 am GMT 5:00T PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:27 Pisces 37
Moon:26 Virgo 57
Mercury:13 Pisces 28
Venus:11 Aquarius 05
Mars:08 Aquarius 58
Jupiter:18 Pisces 02
Saturn:20 Aquarius 41
Uranus:12 Taurus 14
Neptune:23 Pisces 03
Pluto:28 Capricorn 10
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 58 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Taurus 30 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):26 Gemini 55
Chiron:11 Aries 29
Ceres:08 Gemini 49
Pallas:12 Aries 01
Juno:17 Aquarius 31
Vesta:03 Aquarius 34

Eris:24 Aries 03

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:7
Water:4
Cardinal:4
Fixed:8
Mutable:7