Day: April 11, 2022

April 11, 2022 Current Moon Phase Digest

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

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on April 11 has an illumination of 71%. 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 April 11 the Moon is 9.41 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: 71%
Moon Age: 9.41 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 398,307.59 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,948,494.00 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

April 11, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

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

April 11, 2022
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:22 Aries 02
Moon:22 Leo 02
Mercury:01 Taurus 47
Venus:06 Pisces 50
Mars:27 Aquarius 36
Jupiter:23 Pisces 50
Saturn:22 Aquarius 59
Uranus:13 Taurus 28
Neptune:23 Pisces 57
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 11 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 40

Chiron:12 Aries 56
Ceres:17 Gemini 05
Pallas:22 Aries 07
Juno:26 Aquarius 51
Vesta:14 Aquarius 39

Eris:24 Aries 19

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5

 

Northern Hemisphere

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

April 11, 2022
09:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Aries 57
Moon:20 Leo 59
Mercury:01 Taurus 36
Venus:06 Pisces 45
Mars:27 Aquarius 32
Jupiter:23 Pisces 49
Saturn:22 Aquarius 58
Uranus:13 Taurus 28
Neptune:23 Pisces 57
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 11 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 40

Chiron:12 Aries 55
Ceres:17 Gemini 03
Pallas:22 Aries 05
Juno:26 Aquarius 50
Vesta:14 Aquarius 37

Eris:24 Aries 19

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

April 11, 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 M CEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Aries 42
Moon:17 Leo 52
Mercury:01 Taurus 06
Venus:06 Pisces 28
Mars:27 Aquarius 21
Jupiter:23 Pisces 45
Saturn:22 Aquarius 57
Uranus:13 Taurus 27
Neptune:23 Pisces 57
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 57 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 12 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 38

Chiron:12 Aries 55
Ceres:16 Gemini 58
Pallas:21 Aries 59
Juno:26 Aquarius 44
Vesta:14 Aquarius 31

Eris:24 Aries 18

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5

Spell for Today – Knot Healing Spell

 

Knot Healing Spell

This involves tying and untying the string.

 Tie seven knots in a string

 Visualize the illness and suffering as you tied the initial knots (you are not wishing the illness – in fact the opposite. You are transferring the illness into the knot)

 Make it into a bracelet for the patient

 Untie one knot each day – visualizing the relief as the knots are untied, as the illnesses negative energy is allowed to dissipate into the atmosphere.

 On the last day, unravel the thread and throw everything into running live water, flowing away from the patient’s location.

April 11 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 April 11

A Space Station Crosses a Busy Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)

Explanation: Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as a bright spot several times a year from many locations. The ISS is then visible only just after sunset or just before sunrise because it shines by reflected sunlight — once the ISS enters the Earth’s shadow, it will drop out of sight. The only occasion when the ISS is visible during the day is when it passes right in front of the Sun. Then, it passes so quickly that only cameras taking short exposures can visually freeze the ISS’s silhouette onto the background Sun. The featured picture did exactly that — it is actually a series of images taken earlier this month from Beijing, China with perfect timing. This image series was later combined with separate images taken at nearly the same time but highlighting the texture and activity on the busy Sun. The solar activity included numerous gaseous prominences seen around the edge, highlighted in red, filaments seen against the Sun’s face, and a dark sunspot.

April 11 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars

1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War

1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean

1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan

1955 Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent

1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya

2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution

2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power

Today’s Historical Events

491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, as Anastasius I – often called the first Byzantine Emperor

672 Deusdedit II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland

1471 Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI

1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars

1551 English premier John Dudley appointed Duke of Northumberland

1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes

1564 Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1955 “Marty” directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)

1966 Frank Sinatra records “Strangers in the Night” single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts

1967 Tom Stoppard‘s play “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” debuts in London at the Old Vic

1968 WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1971 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting

1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: “Inchon!” wins

1983 55th Academy Awards: “Gandhi”, Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win

1988 60th Academy Awards: “The Last Emperor”, Michael Douglas & Cher win

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1830 Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt

1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated

1936 Rodgers & Hart’s musical “On Your Toes” premieres in NYC

1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident

1959 Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Harold Arlen’s musical “Jamaica”, starring Lena Horne, closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances

1961 Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City

1964 Stephen Sondheim‘s musical “Anyone Can Whistle” closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 9 performances

1967 “Illya Darling” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1750 Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight

1831 The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis

1896 Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós beats Otto Herschmann of Austria by 0.6s to win the inaugural Olympic 100m freestyle final in 1:22.2 at the Athens Games; also takes out the 1,200m on the same day

1896 Irish tennis player John Boland, representing Great Britain wins both the men’s singles and doubles finals at the Athens Olympics; Dionysios Kasdaglis of Greece loses both matches

1907 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame backstop Roger Bresnahan becomes first catcher to wear shin guards

1921 KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)

1924 1st men’s college swimming championships begin

1936 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-2 for a 3-1 series win; Red Wings first SC Championship

April 11, 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

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

11 April 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Aries 55
Moon:20 Leo 28
Mercury:01 Taurus 31
Venus:06 Pisces 42
Mars:27 Aquarius 31
Jupiter:23 Pisces 48
Saturn:22 Aquarius 58
Uranus:13 Taurus 28
Neptune:23 Pisces 57
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 11 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 39

Chiron:12 Aries 55
Ceres:17 Gemini 03
Pallas:22 Aries 04
Juno:26 Aquarius 49
Vesta:14 Aquarius 36

Eris:24 Aries 19

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5

 

Southern Hemisphere

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

11 April 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Aries 42
Moon:17 Leo 52
Mercury:01 Taurus 06
Venus:06 Pisces 28
Mars:27 Aquarius 21
Jupiter:23 Pisces 45
Saturn:22 Aquarius 57
Uranus:13 Taurus 27
Neptune:23 Pisces 57
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 57 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 12 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 38

Chiron:12 Aries 55
Ceres:16 Gemini 58
Pallas:21 Aries 59
Juno:26 Aquarius 44
Vesta:14 Aquarius 31

Eris:24 Aries 18

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5

 

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

11 April 2022
07:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Aries 23
Moon:13 Leo 44
Mercury:00 Taurus 25
Venus:06 Pisces 07
Mars:27 Aquarius 06
Jupiter:23 Pisces 41
Saturn:22 Aquarius 56
Uranus:13 Taurus 26
Neptune:23 Pisces 56
Pluto:28 Capricorn 31

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 58 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 13 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):29 Gemini 36

Chiron:12 Aries 53
Ceres:16 Gemini 51
Pallas:21 Aries 50
Juno:26 Aquarius 37
Vesta:14 Aquarius 23

Eris:24 Aries 18

Fire:5
Earth:5
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:5
Fixed:9
Mutable:5