Day: May 4, 2022

6 May 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

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

6 May 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:16 Taurus 04
Moon:19 Cancer 41
Mercury:04 Gemini 13
Venus:04 Aries 31
Mars:16 Pisces 14
Jupiter:29 Pisces 08
Saturn:24 Aquarius 33
Uranus:14 Taurus 52
Neptune:24 Pisces 43
Pluto:28 Capricorn 35 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 31
Mean Lunar Node:22 Taurus 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 25

Chiron:14 Aries 18
Ceres:26 Gemini 30
Pallas:02 Taurus 44
Juno:05 Pisces 29
Vesta:24 Aquarius 18

Eris:24 Aries 35

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

 

Southern Hemisphere

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

6 May 2022
10:00 am GMTM 12;00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:15 Taurus 52
Moon:17 Cancer 12
Mercury:04 Gemini 09
Venus:04 Aries 17
Mars:16 Pisces 05
Jupiter:29 Pisces 06
Saturn:24 Aquarius 33
Uranus:14 Taurus 52
Neptune:24 Pisces 43
Pluto:28 Capricorn 35 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 31
Mean Lunar Node:22 Taurus 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 23

Chiron:14 Aries 17
Ceres:26 Gemini 25
Pallas:02 Taurus 39
Juno:05 Pisces 25
Vesta:24 Aquarius 14

Eris:24 Aries 34

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

6 May 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:15 Taurus 33
Moon:13 Cancer 16
Mercury:04 Gemini 01
Venus:03 Aries 54
Mars:15 Pisces 50
Jupiter:29 Pisces 02
Saturn:24 Aquarius 32
Uranus:14 Taurus 50
Neptune:24 Pisces 42
Pluto:28 Capricorn 35 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 31
Mean Lunar Node:22 Taurus 54 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 21

Chiron:14 Aries 16
Ceres:26 Gemini 17
Pallas:02 Taurus 30
Juno:05 Pisces 19
Vesta:24 Aquarius 07

Eris:24 Aries 34

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:6
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

A Laugh for Today

Happy hump day!

May 4, 2022 Daily Horoscopes Digest

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Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 4:15 PM to 7:30 PM EDT today (1:15 PM to 4:30 PM PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Gemini into Cancer.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Something going on behind the scenes might somehow impact your earnings or your wealth or even something that you own. Be aware of this. In particular, be aware that someone, who might be working against your best interests, might try to take something from you. Not good!

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

A competition with a friend or a member of a group might have an unexpected consequence today. Or perhaps, you will encounter someone who is unusual or different in some way? Take note that whatever happens might make you suddenly change your goals.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Something unexpected might spur you in a new direction today. This is why you might feel a sudden burst of confidence or ambition to get something down or achieve a particular goal. “I’m on it!” On the other hand, plans might suddenly change.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

This is a tricky day because in one way, you are keen to travel or do something to expand your world and experience new ideas, learn new things, and meet new people. Yes! Nevertheless, these plans might suddenly change. Travel could be cancelled or delayed. (Whaaat?)

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Stay up-to-date with information related to taxes, debt, insurance matters and anything to do with the resources or wealth of your partner because something unexpected will impact these areas today. You might be caught off guard. Not good when it comes to your wealth! (You snooze, you lose.)

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Tread carefully today because a friend or someone close to you might suddenly do something you least expect. They might make a surprising demand? Or they might have an exciting suggestion? Alternatively, you might meet someone today who is “different.” (It’s not a boring day.)

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Strong feelings of independence will affect your work today. However, you might also encounter interruptions and sudden changes that affect your job today, especially related to technology and computers. Meanwhile, pet owners should be vigilant today. Check your pet.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Parents take note because this is an accident-prone day for your kids. Know where they are and what they’re doing. Meanwhile, social plans might suddenly change today. You might receive a surprise invitation; or fun plans might be cancelled. (Groan.) Guard against sports accidents.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

You have a lot of energy to make some changes at home now, probably big improvements. Nevertheless, today is an accident-prone day for you at home (or with your family). Please be aware of this. On the upside, you might suddenly decide to do something unusual to make improvements.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

You are a tad aggressive in your communications with others right now because you’re excited about something and you want to share your ideas. However, today is full of unpredictable influences. Pay attention to everything you say and do to avoid accidents.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Keep an eye on your money scene today because things are unpredictable. For example, you might find money; you might lose money. Be smart and protect what you own from loss, theft or damage. Keep your eyes open! On the upside, moneymaking ideas might be bold and unusual!

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today you are full of electric energy! This is why you feel impulsive and restless. Nevertheless, do not go off halfcocked, which is possible. Think before you act or say something so that you won’t have regrets later. Use this wild energy in a positive way.

If Your Birthday Is Today

Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) shares your birthday today. You like routine and security. You think things through carefully then you stick with your decision. You are caring and kind to others. You particular love beautiful things. This year will be lighthearted and more social and fun-loving! Take care of your health and focus on service to others, especially family members. Rejuvenate yourself and consider a makeover.

May 4, 2022 Current Moon Phase Digest

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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

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

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on May 4 has an illumination of 12%. 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 May 4 the Moon is 3.34 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 Crescent
Illumination: 12%
Moon Age: 3.34 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,247.14 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 150,871,249.83 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

May 4, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

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

May 04, 2022
07:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:14 Taurus 18
Moon:27 Gemini 59
Mercury:03 Gemini 27
Venus:02 Aries 25
Mars:14 Pisces 52
Jupiter:28 Pisces 46
Saturn:24 Aquarius 28
Uranus:14 Taurus 46
Neptune:24 Pisces 40
Pluto:28 Capricorn 36 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 30
Mean Lunar Node:22 Taurus 59 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 13

Chiron:14 Aries 12
Ceres:25 Gemini 46
Pallas:01 Taurus 56
Juno:04 Pisces 53
Vesta:23 Aquarius 39

Eris:24 Aries 33

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:5
Cardinal:5
Fixed:7
Mutable:7

 

Northern Hemisphere

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

May 04, 2022
05:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:14 Taurus 13
Moon:27 Gemini 00
Mercury:03 Gemini 25
Venus:02 Aries 19
Mars:14 Pisces 48
Jupiter:28 Pisces 45
Saturn:24 Aquarius 28
Uranus:14 Taurus 46
Neptune:24 Pisces 40
Pluto:28 Capricorn 36 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 30
Mean Lunar Node:22 Taurus 59 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 12

Chiron:14 Aries 12
Ceres:25 Gemini 44
Pallas:01 Taurus 54
Juno:04 Pisces 51
Vesta:23 Aquarius 37

Eris:24 Aries 33

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:5
Cardinal:5
Fixed:7
Mutable:7

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

4 May 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:13 Taurus 56
Moon:23 Gemini 33
Mercury:03 Gemini 16
Venus:01 Aries 59
Mars:14 Pisces 35
Jupiter:28 Pisces 42
Saturn:24 Aquarius 27
Uranus:14 Taurus 45
Neptune:24 Pisces 39
Pluto:28 Capricorn 36 Rx

True Lunar Node:22 Taurus 29
Mean Lunar Node:23 Taurus 00 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):02 Cancer 10

Chiron:14 Aries 11
Ceres:25 Gemini 37
Pallas:01 Taurus 46
Juno:04 Pisces 45
Vesta:23 Aquarius 31

Eris:24 Aries 33

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:5
Water:5
Cardinal:5
Fixed:7
Mutable:7

May 4 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 May 4

Planets Over Egyptian Pyramid

Image Credit & Copyright: Osama Fatehi

Explanation: The early morning planet parade continues. Visible the world over, the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn have been lining up in the pre-dawn sky since mid-April. In the featured image taken last month, these planets were captured over the Step Pyramid of Djoser, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Saqqara necropolis of Egypt, the pyramid was constructed in the 27th century BC and is one of the oldest pyramids known. The two-image composite includes a foreground image taken during evening blue hour, and a background image captured from the same location the following morning. The morning planet line-up is slowly changing. At the end of last month, planets Jupiter and Venus switched places, while at the end of this month, Jupiter and Mars will switch after passing within one-degree of each other. Of course, this picturesque planetary angular alignment is a coincidence, as all of these worlds continue to orbit the Sun as they have for billions of years, well before even the ancient Pyramid of Djoser was built.

 

Notable Submissions to APOD: Morning Planet Parade 2022

May 4 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster killed and King Edward IV restored to his throne. Re-restores political stability to England until his death in 1483.

1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism

1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Today’s Historical Events

1256 Augustinian monastic order constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae

1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg

1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance

1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster killed and King Edward IV restored to his throne. Re-restores political stability to England until his death in 1483.

1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal

1535 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England

1540 Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1572 Veere sides with Geuzen

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1944 “Gaslight”, starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released

1959 “The 400 Blows”, French film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, is released

1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

1975 Italian film “Seven Beauties” directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, and Shirley Stoler released – first film directed by a women to be nominated for an Academy Award

1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent

1999 “The Mummy” film directed by Stephen Sommers starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah premieres in the US

2008 Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep “Family Guy” and “American Dad” on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world’s highest paid television writer

2010 Julia Louis-Dreyfus receives the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, although on the original star her name is spelled incorrectly

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1728 George Frideric Handel‘s opera “Tolomeo, re di Egitto” premieres in London

1878 Thomas Edison‘s Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House

1957 Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show” 1st prime-time network rock show

1959 First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win

1973 Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK

1976 Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner’s musical “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” opens at Mark Hellinger, NYC; runs for 7 performances

1985 30th Eurovision Song Contest: Bobbysocks! for Norway wins singing “La det swinge” in Gothenburg

1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David slept with Mick Jagger

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings play their 1st official baseball game, a win against the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45-9

1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double

1893 Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground

1897 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5

1898 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09

1899 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12

1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC, 35,000 watch the Phillies beat the NY Giants 4-3

1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games open at Olympic Stadium of Colombes, Paris, France

Anthropologist Believes Ancient Human Species Could Still Be Alive In The Forests Of Flores Island

In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian island of Flores, which came to be known as Homo floresiensis. Or, as it became more commonly known, the Hobbit, after the small, breakfast-guzzling creatures from J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit.

The species was initially thought to have survived until relatively recently, around 12,000 years ago, before further analysis pushed that date back to around 50,000 years. But one retired professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta says that evidence that the species’ continued existence may have been overlooked, and the Hobbit may still be alive today, or at least within living memory.

In an opinion piece for The Scientist promoting his upcoming book Between Ape and Human, Gregory Forth argues that palaeontologists and other scientists have overlooked Indigenous knowledge and accounts of an “ape-man” living in the forests of Flores.

“My aim in writing the book was to find the best explanation — that is, the most rational and empirically best supported — of Lio accounts of the creatures,” Forth wrote in the piece. “These include reports of sightings by more than 30 eyewitnesses, all of whom I spoke with directly. And I conclude that …

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