Day: December 14, 2022

December 14, 2022 Moon Goddess Current 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 

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. 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.

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

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on December 14 has an illumination of 68%. 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 December 14 the Moon is 20.44 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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 68%
Moon Age: 20.44 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 401,535.96 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,244,971.11 km

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.

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

This is Me Today

I was writing a post explaining my Murphy’s Law day and it went belly up. Having to reset my computer – that did no good. So now it will be a factory rest. Yes, I have anything important backed up to my OneDrive account. Finding a bunch of emails starting from around mid November in my WOTC email account that had never showed up before today. Having my decades old AOL email account go belly up and making a Gmail account for my apprentices and those inquiring about studying with me. Keep this in mind I have only had 1 other Gmail account and that was closed in 2019 but had a secretary doing the hard work, I just had to go in an read emails he had stared for my attention.  Plus every regular daily post I have tried to messes up. So yep I may be bald or in a special jacket in a rubber room before the day is over. The silver lining is my day can only get better. I am going to try to work from my 3 year old, slow desktop computer while this laptop gets wiped clean.

I still have not figured out why my Officejet 4560 all-in-one was working fine Friday and I have not been able to print or copy anything since than.

I know I will not get extra daily posts like Today in History or Astronomy Picture of the Day or a Spell for Today or Wednesday’s Correspondences or A Laugh for Today done. But I will try to do the Daily and Birthday Horoscopes, Current Moon Phase, and Planetary Positions done as quickly as my desktop will do it. I am hoping to find a good thought for today that pertains to what I and I am sure others are going through today.

Dear Sisters and Brothers and Honoree Guests please wish my luck in getting all my computer related messes taking care of today. Oh yeah and that I do not just chuck them out the front door LOL! Thank you for your stead fast support, encouraging words, and positive energy you send my way, alll of it really does help to change my mind set.

My mantra for today – My day can only get better and it will