Day: August 21, 2023

Some Humor for Your Day

I am sorry there are only a couple of the daily posts and tomorrow will be done tomorrow. I was up over 24 hours between yesterdays and this morning when I finally could fall asleep at almost 8 AM CDT I slept until about an hour ago. With the heat index going to be over 100 F most of this week I am going to try to make sure the daily and birthday horoscopes along with the current moon phase and northern hemisphere’s planetary positions get up for each day. As for the rest of the regular daily posts it’s anybody’s guess that my computer won’t act up because of brown outs. I will be checking all emails tomorrow along with sending out lessons to any of my apprentices that are waiting for one.

If you live in an area that is affected by this current heat wave, try to stay cool, drink plenty of non-carbonate and caffeine free fluids. Check on elderly family and neighbors to make sure they are all right.

August 21, 2023 Current Moon Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Current 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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. 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 August 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on August 21 has an illumination of 22%. 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 August 21 the Moon is 4.6 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: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 22%
Moon Age: 4.60 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 394,498.46 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,327,315.46 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

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.

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, 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 

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

August 21, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Leo 38
Moon:29 Libra 49
Mercury:21 Virgo 41
Venus:15 Leo 34 Rx
Mars:26 Virgo 26
Jupiter:15 Taurus 17
Saturn:04 Pisces 15 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 03
Neptune:27 Pisces 01 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 26 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 25
Mean Lunar Node:27 Aries 52 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Leo 15

Chiron:19 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:20 Libra 12
Pallas:19 Virgo 33
Juno:03 Leo 12
Vesta:23 Gemini 03

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

August 21, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Leo 33
Moon:28 Libra 47
Mercury:21 Virgo 41
Venus:15 Leo 37 Rx
Mars:26 Virgo 22
Jupiter:15 Taurus 16
Saturn:04 Pisces 15 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 03
Neptune:27 Pisces 01 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 26 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 25
Mean Lunar Node:27 Aries 52 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Leo 14

Chiron:19 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:20 Libra 10
Pallas:19 Virgo 31
Juno:03 Leo 10
Vesta:23 Gemini 01

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

21 August 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:28 Leo 16
Moon:25 Libra 12
Mercury:21 Virgo 37
Venus:15 Leo 45 Rx
Mars:26 Virgo 11
Jupiter:15 Taurus 16
Saturn:04 Pisces 16 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 03
Neptune:27 Pisces 02 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 27 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 25 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:27 Aries 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Leo 12

Chiron:19 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:20 Libra 03
Pallas:19 Virgo 23
Juno:03 Leo 01
Vesta:22 Gemini 56

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6