Tag: Weather lore

Lunabar Sun Almanack for Wednesday, 06 May, 2015

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Lunabar Sun Almanack for Wednesday, 06 May, 2015

 

Sunrise: 6:04 morn. Sunset: 8:05 eve.

Length of Day: 14h. 1m.

Dawn: 5:36 morn. Dusk: 8:33 eve.

Length of Twilight: 0h. 28m.

Sun in 15th degree of the Sign Taurus, the Bull; also in 17th degree of the Constellation Aries, the Ram; When solar rays are visible in the air, they indicate vapour and rain to follow, and the sun is said to be drawing water.

~Collected in R. Inwards, “Weather Lore”.

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Solar Lore

When the air is hazy, so that the solar light fades gradually, and looks white, rain will most certainly follow.

~Collected in R. Inwards, “Weather Lore”

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Aspects of Taurus: Yin, Feminine, Lunar, Negative, Nocturnal, Earthy, Fixed, Semi-fruitful, Horary Southern, Vernal, Boreal, Commanding, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Cold.

Courtesy of GrannyMoonsMorningFeast

 

Lunar Lore for 4/5

Lunar Lore  

 

 

An old moon in a mist
Is worth gold in a kist [chest];
But a new moon’s mist
Will ne’er lack thirst.
 – Collected in R. Inwards, “Weather Lore”
…
But how many months be in the year?
  There are thirteen, I say;
The midsummer moon is the merryest of all
  Next to the merry month of May.
 – “Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar.”
…
In the decay of the moon
A cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon.
 – Tusser, “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry” (17th century).
…
Some works in dead of night are better done, or when the morning
  Dew prevents the sun. Parch’d meads and stubble mow by
Phoebe’s light, which both require the coolness of the night;
  For moisture then abounds, and pearly rains
Descend in silence to refresh the plains.
– Dryden’s trans. of Virgil’s “Georgics,” Book I