December 21st (Cosmic Moments)

12/21/1999

Some important things: time for dreaming, time for developing ideas, tools to develop ideas, time to think whether ideas are good, 2555 hours of sleep, good medical care.

Celestial triple-play occurred today. the winter solstice (when the earth is closest to the sun), the full moon, and the moon at perigee. It hasn't happened in 166 years.

12/21/2010

For the first time in 372 years, Monday into Tuesday’s lunar eclipse coincided with the start of the winter solstice. I love synchronicities like this. Interesting that the Lascaux caves were designed such that the cave openings would direct a sunbeam into the cave at the solstices.

12/21/2020

The Jupiter-Saturn great conjunction simultaneous with the winter solstice is another example of the “touching”—the universe is telling us something with this particular display. But the “something” is just another “anything”: the ascription of meaning is both personal and collective.

12/21/2021

Sunny solstice morning, 9:58. A day of 1s and 2s (122121).

A six-word haiku:

repeating ritual
stonehenge solstice
tilt terminus

Interesting: Apparently when the winter solstice arrives, tuna fish go into a kind of hibernation until the equinox. I read this in a book on Michel de Montaigne, so who knows how true it is. Did he know that? 

Reading The Dawn of Everything, a posthumous tome by David Graeber. Interesting section on Monk’s Mound at Cahokia. They had a woodhenge. They are so elegant, anyone can make one.

 

    
 

 

 

 

 

Two simultaneous scenes at the Winter Solstice take place at the 32nd parallel, north and south, Marfa Texas and at Chapman’s Peak, Cape Town, South Africa:

Bill and Karin, Katherine Street, Marfa, Texas:

 

12/21/2021 (Chapman’s Peak)

12/21/2023

Winter Solstice at 9:27 PM

12/21/2024

Solstice Moment (Minute)

Solstice Moment – meta4s by meta4s

12/21/2046

(Anthony Townes Diary)

Took a stroll around hospital floor overlooking Gates Park. Large crowd at the Memorial for the solstice celebration. Nice—just as it arrived sunlight beamed from the glass curtain of Central Tower, bathing the Memorial in silver light.