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by **EarthWard** » 28 May 2005, 01:23

Having to spend a great deal of my time indoors it would be helpful if every time I visited the pub I could see the a daily updated report on the moon phases, star signs, and anything else pertaining to that. I really like the moon that use to be on the main web site.
If this could be done it would be cool but no biggie.
Thanks,
Casey

PS- Sub silver sux! :-)

by **Wolfwalker** » 28 May 2005, 02:56

Question: locatively, which moon-rise, etc chart are we going to use EW? Time zone variances and geographic location (esp the northern hemisphere-southern hemisphere aspects) could make some of this tres confusant! I'm just wondering... a moonrise here at the easternmost point in North America will be skewed 3.5 hours from GMT, totally different from all other time zones across the North American continent, and which stars are visible on a clear night over my latitude/ longtitude will be utterly out of whack with someone, say like Unikorn in The South Pacific, across the International Date Line, as they're in mid-day when I'm in mid-night, an hour and a half 'ahead' of your time zone and quite a bit further north than your southern US homeplace. Just being devil's advocate, if we used GMT, don't we then need a table of calculation for all other latitudes and longtitudes to figure what is where and when for various members who want to know that?
\|/ see? even my awen is gone widdershins trying to figure that one out pal!

by **Dair Ciúin** » 28 May 2005, 03:10

Jolly good idea, Earthward! :clap:

by **Ailim** » 28 May 2005, 08:37

That would be a neat idea

by **Unikorn** » 28 May 2005, 08:44

Thank you Wolfwalker

by **Nonny** » 28 May 2005, 09:45

Wolfwalker,

It would have to be tied in to the user's time/region settings in their profile. That's the only way I could really see it working ... and I can well imagine it would be a royal pain in the ass to do. :P

by **Unikorn** » 29 May 2005, 03:40

What I do is frequent a local astrological site - http://rasnz.org.nz and that lets me know whats up for my specific region - perhaps you could find something like that EW

by **Andhan** » 29 May 2005, 09:29

I know that there exist some java applets than do that, and link with local time zone... how I don't know, but hey, it works!

Gotta search in google...

by **Kernos** » 29 May 2005, 15:25

The JAVA applet is at http://druidry.org/moon.html.

It does not do moonrise... just phases. The times and dates for phases are UT (GMT) except for the clock which is one's computer time.

I have added some other earth/moon astronomy applets to this page for your peusal.

:zen:

by **Eventide** » 01 Jun 2005, 21:23

Thanks Kernos most usefull BUT can we go one further and have a combined astronomy/astrology forum. This is without doubt a massive and somewhat overlooked subject here at the Druids Head. There is a huge amount of info out on the net but much of it is rather confusing to the amateur. Perhaps a place to discuss the night sky in laydruids terms could be the answer. I'de be happy to post a monthly bulletin on what to look for and highlight any occurences of special note. Maybe there is someone here well versed in astrology who would like to post from that angle too. Not nessessarily full blow horoscopes but more a history on astrological phenomena and how ancient peoples came to hold them in such great esteem.

As i'm sure you are all aware, it is well documented that our Celtic ancestors and their ancestors before them had a wide knowlege of this subject. So a place to expand our own knowlege would be fitting don't you think?

by **Unikorn** » 02 Jun 2005, 13:35

I love the idea of more discussion around astronomy. I would suggest though, that instead of creating a new and separate forum, we start to utilise the forums that exist to discuss wider areas. I hope the forums will be condensed in time to allow for more general and dynamic forums - fewer of them

Eventide, can you consider beginning a discussion in an existing forum? The ones that come to mind for me are Shamanic? or perhaps Discuss Druidry - I don't see why this doesn't relate inherently to our Druidic studies....

by **Donata** » 02 Jun 2005, 14:04

If you're posting re astrology, and how to work with the stars/moon in a magickal sense, this would be a very relevant topic for the Druidcraft forum!

BB
Donata

by **Kernos** » 02 Jun 2005, 18:06

I agree Unikorn and Donata.

Kernos
:awen:

by **Merlyn** » 02 Jun 2005, 23:44

I would welcome astrology in the Druid craft forum. We also have the spell and craft forum for ideas that should be explored out of the public eye, such as our more personal aspects in Tarot or Zodiac. All are welcome. Please, feel free.

Star and stone
:merlyn1:

by **Wolfwalker** » 03 Jun 2005, 17:19

I was thinking Discuss Druidry too, but agreed, Druidcraft is the perfect place for this topic.
bb, Peter

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