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UPDATE:
Science / Natural Sciences
June 17, 2016
The strawberry full moon makes this summer solstice
a super rare thing
This year the heavenly bodies seem to have conspired to sweeten the pot with an event we haven’t seen in 70 years.
The summer solstice isn’t a rare event, a full moon even less so. But they’re both special, and when they just so happen to occur on the same day, as they will this year? That’s once-in-a-lifetime special.
The 2016 North American summer solstice happens on June 20, 2016 at 6:34 PM EDT. That’s the very moment when, essentially, the sun stands still at its northernmost point as seen from Earth. Its zenith doesn’t yearn north or south, but waits patiently at the Tropic of Cancer before switching directions and heading south again. This is where the word solstice comes from; the Latin solstitium, from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop).
It’s the day of the year with the most sunlight, the grand dame of long summer days. Even though technically it is only the first day of summer, it may actually be the best one of all. In New York City, we will have a whopping 15.05 hours of daytime. (You can check your day length at the Farmer’s Almanac sunrise and sunset calculator, if you’re so inclined.)
The summer solstice alone is iconic enough. It’s a day with a time-honored history rife with pagan celebrations and all things Stonehenge. But this year we get the big beautiful bonus of a full moon, which hits its peak on the same day. This hasn’t happened in 70 years.
“Having a full moon land smack on the solstice is a truly rare event,” says Farmer’s Almanac astronomer Bob Berman. “We probably won’t push people off pyramids like the Mayans did, but Slooh [a live-streaming global network of telescopes] will very much celebrate this extraordinary day of light with fascinating factoids and amazing live telescope feeds.” (See below.)
Meanwhile, adding a touch of poetry to the whole shebang, the June moon was known as the Strawberry Moon to early Native American tribes, who measured time by things like the moon, rather than a grid on a piece of paper or an electronic device. The full moon that happened now marked the season of strawberries – as it still does. More and more people have started harkening back to these more-seasonal full moon names; it's an especially lovely practice.
With the permission of the Astrologer, Zell Bodine, we are happy to keep you posted with her forecasts.
We hope you will find her forecast helpful in your lives.
Astrological Transit
Astrological
transits are one of the main means used in horoscopic astrology to forecast future trends
and developments (the other means used is astrological progression, which progresses
the horoscope
forward in time according to set methods). As its name implies, astrological
transits involve a method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the planets as they transit the horoscope.
This is most often done for the birth or Natal
Chart of a particular individual. Particular attention is paid to changes
of sign, or house, and to the aspects or angles the transiting planets make
with the natal chart.
A particularly important transit is the planetary
return. This occurs when a transiting planet returns to the same point in
the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person's birth. What this means is
that the planet has completed a whole circuit of the sky, and signifies that a
new cycle in the person's life is beginning. The most significant returns are
those of the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn. The Jupiter return occurs
approximately every 12 years and heralds a new phase of growth and development.
The
Saturn return occurs approximately every 30 years, and heralds a new phase
in the aging process when new realities and responsibilities must be
faced. For more information you may find it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_transit
