2161 Eight of nine planets will be aligned on same side of sun.
syzygy
(KEY) , in astronomy, alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line. A planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is in opposition or conjunction, i.e., when its elongation is 180° or 0°. The moon is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is new or full. Source
... in the beginning of March, the seventh night, or the fourteenth day, let [i.e. spill] the blood of the right arm; and in the beginning of April, the 11th day, of the left arm; and in the end of May, 3d or 5th day, on whether arm thou wilt; and thus, of all the year, thou shalt orderly be kept from the fever, the falling gout, the sister gout, and loss of thy sight.
(Book of Knowledge b. 1, p 19, quoted in Chamber’s Book of Days, 1881, p 42) (The third day of the end of May was the 19th, as the beginning of a month of 31 days was reckoned to be the first 16 days)
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln, in a speech on May 19, 1856
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender.
Anne Boleyn’s last words, before her execution on May 19, 1536
Many believe that we need to change values and attitudes. I do not think this is the answer. If we change our thinking methods (especially as regards perception) our values, attitudes and behaviour will follow.
Edward de Bono, teacher of creative thinking, born May 19, 1933, article, May 11, 2002 Source
St Dunstan, as the story goes,
Once pull’d the devil by the nose
With red-hot tongs, which made him roar,
That he was heard three miles or more.
(From an engraved portrait) Today is St Dunstan’s Day
Born in King Arthur’s isle of Glastonbury (Avalon), England, in about 924, Dunstan was a highly intelligent nobleman whose parents incited him to study hard, and he acquired ‘brain fever’. Though his friends gave him up for dead, in his delirium he climbed into a locked church at night and the next day was found asleep there, apparently miraculously cured.
He went away to the court of King Athelstan (c. 895-939) where he was a favourite with the ladies, who took his advice on embroidery. Once, he was embroidering with Lady Ethelwyne, when his unattended harp began playing by itself. Banished from the court for witchcraft, he returned to Glastonbury and established the Benedictine rule throughout English monasteries.
Despite this tenth-century saint’s prestige as the initiator of Benedictine rule, he was banished when he offended the sixteen-year-old King. Dunstan heard the Devil laughing and told him to contain his joy as it wouldn’t last long. When Edgar became king he made St Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury, from which position he, rather than the king, virtually ruled England. His innovations in Britain included the standardising of measures and the establishment of regular justice circuits.
St Dunstan and the pegs
St Dunstan, the patron saint of goldsmiths, introduced to England a practice to prevent fights among drinkers. He ordered that ale tankards be fitted with pegs marking equal intervals, so that when more than one drank from the same cup they would drink equal amounts. Hence the expression “I am a peg too low”.
St Dunstan’s tongs
Dunstan, in a celebrated incident, used a red-hot pair of tongs to pinch the nose of the Devil when he tried to tempt him in the form of a girl. For many years the tongs were on display at Mayfield, England.
More: R Chambers Book of Days, 1879 on St Dunstan
Anglo-Saxon and Viking metalworking
Today’s plant
Monk’s hood, Aconitum napellus, was designated today’s plant by medieval monks. It is dedicated to St Dunstan.
Bendideia, ancient Greece
Bendis was the goddess in ancient Thrace (the name applied by the ancient Greeks to the north-eastern shores of the Aegean Sea) who equated with the Greek Artemis and the Roman Diana, in other words the goddess of hunting. Wearing boots and a pointed cap, and carrying a torch, she was worshipped on this day with a festival of bacchanalian character.
Kallynteria, Greece and Rome
This ancient festival on this day involved nurturance and purification rites, dedicated to Pallas Athena. In other cultures, Athena is more or less congruent with the female deities Minerva, Ceres, Demeter, Maat, Oya, Spider Woman, Mawu, Sophia, Sarasvati, the Shekinah.
Feast day of St Yves
St Yves, or Ives, or Yvo, is the patron saint of lawyers, so all the attorneys ought to have their picnic today. Yves was an ecclesiastical judge at Rennes, France, in the thirteenth century. He was known as the “Advocate of the Poor”, and in the Breton tongue he is known as Sant Ervoan ar wirionez, Saint Yves the truth giver.
The Pardon of St Yves
An annual pardon mut (silent pilgrimage) is held today on his feast day. Pilgrims silently carry candles and many finish on their hands and knees. Beggars and paupers in particular take part, for they have always seen themselves as “the clients of St Yves”.
syzygy
(KEY) , in astronomy, alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line. A planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is in opposition or conjunction, i.e., when its elongation is 180° or 0°. The moon is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is new or full. Source
... in the beginning of March, the seventh night, or the fourteenth day, let [i.e. spill] the blood of the right arm; and in the beginning of April, the 11th day, of the left arm; and in the end of May, 3d or 5th day, on whether arm thou wilt; and thus, of all the year, thou shalt orderly be kept from the fever, the falling gout, the sister gout, and loss of thy sight.
(Book of Knowledge b. 1, p 19, quoted in Chamber’s Book of Days, 1881, p 42) (The third day of the end of May was the 19th, as the beginning of a month of 31 days was reckoned to be the first 16 days)
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln, in a speech on May 19, 1856
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender.
Anne Boleyn’s last words, before her execution on May 19, 1536
Many believe that we need to change values and attitudes. I do not think this is the answer. If we change our thinking methods (especially as regards perception) our values, attitudes and behaviour will follow.
Edward de Bono, teacher of creative thinking, born May 19, 1933, article, May 11, 2002 Source
St Dunstan, as the story goes,
Once pull’d the devil by the nose
With red-hot tongs, which made him roar,
That he was heard three miles or more.
(From an engraved portrait) Today is St Dunstan’s Day
St Dunstan’s Day
Born in King Arthur’s isle of Glastonbury (Avalon), England, in about 924, Dunstan was a highly intelligent nobleman whose parents incited him to study hard, and he acquired ‘brain fever’. Though his friends gave him up for dead, in his delirium he climbed into a locked church at night and the next day was found asleep there, apparently miraculously cured.
He went away to the court of King Athelstan (c. 895-939) where he was a favourite with the ladies, who took his advice on embroidery. Once, he was embroidering with Lady Ethelwyne, when his unattended harp began playing by itself. Banished from the court for witchcraft, he returned to Glastonbury and established the Benedictine rule throughout English monasteries.
Despite this tenth-century saint’s prestige as the initiator of Benedictine rule, he was banished when he offended the sixteen-year-old King. Dunstan heard the Devil laughing and told him to contain his joy as it wouldn’t last long. When Edgar became king he made St Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury, from which position he, rather than the king, virtually ruled England. His innovations in Britain included the standardising of measures and the establishment of regular justice circuits.
St Dunstan and the pegs
St Dunstan, the patron saint of goldsmiths, introduced to England a practice to prevent fights among drinkers. He ordered that ale tankards be fitted with pegs marking equal intervals, so that when more than one drank from the same cup they would drink equal amounts. Hence the expression “I am a peg too low”.
St Dunstan’s tongs
Dunstan, in a celebrated incident, used a red-hot pair of tongs to pinch the nose of the Devil when he tried to tempt him in the form of a girl. For many years the tongs were on display at Mayfield, England.
More: R Chambers Book of Days, 1879 on St Dunstan
Anglo-Saxon and Viking metalworking
Today’s plant
Monk’s hood, Aconitum napellus, was designated today’s plant by medieval monks. It is dedicated to St Dunstan.
Bendideia, ancient Greece
Bendis was the goddess in ancient Thrace (the name applied by the ancient Greeks to the north-eastern shores of the Aegean Sea) who equated with the Greek Artemis and the Roman Diana, in other words the goddess of hunting. Wearing boots and a pointed cap, and carrying a torch, she was worshipped on this day with a festival of bacchanalian character.
Kallynteria, Greece and Rome
This ancient festival on this day involved nurturance and purification rites, dedicated to Pallas Athena. In other cultures, Athena is more or less congruent with the female deities Minerva, Ceres, Demeter, Maat, Oya, Spider Woman, Mawu, Sophia, Sarasvati, the Shekinah.
Feast day of St Yves
St Yves, or Ives, or Yvo, is the patron saint of lawyers, so all the attorneys ought to have their picnic today. Yves was an ecclesiastical judge at Rennes, France, in the thirteenth century. He was known as the “Advocate of the Poor”, and in the Breton tongue he is known as Sant Ervoan ar wirionez, Saint Yves the truth giver.
The Pardon of St Yves
An annual pardon mut (silent pilgrimage) is held today on his feast day. Pilgrims silently carry candles and many finish on their hands and knees. Beggars and paupers in particular take part, for they have always seen themselves as “the clients of St Yves”.
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