Tag: Golden Rule

  • Sun – 20 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 110
    Sunrise 6:39 – Sunset 20:13
    LOD 13:31 – LON 10:27
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:38

    Lunar Cycle Day 22
    Moonrise 2:56 – Moonset 11:53
    Moonrise tomorrow 3:32
    Fourth Quarter 19:36

    Mars in Eastern quadrature

    Easter
    Passover ends

    On this date
    Activist Dorothy Height died, 2010

    He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

    The Golden Rule (It’s true in all faiths)
    Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
    Analects 15:23 (Confucianism)

  • Sun – 13 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 103
    Sunrise 6:50 – Sunset 20:05
    LOD 13:12 – LON 10:46
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:48

    Lunar Cycle Day 15
    Moon starts in Libra ☾♎︎
    Enters Scorpio ☾♏︎ at 7:54
    Moonset 6:55 – Moonrise 21:12
    Moon at apogee 16:31
    Moonset tomorrow 7:18

    On this date
    U.S. President Thomas Jefferson born, 1743

    Palm Sunday

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.
    Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5 (Zoroastrianism)

  • Sun – 6 Apr 2025

    2025 day 96
    Sunrise 7:01 – Sunset 19:58
    Sunrise tomorrow 7:00
    LOD 12:57 – LON 11:04

    Lunar Cycle day 8 – ☾♌︎
    Moonset today 4:24 – Moonrise today 13:50
    Moonset tomorrow 4:54 – Moonrise tomorrow 14:59

    Mercury stationary – retrograde ending

    On this date
    James Dewar invented Twinkies, 1930
    First modern Olympic Games held in Athens, 1896

    Tartan Day

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
    Sunnah (Islam)

  • Sun – 30 Mar 2025

    Day 89 of year
    Sunrise 7:14 – Sunset 19:49
    Sunrise to or
    LOD 12:32 – LON 11:26

    Day 1 of lunar cycle
    Moon in Aries ☾♈︎ enters Taurus at 12:16 ☾♉︎
    Moonrise today 7:40 – Moonset today 21:46
    Moonrise tomorrow 8:08

    Moon at perigee

    Eid al-Fatir begins at sundown

    He that speaks ill of the Mare, will buy her.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
    T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien (Taoism)

  • Sunday – 23 Mar 2025

    Day 82 of year
    Sunrise 7:26 – Sunset 19:42 – Sunrise tomorrow 7:25
    LOD 12:13 – LON 11:45

    Day 24 of lunar cycle – Moon in Capricorn ☾♑︎
    Moonrise today 4:14 – Moonset today 12:50
    Moonrise tomorrow 4:56 – Moonset tomorrow 13:59

    On this date in 1903 the Wright brothers airplane was patented

    On this date in 1945 mandolinist David Grisman was born

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
    Udana-Varga 5:18 (Buddhism)

  • Sunday – 16 Mar 2025

    75th day of the year, 17th day of lunar cycle
    Sunrise today 7:37 – Sunset 7:35 – Sunrise tomorrow 7:35
    LON 12:00 – LOD 11:58

    Moonset today 8:27 AM – Moonrise today 10:10 PM – Moonset tomorrow 8:46 AM

    On this date in 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was first published.

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
    Matthew 7:12 (Christianity)

  • Sunday – 9 Mar 2025

    68th day of the year, 10th day of the lunar cycle
    Sunset 7:27 – Sunrise tomorrow 7:47
    LON 12:20 – LOD 11:38
    Moonrise today 2:39 PM – Moonset tomorrow morning 6:17 AM
    DST began at 2:00 AM

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
    Talmud, Shabbat 31a (Judaism)

    If you’re a grower in our area, this week (before the full moon Friday morning) would be a good time to plant broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, celery, collards, kale, parsley, parsnips, and spring wheat. I’ll tell you tomorrow what to plant this week after the full moon.