Archive for September, 2007

Southern Aedrini 2007

September 19th, 2007

The equinoctial season of spring has arrived in Australia and the flurry of wildflowers and the green of new growth marks the warming of the land. The lunation from 19th September is that of the Aedrini moon in the southern hemisphere, spanning the vernal equinox. Follow the southern lunations on the Caer Australis website. The [...]

Wales v Australia

September 12th, 2007

A Red Roar brings a match between Wales and Australia! A treat all round with two great teams. The best on the day!

Cup news: ABC Sport | Rugby Heaven

Follow the Cup at icWales.
And at 32 : 20, a good fiery game with an exciting finish! Well done both!
 

Saturn in Taurus 2002

September 8th, 2007

The astronomical rarity that occurred in 2002, the near conjunction of the visible planets, was recorded in the Harvard University Gazette in its April 18, 2002 issue. The image, copied from the page, shows the evening sky in April 2002. Later that year in June, the dawn rise of the constellation Taurus saw the planets [...]

Spring ‘07

September 1st, 2007

September 1st is the official start to Spring in Australia, several weeks before the southern vernal equinox, and a month after ’southern Imbolg’, Teine Earrach Deas. The Celtic reckoning allows for the spectacular awakening of oaks, and here is the green mantle displayed by the Tranby oaks by the banks of the Swan.
     ”Oak that grows     between [...]

Flowerface

September 1st, 2007

And Arianrhod declared to Lleu, “You will never have a wife of the race that now inhabits the Earth!” So Math and his nephew Gwydion set about, by magical incantations, to form a wife for the Lleu the nephew of Gwydion. They took blossoms of oak, of broom and of meadow-sweet, produced from them a [...]