#equinoxes — Public Fediverse posts
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I have been making zines about the eight #sabbats and 4 #equinoxes in the #WheeloftheYear
In this #grimoire we look at #SpringEquinox #Ostara
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each zine is 4 £/$/€ + shipping
if you would like to make a purchase, contact me at: [email protected]I regularly attend zine festivals and will always make sure to announce when I will be tabling at the next event!
#darkhabits #darkhabitszines #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft
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https://www.darkhabits.net/post/spring-equinox-ostara-grimoire-zine
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I have been making zines about the eight #sabbats and 4 #equinoxes in the #WheeloftheYear
In this #grimoire we look at #Imbolc
Info
each zine is 4 £/$/€ + shipping
if you would like to make a purchase, contact me at: [email protected]I regularly attend zine festivals and will always make sure to announce when I will be tabling at the next event!
#darkhabits #darkhabitszines #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft
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But, as we now know, the #JulianCalendar's mean year is about 11 minutes 15 seconds longer than the #TropicalYear, and by the 4th century AD, the dates of the #solstices and #equinoxes had drifted from their official dates by several days.
In the 16th century, #Pope Gregory XIII used his authority as #PontifexMaximus to reform the calendar again, because that is something #popes can do.
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@Gila I've a similar attitude to all #holidays that are #culturally or #socially sanctioned.
#Solstices and #Equinoxes I give a hoot about: they are definitive physical manifestations of our little blue and green ball flying round the fireball sun.
They mark the seasons; planting, growing, harvesting, hibernating.
Random picture:
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I had one of those “Why didn’t that ever occur to me before?” moments. The time between the #Equinoxes is not symmetrical. It’s about 186 days between the #March and #September equinoxes and about 179 days from September to March. This is because the speed of the #Earth in its #orbit varies as it’s #elliptical rather than circular. I never bothered to count the days and yet it’s “obvious” when you look at the calendar. This gives an eccentricity of the orbit to be around 0.015.