Lo que nos dice la Luna: "si hay oportunidades, pero con paciencia".

Una semana llena de tantas cosas, con poco tiempo, incluyendo este fin de semana, que parecería que nunca iba a acabar. También es presagio de lo que será la próxima semana, con tantas cosas buenas por delante (solo si así lo decidimos). Todo lo podemos ver como una amenaza o como una oportunidad. Para mí son oportunidades que se nos abren como un camino sin fin.

Y más en estos complejos tiempos que estamos viviendo pero que a la vez, lo podemos ver como tiempos para cambiar, ver, disfrutar, estudiar, leer y tantas otras cosas que la mente se nos pueda llenar con grandes nuevas ideas.

Pero esta noche que nos ha regalado la naturaleza, a pesar de este cielo gris que tenemos sobre Caracas, nos ha brindado una hermosa noche, llena de estrellas, con una luna nueva que comienza a aparecer y que de cierta forma nos trae paz y tranquilidad.

Los dejo con una bella frase de Rumi nos puede indicar el verdadero camino de cómo podemos alcanzar lo que queremos. 

Feliz noche.

“A new Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation

 and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. 

Patience with small details 

makes perfect a work, like the universe.”  

- Rumi (poeta, erudito islámico y teólogo persa del siglo XIII)

The "Supermoon" Pink Moon

The full Moon on Tuesday night, April 7, is also a "supermoon", the largest of the full Moons this year. According to Gordon Johnston, as published recently on the Nasa Science Solar System Exploration web page (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/), it can also be called the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, Paschal Moon, Hanuman Jayanti, Bak Poya and a "supermoon."

The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published "Indian" names for the full Moons in the 1930's. According to this Almanac, as the full Moon in April and the first full Moon of spring, this is the Pink Moon, a name that comes from the herb moss pink, also known as creeping phlox, moss phlox, or mountain phlox, which is native to the eastern USA and one of the earliest widespread flowers of Spring. Other names for this Moon include the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Fish Moon, as this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.

In the Christian ecclesiastical calendar this is the Paschal Moon, the full Moon from which the date of Easter is calculated. Generally, the Christian holiday of Easter, also called Pascha, is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full Moon of spring.

Every full Moon is a holiday in Sri Lanka. For Buddhists in Sri Lanka, this full Moon is Bak Poya, commemorating when the Buddha visited Sri Lanka and avoided a war by settling a dispute between chiefs.

This full Moon will be slightly closer to the Earth (about 0.1%) than the March full Moon was, so this will be the "most super" of the full supermoons this year.

This full Moon is a supermoon. The term "supermoon" was coined by the astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 and refers to either a new or full Moon that occurs within 90% of perigee, its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit. Under this definition, in a typical year there can be 3 or 4 full Supermoons in a row. In practice, what catches the public's attention are the full Moons that appear biggest and brightest each year.

In the Chinese lunisolar calendar the months change with the new Moon and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar months. This full Moon is in the middle of the third month of the Chinese calendar. As usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon.

Pictures taken by @lvgarciag on Apr 07 at 7:30 pm from Caracas, Venezuela.