This coming November 7/8 will mark the 5th anniversary of the Harmonic Concordance. I intend to use this blog as the web address for the discussion of this event. There are two things which I will address here: the astrology of the Anniversary and the spiritual, cultural and social aspects of ceremonial observations of it. I hope you are interested in participating in the conversation.
So, let me start with this. The Harmonic Concordance was celebrated on November 8th or 9th of 2003. The reason that it was an either/or situation is that the actual event was timed for the exact moment of the maximum of the total lunar eclipse that took place that day (or evening as the case may have been). This meant that in each of the world’s 24 different time zones, that moment would occur during a different hour. So it was generally true that, for locations East of Greenwich, England, the eclipse maximum happened on the 9th of November, while in time zones west of Greenwich it took place on November 8th. This had the effect of having people from all around the globe celebrating in the exact same moment of prayerful intent, regardless of what the local clocks said.
For the 5th anniversary however, there will be no lunar eclipse to mark the time to hold observations. This has an effect on choosing the time to set up for the anniversary celebration since every astrological event is pinned to a DATE, TIME and LOCATION.
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