Worst Day of Year - Are you feeling the earth tilt?

[packman]

The winter solstice — also known as Yule, Midwinter, the Shortest Day of the Year and the Longest Night — occurs at 11:28 a.m. ET Thursday.

But this short, little day with the great many names also may be the worst day of the year, according to astrologers. The reason? Saturn.

Apparently, the sun will appear to pass in front of the constellation Capricorn hours after Saturn does likewise. This will cause both of these orbs to line up for the first time time since 1664, according to London astrologer Neil Spencer, who writes for The (London) Observer but first wrote about the alignment on his blog.

He insists that starting something new on this day is “ill advised” and will have long-term consequences. And anything you try to do Thursday will be more difficult than usual, take more time and be more frustrating.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/12/20/winter-solstice-worst-day-2017-astrologers/970249001/

[tazkcmo]

1. And thou shall misplace tiny things

And have difficulties recalling where thou hath put them.

[lunatica]

2. Except when thou steps on them in thine bare feet

[tazkcmo]

11. And then

Shall ye cry out to the heavens!!!

[hatrack]

16. "There shall, in that time, be rumors of things going astray, um . . .

. . .and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."

[tazkcmo]

24. There it is.

Perfect.

[AmericanActivist]

3. So, on Winter Solstice, today, Capricorn and

Saturn will line ip for the first time since 1664. Wow!

[2naSalit]

4. Interesting...nt

[rusty fender]

5. And you will enter a room

and not know why you did

[Girard442]

6. Ummm....guys...aren't we being a little hemispheric-centric here?

[TexasProgresive]

7. So far Solstice day has been great.

I rode 20 miles with my cycling friends on a Solstice day ride. True they went on for lots more miles without me, but it was great after not riding for a month (hernia surgery). I was happy to find I still have legs.

BTW if I felt the tilt it would've made the down hills uphill.

[kedrys]

8. I've done five loads of laundry so far today. That never happens.

Also, the fireplace fire caught on the first attempt, I made migas for the first time in 10 years and they were delicious, and it's sunny outside for the first time this week.

What am I missing...?

[ProudLib72]

9. It's all true!

Yesterday was 67 degrees, sunny and no wind. Today is 28 degrees, snowing, icy roads, nasty.

[LeftInTX]

10. Oh no!! We just did a bunch of financial stuff

Just got back from our financial advisor

[Lint Head]

12. Except astrology doesn't predict anything on this earth

It reminds me of the current relatively new evengelical fad The Bible Code. It predicts things could happen but when it doesn't happen it is interpreted in a different way. Astrology is an ancient belief conceived because people at that time could not understand science or the universe.
It was also a form of control. Kings had astrologers who instructed them to make decisions based on the alignment of the stars.

[packman]

13. Obviously you are a Sagittarian

Probably born in the year of the goat - both sign of the skeptical personality and intelligent

[Lint Head]

17. I'm Aries. The ram! Bull headed. But the stars positions have

changed so much since astrology was conceived there is no telling what I am. You could name any sign and there would be associated human tendencies I would agree that are a part of me.

[JonLP24]

28. I am one

Out of all things I entered my date & birth place and Astro Suite or World pretty much had me down to a T. I don't know if I believe in astrology but their profile of me was pretty darn accurate.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Good to know there is a reason I have been a lazy-ass slob all day.

I was planning to go finish up my Christmas shopping, but I just kept falling back to sleep and by the time I actually came alive I decided it was too late to head out. Oh, well, there's always tomorrow, but the pressure is on now.

[Roland99]

15. Damn. I just started the laundry. Bet there's a white sock stuck in the reds....

Woe is me

[Lint Head]

19. That means Clorox is in the house of Tide and the Maytag

Controls are in a different phase. Purex can succeed if Arm & Hammer moves on Downy.

[Roland99]

25. I Woolite to think I could Gain something from this after All

[Lint Head]

30. You wouldn't Rinso but some have reported having Cold Power.

[japple]

34. Much better than to have a red sock in with the whites!

[Roland99]

35. True that!

[japple]

36. You'd end up with a whole bunch of pinkos!

[Roland99]

37. Well, I have been called a commie many times lately!

[japple]

38. Yer in good company! Consider it a compliment.

[Oneironaut]

18. They also predict that you will do that thing you always do,

but this time, it will be different. Remember when you met that guy with the thing, and your friend was there? It will be just like that, but more.

[Lint Head]

20. It's too cloudy to see here. Wonder if it was too cloudy to see in 1664?

[LongTomH]

21. The reason for the season.....

.....we celebrate Christmas in December because it coincides with the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. The person now known to history as Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in the spring. The priests of the White Christ appropriated many of the old pagan holidays......and there's nothing really wrong with that.

I have a wonderful friend, a devout Episcopalian, who truly blew my mind when she declared "I'm more a pagan than a Christian." One of her Facebook post was devoted to a service she found particularly moving, she said: "Have a Blessed Day" and added "Blessed Be, which is, of course, the Pagan Blessing.

Have a Blessed Holiday Season, and Blessed Be!

[jpak]

22. Gee - I went skiing for the first time this year

No lag cramps - no googles frosting over.

No ice on the headwalls.

Am I doomed?

[malaise]

23. Interesting thread

Thanks

[NightWatcher]

26. Preach! I had to navigate through the big shopping mall earlier

And yes, it sucked more than normal.

[Kingofalldems]

27. Longest day of the year down under.

[Codeine]

29. Astrology should be a banned subject here. nt

[MrScorpio]

31. Damn skippy!

[Takket]

32. today starts the long march back to summer!

[Gabi Hayes]

33. Thats not why the earth is tilting

That’s been going on since Nov 8 of last year

[logosoco]

39. Interesting...

maybe this explains why my grandsons and I were not able to finish the third book in the Harry Potter series yesterday! I thought for sure we would get it done, but they ask a lot of questions (always good to pause reading for that) and then we had to leave to go somewhere when we were halfway through the last chapter.

(We did get it finished today, though!)