Neal, I received this same message via another listserv I am subscribed to. Perhaps it would be nice if you gave credit where credit is due... especially since this is the EXACT text of the other message. It is a valuable tool, especially for those in the Earth religions, but useful to everyone else as well; however, taking someone else's words, even in the casual environment of email, is sure to bring 3x bad to you. Blessings, Liz Neal Caskey wrote: > This year will see the first full moon occur on the winter solstice, > Dec. 22, commonly called the "first day of winter". Since a full moon on > the winter solstice will occur in conjunction with a lunar perigee > (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon will > appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's > elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth) since the Earth is > also several million miles closer to the sun at this time of the year > than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger > making it brighter.? Also, this will be the closest perigee of the Moon > of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If the > weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is > believed that even car headlights will be superfluous. On December 21st > 1866, the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination of occurrences > and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming > Territory. In laymen's terms, it will be a super bright full moon, much > brighter than usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years! Our > ancestors 133 years ago saw this.? Our descendants 100 or so years from > now will see this again. I hope someone else might find this > interesting!? Remember this will happen December 22, 1999. Take a look > at the sky that evening. > > Neal Caskey > ostrich@bellsouth.net > Please visit my website-books for sale at: > http://members.xoom.com/petphotos/books.htm > > ==== NCROOTS Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a message to > NCROOTS-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > with the one word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.