Supermoon will occur for the first time since 1993

Reported by: Angela Brauer

Email: angelabrauer@kmtr.com



EUGENE (KMTR) – A moon perigee will occur for the first time since 1993.

This year the “supermoon” will coincidentally happen in conjunction with a full moon phase. Scientists say a perigee is when the moon’s oval orbit will be closest to Earth. It will appear nearly 14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual.

The moon’s distance typically varies around 410,000 kilometers, but tonight it will be about 356,575 kilometers.

Ocean tide has proven greatest when the moon is full. During the perigee, tidal force has in the past been stronger with more dramatic highs and lows.

Scientists speculate that there could be a link between supermoons and natural disasters. Disasters occurring in the same year of supermoons, they say, were influenced by the increased gravitational strength. However those who contend this idea say unless a disaster happens on the actual date of the supermoon, monthly alternation between the Earth and moon’s points of furthest proximity and closest proximity are not supportive.

Astrologers have most recently argued that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami was brought on by tonight’s anticipated perigee. It is the closest the moon has been since 1993. Earlier in the month, however, the moon was about 400,000 kilometers from Earth – close to a distance defining apogee (the furthest point from the world).

The next expected supermoon, although not a complete perigee, is expected November 14th, 2016.

Are You Sad Today??

Here are verses from the Kahlil Gibran's poem, The Prophet...

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

...The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

...When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

As an introduction.. I would like to embrace a poetic writings of Kahlil Gibran from his book The PROPHET.. a friend of mine suggest this to me a while ago and i find this very interesting .. so journey with me into the verses On Love...

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.