This process is called lunation, and it is akin to the Moon bowing slightly as it dances around us, watching us all the while. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Nightmarish lunation] Reference
(In fact, you may need to look at the free online manual just to understand terms like "lunation" and "Astronomical Julian date."). From Wordnik.com. [PC World] Reference
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Nightmarish lunation. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Nightmarish lunation] Reference
If asked, one should not say what the lunation is on a particular day. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Yadavas, said unto them these words: The fourteenth lunation has been made the fifteenth by Rahu once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Time, and seeing that the day of the new moon coincided with the thirteenth (and the fourteenth) lunation, Hrishikesa, summoning the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
A lunation trine to Uranus in your 5th house demands that you hurl yourself into the fray, grab the spotlight, and express yourself. From Wordnik.com. [November Horoscope] Reference
For him -- the same benevolent provider takes pains to silence, by the same metallic spell, ten thousand other claims and clamours, contingent to each lunation of Maga. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
This, however, I never knew that the day of new-moon would be on the thirteenth day from the first lunation, or the day of full-moon on the thirteenth day from the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Such eclipses, therefore, occurring on days removed from the days of the first lunation by thirteen instead of (as usual) fifteen days, are very extraordinary occurrences. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
This lunation emphasizes a new beginning in the fixed water sign of Scorpio. From Wordnik.com. [Blogickal] Reference
But later computators found that the average lunation lasts 29 days, 12 hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The fever and eruption in the distinct kind take up another quarter of a lunation, and the maturation another quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A lunation was among the Jews the period of a month, and several of their festivals were held on the day of the new moon. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Sudden changes provoked by this explosive lunation include the fall of authority figures, major accidents or geological upheaval. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight Moon Cafe] Reference
28 NCTES OS NANTUCKET.. axis once io a lunation, and by that means appears with all the different phases the moon appears with. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
At the commencement of each lunation, the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, and its non-illuminated hemisphere is turned toward us. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference
Had he lived, and recovered health, it might have proved that he was then only in another lunation: his first was when he passed from poesy to heroism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
(May 9) EDT (how appropriate for the Scorpio lunation!!), but the energy will be building all day as the Moon gets closer to its opposition with the Sun. From Wordnik.com. [Astrological Musings] Reference
Pluto's goal is to bring us into our full empowerment, and in this lunation (lunar event) any power imbalance in relationships of any kind will be revealed. From Wordnik.com. [Astrological Musings] Reference
How they managed about the fractions of days outstanding -- whether the common lunation was considered or the moon's motion round the star-sphere -- is not known. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
In the first thirty or forty years, a cocoa-tree of the gulf of Cariaco bears every lunation a cluster of ten or fourteen nuts, all of which, however, do not ripen. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
To twelve of the 19 years 12 lunations were assigned, and to the other seven 13 lunations, the thirteenth lunation being known as the embolismic or intercalary month. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Nightmarish lunation ». From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » MATLAB Contest] Reference
12 hours 44 min., as the time of a mean lunation, and this differs from the astronomical mean lunation by only 2.8 seconds. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
12 hr. 43 min, which is the time occupied by the moon in completing her phases, and is known as a lunar month or a lunation. From Wordnik.com. [The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns] Reference
28 NOTES ON NANTUCKET. axis once in a lunation, and by that means appears with all the different phases the moon appears with. From Wordnik.com. [Collections] Reference
Now that lunation having commenced on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
As the first lunation of the year consists of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Nightmarish lunation. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Nightmarish lunation] Reference
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