Synchronicity of the auspicious moon

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OK, one never knows when these things are coincidental or not, but I'd have to say they happen far too frequently to me to say all of them are coincedence. So I look at them all with a mind of auspiciousness, but not too seriously.

Here is the ORANGE moon at retreat [who ever saw an orange moon? Pink? Yes. Red? Yes. Gold? Yes. But not orange.] on the night of the empowerment of the wisdom meditation associated with Manjushri, an enlightened role model whose specialty is wisdom itself. Interestingly, the color associated with it is orange.


Again, it's not that it happens, but how often it happens. For comparison, here are photos from the winter retreat 2006, where there was a red rainbow (just red, no other colors, except maybe for a tinge of gold) with red sky on the one night we did a meditation whose associated color was red. Did I mention the end of the rainbow was the prayer hall?



Oh, yeah, and it was like 40 degrees every day in Wiscosnin in January for about 21 days. And it didn't snow (except for a few stray flakes), except the last day on the last hour of retreat, and then it was pretty much a blizzard. I drove home at 25 miles an hour for almost the entire drive. Very unusual. But it could easily have been coincidence.

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