It's The Full Moon - Super Worm Equinox Moon 2019
Dear seekers after truth,
I’m telling you, tonight’s moon is special.
First of all, it’s a supermoon, meaning that the moon is full at the exact moment its orbit swings nearest to the Earth.
It’s also a Worm Moon, so named by Native Americans to mark the time of year when earthworms wriggle back to the surface.
Best of all, it’s happening on the vernal equinox.
I might do a spell or something.
It’s difficult to say whether it’s good or ill luck for the supermoon to fall squarely on the equinox.
This confluence last occurred on a day in March 1905.
Strange things happened.
A corrupt governor in Finland was shot by a one-armed fifteen-year-old boy.
In Portland, Maine, an undertaker preparing the corpse of Elizabeth Kemp, 46, for burial was taken aback when she revealed herself to be alive.
And, of course, the Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts exploded in a fireball, killing 58 workers and injured 150 more. According to the following day’s New York Times, one of the surviving workers was so dazed by the blast that he wandered out of the rubble, “walked to another shoe factory in the city, applied for and obtained employment, and in a mechanical sort of way he worked throughout the day. Not until he returned to his home and found his family mourning him as dead was the man’s brain sufficiently clear to enable him to recall the incidents of the day.”
So be cautious.
And savor tonight.
There won’t be another equinoctial supermoon until 2144, and if we want to see that one, we’ll have to follow the example of the earthworms.
Anyways, here we go:
HOROSCOPES
Aries
A burnt-out former Olympic athlete confronts you in a Starbucks. A scone is hurled.
Taurus
You feel briefly rejuvenated by the glorious warmth of spring...until the histamines overtake
Gemini
A large sum of money doesn’t come into your life. An exciting opportunity does not arise at work. Love is not in the air.
Cancer
"Cellar door" is widely accepted to be the most sonically beautiful phrase in the English language, which is no comfort when one gives you stitches.
Leo
A subway performance actually entertains.
Virgo
A true crime podcast sates your bloodlust.
Libra
You can’t avoid Bohemian Rhapsody forever.
Scorpio
Cottonmouth (the snake or dry mouth) strikes.
Sagittarius
Whether run or watched, the Marathon exhausts.
Capricorn
A relationship is tested by an argument over cabinets.
Aquarius
Sitting on the edge of the bath, you realize the time has long passed when you could in good conscience ignore whatever is going on with that toe of yours.
Pisces
Much like an astronaut struggling to reacclimate to life on Earth, you spend the next month trying to cope with the aftermath of your birthday, specifically being so frigging old.
WRITING NEWS
This month I received a faceful of form rejections (Dear… Thank you for sending… Unfortunately…), while all my other projects languished in various stages of undevelopment. In other words, I got nothing. But as I learned embarrassingly late in life, I got nothing is not the same as I am nothing.
So here’s to those of us who got nothing…for now.
—WD
Song of the Week: Light of the Seven, Ramin Djawadi