Super Pink Moon 2021

Dear Lunatics,

Just a quick warning.

Despite its name, tonight’s full moon will not actually appear pink. 

After rising at 7:14 pm, it will carry a slight tinge of gold.

Later, as it soars across the April sky, it will appear bone-white. 

At any rate, it will be super, as will next month’s full moon.

Please note that peak illumination will occur at exactly 11:33 pm. 

That will be the best time for spell work, breaking and entering, and night gardening.

I plan to be out there, looking up and thinking.

As T. S. Eliot once wrote, “Midnight shakes the memory / As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”

I hope you’re all having a better month than I am.

Now that I’m no longer a full-time astrologer, I don’t see the catastrophes coming like I once did.

(To be fair, Eliot tried to warn me.) 

At least I can say that one person is having a worse month than me.

Our own Dr. David Keith, the Harvard scientist I wrote about in the March newsletter, was dealt a professional setback when his Swedish balloon launch was summarily canceled. 

The flight, which would have been a preliminary experiment in the field of solar geoengineering, was opposed by environmentalists, Indigenous groups, and other scientists who fear the endeavor could kickstart the apocalypse. 

Dr. Keith is now exploring other venues for the canned experiment.

You know, it’s never easy trying to save (or end) the world. 

But as I’ve learned this month, you just have to keep trudging through the wasteland.

So whether you’re trying to blot out the Sun or just make it to May, I wish you all the best of luck.

—WD