The new year makes us think about matters of time. One is the number of full Moons or lunations -- the period from one new Moon to the next -- that occur in a long human lifetime. The approximate number is 1,000, which is a generous amount, but not unlimited, especially when you consider how many cloudy nights and times of illness or preoccupation there are in our lives.
We have a limited number of lunations, a measured amount of Moons in our lives. Starting tonight, use them wisely. Use them well.
--Fred Schaaf, in January 2017 Sky & Telescope magazine (p. 45) in "Wonders of the Year-Start Sky"
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