27 April 2009

Moonstruck in the month of Jamál (Beauty)

Tonight's moon really caught my eye, with a tinge of red reflected from the sunset - creation is most perfect! Tonight is, as well, the first night of the Bahá'í month of jamál 'Beauty', making an appropriate start to the present 19-day cycle in the midst of the "King of Festivals", the 12-day Ridván period -Rejoice!
...of divine wisdom and heavenly counsel, [Rúmí says]:

Each moon, O my beloved, for three days I go mad;
Today’s the first of these—’Tis why thou seest me glad.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Four Valleys, p. 49)
Moon as seen from Oslo, 27 April

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