Long, lightless night

[twfarlan]

Tonight, for the first time since 1638, Luna's light will vanish on the Long Night. This is my only Yuletide tradition, but it is particularly apt tonight. I'll be asleep for most of the event, sadly

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[acelightning]

i watched the full Moon glide into the Earth's shadow and turn that uniquely weird shade of dim red, and eventually glide on out of it and resume Her usual silvery glow. the Darkest Night was, indeed, doubly dark this year... the feeling that the Darkness is pregnant with a myriad mysteries waiting to be born was very, very strong...

alas, now all that annoying warmth and sunshine is going to come back...

[twfarlan]

I like how Sir Terry Pratchett put it in Hogfather, that the Sun rose this morning, not just a luminescent ball of flaming gas.

[acelightning]

Just so.

[sorcia]

My vigil wasn't perfect, but I did see the eclipse and the dawn.

[twfarlan]

Then your vigil outlasted ours by about five hours. Sleepy, gotta go to work. Bleh.