For those watching from latitude 46.40 N, longitude 120.543W, the full moon set this morning at 210 degree of compass.
For those not familiar with these sorts of things, that heading is a mere 30 degrees away from magnetic south!
And...
Just a scant few hours earlier, the June full moon made it's daily appearance at 128 degrees east, southeast.
During the entire course of it's transit across the southern sky, it never rose more than 30 degrees from the horizon.
So.....What's going on here?
Now that we have passed the point of full moon, the waning moon will begin rising in the early evening.
As it does, it will be very interesting to see if each consecutive waning moonrise moves eastward as it should, or if it moves to the West as it has been doing each month since January of this year.
The pattern for the last 6 months of the waning moon has been a consecutive daily westward movement in the point of rise. This has continued through the entire first half of the waning phase. Usually at a point near the end of the third quarter of wane, the moon's transit appears to make a radical shift back to the East.
The only rational explanation for this is that the earth is experiencing a wobble! A HUGE wobble! A wobble that is so intense and so pronounced that it is causing not only the moon, but a number of stars and constellations to appear out of place at certain times.
For those just becoming aquatinted with this issue, I can only offer this bit of advice. Trust what you see with your own eyes. Make up your own mind. In the end, that is what matters. If you give away your powers of choice and decision in hopes of "official" confirmation, you are going to hear a whole lot of silence!
Or...worse yet, a whole lot of noise.
-CliffMickelson
