moon days

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

I read that we are supposed to rest on moon days. Concerning a morning practice:

if the full moon is on 15 November. Will you rest on 15 Nov morning or 16 Nov

monring? Thanks for your answer.

 

Another related question: is anybody knows if the reason to rest on full moon is

more philosophical or physiological.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Namaste.

 

Loriental

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

If the full moon is on November 15th, you rest the morning of November

15th. (This has never made sense to me since the morning of the 16th

is literally closer to the "moon". I guess once it is past, it is past.)

 

The rationale is that the risk of injury is greater during this

period, and that injuries then incurred take a longer time to heal.

 

 

Namaste

 

Stephen

 

 

 

ashtanga yoga, eeeee eeeeeee

<loriental1984> wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> I read that we are supposed to rest on moon days. Concerning a

morning practice: if the full moon is on 15 November. Will you rest

on 15 Nov morning or 16 Nov monring? Thanks for your answer.

>

> Another related question: is anybody knows if the reason to rest on

full moon is more philosophical or physiological.

>

> Thanks for your help,

>

> Namaste.

>

> Loriental

>

>

>

> FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I once asked Sharath Rangaswamy about why there is no practice on

Moon Days, and he said it was because, being Brahmin, they have to

perform lengthy pujas on Moon Days, leaving them no time to

practice.

Also, although it is good to practice daily with one day off a week,

having another day off in a fortnight is also good to allow the body

to rest.

 

There are loads of urban myths and Westernised answers to why there

is traditionally no practice on Moon Days, which range from excess

to energy (and you might hurt yourself) to lack of energy (and you

might hurt yourself) and stories about injuries sustained on Moon

Days taking longer to heal. According to Sharath, its all a load of

rubbish - it is simply that on Moon Days they have to do puja, which

takes a lot of time.

 

And I'm not about to argue with him!

AnnieG

Purple Valley, Goa, Inda.

ashtanga yoga, eeeee eeeeeee

<loriental1984> wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> I read that we are supposed to rest on moon days. Concerning a

morning practice: if the full moon is on 15 November. Will you rest

on 15 Nov morning or 16 Nov monring? Thanks for your answer.

>

> Another related question: is anybody knows if the reason to rest

on full moon is more philosophical or physiological.

>

> Thanks for your help,

>

> Namaste.

>

> Loriental

[Guest guest]

The confusion with the dates is caused by the fact that in Indian

astrology they still uses the old measurement of the day, that a day

start on sunrise and continues until next sunrise. So if the full

moon is at 01.57 in the middle of night on the 16 November (with our

day shift starting at midnight), the moon day will be on the 15

November, because it's still within the current day (before sunrise).

The astrology is used to set the proper time and dates for the

different rituals like pujas and festivals. So sometimes it doesn't

corresponds to the moon days you se in calendars because they are

set after the daysplitting at midnight.

In the old Roman time system we had the same day shift at sunrise. I

don't know when we figured out that the new day should start at

midnight, and not at sunrise.

The best thing to do is to check the time of the moon setting,

http://www.tycho.dk/heaven/moon

Hope it puts a little clarity over the matter.