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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:07 PM Aug 2020

Last Friday was more than half way from Summer solstice to autumnal equinox

Short story, long view: we’re all passengers on an endless trip around the sun, and we’ve just passed halfway between the station called summer and the next one, fall. Ride is free, but we pay for meals and other stuff. But who let #COVID-19 on board?


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Last Friday was more than half way from Summer solstice to autumnal equinox (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP
That's Lammas, one of the cross-quarter holidays soothsayer Aug 2020 #1
IMO, cross-quarter days should mark the beginning and end of the seasons. yonder Aug 2020 #2
Then you don't get Halloween or Groundhog Day soothsayer Aug 2020 #3

yonder

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2. IMO, cross-quarter days should mark the beginning and end of the seasons.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:27 PM
Aug 2020

Roughly Feb. 7th, May 7th, Aug. 7th and Nov. 7th +/-, make sense to me rather than the solstice and equinox days.

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