# Post Crossing Ahead *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 13 Aug 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *13 Aug 1999, 13:30* A little cross-posting. Actually that was "Cross Posting Behind." But I like the idea of a traffic sign showing posts crossing the road. ===== ASTRON. EVENT DATE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE EVENT Vernal Equinox Mar 20 Southern Hemisphere Autumn begins Setsubun (then) Mar 20-ish mid-Spring May 1 mid-Autumn Lemuria May Summer Solstice Jun 21 S. Hemisphere Winter begins mid-Summer Aug 1 mid-Winter Autumnal Equinox Sep 23 S. Hemisphere Spring begins +Roy's Spade Oct-ish S. Hemisphere "Plough Moon"? mid-Autumn Nov 1 mid-Spring Feast of Cath. A. Nov 25 last quarter of Spring Winter Solstice Dec 22 S. Hemisphere Summer begins mid-Winter Feb 1 mid-Summer Setsubun (now) Feb ==== Well now! Lookee here! We =can= have Hallowe'en in October (religious calendar locked in astronomical sense rather than seasonal) and be early Spring (where other cultures have had ghost holidays). Naturally, this forces the Feast of Cath. A (if also locked in astronomical sense) into late Spring! Re: Wolf Moon, here's a tidbit--Wolfe used it as a pseudonym of a genre writer in "From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton." =mantis= ---