One Moon,
one word each evening.
Cycle 01 runs from the new moon of Monday 9 November, 15:02 Bali, to the new moon of Wednesday 9 December, 08:52. Twenty-eight notes, then two quiet nights. The cycle itself lasts 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes; twenty-eight is an editorial choice, not a law of the sky. The quiet nights are a bridge to the next new moon. To look at the Moon itself, open the atlas.
Each note gives a word from Sanskrit, Latin or Greek, where it comes from, one fact from the sky or from a tradition, and a small invitation to notice something. Traditions are told as traditions; science is cited as science. Neither proves the other.
- 01Mon 9 Nov · 15:02· · ·The list appears with JavaScript. The notes are also on Instagram, @kundalino.dot.
Phases
New, first quarter, full, last quarter: instants measured for the whole Earth, here converted to Bali time.
Source: US Naval Observatory
Tithi and nakṣatra
The Indian lunar day (one of thirty) and lunar mansion (one of twenty-seven), computed at the hour of each note. Almanacs that count from sunrise can differ by a day.
Source: Swiss Ephemeris, sidereal, Lahiri
Purnama and Tilem
Bali keeps its own calendars, with full and dark moon days of its own. We will list them only after checking them with a Balinese almanac and a Balinese reader.
Status: not yet listed
Three systems, one sky. None is offered as the cause of how anyone sleeps or feels.
Next, in research
Each campaign is twenty-eight notes, one a day; the quiet nights after it are a bridge to the next new moon, and their number changes with the length of each lunation. These themes are being researched. Nothing is scheduled beyond this cycle.
- Sound and silence
- Water and tide
- Threshold and door
The sign
Opening, the creative and production platform this notebook comes from, began, as Matteo Fieni remembers it, with an open O shaped like a crescent. Kundalino keeps a single dot and lets it change with the Moon: almost nothing, then growing, full, and returning. Through the cycle the light returns; we read that as opening and hope, a way of drawing time, not a promise. On the home page the same dot follows your hour; here it follows the Moon.
How it is made
Phases: US Naval Observatory, converted to Bali time (UTC+8). The Moon drawn on each note shows its real phase at the hour of the note, turned as it appears from Denpasar; it is a drawing, not a photograph. Lunar day (tithi) and lunar mansion (nakṣatra): Swiss Ephemeris, sidereal, Lahiri, at the hour of the note; other systems and almanacs may differ. Words: Monier-Williams, Lewis & Short, Liddell-Scott-Jones. Each note lists its sources.
Nothing here is medical advice or a teaching of initiatory practice. Sound is designed for listening, not for therapy. Never while driving.