Twilight Rainbow and Skywatch Friday

Hello and Welcome
       To My Unexpected Journey
                  With A Rainbow
                         Visiting Reader,

This is my first contribution (9 Sept 2011) with SkyWatch Friday
Even though Rainbow's Story goes back to Nov 2010 

 I did not expect to be returning this soon, yet living provides one with unexpected opportunities. This is one of those happenings that seems very right in being shared.

        This event I saw as a farewell to November for 2010, and hopefully a positive sign.

        I have found it is rare to see such a perfect semi-circle which in its circle's fullness, to my thinking, would be surrounding the entire Earth for all to experience. 
        This moment for me occurred Sunday 28th November 2010 when I endeavoured to see if my Vivaz phone could record the way the sunset's glow was creating a golden light show in amid the trees and foliage. (That attempt was not overly successful when viewed on my computer's screen). I had turned from the trees and saw on the Eastern Sky the Rainbow's giving. What ever else Vivaz did not succeed with on that occasion, it very much did with the Rainbow. A beautiful giving from both.
        I decided to go for a Journey and explore meanings for a Rainbow - if you would also, I have included some of my findings with this sharing, simply......

          ~Have a beautiful Pears Cyclopaedia dated 1955-56 (younger than me, but as weathered), this is in general what is given in relation to Rainbows.... a beautiful colour effect visible to observer with back to sun and facing a rain shower. (There was no rain shower, just one of those plain sunsets creating a golden light show through the trees, with little happening in the sky, yet an earthly stillness felt as well as heard).
        Rainbows are created from refraction and reflection of Sunlight in minute water-droplets in the air. From up high it would be possible to see a Rainbow as a complete circle, but from ground level can be seen as an arc or semi-circle. When Sun is just on the horizon, the semi-circle occurs. Higher the Sun is in the sky, smaller is the Rainbow's arc.
        ~My Shapeshifter tarot book (c.1998) by Conway, Knight, and Hunt, indicate that Rainbows represent positive action and wisdom combined with spiritual energy to allow good things into life.
        ~Another input on Rainbows am including is from Animal Dreaming (c2007) by Scott Alexander King, who mentions the Rainbow Serpent. A primary Ancestor to many Of Australia's Indigenous People, in particular the Northern Regions. The Rainbow Serpent shaped the land when time was new. Then when tired of the doing found a waterhole and sank into its depths. After a rainstorm, the Rainbow Serpent's body could be seen arching up from the waterhole, up over the trees and the plains, through the clouds and down into another waterhole. Rainbow Serpent, the mightiest of the Dreamtime beings. A teacher spirit, thought of and remembered with deep respect.
       ~The Osho Zen Tarot (c1994) by various people, chose the Rainbow for its full spectrum of possibilities to represent the Earth Element, the practical, material side of life. With the Rainbow bridging earth and sky, it also bridges matter and spirit. Therefore a reminder that in reality there is no separation between them, only a continuum of one total energy. Heaven not some remote place elsewhere, but the reality wanting to be discovered and experienced right here on Earth.
      ~Then in the The Sacred Path Workbook (c1991) by Jamie Sams, is the idea of a Whirling Rainbow to unify one's self with into being interactively harmonious with one's self, one's surroundings, the Earth and its inhabitants.
       ~I'll include the elusive Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow guarded by a Leprechaun too. No wonder it's so hard to find or even reach. One's timing and intuition would need be very precise, or fortuitously fortunate to be exactly where the Rainbow's circle began dissipating. Good luck with that one!
       ~Best not omit that the Rainbow was also given to Noah after The Flood as a reminder, whenever appeared, that never again would flooding be the path chosen to cleanse the Earth of wrongness.

       ~I have almost reached the limit of my resources. This last find was new to me, and a lovely discovering from The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary of 1962 -65 I still have. I learned the Moon also gives Rainbows. Though rarely seen, is formed by the Moon's rays, and known as a Lunar Rainbow. Something worth watching for I feel. 

The Welcoming Animation is from -
  http://www.amazing-animations.com  

The Photo is My Own, achieved with my 8megapixel 'Vivaz', a Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone.

Update - Friday, 9 September 2011 - 
  SkyWatch Friday is a recent discovery for me.

http://skyley.blogspot.com/

       Kel from - http://xfacta.blogspot.com/ has been part of the inspiration for me being adventurous and having a go.
         I love the Sky's Artwork. I Collect images of Clouds, Sunsets, Sunrises, so thought, well maybe my Collections of the Sky's Artwork I Post on my Blog might be enjoyed by others who also love the variety of Visual Beauty the Sky gives.
        To connect to SkyWatch Friday, simply click on the image on my Side-bar, to find your self transported to see thumbnail images of the Sky to click on to find your self Journeying to Sites from around the World sharing images of their experiences with Earth's beautiful Sky.
        Maybe you too have images you love of the Sky's Artwork on your Blog or Web Album to contribute to share, it's quite simple to do, and SkyWatch Friday clearly explains how.

Until my next giving...

Good wishes from Magda