Effect of Galactic Center?
I'm reading Schoch, Robert M. and Logan Yonavjak, The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research (2008). A couple of different papers in that book refer to an effect whereby psi phenomena are decreased when the galactic center is above the local horizon, as if it were quite widely known in the parapsychology world. So of course I immediately think that perhaps one needs to consider this when planning magical workings.
The center of the Milky Way is at RA 17:45, Decl -29o 0', and I found an online converter for local time to Local Sidereal Time . At 17:45 LST, the galactic center will be at its highest point above the horizon. This altitude will be L - 90 + 29 where L is your latitude. Taking 1/15 of that converts the altitude to rise and fall times in hours (2/15 is the total time above the horizon).
It turns out that LST at my latitude is 4:16 earlier than the local time, so 17:45 LST is 22:00 CDT, and the galactic center is above the horizon for 3.6 hours/day, which puts the time of interference right at 8:00 pm to midnight, generally prime time for ritual and magic (That would be 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm when we're off DST).
Now, I don't know how much that effect amounts to on the kinds of things I do, and I suspect my chances of detecting it are vanishingly small, but it's some food for thought anyway.
If you live near 29o south of the equator, you are in the baleful zone for 12 hours/day.
The center of the Milky Way is at RA 17:45, Decl -29o 0', and I found an online converter for local time to Local Sidereal Time . At 17:45 LST, the galactic center will be at its highest point above the horizon. This altitude will be L - 90 + 29 where L is your latitude. Taking 1/15 of that converts the altitude to rise and fall times in hours (2/15 is the total time above the horizon).
It turns out that LST at my latitude is 4:16 earlier than the local time, so 17:45 LST is 22:00 CDT, and the galactic center is above the horizon for 3.6 hours/day, which puts the time of interference right at 8:00 pm to midnight, generally prime time for ritual and magic (That would be 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm when we're off DST).
Now, I don't know how much that effect amounts to on the kinds of things I do, and I suspect my chances of detecting it are vanishingly small, but it's some food for thought anyway.
If you live near 29o south of the equator, you are in the baleful zone for 12 hours/day.