{"id":27,"date":"2026-10-13T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:18:11","slug":"8th-month-cheshvan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/2026\/10\/13\/8th-month-cheshvan\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Month &#8211; Cheshvan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new moon has been sighted in Jerusalem, beginning the 8th month of Cheshvan on the evening of October 12, 2026. Even at the 30th day it was a difficult sighting, perhaps because of the shallow angle of the ecliptic. When the moon came around to Texas, it was only visible for a short time. Mercury was above and to the right of the moon but was not visible in the sun&#8217;s glare. I was hoping to get a glimpse of Mercury, but experience has shown me that it is a very difficult sighting. Calendar resources to be posted soon. I may put them on the main web site as they are foundational. There is literally a skeleton crew observing the lunar observations with respect to the Biblical calendar on Planet Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new moon has been sighted in Jerusalem, beginning the 8th month of Cheshvan on the evening of October 12, 2026. Even at the 30th day it was a difficult sighting, perhaps because of the shallow angle of the ecliptic. When the moon came around to Texas, it was only visible for a short time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aravot.org\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}