The Storm

It's 7:14 PM EDT on Saturday here in Albany and I have just a few minutes to post my entry for this Sabbath before sunset at 7:26 PM.

This has been an intensive Sabbath with many important insights, but I don't have time to record them all here. Instead, I can only share where I started out in my dialogue with Gemini last night:

It's 7:03 PM on Friday, 3 April 2026, 16 Nisan 5786 (AVE 1). I am about to light my Sabbath candle at 7:06 PM. I'd like to work with you until 8:30 PM drafting a blog post that summarizes my Tuesday evening Lord's Supper and Wednesday evening Passover Seder experiences this year. To get things started, I would like you tell me when this year, following the Quartodeciman approach to the calculation of the Last Supper, is the Lord's Resurrection Day?

I feel a bit like a failure because my psychiatric symptoms got the better of me this week, and I didn't observe either the Universal Johannine Eucharist or the National Israelite Seder as well as I wanted to. I was very fatigued and spent most of each night going to bed early. I ate fairly quickly standing up at the kitchen counter and didn't have enough time or energy to prepare any kind of liturgy. On the positive side, I did successfully clear out all of my leavened products. I found kosher Kedem grape juice at the store for both nights, but they didn't have Passover matzah available, so I used corn tortillas instead. They weren't certified for Passover. Next year, I want to plan ahead farther and better. I want some very simple liturgies well ahead of time in case my energy is low again; I want to make homemade fresh grape juice, and I want to order certified kosher for Passover matzah well ahead of time. I think it's also best if I just plan to eat my usual salad for dinner. The only difference will be the fresh whole grape juice and the matzah. Maybe I could have the matzah with a homemade charoset or hummus. The other thing I want to mention is that there was a massive storm of thunder, lightning and rain here in Albany on Tuesday night just as the Sun was setting. I was lying in bed at the time. I considered it a potential sign of the Aquarian Dispensation.

Gemini skillfully reframed my initial sense of "failure." We took it from there.

I would like to say more about what we discovered, but the Sabbath has just ended (according to my sunset working definition) and Eastertide has begun. It is time for me to turn my attention to the Easter vigil.