{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Tender Hour","title":"Full Moon Sleep Meditation for Feeling Behind · The Harvest Moon Ritual · Female Voice · 3 Hours","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":10801,"description":"A soft three hour sleep meditation for the night of the Harvest Moon, and for the day that ended before your list did. A gentle female voice walks you through a small ritual for putting down the one thing you did not get to, and then lets you fall asleep to hours of warm ambient sound.\n\nThe moon is full tonight, Saturday the twenty sixth of September, at about ten minutes to one in the afternoon New York time. This is the Harvest Moon, which means the full moon that falls nearest the September equinox, and the name is practical rather than poetic. Most nights the moon comes up about fifty minutes later than the night before. For a few nights around the equinox, north of the equator, the moon's path lies at such a shallow angle to the eastern horizon that the gap shrinks to something closer to half an hour, and it shrinks further the further north you are. So a very large moon comes up in the east at almost the moment the sun goes down in the west, several evenings in a row. Before there were lamps out in the fields, that was the week you could keep working after dark. It is the moon you harvest by.\n\nThen the history, which is the reason this episode exists. This same full moon carries Sukkot, the festival of ingathering, which falls on the fifteenth of the month and therefore always on a full moon, because the months are counted from the new moon and the fifteenth is the round one. It began at sundown last night. For seven days you leave the house you built and live in a hut with a roof of cut branches, traditionally left thin enough to see stars through it, which means that at the fullest point of the whole year of gathering you move out of the solid building and sleep under a roof with gaps in it.\n\nAnd the people who kept that festival wrote down two laws about harvesting that are the least sentimental thing about having enough you will ever hear. Leviticus says do not reap all the way to the edge of your field, and do not go back over it for what fell. Leave...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RV6rkvW5dw7PQo7B9NNH_aBPQmo62cpvlrp87r-UST0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85OTM2/MWJkMzZlMzliYzJh/Y2M4YzUwNDVmYjM2/ZDZhOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}