8 March 2081
Kept on the day its tithi runs at midnight (nishita).
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturdashi · until 05:47, 9 March 2081
- Nakshatra
- Dhanishta
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 06:29 – 18:10
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 11:57 – 12:43
Festival · 2081
Maha Shivaratri 2081
Falls on 8 March 2081 in San Francisco, as computed from the real sky for that city.
The portal of Festivals
Today's three riddles
Turn a card. Answer all three rightly and this portal is sealed in your sky. New riddles every morning.
In 19,870 days
The sky that day
- The Moon
- Krishna Chaturdashi
- The Sun is in
- Kumbha
- The Moon is in
- Kumbha, in Dhanishta
What the day is
The great night. Not a celebration — a vigil. The one festival whose entire practice is to stay awake, which is also its whole meaning.
How to keep Maha Shivaratri
One act for the day
Stay awake. Four watches, four offerings if you keep the full form; if not, then simply do not sleep, and use the hours. This is the year's deepest night of practice and it costs nothing.
The day, for San Francisco
The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.