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The moon orbits the earth about every 29
days, and this first cycle is the one most people are
familiar with.
The moon is
illuminated by sunlight, the giver of all warmth, light,
and life in our solar system, but we can't always see the
part being lit.
As the moon goes
around the earth, we see the moon from different angles.
When we see a full moon, the moon is directly opposite
the sun, when we see no moon, its because the moon and
sun are in the same direction. (see picture above)
The moon goes from
dark moon (no moon visible) through the waxing stage, to
the full moon, to the waning moon stage, and then back to
the dark moon stage. This first lunar cycle is one of the
main factors controlling the amount of reflected light we
get from the moon.
The second lunar cycle
is distance: the moon's orbit around the earth is not
perfectly round, and so the moon is not always the same
distance from the earth. This changing distance is what
makes the moon seem bigger sometimes. The moon's power is
up to 25% greater when it's at its closest point. This
second cycle also effects the amount of reflected light
we get from the moon.
The third cycle is the
height of the moon in the sky. The moon's orbit is not
parallel to our equator, and so the moon
"wobbles" in its path around us. This wobble
makes the moon higher in the sky at some points of its
orbit than it is at other times, and effects the quality
of the light we get from the moon.
Like all living
things, we are closely tied to light and its effects.
Though most people don't think about it much, the amount
and quality of light we get has a big impact on our
lives.
"Quality" is
this sense, is more than a sense of a light's
"warmth" or "coolness." These terms
are used to describe light that is either more towards
the red end of the spectrum (warm) or towards the blue
end (cool), and studies reveal that the "color"
of light effects us greatly.
But the moon does more
than simply reflect sunlight, it also transmutes it,
changing its energies slightly and adding its own subtle
vibrations. Moonlight may be reflected sunlight, but, in
being reflected, it takes on a character all its own.
The three basic lunar
cycles control the both the amount and quality of light
we get from the moon and its gravitational and magnetic
effect on us and all living things.
Modern science can't
tell you exactly how sunlight is changed as it is
reflected by the moon. They can't tell you exactly how
moonlight effects you. They can't tell you exactly how
the moon's gravity effects you. They can't tell you how
the moon's magnetic field effects you. They don't really
understand how any of it effects you and your life.
This information is
not "out there" somewhere, waiting to be
discovered, but rather inside, waiting to be remembered.
All you have to do is learn to listen to the heartbeat of
nature and begin to dance in time with its rhythms.
Where the sun can be
seen as life and spirit, the earth seen as body and
physical, the moon can be seen as the successful
combination of physical and spiritual. In it's dance
through time and space, the moon is in balance with the
forces around it... it is in harmony.
As without, so within.
Knowledge of the basic cycles of life is an understanding
of the forces that motivate and drive us; the forces that
affect our lives.
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