22|07|04Moon
Mirror of insight.
Just as light can be seen as pure consciousness, the reflected light of the moon can be seen as a symbol of deeper knowledge.
It seems all the more surprising that in a time overflowing with knowledge, the meaning of the moon has been so much forgotten.
If you search the Internet for videos on the subject, you will quickly find scientific evidence that the influence of the moon on us is rather a legend from ancient times. But as so often, it depends on the perspective from which you look at the whole thing :)
Thought experiment: Imagine a world without artificial light. Whether you go back 150 years, before there was artificially generated electricity, or another 50 years, when the first gas lanterns illuminated the streets, it doesn't matter in the countryside anyway - and that's exactly where we want to go with our imagination. A tent in the countryside today will do just as well - only at least for this picture without flashlight and cell phone ;D
In this world, natural rhythms still played a very important role. When the sun set in the evening and it got dark, predators were a life-threatening danger - or simply getting lost in the dark. Natural light essentially determined the course of life.
The dance of sun and moon
At the new moon, when the moon sets at sunset at the same time as the sun and cannot be seen from Earth at this angle - except during a solar eclipse - it quickly becomes pitch black after dusk.
#nighthikewithoutflashlight
Already two or three days after the new moon, the first crescent of the new moon appears in the evening sky next to the sun. This becomes larger from day to day and is to be seen with each day a scarcely hour longer. So after sunset it stays brighter and brighter for longer and longer.
At demilune, when the moon is at its zenith at sunset, it's already pretty bright without blinding artificial light!
The night of the full moon marks the climax of this development. Like in the spotlight, the shadows stand out in a clear full moon night. The night is - nestled by two days - brightly lit, no darkness.
However, then there is a break. After the full moon, there is a period of darkness after sunset until the moon has risen again. This period of darkness becomes increasingly longer with each night and darker due to the waning moon.
Until the darkest of all nights of a cycle, the night of the new moon, when the dance begins anew.
So it doesn't just get brighter or darker, the rhythm of the lunar cycle has a direction due to the sudden onset of darkness after the full moon. The flowing increase of the nocturnal brightness is abruptly interrupted - like the escapement wheel of a clockwork. A forward driving force.
The moon orbits the earth, its cycle is the middle one of the three primordial rhythms.
If you search the Internet for videos on the subject, you will quickly find scientific evidence that the influence of the moon on us is rather a legend from ancient times. But as so often, it depends on the perspective from which you look at the whole thing :)
Thought experiment: Imagine a world without artificial light. Whether you go back 150 years, before there was artificially generated electricity, or another 50 years, when the first gas lanterns illuminated the streets, it doesn't matter in the countryside anyway - and that's exactly where we want to go with our imagination. A tent in the countryside today will do just as well - only at least for this picture without flashlight and cell phone ;D
In this world, natural rhythms still played a very important role. When the sun set in the evening and it got dark, predators were a life-threatening danger - or simply getting lost in the dark. Natural light essentially determined the course of life.
The dance of sun and moon
At the new moon, when the moon sets at sunset at the same time as the sun and cannot be seen from Earth at this angle - except during a solar eclipse - it quickly becomes pitch black after dusk.
#nighthikewithoutflashlight
Already two or three days after the new moon, the first crescent of the new moon appears in the evening sky next to the sun. This becomes larger from day to day and is to be seen with each day a scarcely hour longer. So after sunset it stays brighter and brighter for longer and longer.
At demilune, when the moon is at its zenith at sunset, it's already pretty bright without blinding artificial light!
The night of the full moon marks the climax of this development. Like in the spotlight, the shadows stand out in a clear full moon night. The night is - nestled by two days - brightly lit, no darkness.
However, then there is a break. After the full moon, there is a period of darkness after sunset until the moon has risen again. This period of darkness becomes increasingly longer with each night and darker due to the waning moon.
Until the darkest of all nights of a cycle, the night of the new moon, when the dance begins anew.
So it doesn't just get brighter or darker, the rhythm of the lunar cycle has a direction due to the sudden onset of darkness after the full moon. The flowing increase of the nocturnal brightness is abruptly interrupted - like the escapement wheel of a clockwork. A forward driving force.
The moon orbits the earth, its cycle is the middle one of the three primordial rhythms.