Concerning the Moon

Concerning the Moon

From the dawn of history the moon has played a most important part in the life of the human race. Her changing orb has served as a time measure, an infallible calendar in Nature, even since men have intelligently marked the flight of time.

Reference to the Bible, or the sacred books of ail times and nations, reveals the importance attached to the Lunar phases in ceremonial religion. The movable feasts of our own Church depend year by year upon the Lunar Phases. We know that at the Full Moon animals, birds and reptiles are very much more on the move than they are during the rest of the moon’s alternation. We know well enough that the ebb and flew of the tides is partly due to the pull of the moon wherever “men go down to the sea in ships” they must heed her times and seasons.

We know of the traditional connection between the conditions of the mentally unstable and the moon’s changes, We know of the peculiar hallucinations which are produced by exposure to tropical moonlight during sleep.

We can trace the obvious and absolute correspondence between certain feminine functions and the Lunar cycle of twenty-eight days. Men who have studied natural phenomena in every age have credited the moon with an influence upon vegetable life.

Upon animal function, upon psychic activity in human beings The theories of the old-time alchemists have survived many centuries of materialism, to be finally rediscovered and proved true in essentials by the modern chemist and physicist.

In the same way, the teaching of the old time Astrologers concerning Lunar influence (though they are loosely stated and mixed with much speculative dross) will be re-established by the enlightened Science of tomorrow Astrologer.