Good day Monday–it’s gonna be a great week and we’re going to have fun and learn new things.  Suppose be in low 70’s here today.

 

 

“She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.”    ― Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow

 

 

Good Morning Sunshine:

and now that we have the day represented

 

“The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.”   ― Irina Serban, Full Circle

 

 

Let’s go for the NIGHT:

I saw a book lately THE SECRET ONFLUENCE OF THE MOON (Louis Proud)  it’s a conspiracy theory book (ah gee we never see any of those any more) where he states that NASA concealed that it actually is the home of alien intelligence.

But I am not doing his book today,  I thought I’d just look at traditional moon issues and lore here on earth.

 

According to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPERSTITIONS (E. and M.A. Radford)  it use to be bad luck to point at the moon and in certain countries if you did so 9 times (or presumably more I would think) you would not ever be able to go to heaven.  So that’s right up there with major sins.   Moon worship was practiced in ancient time so I would presume this is a throw back to this in some way.

For  example the Celts thought the moon was a symbol of the “cycles of this life…and…”all lives lived.”   Emania (Moon-Land) was an underworld place where the dead resided before they were re-incarnated.  (ADVANCED CELTC SHAMANISM–D.J. Conway).

 

Is it any wonder that the moon is looked at as something of mystery with its apparent changing of shape and size.  Even its light and color (blood moon for instance) combine with other things thing of the night to be unpredictable and sometimes downright scary.  It has been used for calendars and associated with a woman’s cycle–and a symbol of the Mother Goddess.  It is even felt to be a source of the Witches power which of course based on that makes a lot of sense as that group has long been associated primarily with women?

In THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT (Rosemary Ellen Guiley) it is noted that it was believed that women were made pregnant by moonbeams(so women who wished to conceive slept in the moon light–or they didn’t they rubbed their belly with spite I could say something crude here but I won’t).  Other attributes of the moon:

Waxing:  time for planting crops and beginning new ventures.

Waning:  time of diminishing and destruction

During the Reformation: lunar periods governed the creation of magical tools, the summoning of spirits and preparation of remedies and charms.

1660 :  It was declared by an English astrologer that a child born in the full Moon would never be healthy and would risk moon madness (lunacy).

Witches:  Contemporary worship of the Goddess is associated with the Moon.  The activities and magic workings of Witches and covens are associated with the phases of the moon.

Silver:  associated with the moon and favored for enhancing psychic powers.

In healer’s practice it was associated with the stomach, breasts and digestion.  (THE HEALER’S MANUAL: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ENERGY THERAPIES--Ted Andrews)

Of course we all know some if not all the popular fiction associated with the moon. The human who by day may be a good person but who during the full moon becomes a ravenous wolf who preys on those hapless enough to cross their path–The Werewolf—

But did you know that if you kill a vampire (those more evil creature of the night who have become SOOOO popular lately) with a silver bullet (preferably blessed by a priest) that you should not allow the body to lie in moonlight as it can be rejuvenated (this is even more likely if it’s a full moon.)  By the way this a Slavic legend.  (THE VAMPIRE ENCYCLOPEDIA—Matthew Bunson)

 

So the moon has long been associated with the mythic and mystical.    And it continues on today.  I used to work in the ER and we all dreaded working during a full moon when all the crazies (lunatics–lunatics from the word lunar) showed up.  And I don’t care what your studies show or don’t you’ll never convince me that the moon is not a factor in all that.

 

 

“Do you think that too,” she said, “that I have slept too long in the moonlight?”   ― Jean Rhys