Dark of Moon
where's Moon gone?
She's off out on a date—
who's She dating?"
Last night began another Dark of the Moon. The last lunar cycle has ended and the new one has begun. Woot! For 3 days and nights the moon is directly between Earth and Sun. As a result, from the point of view of a night sky watcher on this planet, no reflected light from the lunar surface is visible to define Her form.
The legend goes that our reflective orbital rock has nipped off for a dirty weekend with her boyfriend, the local day star. After three torrid days of the gods know what partying excess, She is seen in the sky once again as a slender young slip of a thing, fashionably profiled like an Art Deco flapper, looking all sharp in silver. After a few days of waxing, though, it becomes quite apparent to all and sundry that she's up the stick and in the puddin' club (all this makes the Mile High Club seem as child's play). A few more days and the now matronly Full Moon signals the start of birthing yet another incarnatory vessel for Her monthly journey, and this wanes on for a couple of weeks until the process repeats all over again in the dark of the moon period. Interestingly, she is stooped in reverse as an old crone at that end of Her life cycle. (Bit of conceptual overlap in all this evocative symbolism, somewhat slippery, you know, like a dream.)
NOTES: 1) Hippy types and witches do sympathetic magic with this moonlit fertility cycle to make their dreams come true. 2) The mnemonic to remember how the crescent Moon positions is; for the Northern Hemisphere, DOC and for the Southern, COD (sorted). 3) All life responds to the various phases of the moon and farmers utilise this to good effect, especially with their plants (handy).
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