Regent of our Psychological Moon (51)

Introduction – Psychological Moon

We all know from our study of Gnosis that we can create a psychological Moon. The creation of the psychological Moon is really the first creation of our interior universe or interior Genesis. The psychological Moon is in other words the first work we perform in our self-realization, and our self-realization is the work of the creation of our interior universe. The psychological Moon is the permanent centre of gravity, where we have within us, the tendency to work on ourselves and to see life through the work on ourselves as the dominant tendency. That is within us we are more interested in the work than anything else. All other things come second.

Gabriel Regent of the Moon

We also know that Gabriel is the regent of the Moon, our Earth’s satellite, and following the Hermetic axiom “as above so below” we must also have within us a regent of our psychological Moon when we create it.

So our interior Gabriel, a part of our Being is the regent of our psychological Moon. See this excerpt from the Pistis Sophia Unveiled where Master Samael talks about the inner Gabriel.

“GABRIEL, as a Regent of the Moon, is one of the Planetary Genii.

The Intimate GABRIEL is something distinct, is one of the autonomous and conscious parts of our own Being.

The Intimate GABRIEL governs our own psychological Moon.

The psychological Moon also has two faces, the visible and the hidden.

All of our psychological defects, visible to the simple sight, are in the visible part of the psychological Moon.

The secret defects are found in the hidden part of our own psychological Moon.

It is obvious that defects, psychic aggregates and perversities that we do not even remotely suspect exist in the hidden part of our own psychological Moon.

MICHAEL in the Sun is an ineffable Archangel, but the MICHAEL within ourselves is different. Michael is an independent and conscious part of our own Being.

Our readers must not forget the forty-nine fires.

The forty-nine fires are, obviously, the forty-nine independent and conscious parts of our own Being.

MICHAEL and GABRIEL, which means, the SUN and the MOON, the SULPHUR and the MERCURY, serve the Alchemist in order to perform the Great Work.”

Conclusion

In conclusion this post was just to make us aware that we have a Moon within us and there is a part of our Being, our inner Gabriel that comes to take up his function of regent of the psychological Moon within one we create it for Him.

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Why the Moon Sometimes Looks Huge (50)

Introduction

Sometimes 9 have been very surprised looking at the Moon. Sometimes it seems much larger than normal and more yellow or brown in colour. 9 always wondered why this is until 9 did some reading.

An Optical Illusion

So it turns out that this is an optical illusion. The key observation here is that the moon always, looks larger than normal when it is seen close to the horizon, and this typically occurs at twilight or a little after.

Moon Always the Same Size

The Moon is actually the same size but because it is close to the horizon, it appears alongside trees, houses, buildings, signs etc. When our eyes make a comparison between the moon and the trees, the Moon appears to be much larger than normal.

Yellowy Brown Colour

The reason why the Moon near the horizon is yellow or brown in colour, especially if it is a full moon, is because the light it is reflecting from the Sun is the typical very yellow, reddish brown light seen during sunset.

Moon Rises High Apparent it Shrinks

When the Moon rises higher into the sky it appears smaller and this is because there is nothing in the sky that we can visually compare It too. The Moon doesn't come closer or grow then shrink, it stays the same size always, it is just the way we see it, it seems bigger due to comparison or better said it is seen larger in relation to the other objects on the horizon.

Conclusion

There you have it an optical illusion. Makes sense, the Moon can’t just swell and then shrink back down again like a blowfish.

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Basic Motion of the Moon (49)

Introduction

The aim of this post is to describe very simply the basic details of the Moon’s motion around the Earth.

Elliptical Path and Near Side

The moon moves in an elliptical path around the Earth, completing its orbit every 29 Earth days. This coincidently is the same time it takes the Moon to rotate once on its axis. Because of this from the Earth we only ever see one hemisphere or face of the moon. This face or hemisphere is commonly referred to as the near side.

Far Side

The other side, the dark side is permanently hidden from our view here on Earth. We got the first glimpse of the fur or dark side of the Moon in 1959 when the soviet spacecraft Luna 3 managed to photograph it.

Perigee and Apogee

Because the Moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical orbit the distance between the Moon and the Earth varies. There is a time when the distance between the Earth and the Moon reach a maximum and a minimum.

When the Moon is closest to the Earth it is said that the moon is at its perigee, and when the Moon is furthest it is at its apogee.

The perigee is 356410km away from the Earth, and the apogee is 406 697km away. This variation in distance of the Moon from the Earth makes the Moon look smaller and larger in the night sky.

Conclusion

The most interesting thing about eh Moon’s motion around the Earth is that the rotation of the Moon around its axis is synced to its rate of revolution around the Earth, making only one of its sides always visible to us.

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Basic Properties of the Moon (48)

Introduction

The idea of this post is to present some of the very basic properties of the Moon in a way that we can easily relate to, that is by using Earth comparisons. With this basic information about the Moon we can a tiny bit of a feeling of what it would be like to visit the Moon.

Size

The Moon has a radius of about one quarter of the Earth's radius, making it in relation to the planet that it orbits (the Earth), quite large in fact.

Surface Area

In surface area the Moon has 38 million square kilometres, making it in surface area slightly larger than the continent of Africa.

Atmosphere

Its atmosphere is almost a perfect vacuum, that is there are no weather phenomena at all, and the sky is always black. You can see the stars during the day but the glare reflecting off the Moon’s surface makes it difficult for the human eye to see them.

Temperature

At high noon the Moon's surface temperature can rise to above 100°C and it can drop to be as low as -150°C at midnight.

Rotation (Day and Night)

The time the Moon takes to rotate once on its axis is 29 Earth days or 708 hours so a day on the Moon lasts 708 hours and from sunrise to sunset there is about 2 weeks of daylight. That’s one very long day.

Mass

The Moon has about 1% of the mass of the Earth and gravity is about one sixth as strong on the moon. So if a person weighs 60kg on Earth that same person would weigh 10kg on the moon.

Summary

Mass:                    7.35×10²² kg (1% of the Earth mass)

Radius:                 1738km (27% radius of the Earth)

Surface area:        3.79×10⁷ km (17% area of Earth)

Density:               3340 kg/m³ (3.34g/m³).

Gravity:                                                    1.62m/s² (17% of Earth)

Average surface temperature:                  102°C day;-153°C night.

Surface temperature in polar areas:        -50°C in the light and -230°C in the shade.

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