Are All Moons Tidally Locked to their Planet? (58)

Introduction

I always thought that only our Moon and Earth were locked in a synchronised spin, accounting for why we always only see one face of the Moon. However after reading the passage below from the book “Moons of the Solar System (From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl)” by James A.Hall, I realised that this spin synchronisation is a feature common to many other moons.

Excerpt

“Luna is the proper name given to Earth’s own moon, hence the word Lunar. (These terms are used interchangeably in this chapter, and Appendix B only, as this rest of this book refers to other moons). Luna is tidally locked to the Earth so that one side always faces us, but due to a slight rocking motion called libration, we can actually see about 59 % of the total surface area of the moon (not all at once, of course). Many other moons exhibit tidal locking with their own planet. Still, the far side (often incorrectly referred to as the dark side, as it is spends as much time lit as the close side) remained mostly hidden until 1959. In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe photographed this mysterious side”.

Summary

To have a synchronised spin between moon and planet seems to be a characteristic of the lunar principle.

So then we can extend this to esotericism and psychology. If we have lunar principles at work in a certain area, this principle of being locked or only seeing one side will be prevalent. Certainly this is observable in our psychology which esotericism states is essentially a lunar principled or based psychology. We typically only see one side of our psychology, we don’t perceive our psychology in a unified, uni-total way.

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