Viewed from the earth's surface, our moon and sun seem similar in size and shape. One a rock composite, the other a star composite. Both serve two different purposes for our solar system, life on earth, and one's belief as they may dictate our solar/ lunar symbolisms. Some say that the sun represents our heart, while the moon represents our mind. Both being beneficial to human life, and life on earth in general, there are some opposing factors that separate them. If you think about our zodiac signs, we have both a sun sign, and a moon sign. They compare because they both relate to our zodiac. However, they portray different signs within us. They both affect the daily lives of people in significant ways. However, their effects and characteristics …show more content…
Unlike the sun, the moon doesn't emit heat and energy through the form of light. However, it does have a vast gravitational pull on our atmosphere which correlates to the tides and wakes of the ocean. It almost seems as if the moon is selfish as it's trying to pull from the earth's surface; whereas the sun is giving of its light and energy and asking nothing in return. Unlike the sun, the moon is pockmarked with dark stretches of craters, and pools of hardened lava. The light of the moon is employed by the boiling star from its opposed axis of the earth. What temperature does the moon have you may ask? Well the sun is also its source of heat as the moon doesn't generate its own. Without the moon, our sun would simply evaporate our oceans, lakes, and rivers. With the gravitational pull the moon provides, our waters can move on the surface and within the earth's crust. This allows for a sustainable sea life and even allows for forms of energy to be created below the water, via fans that are driven by the waters current. Lastly our moon is what dictates the time of the day. It slows the earth's rotation and therefore our twenty-four day is
However Vala mentions that the Sun didn’t have her “hall” yet or know her purpose nor did Moon, noted to be Sun’s companion, know its purpose yet. The Northern Europeans understandably associated the sun and moon together as it appeared that one rose at night and one in the morning and both celestial objects glowed and must’ve held a purpose or influenced life on earth.
tells the tale of the sun and the moon and how these two heavenly bodies
The basic astrological assumptions are not hard to grasp. For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavenly bodies, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements. The astronomers of the ancient world assumed a division of the universe whereby the superior, immutable bodies of the celestial worlds ruled over the terrestrial or sublunary sphere, where all was mortality and change. It was assumed that the stars had special qualities and influences which were transmitted downwards upon the passive earth, and which varied in their effect, according to the changing relationship of the heavenly bodies to each other. They were led to postulate a single system in which the seven moving stars or planet shifted their position in relation to the earth and each other, against a fixed backcloth of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Our Sun continuously converts hydrogen into helium and with this process it provides the essentials for life processes. In doing this it controls “our climate, provides light, raises tides, and drives the food chain” (Schaefer 34). Our Sun also has influenced many beliefs now and in the past. History has documented Sun worshipping religions while many current societies use solar calendars (Schaefer 34).
The Moon, the closest astral body to the Earth, revolves around the Earth 13 times a year. The lunar month is the period of one revolution of the moon.
Specifically, gravity from the sun and the moon pull particles (water) from the earth toward the direction of the moon and the sun. However, the moon has a higher influence on the gravitational pull than the sun, because even though the sun is much larger than the moon the moon is significantly closer to earth than the sun. Additionally, this means that the moon will have a greater influence on the gravitational pull. Together the sun and the moon both work together to influence the tidal heights. For example, at the time "when the moon, Earth, and sun form a right angle.
This initial impression of the Moon as being a barren and entirely dead world has been propagated in the astronomical literature ever since Galileo first published his observations in 1610.2 It seems, however, that the Moon has been receiving unjustifiably bad astronomical press for nearly three centuries, for reports of its long-standing status rigor mortis have been greatly exaggerated. Lunar observers (mainly amateurs) have noticed that the Moon's surface is occasionally host to anomalous transient lunar phenomena (TLP) which have assumed a variety of forms, including isolated flashes or pulses of light, coloured glows and obscurations of portions of the lunar surface. Just why the science of astronomy has been unwilling to accept that our satellite occasionally displays obvious signs of activity is almost as big a mystery as TLP themselves.
Especially as there is practically no evidence left on the Earth from when it was initially created. Most of the evidence, long gone due to the Earths extremely rocky start though constant meteoric attacks, different life inhabitants, etc. The fact that the moon is essentially a fingerprint of the Earth holds many answers to the mystery and allows science to further go in depth to what things were like for planet Earth billions of years ago. It has been found that the creation of the moon itself was caused by high impact into the planet, the moon has also been determined to be moving further and further away from the Earth which slows down the Earth’s rotation, and lastly that because of the moon the Earth has stable seasons which prevents the planet from either being a big burning wreck which is inhabitable to humanity, or a giant ice ball which is also inhabitable to humanity. All in all, as discovered in the film “Origins, fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution: Earth is Born” the moon is a necessary part of our planet and one of the many keys to unlocking its many
Well, now is the chance to not only see this spectacle, but to understand why the moon looks as such during this spectacular event. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth’s shadow blocks the Sun’s light that would reflect off the moon. This occurs because of an alignment between the Sun, Earth and Moon. The straightness of this alignment between these three astral bodies depends on the intensity of the eclipse.
The Sun has various barometrical layers including the photosphere, lower and upper chromosphere and the crown. Each layer of the Suns give and vital elements discharging light for planets in our close planetary system. The environment additionally discharge vitality and warmth. The light created by the sun additionally gives sun based and lunar shrouds to happen on earth. At the point when the Sun the Moon and Earth all line up it causes a sun oriented obscuration or a lu- nar overshadowing.
Upon its first mention the moon is used as a marker for the passage of time. In the opening lines of the play Theseus, the duke of Athens, laments to his fiancée Hippolyta that time is passing too slow and blames this on the moon:
There is a myth that says one side of the moon is a permanently dark. There is no dark side of the moon. The moon goes around the earth, and they both orbit the sun. Different parts of the moon are light during different parts of each month. The dark part of the moon isn’t always the same part, it varies depending on the phase of the Moon.
The moon shows different phases as it moves along its orbit around the earth. Half the moon is always in sunlight, just as half the earth has day while the other half has night. The phases of the moon depend on how much of the sunlit half can be seen at any one time. In the new moon, the face is completely in shadow. About a week later, the moon is in first quarter, resembling a half-circle; another week later, the full moon shows its fully lighted surface; a week afterward, in its last quarter, the moon appears as a half-circle again. The entire cycle is repeated each lunar month, which is approximately 29.
My belief is that the nature of our behavior is based on astronomy; hence the reason that people who share the same zodiac sign have very similar characteristics, and sometimes a combination of people with certain zodiac signs cannot get along or are very compatible. Sometimes I can tell from a person’s sign because of their behavior, and likes and dislikes. Learning more about astrology and the zodiac signs helps us to understand people and their actions. Many argue that it is coincidence, but the odds are too high to be that.
When people believe in astrology, what they believe is that the planets and stars directly or indirectly influence their lives and determine what happens to them in life. (Weblinkers.com Enterprises, p.1) The stars are said to show guidance and meaning for the lives of people. (Woolfolk, p.297)