celestial-body

Moon

Nature · Cosmos

The Earth’s satellite, used by many cultures as a clock, a light, and a body that can be read — never by one method only.

Astrology

  • Moon is used in Astrology.

    Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats the moon as a planet whose condition modifies the chart. That is a Hellenistic technical moon, not Thoth’s reckoning moon.

    from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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  • Moon is associated with Divination.

    In the Tetrabiblos the moon is among the bodies read for earthly outcomes. The reading is astrological, not Ifá verse and not a Greek temple dream.

    from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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  • Moon is associated with Fate.

    Ptolemy argues that celestial configurations incline events. Fate here is a technical natal and mundane claim, not the Greek Moirai spinning thread.

    from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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  • Moon is associated with Water.

    Many later readers join moon and tide. The pairing is widespread in maritime observation; it is not therefore a religious law.

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  • Moon is associated with Eclipse.

    A lunar eclipse is the moon entering shadow. Cultures differ on whether that covering is an omen, a calculation, or both.

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  • Moon is used in Calendar.

    The moon is a public clock wherever months are named by it. Ptolemy’s natal moon is a different use of the same body.

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  • Circle is associated with Moon.

    The full moon is a circle in the sky. The likeness is optical before it is doctrinal.

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  • Cycle is associated with Moon.

    The moon’s phases are a countable return. Calendars that follow them are lunar; they are not therefore a theology of rebirth.

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  • Calendar is used in Moon.

    Many calendars name months by the moon. A lunar month is a clock, not a named moon-goddess.

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Hellenic religion

  • Moon is associated with Dream.

    Artemidorus classifies dreams that involve celestial lights among the images a professional interpreter might be asked to read.

    from Artemidorus of Daldis · Oneirocritica, 2nd century CE

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Alchemy

  • Moon is associated with Alchemy.

    The Emerald Tablet’s Latin sentences pair sun and moon as operative lights in the work. That is medieval alchemical diction, not Egyptian cult.

    from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents)

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  • Silver is associated with Moon.

    Later alchemy and jewelry-speech pair silver with the moon. The pairing is a craft and market convention, not Thoth’s lunar office.

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Egyptian religion

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