#To the moon secrets full#

#To the moon secrets full#

Just ask school teachers, psychiatric nurses, midwives, and policeman if the full moon can affect humans.

The gravitational pull of the moon exerts its influence on anything that is mostly liquid - that includes the ocean tides, the molten core of the earth, the volatile oils in plants, and the movement of underground springs. The moon reflects the light of the sun, as you well know, but it also has its own power. Then it begins to wane, rising later and later at night, and we begin to see it in the morning sky, until it disappears all together, in the brightness of the setting sun, on the day of the new moon.

Within a week it is rounding out and just 15 days after the new moon, it rises due East in a glorious display. Each night we follow it’s path as it rises during the waxing phase, thickening and moving eastward in the southern sky. The very next night it is a little bit east and south and the crescent is thickening. Then it rises just after the sun like a clipped piece of fingernail in the sky, almost due east. At the new moon, you can’t see it at all, unless there is a solar eclipse. The moon rises in a different place each night as it makes it’s way across the evening sky. Paying attention to the phases of the moonĭuring our almost nightly walks, after dinner, we notice the moon phases. And it triggered in me a yearning to understand more about the moon. That huge August, super-moon of several years ago is indelibly printed on my mind. By the time we actually get to see the super-moon it’s high in the sky already. Out here in the mountains, we miss the atmospheric distortion of the moon on the horizon most of the time, because the mountains obscure the horizon. It was majestic and beautiful and powerful. Then I remembered homeschool astronomy and how the earth’s atmosphere distorts the size of the moon when it is near the horizon, making it appear much larger. And it was still daytime here - about 9pm.

There was the moon, a huge round ball of silver sitting on the highway, bigger than I had ever seen it. We pulled off the highway ahead of them and got out of the car to walk back to their car. Sarah saw a wild apple tree and wanted to see if the apples were edible. Sarah rode in the car with Aunt Laverne and Uncle John, and we followed close behind. Robin’s brother drove the car ahead of us and had pulled over at the summit. The first time it got my attention, it crept over the horizon one July evening, as we were driving home from Grand Forks (BC). That is until we moved away from the city and started to homestead full time here on the mountain. Now the word “occult” simply means hidden and since I didn’t look, these secrets that the old timers knew, were hidden from me. The moon phases were an enigma - confusing and something to avoid looking into, probably part of the occult. Being a city girl who moved to the country as a young mom, I wasn’t used to being out when the moon was up and often the tall buildings obscured the moon from view. The homestead lifestyle is a lifestyle in tune with the moon. Even the nutcases in the nearby towns were out provoking the sane people to consternation. The coyotes were out hunting and the dogs barked. A few hours later the sky cleared and the moon shone brightly on the plastic sheeting, draped over my raised beds. Just before moon rise the sky clouded over and we missed the promised spectacle of a super-moon coming up over the mountain just after dark. Moon gardening takes advantage of the natural cycles of dryness and moisture throughout the month to help you get the most out of your gardening endeavors. Gardening is recommended as a way to become more in tune with the natural environment.