Tuesday 15 November 2016

The Lunar Perigee


I was fortunate, last night, that I took a walk at a time just before the Lunar Perigee when the moon approaches her closest to earth - and that (for a couple of minutes) the solid cloud covering parted to reveal her. Then, this morning at 05:30 I got a full and clear view as she rode down towards the horizon.

Last night I felt a fast shimmer of energy as I gazed on the moon, this morning I was dazzled.

The mass media coverage was likewise all about the physics of the event: how much bigger the moon looked, how much more light, the unusual colour...

And in New Age/ Perennial Philosophy terms - such an event would also be described spiritually in terms of an increase in the frequency, or vibrational state, or electromagnetic radiation which sleets down upon us; or about lunar information which we can and should decode (computer linked with computer, as it were)...

Yet, on reflection, all this physics is to negate and diminish the event: The real point about the lunar perigee (as about all phenomena) is consciousness and communication.

Consciousness means it is personal - the moon personal, myself personal.

Communication is intentional and purposive.

The importance is that this was a communication, with the intention to speak to each of us as an individual.

And whether we 'get it' is up to us.

3 comments:

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Thank you for saying "perigee" instead of "supermoon."

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

This post syncs with something of George MacDonald's I recently read:

https://wmjassync.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/communication-with-the-moon-science-interferes/

Bruce Charlton said...

@WmJas - The moon has always divided opinion - some regard the moon as a negative, malign influence; but I have always loved the moon, and the quality of moonlight.