Water and Our Mother Moon
For some time scientists have reported firm indications that the Moon possesses the element water.
In Astrology water has always stood for the unconscious mind, the emotions and the feeling nature of humans and all sentient beings. The Moon’s influence is equivalent to the qualities of water, even though astronomers have considered it to exist without any of this element in its physical make-up.
In practical research by our scientists, efforts to understand the Moon stem from a more materialistic standpoint.
Back in 1972 astronaut Harrison Schmitt in the Apollo mission retrieved tiny beads of lunar ‘glass’ that were thought to be a sign that water is within the Moon’s interior as we have within our Earth. This caused serious flurry in re-thinking the scientific attitude that previously had prevailed and invited regrettable imaginative schemes for exploiting potential mineral resources in the greed schemes rather than respect for the celestial bodies.
NASA announced in 2009 that two spacecraft sent crashing into the lunar surface had discovered frozen water on the moon for the first time, a dramatic revelation it hailed as a giant leap forward in space exploration.
Now after considerable analysis it has been found by a research team led by geochemist Erik Hauri of Carnegie Institute of Washington, that the sample of orange coloured beads contain microscopic bubbles, or melt inclusions.
It is now concluded by scientists that the Moon may in fact possess as much water as within it as our own Earth and even pose that the two bodies – Earth and Moon have a common origin. This thought has been held in spirit lore for millenniums, giving rise to the symbolism and well known legends relating to the Moon in our cultural heritage often hinting that our Earth is the progeny of Moon and Sun.
That the Moon in one’s Chart represents our human emotions and tides is easy to accept and that it is as important as the power of the Sun. Both contribute to our understanding of our conscious and our unconscious nature and help us to focus upon our need for both, just as we depend upon our physical parents.
The Moon remains the spiritual symbol of femininity, of motherhood, of nurturing, of gentle power in a magnetic sense. Its force is great as we all know and witness in the tides that occur throughout the globe but it also has a subtler effect upon us psychologically.
