 Spiritual: August 13, 2025 Issue [#13237] |
This week: Moon Worship Edited by: Annette-Outta Town-See Ya 8/22  
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“Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness” ~ Munia Khan
“The moon doesn’t consider one phase better than another; she just glows, equally stunning at each turn. Why should we be any different?” ~ Cristen Rodgers |
Moon Worship
The Moon is not just a lil rock hanging out next to us. It influences life on Earth in ways big and small. From giving some light on most nights to creating tides, life on Earth is constantly affected by the position of the Moon.
The basic existence of the Moon and the way it waxes and wanes across the span of 28 days has made it the perfect object to venerate in context with cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.
Just as much as the Moon brings light on many nights, it plunges into complete darkness during New Moon and creates an eerie aura of something terrible during daytime eclipses. Eclipses have especially worried many cultures who feared that this event was tied to battles of good and evil.
It only makes sense that nature religions have incorporated Moon worship into some of their rituals. The old religions even gave it names.
In Japanese mythology the Moon god is Tsukuyomi
Ancient Greeks called her Selene,
Ancient Egypthians called him Khonsu,
Romans called her Luna,
Aztecs called him Coyolxauhqui.
Goddesses and gods who personify the moon and even some separate deities that personify different parts of the cycle exist in many cultures. As you may notice, the Moon can be both understood as a feminine or as a masculine representation. The feminine view of the Moon was usually developed in agricultural traditions where the Moon is looked at as the benevolent ruler of the cyclical growth processes of crops. Primitive cultures that are predominantly hunters regard the Moon as male and often as dangerous or evil.
Interestingly, English grammar refers to the Moon simply as "it." Although poets have taken creative license to do with the Moon's gender as they wished and how it served the purposes of their writing.
As a writer, feel free to use the Moon in any which way that you want. No matter what flag is planted on the Moon (or not), it's still our shared and personal rock next door. We can make it important or not important to our fiction. As long as we remember that Hecate, associated with the Dark Moon and mistress of witchcraft, magic, crossroads, and the realm of the dead, is a formidable feminine Moon who is potentially destructive.
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