Waxing and Waning Moon

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Hari Om

 

To determine if the Moon is waxing and waning is easy if you know a few things.

 

If you know the signs of the zodiac in order, have them memorized, then

it's easy to know from an ephemeris or any listing of the planets

positions on any given day.

 

You see the Sun's position, and note the sign in your mind, and then

your mind will auto-quick know the sign OPPOSITE the sun, like right now

the Sun is in LIbra, so opposite that is Aries- boom, instant thought.

 

So, if the Moon is in Aries BEFORE the DEGREE position of the Sun, it's

Waxing. It it's in any of the signs INBETWEEN Libra (Sun's current

position) and Aries, the opposite sign, it's WAXING, growing.

 

If the Moon is AFTER the degree of the sun but in the opposite sign or

in any ofhte signs inbetween Aries and Libra, then it's waning.

 

So what you're doing here is dividing the zodiac into two halves in your

mind, starting at the Sun. The Sun's current position at any line in the

ephemeris is the starting point for the dividing line which then just

goes straight across the zodiac. So understand the sun and it's opposite

point draws a mental line across the zodiac making it into two halves.

 

Now if the moon is in the first half after the Sun moving in forward

motion through the signs, it's WAXING otherwise, in the other half, WANING.

 

One further other way of seeing it:

 

When the Moon is conjunct the sun, it is neither waxing nor waning.

 

Now, as it moves much faster than the Sun, day by day it pulls ahead of

the Sun. It is then pulling away from the Sun, forward, in the zodiac,

moving towards being oppostie the sun, which is where it is when it's

full, and then it comes back to the Sun slowly, which is waning, and

ultimately conjoins the Sun at the same degree as the Sun in the Zodiac.

That is called "New Moon" and is when Hindu months change. Hindu secular

months change at the New Moon. Vaisnava Hindu months in some parts of

India change when the Moon is Full, which is called Purnima.

 

So it's either moving away, towards full, which is waxing, or coming

back, towards the sun, which is waning. The points when it crosses the

line across the zodiac is Purnima, full moon, when it's opposite, or New

Moon, when it's conjoined the Sun.

 

This represents the vipralambha and sambhog of the lover and beloved,

the pulse of attraction and repulsion, or cycles, of time, or growth and

decay, and so on, in life. This relationship of the Sun and Moon is

fundamental in mysticism and reality spiritual and material.

 

 

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Das Goravani