Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations

by Radhakrishnan. P | 2017 | 51,158 words

This study analyzes the Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations and it’s contribution to modern astrology. This thesis also aims at integrated scientific explanations on New and Full Moon and their influence of Geo-physical phenomena and also analyzes how significant a role the moon plays in keeping the life on earth. Astrology is the or...

16. Conclusion

Several classical texts edited in different languages show implication of moon, mind, genesis, menstruation, lunacy, love, affection, pleasure, grief, curse, customs, belief and very many nomenclatures connected with human life are seen in the history of Astrology. It is shrouded in mystery that how and when our ancestors realized the connection between moon and menstrual cycles basing on moon’s phases. Due to plethora of deliberation of matters related with human life, Astrology subsists as science of the sciences in this world, reinforcing the universal principle time, space and causation. The principal duty of every individual is to elevate the self by using the potency of mind to attain the life objective. Fundamental query about the Astro-science is whether it works with credibility or not? When science overlooks mental confidence that substantiates its extensions along with certain unidentified facts. The intertwined state of scientific credibility and personal experience should be viewed separately. A layman can accept the science as it is or evaluate the scientific state of supposition. Science and Astrology are two complementary ways of reflecting reality with symbolic objectivity. For science, the interrogation about its credence becomes irrelevant, without facts and figures. Astrology being Social Science, corroboration of lunar bodies and measuring their effects on man and his mind are far beyond the methodology in view of acute variations from individual to individual. Measuring the exact intensity of one’s presence of mind and its state of cheerfulness and lugubriousness are seemingly unfathomable in this physical world. When

Astronomy had been diverted from Astrology, the traditional knowledge useful to every man that is covered under Shodashakarma has been criticised at different levels. The true social life cannot avoid such a multifacted usage of Astrology as an experiential science. The word “experienced” is not corpulent or external. The knowable actuality of nature cannot be comprehensively discovered by any other branches of science. The abstractions of celestial concepts motivate the modern mind to undertake broad approaches for the refinement of present experimental art. The spiritual illumination of moon is filled with absolute intelligence, attached with truth and reality where the soul manifests and shine with intense insight. The moon does not go from new moon to the full in one night, but follows a rhythmical movement of transition from phase to phase. The mind must find its method to move from its scattered state, parangachetana, to pratyakcetana, a state of introspection.

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As the planets perform thier duties in replicable nature, the Astrologer may think ([...]). An open-minded Astrologer gives away the possible service for all, with an ultimate goal of the Universal Brotherhood, accepting the establishment of Tolerance, Truth, and Peace by recognizing centripetal and centrifugal forces of humanity, religion, philosophy and culture. The virtue and reputation arising out of his broad-mindeness will proliferate for ever, as Kuladharma. All that we are the result of what we thought. By the influence of the moon, rendering altruistic service becomes state of the art of Astgrology underscoring the imperishable truth -the mind is everything and as we think, so we become. In Astrology, the manifestation and realities are different and in everyday life all are manifestors in a way or other. This thesis reiterate that according to known objects of the world, the fullness Moon symbolizes the Mind and Mind is everything and infinite in this cosmos.

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