The moon rises 50 minutes later each night.
Harvest Moon. At this season of the year the Moon's path more nearly parallels that of the Earth, hence it
remains near to the horizon for several days, at the same hour. Similarly with the Hunter's Moon, which is the
nearest Full Moon to September 23rd. This effect is further intensified when the descending node is at 0° Aries.
For example, with the Ascending node at 0° Aries : 23° 27', Plus 5° 9', equals 28° 36'. With the Descending
node at 0° Aries : 23° 27', minus 5° 9', equals 18° 18°'. The Full Moon rides low in Summer but high in Winter,
thus making Winter the season of least sunlight but of most moonlight.
Moonlight contains streaks of bright rays, apparently from some special mineral that fails to absorb light, or
which may have some such property as radio-activity - to conjecture on a point regarding which scientists fail
to agree. The rays consist largely of shades of yellow and gray, and from certain areas a shade of green. The
Earth's surface has a reflective power six times greater than that of the Moon.
The Lunar spectrum is much the same as that of the Sun, except that the light is yellower, and more diffused
because of the roughness of the Moon's surface. At the quarter, the Moon's light has a brilliance of one-
millionth that of the Sun; at the Full, 1/465 thousandths. However, the Moon absorbs 93% of the light it could
reflect.
The Moon's aspects by Right Ascension differ some minutes from those by Geocentric Longitude.
Tropical period minus Precession from 0° Aries : 6.9 seconds per period.
The color white is often associated with the Moon to symbolize purity. That it is chemically white is due to the
absence of all color. Prismatically it is the presence of all colors of the spectrum, or the three primary colors in
the proportions of three parts of yellow, five of red, and eight of blue.
Solar System Bodies: Mercury.
A small planet, with pale bluish light; the planet closest to the Sun. Never more than 28 degrees from the Sun,
it is rarely visible to the naked eye. The Roman god Mercury and the Greek god Hercules, the winged
messenger of the Gods, were endowed with the qualities that are associated with the influence of the planet
Mercury. To the Chaldeans it was Nebo, the planet of warning; also associated with Buddha, the wise.
Ancient astrologers considered the existence of a planet nearer to the Sun than Mercury, to which they gave the
name Vulcan. It has not as yet been discovered by astronomers.
From a stationary point about 28° in advance of the Sun, it retrogrades to an inferior conjunction with the Sun -