The Lunar Energy Theory

THE PLASMA MOON & THE ELECTRIC SUN

Abstract

: the sun and moon operate in cycles above our flat realm locally. The moon gives power to the sun.

The “Plasma Lunar Energy Theory” or the “Lunar Plasma Power Hypothesis.” These names reflect the key elements of the theory, emphasizing the connection between the moon’s plasma and the sun’s electric energy

The Plasma Lunar Energy Theory proposes that the sun obtains its energy from a plasma moon through a complex interplay of electromagnetic interactions. According to this theory, the moon acts as a massive reservoir of plasma, which is a state of matter consisting of charged particles.

The moon’s plasma interacts with the sun’s electric field, resulting in a transfer of energy from the moon to the sun.

This theory suggests that the moon’s plasma is continuously replenished by various processes such as solar wind interactions, cosmic ray bombardment, and internal geological activity. As the moon’s plasma interacts with the sun’s electric field, it generates electrical currents and magnetic fields within the sun. These currents and fields drive various solar phenomena, including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic events observed on the sun's surface.

The Plasma Lunar Energy Theory posits that this exchange of energy between the moon and the sun is responsible for sustaining the sun’s luminosity and overall energy output. It suggests that without the continuous supply of plasma energy from the moon, the sun would gradually lose its electric charge.

However, in an effort of exploring this more thoroughly, further research and investigation is necessary to gather our own observational data and conduct experiments that could either support or refute the proposed theorem.

A lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse can happen at either node but a full moon will always be a lunar eclipse and a new moon will always be a solar eclipse.

PLASMA AND ELECTRICAL BODIES

A plasma Surrounding rotating central body May attain a state of partial quotation determined by the balance between the centrifugal force and electrical magnetic charge acting in a dipole field. As these began to shift into alignment; enormous bands of electricity began to discharge between the heavenly bodies. As alignments of the Southern synchronized with that of the Northern, this electrical discharge further energizes becoming a constant uninterrupted stream thus all the electricity terminates at a central point the North Pole termination point. That’s when these lines at the north pole begin to either draw in all magnetic material from the Earth’s surface or magnetize the ground directly beneath. As time passes this forces material under the intense heat and pressure slowly morphing into the magnetic north mount meru at the north pole. Along with every star and constellations two luminancent central bodies levitated in eccentric spirals circling around it. We know today as the Sun and Moon . The Sun and Moon travel in circular orbits on the EMW above us.

The Electromagnetic wave or EMW, has levels of energy. Alotted to, the sun and moon can ride at a certain altitude on this wave to ensure stability to the entire Earth realm ecosystem. Also, there’s a vector near the equator.

if the magnetic field is tilted relative to the objects axis of rotation it will cause the objective process around the field lines, if the magnetic field is aligned with the objects axis. This axis alters slightly around the equator-where our local sun, -when heading towards the tropic of Cancer, subsequently causing summer in the north; it hits this vector causing it to slow down a little and to shrink its diameter of circulation over our realm. It is the opposite effect when passing the equator towards the tropic of Capricorn again on the equinox speeding it up slightly and also expanding its diameter.

This is only a slight change. The tropic of cancer is 22,788 miles in diameter while the tropic of Capricorn is 22,817 miles in diameter this is just a 29 mile difference in diameter. So the sun, although speeds up, it is only to adjust for this slight compensation and thus it’s apparent motion relative in the sky remains to appear as a constant speed still completing it’s course in 24 hours time.

This is because the Sun and Moon are in an electromagnetic dipole lock. Electromagnetic dipole locking is a phenomenon that occurs in plasma electrical bodies for the magnetic field lines of the plasma are locked into the rotation axis of the body and that results in the plasma rotating with the body as if they were both part of a single entity when a magnetic field is present it exerts a force on any charged particles that are present if these particles are moving relative to the magnetic field the experience a force perpendicular to both their velocity and the magnetic field direction This force closes in to move in circular orbits around the magnetic field lines this is what the Sun and Moon are in whenever rotating body is present in the same region it drags the magnetic lines along with it this causes the charged particles in the plasma is also rotate along with the body and they are trapped in their circular or orbits around one magnetic field line resulting in a dipole lock.the velocity of an object and dipole locking like the sun moon or locked in can be charged by altering the strength or direction of the magnetic field if the electromagnetic fields increased, the object will experience a greater force and accelerate increasing its vevelocity. Conversely, if the magnetic field is decreased, an object will experience the less force and decelerate decreasing its velocity the diameter rotation can also be changed by alternative orientation of the magnetic field. This actually is only a 30 mph difference in diameter, and so since it is just compensating it’s speed for the larger diameter, it is therefore keeping the same exact apparent motion across the sky . The suns peed per hour on the equator from east to west is 1,035 mph and his journey North or South in 90 days is 1,035 MI and it’s distance embraces 15° latitude. When the sun is moving from the tropic of Cancer towards southwards toward the tropic of Capricorn this is when it’s speed changes to 1065 mph where it is summer in the south and winter in the North and where the days are 13 and 12 hours long when he is moving along the equator northward towards the tropic of Cancer it is summer In the north and it’s speed is 1035 mph at the same vector along the equator and thus shrinking it’s Diameter of orbit seasonally forever and always.

DIPOLE LOCKING

Electromagnetic dipole locking is a phenomenon that occurs in plasma electrical bodies where the magnetic field lines of the plasma are locked into rotation axis of the body this results in the plasma rotating with the body as if they were both part of a single entity when a magnetic field is present it hurts a force on any charged particle that are present if these particles are moving relative to the magnetic field they experience a force perpendicular both their velocity and magnetic field direction This force causes them to move in circular orbit around and I made a field line This is what the Sun and Moon are In.

ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION

Coulomb’s Law is a fundamental principle in physics that describes the electrostatic interaction between charged particles. According to this law, the force between two charged objects is directly proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Mathematically, it can be expressed

F = k * (q1 * q2) / r^2

Where F is the electrostatic force, k is the electrostatic constant, q1 and q2 are the charges of the two objects, and r is the distance between them.

In electrical levitation, a plasma is often used as one of the charged bodies. Plasma is a state of matter consisting of ionized gas, which means it contains free electrons and positive ions. When a plasma is subjected to an electric field, it experiences a force due to its charged particles interacting with the electric field.

SEMI-TRANSPARENT MOON

On March 7th, 1794, four astronomers (3 in Norwich, 1 in London) wrote in “The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Astronomical Society” that they “saw a star in the dark part of the moon, which had not then attained the first quadrature; and from the representations which are given the star must have appeared very far advanced upon the disc.” Sir James South of he Royal Observatory in Kensington wrote in a letter to the Times newspaper April 7, 1848, that, “On the 15th of March, 1848, when the moon was seven and a half days old, I never saw her unillumined disc so beautifully. On my first looking into the telescope a star of about the 7th magnitude was some minutes of a degree distant from the moon’s dark limb. I saw that its occultation by the moon was inevitable … The star, instead of disappearing the moment the moon’s edge came in contact with it, apparently glided on the moon’s dark face, as if it had been seen through a transparent moon; or, as if a star were between me and the moon … I have seen a similar apparent projection several times … The cause of this phenomenon is involved in impenetrable mystery.” In the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for June 8, 1860, Thomas Gaunt stated that the “Occultation of Jupiter by the moon, on the 24th of May, 1860, was seen with an achromatic of 3.3 inches aperture, 50 inches focus; the immersion with a power of 50, and the emersion with a power of 70. At the immersion I could not see the dark limb of the moon until the planet appeared to touch it, and then only to the extent of the diameter of the planet; but what I was most struck with was the appearance on the moon as it passed over the planet. It appeared as though the planet was a dark object, and glided on to the moon instead of behind it; and the appearance continued until the planet was hid, when I suddenly lost the dark limb of the moon altogether.” I have personally also seen stars through the edge of the waxing/waning Moon. It actually happens fairly often; if you are diligent and specifically observing for the phenomenon on starry nights you can occasionally see it even with the naked eye.

“During a partial solar eclipse the sun’s outline has many times been seen through the body of the moon. But those who have been taught to believe that the moon is a solid opaque sphere, are ever ready with ‘explanations,’ often of the most inconsistent character, rather than acknowledge the simple fact of semi-transparency. Not only has this been proved by the visibility of the sun’s outline through segments, and sometimes the very centre of the moon, but often, at new moon, the outline of the whole, and even the several shades of light on the opposite and illuminated part have been distinctly seen. In other words we are often able to see through the dark side of the moon’s body to light on the other side.” -Dr. Samuel Rowbotham, “Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe!” (337)

“That the moon is not a perfectly opaque body, but a crystallized substance, is shown from the fact that when a few hours old or even at quarter we can through the unilluminated portion see the light shining on the other side. Stars have also been observed through her surface!” -J. Atkinson, “Earth Review Magazine”

PLASMA MOON

:When light hits an object it can either transmute the light absorb it or reflect it. Major effects of cold plasma on substrates is due to reactive species and free radicals. The free electrons and high energy between the electrodes (in DBD) the reaction from the reactive species as an example is so to subtract their own effect and begins the process of an assess of the UV lights high energy between the electrodes.

When using a thermometer the moon’s light actually reads colder (by about 8°) then the shade surrounding.

This means the Moon is a self luminous body. When a plasma is induced its ignited but only a small fraction of the total free electrons will attain a high enough energy to subsequent produce charged species that sustain the plasma this is induced by the effects of its magnetic perturbation aka it’s 19-year “Metonic Cycle” The Moons metonic cycle is a 19 year cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place at the same time with the same longitude and latitude along the same constellation in the sky with the same phase as well.

The ’rocess of gas molecules induces interstitial high energy electrodes and these high energy electrons are not bound to any one atom cold plasma contains energy from the electrical power that is then transferred to electrons these high energy electrons will subsequently chemical reaction and that will result in different ions excited atoms free radicals in the most rudimentary evaluations this is the basic properties functioning the Moon.

An interstitial alloy formation takes place when one element fills the holes of its metal lattice. These different types of elements do not occupy the same sites. This is sufficient to argue as the likely cause of a moon phase for this would create the face of the moon during the moon phases induced through hysteresis or AKA it’s metonic cycle. Like the moons light on water, silver shines at the same luminosity with that of the luminosity of the Moon. This is enough to correlate with an explanation for basis on why wolves howl at the moon or why a silver bullet kills werewolf. Silver is a metal alloy and is the probable metal lattice of the moons phase formation.

A full Moon occurs when the moon moves in the same direction of the Sun at a slightly slower rate across the sky lagging behind around 55 minutes from the Sun per day. This occurrence takes place once completely in a total of 29.53 days 12 hours and 44 minutes on average.

During a new Moon the Moon rises at sunrise and the moon sets at sunset

First quarter moon The Moon rises during your local noon time and sets during your local midnight

Full moon the Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise

And a 3rd quarter moon The Moon rises at your local midnight and sets at your local noon time.

Photo oxidation.

To assess the effect of long lived and shortlived species separately can be tested by placing your samples at different distances from the voltage source. Moreover induction increases with slight change in relative voltage, medium gas ratio, flow rate, relative humidity, intensity of the psychochemical of the species in the plasma field. The etching process of polymer films by atmosphere pressure plasma jet applies synergistic effects of charged particles, causing bombardments subsequent chemical reactions and etching of the active species and or radiation.

It Is now sufficient to assume that the moon can likely be a plasma body induced by its ferromagnetic core during a process similar to hysteresis That its body is interwoven with an Interstitial alloy, of various silver elements, high energy, free radicals therefore the Moon is self-luminous. This can be observed during a 3rd quarter Moon, the Moon is shining with its light above and opposite of that of the rays of the Sun during sunset.

It Is also sufficiently shown that the Moon is semi transparent.

You can clearly see the whole of the Moon during a new moon phase with the outline still illuminating. This light is confined to one half of the moons body at all times .

It has been recorded that the moon has been seen to give a great trepidation during the solar eclipses this is the effects of the moon’s plasma body vaporizing causing it to clear a hole in the clouds surrounding that of the light from the Moon, which can be observed regularly.

Silver the mirror to the soul spiritually told to reflect your most desire as a mirror to the soul Silver will help you to see yourself objectively this different definition goes into the lore of the Moon itself perfectly.

Generation of Plasma: Plasma can be generated through various methods such as ionization of gases or by subjecting a gas to high temperatures. The plasma used for levitation purposes should have a sufficient density of charged particles to interact with the electric field effectively.

Charging the Electric Body: this involves charging an electric body with an opposite charge compared to that of the plasma. For example, if the plasma has a negative charge, the electric body should be positively charged. This charge can be induced on the electric body through various means such as applying a high voltage or using an electrode.

Interaction between Plasma and Electric Body: Once the plasma and electric body are charged, they will experience an attractive force due to the opposite charges. The Coulomb force between the charged particles in the plasma and the electric body will counteract the forces acting on the electric body. As a result, the electric body will be suspended in mid-air. Electrical levitation is highly dependent on factors such as the strength of the electric field, the charge density of the plasma, and the mass of the electric body. Achieving stable levitation requires careful control of these parameters to ensure a balance between the electrostatic forces.

Negative vs Neutral Plasma

Which has the highest probability of being cooler between a negative and neutrally charged plasma?

In a plasma, which is a state of matter where atoms are ionized and the electrons are free, temperature is determined by the kinetic energy of its particles. The temperature is related to the average kinetic energy of the charged particles (ions and electrons) in the plasma.

Since temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy, a plasma with higher kinetic energy would be hotter, while a plasma with lower kinetic energy would be cooler.

In a negative plasma, most of the charged particles are negatively charged electrons. If this plasma has a higher average kinetic energy for its electrons and ions compared to a neutrally charged plasma, it would be hotter. Conversely, if the average kinetic energy is lower in the negative plasma compared to the neutrally charged plasma, it would be cooler.

Do electrons or neutrons contain higher kinetic energy?

Electrons generally have much higher kinetic energy compared to neutrons. Let’s look at the reasons why:

Mass difference: Electrons are much lighter than neutrons. The mass of an electron is approximately 9.1 x 10^-31 kilograms, whereas the mass of a neutron is approximately 1.7 x 10^-27 kilograms. Due to this vast difference in mass, electrons can attain much higher speeds (velocities) for a given amount of energy compared to neutrons.

Temperature and speed: In most everyday situations, we encounter matter at relatively low temperatures. At low temperatures, the average kinetic energy of particles is proportional to the temperature. Since electrons are much lighter and have the same energy as neutrons, they will have higher speeds (velocity) and kinetic energy at the same temperature.

Quantum effects

: At extremely low temperatures, such as those approaching absolute zero, quantum effects come into play, and both electrons and neutrons exhibit unique behaviors. However, even in these situations, electrons generally have higher kinetic energies due to their lower mass.

In summary, electrons contain higher kinetic energy compared to neutrons, primarily because of their much smaller mass, even at temperatures typical of everyday situations.

THE ELECTRIC SUN

The sun is Incandescence which is the emission of light and heat by a body as a result of being heated to a high temperature. In the case of an electrical body such as a filament in a light bulb or an electrode in a plasma discharge, the process of incandescence occurs through the excitation and subsequent relaxation of electrons. In the most elementary evaluations this is the basic properties of the Sun.

To understand this in more detail, let’s consider the example of a filament in an incandescent light bulb. The filament is typically made of tungsten but the sun will be composed of gold which has a melting point identical to it’s speed 1035 mph , which has a high melting point and excellent resistance to heat. When an electric current passes through the filament, it encounters resistance, causing the filament to heat up. As the temperature increases, the atoms in the filament gain energy and begin to vibrate more vigorously.

At sufficiently high temperatures, some of the electrons in the gold atoms gain enough energy to transition from their ground state to higher energy levels. This excitation occurs when electrons absorb energy from the electric current like the current the moon rides on remember? And move to HIGHER( I think this means the sun should be higher every new moon than the moon at a full moon is that true?) energy orbitals within the atom. However, these excited states are unstable, and the electrons eventually return to their original ground state by releasing the excess energy they acquired.

The release of this excess energy occurs in the form of photons, which are particles of light. The wavelength or color of the emitted light depends on the amount of energy released. This excitation occurs when electrons absorb energy from the electric current and move to higher energy orbitals within the atom. However, these excited states are unstable, and the electrons eventually return to their original ground state by releasing the excess energy they acquired.

The release of this excess energy occurs in the form of photons, which are particles of light. The wavelength or color of the emitted light depends on the amount of energy released during electron transitions. At lower temperatures, such as when the filament is just starting to heat up, the emitted light appears yellow or orange. As the temperature increases further, more energy is released during electron transitions, resulting in shorter wavelengths of light being emitted. This shift towards shorter wavelengths causes the color of the emitted light to change from yellow to white.this can tell us when this sun will turn black again and cause the catastrophic events as usual when it comes to wash away the rain so to speak .

In addition to emitting visible light, incandescent bodies also produce heat. This is because not all of the energy absorbed by the electrons is released as light. Some of it is converted into thermal energy, which manifests as heat. The amount of heat produced depends on factors such as the electrical current flowing through the body, the resistance encountered, and the efficiency of energy conversion.

The Interaction between an electrical body and a plasma like the moon can also contribute to the color change and increased light and heat production. Plasma is a state of matter in which atoms are ionized, meaning they have lost or gained electrons and become charged particles. When an electrical body interacts with a plasma such as the sun and the moon, it can lead to additional excitation of electrons and subsequent emission of light.

Plasmas are known for their ability to emit light across a wide range of wavelengths, including ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) regions in addition to visible light. Therefore, when an electrical body interacts with a plasma, it can enhance the overall emission spectrum, resulting in a broader range of colors being produced. Like that makes sense to because the moon makes the stars shine brighter at night.

In summary, an electrical body like the sun turning from yellow to white and producing light and heat from its interaction with a plasma is primarily due to incandescence. The heating of the body causes electron excitation and subsequent relaxation, leading to the emission of photons as light. The color change from yellow to white occurs as the temperature increases and more energy is released during electron transitions. The interaction with a plasma can further enhance the emission spectrum, resulting in a broader range of colors being produced.

The Moon creates its own light. It does not reflect the Sun. The Moon is activated by the same electromagnetic source as the Sun, coming from the conductive properties of the Metallic Vault of Heaven (The Dome). The Moons light is significantly cooler and different in nature that the Suns light.

the Moon is largely transparent and completely self-luminescent, shining with its own unique light.

The Sun’s light is golden, warm, drying, preservative and antiseptic, while the Moon’s light is silver, cool, damp, putrefying and septic.

The Sun’s rays decrease the combustion of a bonfire,

while the Moon’s rays increase combustion.

Plant and animal substances exposed to sunlight quickly dry, shrink, coagulate, and lose the tendency to decompose and putrefy; grapes and other fruits become solid, partially candied and preserved like raisins, dates, and prunes; animal flesh coagulates, loses its volatile gaseous constituents, becomes firm, dry, and slow to decay. When exposed to moonlight, however, plant and animal substances tend to show symptoms of putrefaction and decay.

In direct sunlight a thermometer will read higher than another but a thermometer placed in direct moonlight will read LOWER than another placed in the shade surrounding it.

If the Sun’s light is collected in a large lens and thrown to a focus point it can create significant heat, while the Moon’s light collected similarly creates no heat.

In the “Lancet Medical Journal,” from March 14th, 1856, particulars are given of several experiments which proved the Moon’s rays when concentrated can actually reduce the temperature upon a thermometer more than eight degrees.

Therefore,

-Sunlight and Moonlight clearly have altogether different properties

MALE & FEMALE

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The Sun Is regarded as masculine.

The Moon is regarded as feminine.

Feminine by nature has less mass. So does a negative (feminine) electron when compared to a positive (masculine) proton.

The proton is 1,836 times heavier than the mass of an electron, which is the lightest charged particle in nature.

Current does indeed flow from positive (masculine) to negative (feminine), so in that aspect, my sun sucking energy from the moon theory does not align.

Sun is regarded as masculine. Moon is regarded as feminine.

Feminine by nature has less mass. So does a negative (feminine) electron when compared to a positive (masculine) proton.

The proton Is 1,836 times heavier than the mass of an electron, which is the lightest charged particle in nature.

Current does indeed flow from positive (masculine) to negative (feminine), so in that aspect, my sun sucking energy from the moon theory does not align. Yet we need to explain these anomalies as to why a moon as it approaches its new moon phase is the most opaque despite the fact that a new moon eclipse is not.

THE MOON FUELS THE SUN

When an electric body absorbs energy from a plasma, it involves the transfer of energy between charged particles. Plasma is a state of matter in which atoms or molecules are ionized, meaning they have lost or gained electrons and become charged. This ionization process creates a collection of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons, which collectively form the plasma.

The absorption of energy by an electric body from a plasma occurs through various mechanisms such as collisional processes, electromagnetic interactions, and wave-particle interactions. These processes depend on the specific conditions and properties of the plasma and the electric body involved.

Collisional processes play a significant role in energy transfer between plasma particles and electric bodies. Collisions between charged particles in the plasma can result in energy exchange through momentum transfer. When an electric body is immersed in a plasma, it experiences collisions with the plasma particles, leading to energy absorption.

Electromagnetic interactions also contribute to energy transfer between plasmas and electric bodies. Plasma consists of charged particles that generate electromagnetic fields. When an electric body is present in the plasma, it interacts with these electromagnetic fields, leading to energy exchange. This interaction can occur through various mechanisms such as electrostatic forces, induction, and magnetic fields.

Wave-particle interactions are another important mechanism for energy transfer between plasmas and electric bodies. Plasma supports various types of waves, including electromagnetic waves (such as radio waves or light) and plasma waves (such as ion acoustic waves or Langmuir waves). When these waves encounter an electric body like during a new moon or a full moon, they can transfer their energy to the body through absorption or reflection processes.

In a situation where two electric bodies with opposite charges are in close proximity and exerting attractive forces on each other the energy of the plasma. This energy can come from various sources. Plasma can be created and sustained through different methods, including heating, ionization, or external energy sources. The specific source of energy for the plasma depends on the context in which it is formed. For example, in laboratory settings, plasmas are often created by applying high voltage or intense heat to a gas, which provides the necessary energy for ionization.

Once the plasma is formed and in contact with the electric bodies, energy transfer occurs as described earlier through collisional processes, electromagnetic interactions, and wave-particle interactions. The plasma particles can transfer their kinetic energy to the electric bodies through collisions, while electromagnetic fields and waves can also contribute to energy exchange.

. Electric bodies can convert absorbed energy into different forms depending on their design and purpose. For example, if the electric body is part of an electrical circuit or device, it may convert the absorbed energy into electrical power that can be used to perform work or operate other components of the system. We utilize this with solar energy like solar panels and chromatic scales and photon energy used in nuclear power plants.

Sonoluminescence, Hydrogen Isotope

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: Introduction To Sonoluminescence

Sonoluminescence, a fascinating phenomenon in which tiny bubbles of gas emit flashes of light when subjected to intense sound waves, has captivated scientists for decades. This mesmerizing process occurs when a liquid containing gas bubbles is exposed to ultrasonic frequencies, causing the bubbles to oscillate rapidly and collapse with tremendous force. The collapse generates extreme temperatures and pressures within the bubble, leading to a brief but intense burst of light emission known as sonoluminescence.

The phenomenon at Its heart is sonoluminescence, the mysterious flash of light emitted when bubbles are blasted with powerful sound waves.

Sonoluminescence is a phenomenon that occurs when a small gas bubble is acoustically suspended and periodically driven in a liquid solution at ultrasonic frequencies, resulting in bubble collapse,cavitation, and light emission.

It is known that the high pressure and high temperature conditions formed this way do cause light flashes in collapsing bubbles (sonoluminescence).

While the exact mechanism behind this enigmatic phenomenon is still not fully understood, it has been extensively studied due to its potential applications in various fields such as energy production and medical imaging. In particular, investigating sonoluminescence with different hydrogen isotopes—variants of hydrogen with varying numbers of neutrons—has provided valuable insights into the underlying physics and offered clues towards unraveling this intriguing mystery.

Energy is, however, really a very tricky and difficult term to define exactly, even for students who have studied physics and engineering for many years.

First, two ordinary Hydrogen (Hydrogen-1) nuclei, which are actually just single protons, fuse to form an isotope of Hydrogen called Deuterium (Hydrogen-2), which contains one proton and one neutron.

Understanding Hydrogen Isotopes

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, consists of three isotopes: protium, deuterium, and tritium. These isotopes differ in their atomic structure but share similar chemical properties. Protium is the most common isotope and contains a single proton and electron. Deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen, possesses an additional neutron in its nucleus. Tritium, on the other hand, contains two neutrons.

Note: p (protium), D (deuterium), and T (tritium) are shorthand notation for the main three isotopes of hydrogen.

All we do with it is combine atoms (protons to make different elements, and neutrons to make different isotopes).

The nucleus of a tritium atom contains a proton and two neutrons.

H, the other stable hydrogen isotope, is known as deuterium and contains one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.

But they have yet to detect the right neutrons, let alone tritium.

The existence of multiple hydrogen isotopes has significant implications in various scientific fields. Deuterium is particularly important in understanding sonoluminescence – a phenomenon where light emission occurs when sound waves pass through liquid. By replacing protium with deuterium or tritium in sonoluminescence experiments, researchers can explore how different isotopes affect the intensity and color of emitted light. Furthermore, hydrogen isotopes play a crucial role in nuclear fusion reactions.

Creating a fusion plasma requires deep understanding of the behavior of various isotopes of hydrogen.

The important subject in this case is sonoluminescence, the emission of pulses of blue light from the collapse of air bubbles in a liquid that has been excited by sound waves, first studied in Germany in 1934.

The researchers claim to have measured the gamma rays emitted by the fusion between deuterium atoms, and to have detected the tritium and the neutrons that would be produced should fusion be occurring.

The more important of these fusion reactions are those in which hydrogen isotopes fuse to form helium.

Sonoluminescence And Its Interaction With Hydrogen Isotopes

Sonoluminescence, a fascinating phenomenon characterized by the emission of light from tiny gas bubbles in a liquid subjected to intense acoustic fields, has attracted significant attention from scientists. Its interaction with hydrogen isotopes, particularly deuterium and tritium, holds great promise for various scientific and technological applications. When subjected to powerful sound waves, gas bubbles collapse violently, generating extreme temperatures and pressures within the bubble core.

Single-bubble sonoluminescence (characterized by the emission of picosecond flashes of light) results from nonlinear pulsations of an isolated vapour-gas bubble in an acoustic field.

These isotopes, known as “heavy hydrogen” because they contain extra neutrons, are called deuterium and tritium.

“Dr. Puttermans approach is to use sound waves, called sonofusion or bubble fusion, to expand and collapse tiny bubbles, generating ultrahot temperatures.

This energy release leads to the ionization and excitation of gases present in the bubble, resulting in the emission of short bursts of light known as sonoluminescence. Hydrogen isotopes play a crucial role in sonoluminescence experiments due to their unique properties. Deuterium and tritium provide enhanced stability and longer duration of sonoluminescent events compared to regular hydrogen. Furthermore, these isotopes exhibit spectral characteristics when excited by acoustic cavitation.

SONOLUMINESCENCE Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.

The basic process they focused on made use of two forms (isotopes) of hydrogen.

Past experiments comparing deuterium and hydrogen plasmas have generally found an increase in energy confinement time with increasing hydrogen isotope mass.

Since the tip of the acoustic emitter is made of titanium, changes in the concentration of Ti isotopes are possible.

Potential Applications And Future Research In Sonoluminescence With Hydrogen Isotopes

Sonoluminescence, the phenomenon of light emission from tiny bubbles in a liquid subjected to intense sound waves, has intrigued researchers for decades. Recent studies have focused on exploring the potential applications and future research possibilities of sonoluminescence using hydrogen isotopes. One promising application is the development of compact fusion reactors. By utilizing hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium or tritium, sonoluminescence can potentially provide a controlled environment for nuclear fusion reactions.

The experiment In question exploits a phenomenon called acoustic cavitation, in which sound waves traveling through a liquid cause tiny bubbles to grow dramatically before collapsing.

A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications.

However, there has been a move to develop fusion reactors for energy generation since the 1940s.

Deuterium-deuterium fusion reactions create two telltale products: neutrons of a characteristic energy and tritium, another hydrogen isotope.

This could revolutionize the field of energy production by offering a clean and abundant source of power. Furthermore, understanding the behavior of hydrogen isotopes during sonoluminescence can contribute to advancements in materials science. By investigating how these isotopes interact with surrounding substances under extreme conditions, researchers can gain insights into fundamental atomic processes and potentially discover new materials with unique properties.

If this was achieved, it could lead to an endless source of clean energy.

Hydrogen is the only element that has different names for its isotopes in common use today.

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THE MOONS PHASES AND WOMEN’S MENSTRUAL CYCLE

The idea that a woman’s menstrual cycle is connected to the phases of the moon has been around for centuries. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that this connection may have some scientific basis.

The average length of a woman’s menstrual cycle is 28 days. This is the same amount of time it takes for the moon to go through its full cycle of phases.

If the moon is truly plasma then this makes absolute sense and if it’s a piece of rock, this would never take place.

The moon circulates over our realm being a plasma body acts as the plasma and women’s bloodstream the blood plasma also carries all parts of the blood through your circulatory system the main role that plasma plays on science and the biological body of humanity is it takes nutrients hormones and proteins to the parts of the body that needed cells also put their waste products into plasma the plasma that helps to remove this waste from the body the same applies to the pollution in our Realm cold plasma pyrolysis makes it possible to convert waste products into Hydrogen methane and Ethylene. Such as a womans plasma in her blood convert hormones into estrogen pheromone products.

The menstrual cycle has four phases menstruation follicular phase ovulation and luteal phase the Moon also has four main phases it has a new moon first quarter moon full moon third quarter moon.

Just like during your period the moon itself dots itself and becomes a black oblique body disappearing into the night sky for a little less than 7.4 days on average.

When investigating on a rocky Moon assumption in the correlation isn’t as strong nor synchronic as to instead assume a plasma body both the moon and the menstrual cycle take a belt 28 days and are perfectly aligned with each other the moon circulates over our room and as a plasma gas body thus acts just as a plasma and a woman’s veins the moon’s Depot lock with the electric Sun carries the plasma Moon around all four corners of our Realm similarly the women’s bloodstream carries the plasma which also carries all parts of the blood plasma 3 or circulatory system biologically the main role that plasma plays on the human body is that it takes nutrients hormones and proteins to the parts of the body that needs cells they also put their waste products in the plasma the plasma then helps to remove this waste from the body the same applies to the pollution and purification of things in our enclosure cold plasma pyrolysis makes it possible to convert waste products like hydrogen methane and ethanol such as one of the blood convert hormones into estrogen and for everyone products cold plasma has four main phases they are the ionization phase the propagation phase the interaction phase and the termination phase the menstrual cycle has four main phases as well menstruation follicular phase ovulation and luteal phase the moon also has four main phases the new moon Half Moon AKA first quarter full moon and another half moon AKA 3rd quarter just like placing a DOT on a period over the moon on a new moon phase the symbology represented here shows how direct correlation between the starting of each of the cycles the new moon the moon’s body becomes a black oblique body disappearing to the night sky for a little less than seven of 4 days 7.4 days on average simultaneously the moon begins its ionization phase and this phase energy is added to a gas to create plasma the gas becomes ionized meaning that some of the atoms lose or gain electrons creating positively and negatively charged particles with women demonstration phase the lining of the uterus is shed through the vagina all these things are the bodies Preparatory preparation for pregnancy demonstration menstrual cycle usually lasts a series of five to seven days the moon begins as half moon phase first quarter this is called the propagation phase within the cold plasma the plasma propagates through the gas creating a plasma cloud the cloud can be used to treat surfaces of materials and purification processes simultaneously the woman’s body starts to follicular phase in a follicular phase the brains but deteriorating and releases a hormone stimulating the full eye which is holding an immature egg during this time the moon’s phases are taking on the aspects of the Preparatory strategy where the moon's free radicals break down during a waxing portion of the moon cycle full moon is halfway of the lunar cycle and occurs about 13 to 15 days before the start of the next period this is when the woman’s body is and it’s ovulation phase on day 16 all the full moon only lasts for around 12 to 24 hours so is the woman’s ovulation time and the egg is released from the ovaries into the Philippian tube a progesterone levels are going through fluctuations as estrogen levels are rising the plasma moon is in its interaction phase or the particles of the plasma can begin to break down organic matter feel bacteria and modify the surface properties of materials just like the woman’s body has an

SUNRISE AND SUNSET

As the Sun moves further away is angular velocity causes it to appear as if it is slowing down or moving away the atmosphere near to the surface of the Earth is more dense and in consequence of our viewing the Sun and sun rising sunset directly between us and our horizon appears to us to be of a different size

If the altitude of the sun or moon be taken either with a tube or a micrometer when they appear so large to the eye in the horizon the measure is identical when they are in the meridian and appear to the eye or mind but half the size the apparent distance of the horizon is three or four times greater than the zenith hence the mental mistake of the horizon size for the angular dimensions are equal the first five degrees is apparently to the eye equal to 10° or 15° for 60° of elevation and the first 15° tools of space and I equal to a third of the quadrant this is going to the habit of sites for with an accurate instrument to the measure of five degrees near the horizon is equal to five degrees at the zen= (√(2rh+h^2))-√(2rh)

Where d is the distance to the horizon

R is the radius of the Earth

H is the height of the object above the earth’s surface in this case 3,000 miles or roughly 4828 km

Plugging in these values we get

D=(✓(2×6371×4828+4828^2))-√(2×6371×4828)d=(√(123034836-8150944))-√(86258212)

D=(11111.1km)-(9297.4km)

D=1814 km away

So

The sun will become visible to be observer at approximately 1,814 km away then

T = h / v

Where t equals time h is altitude (3,000 MI) and V is speed (1035 mph)

T = (4828)/(1667)

T = 2.9 hours

So it remains visible for 2.9 hours in the North during summer

TIDES

The Earth’s tides vary greatly. For example, near the Isle of Wight, there are four tides a day. Some beaches have tides which go out far, while others not so much. The mainstream map of tides is not uniform, and would not be caused by a single body moving harmoniously across from east to west.

If the Moon lifted up the water, it is evident that near the land, the water would be drawn away and low instead of high tide caused. Again, the velocity and path of the Moon are uniform, and it follows

That if she exerted any influence on the Earth, that influence could only be a uniform influence. But the tides are not uniform. At Port Natal the rise and fall is about 6 feet, while at Beira, about 600 miles up

The coast, the rise and fall is 26 feet. This effectually settles the matter that the Moon has no influence on the tides. In inland lakes, there are no tides; which also proves that the Moon cannot attract either the Earth or water to cause tides; while there are no tides on waters unconnected with the sea

You guys say the intensity of attraction increases with proximity, and vice versa. How, then, when the waters are drawn up by the Moon from their bed, and away from the Earth’s attraction,--which at that greater distance from the center is considerably diminished, while that of the Moon is proportionately increased—is it possible that all the waters acted on should be prevented leaving the

Earth and flying away to the Moon? If the Moon has power of attraction sufficient to lift the waters of the Earth at all, even a single inch from their deepest parts where the Earth’s attraction is much

The greater, there is nothing in the theory of attraction of gravitation to prevent her from taking to herself all the waters which come within her influence. Let the smaller body once overcome the power of the larger, and the power of the smaller becomes greater than when it first operated, because the matter

Acted on is nearer to it. Proximity is greater, and therefore power is greater … How then can the waters of the ocean immediately underneath the Moon flow towards the shores, and so cause a flood tide?

Water flows, it is said, through the law of gravity, or attraction of the Earth’s centre; is it possible then for the Moon, having once overcome the power of the Earth, to let go her hold upon the waters,

Through the influence of a power which she has conquered, and which therefore, is less than her own?

… The above and other difficulties which exist in connection with the explanation of the tides by the Newtonian system, have led many, including Sir Isaac Newton himself, to admit that such

Explanation is the least satisfactory portion of the ‘theory of gravitation.’ Thus we have been carried

Forward by the sheer force of evidence to the conclusion that the tides of the sea do not arise from the attraction of the Moon.

Empirical tests reveal using neodymium-magnets that water is diamagnetic and repels other magnetic fields.

Sun acting as the (+) electromagnetic energy causing low tide and the moon as the negative (-) electromagnetic energy causing high tide.

Electro-magnetic energy increases when the sun and moon are aligned and decreases when they are not.

STRONGER AND HIGHER TIDES = Full and new moon furthest and nearest the sun “SPRING TIDES.”

WEAKER AND LOWER TIDES = 1st and last quarter moon 90-degree angle from the sun “NEAP TIDES.” “NEAP” = without the power.

Water is diamagnetically opposed to any magnetic field therefore the tides of water are being pushed not pulled.

Salt strengthens water’s ability to conduct electricity. The salty brine of the world’s oceans creates a strong opposing magnetic field creating water turbulence and tidal activity.

Cyclone activity, tides and weather patterns are influenced by the path of the sun and moon.

The electro-magnetic intercourse between the sun and moon and the surrounding atmosphere can be tumultuous or serene according to variable factors.

There is a continuous exchange of energy going on between the sun and moon and the electro-magnetic energy of flat Earth and its seas.

Electro-magnetism is at work and not the masonic mystical Newtonian wet dream fantasy called ” the theory of gravity.”

The source of the sun is projected through the “firmament” which acts as a light polarizing filter.

The projected sun follows the magnetic field lines unique to each observer on Earth and is not a solid object.

The sun and the moon are influenced by the fluctuations of the magnetic energies of the North pole and outer rim. Aurora borealis. The “dome” of the heavens can be compared to a celestial hemisphere that conforms to the observer, wherever the observer is. Just as a rainbow is a “personal objective projection.”

Also explains why sun’s predicted time of (daily)zenith is off, every day all over the world from NASA’s predictions. Magnetic lines are not “static” dayto-day scale, they have continuous variation daily=sun’s apparent location changes!

ECLIPSES

Eclipse = Black Hole Sun Effect. As the moon is stripped of its negative charge, it loses its opacity, and thereby blocks the sun.

STARS ARE SONOLUMINESCENCE

It has often been urged that the earth must be a globe, because the stars in the southern “hemisphere” move round a south polar star; in the same way that those of the north revolve round “Polaris,” or the northern pole star. This is another instance of the sacrifice of truth, and denial of the evidence of our senses for the purpose of supporting a theory which is in every sense false and unnatural. It is known to every observer that the north pole star is the centre of a number of constellations which move over the earth in a circular direction. Those nearest to it, as the “Great Bear,” &c., &c., are always visible in England during their whole twenty-four hours’ revolution. Those further away southwards rise north-north-east, and set south-south-west; still further south they rise east by north, and set west by north. The farthest south visible from England, the rising is more to the east and south-east, and the setting to the west and south-west. But all the stars visible from London rise and set in a way which is not compatible with the doctrine of rotundity. For in-stance, if we stand with our backs to the north, on the high land known as “Arthur’s Seat,” near Edinburgh, and note the stars in the zenith of our position, and watch for several hours, the zenith stars will gradually recede to the north-west. If we do the same on Woodhouse Moor, near Leeds, or on any of the mountain tops in Yorkshire or Derbyshire, the same phenomenon is observed. The same thing may be seen from the top of Primrose Hill, near Regent’s Park, London; from Hampstead Heath; or Shooter’s Hill, near Woolwich. If we remain all night, we shall observe the same stars rising towards our position from the north-east, showing that the path of all the stars between ourselves and the northern centre move round the north pole-star as a common centre of rotation; just as they must do over a plane such as the earth is proved to be. It is undeniable that upon a globe zenith stars would rise, pass over head, and set in the plane of the observer’s position. If now we carefully watch in the same way the zenith stars from the Rock of Gibraltar, the very same phenomenon is observed. The same is also the case from Cape of Good Hope, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, in New Zealand, in Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, Valparaiso, and other places in the south. If then the zenith stars of all the places on the earth, where special observations have been made, rise from the morning horizon to the zenith of an observer, and descend to the evening horizon, not in a plane of the position of such observer, but in an arc of a circle concentric with the northern centre, the earth is thereby proved to be a plane, and rotundity altogether disproved—shown, indeed, to be impossible.

Here, however, we are met with the positive assertion that there is a very small star (of about the sixth magnitude) in the south, called Sigma Octantis, round which all the constellations of the south revolve, and which is therefore the southern polar star. It is scarcely polite to contradict the statements made, but it is certain that persons who have been educated to believe that the earth is a globe, going to the southern parts of the earth do not examine such matters critically. They see the stars move from towards the east towards the west, and they are satisfied. But they have not instituted special experiments, regardless of results, to ascertain the real and absolute movements of the southern constellations. Another thing is certain, that from and within the equator the north pole star, and the constellations Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and many others, can be seen from every meridian simultaneously; whereas in the south, from the equator, neither the so-called south pole star, nor the remarkable constellation of the Southern Cross, can be seen simultaneously from every meridian, showing that all the constellations of the south—pole star included—sweep over a great southern arc and across the meridian, from their rise in the evening to their setting in the morning. But if the earth is a globe, Sigma Octantis a south pole star, and the Southern Cross a southern circumpolar constellation, they would all be visible at the same time from every longitude on the same latitude, as is the case with the northern pole star and the northern circumpolar constellations. Such, however, it is strangely not the case; Sir James Clarke Ross did not see it until he was 8° south of the equator, and in longitude 30° W. 1 MM. Von Spix and Karl Von Martius, in their account of -their scientific travels in Brazil, in 1817-1820, relate that “on the 15th of June, in latitude 14° S, we beheld, for the first time, that glorious constellation of the southern heavens.

Sonoluminescence

“Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.” – Wikipedia

Properties of Sonoluminescence

“Sonoluminescence can occur when a sound wave of sufficient intensity induces a gaseous cavity within a liquid to collapse quickly. This cavity may take the form of a pre-existing bubble or may be generated through a process known as cavitation. Sonoluminescence in the laboratory can be made to be stable, so that a single bubble will expand and collapse over and over again in a periodic fashion, emitting a burst of light each time it collapses. For this to occur, a standing acoustic wave is set up within a liquid, and the bubble will sit at a pressure anti-node of the standing wave. The frequencies of resonance depend on the shape and size of the container in which the bubble is contained.

The light flashes from the bubbles last between 35 and a few hundred picoseconds long, with peak intensities of the order of 1–10 mW.

The bubbles are very small when they emit the light—about 1 micrometer in diameter—depending on the ambient fluid (e.g., water) and the gas content of the bubble (e.g., atmospheric air).

Single-bubble sonoluminescence pulses can have very stable periods and positions. In fact, the frequency of light flashes can be more stable than the rated frequency stability of the oscillator making the sound waves driving them. However, the stability analyses of the bubble show that the bubble itself undergoes significant geometric instabilities, due to, for example, the Bjerknes forces and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities.

The addition of a small amount of noble gas (such as helium, argon, or xenon) to the gas in the bubble increases the intensity of the emitted light.” —Wikipedia

Cymatics: Stars and Wandering Stars (Planets)

The process in which The Stars Wandering Stars (Planets), and even the Sun and Moon, most probably, are created is through the process of Cymatics:

“Cymatics, from Ancient Greek: κ ῦ μα, meaning “wave”, is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy. Typically, the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste or liquid. Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.”

–Wikipedia

Though vibrations in the crystalline, metallicized glassy vitreous Dome above The Earth , different patterns emerge, known as Cymatics. The Stars and Wandering Stars fixed within the “Waters Above” are the result of electromagnetic induced sound upon the myriads of tiny bubbles fixed in the Firmament. The result is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles known as Sonoluminescence.

“The light flashes from the bubbles last between 35 and a few hundred picoseconds long, with peak intensities of the order of 1–10 mW.”, as experiments in laboratories reveal. And the oscillations per second of Sonoluminescent bubbles causes a cavity to form in the bubble which can either implode or explode.

Again:

“Sonoluminescence can occur when a sound wave of sufficient intensity induces a gaseous cavity within a liquid to collapse quickly. This cavity may take the form of a pre-existing bubble or may be generated through a process known as cavitation. Sonoluminescence in the laboratory can be made to be stable, so that a single bubble will expand and collapse over and over again in a periodic fashion, emitting a burst of light each time it collapses. For this to occur, a standing acoustic wave is set up within a liquid, and the bubble will sit at a pressure anti-node of the standing wave. The frequencies of resonance depend on the shape and size of the container in which the bubble is contained.”

Phases of Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence

Stars are divided into spectral classes, which help to identify their color, size, and luminosity. One could assume that there may be traces of helium, argon, or xenon, as well as the celestial waters, to increases the intensity of the emitted light. (E.g. “Argon is a noble gas and it does not react with any other element. Consequently, argon does not react with water. Solubility of argon and argon compounds. Argon has a water solubility of 62 mg/L at 20oC and pressure = 1 bar.)

- - https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/water/argon/argon-and-water.htm

Traditionally these spectral classes are determined by a classification method:

Harvard Spectral Classification

O: Blue, 28,000-50,000K, radius 20, mass 40,

B: Blue-white, 10,000-28,000K, radius 5, mass 0.1

A: White, 7,500-10,000K, radius 2, mass 10

F: White-yellow, 6,000-7,500K, radius 1.2, mass 1.5

G: Yellow, 4,900-6,000K, radius 1, mass 1

K: Orange, 3,500-4,900K, radius 0.3, mass 0.5

M: Red, 2,000-3,500K, radius 0.1, mass 0.1

However, in actuality, this entire system is based upon the entirely false assumption that Stars are billions and billions of miles away (Made-up, silly, stupid distances) and massive burning infernos of vast amounts of hydrogen and helium, when they clearly exhibit the signature of Sonoluminescence far more than the burning nuclear inferno theory.

What Stars Really Are

Stars exhibit color, size, and luminosity depending upon what stage they are in in the pulsation and size index.

Using the Harvard Spectral Classification System again, but correctly:

O: Blue…………………..Small Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

B: Blue-white…………Small Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

A: White………………..Small Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

F: White-yellow……..Medium Size Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

G: Yellow………………Above Medium Size Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

K: Orange……………..Larger Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament M: Red…………………..Largest Bubbles fixed in The Rotating Firmament

The Life Cycles of Stars

White Dwarf Stars are Tiny Bubbles

Red Giant Stars are Larger Bubble

Quasar are merely bubbles which have a lot of Red Shift from their size and not their distance. They are actually close to the Firmament and the vitreous nature of The Dome effects the refractive index with respect to the wavelength of red in their dispersion.

Nebula are simply a stage of Sonoluminescent pulsation

Protostars/T Tauri phase or Brown Dwarfs are transitioning bubbles

Blue Supergiant are hyper-resonating small bubbles

Neutron Star is merely a bubble approaching explosion

Supernova is an exploding bubble into the Celestial Waters if the Firmament

Black Holes are imploding bubbles which create n whirlpool in the Celestial Waters in The Firmament. This why Black Holes appear to be “Star Eaters”. What they are actually doing is sucking in nearby water like a common ocean tide pool. The swirling you see is like the swirling you see in a tide pool when a pinwheel eddy forms to suck in surrounding debris.

Red and Blue Shift

“Redshift and blueshift describe how light shifts toward shorter or longer wavelengths as objects in space

(such as stars or galaxies) move closer or farther away from us. The concept is key to charting the universe’s expansion. Visible light is a spectrum of colors, which is clear to anyone who has looked at a rainbow.” — https://www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html

When the Sonoluminescent bubbles implode, they get blue. When the explode, they get red. Nothing is moving out into Outer Space or contracting into a Big Bang. That is all science fiction nonsense. The Stars are extremely small pinpricks of Sonoluminescent light, and not expanding nor contracting out. The entire red-shift/blue-shift paradigm is meaningless rubbish.

The red and blue shifts are not indicating velocity. They are merely indicating implosion and explosion of tiny bubbles, no larger than a marble, most likely.

Magnitudes of Order

Stars could be the size of a whale, a car, or could be the size of a marble or grains of sand…but certainly not millions of miles of magnitudes. It is hard to say because

Sonoluminescent bubbles burn tens of thousands of degrees when they implode or explode and they are being magnified by atmospheric lensing, as well. It does not take a huge bubble of such luminous spectral intensity to be seen a few hundred or thousands of miles from the Earth’s

The Stars are Fixed and Rotate in a Circular Pattern

If you look at time lapsed photography of the stars, they show a perfect circular pattern. This has to indicate that the stars above us are centralized above us. If not, we wouldn’t have a North Star.

If the Stars are circling this means the Earth is not moving. If the earth were moving through “space” then the path of the stars would have a tunnel effect and not merely exhibit a circular pattern. The fact that the constellations have remained unchanged for all centuries also supports the fact that the Earth does not move through “space.”

Now if one adds the Michelson-Morley Experiment (1887) to prove the Earth is not moving at all, and one is left with the fact that we are under a kaleidoscope of Stars that rotate a full turn once every 24 hours. In a Dome structure above the Earth.

Lastly, Polaris never moves from the center, which proves that the Stars are pivoting around the fixed North Star.

“NASA says Polaris is 2 Quadrillion million miles away (again big scary numbers to spellbind you and make you submit in DEPENDENCE OF THE AUTHORITY OF NASA, since you cannot verify the legitimacy of such huge number claims.

And then NASA says The Earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour on its axis, while orbiting The Sun at

67,000 miles an hour, while spiraling around the outer arms of The Milky Way

Galaxy at 500,000mile per hour, with the Milky Way Galaxy shooting out through The Universe at 670,000,000 miles per hour…and you magically do not feel any of that insanely contrary motion????????

There are no stars, per se, in the way we were taught…as nuclear furnaces, trillions and trillions of miles away.

Stars are only a few thousand miles away and are actually only pulsating frequencies of SONOLUMINESCENCE (the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound) in a rotating firmament above The Earth. The Stars rotate around the Polar North Star, Polaris, as an interconnected unit. That’s why no matter how many years transpire, the Constellations are still locked in a fixed position, never changing at all.

Scientism Priests invented a mystical magical, Stellar Parallax Theory to explain why The Stars appear to never move and the world was once again razzle-dazzled by the sleight of mathematical hand of Semitism Stellar Parallax theory states:

“Stellar Parallax created by the relative motion between the Earth and a star can be seen, in the Copernican model, as arising from the orbit of the Earth around the Sun: the star only appears to move relative to more distant objects in the sky. In a geostatic model, the movement of the star would have to be taken as real with the star oscillating across the sky with respect to the background stars.

The fact that Stellar Parallax was so small that it was unobservable at the time was used as the main scientific argument against Heliocentrism during the early modern age. It is clear from Euclid’s geometry that the effect would be undetectable if the stars were far enough away, but for various reasons such gigantic distances involved seemed entirely implausible.” –Wikipedia

So, Scientism countered back with more theoretical mumbo-jumbo like:

“In 1989, the satellite Hipparcos was launched primarily for obtaining improved parallaxes and proper motions for over 100,000 nearby stars, increasing the reach of the method tenfold. Even so, Hipparcos is only able to measure parallax angles for stars up to about 1,600 light-years away, a little more than one percent of the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, launched in December 2013, will be able to measure parallax angles to an accuracy of micro-arc seconds, thus mapping nearby stars (and potentially planets) up to a distance of tens of thousands of light-years from Earth. In April 2014, NASA astronomers reported that the Hubble Space Telescope, by using spatial scanning, can now precisely measure distances up to 10,000 light-years away, a ten-fold improvement over earlier measurement.” –Wikipedia

The superficies of the earth being twice seven times that of the moon, what an influence the earth must exercise over its satellite! We may be unable to describe this influence in all of its effects; but we may observe its existence in some of its apparent signs. The moon not only turns while we turn, but its rotations on its axis keep exact time with its revolutions round our globe; it accompanies us as we encircle the sun, facing us all the while, never turning its back upon us; it waits on us like a link-bearer, or lackey; is our admiring Boswell, living and moving and having its being in the equability it derives from attending its illustrious master. An African sage

once illustrated this philosophical principle of the greater controlling the less, by the following fine conundrum.

This problem, being beyond his auditors, was given up. The sage made answer, "Because the dog is bigger than the tail; else the tail would waggle the dog." It is alarming to contemplate the effect which the moon might have upon our august earth, if it were fourteen times larger instead of fourteen times smaller in extent of surface. As it is, Luna's influences are so many and so mighty, that we will require considerable space merely to set them in order, and to substantiate them with a few facts. We believe that most, if not all, of them, are the offspring of superstition; but we shall none the less find them in every land, in every age. In the nineteenth century as well as in the dark ages, in London as well as in the ends of the earth, men of all colours and clans are found turning their faces heavenward to read their duty and destiny in the oracular face of the moon. Many consult their almanacks more than their Bibles, and follow the lunar phases as their sole interpretation of the will of God.

Among those who worship the moon as a personal deity, whether beneficent or malign, its influences are of course welcomed or dreaded as the manifestations of supreme power. In South America, for example, "the Botocudos are said to give the highest rank among the heavenly bodies to Taru, the moon, as causing thunder and lightning and the failure of vegetables and fruits, and as even sometimes falling to the earth, whereby many men die." 321 So, in Africa, the emotions of the worshippers vary with their subjective views of their god. "Negro tribes seem almost universally to greet the new moon, whether in delight or disgust. The Guinea people fling themselves about with droll gestures, and pretend to throw firebrands at it; the Ashango men behold it with superstitious fear; the Fetu negroes jumped thrice into the air with hands together and gave thanks." 322 But even amongst men who neither personify nor deify the moon, its dominion over the air, earth, and sea, over human health and happiness, is held to be so all-important, that if the Maker and Monarch of all were jealous, as men count jealousy, such lunar fears and affections would be unpardonable sin.

Let us proceed to particulars, rising from inorganic nature to beings endowed with the highest instruments of life. Even the mineral kingdom is supposed to be swayed by the moon; for in Scotland, Martin says, "The natives told me, that the rock on the east side of Harries, in the Sound of Island Glass, hath a vacuity near the front, on the north-west side of the Sound; in which they say there is a stone that they call the Lunar Stone, which advances and retires according to the increase and decrease of the moon." 323 An ancient instance of belief in lunar influence upon inanimate matter is cited by Plutarch. "Euthydemus of Sunium feasted us upon a time at his house, and set before us a wilde bore, of such bignesse, that all wee at the table wondred thereat; but he told us that there was another brought unto him farre greater; mary naught it was, and corrupted in the carriage, by the beames of the moone-shine; whereof he made great doubt and question, how it should come to passe; for that he could not conceive, nor see any reason, but that the sunne should rather corrupt flesh, being as it was, farre hotter than the moone." 324 Pliny said that the moon corrupted carcases of animals exposed to its malefic rays. As with the lifeless, so with the living. "The inhabitants of St. Kilda observe that when the April moon goes far in May, the fowls are ten or twelve days later in laying their eggs than ordinarily they use to be." The influence of the moon upon vegetation is an opinion hoary with age. In the Zend-Avesta we read, "And when the light of the moon waxes warmer, golden-hued plants grow on from the earth during the spring." An old English author writes:--

"Sowe peason and beanes, in the wane of the moone,

Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soone

That they with the planet may rest and arise,

And flourish, with bearing most plentiful wise." 327

Cucumbers, radishes, turnips, leeks, lilies, horseradish, saffron, and other plants, are said to increase during the fulness of the moon; but onions, on the contrary, are much larger and are better nourished during the decline. 328 To recur to Plutarch is to find him saying: "The moone showeth her power most evidently even in those bodies, which have neither sense nor lively breath; for carpenters reject the timber of trees fallen in the ful-moone, as being soft and tender, subject also to the worme and putrifaction, and that quickly, by reason of excessive moisture; husbandmen, likewise, make haste to gather up their wheat and other grain from the threshing-floore, in the wane of the moone, and toward the end of the month, that being hardened thus with drinesse, the heape in the garner may keepe the better from being fustie, and continue the longer; whereas corne which is inned and laied up at the full of the moone, by reason of the softnesse and over-much moisture, of all other, doth most cracke and burst. It is commonly said also, that if a leaven be laied in the ful-moone, the paste will rise and take leaven better." Still in Cornwall the people gather all their medicinal plants when the moon is of a certain age; which practice is very probably a relic of druidical superstition. "In some parts it is a prevalent belief that the growth of mushrooms is influenced by the changes of the moon, and in Essex the subjoined rule is often scrupulously adhered to:--

"When the moon is at the full,

Mushrooms you may freely pull

But when the moon is on the wane,

Wait ere you think to pluck again.'"

Henderson says, "I may, perhaps, mention here, that apples are said to 'shrump up' in Devonshire if picked when the moon is waning." A writer of miscellaneous literature tells us that "it has been demonstrated that moonlight has the power, per se, of awakening the sensitive plant, and consequently that it possesses an influence of some kind on vegetation. It is true that the influence is very feeble, compared with that of the sun; but the action is established, and the question remains, what is the practical value of the fact? 'It will immediately,' says Professor Lindley, 'occur to the reader that possibly the screens which are drawn down over hothouses at night, to prevent loss of heat by radiation, may produce some unappreciated injury by cutting off the rays of the moon, which nature intended to fall upon plants as much as the rays of the sun." The same author says elsewhere, "Columella, Cato, Vitruvius, and Pliny, all had their notions of the advantages of cutting timber at certain ages of the moon; a piece of mummery which is still preserved in the royal ordonnances of France to the conservators of the forests, who are directed to fell oaks only 'in the wane of the moon' and 'when the wind is at north.'" Of trees, astrologers affirm that the moon rules the palm tree (which the ancients say "sends forth a twig every time the moon rises") and all plants, trees, and herbs that are juicy and full of sap.

"A description of the New Netherlands, written about 1650, remarks that the savages of that land 'ascribe great influence to the moon over crops.' This venerable superstition, common to all races, still lingers among our own farmers, many of whom continue to observe 'the signs of the moon ' in sowing grain, setting out trees, cutting timber, and other rural avocations." What is here said of the new world applies also to the old; for in England a current expression in Huntingdonshire is "a dark Christmas sends a fine harvest": dark meaning moonless.

Of the lunar influence upon the tides, old John Lilly writes: "There is nothing thought more admirable, or commendable in the sea, than the ebbing and flowing; and shall the moone, from whom the sea taketh this virtue, be accounted fickle for encreasing and decreasing?" Another writer of the sixteenth century says, "The moone is founde, by plaine experience, to beare her greatest stroke uppon the seas, likewise in all things that are moiste, and by consequence in the braines of man." Dennys tells us that "the influence exerted by the moon on tides is recognised by the Chinese." What some record in prose, others repeat in rhyme. The following is one kind of poetry.

"Moone changed, keepes closet, three daies as a Queene,

Er she in hir prime, will of any be scene :

If great she appereth, it showreth out,

If small she appereth, it signifieth drout.

At change or at full, come it late, or else soone,

Maine sea is at highest, at midnight and noone,

But yet in the creekes, it is later high flood:

Through farnesse of running, by reason as good."

Indirectly, through the influence upon the tides, the moon is concerned in human mortality.

"Tyde flowing is feared, for many a thing,

Great danger to such as be sick it doth bring.

Sea eb, by long ebbing, some respit doth give,

And sendeth good comfort, to such as shal live."

Henderson says, "It is a common belief along the east coast of England, from Northumberland to Kent, that deaths mostly occur during the falling of the tide." Every reader of the inimitable Dickens will be reminded here of the death of poor old Barkis.

"'He's a-going out with the tide,' said Mr. Peggotty to me, behind his hand.

"My eyes were dim, and so were Mr. Peggotty's; but I repeated in a whisper, 'With the tide?'

"'People can't die, along the coast,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in-not properly born, till flood. He's a-going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide.'

"'He's coming to himself,' said Peggotty.

"Mr. Peggotty touched me, and whispered with much awe and reverence, 'They are both a-going out fast.'

"He now opened his eyes.

"I was on the point of asking him if he knew me, when he tried to stretch out his arm, and said to me distinctly, with a pleasant smile,--

"'Barkis is willin'.'

"And, it being low water, he went out with the tide."

That the rise and fall of our tides twice a day, with spring and neap tides twice in the lunar month, are the effect of the combined action of the sun and moon, is never called in question. The water under the moon is drawn up from the earth, and the earth is drawn from the water on the opposite side, the consequence of which is two high tides in the two hemispheres at the same hour. The rotation of the earth bringing the same point of the ocean twice under the moon's meridian, once under the upper meridian and once under the lower, each hemisphere has two high tides in the course of the day. The spring tide is caused by the attractive force of the sun and moon acting in conjunction, or in a straight line; and the neap tide is caused by the moon being in quadrature, or when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other. They counteract each other's influence, and our tides arc therefore low. So much is science; but the connection of ebb and flow with life and death is superstition.

From a very remote antiquity, in the twilight of natural astrology, a belief arose that changes in the weather were occasioned by the moon. 343 That the notion lives on, and will not soon die, is clear to any one who is conversant with current literature and common folk-lore. Even intelligent, well-informed people lend it countenance. Professor Newcomb, of Washington, rightly says: "Thus far there is no evidence that the moon directly affects the earth or its inhabitants in any other way than by her attraction, which is so minute as to be entirely insensible except in the ways we have described. A striking illustration of the fallibility of the human judgment when not disciplined by scientific training is afforded by the opinions which have at various times obtained currency respecting a supposed influence of the moon on the weather. Neither in the reason of the case nor in observations do we find any real support for such a theory. It must, however, be admitted that opinions of this character are not confined to the uneducated." Mr. Edward B. Tylor holds similar language: "The notion that the weather changes with the moon's quarterings is still held with great vigour in England. That educated people to whom exact weather records are accessible should still find satisfaction in the fanciful lunar rule, is an interesting case of intellectual survival." No marvel that the "heathen Chinee" considers lunar observations as forecasting scarcity of provisions he is but of the same blood with his British brother, who takes his tea and sends him opium. "The Hakkas (and also many Puntis) believe that if in the night of the fifteenth day of the eighth month (mid autumn) there are clouds obscuring the moon before midnight, it is a sign that oil and salt will become very dear. If, however, there are clouds obscuring the moon after midnight, the price of rice will, it is supposed, undergo a similar change."

One of our provincial proverbs is: "So many days old the moon is on Michaelmas Day, so many floods after." Sometimes a proverb is a short saying spoken after long experience; at other times it is a small crystal left after a lengthy evaporation. In certain instances our rural apothegms are sacred relics of extinct but canonized fictions. An equally wise prediction is that if Christmas comes during a waxing moon we shall have a very good year; and the nearer to the new moon, the better. But if during a waning moon, a hard year; and the nearer the end of the moon, so much the worse. Another sage belief is that the condition of the weather is dependent upon the day of the week upon which the new moon chances to fall. We are told that "Dr. Forster, of Bruges, well known as a meteorologist, declares that by the Journal kept by his grandfather, father, and self, ever since 1767, to the present time, whenever the new moon has fallen on a Saturday, the following twenty days have been wet and windy, in nineteen cases out of twenty." 347 In Italy it is said, "If the moon change on a Sunday, there will be a flood before the month is out." New moon on Monday, or moon-day, is, of course, everywhere held a sign of good weather and luck.

That a misty moon is a misfortune to the atmosphere is widely supposed. In Scotland it is an agricultural maxim among the canny farmers that--

"If the moon shows like a silver shield,

You need not be afraid to reap your field

But if she rises haloed round,

Soon we'll tread on deluged ground."

Others say that a mist is unfavourable only with the new moon, not with the old.

"An old moon in a mist

Is worth gold in a kist (chest)

But a new moon's mist

Will never lack thirst,"

is a rugged rhyme found in several places. In Cornwall the idea is that--

"A fog and a small moon

Bring an easterly wind soon."

The east wind, as we know, is dry. Two of the Shepherd of Banbury's rules are:

xii. If mists in the new moon, rain in the old.

xiii. If mists in the old, rain in the new moon."

One thing is a meteorological certainty: the full moon very frequently clears the sky. But this may be partly accounted for by the fact that a full moon shows the night to be clear, which in the moon's absence might be called cloudy.

Another observation shows that in proportion to the clearness of the night is its cold. The clouds covering the earth with no thick blanket, it radiates its heat into space. This has given rise to the notion that the moon itself reduces our temperature. It is cold at night without doubt. But the cold moon is so warm when the sun is shining full on its disk that no creature on earth could endure a moment's contact with its surface. The centre of the "pale-faced moon" is hotter than boiling water. This thought may cheer us when "the cold round moon shines deeply down." We may be pardoned if we take with a tincture of scepticism the following statement "Native Chinese records aver that on the 18th day of the 6th moon, 1590, snow fell one summer night from the midst of the moon. The flakes were like fine willow flowers on shreds of silk." 351 Instead of cold, it is more likely that the white moon gives us heat, for from Melloni's letter to Arago it seems to be already an ascertained fact. Having concentrated the lunar rays with a lens of over three feet diameter upon his thermoscopic pile, Melloni found that the needle had deviated from 0° 6' to 4° 8', according to the lunar phase. Other thermoscopes may give even larger indications; but meanwhile the Italian physicist has exploded an error with a spark of science.

"Another weather guide connected with the moon is, that to see 'the old moon in the arms of the new one' is reckoned a sign of fine weather; and so is the turning up of the horns of the new moon. In this position it is supposed to retain the water, which is imagined to be in it, and which would run out if the horns were turned down." 352 On this novel idea of a lunar bason or saucer, Southey writes from "Keswick, December 29th, 1828," as follows:--"Poor Littledale has this day explained the cause of our late rains, which have prevailed for the last six weeks, by a theory which will probably be as new to you as it is to me. 'I have observed,' he says, 'that, when the moon is turned upward, we have fine weather after it; but if it is turned down, then we have a wet season; and the reason I think is, that when it is turned down, it holds no water, like a bason, you know, and then down it all comes.' There, it will be a long while before the march of intellect shall produce a theory as original as this, which I find, upon inquiry, to be the popular opinion here." 353 George Eliot has taken notice of this fancy in the burial of "poor old Thias Bede." "They'll ha' putten Thias Bede i' the ground afore ye get to the churchyard," said old Martin, as his son came up. "It 'ud ha' been better luck if they'd ha' buried him i' the forenoon when the rain was fallin'; there's no likelihoods of a drop now, an' the moon lies like a boat there, dost see? That's a sure sign o' fair weather; there's a many as is false, but that's sure."

In Dekker's Match Me in London, Act i., the King says, "My Lord, doe you see this change in the moone? Sharp hornes doe threaten windy weather."

In the famous ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, concerning whose origin there has been so much discussion, without eliciting any very accurate information, we read:

"O ever alack! my master dear,

I fear a deadly storm. p. 189

I saw the new moon late yestreen,

Wi' the auld moon in her arm

And if ye gang to sea, maister,

I fear we'll suffer harm."

Jamieson informs us that "prognostications concerning the weather, during the course of the month, are generally formed by the country people in Scotland from the appearance of the new moon. It is considered as an almost infallible presage of bad weather, if she lies sair on her back, or when her horns are pointed towards the zenith. It is a similar prognostic, when the new moon appears wi' the auld moon in her arm, or, in other words, when that part of the moon which is covered with the shadow of the earth is seen through it." 356 The last sentence is a lapsus calami. Dr. Jamieson should have said, when that part of the moon which is turned from the sun is dimly visible through the reflected light of the earth.

"At Whitby, when the moon is surrounded by a halo with watery clouds, the seamen say that there will be a change of weather, for the 'moon dogs' are about." At Ulceby, in Lincolnshire, "there is a very prevalent belief amongst sailors and seafaring men that when a large star or planet is seen near the moon, or, as they express it, 'a big star is dogging the moon,' that this is a certain prognostication of wild weather. I have met old sailors having the strongest faith in this prediction, and who have told me that they have verified it by a long course of observation."

"Some years ago," says a writer from Torquay, "an old fisherman of this place told me, on the morning next after a violent gale, that he had foreseen the storm for some time, as he had observed one star ahead of the moon, towing her, and another astern, chasing her. 'I know'd 'twas coming, safe enough.'" 359 The moon was simply in apparent proximity to two stars; but the old Devonian descried mischief.

The following incident from Zulu life will be of interest. "1878. A curious phenomenon occurred 7th January. A bright star appeared near the moon at noonday, the sun shining brightly. Omen--The natives from this foretold the coming war with the Amazulu. Intense heat and drought prevailed at this time." 360

Hitherto we have reviewed only the imaginary influences of the moon over inanimate nature and what are called irrational beings. We have seen that this potent orb is supposed to affect the lightning and thunder of the air; the rocks and seas, the vegetables and animals of the earth; and generally to govern terrestrial matters in a manner altogether its own. Furthermore, we have found these imaginations rooted in all lands, and among men whose culture might have been expected to refuse such fruitless excrescences. When classical authors counsel us to set eggs under the hen at new moon, and to root up trees only when the moon is waning and after mid-day; and when "the wisest, brightest," if not the "meanest of mankind" seriously attributes to the moon the extraction of heat, the furtherance of putrification, the increase of moisture, and the excitement of animal spirits, with the increase of hedges and herbs if cut or set during certain phases of that body, we can but repeat to ourselves the saying, "The best of men are but men at the best." The half, however, has not been told; and we must now pass on to speak of lunar influences upon the birth, health, intellect, and fortune of microcosmical man.

In the system of astrology, which professed to interpret the events of human existence by the movements of the stars, the moon was one of the primary planets. As man was looked upon in the light of a microcosm, or world in miniature, so the several parts of his constitution were viewed as but a reproduction in brief of the great parts of the vast organism. Creation was a living, intelligent being, whose two eyes were the sun and the moon, whose body was the earth, whose intellect was the ether, whose wings were the heavens. Man was an epitome of all this; and as the functions of the less were held to correspond with the functions of the greater, the microcosm with the macrocosm, man's movements could be inferred by first ascertaining the motions of the universe. The moon, having dominion in the twelve "houses" of heaven, through which she passed in the course of the year, her aspects to the other bodies were considered as of prime significance, in indicating benignant or malignant influences upon human life. This system, which was based upon ignorance and superstition, and upheld by arbitrary rules and unreasoning credulity, is so repugnant to all principles of science and common sense, that it would be unworthy of notice, if we did not know that to this day there are educated persons still to be seen poring over old almanacs and peering into the darkness of divination, to read their own fortune or that of their children by the dim light of some lucky or unlucky configuration of the planets with the moon. The wheel of fortune yet revolves, and the despotism of astrology is not dead. The lunar influence is considered supreme in the hour of birth. Nay, with some the moon is potential even before birth. In Iceland it is said: "If a pregnant woman sit with her face turned towards the moon, her child will be a lunatic." 361 And this imagination obtains at home as well as abroad. We are told that "astrologers ascribe the most powerful influence to the moon on every person, both for success and health, according to her zodiacal and mundane position at birth, and her aspects to other planets. The sensual faculties depend almost entirely on the moon, and as she is aspected so are the moral or immoral tendencies. She has great influence always upon every person's constitution." This is the doctrine of a book published not thirty years ago. Another work, issued also in London, says, "Cynthia, 'the queen of heaven,' as the ancients termed her, or the MOON, the companion of the earth, and chief source

of our evening light, is a cold, moist, watery, phlegmatic planet, variable to an extreme, in astrological science; and partaking of good or evil, as she is aspected by good or evil stars. When angular and unafflicted in a nativity, she is the promissory pledge of great success in life and continual good fortune. She produces a full stature, fair, pale complexion, round face, gray eyes, short arms, thick hands and feet, smooth, corpulent, and phlegmatic body. Blemishes in the eyes, or a peculiar weakness in the sight, is the result of her being afflicted by the Sun. Her conjunction, semi-sextile, sextile, or trine, to Jupiter, is exceeding fortunate; and she is said by the old Astrologers to govern the brain, stomach, bowels, left eye of the male, and right eye of the female. Her usual diseases are rheumatism, consumption, palsy, cholic, apoplexy, vertigo, lunacy, scrophula, smallpox, dropsy, etc.; also most diseases peculiar to young children." 363 Such teaching is not a whit in advance of Plutarch's odd dictum that the moon has a "special hand in the birth of children."

If this belief have disciples in London, it is not by any means confined to that city. In Sweden great influence is ascribed to the moon, not only in regulating the weather, but as affecting all the affairs of man's daily life. The lower orders, and many of the better sort, will not fell a tree for agricultural purposes in the wane of that orb, lest it should shrink and decay; nor will the housewife then slaughter for her family, lest the meat should shrivel and melt away in the pot. The moon is the domestic deity, whom the household must fear: the Fortuna who presides over the daily doings of sublunary mortals. In the matter of birth, we find Francis Bacon affirming that "the calculation of nativities, fortunes, good or bad hours of business, and the like fatalities, are mere levities that have little in them of certainty and solidity, and may be plainly confuted by physical reasons"; 364 and yet in his Natural History he writes: "It may be that children and young cattle that are brought forth in the full of the moon, are stronger and larger than those that are brought forth in the wane." There surely can be no superstition in studying the moon's conjunctions and oppositions if her influence in a nativity have the slightest weight. And this influence is still widely maintained by philosophers who read Bacon, as well as by the peasants who read nothing at all. "In Cornwall, when a child is born in the interval between an old moon and the first appearance of a new one, it is said that it will never live to reach the age of puberty. Hence the saying, 'no moon, no man.' In the same county, too, when a boy is born in the wane of the moon, it is believed that the next birth will be a girl, and vice versa; and it is also commonly said that when a birth takes place on the 'growing of the moon' the next child will be of the same sex."

As a natural proceeding, we find that the moon has influence when the child is weaned. Caledonian mothers very carefully observe the lunar phases on this account. Jamieson tells us that "this superstition, with respect to the fatal influence of a waning moon, seems to have been general in Scotland. In Angus, it is believed, that, if a child be put from the breast during the waning of the moon, it will decay all the time that the moon continues to wane." 367 So in the heart of Europe, "the Lithuanian precept to wean boys at a waxing, but girls on a waning moon, no doubt to make the boys sturdy and the girls slim and delicate, is a fair match for the Orkney Islanders' objection to marrying except with a growing moon, while some even wish for a flowing tide." As to marriage, the ancient Greeks considered the day of the full moon the most propitious period for that ceremony. In Euripides, Clytemnestra having asked Agamemnon when he intended to give Iphigenia in marriage to Achilles, he replies, "When the full moon comes forth with good luck." In Pindar, too, this season is preferred.

Lunar influences over physical health and disease must be a fearful contemplation to those who are of a superstitious turn. There is no malady within the whole realm of pathology which the moon's destroying angel cannot inflict; and from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot the entire man is at the mercy of her beams. We have all seen those disgusting woodcuts to which the following just condemnation refers: "The moon's influence on parts of the human body, as given in some old-fashioned almanacs, is an entire fallacy; it is most untrue and absurd, often indecent, and is a discredit to the age we live in." 370 Most of these inartistic productions are framed upon the assumption of the old alchymists that the physiological functions were regulated by planetary influence. The sun controlled the heart, the moon the brain, Jupiter the lungs, Saturn the spleen, Mars the liver, Venus the kidneys, and Mercury the reproductive powers. But even with this distribution among the heavenly bodies the moon was allowed plenipotentiary sway. As in mythology it is the god or goddess of water, so in astrology it is the embodiment of moisture, and therefore rules the humours which circulate throughout the human system. No wonder that phlebotomy prevailed so long as the reign of the moon endured. "This lunar planet," says La Martinière, "is damp of itself, but, by the radiation of the sun, is of various temperaments, as follows: in its first quadrant it is warm and damp, at which time it is good to let the blood of sanguine persons; in its second it is warm and dry, at which time it is good to bleed the choleric; in its third quadrant it is cold and moist, and phlegmatic people may be bled; and in its fourth it is cold and dry, at which time it is well to bleed the melancholic." Whatever the moon's phase may be, let blood be shed! We are reminded here of that sanguifluous theology, which even Christians of a certain temperament seem to enjoy, while they sing of fountains filled with blood: as though a God of love could take delight in the effusion of precious life. La Martinière continues, and physicians will make a note of his words: " It is a thing quite necessary to those who meddle with medicine to understand the movement of this planet, in order to discern the causes of sickness. And as the moon is often in conjunction with Saturn, many attribute to it apoplexy, paralysis, epilepsy, jaundice, hydropsy, lethargy, catapory, catalepsy, colds, convulsions, trembling of the limbs, etc., etc. I have noticed that this planet has such enormous power over living creatures, that children born at the first quarter of the declining moon are more subject to illness, so that children born when there is no moon, if they live, are weak, delicate, and sickly, or are of little mind or idiots. Those who are born under the house of the moon which is Cancer, are of a phlegmatic disposition." 371

That the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans believed in the deleterious influence of the moon on the health of man, is very evident. The Talmud refers the words, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" (Ps. xxiii. 4) "to him who sleeps in the shadow of the moon." 372 Another Psalm (cxxi. 6) reads, literally, "By day the sun shall not smite thee, and the moon in the night." In the Greek Testament we find further proof of this belief. Among those who thronged the Great Teacher (Matt. iv. 24) were the σεληνιαζομένοι (lunatici, Beza; i lunatici, Diodati; les lunatiques, French version; "those who were lunatick"). The Revised Version of 1881 reads epileptic," but that is a comment, not a translation. So again (Matt. xvii. 15) we read of a boy who was "lunatick"--σεληνιάζεται. On which Archbishop Trench remarks, "Of course the word originally, like μανία (from μήνη) and lunaticus, arose from the widespread belief of the evil influence of the moon on the human frame." Jerome attributes all this superstition to dæmons, of which men were the dupes. "The lunatics," he says, "were not really smitten by the moon, but were believed to be so, through the subtlety of the dæmons, who by observing the seasons of the moon sought to bring an evil report against the creature, that it might redound to the blasphemy of the Creator." 374 Demons or no demons, faith in moonstroke is clear enough. Pliny was of opinion that the moon induced drowsiness and stupor in those who slept under her beams. Galen, in the second century, taught that those who were born when the moon was falciform, or sickle-shaped, were weak and short-lived, while those born during the full moon were vigorous and of long life. He also took notice of the lunar influence in epilepsy 375 of which fearful malady a modern physician writes, "This disease has been known from the earliest antiquity, and is remarkable as being that malady which, even beyond insanity, was made the foundation of the doctrine of possession by evil spirits, alike in the Jewish, Grecian, and Roman philosophy." 376 The terrible disorder was a fact; and evil spirits or the moon had to bear the blame.

In modern times the moon is no less the deity of insalutary disaster. Of Mexico, Brinton says: "Very different is another aspect of the moon-goddess, and well might the Mexicans paint her with two colours. The beneficent dispenser of harvests and offspring, she nevertheless has a portentous and terrific phase. She is also the goddess of the night, the dampness, and the cold; she engenders the miasmatic poisons that rack our bones; she conceals in her mantle the foe who takes us unawares; she rules those vague shapes which fright us in the dim light; the causeless sounds of night or its more oppressive silence are familiar to her; she it is who sends dreams wherein gods and devils have their sport with man, and slumber, the twin brother of the grave." So farther south, "the Brazilian mother carefully shielded her infant from the lunar rays, believing that they would produce sickness; the hunting tribes of our own country will not sleep in its light, nor leave their game exposed to its action. We ourselves have not outgrown such words as lunatic, moon-struck, and the like. Where did we get these ideas? The philosophical historian of medicine, Kurt Sprengel, traces them to the primitive and popular medical theories of ancient Egypt, in accordance with which all maladies were the effects of the anger of the goddess Isis, the moisture, the moon." Perhaps Dr. Brinton's own Mexican myth is a better elucidation of this origin of nocturnal evil than that which traces it to Egypt. According to an ancient tradition in[paragraph continues]

Mexico, "it is said that in the absence of the sun all mankind lingered in darkness. Nothing but a human sacrifice could hasten his arrival. Then Metzli, the moon, led forth one Nanahuatl, the leprous, and building a pyre, the victim threw himself in its midst. Straightway Metzli followed his example, and as she disappeared in the bright flames, the sun rose over the horizon. Is not this a reference to the kindling rays of the aurora, in which the dark and baleful night is sacrificed, and in whose light the moon presently fades away, and the sun comes forth?" 379 We venture to think that it is, and that it is nearest to a natural explanation of purely natural effects.

Coming next to Britain, we find that "no prejudice has been more firmly rivetted than the influence of the moon over the human frame, originating perhaps in some superstition more ancient than recorded by the earliest history. The frequent intercourse of Scotland with the north may have conspired to disseminate or renew the veneration of a luminary so highly venerated there, in counteracting the more southern ecclesiastical ordinances." Forbes Leslie surely goes too far, and mixes matters up too much, when he writes: "An ancient belief, adhered to by the ignorant after being denounced and apparently disproved by the learned, is now admitted to be a fact; viz. the influence of the moon in certain diseases. This, from various circumstances, is more apparent in some of the Asiatic countries, and may have given rise to the custom which extended into[paragraph continues]

Britain, of exposing sick children on the housetops." We know that the solar rays, from the time of Hippocrates, the reputed "father of medicine," were believed by the Greeks to prolong life; and that the Romans built terraces on the tops of their houses called solaria, where they enjoyed their solar baths. "Levato sole levatur morbus," was one of their medical axioms. But who ever heard of the lunar rays as beneficial? If sick children were exposed on the housetops, it must have been in the daytime; and, unless it were intended as an alterative, it is difficult to see what connection this had with the belief that disease was the product of the lunar beam. Besides, is the moon's influence in disease an admitted fact? The "certain diseases" should be specified, and their lunar origin sustained.

The following strange superstition is singularly like that interpolated legend in the Gospel of John, about the angel troubling the pool of Bethesda. In this case the medicinal virtue seems to come with the change of the moon. But in both cases supernatural agency is equally mythical. "A cave in the neighbourhood of Dunskey ought also to be mentioned, on account of the great veneration in which it is held by the people. At the change of the moon (which is still considered with superstitious reverence), it is usual to bring, even from a great distance, infirm persons, and particularly ricketty children, whom they often suppose bewitched, to bathe in a stream which pours from the hill, and then dry them in the cave." 382

Those who are in danger of apoplexy, or other cerebral disease, through indulgence too freely in various liquids, vinous and spirituous, should cherish Bacon's sapient deliverance: "It is like that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon; and therefore it were good for those that have moist brains, and are great drinkers, to take sume of lignum aloes, rosemary, frankincense, etc., about the full of the moon. It is like, also, that the humours in men's bodies increase and decrease as the moon doth; and therefore it were good to purge some day or two after the full; for that then the humours will not replenish so soon again." 383 All this sounds so unphilosophical that it is almost incredible that the learned Bacon believed what he wrote. Darker superstitions, however, still linger in our land. "In Staffordshire, it is commonly said, if you want to cure chin-cough, take out the child and let it look at the new moon; lift up its clothes and rub your right hand up and down its stomach, and repeat the following lines (looking steadfastly at the moon, and rubbing at the same time):--

'What I see, may it increase;

What I feel, may it decrease;

[paragraph continues]In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.'" 384 There is a little ambiguity here. What is felt is the child's stomach. But the desire is not that that may decrease, but only the whooping cough, which is felt, we take it, by proxy. A lady, writing of

the southern county of Sussex, says: "A superstition lingering amongst us, worthy of the days of paganism, is that the new May moon, aided by certain charms, has the power of curing scrofulous complaints."

As the cutting of hair, finger-nails, and corns has some relation to health and comfort, we may here mention that in Devonshire it is said that hair and nails should always be cut in the waning of the moon, thereby beneficial consequences will result. If corns are cut after the full moon, some say that they will gradually disappear. In the British Apollo we have the following request for advice:

"Pray tell your querist if he may

Rely on what the vulgar say,

That when the moon's in her increase,

If corns be cut they'll grow apace

But if you always do take care

After the full your corns to pare,

They do insensibly decay

And will in time wear quite away.

If this be true, pray let me know,

And give the reason why 'tis so."

The following passage is worth quoting, without any abbreviation, as an excellent summary of wisdom and sense regarding the moon's influence on health: "There is much reason for regarding the moon as a source of evil, yet not that she herself is so, but only the circumstances which attend her. With us it happens that a bright moonlight night is always a cold one. The absence of cloud allows the

earth to radiate its heat into space, and the air gradually cools, until the moisture it contained is precipitated in the form of dew, and lies like a thick blanket on the ground to prevent a further cooling. When the quantity of moisture in the air is small, the refrigerating process continues until frost is produced, and many a moonlight night in spring destroys half or even the whole of the fruit of a new season. Moonlight, therefore, frequently involves the idea of frigidity. With us, whose climate is comparatively cold, the change from the burning, blasting, or blighting heat of day, or sun-up, to the cold of a clear night, or sun-down, is not very great, but within the tropics the change is enormous. To such sudden vicissitudes in temperature, an Indian doctor, in whom I have great confidence, attributes fevers and agues. As it is clear that those persons only, whose business or pleasure obliges them to be out on cloudless nights, suffer from the severe cold produced by the rapid radiation into space of the heat of their own bodies and that of the earth, those who remain at home are not likely to suffer from the effects of the sudden and continued chill. Still further, it is clear that people in general will not care to go out during the darkness of a moonless night, unless obliged to do so. Consequently few persons have experience of the deleterious influence of starlight nights. But when a bright moon and a hot, close house induce the people to turn out and enjoy the coldness and clearness of night, it is very probable

that refrigeration may be followed by severe bodily disease. Amongst such a people, the moon would rather be anathematised than adored. One may enjoy half an hour, or perhaps an hour, of moonlight, and yet be blighted or otherwise injured by a whole night of it." In Denmark a superstition is current concerning the noxious influences of night. The Danes have a kind of elves which they call the "Moon Folk." "The man is like an old man with a low-crowned hat upon his head; the woman is very beautiful in front, but behind she is hollow, like a dough-trough, and she has a sort of harp on which she plays, and lures young men with it, and then kills them. The man is also an evil being, for if any one comes near him he opens his mouth and breathes upon them, and his breath causes sickness. It is easy to see what this tradition means: it is the damp marsh wind, laden with foul and dangerous odours; and the woman's harp is the wind playing across the marsh rushes at nightfall." 388 It is the Queen of the Fairies in the Midsummer-Night's Dream who says to the Fairy King,--

These are the forgeries of jealousy

And never, since the middle summer's spring,

Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,

By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook,

Or in the beachèd margent of the sea,

To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,

But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.

No night is now with hymn or carol blest:

Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,

Pale in her anger, washes all the air, p. 206

That rheumatic diseases do abound

And this same progeny of evils comes

From our debate, from our dissension

We are their parents and original."

It will be thought rashly iconoclastic if we cast the least doubt upon the idea that blindness is caused directly by the light of the moon. So many cases have been adduced that it is considered a settled point. We, however, dare to dispute some of the evidence. For instance "A poor man born in the village Rowdil, commonly called St. Clement's, blind, lost his sight at every change of the moon, which obliged him to keep his bed for a day or two, and then he recovered his sight." 389 If logic would enable us to prove a negative to this statement, we would meet it with simple denial. But we have no hesitation in saying that an investigation into this case would have exonerated the moon of any share in the affliction, and have revealed some other and likely cause. Our chief objection to this story is its element of periodicity; and we would require overwhelming testimony to establish even the probability of such a miracle once a month. That permanent injury may accrue to those whose sleeping eyes are exposed all night to the brightness of a full moon is probable enough. But this would take place not because the moon's beams were peculiarly baneful, but because any strong light would have a hurtful effect upon the eyes when fixed for hours in the condition of sleep.

We can quite believe that in a dry atmosphere like that of Egypt, where ophthalmia is very prevalent on account of constant irritation from the fine sand in the air, the eye, weary with the heat and aridity of the day, would be impaired if uncovered in the air to the rays of the moon. Carne's statements are consequently quite credible. He tells us: "The effect of the moonlight on the eyes in this country is singularly injurious; the natives tell you, as I found they also afterwards did in Arabia, always to cover your eyes when you sleep in the open air. The moon here really strikes and affects the sight, when you sleep exposed to it, much more than the sun; indeed, the sight of a person who should sleep with his face exposed at night, would soon be utterly impaired or destroyed." 390 For the same reason, that strong light oppresses the slumbering eye, "the seaman in his hammock takes care not to face the full moon, lest he be struck with blindness." 391 Nor can we regard the following as "an extraordinary effect of moonlight upon the human subject." In 1863, "a boy, thirteen years of age, residing near Peckham Rye, was expelled his home by his mother for disobedience. He ran away to a cornfield close by, and, on lying down in the open air, fell asleep. He slept throughout the night, which was a moonlight one. Some labourers on their way to work, next morning, seeing the boy apparently asleep, aroused him; the lad opened his eyes, but declared he could not see. He was conveyed

home, and medical advice was obtained; the surgeon affirmed that the total loss of sight resulted from sleeping in the moonlight." This was sad enough; but it was antecedently probable. No doubt a boy of thirteen who for disobedience was cast out of home in such a place as London had a hard lot, and went supperless to his open bed. His optic nerves were young and sensitive, and the protracted light so paralysed them that the morning found them closed "in endless night." This was a purely natural result: to admitting it, reason opposes no demur. But we must object, for truth's sake, to the tendency to account for natural consequences by assigning supernatural causes. The moon is no divinity; moonlight is no Divine emanation, with a vindictive animus; and those who countenance such silly superstition as that moonstroke is a mysterious, evil agency, are contributing to a polytheism which leads to atheism: for many gods logically means no GOD at all.

Another branch of this umbrageous if not fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune. Butler satirizes the visionary who--

"With the moon was more familiar

Than e'er was almanac well-willer (compiler);

Her secrets understood so clear

That some believed he had been there;

Knew when she was in fittest mood

For cutting corns, or letting blood:

Whether the wane be, or increase,

Best to set garlick, or sow pease:

Who first found out the man i' th' moon,

That to the ancients was unknown."--Hudibras.

A Swiss theologian amusingly describes the superstitious person who reads his fortune in the stars. He, it is said, "will be more afraid of the constellation fires than the flames of his next neighbour's house. He will not open a vein till he has asked leave of the planets. He will not commit his seed to the earth when the soil, but when the moon, requires it. He will have his hair cut when the moon is either in Leo, that his locks may stare like the lion's shag, or in Aries, that they may curl like a ram's horn. Whatever he would have to grow, he sets about when she is in her increase; but for what he would have made less, he chuses her wane. When the moon is in Taurus, he never can be persuaded to take physic, lest that animal which chews its cud should make him cast it up again. He will avoid the sea whenever Mars is in the midst of heaven, lest that warrior-god should stir up pirates against him. In Taurus he will plant his trees, that this sign, which the astrologers are pleased to call fixed, may fasten them deep in the earth. If at any time he has a mind to be admitted into the presence of a prince, he will wait till the moon is in conjunction with the sun; for 'tis then the society of an inferior with a superior is salutary and successful."

The new moon is considered pre-eminently auspicious for commencements,--for all kinds of building

up, and beginning de novo. Houses are to be erected and moved into; marriages are to be concluded, money counted, hair and nails cut, healing herbs and pure dew gathered, all at the new moon. Money counted at that period will be increased. The full moon is the time for pulling down, and thinking of the end of all things. Cut your timber, mow your grass, make your hay, not while the sun shines, but while the moon wanes; also stuff your feather-bed then, and so kill the newly plucked feathers completely, and bring them to rest. Wash your linen, too, by the waning moon, that the dirt may disappear with the dwindling light. 394 According to one old notion it was deemed unlucky to assume a new dress when the moon was in her decline. So says the Earl of Northampton: "They forbidde us when the moone is in a fixed signe, to put on a newe garment. Why so? Because it is lyke that it wyll be too longe in wearing, a small fault about this towne, where garments seldome last till they be payd for. But thyr meaning is, that the garment shall continue long, not in respect of any strength or goodness in the stuffe, but by the durance or disease of him that hath neyther leysure nor liberty to weare it." 395 It is well known that the ancient Hebrews held the new moon in religious reverence. The trumpets were blown, solemn sacrifices were offered and festivals held; and the first clay of the lunar month was always holy. In a Talmudic compilation, to which Dr. Farrar has

contributed a preface, we find an interesting account of the Blessing the new moon. "It is a very pious act to bless the moon at the close of the Sabbath, when one is dressed in his best attire and perfumed. If the blessing is to be performed on the evening of an ordinary week-day, the best dress is to be worn. According to the Kabbalists the blessings upon the moon are not to be said till seven full days after her birth, but, according to later authorities, this may be done after three days. The reason for not performing this monthly service under a roof, but in the open air, is because it is considered as the reception of the presence of the Shekinah, and it would not be respectful so to do anywhere but in the open air. It depends very much upon circumstances when and where the new moon is to be consecrated, and also upon one's own predisposition, for authorities differ. We will close these remarks with the conclusion of the Kitzur Sh'lu on the subject, which, at p. 72, col. 2, runs thus:

"When about to sanctify the new moon, one should straighten his feet (as at the Shemonah-esreh) and give one glance at the moon before he begins to repeat the ritual blessing, and having commenced it he should not look at her at all. Thus should he begin--'In the united name of the Holy and Blessed One' and His Shekinah, through that Hidden and Consecrated One! and in the name of all Israel!' Then he is to proceed with the 'Form of Prayer for the New Moon,' word for word, with

out haste, but with solemn deliberation, and when be repeats-

'Blessed is thy Former, Blessed is thy Maker,

Blessed is thy Possessor, Blessed is thy Creator,'

he is to meditate on the initials of the four Divine epithets, which form 'Jacob'; for the moon, which is called 'the lesser light,' is his emblem or symbol, and he is also called 'little' (see Amos vii. 2). This he is to repeat three times. He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (forwards)--'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (backwards)--'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Then he is to say three times (very loudly), 'David, the King of Israel, liveth and existeth!' and finally, he is to say three times, 'May a good omen and good luck be upon us and upon all Israel! Amen!'" 396

That the ancient Germans held the moon in similar regard we know from Cæsar, who, having inquired why Ariovistus did not come to an engagement, discovered this to be the reason: "that among the Germans it was the custom for their matrons to pronounce from lots and divination, whether it were expedient that the battle should be engaged in or not; tha

they had said, 'that it was not the will of heaven that the Germans should conquer, if they engaged in battle before the new moon.'"

Halliwell has reproduced an illustration of British superstition of the same sort. "A very singular divination practised at the period of the harvest moon is thus described in an old chap-book. When you go to bed, place under your pillow a prayer-book open at the part of the matrimonial service 'with this ring I thee wed'; place on it a key, a ring, a flower, and a sprig of willow, a small heart-cake, a crust of bread, and the following cards:--the ten of clubs, nine of hearts, ace of spades, and the ace of diamonds. Wrap all these in a thin handkerchief of gauze or muslin, and on getting into bed, cross your hands, and say:--

'Luna, every woman's friend,

To me thy goodness condescend

Let me this night in vision see

Emblems of my destiny.'

[paragraph continues]If you dream of storms, trouble will betide you; if the storm ends in a fine calm, so will your fate; if of a ring or the ace of diamonds, marriage; bread, an industrious life; cake, a prosperous life; flowers, joy; willow, treachery in love; spades, death; diamonds, money; clubs, a foreign land; hearts, illegitimate children; keys, that you will rise to great trust and power, and never know want; birds, that you will have many children; and geese, that you will marry more than once." 397 Such ridiculous absurdities would be rejected

as apocryphal if young ladies were not still in the habit of placing bits of wedding cake under their pillows in the hope that their dreaming eyes may be enchanted with blissful visions of their future lords.

Hone tells us that in Berkshire, "at the first appearance of a new moon, maidens go into the fields, and, while they look at it, say:--

'New moon, new moon, I hail thee!

By all the virtue in thy body.

Grant this night that I may see

He who my true love is to be.'

[paragraph continues]Then they return home, firmly believing that before morning their future husbands will appear to them in their dreams."

In Devonshire also "it is customary for young people, as soon as they see the first new moon after midsummer, to go to a stile, turn their back to it, and say:--

'All hail, new moon, all hail to thee!

I prithe, good moon, reveal to me

This night who shall my true love be

Who is he, and what he wears,

And what he does all months and years.'"

Aubrey says the same of the Scotch of his day, and the custom is not yet extinct. "In Scotland (especially among the Highlanders) the women doe make a curtsey to the new moon; I have known one in England doe it, and our English woemen in the country doe retain (some of them) a touch of this gentilisme still, e.g.:--

'All haile to thee, moon, all haile to thee

I prithe, good moon, declare to me,

This night, who my husband must be.'

This they doe sitting astride on a gate or stile the first evening the new moon appears. In Herefordshire, etc., the vulgar people at the prime of the moon say, '`Tis a fine moon, God bless her.'" " In Ireland, at the new moon, it is not an uncommon practice for people to point with a knife, and after invoking the Holy Trinity, to say:--

'New moon, true morrow, be true now to me,

That I ere the morrow my true love may see.'

The knife is then placed under the pillow, and silence strictly observed, lest the charm should be broken."

'If I dream of water pure

Before the coming morn,

'Tis a sign I shall be poor,

And unto wealth not born. p. 216

If I dream of tasting beer,

Middling, then, will be my cheer--

Chequered with the good and bad,

Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad;

But should I dream of drinking wine,

Wealth and pleasure will be mine.

The stronger the drink, the better the cheer--

Dreams of my destiny, appear, appear!'"

The day of the week on which the moon is new or full, is a question that awakens the most anxious concern. In the north of Italy Wednesday is dreaded for a lunar change, and in the south of France the inauspicious day is Friday. In most of our own rural districts Friday's new moon is much disliked

"Friday's moon,

Come when it wool,

It comes too soon."

Saturday is unlucky for the new, and Sunday for the full moon. In Norfolk it is said:--

"Saturday's new and Sunday's full,

Never was good, and never wull."

An apparently older version of the same weather-saw runs:--

"A Saturday's change, and a Sunday's prime,

"If the moon on a Saturday be new or full,

There always was rain, and there always wüll."

One rustic rhyme rehearsed in some places is:--

"A Saturday moon,

If it comes once in seven years,

Comes once too soon."

Next to the day, the medium through which the new moon is first beheld, is of vital moment. In Staffordshire it is unlucky to see this sight through trees. A correspondent in Notes and Queries (21st January, 1882) once saw a person almost in tears because she looked on the new moon through her veil, feeling convinced that misfortune would follow. Henderson cites a canon to be observed by those who would know what year they would wed. "Look at the first new moon of the year through a silk handkerchief which has never been washed. As many moons as you see through the handkerchief (the threads multiplying the vision), so many years will pass ere you are married." Hunt tells us, what in fact is widely believed, that "to see the new moon for the first time through glass, is unlucky; you may be certain that you will break glass before that moon is out. I have known persons whose attention has been called to a clear new moon hesitate. 'Hev I seed her out o' doors afore?' if not, they will go into the open air, and, if possible, show the moon 'a piece of gold,' or, at all events, turn their money." 405 Mrs. Latham says: "Many of our Sussex superstitions are probably of Saxon origin; amongst which may be

the custom of bowing or curtseying to the new or Lady moon, as she is styled, to deprecate bad luck. There is another kindred superstition, that the Queen of night will dart malignant rays upon you, if on the first day of her re-appearance you look up to her without money in your pocket. But if you are not fortunate enough to have any there, in order to avert her evil aspect, you must immediately turn head over heels! It is considered unlucky to see the new moon through a window-pane, and I have known a maidservant shut her eyes when closing the shutters lest she should unexpectedly see it through the glass. Do not kill your pig until full moon, or the pork will be ruined." In Suffolk, also, "it is considered unlucky to kill a pig in the wane of the moon; if it is done, the pork will waste in boiling. I have known the shrinking of bacon in the pot attributed to the fact of the pig having been killed in the moon's decrease; and I have also known the death of poor piggy delayed, or hastened, so as to happen during its increase."

The desirability of possessing silver in the pocket, and of turning it over, when the new moon is first seen, is a point of some interest. Forbes Leslie says, "The ill-luck of having no silver money--coins of other metals being of no avail--when you first see or hail a new moon, is still a common belief from Cornwall to Caithness, as well as in Ireland." And Jamieson writes: "Another superstition, equally ridiculous and unaccountable, is still regarded by

some. They deem it very unlucky to see the new moon for the first time without having silver in one's pocket. Copper is of no avail." We venture to think that this is not altogether unaccountable. The moon at night, in a clear sky, reflects a brilliant whiteness. The two Hebrew words used of this luminary in the Bible, mean "pale light" and "white." "Hindooism says that the moon, Soma, was turned into a female called Chandra--'thc White or Silvery One.'" 410 The Santhals of India call the sun Chando, which means bright, and is also a name for the moon. Now pure silver is of a very white colour and of a strong metallic lustre. It was one of the earliest known metals, and used as money from the remotest times. Its whiteness led the ancient astrologers, as it afterwards led the alchemists, to connect it with the moon, and to call it Diana and Luna, names previously given to the satellite. For Artemis, the Greek Diana, the Ephesian craftsmen made silver shrines. The moon became the symbol of silver; and to this day fused nitrate of silver is called lunar caustic. It was natural and easy for superstition to suppose that silver was the moon's own metal; and to imagine that upon the reappearance of the lunar deity or demon, its beams should be propitiated by some argentine possession. We find that silver was exclusively used in the worship of the moon in Peru.

In a book published in the earlier part of last century, and attributed to Daniel Defoe, we read

"To see a new moon the first time after her change, on the right hand, or directly before you, betokens the utmost good fortune that month; as to have her on your left, or behind you, so that in turning your head back you happen to see her, foreshows the worst; as also, they say, to be without gold in your pocket at that time is of very bad consequence." The mistake in substituting gold for silver here is easily explained. As among the Romans æs meant both copper and money; and among the French argent means both silver and money in general; so in England gold is the common expression for coin of any substance. Silver being money, the word gold was thus substituted; the generic for the specific. Other superstitions besides those above noticed are found in different parts of our enlightened land. Denham says, "I once saw an aged matron turn her apron to the new moon to insure good luck for the ensuing month." And Halliwell mentions a prayer customary among some persons:--

"I see the moon, and the moon sees me.

God bless the moon, and God bless me."

In Devonshire it is lucky to see the new moon over the right, but unlucky to see it over the left shoulder; and to see it straight before is good fortune to the end of the month. "In Renfrewshire, if a man's house be burnt during the wane of the moon, it is deemed unlucky. If the same misfortune take place

when the moon is waxing, it is viewed as a presage of prosperity. In Orkney, also, it is reckoned unlucky to flit, or to remove from one habitation to another, during the waning of the moon." 414 A recent writer tells us that in Orkney "there are superstitions likewise associated with the moon. The increase, and full growth, and wane of that satellite are the emblems of a rising, flourishing, and declining fortune. No business of importance is begun during the moon's wane; if even an animal is killed at that period, the flesh is supposed to be unwholesome. A couple to think of marrying at that time would be regarded as recklessly careless respecting their future happiness Old people in some parts of Argyllshire were wont to invoke the Divine blessing on the moon after the monthly change. The Gaelic word for fortune is borrowed from that which denotes the full moon; and a marriage or birth occurring at that period is believed to augur prosperity."

Kirkmichael, says another writer on the Highlands of Scotland, hath "its due proportion of that superstition which generally prevails over the Highlands. Unable to account for the cause, they consider the effects of times and seasons as certain and infallible. The moon in her increase, full growth, and in her wane, are with them the emblems of a rising, flourishing, and declining fortune. At the last period of her revolution they carefully avoid to engage in any business of importance; but the first and the middle they seize with avidity, presaging the most

auspicious issue to their undertakings. Poor Martinus Scriblerus never more anxiously watched the blowing of the west wind to secure an heir to his genius, than the love-sick swain and his nymph for the coming of the new moon to be noosed together in matrimony. Should the planet happen to be at the height of her splendour when the ceremony is performed, their future life will be a scene of festivity, and all its paths strewed over with rosebuds of delight. But when her tapering horns are turned towards the north, passion becomes frost-bound, and seldom thaws till the genial season again approaches. From the moon they not only draw prognostications of the weather, but according to their creed also discover future events. There they are clearly portrayed, and ingenious illusion never fails in the explanation. The veneration paid to this planet, and the opinion of its influences, are obvious from the meaning still affixed to some words of the Gaelic language. In Druidic mythology, when the circle of the moon was complete, fortune then promised to be most propitious. Agreeably to this idea, rath, which signifies in Gaelic a wheel or circle, is transferred to signify fortune."

Forbes Leslie writes: "The influence which the moon was supposed to exercise on mankind, as well as on inanimate objects, may be traced in the practice of the Druids. It is not yet extinct in Scotland; and the moon, in the increase, at the full, and on the wane, are emblems of prosperity, established success, or declining fortune, by which many

persons did, and some still do, regulate the period for commencing their most important undertakings." And yet once more, to make the induction most conclusive; we are told that "the canon law anxiously prohibited observance of the moon as regulating the period of marriage; nor was any regard to be paid to certain days of the year for ceremonies. If the Lucina of the ancients be identified with Diana, it was not unreasonable to court the care of the parturient, by selecting the time deemed most propitious. The strength of the ecclesiastical interdiction does not seem to have prevailed much in Scotland. Friday, which was consecrated to a northern divinity, has been deemed more favourable for the union. In the southern districts of Scotland, and in the Orkney Islands, the inhabitants preferred the increase of the moon for it. Auspicious circumstances were anticipated in other parts, from its celebration at full moon. Good fortune depended so much on the increase of that luminary, that nothing important was undertaken during its wane. Benefit even accrued to the stores provided during its increase, and its effect in preserving them is still credited." To what, but to this prevalent belief in lunar influence on fortune can Shakespeare allude, when Romeo swears:

"Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear,

That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--

Jul. Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."

Upon the physiological influence of the lunar rays in the generation or aggravation of disease, we have but little to add to what has been already written. It is a topic for a special treatise, and properly belongs to those medical experts whose research and practice in this particular branch of physics qualify them to speak with plenary authority. Besides, it has been so wisely handled by Dr. Forbes Winslow, in his admirable monograph on Light, that inquirers cannot follow a safer guide than his little book affords. Dr. Winslow accounts for the theory of planetary influence partly by the action of the moon in producing the tides. He says: "Astronomers having admitted that the moon was capable of producing this physical effect upon the waters of the ocean, it was not altogether unnatural that the notion should become not only a generally received but a popular one, that the ebb and flow of the tides had a material influence over the bodily functions. The Spaniards imagine that all who die of chronic diseases breathe their last during the ebb. Southey says, that amongst the wonders of the isles and city of Cadiz, which the historian of that city, Suares de Salazar, enumerates, one is, according to p. Labat, that the sick never die there while the tide is rising or at its height, but always during the ebb. He restricts the notion to the isle of Leon, but implies that the effect was there believed to take place in diseases of all kinds, acute as well as chronic. 'Him fever,' says the negro in the West Indies, 'shall g

when the water come low; him always come not when the tide high.' The popular notion amongst the negroes appears to be that the ebb and flow of the tides are caused by a 'fever of the sea,' which rages for six hours, and then intermits for as many more." 420 Dr. Winslow then subjoins a long list of learned authorities, several of whose writings he subjects to a brief analysis. He disapproves of the presumption that the subject is altogether visionary and utopian; and affirms that it has not always been pursued by competent observers. Periodicity is noted as an important symptom in disease; a feature in febrile disturbance which the present writer himself had abundant opportunity of marking and measuring during an epidemic of yellow fever in the city of Savannah in the year 1876. This periodicity Dr. Winslow regards as the foundation of the alleged lunar influence in morbid conditions. Some remarkable cases are referred to, which, if the fact of the moon's interference with human functions could be admitted, would go a long way to corroborate and confirm it. The supposed influence of the moon on plants is not passed over, nor the chemical composition of lunar light as a possible evil agency. Still considering the matter sub judice, Dr. Winslow then proceeds to the alleged influence of the moon on the insane; a question with which he was pre-eminently competent to cope. After alluding to the support given to the popular belief by poets and philosophers of ancient and modern times, the question of periodicity,

"lucid intervals," is again discussed, this time in its mental aspect, and the hygienic or sanatory influence of light is allowed its meed of consideration. The final result of the investigation is that the matter is held to be purely speculative, and it is esteemed wise to hold in reserve any theory in relation to the subject that may have been formed. With this conclusion we are greatly disappointed. Dr. Winslow's aid in the inquiry is most valuable, and if he, after his careful review of pathological literature on lunar influence, coupled with his own extended experience, holds the question in abeyance, who will venture upon a decision? We however believe, notwithstanding every existing difficulty, that the subject will be brought into clear light ere long, and all superstition end in accurate science. Meanwhile, many, even of the enlightened, will cling to the unforgotten fancy which gave rise to the word lunatic, and in cases of mental derangement will moralize with young Banks in the Witch of Edmonton (1658), "When the moon's in the full, then wit's in the wane."