Which Lunation Type Are You?

[Dover]

Do you know what phase of the Moon you were born under?

http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/astroarticles/lunationbirthday_4.php

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About Lunation Types

The "Lunation Type" to which one belongs has nothing to do with the time of the year or the season in which birth occurred — thus, with the serious problem of the reversal of seasons in southern latitudes. It has nothing to do with the zodiacal longitude of the Sun; therefore, there is no question to be raised by pseudo-scientific and confused minds as to how the sign Aries can retain the same astrological characteristics when it no longer coincides with the celestial span of the constellation Aries.

In defining this "lunation type", one refers only to the state or condition of the relationship between the Sun and the Moon at birth. This relationship can be measured accurately by referring to a modern ephemeris — — giving the exact longitudes of both "lights" and the aspect which they make to each other. But the state of the soli-lunar relationship can be made as well a matter of direct sense experience simply by studying the shape of the lighted portion of the Moon visible in the sky.

It is not the Moon which changes, but only the amount and shape of the lighted portion of the Moon — and this amount and shape of lighted lunar surface is at all times an exact expression of the state of the relationship between the Sun and the Moon, as seen from the Earth.

What this relationship measures and represents is primarily how the life force and all life processes operate in the organic whole (body plus psyche) which modern psychologists call "personality". All life processes are bi-polar; all obey a tidal rhythm or to and fro motion; all include, likewise, both anabolic and catabolic (cell-building and cell-destroying) phases of activity. The individual person acts and reacts in everyday life according to a basic kind of balance between these life polarities. It is this particular kind of balance or dynamic equilibrium which establishes the dominant keynote of the personality.

In this keynote, two elements are blended: the spiritual and the psycho-mental elements — thus, symbolically, the solar and the lunar factors. If "solar" spirit represents the archetypal selfhood of the individual, the idea and purpose of the Creator for that particular individual — thus, the "greater will" of the Self or God within — the "lunar" life processes are those very agencies required to fulfill this divine purpose and will....>

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http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/astroarticles/lunationbirthday_3.php

[Eloriel]

1. I'm Gibbous -- and boy, it really fits

I'll have to come back to that and read the link. It's an interesting, and in my experience extremely valid, thing to look at for people.

[robertarctor]

2. I'm a Balsamic

Aries Sun, Pisces moon. Which, according to some other Rudhyar stuff i've read, is a combo that makes me a genius.

Dunno about that one, Dane.

[Melissa G]

6. i think we have the same birthday...

I am Aries Sun,
Pisces moon, balsamic as well.. I like the genius idea....:)

[LWolf]

3. I'm on the cusp

between crescent and quarter; 7 days after the new moon. Some of both types fit. Interesting reading!

[Eurobabe]

4. here's a moon calculator

http://www.paulsadowski.com/moonphases/default.asp

I had no idea, I am a cresent moon type, 6 days after new moon. Ironic, just like one of my favorite people Ralph Waldo Emerson (I actually did my master's thesis on Emerson and his influence on architecture!)

[Desertrose]

5. Disseminating Type ....

Thanks for the moon calculator...big help. I always thought I was a balsamic moon...this is interesting....a bit different from interpretation than some of my other books...will have to go look at them again LOL

Not sure about all of it but definitely some seems fitting....

... personal characteristics are: the ability to demonstrate to others what you have learned or envisioned, to disseminate ideas, to participate in social-religious movements and to fight for what you see as right...

[PinkTiger]

7. I was born during a total solar eclipse

September 12, 1950, 4:31 a.m., Leavenworth KS, USA.

Take it from me, I'm a bit strange. (LOL).

I have a strong intuition and ability to read people. I have a strong personality that scares some people (which can be good, as I'm a teacher in college, lol)

And I'm very determined and emotional. All those things are borne out well by a stellium in Virgo in the first house, strongly aspected by Jupiter on the cusp of the 7th in Pisces.

But I always wondered what significance there is to the eclipse thing. It isn't exact -- but it is close. I'd probably have some tragedy to deal with if it were exact, my mother, an astrologer, told me.

As it was, she was injured during my birth and had a difficult recovery -- and I was born with a purple birthmark on my left leg that extends from my hip to my knee. When I was a kid it was bright and looked like a bunch of grapes. Now it is so faded I have to really look to see it.


Here's info on that eclipse, showing the path of totality.