It asks fundamental questions of our beliefs and our very being. Change is constant, in shape when it completes a cycle of lunar phases from one new moon to the next in a period of approximately twenty-nine days, and celestial position. The Moon is a porthole to a time, a place and a person remembered. It renews our past, it enhances the present and looks to portent an unknown future in a way that no other phenomenon replicates.
Whenever and wherever we witness its consistent nightly arrival in the night sky it creates wonder and memories. It combines both the spiritual, mystic and the magical as well as the physical and tangible worlds. It has guided man and affected his human condition, and has influenced thinking and consolidated many aspects through this regular occurring spectacle. It’s various, and rare bright lunar occultation’s, of solar and lunar eclipses provides some of nature’s most spectacular sights. The regular passing of the Moon as it wanders across the skies has been constant for millennia. Three such opposing and diverging views yet they illustrate the importance of the relationship, the conversation and communication between man and our celestial neighbour, the Moon. The first verse sets the scene, it confronts the senses and leads us to review our thoughts and our relationship with the Moon. Here is not a cosy, calmness understanding of the female Moon but a detrimental and violent, a foretaste of impending doom and disaster. John C Fogerty, of “Credence Clearwater Revival” wrote the song “Bad Moon Rising” which offers another diverse point of view.
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