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- The Moon is second only to the Sun in order of importance in your
- horoscope. Whereas your Sun sign shapes you in outwardly visible ways,
- your Moon sign's effects on you are more subtle and internal. The
- Moon rules your emotions, dreams, and subconscious. It shapes your
- innermost fears, desires, loves, and needs.
- When the Moon is in harmony with the rest of the planets in your
- horoscope, your emotions and desires are in harmony with the reality
- of your life--you are personally fulfilled and emotionally stable.
- If the Moon is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your
- horoscope), your dark side tends to emerge (anger, jealousy, hate, fear,
- depression, etc.)
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- The Moon's diameter is about one-fourth that of earth, and its mass
- is about 1.23 percent that of earth. Having no free water on its surface
- nor any atmosphere, the Moon has no weather to alter its heavily cratered
- surface. And since the Moon rotates on its axis once per orbit around the
- Earth, the same side of the Moon always faces the earth. The Moon
- completes its elliptical orbit around the earth once every 27 days, 7
- hours, 43 minutes, and 11.5 seconds (relative to the stars).
- The ancients believed that the dark regions on the Moon's surface were
- oceans, giving rise to the Latin name "mare" (or sea) which is still used
- in the present day. They believed that the brighter areas were continents.
- With the advent of telescopes in the 17th century, astronomers discovered
- many features on the surface (craters, mountains, faults, rays, and domes).
- In 1969, the American Apollo 11 spacecraft carried the first humans to the
- Moon.
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- In Greek mythology, Selene was the goddess of the moon and sisten of
- Helios, the sun god. She fell in love with a shepherd named Endymion and
- then lulled him into an eternal sleep so that he could never leave her.
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