“Real passion for me is always contingent upon mystery”. Rita May Brown
One of the most startling, mysterious aspects of astrology I have ever witness is the symbolism offered by secondary progressed Solar Moon aspects to Solar & Natal planets. I would have never been able to experience this aspect of astrology if it had not been for Jim’s teachings in his book, ‘Interpreting Solar Returns’, perpetuated by Cyril Fagan. Every year we get a new position of our Solar Moon with our Solar Returns. At times the symbolism offered by our Solar Moons is stunning! When the astrologer starts to closely inspect the symbolism of Solar Moon with analysis of dozens of Solar Returns, (s)he will understand there is a unique relationship that exists between the Sun, Moon, & Earth with astrology. But there are other mysterious mathematical relationships that exist between the Sun, Moon, & Earth stated by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler:
“Have you ever wondered how marvelous total eclipses are?
It is a very strange quirk of fate indeed that the disc of the Moon should seem, from an Earthly perspective, to be exactly the same size as the Sun. Whilst we casually take it for granted that the two main bodies seen in Earth's skies look the same size, it is actually something of a miracle. Most people are fully aware that the Moon is tiny compared to the Sun but that it is much, much closer to us causing them to appear as equal discs. To be precise the Moon is 400 times smaller than the star at the centre of our solar system, yet it is also just one 400th of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
The odds against this optical allusion happening at all are simply huge - but how bizarre that both values are the same, perfectly round umber. Experts are deeply puzzled by the phenomenon. Isaac Asimov, the respected scientist and science-fiction guru, described this perfect visual alignment as being:
Agreed, what's even stranger is the fact that when earth was still a baby the moon seemed much larger than it is today, due to the fact that it was a lot closer, I wonder if this will continue to play an important role in our evolution as the moon continues to slip away from us....
