Lunation Calendar — Deep Dives
Explore the concepts that connect elements across the charts, and the subtleties within individual elements.
The Reading Guides identify chart elements and explain how to read them. Deep Dives begin with the concepts behind those elements. Some trace an idea through several parts of the charts; others unfold the subtleties of a single element.
- Lunation Names How each Moon cycle gets a memorable place in the larger year, and how names help the charts become easier to navigate over time.
- Orbit Diagram How a month of lunar motion becomes one field of geometry at the center of the chart.
- Moon Phases How the Moon’s orbit changes our view of its sunlit half, carrying it from darkness to fullness and back.
- Sun-days and Moon-days How the Moon’s daily path keeps slipping through the steadier rhythm of sunlight.
- Solar Year How one orbit carries seasons, zodiac ingresses, distance extremes, and festivals around the Sun.
- Location How latitude, longitude, the horizon, and local time shape one place’s view of a shared sky.
- Astrology How the language of astrology maps the positions, motions, and meetings of the Sun, Moon, and planets.
- Eclipses How the rhythms of lunar phase and node crossings overlap to produce eclipses, and how apparent size and point of view shape what we see.