8/23/2023 0 Comments Gibbous moon![]() "Almost" suggests a transitional time: we're close but not quite there. And indeed on Gibbous nights, glancing at the Moon, you'll find a Moon that's almost full. "Gibbous" is an astronomical term describing a planetary body that's almost fully lit up. In tight spots one learns to see the less obvious solutions. A terrain of difficulty, however it arrives in literal experience, has a tendency to slow things down and focus one's awareness. This hints at why many of those born at the Gibbous Moon develop into gifted problem-solvers, with a gritty tenacity to see things through. Their rescue team, going inch by slippery inch in a gathering darkness, eventually led them to safety. The stranded horses, for example, did make it down the mountain. ![]() Yet the Gibbous phase does have its victories. 'Almost' suggests a transitional time: we're close but not quite there." ![]() "'Gibbous' is an astronomical term describing a planetary body that's almost fully lit up. Understandably, some Gibbous Moon individuals become worriers, glass-half-empty people, always waiting for the other shoe to drop. The tendency towards a tense Sun/Moon aspect in their charts may say something about a discordant parental relationship, or less tangibly, about their own difficulty in marshaling emotion and will together. They may remember childhood as a particularly troubled time. Likewise, those born on a Gibbous Moon may have an intimate knowledge of difficulty. It's tough to go forward and hard to go back. Not surprisingly, we often find ourselves pitched between a rock and a hard place in Gibbous. Gibbous takes us from the tension of the Sun/Moon's waxing sesqui-square (135 degrees) to the discord of their quincunx (150 degrees). This is one of just two Moon phases lacking a nice Sun/Moon aspect, like a sextile or trine. It was an impossible situation - which is typically Gibbous. Before the helicopter could pluck them up, it could send rescuers and horses plunging down steep canyon walls. ![]() As I reached my turnoff, the helicopter arrived. Walking the horses down the ridge was judged too risky, so plans for a helicopter rescue had been put into motion. A slow news day perhaps, but it was tense all the same. The breaking story was of two horses stranded in the local foothills. I started my drive home and tuned in the all news station on the radio. Waning crescent: The final phase of the Moon is the waning crescent, which happens when only a small sliver of the Moon is visible (on the far side of the Moon’s visible surface, compared to the waxing crescent) before it disappears into the new Moon phase once again.The Moon had just entered its Gibbous phase. The illuminated part is the half of the near side of the Moon that was not illuminated at first quarter. Third quarter: This is when half of the Moon’s illuminated surface is visible from Earth. During the waning gibbous phase, the Moon’s surface visible from Earth is still mostly illuminated. Waning gibbous: After the full Moon, the illuminated portion of the Moon visible from Earth begins to wane, or decrease in size. But every once in a while things line up so that it does go through the Earth’s shadow, and we get a lunar eclipse. The Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about five degrees, meaning sometimes it’s below our shadow and sometimes it’s above it. For the same reason we don’t have solar eclipses with every new Moon, we don’t get lunar eclipses with every full Moon. Waxing gibbous: When more than half of the Moon’s surface visible from Earth is illuminated, we call it a Gibbous Moon.įull Moon: When the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, we see the entire near-side of the Moon illuminated. This is the equivalent of saying we are seeing one-quarter of the total Moon’s surface illuminated, hence the rather confusing name. It takes a crescent shape because of the Moon’s roundness we only see the edge of the part that’s illuminated by the Sun, and that edge is on a round object so it appears curved.įirst quarter: This is when half of the Moon’s illuminated surface is visible from Earth. Waxing crescent: As it moves in its orbit, a small sliver of the Moon becomes visible. On average, a solar eclipse happens between two and five times each year. But sometimes it lines up directly with the Sun, and this creates a solar eclipse. Because the Moon’s orbit around the Earth is tilted by about five degrees, it’s usually either above or below the Sun. This phase happens when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth. New Moon: This is when you can’t see the Moon easily at all, because the part that is illuminated by the Sun is on the side of the Moon pointing away from Earth.
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