The Moon is the second greatest light in the sky, and it is "the lesser light to govern the night."* Most of us know of the different phases of the moon, we all learned, in school, how the moon affects the oceans tides (see the "Additional Information" at the end of this post for more information), and many of us know how the female cycle should follows the moon cycles, but one thing that you may not know is that the atmosphere and all our bodies are affected the cycles of the moon as well.
How does the moon do all this? The answer is simple, gravity. Next to the earth, the moon has the greatest gravitational effects on life here on planet earth. Water, in particular tides, is perhaps one of the best known, and best studied, examples of how the moons presence affects life here on earth, and it was a friend of mine that mentioned during a cleanse during a certain phase of the moon. I had never heard of this before; so, I asked him why. He told me that it had something to with moons influence on the water in you body.
This really intrigued me; so, like always, I tried to go online and find some reasons why this was, but the answer was very very elusive. Most of the sites I saw mentioned new moons and full moons as special times for special ceremonies. It was a time of "cosmic significance," but none of them gave a reason. Near the end of the day, I was only able to find a couple of sites that mentioned cleansing in phase with the moon. To my utter dismay (and this is happening more and more frequently) all but one of those sites said, "Error 404, page not found."
Now that I have rambled on enough, let me get to the "meat" (pardon the pun) of this post. Plutarchus (46A.D. - 120A.D.) taught that a full moon caused such an increase in moisture that timber, wheat, and other crops that were harvested during the full moon were more likely to decay, and rot faster. However, if cut during a new moon, they would be dry and brittle. Likewise, Leonard Ravitz claimed that all life's electrical potenial (its ability to carry an electrical current) peaked during the full moon new moon.
The reason is that the during full moon (and the time while the moon is growing), causes the body to hold onto water, and therefore it holds onto toxic matter more than normal. And so they say that the best times to do cleanses is the the 10 day period right after the full moon.
You can think of it like a water-balloon, and think of a full moon like a full water-balloon. The water exits the water-balloon with the most force in those first few seconds that you release it, due to water pressure. I think the reasoning is along those lines. Does this make sense to you?
Why did the ancients cleanse in phase with the moon? Was it all pre-historic superstitious nonsense from primitive people who knew next to nothing? I think not. People have never been stupid, and people in the past were just as smart (if not smarter) then we are today, but maybe I'll save that for another post.
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Best in Health,
Jon
*Genesis 1:16
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