Observation: Earth From The Moon

caption: The color photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders. December 24,1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders saw it. Photo taken from www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm

Hear now my observation from the circle. At least an observation from last summer. I realized that the Apollo astronauts were on the moon long enough to see Earthrise but not long enough to see the waxing and waning of the planet. I realized that the earth does this but it looks different than you might suspect. When the moon is waxing, the earth is waning. The Full Moon sees a New Earth. The New Moon sees a Full Earth. Now at the time of the waxing moon, it is the time of the waning earth.

On this blog you are witnessing a first. The first pagan to keep track of moon/earth phases. Our moon is proportionately speaking, the largest in the solar system. We are not living on a planet that happens to have a moon as much as we are living on half of a double planet. This is why I started to list moon/earth phases in the esbat notes.