How the purnima will get poets going, and wackos
Astronomers, astrologers, aam admi – the purnima had all agog. It’s a moon…it’s a full moon…it’s supermoon! ‘But, but, but,’ went soothsayers, ‘it is Mercury retrograde and this full moon is in Aquarius!’ And whereas they warned in a low voice that early Aug already noticed a brand new moon, we have been prepared for the Superman of supermoons. Those who spy the Man within the Moon on clear nights – a face peeping down from the sky – imagine Neil Armstrong remains to be there. Since it’s made from cheese, the moon, one hopes, is freed from mice.
Moon simply rhymes with June and shortly, ingratiating itself with poets. It went from being a black and white disc rising out of darkish clouds in early movies to a superbly spherical halogen mild manually or digitally hung, its predominant function being to allow amour on Earth. Chand is there in each love track, being in comparison with feminine faces and getting males drunk on moonlight, and maybe moonshine. The chand is khoya-khoya or pyara-pyara. Endearments go from chand ka tukda, a bit of the moon, to chaudhvin ka chand, the total moon. Propagation of the species is the moon’s sole accountability.
Ghouls too favour full moon nights. Time to decorate up and practise their chuckle, for on full moon nights the residing are stated to be sleepless. Studies recommend melatonin manufacturing could rise on such nights, resulting in insomnia, and thus a readiness to be haunted. Full moons have a number of passports. In Jan they journey as Wolf Moon, Snow Moon in Feb, Pink Moon in April and Strawberry Moon in June, then Harvest Moon in Sep and Hunter’s Moon in Oct. Blue moon, blood moon, sickle moon, paper moon…Lunar eclipses are studied by scientists and the hocus-pocus trade alike.
The moon has quakes – moonquakes – and water too. It sends us moonbeams in fairy tales. No one waxes and wanes just like the moon: new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, final quarter, waning crescent. The first of the 4 this 12 months, the newest supermoon has pet names like Dog Moon and Red Moon. Also Barley Moon, Herb Moon, Corn Moon, Grain Moon – named clearly by a hungry individual. ‘Love you to the moon and back’ is a standard late-night textual content. Everyone is agreed upon the grave penalties on the human coronary heart ‘when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie’.
Disclaimer
This article is meant to convey a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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