THE BEAST WITHIN - ‘TIDES OF FATE’
A number of astrologists are fond of using the example of the moon
in order to illustrate to sceptics how heavenly bodies may effect
the human body. If the moon can cause great tides to rise and fall,
then we shouldn’t be surprised that it can have a profound effect
upon us. After all the earth is 80% water, around the same percentage
of water contained within the human body. Of course, the issue is
more complex than that. For one thing, it is the earth’s surface,
not the earth itself that is 80% water. For another, the moon has
little effect on enclosed water, such as that held within our bodies.
One sceptic, the astronomer George O. Abell, memorably observed that
the moon had about the same gravitational pull on us as a mosquito.
Nevertheless the fact that the effect is a subtle one is no reason
to dismiss there being any effect at all. As Adam Douglas observes
in The Beast Within, his 1992 study of the werewolf myth, ‘The earth
has a powerful geomantic field which the moon modulates during its
monthly twenty-nine-and-a-half day cycle, with the effect reaching
its greatest intensity at full moon, and this geomantic field could
conceivably act upon the human biological system and influence its
functions. Lunar influence has been demonstrated in many biological
systems – in plants, fish, rodents and other animals, and in some
aspects of human biology, including post-operative haemorrhaging.’
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