Ancestral Astronomy offers entirely different astronomical perspectives and calculation techniques from those used today, providing a highly developed astronomical knowledge that allows us to follow the entire mechanics of Planet Earth's journey, along with the Moon and the Sun, across the universe.
The Moon and the Earth are a dance in the sky between two planets traveling hand in hand through the universe—between the wide strides of the Earth accompanied by the small steps of the Moon, thus weaving their own web across the universe.
This is a choreography created and performed within Earth's space-time, represented in the Haab and Tzolkin Calendars, and wisely described by Ancestral Astronomy.
The Moon is the closest planet to Earth, making its presence felt on our planet through several phenomena and natural cycles. Lunar manifestations are cyclical events, relatively short in terms of Earth's time, which are felt in our daily lives, providing the ideal conditions to be studied and observed.
The Moon and the Earth relate to each other in a proportional and harmonious way, generating cyclical patterns in space-time, which also reflect the dynamics between the Earth and the Sun.
With Ancestral Astronomy, we learn that it is the astronomical events and intersections that create the Space-time web of the Earth, based on repetitive, cyclical, and proportional patterns. It is mainly within the events and alignments of the lunar cycles that this web in the space-time of our planet is found and can be confirmed.
Ancestral methods of study allow us to find new and surprising perspectives in understanding the relationship between the Moon and the Earth, explained mathematically and geometrically by these ancestral cultures.
The tidal cycle, lunations, and eclipses are where we can identify the entire dynamics between the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun in our space-time.
The relationship in space between the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun is not limited to mathematical or geometric calculations resulting from their astronomical dynamics.
The patterns of order and proportionality found in the mechanics of the sky are also recognizable in the physical and spiritual form of creation and the evolution of life on the surface of the Earth.
The same order, proportion, and harmony in the sky, on Earth, in astronomy, and in life.
'Earth & on Earth', two dimensions that intersect, two planes that meet, one vertical and the other horizontal, on the same journey, under the same laws, in the same universe.
Within the planetary events and the patterns of life's creation on Earth explained by Ancestral Astronomy in a mathematical and geometric way, it is also possible to build numerous bridges and relationships between astronomy and the origin of symbols and archetypes, legends and mythology.
There are many astronomical cycles and events explained by Ancestral Astronomy that correspond to geometric and mathematical values and conventions considered enigmatic, known across all cultures.
It is not necessary to have advanced intellectual knowledge or highly elaborate reasoning to understand the identified relationships between astronomy and life on Earth, since Ancestral Astronomy bases all its cycles and calculations on whole and natural numbers. In this way, ancestral astronomical knowledge is generally of a rational nature, easily understood, and associated with common concepts and practices of Earth's natural life.
A good way to identify the physical and spiritual affinity between the sky and the Earth found by Astronomy and the natural life of our planet is through the cycles of the Moon, explained by Ancestral Astronomy.
The astronomical context in which the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun find themselves in space-time is essential in describing their orbits, cycles, and events.
The Sun is the central figure around which the Earth orbits—as does the Moon, although in a secondary way. The Moon revolves around the Earth—it is its satellite.
The dimensions in terms of space and time of Earth's orbit around the Sun are also reproduced by the Moon in its orbital movement, albeit on a much smaller scale, yet always proportional to the cycles of the Earth.
The relationship of proportionality between the Earth and the Moon can be found in the dimensions of the two planets, in their orbits, and in the differences of their orbital planes, which are also proportional.
At its own pace and scale, the small Moon in orbit accompanies the entire path traveled by the Earth, like a child following its parent at every step. This is an astronomical reality described only by Ancestral Astronomy.
In the tidal cycle, the Moon stirs the waters of the Earth, a physical phenomenon of emotions described by astrology and by the archetype of water.
With the ancestral astronomical system, the lunar cycles are described in a way that allows us to confirm the proportionality and synchrony between the Moon and the Earth. This system also allows for a more lucid observation of the archetypal functions established in the relationship of the Moon with the life of the Earth, regarding its planetary influence.
This research on calendars and Ancestral Astronomy was carried out almost entirely on the lunar cycles in relation to the Earth.
Because the orbits of the Moon and the Earth are proportional, their corresponding cycles of space and time generate patterns with differences that are difficult to distinguish. Thus, the study of lunar cycles requires great attention in distinguishing whether the results pertain to the orbit of the Moon or to the orbit of the Earth.
The similarity between the orbits of the Moon and the Earth can make their study quite confusing, transforming these mechanics into a veritable, dizzying labyrinth with no clear exit, submerged in layers of repetitive and inconclusive numbers and calculations.
The proximity and similarity between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon are not a difficulty found only in the study of Ancestral Astronomy.
We can note that there is a poorly defined boundary in modern astronomy and astrology regarding the difference between the influence of the Moon on the Earth and that of the Earth on the Moon.
When we compare the details with which the mechanics of the Moon and the Earth are described by Ancestral Astronomy with modern astronomy, we can notice that lunar cycles and eclipses are currently explained in a very incomplete way, just as the nutation cycle proves to be unclear and inconclusive.
In Astrology, water is the element identified with the Moon, related to the origin of life, fertility, the feminine, emotions, the unconscious, nourishment, and so on. This is a symbolic and archetypal relationship attributed to the Moon and water that involves the Moon in a paradigm, encompassing the archetype of the child and the archetype of the mother merged into one, thus leaving no boundary between two paradigms with completely antagonistic relationships.
Through Ancestral Astronomy, we can observe that today there is an inconclusive lunar paradigm in astrology and astronomy, possibly with important cultural consequences.
This creates an astronomical and archetypal indistinction, where a maternal, feminine, and fertile character is attributed to the Moon—qualities that seem to correspond more to the Earth than to the Moon itself.
The Moon marks its presence on Earth physically and spiritually in a very evident way; it is not possible to disassociate the Moon from the Earth and its space-time. It is part of this mesh, shaping it as well.
The dynamics and positioning of the Moon in the space-time of the Earth with the Sun, as well as its dimension and influence exerted on the Earth, do not seem to manifest any attribute in these astronomical or archetypal circumstances that could characterize it specifically as a feminine or masculine planet.
The Moon is a miniature planet to the Earth, and it is a sterile planet—where sterility is not a defect, but rather the result of its tender age. It is a Moon that anatomically fits the paradigm of the Child, a condition inherent to all forms of life on Earth, reflecting emotional vulnerability and unconscious behaviors—a dynamic very well illustrated by both water and the Moon.
With Ancestral Astronomy, we learn that the lunar cycles are a dynamics generated by two planets with different orbits and orbital planes—the Moon and the Earth. This is a mechanic that, when well understood, can provide us with important astronomical information, explaining how the dynamics of the Moon with the Earth are different from the dynamics of the Earth with the Moon—a two-way mechanism that is important to distinguish.
It is in the tidal cycle, as the Moon makes its daily presence known on the surface of the Earth, that we can relate the Moon to the archetype of Water, just as we can see manifested the paradigm of the great Mother Earth taking care of her child, the Moon.
Yes, the Moon is the cause of the agitation of the waters, but the waters belong to Mother Earth—the parent who dedicates her time and attention to her child, accompanying her by casting over her a mantle of waters.
The Moon, the Earth, and the Tides illustrate the necessary care and attention of daily life, represented simultaneously in the sky and on Earth—like a Mother taking care of her child, day after day, cycle after cycle, in moments always accompanied by the Sun as well.
Meanwhile, the cycles of lunations illustrate the dynamics of the Moon's orbit around the Earth, but this time under the gaze of the Sun, which is always there, always present and attentive.
In fact, the Moon, despite being childlike and dependent on its parents, still has some autonomy and freedom. We cannot ignore that its orbit is independent and different from the Earth's orbit and that, because of this, it sometimes escapes the line of sight of its parent.
The different lunar faces illuminated by the Sun illustrate how the Moon orbits around the Earth, just as they identify its positioning in relation to our planet. The cycle of lunations is an event only visible from the surface of the Earth.
The new moon happens when the Moon, in its orbit, passes between the Earth and the Sun, and the full moon is when the Earth passes between the Moon and the Sun. These are the moments when the three heavenly bodies align in their orbits, while the lunar quarters, waxing and waning, indicate the halfway point to the full moon and new moon respectively.
It is in the cycle of lunations, under the watchful eye of the Earth illuminated by the Sun, that we can sight the Moon in orbit, step by step. This is how its parents follow the journey and growth of their child, the Moon—creating a true family reunion where each member follows their own path and function, in space and on Earth, in a physical and spiritual way.
This family dynamic, a repetitive and circular agitation, is only interrupted when the Eclipses arrive.
Eclipses are more than an event—they are a milestone in the space-time of the Earth, where we can now observe an alignment between the orbits and their orbital planes with the Sun. The arrival of eclipses announces the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one on Earth and on the Moon.
Eclipses are like cosmic ceremonies— a solar eclipse is where the Moon merges with its father, and a lunar eclipse is a merger with its mother, the Earth. It stands as a tribute to the small Moon, now either female or male, thus leaving behind the first part of its life as it moves on to the adult phase. This is a special moment, a well-deserved tribute, and the fruit of the learning and evolution generated by the experience of the journey already fulfilled, in anticipation of what may come next.
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