The Moon Cycles in Ancestral Astronomy

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During my research into Calendars and Ancestral Astronomy, the Moon was the main protagonist, and it was around its cycles that most of this study and its calculations focused.

This was a reality of which I was not always aware, since this research began with a completely abstract configuration, based solely on numbers and numerical series, without being able to recognize exactly what it was.

However, later on, when I was able to organize all these numbers and calculations, was when I could confirm that Earth's space-time web is not just Earth's web, but rather the web of both Earth and the Moon.

It is incredible how the lunar cycles explained by Ancestral Astronomy can describe the dynamics of the Moon with Earth, Earth with the Sun, and Earth with the Universe.

Ancestral Astronomy describes lunar movements and cycles through rhythms and patterns explained in sequences of numbers, orders, and magnitudes found at the foundation of mathematics, geometry, science, oracles, as well as sacred scriptures.

There are many examples of numerical values, concepts, and orders used across various cultures that point to the cycles and orbits of Earth and the Moon described by Ancestral Astronomy.

Encountering ancestral astronomical teachings allows us to establish the connection between astronomy and concepts of cultural, scientific, and spiritual life across all times and civilizations. Understanding this association allows us to conclude that scientific knowledge and spirituality are two sides of the same coin, a body of knowledge that was deeply developed and studied by ancestral cultures.

Even though this is a Manual of Ancestral Astronomy dedicated to practical and educational concepts, not even here is it possible to separate astronomy from the spiritual and evolutionary understanding of life on Earth.

We can all recognize how important and profound ancestral knowledge and wisdom are, having been passed down through various cultures from generation to generation in the form of theoretical teachings of all kinds.

However, the practical astronomical concepts that shaped this wisdom are precisely what Ancestral Astronomy has to offer us.

The Earth's spacetime web described by Ancestral Astronomy is represented by a body, a main structure traced by the system of alignments between Earth and the Sun, combined with lunar cycles and events.

Lunar cycles interweave Earth's spacetime web with small cyclical patterns that hold the same order, proportion, and harmony found in the dynamics between Earth and the Sun. In this way, the small Moon describes and reproduces, at its own scale and dimension, every detail of our journey on Earth through the Universe.

If the Moon did not exist in our spacetime, Earth's web would be very uninteresting, possibly... life as we know it would not even exist here, who knows...

The presence and influence of the Moon on Earth's natural life can be noticed by everything and everyone who dwells here. Ancestral Astronomy allows us to observe how the Moon also participates in the construction of Earth's spacetime.

We cannot study and know Earth's physical and spiritual life without considering the natural phenomena and cycles caused by the proximity and constant passage of the Moon, our satellite.

When we study the Moon's physical influence on Earth in astronomy, we know that this manifestation is simultaneously felt in a psychic or spiritual way—this was knowledge considered scientific within ancestral cultures, always present in their teachings.

Regarding this dual physical and spiritual influence of the Moon on Earth, I published a post on the Ancestral Astronomy Blog on November 18, 2024, titled 'The Moon in Ancestral Astronomy'—a brief approach to the possible archetypal relationships of the Moon in astrology, corresponding to the lunar cycles studied in astronomy.

In this version, 'The Cycles of the Moon in Ancestral Astronomy' within this Manual/Blog, I will provide a brief summary of the mechanics of the Moon and Earth as explained by Ancestral Astronomy, an astronomical system that does not always coincide with the teachings of modern astronomy.

Perhaps it may seem strange to question knowledge that is already so neatly arranged in our cultural manuals. But why not keep our minds open to new possibilities and different perspectives? Especially since lunar cycles and the knowledge of Ancestral Astronomy can be mathematically and astronomically confirmed with absolute rigor, using whole and natural numbers.

The lunar cycles described in Ancestral Astronomy that can be seen and felt on Earth are the tidal cycle, lunations, and eclipses.

The orbital dynamics between Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are what determine lunar cycles on Earth. It is also important to realize that the lunar events explained and described in this astronomy relate solely to astronomical observations made from Earth, exclusive to our sky.

Ancestral Astronomy studies astronomical movements observed solely from Earth, where measurements are at its own scale, across the same magnitudes of minutes in time and space, where the 1,440-minute solar day is the astronomical unit. This is also the measurement system for the Moon, even though the lunar orbit is independent of Earth's orbit.

The tidal cycle is possibly the manifestation of the Moon upon Earth with the greatest natural consequences for our planet, marked by the agitation of ocean waters, which results from the dynamics of Earth's rotation combined with the Moon's revolution.

The ebb and flow of sea waters caused by the proximity of the Moon to Earth transforms this lunar cycle into an event of great importance to the natural life of our planet, surpassed only by the solar day.

Earth rotates on its axis in 1,440 minutes, the time needed to make a complete turn across the sky, the solar day. A cycle marked by day and night, manifested by the Sun's influence on Earth in its rotational movement.

While Earth, in its daily rotational movement, travels 1,440 minutes in space, the Moon, in its revolution, advances 52 minutes—a lag that explains why the tidal cycle is longer than the solar day, thus making the movement of the waters cyclical.

It is in this way that it can be astronomically confirmed that the Moon makes a complete orbit around Earth in about 28 days. Or, that it completes its journey through the 1,440-minute matrix from the perspective of astronomical study.

It is during our planet's daily journey of rotation that the small Moon accompanies Earth—with small steps, it also advances at its own pace around it, in space and time, causing the agitation of its waters.

Let us imagine that the surface of Earth is its face.

While Earth rotates on its face, its gaze turns as well, never losing sight of the small Moon during the journey... Point by point, degree by degree upon its surface, in space and time, Earth nurtures and accompanies its offspring, drawing closer to it with its mantle of waters.

It is in the encounter in space, and at every moment in the time of the solar day, between the Moon and Earth upon its surface, that the waters accompany the small Moon in a movement of progressive approach and retreat, which becomes more intense during full moons and new moons—such is the tidal cycle.

Even though it is felt during the solar day, directly related to Earth's rotation, the tidal cycle is determined by the Moon's revolution.

In terms of Ancestral Astronomy, Earth's rotation and the Moon's revolution are orbits in different contexts with specific circumstances for both planets, which must be studied separately. Thus, the tidal cycle is studied and related to both the Moon's revolution and Earth's revolution.

It is within the relationship between both cycles of revolution that we can find the first signs of harmony and proportionality between the orbits of the Moon and Earth.

The calculation system of Ancestral Astronomy allows us to find the differences and similarities, in a detailed way, between the Moon's movement of revolution around Earth and Earth's revolution around the Sun.

An astronomy that explains the circumstances under which both planets travel, as well as their orbits and orbital planes.

The study of the orbits of the Moon and Earth in their revolution within the solar year is the first step to finding their relationship of proportionality.

We learn from Ancestral Astronomy that planets do not orbit in a linear way. Their orbits are dynamic and circular, and to avoid drifting out of orbit, planets travel along flexible and oblique planes within their orbits—their orbital planes.

It is a core understanding in Ancestral Astronomy that the obliquity of planets' orbital planes modifies their orbits in time and space, making its study indispensable to understanding the entire web of the revolution of the Moon and Earth.

It is essential to know the obliquity of the orbital planes of the Moon and Earth in order to distinguish the different perspectives in space and time between the Moon's true orbit and the lunar cycles observed and felt on Earth.

By knowing the orbits and orbital planes of the Moon and Earth, it is possible to describe the lunar cycles and the dynamics between both planets in full detail.

With detailed astronomical knowledge about the movements of revolution of the Moon and Earth, Ancestral Astronomy can fully explain the cycle of lunations at every moment or step by step.

The cycle of lunations is an event observed only on the surface of our planet, involving the successive alignments between the Sun, Earth, and the Moon in spacetime.

In Ancestral Astronomy, the movements of revolution and rotation of the planets are observed and studied as cycles with very different characteristics in space and time, even though they are simultaneous and complementary.

The cycle of lunations is studied by Ancestral Astronomy from the perspective of the rotation of Earth and the Moon. A cycle that allows us to explain in detail the relationships and circumstances under which the rotational movements of both planets unfold. However, to properly explain the cycle of lunations related to rotation, it is also necessary to know the movements of revolution of the Moon and Earth.

The astronomical difference found between the cycle of lunations of nearly 30 solar days and the Moon's revolution of just 28 solar days is a phenomenon explained by Ancestral Astronomy in a different way from modern astronomy.

In any present-day astronomy manual, the difference found between the duration of the Moon's revolution and the cycle of lunations is attributed to Earth's movement of revolution. While in Ancestral Astronomy this phenomenon is explained mathematically and astronomically, justified by the difference between the orbital planes of the Moon and Earth.

It is in this way that Ancestral Astronomy considers the cycle of lunations to be different from the tidal cycle. These are cycles determined differently within the rotation and revolution of Earth and the Moon, where corresponding laws and forms exist, which can be explained by the differences found in the orbital planes between Earth's orbit and the Moon's orbit.

Lunations represent the most popular and easily identifiable lunar cycle in the sky—from the New Moon to the Full Moon, passing through the lunar quarters—the sunlight that seems to accompany the Moon in its orbit around Earth.

However, this is not quite the case. The cycle of lunations does not directly identify the Moon's orbit, because the Moon and Earth observe each other from different orbital planes, which means different perspectives for both, altering the viewing angle and reproducing a distorted image, different from reality. Lunations illustrate how Earth sees the Moon from its surface—a very different perspective from how the Moon sees Earth from its orbit.

These seemingly irreconcilable differences in the lunar cycles ultimately allow us to find many astronomical explanations. And this is the gateway to the knowledge that Ancestral Astronomy and calendars can offer us, portraying the form of expansion and the order found in our journey on planet Earth through the universe.

In the detailed explanation of the cycle of lunations, we can understand the difference in perspective between the orbits of the Moon and Earth and identify their orbital planes, which differ in rotation and revolution.

The rational way in which Ancestral Astronomy explains the cycles and orbits of the planets allows us to graphically visualize this entire astronomical journey in spacetime.

The dance of the Moon and Earth, in a cyclical meeting and parting in time and space—two planets moving around one another, two orbits crossing in the sky. When the Moon plunges through Earth's plane toward the south, and when it emerges from Earth's plane toward the north. A cyclical intersection of the Moon's orbit and Earth's orbital plane. This is the nodal cycle of the Moon and Earth.

The Moon orbits Earth, and with every revolution it makes, it must pierce our planet's orbital plane twice—once from below moving upward, and once from above moving downward.

The points where the Moon intersects Earth's orbital plane are the lunar nodes; when the Moon moves above Earth's orbital plane, it crosses the North Node, and when it moves below, it crosses the South Node. These points vary across Earth's orbital plane as well as within the Moon's orbit, once again because of the difference between the orbital planes of both planets.

The nodal cycle is a lunar cycle very well known and described by Ancestral Astronomy, playing a decisive role in the structure of the Sacred Calendar, the Tzolkin, of the Maya and Aztec cultures.

The astronomical context in which the lunar nodes are determined is explained by modern astronomy in a rather abbreviated manner, merely pointing out the North Node and South Node within Earth's solar year orbit to identify the points of eclipses.

The comprehensive tracking of the nodal cycle in spacetime brings with it a wealth of important astronomical information about the Moon and Earth. The lunar nodes hold a prominent place in Earth's spacetime and in the construction of its grid. It is from the nodal cycle that Ancestral Astronomy explains and describes the cycle of eclipses, step by step, in full detail.

The study and tracking of the nodal cycle are important because they involve the cycle of lunations in a chain of New Moons and Full Moons north or south of Earth's orbital plane. Likewise, one can identify at which point in the Moon's orbit the lunations take place—an important reference in the observation and study of the eclipse cycle chain.

The nodal cycle is part of the knowledge of Ancestral Astronomy that is always present in calendars. Within this lunar cycle, it is possible to discover the true orbit of the Moon and determine, at any given moment, from which point in its orbit the Moon observes Earth.

The lunar nodes allow us to know the Moon's orbit and identify whether lunations occur north or south of Earth's orbital plane.

To describe the step-by-step process of the eclipse cycle, it is fundamental to track the dynamics of the nodal cycle alongside the cycle of lunations.

When, within the cycle of lunations, alignments occur between the Moon, Earth, and the Sun during New Moons and Full Moons—and if these moments coincide with the Moon crossing Earth's orbital plane, transitioning from south to north or from north to south... these are the precise moments when eclipses occur.

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