GEO-ASTROPHYSICS: The Moon Effect

How often have you experienced an excessively unstable or uncontrolled emotion?

Geo-astrophysics, a multi-discipline combining earth science, astrology, and physics, may explain well this phenomena among living creatures on earth.

All creatures are significantly affected by the gravity of the moon. The moon is the closest gravity-exhibiting material to our earth. Hence, the moon's gravity affects most life on earth. This has been shown in some scientific research. How do coral reefs have a synchronous spawning in a certain lunar period? Why do mollusks, crabs, shrimps exhibit a peaking pattern on their abundance during the full moon period? And what about the howling behavior among wolves during full moon? ...

The body of living creatures contains a large amount of ion Fe (iron). The moon's gravity induces all ion Fe moving to the upper part of the body as it is pulled by the moon's gravitational magnetic field, for example: for human beings, ion Fe will be concentrated more around the head. This condition has been believed to be the main factor that affects emotional state among human beings.

Within our daily life, try to notice the date when you feel moody, sensitive, or any kind of such dramatic emotion; Is it near full moon or new moon? I myself noticed that some people in my surrounding exhibit such emotion mostly around these two lunar periods. The moon effect amplifies our emotional state, thus sometime we might emotionally unstable under high moon gravitational effect (see also my essay on Unexplained Uncomfortable Feeling). For example, someone who feels sad will be in deep sadness, also contrarily, someone who feels happy will be extremely happy. Another example, two persons who just become a new couple, they might think that any situation under full moon is very romantic, now why's that?... It's simply because the moon effect which plays this role!

The effect of gravity-resultant exhibitited by other space materials to earth.
The resultant of gravity will be maximum when the position among adjacent planets is in a straight line. The moon it self already has a strong effect to earth's living creatures, then what if this effect is enhanced by the resultant of gravity from other planets? Definitely, there will be much much greater effect in influencing living creatures, especially the emotional state of human beings. This has been indicated as follows:

• The climax of France Revolution in 1799 was when the position of all 9 planets forming a straight line.
• The demonstration by university students in Indonesia demanding president resignation also reaching climax when the position of the 5 nearby planets around earth forming a straight line in 1998.

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I guess now I can see the idea why Taoism and Buddhism recommend non-monks practitioners not to eat meat on the 1st (new moon) and 15th (full moon) of lunar calendar. Apart from the spiritual reason, reducing the consumption of meat, a high iron-content food source, may also retain the amount of ion Fe being concentrated in our body due to the moon gravitational pull. Thus, we, as expected, may have a more stable emotional state.

When you feel such a dramatic emotion, then take a deep breath, exhale it freely, control your emotion, and have a look at your lunar calendar, then smile, as that mostly occurs around full moon or new moon, I BET!

dedicated to my late Professor Joko Purwanto