How your body reacts to longer nights 🌙
The magic of 14 hours of darkness ✨
Whew! This last moon was wild here in the Northern Hemisphere. Have you noticed the moon is actually higher in the sky than it was this Summer?
As the Earth tilts toward Winter, the sun appears lower in the sky, but the moon actually gets higher!
Depending on where you live, this seasonal variance between the sun and moon can be as much as 47 degrees.
This variance may be part of why in Norse traditions, the moon was seen as a masculine timekeeper, more dependably marking the days, than the more transient and feminine sun.
In polar climates, fickle sunlight disappears for months at a time.
With the sun so low in the sky, this leaves the moon as the primary celestial body lighting the sky.
