Centers of the Moon
SEN-terz uhv thuh moon
latin: centers / posts / foundations of the Moon
Definition
The centers of the Moon — also called its "posts" or "foundations" — are particular angular separations the Moon reaches from the Sun across the lunar month. Dykes glosses them as marker-points whose significance is meteorological: they flag the likely moments for shifts in the weather and for rain. The doctrine reads certain Sun-Moon distances within the lunar cycle as signals of changing skies.
In Tradition
Dykes records the centers as the angular separations of Sun and Moon through the month that point to possible changes of weather and to rain. The framing is mundane and meteorological rather than natal: the focus is the sky and the season, not a person's chart. Dykes keeps the entry short and refers the full treatment to his separate weather volume. So the doctrine here amounts to the core idea — specific Sun-Moon angles within the lunar cycle, read as markers of weather and rain.
In Practice
Reach for the centers of the Moon when you work weather questions rather than a nativity, since this is a mundane-meteorological doctrine. The method tracks how far the Moon has drawn from the Sun across the month and treats certain of those separations as the points to watch for changing weather or rain. Hold it to that scope: the source gives the marker-idea and sends the full apparatus to a dedicated weather treatment. Use it as one lunar-cycle tool among others, weighing the Sun-Moon distance as a sign of shifts in the sky.
Historical Origin
The doctrine is recorded by Benjamin N. Dykes in a glossary entry within the Hephaistio of Thebes / Cazimi material (2013, p. 173), where the centers, posts, or foundations of the Moon are defined as the separations the Moon takes from the Sun across the lunar month, read as markers of shifting weather and rain. Dykes refers the full treatment to his Astrological Weather volume.
Etymology
Origin: English. Meaning: centers, posts, or foundations of the Moon.
Further Reading
- Benjamin N. Dykes, Astrological Weather
- Hephaistio of Thebes, Apotelesmatics