THE MOON ORACLE

No other everyday image has the power to entrance and inspire the fantasy and imagination of each one of us as our planet's beautiful satellite the Moon. The folklore of all countries abounds with interpretations and omens for each phase and fluctuation of her delicate and transient appearance. For early mankind the familiarity and predictability of the Sun's daily disappearance and reappearance became a pattern on which to base the calendar and seasons. The Moon was another thing altogether.
A strange and mystical creature, a phenomenon of changeability with no such easy pattern of appearance. One night full and voluptuous, another a thin crescent, occasionally high in the heavens, at other times low on the horizon. As if to disobey all the rules the palest of pale Moons will appear during the day daring the Sun to make her invisible, some nights there is no appearance at all. Small wonder that Luna has captured the hearts and fed the fantasies of humankind. Almost every diary shows the new and full Moon each month. People plant, prune and gather fruit at the appropriate phase of the Moon. Weather predictions based on the observed Moon seem to be as valid as those of the more "scientific" weather forecasters.
Pale moon doth rain,
Red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.
From the Latin proverb ("Clarke," 1639).
She is said to make us go "looney", fall in love, turn into werewolves, and generally match our lives to her fluctuating rhythms.
It is the very error of the moon;
She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
Shakespeare, "Othello," V, ii.
In Western culture the Moon has always been represented as the feminine and almost all of the goddesses in ancient religion and mythology are Moon goddesses.
The old-fashioned "scientific" view of life that writes off astrology as rubbish on the basis that planets can't affect our lives because they are too far away to exert any influence, comes to a stumbling block where the Moon is concerned.
The Moon's powerful tidal drag on the waters of this planet, given that our physical bodies are also mainly composed of this element, is attracting more and more serious research in the field of the satellite's effect on human behaviour.