MOON

The planet you chose is the Moon. Although it is defined as a satellite and not a planet, the moon is closely connected to the earth and water. The symbol of the Moon is linked par excellence to the sphere of the female image and its edges of life and death. It is a symbol of intuition and fruitfulness, of purity but also of shadow, of eternity and divine light. The moon with its alternating waxing, full, waning and new phases tells of a continuous and perpetual movement of regeneration. The Moon was considered, since ancient times, a sort of goddess literally venerated for the cult of harmonious love, given the combination of the Sun and the Moon, considered two spouses. In astrology, therefore, the Moon tends to take on a symbolism particularly linked to the depth of the soul and the unconscious, the most intimate part of every person. The symbolism associated with this planet is the crayfish that remains in the pond, which represents the unconscious or the imagination emerging towards difficult and dangerous paths. The moon represents a passive beginning because, having no light of its own, it reflects the light of the sun and never shows its darkest part. Its metal is silver, its colour  it is white, its number is two. The symbolism of the moon represents an ambivalence because it manifests itself at the same time in relation to life and death. The moon dies and is reborn, defining the aspect of the idea of reviving time within the year. The cult of the moon, which was characteristic of different cultural eras. The crescent moon was the sacred symbol of the Babylonians, Isis for the Egyptians and Artemis for the Greeks. Then used in symbolism associated with the Virgin Mary. Christian mysticism symbolizes Mary with the crescent moon: the feminine principle, which brings light into the darkness of the night. The goddess Selene was traditionally described as a woman of incomparable beauty and a pale face. Depicted with long flowing white or silver robes, she carried a torch in her hand and a crescent moon above her head. Her most characteristic image sees her in the firmament driving her lunar chariot, pulled by white and gentle oxen. Selene belonged to the Greek triad of Moon deities. Together with her there were Artemis, the waxing moon, symbol of youth and carefreeness, and Hecate, the waning moon, symbol of old age and wisdom. Selene was the depiction of the full moon. For this reason, within the triad, she had the role of mother. By virtue of this triple characterization of the moon, Selene was the symbol of the fullness, maturity and fertility of the woman, who carries the seed of life and a new birth in her womb. Furthermore, the moon represents the psyche, the sensitive and emotional part of the individual. On the one hand it symbolizes maternal affection and, consequently, the roots of childhood and the family environment. On the other hand, it is also the symbol of our way of remembering and processing the past, perceiving the present world and imagining future life. All through the filter of emotions. Those who choose this planet are literally bewitched by its influence. In mythology a story is passed down to us. So one night, while it shone white and cold on the valley of Olympia, Selene sees a beautiful young man, named Endymion: a shepherd who, at sunset, shelters his flocks in a cave on Mount Latmo. Fascinated by his beauty, Selene falls madly in love with him and enters the cave with his light. Even Endymion is immediately captured by the splendor of the silver-clad Goddess. But Endymion is a simple human, while Selene is a Goddess, therefore immortal, furthermore she has a task to complete: she must continue her journey, she only has a few hours to bring the chariot to its destination, towards the West, where she dives at every dawn in the cold waters of the Ocean, which every day renew the splendor of her soft and white skin. Selene, however, is heartbroken, she wants to see the beautiful mortal again, she wants to see him again forever. He cannot bear the idea of living eternity without him and asks Zeus for mercy. He accepts his wish and establishes that Endymion will sleep forever, Selene will visit him every evening in the same cave, where she will touch him, observe him, kiss him. Endymion, on the other hand, will become the eternal object of a divine love, an immobile, inert love, but always young and beautiful. He will sleep with his eyes open, so that the world can eternally admire the wonder of his face. And so Selene continues to visit Endymion every night, just as the Moon sails across the starry sky every night. Endymion still sleeps in that cave on Mount Latmo, where the gods placed him. He still dreams of that shining love that bewitched him in a single, single night, and he still stares with an immobile gaze at the silvery splendor of the Moon that stands out in the deep blue sky.

The name Endymion means "he who dwells within", a name which can also be traced back to ἐνδύ(ν)ω, which means "I put on my clothes", "I enter inside", "I immerse myself" and by "inside" we mean the womb of the cave, where the goddess saw him for the first time, falling madly in love. The belly of the cave stands for the unconscious and the one who dwells is none other than the desire to awaken from a perpetual sleep, the nucleus of the personality, the superior principle of the individual.