Blood Moon, a metaphor
On July 27, 2018, there was a total lunar eclipse, and again on January 21, 2019, and it was a prolonged one! There was also an almost complete (penumbral) blood moon on May 16th. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth stands between the sun and the full moon. Due to our Earth’s atmosphere bending a small part of the passing sunlight, only some red light, or the lowest light frequency, can reach the eclipsed moon and give it that distinctive blood-red color. It only reflected the lowest light frequencies. This is called a blood moon. (The next complete eclipse in the Netherlands will take place on September 7, 2025)
In spiritual philosophy, the reflective full moon represents our Buddhi: our highest power of discernment, and is therefore also called the Gateway to Inner Wisdom. Our discerning Buddhi is essentially immensely intelligent. Without obstacles obscuring the vision of Wisdom, Buddhi reflects in our mind the dazzling light of Consciousness – or true knowledge or true knowing – just as the moon reflects the bright sunlight. Both absolute Consciousness and our sun are too dazzling to behold in full glory; it would completely blind us. (This is analogous to Plato’s ‘Cave’)
The power of the reflected light of our highest discernment, the ‘inner moon’ in our reflective mind, thus stands for the strength and extent of how much truth and wisdom we can reflectively receive within ourselves. The question we should ask ourselves is: how clear is my inner full moon? How much consciousness does this inner moon reflect in my daily mind? How many and what obstacles are ‘in the way’ and constitute my ‘blood moon’?
Just as the physical moon is eclipsed, our inner moon is also eclipsed. Sometimes briefly, but unfortunately often for a permanent (lifetime) duration. The result of this is that we cannot distinguish wisdom from folly, or truth from falsehood, and as a consequence, we often do not act wisely and do not live in truth. Much misery can arise from this inner lunar eclipse that occurs within us when we have lost our essence – usually due to upbringing and external circumstances. Wisdom can be so obscured that blood may even flow, witnessing the vast amount of suffering we observe on our planet every day. An eclipsed inner moon causes an experience (an idea or feeling) of separation in every area, resulting from severely restrictive identifications that gave rise to our ego and constantly reinforce it.
In large groups of people, various stubborn conditionings and beliefs have settled. For the individual, this not only maintains a false self-image that is highly valued, but also obscures the view of reality and what is truly necessary within it. Many collective identifications, such as those of politics or religion, have eclipsed the inner moon of a large part of humanity, and thus we can sadly speak of a persistent global ‘blood moon’. Only the lowest frequencies are ‘ruling the waves’. All the misery in our beautiful world, all the separation and strife, all the poverty and inequality and all the violence that man inflicts on our planet, is the result of the dimming of our highest human discernment, of that magnificent Buddhi which is the Gateway to inner Wisdom . That closed gate allows the proliferation of identified egocentrism, on a small and large scale, and is the cause of all the misery that people inflict on each other.
Not only is human reason greatly limited by an obscured Buddhi, but the greatest loss manifests in an obscured heart, a limitation of our Feeling Center. And it is precisely this limitation that often drives many forms of war because the heart has become impure. Only by purifying both our reason and our feeling can we dissolve the blood moon. A somewhat purified Reason already helps to cleanse our disturbed heart. A somewhat purified Heart helps to cleanse our programmed reason. So the cooperation between Reason and Heart is of utmost importance.
We can enjoy such a magnificent cosmic lunar eclipse moment when it occurs again. In the Netherlands, on May 16, 2022, there was only an almost-complete eclipse visible, dispelled by the rising sun. Let this moon allegory be a reminder to stay awake, clear, and in the Now! In self-recollection, for in a quiet mind, Buddhi is available as the powerful mental organ that enables us to fully develop and liberate ourselves internally as a person.
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