MOON : capacity for creation

The right arm is brought down from above and forward to meet the left arm brought from behind and below. The right arm rests on the left approximately at the wrists, level with the solar plexus. The hands are closed, contained. This is the movement for the Moon and though it is held, it is full of vital activity, bristling with creative reproductive energy.

The gesture reveals something of the enigmatic mystery of the Moon. For on the one hand the moonshine, as mirror reflecting the light of the cosmos, influencing the sprouting and decaying, the ebb and flow, in reproductive rhythms, the gateway of both birth and death, and on the other hand the hidden concealed mystery behind the shine. What is behind the mirror?

Physically the organs related to the Moon are both the organs of reproduction and brain. Organic reproduction is only an aspect of reproduction; thinking is a metamorphosis of this activity. The brain could be described as a mirror, a mirror for the world’s thoughts.

Rudolf Steiner describes the Moon as continually reproducing itself, “It does not rest. It is continually condensing matter, pressing it together and then splitting, spitting it out”.

This inner capacity for reproduction can perhaps now throw some light on the given movement for the Moon. The one arm resting, pressing, the other carrying - the two held, not in inertia, but in enormous tension, creative potentiality.