Notes

What Is the Moon?

  1.     Nola Taylor Redd, “Was the Moon Formed?” Space.com, November 16, 2017.

  2.     Ewen A. Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

  3.     Kim Long, The Moon Book: Fascinating Facts About the Magnificent, Mysterious Moon (Boulder, CO: Net Library, Inc., 1999), 89.

  4.     Monica SjÖÖ and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 1987), 151.

  5.     Hanne Jakobsen, “What Would We Do Without the Moon?” sciencenormay.no, January 12, 2012, at https://sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-planets/what-would-we-do-without-the-moon/1433295.

  6.     Matt Jackson, Lunar & Biodynamic Gardening: Planting Your Biodynamic Garden by the Phases of the Moon (New York: Cico Books, 2015).

  7.     George Got, “Weird Things That Have Been Left on the Moon,” Futurism (2017), at https://vocal.media/futurism/weird-things-that-have-been-left-on-the-moon.

  8.     The Old Farmers’ Almanac (Almanac Publishing Company, 203 edition, 2020).

  9.     Carolyn McVickar, In the Light of the Moon (New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003).

  10.   Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Burton Watson, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

  11.   SjÖÖ and Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother, 169.

  12.   Ibid., 156.

  13.   Sung Ping Law, “The Regulation of Menstrual Cycle and Its Relationship to the Moon,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, January 11, 2011, at https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00016348609158228?sid=nlm:pubmed).