| Wondering if the same conditions of light and shadow would repeat during the next lunation, I tried, but failed, to see it. |
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| The month is based on the lunation, that period in which the Moon completes a cycle of its phases. |
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| He arrived at the value of 29.53058 days for a lunation, which, again, is comparable with the present-day figure, 29.53059 days. |
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| Because a lunation takes longer than 29 days, the full moon at its maximum is not always visible every time from the same point on Earth. |
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| The interaction between the parts and the horizon brings the lunation cycle down to earth, projecting it, via the ascendant, into the sublunar sphere of the mundane houses. |
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| Then, what they thought of it, had it any merit, were there others to which to make comparison, and why might the linkage between homicide rate and lunation be an attribute? |
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| Fishing is then postponed for another lunation, which they insert in the lunar calendar, thus having a year of 13 instead of the usual 12 lunations. |
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| In that way you achieve a lunation of 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes, a much smaller discrepancy that accumulates one day of error against the real moon in 122 years and 46 days. |
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| For instance, a longer than normal lunation tends to occur between October and March because of the faster movement by the Earth in its orbit round the sun. |
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