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What is a lunation?

What is a lunation? Here are some definitions.

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  1. a month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase. On average, the number of days between Full Moons is about 29.5306 days. The actual number of days may differ from the average number by more than a half day. From one Full Moon to the next, the number of days in one lunation can vary between 29.272 and 29.833 days.
  2. The irregular period from one new moon until the next.
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And there the moon is not seen in all the lunation, except in the second quarter.
For, says he, because of the double epact that occurs on the 4th and 5th of April that lunation has only 29 days.
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.
The fever and eruption in the distinct kind take up another quarter of a lunation, and the maturation another quarter.
The month is based on the lunation, that period in which the Moon completes a cycle of its phases.
And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter.

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