The cosmos is too big for us to privately contain - beyond comfort or description - yet this web of connected symbols mutates and persists through memory and culture in the collective unconscious. But that is why I take such comfort in Jungian astrology. Pregnancy scares me, and I dread my painful menstrual period, even as it stays perfectly synced along lunar cycles. My relationship with my birth mother is complicated. Motherhood is way too loaded for me to warmly embrace this moon metaphor. In myths across continents, she embodies the divine mother: as the Greek goddess, Selene, with 50 daughters as Luna, her Roman counterpart as Abuk, the Dinka goddess of women and gardens as Ala, an Odinani alusi that shrouds dead souls inside her sacred womb. The moon is a moody luminary, endlessly pregnant. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha Photos: Getty Images
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