The Lunar Stations

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Recorded July 23rd 2024 at The Theosophical Society in NYC.

In the astrological chart, the moon is an omen for our emotional process. The moon’s nuances by sign, house and aspect can reveal our own unique way of working through our feelings. In this class, J.M Hamade will introduce a more esoteric layer of the moon’s placement and deeper meaning– the lunar stations.

In the Moon's monthly journey across the sky, she was thought to reside in a series of consecutive locations, sometimes 27 and sometimes 28, often conceived of as domiciles, resting places, lodgings, and popularly as lunar mansions. This is the lunar zodiac. Not unlike our familiar twelve sign zodiac of the Sun, the Moon's pathway carries its own unique significations when it is found among these places. Unlike the solar zodiac, these 27-28 places have maintained strong significations rooted in their associated asterisms; sidereal references only known to the retinue of night.

In this introductory class, we will discuss the three primary cultural paradigms of the stations, that of India, China, and the Islamic Middle East. Though one culture cannot claim the sole origination of the lunar zodiac, there are remarkable and potent correspondences between them, revealing millennia of knowledge exchanges as well as a plethora of imagistic outpourings. Across these many varieties we find a vast corpus of electional timings, magical and talismanic happenings, and later on natal and personality identifiers.

As the Moon is ever the traveler, the term 'station' takes preference in its implication of movement. Join us to find your place along the starry road, as we venture through the stations and those who dwell there.