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Do you feel any attachment to celestial objects, Lain? This is a weird question, but I'm curious. I've noticed a lot of artists, for example, have some sort of fascination with the moon. In general, it seems a lot of outsider-ish people seem to find some spiritual or aesthetic connection to some planet/moon/star. I'm curious if anyone here does as well.

I do, but it's just the generic full moon, nothing more exotic like Sirius. I think a big contributing factor is that I used to be an edgy werewolf lover and still am at heart. Evangelion was a show that made a big impact on my psyche, and my favorite character was represented by a recurring moon motif. It also might have something to do with the fact that my mother used to sing me a song about the moon as a lullaby. I can't fully explain my attraction to the full moon, but the sight of it produces an incomparable emotional complex in me. Here's a song that represents one facet or a few of that complex: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CZ594IL_wyw. I prefer to think of the moon as the pale disk of light in the sky that has certain mystical associations. The moon as the big rock that Apollo 11 had to ruin by sticking the American flag in it does essentially nothing for me. By the way, the third image (the one I didn't explain previously) is one that was posted in the vent thread. I don't know the source, but I liked it, so I've posted it here as well. If anyone has any other sexy moon pictures, post them, please.

There is something rather imposing on their order of being similar to order of being at atomic level is. And as some theories go the earth itself could be seen as one big organism. I feel awe and some kind of attachment, i mean they have been with us for a long time.

>>14265 My story is very similar with evangelion and feelings of ferality. Though I prefer to think of myself as a wendigo, rather than a wereworlf. In the day, indistinguishable from any other humanoid, but by the light of the moon, A native dweller of the forest, a man eating monster, forever eating and forever hungry. Devouring everything, love knowledge, time, the state, the world. An endless creature proud in it's wretchedness, in a word, evil to those who do not understand my deeper nature, or recognize it in themselves.

>>14284 As far as connection to the moon, I associate it with the night, with insects and ancient impulses, with hidden desires. I see it as the caring companion of the smothered ego. An ancient orb whose light it takes freely from the sun, and recasts to an inconsistent and uncanny glow. I get similar feelings of wonder and creeping madness from mercury vapor lamps. Something about the light they provide brings out the hunger in me.

The moon card in the Tarot has asociations with female sexuality. The moon is the polar oposite of the sun, its a female symbol thats pasive as it only reflects light. Is also asociated with water and the subconscious. The card itself symbolizes uncertainty and fear of what lies in shadows, the moon shines just enough light to discern a bit of silhouette but everything is still ambiguous and unclear. Also, the moon is changing, just like tides, agriculture, and female cycles. If you are infatuated with the moon you are probably gay af or have some sort of anima fetish or mommy issues.

>>14293 That's not a universal sentiment. Germanic people saw the moon as a man (Mani) and the sun as a woman (Sol/Sunna), as the moon was a stoic and fearless guardian while the sun warmly nurtured all of the world's children as a mother would. The Japanese have a similar belief (Tsukuyomi), as did the Babylonians (Sin), Egyptians (Thoth), and Georgians (Armazi). Even in cultures where it was depicted as a feminine being, it was commonly held as the sacred lover of artists, scholars, priests, and other such things. The moon also holds an important symbolic role in Abrahamic faiths - for example, it is sometimes associated with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ and, by extent, also used to define the date of Easter. Symbols of Sacred Science sums this up as: the sun is the soul of the warrior, while the moon is the soul of the mystic.

>>14298 >Germanic people saw the moon as a man Germans saw everything as a man, the only people i heard of who call the motherland the "fatherland" . The default german dude is a gay bdsm fetishist, thats just ingrained in them. >while the moon is the soul of the mystic. That being, introverted, passive, emotional, etc, female (anima) qualitives, - polarity.

>>14299 >the only people i heard of who call the motherland the "fatherland" "Fatherland" is not unique to Germany, even in Europe. Greece, Finland, Latvia, Serbia, Czechia, and Estonia all use a term equivalent to "fatherland." It is heavily associated with Germany in "motherland"-only countries due to its extensive usage in German WWII propaganda, but the term has seen usage for a very long time. >That being, introverted, passive, emotional, etc, female (anima) qualitives I think you're missing some of the more important aspects of what the "mystic spirit" entails. Like wisdom, self-reflection, transcendence, self-identification, logic, objectivity, etc. And in contrast, the sun is associated with spontaneous passion, fertility, nurturing, motherhood, empathy, emotional intuition over reason, and other traditionally feminine things. From Dhammapada: >The sun shines by day, the moon shines by night, >The warrior shines in his armour, >The Brahmin by his meditation.