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In her monthly column, The Moon in Full<\/a>, Nina MacLaughlin illuminates humanity\u2019s long-standing lunar fascination. Each installment is published in advance of the full moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)<\/em>, by Odilon Redon, 1880<\/p><\/div>\n

1. How did you hear about planet Earth?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. On a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being abysmal, 5 being transcendent, please rate your experience with planet Earth:<\/p>\n

1\u00a0 2\u00a0 3\u00a0 4\u00a0 5<\/p>\n

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being frozen numb, 10 being the worst pain possible before exploding into a trillion meteoric fragments, how much pain are you in right now?<\/p>\n

1\u00a0 2\u00a0 3\u00a0 4\u00a0 5\u00a0 6\u00a0 7\u00a0 8\u00a0 9\u00a0 10<\/p>\n

4. In general, do you wish you had more freedom?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/p>\n

5. In general, are you glad to be tethered by gravity to planet Earth? <\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/p>\n

6. If you were to describe the smell on your surface, you would use the word(s) (please circle all that apply):<\/p>\n

Snow
\nBlack tea
\nDust char on heater when heat is first turned on
\nMarshmallow
\nWet nickel
\nLily of the valley
\nBasement (damp)
\nBone marrow
\nNormal rock
\nNone of the above<\/p>\n

7. Of the following moons, who do you like the most?<\/p>\n

Io
\nHimalia
\nLeda
\nDia
\nLocaste
\nJanus
\nPan
\nPandora
\nThalassa
\nCharon
\nStyx
\nNix
\nOberon
\nOphelia
\nGalatea
\nSkoll
\nGreip
\nFenrir
\nPuck
\nJuliet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

8. You identify as (please circle one):<\/p>\n

Female\u00a0 \u00a0 Male<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Other<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Do you identify as a god\/dess?<\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Which of the following is your favorite song about the moon? Please circle one:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moon,\u201d by Cat Power
\n\u201cSong about the Moon,\u201d by Paul Simon
\n\u201cBlue Moon,\u201d by Billie Holiday
\n\u201cBlue Chicago Moon,\u201d by Songs: Ohia
\n\u201cBlue Moon of Kentucky,\u201d by Elvis Presley
\n\u201cPink Moon,\u201d by Nick Drake
\n\u201cHarvest Moon,\u201d by Neil Young
\n\u201cShining Moon,\u201d by Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins
\n\u201cBad Moon Rising,\u201d by Creedence Clearwater Revival
\n\u201cThe Killing Moon,\u201d by Echo & the Bunnymen
\n\u201cMoonshadow,\u201d by Cat Stevens
\n\u201cMoon Dreams,\u201d by Miles Davis
\n\u201cMoon Palace,\u201d by Luna
\n\u201cMoon at the Window,\u201d by Joni Mitchell
\n\u201cSisters of the Moon,\u201d by Fleetwood Mac
\n\u201cDrunk on the Moon,\u201d by Tom Waits
\n\u201cMan on the Moon,\u201d by R.E.M.
\n\u201cMy Moon My Man,\u201d by Feist
\n\u201cThe Moon Is the Number 18,\u201d by Silver Jews
\n\u201cWhat a Little Moonlight Can Do,\u201d by Billie Holiday
\n\u201cMountains of the Moon,\u201d by the Grateful Dead
\n\u201cStanding by the Moon,\u201d by the Grateful Dead
\n\u201cPicasso Moon,\u201d by the Grateful Dead
\n\u201cSpace Oddity,\u201d by David Bowie<\/p>\n

11. In general, do you feel like you\u2019re waiting?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Do you want to be touched?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one:\u00a0 \u00a0 Always\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mostly\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now and then\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Rarely\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Never at all\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Prefer not to say<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Do you welcome the inevitable arrival of more human beings?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Which is your favorite phase?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one:<\/span>
\nNew Moon<\/span>
\nWaxing Crescent<\/span>
\nFirst Quarter<\/span>
\nWaxing Gibbous<\/span>
\nFull Moon<\/span>
\n Waning Gibbous<\/span>
\n Third Quarter<\/span>
\nWaning Crescent<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Do you dream?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

(If yes, please fill out question 16)<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Do you dream about:<\/span><\/p>\n

Contours?
\nFalling?
\nThe horror of arrival?
\nAttraction and its many forms?
\nSwimming in the lava fields before they were solidified?
\nStairways, elevators, ladders, other means of ascent\/descent?
\nIcarus, his feathers, his avoidable death, an alternative night flight in which you would\u2019ve seen him soar, would\u2019ve seen him safely to new land?
\nTidal waves, rogue waves, walls of water, flood, rhythm, swell, retreat?
\nMirrors?
\nShoes?
\nBlood?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. In general, do you have an effect on human mood and\/or disposition and\/or sanity?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes<\/span><\/p>\n

18. In general, do you have an effect on the human menstrual cycle?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Do you believe in werewolves?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Is the light you appear to shed made of ghosts?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: Yes\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

21. When a human being goes outside for a night walk battered by various woes, big-picture woes (such as: species doom, environmental collapse, plague, racial and socioeconomic inequality, political upheaval, so much death) as well as individual woes (such as: a cracked tooth, a leaking shower, late rent, broken slats on the rope bridge that spans the chasm between any two people, so much fear, so much death), and the human being rounds a corner down Ash Street toward the river and finally remembers to look up, and sees you through the branches of a magnolia tree, bare at this wintry moment in the year, and the human being gasps and thinks in her puny human-being brain, \u201c<\/span>There you are<\/span>,\u201d where <\/span>you<\/span><\/i> is you, the moon, and the human being stops on the sidewalk to keep looking up at you for a longer amount of time than seems normal, and then scurries on in the mittens her mother made and a scarf pulled halfway up her face, crossing Memorial Drive lined with all those sycamores, and the human being arrives at the path by the river and sees you reflected on the black surface of the water, sees you in an elongated cone of light wobbling on the black surface of the water, and the human being realizes that you, this big pearl in the sky, just up there glowing and hanging in space and dropping your light down onto the black surface of the water, down onto this human being\u2019s own cheeks and shoulders and forehead, are at the same time moving faster than the human being can believe, full-throttling through space, faster than should be possible for such a massive form to move, reminding her that even though she\u2019s standing still, as still as she knows how to stand, the planet she\u2019s standing on, planet Earth, is also hurtling along at some ridiculous pace, and even though she might think she\u2019s standing still, inside her blood is zipping through her veins and her heart buh-bumps, and her guts are releasing acids and doing their churns to digest her dinner\u2014the chicken soup she\u2019d made with thigh meat and drummies\u2014and as her blood zips and heart thumps, planet Earth and the moon are swinging through space together, nothing is still, nothing is silent, and this tiny human being, who stands near a mouse rustling in the brush on the bank, near a night heron crouched by the water, near the road and the sycamores bare of leaves, near the river always moving, this human being whose toes are getting cold, whose mind has grown over-familiar to itself, who feels, in this moment, everything beating at the same brittle pulse (her blood, the river, you, the moon) thinks now, with relief and glee, \u201cWould you look at that moon!\u201d and the human being notices her woes have been dissolved, that your size and quiet silver light, your mighty benevolence, the simple fact of you, have shifted her perspective, because how can those woes\u2014so small, so amazingly temporary\u2014matter at all against the scale and silence and span of time she considers when she sees you there, glowing, and it is not indifference on your part but a numinous impassivity that allows her to feel this dissolving, because how can a human being feel woe when there\u2019s a vast pearl to look at and someday we\u2019ll all die, and what we\u2019re asking is: Do you mean it when you do that? When you dissolve our woes? Is it intentional? Are you aware of this, your own power and\/or magic?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: <\/span> Yes<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0No<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0It does not matter<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Do you believe some things should remain a mystery?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please circle one: <\/span> Yes\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0No<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Is there anything else you feel we should know?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

24. Please. We\u2019re right here, listening. All we\u2019re doing is looking for answers. Is there anything else you feel we should know?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thank you for your time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nina MacLaughlin is a writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is <\/em>Summer Solstice<\/a>. Her previous columns for the\u00a0<\/em>Daily\u00a0are\u00a0Winter Solstice<\/a>,\u00a0Sky Gazing<\/a>,\u00a0Summer Solstice<\/a>,\u00a0Senses of Dawn<\/a>, and\u00a0Novemberance<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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