Selenophile
se·le·no·phile | \ sə̇ˈlēnəˌfīl
plural -s
Definition: A person who loves the moon and stars
I think many of us would say we love the moon. It's found widely in our various media symbolizing unmeasurable variety of themes from loneliness to achievement. Surely, the moon has been admired from the beginning for it's many faces.
"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." —George Carlin
Personally I love the moon for its reminder of potential, achievement, wonder, safety, and mortality. I find it incredible to think that this bright object in the sky is actually a mass of rock rotating around us. The idea that we really are so incredibly small in this immense universe. I love the thought of the potential for achievement it has given humanity. The human connection created in searching out the answers to the universe, leaving for the stars and expanding our knowledge as a whole. Ad Astra.
I love the safety and comfort the moon brings in the dead of night. Sometimes so bright that no other light is needed to guide your way through the otherwise dreadful dark. The youthful stories written under its shine, the tales and epics fought and voyaged by moonlight - and of course the romance it brings.
"I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos." —Tom Hanks
I'm always reminded of the frail mortality of humanity as well. The darker side of the moon. How we all rest under the same night sky on the same spaceship earth floating through space. This beautiful quote seems to always pop into my mind. The thought of seeing earth from the moon.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
That's here. That's home. That's us.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Would you call yourself a Selenophile as well?
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