There are different meanings for the black Moon in astronomy and astrology, in astronomy it is the absence of a new Moon in a month, the next time this happens in August 30, 2008.
Black Moon is the mean Lunar apogee [a point when the Moon is furthest from the Earth]. Sometimes an alternative name to black moon is Lilith. The point opposite the Black Moon is called Priapus.
There are actually 3 black moons also called Lilith in Astrology.
- The Black Moon (as a mathematical point).
As a mathematical point it corresponds to position of the Moon when it is at Apogee (that point in its orbit when it is farthest from the Earth).
- The Dark Moon (a theoretical etheric second Moon that orbits the Earth 3 times more distant than our normal Moon and is a quarter of the size.) The most accurate ephemeris of the dark Moon was written by Ivy Goldstein Jacobson, but as she copyrighted it, free distribution was stopped; so the earlier less accurate 60 year earlier version appears in astrology software programmes.
- Asteroid number 1181 that orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The symbol for Asteroid Lilith is a stylized hand that signals warning, greeting, or blessing. Asteroid Lilith can be found by going to http://ephemeral.info/eph/
This is Martha Westcott’s Lilith; Triangulation; competing; selection & rejection; decisions (regarding angle or aspects ;) divided loyalties; favouritism; gender stereotypes; use of sex or rejection for dominance. Lilith is described as signifying resentment and inner rage; she sets herself apart, flies into exile. She is fiercely independent. She refuses to submit to the assumed authority of another or to compromise her beliefs. All Black Moons are named after the Dark Goddess Lilith.
Lilith first appeared in Sumerian mythology about 5,000 years ago. As "handmaid" to the Goddess Inanna, Queen of Heaven, she would gather men in from the fields for the sacred rites. Another myth refers to story of Adam and Eve, Adam expected Lilith [his first wife] to be submissive to him, but, claiming equality, she would not be put beneath him and flew away to a lifelong exile near the Red Sea, where she mated with evil spirits and bore scores of demonic children. Meanwhile, Yahweh again tried to create a partner for Adam, this time taking one of Adams ribs and turning it into Eve - a creation from Adam and not one in her own right, like Lilith. [Sounds like genetic engineering from Adams bone marrow] In the horoscope of a male, Lilith can point to the woman he fears most or to the woman that drives him to despair.