Lunar Body 3

The moon is associated with the body, whilst the sun is moreso consciousness. But of course, there is so much overlap between these seemingly dual spheres. The lunar body is indeed psychosomatic, and makes a lot more sense than any term like 'solar body'. This I think is due to the nature of the moon itself, how its corporeality makes an impact on us in a visceral manner that the sun doesn't- in terms of perceiving it, not the actual physical effects of the sun. One can't look at the sun, it would devour their eyes. But the moon is a definite, perceptible body. As such, the Moon reflects the condition of birth and death, the processes of decay in relation to the sun which appears to be an eternal, unchanging essence.

This is why you can talk about a lunar body, and how the moon's workings correspond to our own. As the moon waxes and wanes, it is melting through phases of ying and yang with the line between light and shadow growing and receding, something called the terminator. There must thus be a similar boundary upon our own psychosomatic body where the different elements of light and shadow coalesce with each other.

But I don't think that astrology is meant to equate the astronomical lunar phase in a reductionist manner and indeed one's 'inner lunar phase' can be entirely different from the astronomical one. The lunar body is constantly cycling in rhythm with life, and one should even consider the idea that there may be an 'inner moon' inside everyone which is merely the child, not the slave, of the Mother Moon. Maybe then the moon itself only acts as the crux upon which all the lunar energies form synergy and move through the collective lunar body.