Oysters and the Moon

I will be doing my first public teaching video later this week on currently unfolding astronomical events for September and onward. Meanwhile, people ask how distant astronomical bodies can impact beings here on earth. Some even deny that cycles of the Moon or Mercury impact people at all.

Yet the oysters know about the moon...and oysters create pearls, the stone Vedic Astrology links with the moon. Curiouser and curiouser!

The Oysters That Knew What Time It Was:

“The oysters gradually shifted their feeding times later and later. After two more weeks, a stable cycle reappeared, but it now lagged three hours behind the New Haven tides. Brown was mystified, until he checked an astronomical almanac. High tides occur each day when the moon is highest in the sky or lowest below the horizon. Brown realized that the oysters had corrected their activity according to the local state of the moon; they were feeding when Evanston—if it had been by the sea—would experience high tide. He had isolated these organisms from every obvious environmental cue. And yet, somehow, they were following the moon.”