The End of Nothing

Let's take this as a celestial sign of a better decade to come, shall we? This New Year's Eve, there will be a blue moon in the sky–second full moon of the month.

The recognition of the new moon is the first commandment given to the Jewish People by God at the cusp of going out of slavery from Mitzriam/Egypt 3500 years ago and becoming a nation. The two major seven day holidays begin with the full moon–Pesach/Passover and Succot/Dwelling. The months of the Hebrew calendar are regulated by the moon.

Coming at the end of this dismal decade this second full moon begs to be interpreted. According to the Cabala all events have a physical and spiritual dimension often expressed in the interconnectivity of the secular calendar and the workings of the heavens.

The Talmud-Book of Law says one can pronounce the blessing on the moon only during the waxing cycle, until the moon is full. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says the moon made herself small to let the sun fix his ego as expressed during an eclipse when the moon precisely blots out the sun.

The prognostication for the new decade is cheery since the decade of nothing has found completion in this final blue moon. The number ten in Cabala is considered beginning of the whole.