I just finished producing the HTML for the 2003 Lunation/Solar Ingress
page on this site.
You will notice that the Moon and Sun are in the same sign during the
New Moon - when the Moon disappears into the Sun's glare - and that the
Moon has traveled half-way across the Zodiac for the Full Moon - when
she is fully illuminated by the light of the Sun, and rises in the East
as the Sun sets in the West.
Producing this page was a labor of love, though it reminds me how
disconnected so-called "civilized" humanity is from the cycles of the
seasons - the turning of the wheel of the year.
I have felt for many years that this disconnect is unhealthy, that
we have separated ourselves from our natural origins unnecessarily.
Perhaps that is why I have been drawn to Taoism, ever since I first learned of it, reading Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics.