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A free IFS Academy course on the complete beginner's orientation to The Moon: what working with the moon actually means, the four streams that feed the modern moon world (astrology, folk and farming lore, Pagan practice, and manifesting culture), the questions people have always brought to the lunar cycle, and a guided map of every teaching ahead, from the eight phases to the named full moons, the twelve moon signs, eclipses, and the lunar-influence question.

A free IFS Academy course on the origins and key figures of The Moon's traditions: the moon as humanity's first calendar from the Ishango bone to Babylon, the lunar calendars still alive today (and why the moon sets the date of Easter), the gods and goddesses from Sin and Thoth to Selene, Chang'e, and Ix Chel, the moon's place among the seven classical planets, the folk lore of "lunacy" and the almanac, and the modern revival from the Triple Goddess to the moon's arrival in w

A free IFS Academy course on the lunar cycle, the engine of The Moon's traditions: why moon phases happen (sunlight and viewing angle, taught plainly), the 29.5-day synodic month, waxing versus waning, how to tell them apart in the sky, why the moon rises fifty minutes later each night, the drift between the lunar and calendar months that creates blue moons, and the build-peak-release-rest template every lunar tradition reads in the wheel.