Collective Lunar Cycle:  The eight phase, approximate 28 day, 360 degree cycle of the Moon’s orbit in relation to the Sun and Earth from one Sun/Moon (New Moon) conjunction (in the same place) to the next Sun/Moon conjunction. 

Dark of the Moon: The three days before each New Moon, both in the Collective and the Personal Lunar Cycles.

Modalities:  Cardinal Fixed and Mutable, energies that are the driving forces of the Universe.  Another name for Cardinal is Initiating energy; for Fixed is Holding; for Mutable is Integrating.  Indigenous cultures are aware of these universal principles; astrology is the tradition in the West that holds the teaching about Modalities.  Each zodiac sign, from Aries through Pisces, carries one element and one modality. 

Multidimensional:  Calling on multiple circuits of our existence simultaneously.
Using more than one burner at a time.   Living with spiritual, psychological,
emotional, physical, sensory, extrasensory perceptions integrated and unified.  Full functioning living.  Aware of the weave of visible/invisible energetic play of life.

Personal Lunar Cycle: The sequence of Moon flow that starts with the phase of the Moon in which you are born as the beginning of the Lunar Cycle from a personal perspective.  As the Moon reaches your birth
phase in each collective cycle you can experience this as a New Moon in a personal cycle. 

Void of Course Moon:  Native American Tradition and Buckminster Fuller teach us that energy is contained in form.  The Moon, in her travels, creates relationships of geometric form with the planets.  These patterns of relationship are just like the patterns of geometric relationship that we experience with other people.  Notice the next time you are at a meeting, look who is directly across from you.  This person will either be someone who supports you totally, or someone with whom you have an issue to process.  This is the geometric pattern of 180°, or opposition, the symbol is ?.  Another common geometric forms are the trine, 120°, symbolized by the familiar shape of a triangle, ?.   When the Moon is at a 90° angle to another planet, this is known as a square aspect, ?. 

These geometric relationships of the Moon with the planets, and us with other people, are in an ever-changing rhythm of dynamic energy. 

The Moon travels the circuit of the zodiac in 27.322 days. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13° against the stars each day, or about half of a degree per hour as the Moon orbits the 360° of the zodiac. This means that the Moon moves through one of twelve zodiac signs every two and one half days.  In this two-and one-half day time frame the Moon makes her last aspect of geometric formation to one of the planets.   The Moon has the quickest zodiacal travel and sometimes there are no planets in the particular stretch of zodiac to form a geometric relationship as the Moon is about to move from one sign to the next.  This period of time, when the Moon has made her last aspect in one sign and before she enters the next sign is said to be a void of course period.

The duration of void of course Moon times vary, depending on the planetary alignments at the time.  Some void of course Moon times last only minutes, other times last for hours and even days.

Void of course Moon times are great for resting, for meditating, for taking it easy.  These are good times to do housework or filing, or go for a walk, or read.  Because there is no form to hold the energy, void of course Moon times are not the best time to undertake any activity of importance to you, such as a meeting negotiation, a new sales pitch, a planning session for something vital to your business or your life, or to make a major purchase.  Please do not take my word for this.  Check out the void of course Moon times for yourself and see for yourself how your energy level feels.  If you do engage in important action during these times, notice how it turns out.