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Black Moon Lilith

Also called Lilith, lunar apogee

A name for several different calculated points, most often the apogee of the Moon's orbit.

“Lilith” is not one thing: astrologers use the mean lunar apogee, an “osculating” apogee, an “interpolated” one, and, confusingly, a hypothetical dark moon and an asteroid of the same name. They can be degrees apart. Modern astrologers who use it associate it with what is repressed or refused. This site's chart does not place it.

Where sources differ
Which definition is meant has to be stated every time; chart software differs in its default.
  • Kind: Calculation, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Modern Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: not used

Related: Lunar nodes, Asteroids in astrology

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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