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<blockquote data-quote="david starling" data-source="post: 1158601" data-attributes="member: 48819">I have a problem with using &quot;Black&quot; for it. That would be a full lunar eclipse, or a completely New Moon.What's called BML is actually the point on the Moon's elliptical orbit where it's farthest from the Earth, which could be considered &quot;least grounded&quot;.That's the Moon's apogee. There's a growing interest in the opposite point, the Moon's orbital perigee, where it's closest to the Earth, unfortunately being labeled &quot;White&quot; Selena, which is the &quot;good&quot; one of the two opposite points. &quot;Black&quot; or &quot;White&quot; are gratuitous in this application.The terms &quot;Black or White&quot; magic, are due to a scribe's mistranslation of the intended word &quot;necromancy&quot; meaning evil magic associated with death, into what became a racist term, &quot;Negromancy&quot;, from the scribe's mistaken translation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="david starling, post: 1158601, member: 48819"] I have a problem with using "Black" for it. That would be a full lunar eclipse, or a completely New Moon. What's called BML is actually the point on the Moon's elliptical orbit where it's [U]farthest[/U] from the Earth, which could be considered "least grounded". That's the Moon's apogee. There's a growing interest in the opposite point, the Moon's orbital perigee, where it's closest to the Earth, unfortunately being labeled "White" Selena, which is the "good" one of the two opposite points. "Black" or "White" are gratuitous in this application. The terms "Black or White" magic, are due to a scribe's [U]mistranslation[/U] of the [U]intended[/U] word "necromancy" meaning evil magic associated with death, into what became a racist term, "Negromancy", from the scribe's mistaken translation. [/QUOTE]

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