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⚸ U+26B8, ⚸ BLACK MOON LILITH ← ⚷ [U+26B7] Miscellaneous Symbols ⚹ → [U+26B9]

Simple variant of the Lilith symbol

Translingual

Alternative forms

Commonly represented as a simple black crescent or decrescent.

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The black moon a.k.a. Lilith.

1. (astrology, dated) A fictitious invisible second moon of Earth, claimed to have been observed in the early 20th century.
2. (astrology) The position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or sometimes the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit, which lies in approximately the same direction as the apogee.
3. (astrology) The mean Black Moon: the mean position of the lunar apogee, disregarding gravitational perturbations by the Sun or the planets, as opposed to the "true" Black Moon ⟨⯞⟩.

Related symbols

• ⯞ the "true" Black Moon

Antonyms

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