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When just rising in the line of section where they appear, the Sun or Moon may seem to be close to the ground, just grazing the horizon, where there are things like mountains, trees, and buildings to compare and frame their size. When they are way up high in the sky at midheaven, there is nothing around them for easy comparison to frame their size for the eye, except the vast and deep empty-looking sky. There is an affect like "Ebbinghaus Illusion", where identically sized objects appear to be different sizes when placed in different surroundings.

The objects surrounding another object have an effect on the brain. For example, smaller circles surrounding an object make it appear bigger than when it is surrounded by larger circles. The affect of the horizon is like smaller circles, which make an object seem larger; and the affect of deep sky is like larger circles, which make an object seem smaller.

Also, the brain is used to objects that are moving towards the horizon becoming smaller, like birds, planes, ships, and clouds, etc. When the moon suddenly appears, in contrast, it is not going away but coming around and toward the observer by its orbit. This adds something to the affect of apparent largeness in space.

Differences in background, and visual effects from the frame of the horizon, and the spherical curvature of Earth and space, can make them appear bigger when low on the horizon. Also, it seems that on the horizon blue light is scattered more than red light, and there is a greater index in density of refraction, causing the Moon and Sun to appear flatter and wider.

As much as the appearance of sunrise and sunset are aspects in themselves, the sun and moon appearing to be bigger and closer on the horizon than at midheaven is an illusion. It is not due to actual distance but to differences in binocular disparity. Since it is an optical illusion, it is not part of an example for the coincidence of an ellipse, and nothing at all to do with gravity by the inverse squared or any supposed rotation of Earth. 

The angular size of the full Moon in the sky can vary between 36 arc minutes (0.6 degrees) at perigee, and 30 arc minutes (0.5 degrees) at apogee; but this difference occurs only in the periodisation within an accumulation of lunar orbits, not over the course of one night or one semi-circle, as the Moon rises and goes around.

The full moon rising in the horizon over Jacskonville, Florida at 81.66 W, for example, may appear bigger there in the early evening than at midnight over Genoa, Italy, at 8"55"58 E, where it appears at the same time, when it would be at the same one place in space vis-a-vis the earth -- as it always is in one place at a time, and going only one speed at a time, as much as the sun and the other planets and all the stars -- but the object is not superficially closer to Jacksonville than Genoa, and not for the sake of an ellipse.

For all that and so forth, a high level Freemason from NASA administration or the Bohemian Grove may raise objections, and say that if the earth does not orbit the sun, it could be orbiting clouds or Jupiter by relativity, and nobody could tell, because indeed the Moon going around the earth goes slower when it is closer, and faster when it is further away. 

Because the moon's activity would prove that the earth can revolve at different speeds along its latitudes, because if the moon goes slower with less radius from the center of the diagram, then so does the earth. Therefore, it should be true that the equator is spinning faster than the 40th parallel -- the one running through the Kansas-Nebraska state line, Manhattan, and Spain, etc. -- since the equator is further from the center. If it were only a matter of smoke and fire and a bag of confusion around the old owl at the Bohemian Grove, maybe so -- but not really.

The phases of the moon are caused by the sun and moon both orbiting the earth in the same direction, with the sun always traveling faster from further away. The daily changing angle of the aspect between them causes the lunar cycle; and from day to day, over each twenty-four hour stage of any lunar phase, the aspects between them and the zodiac and the planets last much too long for the earth to be spinning away in the view. The moon is much closer to earth than the stars and the sun, and going the same direction from east to west, and the Earth never rotates away under the line of any aspect any more than from any eclipse.

Again and again, in circles throughout the days, all the stars and planets of the ecliptic more distant than the Moon gradually catch up to it and pass it, as they all orbit the earth from East to West but much faster.

Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn follow great orbits in their spheres, and all transit to a full 180 degrees opposition with the Earth in between them and the sun. Far away on the other side of the Earth, with the Earth in between, such a position shows that they are not orbiting the sun from six signs away, as the sun orbits the Earth, but that they are orbiting the Earth in their own time from beyond the sun.

In contrast, Mercury and Venus are never more than two signs (not more than 60 degrees) away from the sun. Often they are in one of the two houses neighboring the sun, or in the same one as the sun; and, therefore, apparently may be orbiting the sun as it orbits the Earth. But for the seven days a week and the seven planets, none of it between any of them or all the rest is because of Newtonian “gravity”.

Mercury and Venus, in fact, seem to be the only two planets orbiting the sun: and for this reason Mercury has been known as the messenger of the gods, and Venus as the star of the morning, or the star of the evening, depending whether it is in front of or following the sun. These two planets travel in weaves around the Earth. The patterns of Venus around the sun, as it orbits the Earth through the years, have been the basis of the pentagram, for instance -- and the cyclical patterns of Mercury around the sun, the basis of the hexagram. 

The moon is in a sign for only 2.333 to 2 ½ days, because it cannot keep up with the fixed stars in the distant background that are traveling around the Earth much faster from their spheres. Whereas the sun is in a sign for a month, Mars about two months, and Jupiter is in a sign for a year, Saturn is the traditional visible planet orbiting the earth from furthest away. As above, so below, and v = wr of the seven classic planets. Thus Saturn goes the fastest from its sphere, and is in a sign for about 2 ½ to 3 years, and a golf ball dropped from there may take 120 years to land on Earth, et cetera, which is an orb far away and a long time.