Romance of Sun and Moon, The First Eclipse

Ever wonder of when the first eclipse occurred? What if the stars where the children of the Sun and Moon, and why does the Sun set red? These are all the main source to this wonderful story.

Romance of Sun and Moon

The First Eclipse

 

            “A story, a fable or even a myth can this be called. But long, long ago when you were just a Star I fell in love with your beautiful mother and we created the most beautiful species in the skies. Yes, you were part of this as well as all of your brothers and sisters. I beg that if you find this letter to share it with all of your brothers and all of your sons and children’s children… for this is The Beginning of Romance itself… and we called it Eclipse.”

            

There was once a single planet who’s name was never known, she was beautiful and had everything you could never imagine, Beasts like the Zizi, Leviathan, Griffin; and Flora like the Yew Tree, Lotus, Anemone, things out of your imagination. Silvered Rainbows and Golden Oceans, Skies of Pearls and Mountains of Onyx it was like no other Planet you know, I remember its beauty. There we lived your mother and me; she was the Princess of the Rahu Kingdom while I was the Prince of the Ketu Kingdom, bound to be together yet we were forbidden, for our kingdoms could never cross paths. I loved the way that she would whisper to the rocks as she fossils the secrets of our love, smart girl I always thought to myself. I would do the same with the sand as the wind blew away every last word, we would share our Love in this way. My brothers would get jealous, Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Jupiter were in love with Venus, Mercury, Neptune, and Pluto. Yet for some reason we were not allowed to have any contact, male and female were not able to speak or have any contact to one another. But one Light day, I could not resist the beauty of the Silvered Sun and I wanted to sneak across the Golden Ocean that separated us, so I did, and there I found the most beautiful Princess, dressed in White Pearling Clothing while I wore my Golden Coat. As Darkness fell I saw her glow that covered my shine, for that dark night I became more in love with her beauty. I saw how she would take the pillows of the Ocean and place them in the Sky, she was magnificent but I had to hurry back before we were caught out of place, so I leaned into her and brushed her face with my shine until the next light day. Every light day that passed made our Romance grow stronger and stronger until one darkness night we hid under the crystal snow to discover our love… I remember it well, that night that melancholic darkness night was the night that our Kingdoms collided and there we made something no one has ever seen before, The Eclipse!

           

What was this rush inside of my body? I could suddenly see beams that burst out of me and a glow that came out of her. It was something so amazing until we touched and as soon as we touched… Our lights dimmed yet a Halo appeared around our bodies, the night I will never forget. My brothers the next day did not speak with me and their silence tortured my thoughts all of a sudden I see Rahu standing in front of my throne, furious! What was the Empress doing on this side of the Golden Ocean? Ketu began to shout, “SOL! What have you done?” I was confused and did not know what he was referring to, even though I had already sensed what it was. I suddenly see LUNA, a surprise, but she looked different. Everyone gasped, “An Eclipse?” Saturn whispered. And there I saw how Rahu and Ketu touched LUNA and these lights, these beautiful colored lights came out of her hands, everyone stood back and witnessed the most amazing moment in history yet it was the most life changing, Rahu and Ketu called them Stars but with this came consequences, we were cursed, a banned Love that fell upon our brothers and sisters Rahu and Ketu had to merge their kingdoms and there they created a new planet, one that had the freedom of Love so a curse never falls upon the world again, they named the kingdom, EARTH. This planet was inhabited by a new species called humans, among them, were animals which were other living beings; Luna and I were separated by the dark and light to be an example to them, we fell in a great depression but Rahu and Ketu left behind one beautiful treat, the Freedom of creation on Earth. There Luna and I began to create Love and Romance on this planet as our brothers and sisters did as well to remind them that Love is real.

Venus created this red subject she named Fire, to show her burning Love for Saturn as he created the Wind. Uranus merged with Neptune to create a substance called Water vast in the Oceans where their Love crashed back and forth as waves. Mercury and Mars decided to create Mountains and Rocks to determine their strong Love. And finally, Jupiter and Pluto decided to create something called magnetism and gravity which was a very strong bond no matter what distance that came between them. Yet Luna and I, we made something far beyond, we created Flora not only to show Romance but to show beauty, I decided to set red at dawn to demonstrate to the Moon how much I loved her and once in many years we would find each other and create another Eclipse. This would make more stars but since our stars were made of an abnormal creation they wouldn’t last in space so they would fall and Luna would cry and she didn’t want our children to get lost in space so we used our Love, we used our creation on Earth to preserve our children and those children are YOU!

We hid the stars in our Flowers where they were identified as golden or platinum on a rose, the Gold were Male and the Platinum was Female and whoever finds these flowers, our children, are destined to live in Love forever as Luna and Sol. So children of ours, shine, shine so everyone will believe in the Love that we hold because you were all created by Love to give Love… until our Garden is restored for another Eclipse…

  “…As Constellations Write Our Names”     -YAD-

Author's Note

An interesting point of view on the separation of the Sun and Moon, following with the birth of the stars. leave comments please. The planets genders are based off of Hindu Astronomy. Rahu and Ketu are Hindu Planets not known in the West.

Reviews

[Moonie]

Wow...I love this story....a forbidden love embellishing the heavens...!!
I love love love the paragraph where you wrote about all the miracles the plantes created after colliding...the only teeny tiny fault that I could find was that you changed the traditional genders of many planets..not a big flaw...you have poetic license to do that...but I would recommend you try to restrain them to their original genders...a female mercury sounds a bit absurd...mercury is mercurial planet..constantly swapping between male and female, it's the eternal trickster, and is originally considered male.....pluto, however, is said to have no gender of its own...to a non astrology enthusiast, they would sound just fine..however I would recommend that you take these points into consideration.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

This is very true, mercury has always been seen as a masculine planet but it is also known that it is a converter planet, according to Ptolemy, being feminine around feminine planets or masculine around masculine planets therefore I paired it in the feminine side, and as for Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and Uranus they have remained genderless so I converted each to a gender due to its attributes. BUT... thank you for the suggestion. It is welcomed and of course astrology is a big world. Thanks :) and I'm glad you liked it, its one of my proudest works.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Oh I forgot to mention this story was more into Indian astronomy as you can tell by my adding of Rahu and Ketu.

[Moonie]

Yeah..they are the demon's head and tail in the mythology..who swallow the sun up during an eclipse..I thought it was a nice touch to the whole tale...I really like this one....well done!...yunno it is entirely upto you if you want to take my suggestion into consideration.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Its cool I always take things in consideration!