Pale Luna: Smiles Wide [top]

By using the Roman name rather than the generic "moon," the writer invokes the goddess herself. Luna of the ancient pantheon, the divine charioteer who drove her silver car across the sky after her brother, Sol. This name carries the weight of antiquity, of lunacy (lunacy, after all, comes from lunaticus —moon-struck), and of feminine mystery. She is not just an astronomical body; she is a character.

In astrology, the Moon represents the emotional body, the instincts, the home, and the mother. Luna (the Moon) is a fast-moving planet that changes signs every 2.5 days, dictating the tides of our daily moods. pale luna smiles wide

was an obscure computer game circulated in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was notorious for being nearly unplayable, often freezing or rebooting the computer if the player made a wrong move. By using the Roman name rather than the

"He kissed her on the rooftop as the pale Luna smiled wide, throwing their shadows into a single, merged shape on the brick wall. He didn't know that she had bought a one-way ticket to Oslo. The moon knew. The moon always knows." She is not just an astronomical body; she is a character