In the grand design of creation, the Sovereign Lord of Justice crafted the Moon to serve as a luminous beacon against the dark mantle of night. Thus begins its perpetual thirty-day journey across the vault of heaven: emerging first as a delicate, yellow crescent—slender as the stooped back of a heart-sick lover—it briefly brushes the horizon before fading from sight. Night by night, its visage expands, bestowing ever greater radiance upon the earth until, at the turn of two weeks, it attains absolute, radiant fullness. Yet, fulfilling its eternal decree, it then enters its cycle of waning, growing diminished with each passing night as it draws closer to the shining Sun. Such is the fixed order bestowed by the Creator, an unyielding ordinance destined to endure for all eternity.