The sun has a daily and
an annual cycle. While the sun is not subject to change itself, but
is either shinning or not shinning, the moon is waxing and waning,
The sun is either there or not there, and only a very short period of
transition exists at sunrise and sunset. The moon is never completely
there or completely not there, and there is a short period of
transition at the full moon and the new moon. The mode of existence
of the sun expresses contrasts, an opposition between being and
not-being, the mode of existence of the moon expresses transition and
mediation, always moving being and not being' (Oosten 1983;144)
