The Cosmic Kiss

Once upon a time, the moon and the sun fell in love.

The moon thought that the sun looked very splendid, all dressed in his flowing golden robes and blazing crown and the sun thought the moon looked very beautiful in her silver, silken gown and shining crystal tiara.

Unfortunately, they were never able to spend much time together because, you see, the sun only shone during the daytime and the moon only shone at night and whenever the sun was waking up the moon would be going to bed and vice versa.

“Oh, beautiful sun”, the moon would sigh as she idly toyed with the tides upon the ocean, “Will we ever be together?”.

“Oh, beautiful moon”, the sun would say as he rested his head upon a cloud and dreamed of her, “Will time always keep us apart?”.

But then, one day, while the moon and sun were wishing that they could be together; a shooting star went whizzing past and, as you probably know, whenever a person wishes upon a shooting star that wish invariably comes true.

Then, suddenly, the moon and the sun felt themselves being drawn towards each other by some immensely powerful force.

“Oh my!”, cried the moon, worrying that she might crash into the sun, “What’s happening?”.

“Oh dear. Look out, moon!”, said the sun, “Something is pulling us together!”.

But then, thankfully, they did not crash into each other, in fact just the opposite happened; their lips of silver and gold met and they kissed a long, lingering and passionate kiss.

And when they did, all across the earth, people came out of doors to see the kiss and astronomers pointed their large telescopes towards the sky and one very clever astronomer even gave their kiss a special name; he called it a total lunar eclipse.