The moon is associated with mothers, the body, and childhood. It is the Sun's feminine counterpart and is linked to the stomach and womb. It's metal is that of silver (Bruce-Mitford 113).

Greek Selene, goddess of the moon. Artemis will eventually replace Selene, the goddess of the moon, in later Greek mythology (Rosenberg 5). Selene represents the full moon phase of the lunar cycle. These days of full and new moon are thus set aside to give worship in her honor. Also in close relationship with the phases of the moon are Artemis (the crescent new moon) and Hecate (the waning moon). Like her brother Helios, the god of the sun, she drives a chariot through the sky each night (Canivan "Selene, the Goddess"). Her journey begins, after resting in the ocean on the east, when Helios sets back into the ocean on the west (Lindermans "Helios"). Selene's greatest love affair, in which she had very many, was with Endymion. Endymion was a shepherd who was immensely handsome in the eyes of Selene. They first meet while Endymion was sleeping and together they gave birth to 50 daughters. She loved him so much that she wanted Zeus to let him decide his own fate. He thus decided to never grow old and to sleep eternally. Endymion probably choose this so that Selene can remember him as he was when they first meet. (Lindermans "Selene")