Those of Valdara, raised in the Faith, understand the Selenic as one pole of the cosmic order — a principle of inward depth, lunar wisdom, and generative mystery that holds the world as water holds its banks. The name comes from Selene, the wandering star whose light reveals what daylight obscures, whose pull moves the tides of every ocean, and whose phases mark the rhythm of all living things. The Faith does not say that women are Selenic because of what they do — it says that those who are Selenic carry the nature of the moon in their being, and that this is as fundamental and as beautiful as the moon itself. You are this, in body and in self.