User blog comment:Berserkchart486/Warring States Fanon Canon/@comment-6673974-20141225023253/@comment-13970942-20141226232419

Per how the moons absence would interfere with chakra: The moon is the antithesis of the sun. The sun is a symbol of the day- of light, of masculine energies, of growth, ascendance. Conversely the moon is a symbol of the night- the sun's mirror in a very literal way. A protective, receptive power, diminishing, feminine, tidal forces. The moon is the Yin to the sun's Yang in the celestial mansions.

The celestial mansions refers to each of the constellations and their corners of the sky. Each one being represented by an animal and its associated attributes. Each one also lying on an axis related to the positioning of the elemental "poles" of east, west, north and south.

The sky itself charts the translation of energies- the ebb and flow of the seasons, the interactions of the elements, the balance of powers. The hand seals are a short-hand representation of these concepts. A single hand seal represents an element or elements, an animal, a phase of season, a direction, and a behavior/nature. Hand seals in conjunction work via subtraction and translation rather than simple addition. By weaving these handseals, you tell a "story" that, via context and elimination of broad concepts, attains a more and more specific "concept". The more hand seals a technique uses, the more specific and precise its effect is, and the less mental attention it requires to operate. Conversely, the fewer hand seals a technique uses, the more broad its concept is, and the more focus and effort is required to create it.

The positions of the sun and moon with respect to the constellations determines the strength of handseals with respect to eachother, and their "ascendancy" or power depending on phases of the seasons. From a mythological context, spring follows winter because of the "ascendancy" of the sun as it attains a more and more direct arc over the center of the sky. The heavens literally govern why fire burns, why water flows, why wind blows, and why the earth endures.

The loss of the moon, in the language of handseals, is akin to losing all forms of grammar in english. There is no punctuation, demarcation explaining the transition of energies from one state to the next.

imaginewakinguponedayandhavingnowayofstoppingorbreakingasentenceorthoughtitbecomesthisuntintelligablemassofflowingthoughtswithoutrymeorreasonandbyextensionanyjutsuyouperformbecomesatangledexplosiveorfizzlingmessywasteofchakra

^See what I'm talking about? Post-fall, the only techniques you could reasonably rely would need to be simple chakra exercises. Jutsu could be recovered... given enough time and experimentation, new "combinations" of handseals could be discovered that mimic the old jutsu. But the moon's fall would be more than just an inconvenience for the ways of ninshu- it would be a grave loss.