There was a well-known astronomer, who’s name escapes me, who poo-pood this theory, mainly because of this week’s phase of the moon — the gravitational pull is actually the weakest of the month.
When the moon is at first or last quarter, it kind of balances out the sun’s pull on the earth.
When it’s new or full, it’s lined up with the earth and the sun, instead of off to the side.
That is why high tides are highest at full moon and next highest at new moon and the lowest high tides are at the first and last quarter.
If the proximity of the moon to the earth is going to do anything to the earth, it theoretically should happen about the time of the full moon, the end of next week when the earth is experiencing the gravitational pull of the sun in one direction and the gravitational pull of the moon in the opposite direction.
Actually weakest pull fits better for my sensitivity...when the barometric pressure drops and the area pressure is less I feel aches and pains in my joints because it increases soft tissue swelling which I generally have a problem with and I have taken NSAIDS since 1976. Many have this sort of reaction. Every now and then I sense something less blatant but all over, a level of physiologic tension that initially is ignored but as it continues day after day I’ve noticed geological phenomena seem to occur when I experience this. Maybe it is just a weird coincidence.