I suppose the rationale given was that the moon is associated with the head of Shiva while the Chandrayan going up to meet the moon is like the Kundalini Shakti rising upward to the head and joining with Shiva. This of course is not exactly a rationale but one of the ways of understanding it symbolically.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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