Unless the Behelit is activated with blood, it doesn’t actually do anything besides be occasionally creepy by opening its eye.
I agree that the moon has significance, and it does foreshadow the Eclipse but only to a point. Every other time, like in this panel for instance, it signifies an important introspective moment for Guts. After he escapes from the mercenary camp after killing Gambino is another example, and also after he and Griffith fight Zodd and he’s on the rooftop.
And beyond being thematically important for Guts, the moon is what gives spirits their power, and it seems to be a source of power any magic wielder, giving credence to the fan theory that Guts is part-not-human,i.e elf ears, and generally surviving all this stuff, it would tie back into his narrative nicely, but not for the Guts is Doomed Theory (recently discussed this here). I’d have to reread the later arcs to site other examples, but the clearest one that comes to memory is the Moon Boy, who is this phenomenon come to life. It feels like the moon is source of natural magical power in the outside universe that counters to the Nature of Evil heart beating within the universe.
The Eclipse is literally the obscuring of the sun/moon. Without the moon, the Godhand can bring people to their universe, or bring the universe onto the surface of the planet. One of my favorite visuals is when Skull Knight breaks through the Eclipse in to save Guts and Casca, and he lets in the light of the moon, allowing him to escape with them.
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