The cardinal Aries Moon reaches its last quarter phase shortly before 10 pm EDT tomorrow night. That means half-lit Luna will be overhead when the cardinal Cancer Sun rises on Wednesday morning. Should you be awake at Wednesday’s dawn, what you may witness in the sky is what you would see on a zodiac chart for the same time: the luminaries closing in on each other from a separation of 90 degrees, which from our perspective is a square aspect.
This particular square of the Moon to the Sun will be something more, evoking the big picture behind all current astrology and what the development of that picture means in your life and the lives of others. The big picture is a continuous square from the Aries lair of Uranus to Pluto’s Capricorn crag. More precisely, it’s a series of seven exact Uranus-Pluto squares that started on June 24, initiating a discernible epoch of astrology that will elapse over nearly three years.
How events of the next three years will correlate with the Uranus-Pluto epoch is the big question. Each corresponding aspect along the way functions to develop an answer. This week’s lunar last quarter corresponds in two ways, the nature of the aspect and the quality of sign.
The nature of a square is in how you feel it. Frequently, there will be a tension felt inwardly but construed as having a source outside of yourself. The first step in navigating the tension is to be present to it. It is easy to speak of awareness. It is not easy to practice being conscious of what you feel in the moment. Indeed, it is probably more difficult to be mindful now that it has ever been in human history.