The Moon reaches its first quarter stage in Leo this weekend. That means speedy Luna will already have moved on ahead from its New Moon conjunction with the Taurus Sun last week, opening a separation of 90 degrees, otherwise known as a square. Weather providing, you will be able to see for yourself what a square aspect looks like on Sunday evening with the half-lit moon overhead while the Sun is going down. Awareness permitting, the celestial tableau will likely coincide with some tension felt, and resolved, where you live.
Some form of tension is foreseeable whenever any two objects are in square aspect. When the Moon is involved, it’s bound to be personal. A concurrent lunar conjunction with the asteroid named House further implies personal space as the subject and/or location of tension.
House is one of 872 asteroids discovered by the greatest astronomer you’ve never heard of, Eleanor Helin. First observed from the Mount Palomar observatory on December 7, 1988, House is one of many examples of how serendipity plays a role when asteroids are named. House’s discovery chart found it in Cancer, where the Moon rules and where issues of home, and the conditions within it, are highlighted. Sunday’s lunar conjunction with House is in Leo, ruled by the Sun. Given that the Sun has nearly three weeks remaining in Taurus, where the Moon is exalted, the tension implied by Sunday’s opening quarter lunar phase goes beyond the geometric aspect to take on a feeling of discomfort at home, a feeling which is reinforced by another aspect called a yod.