{"id":16060,"date":"2009-06-29T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2009-06-29T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:04:04","slug":"first-quarter-in-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/first-quarter-in-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"First Quarter: In the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the contact sport known as life, we have arrived at the first quarter of the lunar cycle. It’s been one week since the New Moon conjunct Vesta opposite Pluto, on the solstice. In other words, the event, aspecting the Aries Point, that sent the shockwaves through our collective emotional world and bumped quite a few people off the cosmic physical plane; and which has jolted so many of us to new levels of awareness, particularly emotional awareness.<\/p>\n

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Valencia, Spain. Photo by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The combination of energies I described in Friday’s lead article,<\/strong><\/a> which includes the planets I’ve mentioned above plus Venus and Mars, is about standing at the existential nexus of love, surrender, sacrifice, death and aliveness. If you feel like this is a get real moment, it is. If you are feeling like you have no idea what to do: ask yourself politely to get real, and be clear about what it’s time to do.<\/p>\n

This is the place of focus and decision, of truth and dedication, so persistently avoided with the use of so many games, so much emphasis on the trivial, all the chatter, denial and dizziness: the place where we get to become aware, no matter how sleepy or tired or tried by the trials of life, aware that we are actually alive. That awareness inherently demands commitment: of both attention and decision.<\/p>\n

We are at the first quarter phase of the Moon. It was precise at about 7 am New York time. The first quarter is the midpoint of the new and full phases; it’s a point of high energy, momentum, and it’s also a turning point or an evaluation point. At this phase, the Moon is now in an air sign, Libra — the easier signs for the Moon, actually – therefore it is trine Nessus in mid-Aquarius; trine Mercury in Gemini; and in about trine the triple conjunction in Aquarius. Mercury as well will trine off of the triple conjunction, ringing like a clear bell, opening a tap into that energy.<\/p>\n

These are great days to be mindful what you think, and how you think it, and to be aware of what motivates you to do so. A lot of information is about to come in. Be as mindful as you can be. Once again: this is no ordinary time, but we’ll only notice if we stay in the moment.<\/p>\n

\"Eric
\nPS, for fans of Michael Jackson, a reader sent in this article<\/strong><\/a> that reads like pretty darned good jornsoism (um, I meant journalism). It’s from The Daily Mail — a paper that, while it has conservative leanings and is something of a scandal sheet, is what I would consider carefully enough edited to consider.<\/p>\n

We had better get used to this kind of story — it’s going to be going on for quite a while. PPS, a new birth time is going around for Jackson, purportedly from an astrologer he did extensive work with, who can now release the data. The time is 7:33 pm.I will post details in a future blog. Cam has also pulled together something from the archives about Nessus for later today — Nessus being the most prominent minor planet in the chart for Michael’s final exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the contact sport known as life, we have arrived at the first quarter of the lunar cycle. It’s been one week since the New Moon conjunct Vesta opposite Pluto, on the solstice. In other words, the event, aspecting the Aries Point, that sent the shockwaves through our collective emotional world and bumped quite a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}