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Tomorrow’s first quarter Moon implies an opportunity to work with the astrology and perceive the progress of your own initiatives, efforts and aspirations as the Moon really is, in fact, half full. Moon’s appearance during its first quarter is the result of our position in relationship to the luminaries, Sun and Moon. Weather permitting, you will see Luna rise at midday, overhead at sunset and setting around midnight. <\/p>\n
In other words, from your perspective, the luminaries will be 90 degrees apart in the sky, and you will see half of the lunar surface lit by the Sun and half of what is not. The visage of a Moon half light and half dark translates to your life as something halfway towards completion. The visual perception of a right angle between the luminaries in the sky translates to astrology as a square aspect.<\/p>\n
In astrology, objects forming a square are also 90 degrees apart on the zodiac wheel, occupying different signs that share the same quality — cardinal, fixed or mutable. In general, a square aspect symbolizes and frequently corresponds in reality to a tension you feel on the inside. That’s how squares come to have a bad reputation. In all cases, resolving that tension requires you to take some action. In order to take the appropriate action you have to consciously reject a square’s bad reputation and replace it with another perspective.<\/p>\n
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Luna’s first quarter tomorrow will be a cardinal square of the luminaries, with the Moon in Cancer and the Sun in Aries. A cardinal square in particular represents the tension you feel when you are halfway between something initiated and fulfilled. The action you choose to take will depend on how you perceive things progressing. To work with this astrology, you need to take control of your perception rather than having it control you.<\/p>\n
Whatever seeded for you during last week’s New Moon, you can choose to perceive tomorrow’s lunar first quarter either as a time of crisis or an opportunity for validation. If the pressure of your initiative facing its first trials is seen as an obstacle, you will be intimidated. Being intimidated will be focusing on the dark half of the Moon. Identifying with that focus will exacerbate your inner tension and create the perception of crisis. Pluto’s involvement in tomorrow’s first quarter Moon will function to either add to the intimidation or relieve it, once again depending on your perception.<\/p>\n
As the Moon reaches its first quarter phase tomorrow, it will swing into an opposition with Pluto and transform the ongoing Sun-Pluto square (which Planet Waves Daily Astrology has done such a outstanding job of covering this week) into a cardinal T-square. Pluto as an archetype is like a square in one way, it has a bad reputation. That reputation is a matter of perspective. For certain, any object with a name that invokes\u00a0chthonian mythology (myths related to the underworld)\u00a0will have a dark side associated with it, but it is not necessary to focus on that side, especially in relation to the Moon. Since Pluto was discovered by science less than a century ago, you can choose to focus on its discovery chart instead of a nominal connection with an intimidating mythology.<\/p>\n
In its own discovery chart Pluto was located in the sign Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon — and where the Moon will be tomorrow for its first quarter. The Moon, in turn, was located in Scorpio in Pluto’s discovery chart. Scorpio’s modern planet ruler is Pluto. One reason that association works is because the symbolic and functional energy of both Pluto and Scorpio are transformational in their nature. Transformation is what happens to you when you are not intimidated by a square aspect.<\/p>\n
If the challenge of your initiative facing its first test is perceived as an opportunity, you will be encouraged by the prospect of validation instead of being intimidated by the potential for crisis. That’s a transformation in perception. Being encouraged will be focusing on the illuminated half of the Moon. That’s a transformation in perspective. Identifying with that focus is symbolically supported by the Moon at its first quarter because the bright side is growing. That’s called working with the astrology, and it’s a transformation in fact.<\/p>\n
Working with the astrology means acting in concert with its cycles and patterns. Choosing to see reason for encouragement and rejecting intimidation allows you to act with a focus on validation. Any such action will relieve the inner tension of a luminary square regardless of the outcome — and the probable outcome, provided you do your part, is good. It is an outcome that will proceed from Luna’s opposition to Pluto as a representation of transformation, completed in preparation for an initiative that will complete in another week. At that time the Moon will oppose the Sun, and in fact be full.<\/p>\n
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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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