{"id":65746,"date":"2013-04-02T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=65746"},"modified":"2013-04-02T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:56:39","slug":"the-last-quarter-moon-and-pluto-to-move-you-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-last-quarter-moon-and-pluto-to-move-you-along\/","title":{"rendered":"The last quarter Moon and Pluto to move you along"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology post, I focused on two squares, all of which have their respective planets occupying 11+ degrees of their signs. The sense I got was that it\u2019s time to clear some ground — and some unneeded beliefs — this week. Today continues the theme in its own way, and it\u2019s worth noting that there are a few other planets in that general vicinity of their respective signs. The broader message is to look at this present moment and know you’re looking at something unusual, something special. <\/p>\n

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Here are a selection of major planets in the general vicinity of 11 degrees when the Moon occults Pluto (red golf tee) in Capricorn: Saturn (gold squiggle), Chiron (orange key) in Pisces, Uranus (blue ‘H’) and the Sun in Aries, and Jupiter (orange ‘4’) in Gemini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the most palpable, easily understood level, we\u2019re coming up on the last quarter Moon. This is the halfway mark between the amazing Libra Full Moon of last week and the following Aries New Moon next week. <\/p>\n

The waning Moon enters Capricorn at 1:35 am EDT this morning (Tuesday). Almost 24 hours after doing so, it makes a square to the Aries Sun (the quarter Moon). Just like squares between other planets, a Moon-Sun square urges action. This means moving forward whatever projects began around March 11 (the last New Moon), or that picked up steam with the Full Moon. <\/p>\n

In the context of this week\u2019s Sun-Pluto square (tilling the earth, moving away the boulder) and the Jupiter-Chiron square (allowing negative, limiting beliefs to be released and asking for help in establishing productive, expansive ones) this is good news. If the work was feeling overwhelming yesterday, or as though everything was falling apart, perhaps you can feel the quarter Moon as a wave you can ride as it crests (exact just after 12:36 am EDT Wednesday morning).<\/p>\n

Between now and the last quarter Moon, the Moon participates in an eclipse-like event. It\u2019s one that has become so regular, we slacked off on reporting it every month: a Moon-Pluto occultation. This is when the Moon passes exactly in front of Pluto (from our perspective here on Earth) as they make a conjunction. <\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in the midst of a string of 19 consecutive Moon-Pluto occultations<\/a> — and the first one was a year ago this month. Here\u2019s some of what was written in Planet Waves about these events last May<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a point of background, we are all living through Pluto in Capricorn, which has many different manifestations — principal among them being the underlying sensation of constant change we\u2019re experiencing; the sense that the very ground we\u2019re standing on is shifting. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne attribute of the occultation energy involves the primal, instinctual, sexual, change-urging force of Pluto penetrating the \u2018good girl\u2019 fa\u00e7ade and mother-related emotional body of the Capricorn Moon. The Cap Moon is one of the most complex of the lot, representing an emotional body conditioned by cultural and religious forces from the past. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moon occulting Pluto over and over again, season after season, suggests that we\u2019re being called now to begin transgressing the boundaries of that conditioning. The primal, elemental nature of Pluto is gradually dissolving the emotional patterning conditioned in the Moon.<\/p>\n

So we have another version of the themes we\u2019ve already called out this week and — surprise! — they are related to much longer cycles and deeper emotional patterns in our lives. For a cultural illustration of what a Pluto-in-Capricorn breakthrough might look like, consider the seemingly sudden traction that the whole gay marriage issue has. <\/p>\n

Eric commented to me last night, \u201cIt seems like yesterday we were dealing with rampant homophobia. Now a solid majority is all for gay people doing what they want with their relationships.\u201d And he asked me, \u201cJust for contrast, did you know one \u2018out\u2019 gay kid in high school?\u201d I had to admit I did not — and neither did he. Today, there are not only out gay kids, but also out transgender kids. Pretty much any orientation imaginable is represented by a teen who is not in the closet. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that all kids are out or that homophobia is dead — far from it. But we really have come an appreciable distance since the 1970s and \u201880s in that regard, and it seems only recently that the gay marriage issue reached escape velocity. It definitely counts as a Pluto in Capricorn breakthrough. <\/p>\n

That issue is also about how what we believe is the thing that seems true. That\u2019s a theme emphasized right now by Mercury (still in Pisces for what feels like forever, and only leaving its post-retrograde \u2018shadow\u2019 or \u2018echo\u2019 phase this weekend). Mercury is currently conjunct the minor planet Borasisi. This is the planet named after a fictional god in a Kurt Vonnegut novel; the planet that has to do with something being true simply because we believe it must be so. <\/p>\n

We see this idea take a negative spin all the time in politics. This time, however, it seems to be coming down on the right side of a human rights issue. Better yet, it\u2019s right in the nick of time for you to get a little boost in releasing your more Chirotic beliefs about yourself (as described by Philip Sedgwick in yesterday\u2019s post), laying them on Jupiter\u2019s altar, and choosing something more empowering to believe about yourself. The Moon and Pluto are here to move you along. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology post, I focused on two squares, all of which have their respective planets occupying 11+ degrees of their signs. The sense I got was that it\u2019s time to clear some ground — and some unneeded beliefs — this week. Today continues the theme in its own way, and it\u2019s worth noting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65746"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}