Last Quarter Moon: Creating Congruence

confluent congruence

Last Quarter Moon in Aries: July 10, 2012

Tomorrow's Last Quarter Moon, in mid-Aries, sits in a complex of T-squares and Fingers of the World patterns that weave together squares, oppositions, and squares-and-a-half in web almost too intricate to be described. Yes, these are challenging angles––we live in challenging times.

Before reaching her square with the Sun that creates the Last Quarter, the Aries Moon will trine the North Node pointing to our life path, conjunct on-fire revolutionary Uranus, and trine Mercury in passionate, expressive Leo.

These are days for speaking up, speaking out, and making a splash. These are days for realizing who we are and doing something about it.

The Last Quarter Moon chart includes three T-squares and three Fingers of the World. Looking at those repeating triangles reminded me of geometry and congruence––when shapes can be shifted around and the overlap is exact, they are congruent.

So even though these aspect patterns include different planets and points, they have key similarities. They are congruent.

They are, of course, congruent and pushy, congruent and challenging, possibly congruent and downright unpleasant, since they are squares, oppositions and sesquiquadrates.

In this waning Moon, as we turn the corner into the release work before the next New Moon, the pushiness is, I think, the point.

Where are we not congruent? Where are our inner values not being expressed in our outer life? Where are we not walking our talk?

Where are we not congruent with the world, perhaps because our model of how things work no longer fits the events happening around us? Where is something we've always believed true, just not working any more?

Those are the places our attention is focused. Those are the places where a new dynamic balance is called for.

Of course, we'll have places where we are congruent, where who we are, what we believe, and what we experience, lines up. Those places might feel energized at this Moon, and we could feel called to express ourselves more clearly, more passionately, more vitally.

This vigorous, no-nonsense Last Quarter Moon is not about to back down. Better get ready!
   

Disseminating Moon: In the Whirlwind

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Disseminating Moon in Pisces: July 7, 2012

The Full Moon has passed and the world is changed. It'll be a while before all the changes shake out and we settle into what they are, but something seismic shifted.

This was the Capricorn Full Moon, ruled by Saturn, Lord  of Matter, and we heard that the god particle (originally meant to be the goddam particle), the boson that brings matter to our universe has been found.

This might not seem relevant to daily life, especially in a summer bringing intense heat, drought, and fires to some, and torrential rain and floods to others. Yet working to understand the fabric of the universe leads us toward understanding life, and our lives. This was illuminated at the Full Moon.

Now the Moon is waning, bits of her full roundness disappearing as she shares herself with the world. What reached fruition at the Full Moon is now disseminated, like a ripe seedhead scattering its fruits to the wind.

At this Disseminating Moon, the Moon is at 0 Pisces, conjunct Neptune and Chiron, and sesquiquadrate (a square and a half) the Sun in the middle of Cancer. Sun and Moon in difficult aspect in Water, with Neptune the illusionist (or visionary) and Chiron the wounded (or healer) right there.

Looking at the challenges cropping up in our personal lives, as well as in the world around us, it would be easy to collapse into feelings of fear, anger, stress and being overwhelmed.

There's plenty of overwhelm around. The Disseminating Moon chart includes two complex T-squares, two Fingers of the World patterns, and two Yods––the skies echoing the feeling that things are coming to a point, cannot continue as they are, and something, somewhere will tip us into something else entirely.

We're surrounded also by energies supporting, urging––ok, sometimes it feels like forcing––our transformation. All of the powerful outer planets are included in the T-squares and Pluto is at the apex of one Yod. There's a cosmic dance happening, and we've got our ticket.

The real question is, can we keep up? Is the pace more than we can stand, the needs greater than we can bear?

In answering those questions, it's worth noting that the "answer" to the Yod pointed at Pluto is the Sun in Cancer, who sits beneath that triangle––the Sun at home, nurturing, feeding, supporting, and maintaining vital traditions. One of the Finger of the World patterns points at the Cancer Sun too, emphasizing that Cancerian homeplace.

It's worth noting that the other Yod points at Mercury in Leo, inviting us to speak from the heart, to explore and share our passions in creative and playful ways. The other Finger of the World points at Saturn, the manifester, ready to work hard to make things happen.

The answers to our challenges are not out of this world. They are within each of us, when we act in alignment with what is best in us, and when we respond to what is best in others and in the world.

Yes, change is here, and change is needed. If the seeds we disseminate are the best we can offer, the growth that comes will answer the needs.
    

Full Moon: Burning Bright

Tiger, Singapore

Full Moon in Capricorn:
July 3, 2012

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

–– William Blake

The Full Moon in Capricorn arrives on the afternoon of July 3 (EDT), and is a Moon to conjure with. The sky is filled with patterns: two T-squares, two Yods, a Finger of the World, a Grand Trine in Fire that is also a Kite. Fearful symmetry indeed!

Full Moons illuminate. Capricorn looks at our work––how we work, with what effort, dedication, patience, ferocity and smarts. Who are we in the world? What have we achieved? Capricorn wants results, not excuses.

This Full Moon is conjunct Pluto, so the questions run deep. Pluto wants power, control and strong foundations. Ultimately, Pluto wants right livelihood. Are we doing what we're made for, what we came for, what we're meant to be doing?

The Capricorn Full Moon conjunct Pluto isn't interested in shilly-shallying, doesn't care if the file got lost, or the dog ate your homework.

The Sun in Cancer cares, though. The Sun reminds us that who we are in the world rests on who we are at home. This Full Moon will also shed some light on our secure base, our ability to take care of ourselves, and our stability.

Uranus in Aries squares the Full Moon and doesn't care about any of that stuff. Uranus knows what's not working and is ready to change it, yesterday if possible. Why be concerned about worldly achievement or secure homes when the game is reinventing itself?

As with the lunar phases leading up to this Full Moon, we're in a time when the global and the public intersect with the personal and the private. In fact, this Full Moon may shine light on exactly those places in our lives.

Meanwhile, the second and very complex T-square involves the Nodes of the Moon in Sagittarius and Gemini, plus all the Gemini planets clustered around the South Node (Jupiter, Ceres and Venus), being squared by Neptune and Chiron.

Both Capricorn and Cancer, the opposing signs of the Full Moon, value the tradition. The big Gemini group clustered around the South Node invites us to look at the past in new ways. Whether those new perspectives are enlightening and healing, or deceptive and wounding, depends on where we are in relation to these planetary energies.

Interestingly, Saturn, ruler of this Full Moon, forms sesquiquadrates to Chiron and Venus, who square each other. This Finger of the World pattern points to the need for balance, responsibility, creativity, and action in the world to solve the problems presenting themselves.

The call for creative action is sounded again in a pair of Yods, one pointing at the Moon–Pluto conjunction with Venus and Mercury at its base, and the other pointing at Mercury with Chiron and Moon–Pluto at its base. Mercury in Leo wants to speak from the heart, in a passionate voice.

At the heart of this Full Moon, there beats a Grand Trine in Fire that connects Mercury, the North Node and Uranus. This blaze becomes a kite when sextiles to the Gemini group are added in. Expression is key––this is not a time to sit on our hands, but a time to speak, think, act.

Mars trines the Gemini group and sextiles the North Node from his position at 0 Libra––again, creative and balanced action is supported.

Within the fearful symmetry of this Full Moon we find tremendous energy, possibilities for insight, and the desire for action.

Look to your birth chart to see where this Full Moon falls. The houses of the Full Moon (where the Sun and Moon appear by transit), and the houses ruled by Capricorn and Cancer, are places through which these energies can flow.

Look also for planets in your chart touched by the Full Moon and its complex patterns, especially anything in the early degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn). Areas if life related to these planets will be in the spotlight at this Full Moon.

Honor the past without accepting it blindly. Examine whether actions align with values. Connect with what energizes and enlivens. Take action. Ride the tiger.