A Last Quarter Moon Time For Reflection
Posted on December 5, 2012 in Configurations
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By Henry Seltzer for ASTROGRAPH Horoscopes
This Thursday's Last Quarter Moon is traditionally a time for thoughtful reflection on the events of the past three weeks of the lunar cycle, regarding whatever has transpired for each of us individually. This gives us the chance to rearrange our thinking and to really wrap our minds around the challenges and changes of these times that we are living through - and to attempt to understand them from the largest possible perspective.
This is especially true now, following on the heels of this very powerful Lunar Eclipse from the end of last month, when the eclipse Moon conjuncted Jupiter, ruler of the eclipse Sun. Jupiter corresponds to higher mind activity as well as teaching, learning and travel, which is always a learning experience; being located now in the mental sign of Gemini, Jupiter is helpful in promoting the rapid assimilation of new ideas. Currently in retrograde, Jupiter will move to earlier degrees of Gemini as December unfolds, closing in on an inconjunct aspect with transformational Pluto toward the end of the month. Jupiter will be the subject of a Yod formation from Saturn and Pluto that perfects to exact by the time of the Winter Solstice, on December 21st. By limitation and by tough love we can understand where we have to make important and necessary changes.
In another chime with last week's eclipse, the Moon on Thursday's phase exactly trines Mars, still in Capricorn and conjunct Pluto. Mars was most precisely in conjunction with Pluto at the time of the eclipse. Pluto in fact continues to be very much amplified over these fall and winter months - indeed over these several years of the Uranus-Pluto square - and speaks to us of radical changes that we are required to be making in our lives. Pluto is drastic but need not be dire, especially if we are willing to tune in and recognize where we must let go of holding on.
As this last week of the current lunar phase winds down, Mercury re-enters Sagittarius, on next Monday evening, there to square Neptune for the third and last time, reminding us also that the hidden dimensions of our deeper selves and relatively unconscious process is one of the most important factors for us now, both individually and collectively, underlying the surface activities of our lives and as well our metamorphosis.
The Sabian Symbol for the Sun in this last quarter is "A Groundhog Looking For His Shadow" and this succinctly represents all of us in our continual search for truth and for an indication of how long winter will last. The answer is of course that it will last as long as necessary, creating that period of withdrawal and meditation that is a vital adjunct to our more active lives. The darkness provides the underpinning that allows us to see more clearly into ourselves, and our process, and that will eventually yield in the proper timing to a vibrant new dawning.
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