A Quarter Moon to Dream On

Wednesday evening's Last Quarter Moon is an important juncture, moving us further toward the massive outer planet configurations of the fall time frame. All the outer planet archetypes are triggered, giving us pause. This is in any case the lunar phase corresponding to what seminal 20th century astrologer Dane Rudhyar called a "crisis of consciousness," when everything that has come before it in the current cycle must be reevaluated in the light of more recent understanding, preparing a seed of wisdom to take forward into the September New Moon.

There is a T-square to the Moon from the Sun in Virgo opposite Neptune in Pisces, bringing a sense of wonder and idealism, also potentially confusion, to our attitudes and ideations at this time. Then, there is also a grand cross from Venus and Jupiter to Uranus and Pluto, as the square between these latter two planetary heavyweights grows closer, nearing the two-degree mark. The Uranus-Pluto square makes an exact hit on November 1st, the fourth of seven in this turbulent decade. This is therefore a time of massive transition as individuals and the culture at large goes through a revolutionary and an evolutionary fervor not seen since the rebellious sixties, when they were conjunct.

There is quite a lot of tension in this configuration with all these squares. This is the tension as well of the necessity for massive cultural change. Each member of the collective is a piece of it, a holographic indicator of the necessary metamorphosis. There is no need for anyone at all to ever feel powerless, because each person is vital for the transformation of the whole.

The Moon is in Gemini, indicating a thirst for information that tells the truth, as opposed to the scatter of data that drowns clear thinking with a false wealth of detail. We are being tuned in via these important outer planet archetypes, which Rudhyar called the ambassadors of the galaxy. A highlighted Uranus in Aries gives us glimpses of intuitive flashes of intuition that cuts through mentation to jump directly into meaning. Neptune in its own sign of Pisces takes us away from the logic of thought structures to an orthogonal frame of other-dimensionality that is literally out of this physical world, supporting the Uranian intuitional flashes. The most significant operator is Pluto, which is related to Kali, the destroyer. Located as it is in Capricorn, which is super-structural, Pluto lets us see beyond an outmoded societal structure by presenting the disintegration of the outmoded form itself.

We each have our own way of making peace with massive change. It works for a while to duck, but not really, in the long run. It may be that only by letting go will our ultimate destiny come to pass; paradoxically, we gain.