TRANSCRIPT Ep. 257 | Most cancers Final Quarter Moon: Between Eclipses! (9.23.24)
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Hey Invisible Good friend, April right here, and the date as we speak is September twenty third, 2024. Welcome to Episode 257 of the Massive Sky Astrology Podcast.
This week, the Most cancers Final Quarter Moon brings duty towards others, proper between this fall’s two eclipses. It’s a really busy week for Mercury, which is aspecting Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Lunar Nodes, after which strikes into diplomatic Libra. The Solar opposes the Moon’s North Node and Mars and Saturn meet in a pushed, productive side. Plus, I reply a listener query concerning the angles of the start chart.
Mercury trine Uranus (Sep. 24, 2024, 10:27 am PDT)
Mercury trines Uranus on September twenty fourth at 10:27 a.m. Pacific Time. If communication issues got here up across the Virgo New Moon when Mercury was sq. Uranus – electronics breaking down, arguments, issues together with your automobile, this might be a very good time to resolve them, as a result of this can be a flowing and in addition a probably inspiring mixture of planets. It may be significantly useful with tasks which are associated to fixing or constructing issues, since Mercury and Uranus are each in Earth indicators – Mercury in Virgo, Uranus in Taurus.
Most cancers Final Quarter Moon (Sep. 24, 2024, 11:50 am PDT)
And now for the Moon Report, and it begins with the Most cancers Final Quarter Moon, on September twenty fourth at 11:50 a.m. Pacific Time, at 2º 12’ Most cancers and Libra. The Moon is at 2º 12’ Most cancers. On the Sabian image, 3 Most cancers, A person all bundled up in fur, main a shaggy deer. The Solar is at 2º 12’ Libra on the Sabian image, The daybreak of a brand new day, every little thing modified.
Libra symbolizes the one-on-one relationships that we kind with one other particular person. Say this may be a pair marrying, after which the Moon in Most cancers describes kids, or different duties that they’ve of their households and of their communities. This Final Quarter Moon in Most cancers appears to be concerning the duties that we’ve to the opposite folks in our lives, not simply our one-on-one relationships, however the function that they play in society, starting with our personal households.
I bear in mind when my husband and I had simply determined to get married, and we have been out on a drive someplace, I bear in mind him saying one thing like, “Now that we’re collectively, every little thing appears attainable.” That’s such a good looking reflection of the Sabian image for the Solar in Libra, The daybreak of a brand new day, every little thing modified. And it actually can really feel that means after we kind an alliance with one other particular person.
However then what comes from that? What’s it that we create collectively? For some folks, it’s a bodily household. For some folks, it’s a group of pals which are like a household to you or contributions that you simply make in society, possibly volunteer organizations or no matter it is perhaps.
These are the types of concepts, I feel, which are developing at this Final Quarter Moon. The Final Quarter is the time of reflection, and of taking what was conceived at a selected New Moon and carrying that problem via to completion.
Lunar Section Household Cycle
That is the Final Quarter in a lunar section household cycle that started with the New Moon in Most cancers on June twenty eighth, 2022. The First Quarter on this cycle was on March twenty eighth, 2023, and the Full Moon on December twenty sixth, 2023.
The best way the Lunar Section Household Cycle works is it takes the diploma and signal of a New Moon and the intentions that we make at the moment, the chances that current themselves to us, and carries it out over a few three yr interval. On the First Quarter in that Lunar Section Household Cycle, which happens at about the identical diploma – on this case of that New Moon in June 2022 at 7 levels Most cancers – some form of motion is taken towards these objectives or intentions.
On the Full Moon within the cycle, we see proof of what we’ve planted. It might be the half in a planting cycle the place you lastly start to see shoots above floor, proof of what you planted.
Now with the Final Quarter, we check out how the completed product is rising in our lives, and we are able to contemplate it and determine how, within the subsequent 9 months, we are able to full this cycle of rising, of household, of contribution to society that started again in June 2022.
Void-of-Course Moon intervals
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week.
On September twenty fourth, the Moon in Gemini squares Neptune at 4:59 a.m. Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 2 hours, 51 minutes earlier than it enters Most cancers at 7:50 a.m. Communications are typically somewhat muddled in a facet like this. The Moon in Gemini could be very particularly communication-oriented, and about how we’re capable of specific our emotions in a transparent means.
When it’s connecting with Neptune, we’re not as clear as we’d ordinarily be, and often it’s as a result of there are feelings concerned which are tough to precise. It may also be that we’re reluctant to be pinned all the way down to a selected standpoint. It’s not mendacity a lot, but it surely’s concerning the need of each Gemini and Pisces to go away their choices open.
It is a Void-of-Course Moon that may level out the draw back of taking this type of place and level out the helpfulness of making new habits round readability, fact, and kindness.
On September twenty sixth, the Moon in Most cancers opposes Pluto at 29º 41’, the very finish of their indicators, at 3:12 pm Pacific Time. It’s a brief Void-of-Course Moon interval, solely 35 minutes earlier than the Moon enters Leo at 3:47 p.m. Pacific Time. That is very clearly concerning the stability between household and profession, or household and our duties exterior our residence and our household, our fame on this planet. It is a very arduous stability for many of us to seek out. We will both be very, very targeted simply on what’s inside our 4 partitions or actually neglect that in favor of going out and attempting to make our mark on this planet.
However except our mark on this planet is predicated on one thing true and actual and feeling within us, as represented by the Moon in Most cancers, it doesn’t find yourself being satisfying in the long term. This Void-of-Course Moon interval asks us to take a second and replicate on this stability in our lives and to make any form of intentions we’d must make to redress any imbalance.
And on September twenty eighth, the Moon in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus at 8:36 p.m. Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for six hours and 6 minutes earlier than the Moon enters Virgo on September twenty ninth at 2:42 a.m. That is a facet that strongly urges us to shake up our routines, and that’s the nice work of the Void-of-Course Moon in any occasion, to let go of habits or patterns that aren’t actually working nicely for us.
The Moon in Leo, nonetheless, likes to maintain issues as they’re. And when the sudden occurs, and we’re caught off guard, it may be somewhat bit embarrassing. Leo is a really proud signal, and that’s why it doesn’t like a whole lot of change, except it’s in control of the change.
Now this can be a buddy’s birthday, and she or he tells me that for her birthday, she’s planning on getting a day move at a flowery spa. That’s a Taurus idea. In Germany, the place she’s dwelling, and in Germany, saunas are known as spas, and most of them don’t enable clothes. So she is planning on going with the norm, which is to not put on clothes, however it is extremely a lot not the norm for her. So I feel that’s actually a reasonably good instance of the power of this Moon squared Uranus. What are the methods in our lives that we is perhaps resisting change as a result of we’re somewhat bit afraid of being embarrassed? If that may be a sample for you and one which’s getting in your means, this can be a good day to have a look at that and attempt to consciously make a change to a sample in your life.
Mercury opposed Neptune (Sep. 25, 2024, 4:04 am PDT)
As I mentioned, Mercury could be very busy this week. On September 25th, it should oppose Neptune at 4:04 a.m. Pacific Time. Mercury is at 28º23’ Virgo on the Sabian image 29 Virgo, A person gaining secret information from a paper he’s studying. And Neptune is at 28º23’ Pisces on the Sabian image 29 Pisces, A Prism. Right here we’ve a mix of taking in data and on this case, “secret data from one thing that we’re studying.” However the side is an opposition. And on the opposite facet is Neptune, which is “a prism” that disseminates data broadly and in many alternative sides and colours and tones.
Mercury’s features to Neptune, kind of like that Void-of-Course Moon we had earlier… Mercury along with Neptune is about discovering readability, and there’s a means with Mercury and Neptune collectively that we do kind of soak up data in a means that’s not very linear, which we’d usually anticipate with Mercury in Virgo.
However when it connects with Neptune, we make nice leaps of instinct, or on the damaging facet, possibly we leap via a few of the steps in our course of of study and provide you with a defective outcome. So principally, when Mercury and Neptune are in opposition with one another, we’ve to permit for the truth that we might not be seeing issues precisely the way in which they honestly are.
So it’s not one of the best side for signing contracts, making large selections, accepting a job. Though it might be high-quality for occurring a job interview.
Mercury trine Pluto (Sep. 25, 2024, 9:14 pm PDT)
Later that night, on September twenty fifth at 9:14 p.m. Pacific Time, Mercury in Virgo trines Pluto in Capricorn. Information is energy. Mercury right here symbolizes what we all know, the knowledge that we’ve. Keep in mind within the Sabian image for that earlier Mercury-Neptune side, Mercury was on the image, A person gaining secret information from a paper he’s studying. So he could or could not have aptly understood that information, however now as Mercury trines Pluto, we see that the information gained has turned out to have actual energy.
And we additionally see Pluto nonetheless on that Sabian image, 30 Capricorn, A secret enterprise convention. Secret data or data that has been introduced in earlier is now utilized in a option to both achieve or retain energy.
We’re tempted, particularly right here within the U.S. throughout our election season, for our minds to simply leap to all types of unhealthy locations with this. However there’s a extra benign means to have a look at this side, and that isn’t to make use of data to exert energy over others, however quite to make use of what we all know, the knowledge we’ve, our highly effective minds, to realize highly effective ends that may be useful to others.
When you’re an individual who’s curious about any form of benign magic, this can be a good day for that. As a result of Mercury is the magician with all totally different powers and expertise. And related with Pluto, that image of energy, and once more, not essentially taking energy for ourselves in an unhealthy means, however utilizing energy, harnessing energy towards optimistic ends.
Mercury enters Libra (Sep. 26, 2024, 1:09 am PDT)
Then the following day, September twenty sixth, at 1:09 a.m. Pacific Time, Mercury enters Libra, and it is going to be on this signal via October 13. Mercury is our speaking planet, the methods through which we talk with the world, the methods through which we specific ourselves, and the methods through which we perceive what’s communicated to us.
Mercury, when it’s in Libra, appears for tactics to carry the qualities of grace, stability, diplomacy, and tact to our communications. It’s a really useful transit for negotiating, for persuading others to see our standpoint. To the extent that fairly often, they find yourself considering that your suggestion was all their thought.
The shadow facet of Mercury in Libra will be manipulation or passive aggression.
However it is usually a good looking mixture for the humanities. So this can be a terrific few weeks for getting concerned in music or creative tasks, collaborations with others.
Solar opposed North Node (Sep. 29, 2024, 12:25 am PDT)
Mercury opposed North Node (Sep. 29, 2024, 5:19 pm PDT)
On September twenty ninth, there are two totally different opposition features to the Moon’s North Node. One is from the Solar at 12:25 a.m. Pacific Time. The opposite from Mercury at 5:19 p.m. Pacific Time. The Solar and Mercury are at 6º38’ Libra, on the Sabian image, A girl feeding chickens and defending them from hawks, whereas the North Node is at 6º38’ Aries, A person efficiently expressing himself in two realms directly. Oppositions to the North Node imply that the planets making the features are on the Moon’s South Node. With one thing as vital because the Solar sitting on the South Node, there’s a little bit of a resistance to vary, the will to remain in a snug, acquainted place – the higher to take care of all these little chickens that we see within the Sabian image. This might additionally seek advice from counting on social and interpersonal connections, symbolized by Mercury, as a way to shield what we’ve or safe our place.
The upcoming eclipse on October 2nd is near this south node as nicely. So this can be a preview of that eclipse and the themes and messages that shall be vital and accentuated. Are we spending an excessive amount of time attempting to please others as a substitute of being really ourselves? And, additionally, as a substitute of reaching one thing strictly on our personal deserves, to depend on who we all know to get what it’s that we wish.
It’s not solely damaging, however what it does symbolize, I feel, right here, Mercury and the Solar on the South Node, is a whole lot of the time, the explanation that we don’t need to change, or we don’t need to get out of our consolation zone, is concern of shedding the connections that we’ve shaped. And it’s not foolish to concern that. No person desires to do this. And I don’t assume we’ve to do this solely. I don’t assume that’s, total, the message of the South Node that’s been going via Libra, of the Eclipse that’s developing close to this Node. I feel quite, it’s to take the qualities that you’ve developed on this South Node expertise, the power to listen to different factors of view, to get together with others, and particularly the power to make others a precedence in your life; however to not keep there, to be keen to threat that as a way to transfer in a route that feels proper and that feels vital.
Mars trine Saturn (Sep. 29, 2024, 9:06 pm PDT)
And in addition on September 29th, at 9:06 pm Pacific Time, Mars in Most cancers trines Saturn in Pisces. Usually, after we see Mars and Saturn getting collectively, there are frustrations, as a result of Mars is a pushed, impulsive, go-go-go planet, whereas Saturn is way more methodical and thorough, with integrity being its final aim.
The trine between these two planets, nonetheless, tends to be the exception, as a result of Mars is guided and tempered by Saturn, nearly like a soldier with an excellent normal telling him learn how to use his energy. It’s a reasonably good mixture total. Robust a part of it’s that we are inclined to overwork like loopy. When Mars is trine Saturn, we don’t know when to cease working.
At this trine, each of the planets are in water indicators, that means that emotions, feelings, and instinct play an vital function in getting the job carried out, in no matter we’re attempting to do. And that love and household duties are typically what drive us.
Listener Query: The significance of the chart’s angles
On this week’s listener query, listener Dan writes, “Hello April, I needed to ask a query concerning the polarities of the Ascendant and Descendant in addition to the MC and IC. I’ve seen that each time a facet of both polarity is mentioned, often one facet of the polarity is talked about and infrequently the opposite.
For instance, Neptune in Pisces was conjunct my Ascendant and due to this fact opposed my descendant. In all of the interpretations I learn, it was at all times thought to be a conjunction. And, not an opposition, or each for that matter. Equally, when Neptune then rolled alongside to sq. my MC, I discovered no point out of the side to my IC.
I perceive that, given the polarity, when discussing one, we’re at all times discussing the opposite. And, I’m questioning why the Descendant and IC hardly ever get talked about as a lot as their counterparts, in side or in any other case. I hope my query is obvious. Thanks for taking the time to learn this and for all of the work you set into your podcast.”
Dan, thanks for that very fascinating query. I truly by no means thought of this earlier than, however you’re completely proper. There’s a whole lot of give attention to the Ascendant and the Midheaven, or MC – particularly the Ascendant. And whereas it’s assumed that their reverse factors symbolize the alternative of those all-important angles, they typically aren’t emphasised in the identical means.
If I’m going to a gathering of my native astrology group, I’m requested to listing my Solar, Moon, and Ascendant indicators on my title tag, not my Solar, Moon, and Descendant!
I did somewhat little bit of poking round, as I’m positive you’ve carried out as nicely, and I actually couldn’t discover a definitive reply. So, I’m gonna take my greatest guess. And if anybody on the market can level to a extra particular take, please drop me a line.
First, for anybody who’s very new to astrology and might not be accustomed to these factors or these phrases, right here’s a fast primer on the Ascendant/Descendant and the MC/IC, that are additionally known as the angles of the start chart. They anchor down the north, south, east, and west factors of the chart. The Ascendant represents the diploma, minute, and signal that’s rising on the jap level of a chart in the intervening time that the chart is forged for.
In a start chart, this is likely one of the most vital factors, as a result of it’s way more particular than the placements of the Solar and Moon by way of being particularly tied to the precise second and placement of 1’s start. The Ascendant level usually modifications about each 4 minutes, so we have to have a really exact time of start as a way to get this level proper.
We will consider the Ascendant because the entrance door of your start chart, and its signal signifies the persona traits that you’ll readily present to the skin world. In a chart primarily based on one of many so-called quadrant-based home programs, similar to Placidus, Koch, or Porphyry, in addition to within the Equal Home system, the Ascendant marks the start of the primary home of the start chart. Within the Complete Signal Home system, it falls within the first home of the chart, however not essentially at first.
Its precise reverse level, known as the Descendant, is on the similar diploma and minute, however the reverse signal from the Ascendant. It strikes at precisely the identical price because the Ascendant. In those-quadrant primarily based and (the) Equal home programs, the Descendant marks the start of the seventh home, the home of the opposite, the home of partnership. And this level represents vital others in your life, the qualities and persona traits that you simply entice, or that you simply’re interested in, in companions and shut pals.
The Midheaven, typically known as the MC, marks the zenith level within the sky and symbolizes your fame, authority, the profession path that you simply observe. Within the quadrant-based programs, the diploma, minute, and signal of this level is on the cusp of the tenth home. Within the Equal Home and Complete Signal programs, it’s positioned usually within the ninth via eleventh homes.
The other level, the Imum Coeli, or IC, symbolizes the deepest, non-public self, in addition to household origins, ancestors, and one’s residence. It’s the cusp of the 4th home within the quadrant-based programs, and customarily within the third to fifth homes in Equal Home and Complete Signal charts, at all times precisely reverse the midheaven level.
Since astrology apparently derives from observations of the sky and nature, the Solar is arguably its strongest image. And Dan, what got here to thoughts straight away in studying your query is that the Ascendant, representing the jap horizon, the Dawn level, and the Midheaven, symbolizing the very best level within the sky, symbolize the place the Solar is at its strongest: dawn and noon. In the meantime, the descendant is the western Sundown level, the place the Solar is on the time of day when it’s shedding its energy, starting to set under the horizon. And the IC symbolizes the place the Solar is hidden from sight beneath us.
When considering our start charts, I suppose we give our first thought to ourselves, the Ascendant, and the way we’re regarded on this planet, symbolized by the Midheaven. After all, we’re very targeted on companions and household, too, particularly at instances when there are modifications or threats in these areas.
Nevertheless it’s actually arduous to overstate the primal significance of the self. Our private security. And, recognition, how nicely revered and regarded we’re, all of that are symbolized by the Ascendant and the Midheaven.
Anyway, that’s my greatest guess about why all features to those angles are inclined to reference the Ascendant and the Midheaven. And by the way in which, the identical tends to be true of the lunar nodes, which additionally characterize a polarity of two factors which are precisely reverse one another. It’s the side to the North Node that tends to be referenced quite than the side to the South Node. And for comparable causes, actually, I feel, which is that the North Node is taken into account a optimistic level, some extent of development, and due to this fact extra vital.
Dan, thanks a lot for that fascinating query and to your variety phrases. I hope that was a useful reply. Once more, it’s my greatest guess.
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