Tuesday, Mar 1 at 6.10pm EST
Click here to learn about the Moon. Click here to learn about Sagittarius.
Square aspects are sharp, angular junctions that prompt change. The Sun in Pisces squares the moon in Sagittarius. The moon will rise at midnight, peak at dawn and set at noon. If you view the moon at midnight, the Sun will be positioned directly beneath your feet. Staring at the moon during this time will align you so that you are looking right out (approximately) along the forward path of Earth’s orbit around the Sun ^__^
Sagittarius is Pisces’ fiery predecessor - buoyant, fearless, adventurous, optimistic. The centaur archer flips the fishes out of the water and up to the starlight, shouting delightedly: dance and be free! Find joy and excitement in transformation! The fishes live within, swimming and dreaming, dreaming and swimming, but the archer moves courageously through time and space. Let’s return with body, mind and spirit to the tribal fire ring, out from the depths. After earnestly polishing the bright inner diamond of the heart and soul, breathe life back into expansion. You know who you are and what you believe, so rise from seated lotus, burst forth with an ecstatic surge of raw energy.
The purpose of any last quarter moon is clearing out, preparation for new beginnings. Sometimes Luna drags us into undesirable emotional backwaters at quarter phases, even when we’re otherwise feeling wonderful. This manifests differently for everyone, I’m not here to tell you how it will be exactly. What I can say is that most of the time, our concerns are not only trivial but remarkably temporal. Any issues that surface are therefore well-worn guests in your mind-house, ones who make your upper lip curl with familiar disdain. As it is in life, these guests are teachers. Intuitively I feel that this phase will be a follow-up to the Last Quarter Moon in Scorpio at the beginning of February. Sometimes that’s how it is, like a sonic boom arriving long after you’ve seen the rocket leave, like golden glitter snowing down after the dust has settled in silence.
If you don’t feel elevated in consciousness, I expect you will be that much closer now. Us lunar folk descend with the celestial tides, occasionally dipping below to the sea of confusion. Even so, an electrical supernova of unthinkable proportions has been crackling, the backdrop of All, since the inception of the Universe. Nothing to fear.
The balanced centaur knows that emotional work comes first; if we do not give ourselves the opportunity to rest and reflect, we fail to move. But we can pause the introspection for now. Recharged, thoughts and ideals become actions: applied wisdom in waking life. Allow restlessness to inspire forward motion. I wish you enough strength to shoot the archer’s bow and enough sensitivity to care for the fishes, swimming in the heart, silently, constantly, forever chasing tails. Like a flame from the great cosmic bonfire, ascend in a sparkling blaze to worlds that do not yet exist! Rise up from all directions!
Celebrate Luna with a ritual involving fire and some Sagittarius Yoga.
To ascertain your personal Moon sign, click here.
Mantra: I invite the unexpected