Henry Seltzer – Thursday’s First Quarter Moon is interesting in that it features the characteristic aspects of this difficult month, Jupiter-Uranus, Saturn-Uranus, and Uranus-Pluto. The reason that these aspects are highlighted now is, for one, their triggering by the Sun and Moon; plus the close aspects that both Jupiter and Saturn make to Uranus and to the Uranus/ Eris midpoint.
Uranus remains all this winter and early spring within two degrees of Eris, the new planet beyond Pluto that represents, as my research has shown, taking a warrior stance for that which most deeply moves you. This is quite significant for our understanding of these times that we are living through because Eris greatly magnifies any planet that she touches, meaning that this is some important sense a season of Uranus.
With Jupiter opposed, we find innovation, brilliant ideas like self-driving vehicles and cheap alternative energy sources, very much in the news, as well as thinking outside the box in attempting to find new solutions to old problems. You could say that it is currently all unknown, that we can expect almost anything from the unstable world situation that we find ourselves in the midst of.
The Uranus emphasis also implies that the trine to Uranus from the limitation orientation of stodgy Saturn, exact to within a degree and a half in the timing of this first quarter configuration, so still quite close, implies a push-pull of liberal innovation together with conservative backlash, or perhaps the other way ‘round. In any case we have highlighted for us in the skies above, as well as in earthly affairs here below, the extreme polarities of these fractious times.
Pluto, too, is featured in this First Quarter Moon, since the Sun at the middle degree of Capricorn is in close forming conjunction with Pluto. Further, with both Uranus and Pluto so greatly emphasized, we have the strong re-emergence of Uranus-Pluto also to consider, representing radical and revolutionary changes for both individual and collective levels. This is the outer planet combination that was very active in the sixties, and that is the signature outer planet aspect of this current decade of the “turbulent teens.”