Henry Seltzer – The First Quarter Moon of the late evening of Thursday, September 5th, early morning the 6th for Europe and point further east, is quite a fascinating one. This is because in the midst of the usual somewhat stressful Sun-Moon square alignment, we find as well that the Moon in Sagittarius is conjunct optimistic and future-oriented Jupiter, highlighting Jupiter’s own square with Neptune, while at the same time, the Sun and Mercury precisely trine Saturn, archetype of limitation and contraction.
This push-pull between positive and negative, optimism and pessimism, up and down, makes for an even more difficult First Quarter Moon than normal. On the one hand we are feeling the urge to make light of our situation, perhaps (with Neptune involved) even to seek to escape reality on at least a temporary basis by means of travel, movies, or drugs, while on the other we have that constant prompt for staying with the practical, and the merely real. This could take the form of the small but effective critical voice in your head, or some authority figure coming down on you and keeping you in line.