These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call.
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all.
The way we look to a distant constellation
That is dying in a corner of the sky…
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don’t cry baby don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry. – Paul Simon
Henry Seltzer – Tuesday’s Last Quarter Moon comes at an exciting moment in the lunation cycle that began on July 4th, and at quite an interesting time in American politics as well. Everything seems to be up in the air right now, almost literally.
This lunar phase in any case represents a reassessment of existing conditions along the lines of a new perspective, what noted 20th century astrologer Dane Rudhyar called a “crisis in consciousness,” when what has come before this moment in time gets to be viewed from the more experienced perspective supplied by the information gleaned from the cycle thus far.
And to bolster the concept of taking a fresh look at what we have going on, both individually and within our larger social groupings, we have also a close trine between Mercury at 23 Leo and the Uranus- Eris conjunction, their midpoint just a few minutes of a degree different, providing another good dose of the trickster emblem of sudden events leading to unexpected enlightenment, together with the addition of the Feminine Warrior archetype of Eris, oftentimes seen as disruptive, and yet whose more significant meaning is a realignment of values in the direction of deep soul intention, thus paving the way for individual and societal change.