The Quarter Moon on May 12 2012 at 5:46 pm EDT is at 23 degrees Aquarius. Astrologically, the influence of a quarter Moon lasts for seven days. As the quarter Moon is a square aspect between the Sun and Moon, the energy is tense or uncomfortable and can often manifest as some difficulty in relationships. Sun square Moon means that our need for emotional security can be in conflict with our need to shine in the world. The third quarter Moon is the final phases of the New Moon cycle, so we look to finalize those projects started three weeks ago and reap the rewards. Relationship issues that arose since the Full Moon can now be resolved, this is a weeks of leaving things behind, whether they be bad habits or negative aspects within you relationships.
May 12 Quarter Moon Horoscope
This quarter moon is very important because it ushers in the final week of the eclipse cycle which began with the November 2011 Solar Eclipse. The theme of that eclipse was “stripping down, clearing clutter, exposing demons, purging toxins”. This week we have to find closure, put things to rest ready for the burst of energy and a new direction from the May 21 Solar Eclipse. This quarter Moon is on one of the more beneficial stars in constellation Capricorn called Nashira, “It causes overcoming by evil, which is turned to success…This star makes for integrity and justice and gives a knowledge of man. Therefore we see here a refining Saturn influence, this will be achieved if the natal Saturn is well placed.” Saturn is well placed trine the Moon and trine Venus.
This grand trine involving Moon, Venus and Saturn allows for more ease in resolving relationships issues and releasing inner pain and anger. Venus is almost stationary and turns retrograde on May 15 on the central star of Orion’s Belt. As mentioned in the Venus retrograde post, this star Alnilam gives “Trouble through love affairs, scandal, enemies among women“. Saturn on the most fortunate star Spica is “favorable for domestic matters“.
The quarter moon means relationships difficulties are in focus, but this magical grand trine and the mix of fixed stars point to lessons being learned, more mature emotions, forgiveness of others and the self, and a release from guilt and blame. Sun conjunct Jupiter suggests optimism, faith, luck and generosity, and with Sedna in between Sun and Jupiter the personal growth and philosophical outlook involves past pain from being the victim, being betrayed, abandoned, or pain from some other type of tragedy, man made or natural disaster.
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I have a personal interest in this quarter moon, though so far the breakage of toxic karmic ties hasn’t been entirely successful or permanent, though I expect it will be. The codependence seems to be reasserting itself (as of the evening of 4/12) in some people. I’ve been trying not to do the Codependent Shuffle, not simply because of this post, but because it seems the right thing to do. Oddly, the strategy has backfired and I may be homeless soon. It’s hard to say at this point.
The moon seems almost directly opposite my natal sun. If I’m not mistaken (which I very well could be), this also affects my Chiron in the 5th house–at 27 degrees Aquarius 15, and according to astro.com, sort of near Bunda and Sadalsuud. Uranus is nearly hitting my DC at 7 degrees Aries. Pluto at 9 degrees Capricorn has barely passed my IC and is now in my 4th house. Pluto and Saturn are also doing an interesting little tango with Mercury (in my 10th house). Saturn (in my third house) is inconjunct Mercury, while Pluto is semisextile Mercury.
It is a family / sibling thing, very complicated. But perhaps Pars Fortuna will help, as it is close to my natal Mercury. I hope so.
Let’s hope fortunate communications (Pars Fortuna, Mercury) will resolve this amicably for you Meredith. Best wiahes.
Thank you, Greg!
Dear Meredith,
Just noticed that your chiron is conjunct my sun at 27 degrees aquarius. The 3rd quarter moon is actually conjunct my sun.
My saturn is also in my 3rd house (unless you were speaking of transiting saturn) and have been delightfully reminded that it is sextile to both my venus and moon. I say delightfully because I am hoping to improve my relationship to Saturn’s energies!
Good luck with your saturnian karmic ties! I love those! They sure do make life interesting don’t they? I am learning that this energy when approached with principles of higher consciousness can be so powerful in a good way! Hang in there and do what’s best for you!
I never post comments like this…its a first for me
Hi Danette,
Perhaps I will learn to love those Saturnian karmic ties, but at the moment I am not at all fond. I confess that when I use the word “interesting,” I see it more in terms of the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” o_O
I am technically homeless, but my luck has held because I have such wonderful friends. In fact, they made my return to California possible. I flew back on 5/8. It’s been almost five months to the day since I left.
This one is special for me too Meredith, but my “Codependent Shuffle” is with drugs. Many years ago I struggled with heroin addiction but thought that was the end of it. Recently I have again become addicted, this time to prescription opiates (endone, oxycontin) since I had surgery for colon cancer a couple of weeks ago.
Marina and I saw my doctor this morning to discuss the withdrawal plan. Straight out of hospital I was taking 160 mg per day. Last week when Marina arrived from London I cut down to 80 mg per day without too much trouble. The big test is today with this last quarter Moon square my Mercury, Venus and Saturn (the Sun is on my natal Saturn tonight). I’ve set myself the goal of only 30mg per day for the next week.
Perfect timing really, I love seeing astrology in action, living it. The New Moon was conjunct my Chiron, painful surgery. Now this final week of the Moon phase, quarter Moon square my Yod axis, massive break from the past involving wounding/healing. A difficult week ahead with detox and aches, nausea, diarrhea etc. But I am so keen to get it done so I can really start the recovery. The next New Moon is trine my Mars which I’m looking forward to.
My goodness !! Such a time, so glad your on this end of it. Do so appreciate the work that both you and Marina put into this blog.
Toasting , to your continued good health,
INger
I wish u the best, Jamie! Really. And also to Marina!
Jamie–
I’ve only recently returned to the Internet. I was so shocked to read you had surgery for colon cancer! I had reconstructive surgery in that general area of my person after complications from childbirth 25 years ago, and know about that deep post-surgical pain firsthand. I’m sorry you became addicted to the opiate painkillers. It can happen so easily. I watched my daughter’s withdrawal from alcohol almost five years ago so I don’t envy you the initial process, and wish there was something you could do for the physical symptoms, but perhaps you can’t take anything for that, either. I do trust you will emerge stronger than ever.
I’m so glad Marina is there with you!
I’m looking forward to the release you mention in this post. I have the requisite abandonment, betrayal, pain, and victimhood (for the third time running), but have asked my Higher Power to remove and do something constructive with my rage and sorrow. I’m going to try to put the family members and situation into the category of Good Information To Have. Maybe that will help. I tend to get a little too hopeful and think people will behave differently than they have in the past, though this time I have asked my friends to remind me not to trust those relatives again. I can still love them, but trusting them is a whole ‘nother ball of wax.
Since you shared your chart, I thought I’d try to do the same with mine, in the spirit of camaraderie and such. I am on a friend’s laptop, though, and I can’t save a JPEG to her hard drive, so I don’t know whether or not it will work and you’ll be able to see what I’m posting. But here goes: http://www.astro.com/tmpd/cj3dfilegHWGII-u1336754829/astro_24gw_01_meredith_2012511.60698.30191.pdf
May the healing begin posthaste…
Meredith
Hi Meredith, that chart didn’t work. Maybe when you get on your own pc. I’m over the ugly withdrawal now which ended up being a little worse than I first thought. Marina here was a blessing to help with the kids. I’m getting back into things now and looking forward to a UK holiday with my eldest girl in a couple of months.
Jamie,
Amazing..Good for you my brother………..I was a heavy opiate hyper -user…….5-8 oxycontin 80′s per day………….Got clean July 2010 and haven’t looke dback…………..Went completly raw food…….then hiking barefoot, then hugging trees and talking to nature spirits.lol….dude im a 32 yr old ex American football player linebacker…..lol
Then reading about Angels, astrology, Masters……
Honestly..if you can fine tuen your diet with raw vegge juices.and add super foods………especaillay cacao(natural state chocolate), maca.bee pollen, cocunut oil……………goji berry juice, chia seeds, hemps seeds…………..your nutrient buckets will be topped off and teh with drawal will be much smoother…………..
I was hooked on Methadone and oxycontins and went cold turkey in three days of cutting down………….
Ya, its not fun…..But ohhh soo worth it when we are able to release ourselves from teh strangle hold of not only Big-Pharama….but the shackles of teh neagative alien agenda that is feeding teh consciouness of these people……..
I have been a Wander-Rainbow Warrior for more than a year.In peru.actaully writing from Machu Picchu now………..
Last Full moon was awesome…………I hiked Friday nite under full moon 8hrs in jungle solo singing and dancing and chanting…………got to Machu Picchu and climbed Putu Cusi at 1am……..soaking wet, cold……….teh ladder broke and cable snapped.almost went down hard………..
Got up and slept………putu cusi is across teh river of Machu Picchu.found a cave cuz i was so cold and slept over……….
also……..Me and a good friend from Texas…..she is a proficient distance sniper energy healer………….She has worked on me and now I assist her………..we just did a woman with a spirit possesion last nite and blkasted it outt aher hard………..
Come visit Peru, we’ll drink Madre Ayahuasca and San Pedro cermnonies at Sacred Sites and get so High off of teh new galactic carrier waves of energy streaming into our solar system and planet ………You’ll want to chill on mountaisn and in teh jungle playing with teh faires and dancing with teh Cosmic Rainbow Serpent of LIght…
Be well my brother from our Cosmic Mother…………
If theres anything I can do, please let me know……..I am a sharp shooter distance healer………we can blast those lil suckers outt aya.The ones that want to keep you in pain and suffering so they can feed off of you…………Tell ‘em straight up……we’re from teh stars and we are stars.we don’t play that game…………..Come back hoem to teh Light and merge with me….And if you are not ready to do this than kindly leave thsi Temple of GOD………. Capish!!!
Laser Beamin ya Machu Picchu Love and Rainbow Warrior Light mi Hermano!!!
Thanks Mikey! I would love to visit Machu Picchu one day. Marina and I were talking about drugs just the other day and saying the only things we really would want to experiment with anymore is those natural hallucigens you get over in that part of the world. I am on a very good diet now, lots of juices and vegetables, alkaline foods and Manuka honey. It does make a big difference with withdrawing, much easier this time around.
Jamie – if you can get it – Siberian Ginseng in tincture form. Its not actually ginseng but an adaptogenic which alleviates the effects of stress – of any kind.
Look for a product called Prime One – which contains it but a lot more. This is incredible stuff. /www.crohns.net/Miva/productinfo/primeone_principles.shtml
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ans/psychology/health_psychology/adaptgn.htm
can’t speak high enough of this stuff – I use it and I’ve put others on to it with fantastic results. its not expensive either AND IT REALLY WORKS! but read the guff first.
I’m making an appointment soon with my naturopath so will ask about this on.
If you would come to Mexico, please visit!
Though, my brain just stands cigarrettes, and not the more heavy ones, because I get sick. I just can´t stand them.
You see, Meredith, I was homeless once, due to a grand bankruptcy my ex husband had to face. Almost drawned! But, then, I had to go to the group -just as you mentioned- of codependent anonymous. That really helped very much. At least, I had some place to release so much tension: I have two youngsters and -at the time- they were children. I felt really ad dying…
Which was a good thing to do, really! I have been strugling over my chiron 8th house and my Lillith in this same house, all along with my Part of Fortune. And my Mars 12th house.
I had to learn by the hard way that my dreams were a game of my mind, in order to fool myself and to know that I just was not “fit” to be on earth.
I had to walk a long path… but after 7 years, I am much more in contact with my self.
I like so much the way Jamie and Marina go all along, helping each other, being friends and colleagues, man and wife, in real life, not in a Hollywood mode.
And talking about, now I just came from reflecting of my doings in these last days, and remembering that darkastrology told us to be aware of this Poseidon/Perséfone no scale trip -with lots of cherries to eat- to the Underworld, I just found out that -even when I do not have this quadrate my self- this jupiter square pluto, might just be me!
I was very happy and confortable playing the victim “because of the men, out there, ready to take me to the underworld”, and by looking more carefully in my own life… I just am able to say that Poseidon is me, and men are Persefone, if you know what I mean!
This Steps help out, really, because they won´t let my self fool me!
… And DID I paid the price!!!
I am not able to love, and to be such a companion, just as Marina and Jamie are. As a spouse, I was rigid, straight. I always got this “Hanged Man” tarot card. He was resented. Sleeping both of us in so many trines and sextiles we both had in composite… Mhhh! those trines… Grrr.
I am impulsive and have been not honest. I dream what I cannot bring to reality. I feel ashamed.
I was just thinking with whom to share… and I thank so much this blog, that makes me feel better.
I don´t know how to integrate these energies, though I do love them and honor them, at the same time of feeling alienated and strange…
But this cleansing is not a proper and translucid package, for sure!
Thank you very much and I wish you all the best transit you might be able to face…
Integrity we deserve!
At least, the pieces seem to fall in place… Mhhh!
Rín.
Thank you for posting a reply, Rin. I’ve been through bankruptcy before, due to divorce, and will again because of the last custody debacle that enabled me to keep my daughter at home with me rather than having her very wealthy father send her off to another state. (It was expensive, but definitely worth it!) I don’t fear the bankruptcy. I know it’s a temporary situation. But at least my children are all grown up now. I don’t have to worry about custody disputes anymore.
The interesting thing about Persephone is that she became Queen of the Underworld. Her abduction may have victimized her initially, but she didn’t stay that way. So even though I may have had the experience of the Kore, I think I can grow into another role. That’s what I’d like to do, at least.
Bless you, sister. I hope this cleansing helps you as well, that you are able to release the toxins afflicting you and come closer to achieving your best dreams.
Meredith
I see, Meredith. It so soothing to know that we all are having our reflecting time…
I am still affraid of not being able to manage my 8th house. I feel always optimistic, and do feel that every experience is for the better.
And talking about the Underworld, I do really wish me to be reflective and not impulsive, as I have always been.
I need to give myself joy and stable surroundings, for a change.
All the luck, Meredith!
Rín.
Jamie,
Greetings from San Francisco. I’ve done the addiction dance too and always describe it as ” a nightmare I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy”. Mine was crack-cocaine. I’m clean now, but it’s funny how it takes you by accident in a way… someone blew the smoke into my mouth after I was too drunk to argue. And with your surgery/pain meds, sometimes it just creeps up on you.
Just want to offer my support and good vibes to you… You and Marina’s writings are an important part of my life and are much appreciated! I want to let you guys know how much I enjoy everything you have to say and I’m very very glad you are around to say it. Hang in there, my friend. You and Marina make a great contribution to the world… thank you guys <3K:)
Sweet!
You know…
Reading all this,
I feel so much love and tenderness for all what we are as individuals, as limited humans, if you know what I mean.
Love,
Rocío.
weird crap. Mars is in a similar degree to where I had my car crash in Nov/Dec and today the car caput again. I may hibernate till the next eclipse. It’s like December all over again!
I think the aspects are much better this time around.
Spot on Jamie!
I was up at the large telescope this week marvelling at the wonders of things I normally only know by degrees!
Saturn on Spica was visible in the sky – as were there ings of saturn through a telescope! fab!
When I returned home – i discovered my maid had been nicking booze again… and absconded for a few days. This is the third time so its now curtains for her. Poor soul. My initial reaction was to turn the air blue and instant dismissal when she returned. However, knowing SA labour laws make it virtually impossible to sack anyone for anything… and knowing if you sack someone they can then go to law and do you for a year’s wages (!!! – but you don’t get your stolen goods back!) – I made phone call then sat up till 3.00am studying SA labour law. I devised a plan within the laws for dismissal but am also going to see a legal specialist next week.
“It causes overcoming by evil, which is turned to success…This star makes for integrity and justice and gives a knowledge of man. Therefore we see here a refining Saturn influence, this will be achieved if the natal Saturn is well placed.” Saturn is well placed trine the Moon and trine Venus. ”
So there it is! Perfectly illustrated. The Moon – the domestic platform, Saturn, a legal strategy and Venus a kind outcome. My plan is to dismiss her with no reference to the thefts, write of the debts she has to us (long story but quite a lot of money), pay her some compensation and make sure all her insurances are up to date.
The knowledge of man bit – It makes me really sad that I have to do this but after 5 years I came to the point i can’t have this energy in my home. Its a long story which made me realise that only living in the bottom two chakras cripples a person… and then cultural issues e.g appeasing ancestors over everything else – is totally damaging as it becomes impossible to construct a future.
I haven’t done my maid’s chart – I’ll look at it next week.
This is the perfect example of what I just wrote in the weekly forecast. I’m sure you be relieved once you let her go. She might be too.