The next First Quarter is October 18, at 4:13 PM, with the Moon at 25°18′ Capricorn.
Half lit, half dark, and a straight line drawn between them like a decision.
The First Quarter is the minute the Moon stands ninety degrees ahead of the Sun, October 18 at 4:13 PM, at 25°18′ Capricorn. Her right half is lit and the dividing line is straight, which happens only at the quarters. She rises around noon and is high in the south at sunset, so she is the Moon of the afternoon and early evening, seen in a blue sky before the stars come out. The image for this degree: A nature spirit dancing in the iridescent mist of a waterfall.
Astrologers call the First Quarter the crisis of action, and the word crisis is meant in its old sense: a turning point, a moment that asks for a choice. The intention has met its first resistance, and the tradition reads the square angle between Moon and Sun as friction that builds rather than breaks. It is the phase for effort, for the push that turns a plan into a thing with edges.
25°18′ Capricorn, the twenty-sixth degree. A nature spirit dancing in the iridescent mist of a waterfall.
| Date | Moon at | The image for this degree |
|---|---|---|
| 6°14′ Taurus | A woman comes to the old well in the heat of the day, and a stranger is waiting there. | |
| 5°54′ Gemini | Workers drilling deep into the earth for oil. | |
| 5°09′ Cancer | Game birds lining their nests with their own down. | |
| 3°56′ Leo | A figure formally dressed, standing among the trophies of a long hunting expedition. | |
| 2°21′ Virgo | Two guardian spirits bringing protection to the path ahead. | |
| 0°32′ Libra | A passing beauty held forever—the ephemeral form becoming the permanent image of itself. | |
| 28°43′ Libra | Humanity’s long enduring effort to pass knowledge from one generation to the next. | |
| 27°08′ Scorpio | The king of the fairies approaching the threshold of his domain. | |
| 25°57′ Sagittarius | One carrying the colors forward when others have faltered—a belief given legs through the worst of the hour. | |
| 25°18′ Capricorn | A nature spirit dancing in the iridescent mist of a waterfall. | |
| 25°08′ Aquarius | A skilled hand reading the invisible charge—the instrument that lets the unseen pressure be known. | |
| 25°17′ Pisces | A new moon appears, and many begin what they have been waiting to begin. |
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