The next Last Quarter is Saturday, October 3, at 1:25 PM, with the Moon at 10°21′ Cancer.
Half lit again, on the other side now, and the line between light and dark points the other way.
The Last Quarter is the minute the Moon stands ninety degrees behind the Sun, October 3 at 1:25 PM, at 10°21′ Cancer. Her left half is lit and the dividing line is straight once more. She rises around midnight and is high in the south at sunrise, so she is the Moon of the small hours and the morning, the one the early riser sees. The image for this degree: A clown holding up the faces of the famous in caricature.
Astrologers call the Last Quarter the crisis of consciousness, the turning point where the month’s work is understood rather than pushed. The square angle is friction again, but inward this time: the question is what to keep and what to let go before the dark returns. The tradition treats it as the phase for clearing, for the honest look at what no longer fits the shape one has become.
10°21′ Cancer, the eleventh degree. A clown holding up the faces of the famous in caricature.
| Date | Moon at | The image for this degree |
|---|---|---|
| 20°24′ Libra | A crowd gathered upon the wide open beach. | |
| 20°46′ Scorpio | A soldier, obeying conscience, refusing the order given. | |
| 20°49′ Sagittarius | A child and a dog both wearing borrowed eyeglasses. | |
| 20°20′ Capricorn | A relay race, the baton passing from hand to steady hand. | |
| 19°15′ Aquarius | A great white dove descending with a message in its beak. | |
| 17°38′ Pisces | One standing at the center of a great tent gathering the yearning of many beneath a wide sky—hundreds of longings briefly becoming a single sound. | |
| 15°42′ Aries | Small spirits dancing in the setting sun. | |
| 13°40′ Taurus | Children play on the sand while shellfish stir at the water’s edge. | |
| 11°49′ Gemini | A small child saucily asserting themselves before the elders. | |
| 10°21′ Cancer | A clown holding up the faces of the famous in caricature. | |
| 9°26′ Leo | Early dew sparkling as the sun floods the open field. | |
| 9°03′ Virgo | Two heads looking out beyond the shadows into the light ahead. | |
| 9°05′ Libra | A canoe approaching the safe shore through dangerous waters. |
Times are shown in your time zone (UTC).