A little bit of action goes a long way. The nature of life and living changes when you act to meet circumstances and make something of them. Just as one example, there is a big difference between observing that we are “all one” and acting to prove you are “one with.”

Proving yourself to be one with creation and equal to circumstance seems to show up in the astrology for this weekend. While it’s a proverbial team effort of celestial objects, there are some key players likely to manifest.

The Sun and Moon are nearly always where you want to look first. The Sun is predominant in so many ways. It’s the brightest object in the sky, the center of the solar system and a consistent point of reference.

The Moon, in turn, provides both a complement and counterpoint for the Sun. In combination, the Sun and Moon (often distinguished by astrologers as “the luminaries”) provide the template through which planetary aspects are most properly interpreted.

One of the more misunderstood aspects is a separation of 90 degrees on the zodiac (and in the sky, from Earthly perspective), called a “square.” Somewhere along the line, squares got an undeserved reputation as something to dread. Few things could be further from the truth (although it must be noted that some of those campaigning for President of the United States have ventured further from the truth than Pluto does from the Sun).

First off, squares (just like all astrological aspects) are simply stages in a cycle, a part of a continuous whole. That’s especially evident with squares from the Sun to the Moon. This weekend features one of those luminary squares commonly known as the first quarter Moon.

Above all, the lunar first quarter is both easy to see (weather permitting) and a lovely sight. When the Sun sets in the West, the first quarter Moon is already at its highest point in the sky, as one would expect from 90 degrees of separation. Hence, you don’t have to stay up late to see it. Additionally, because of its spatial orientation relative to the Sun and Earth, the lunar first quarter displays an appealing tableau that is half lit and half dark. How, one might logically wonder, can anybody make something negative out of that?

Perhaps the negative reputation for square aspects originates with what the lunar first quarter symbolizes at its most basic: a critical point in growth. It is the halfway point between an unseen New Moon and a fully grown Full Moon. Growth itself can indeed be stressful, hence the term “growing pains”. Yet without the phenomenon of growth, where would any of us be? Since it cannot be avoided as a stage in the cycle of life, why not meet and make something of it?

As if to emphasize the advantage in taking a little action (and its potential to go a long way), the lunar first quarter just after 6:26 pm EST (23:26:18 UTC) tomorrow takes place between the Sun in cardinal Capricorn and the Moon in cardinal Aries. Since solar ingress into any one of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn) corresponds to a new season, it would make even more sense to interpret tomorrow’s luminary square as a promising preliminary rather than as a menacing end.

Along with tomorrow’s first quarter Moon, we get at least one planetary aspect that seems to reinforce its life-affirming message: a trine (separation of 120 degrees) from Mars in fecund Scorpio to Neptune at home in its Pisces depths. Both planets are in signs that they rule, and therefore are powerfully expressed.

In addition, the trine aspect itself is rather powerful, connecting two planetary energies in conductive flow through signs that share a common symbolic element. In this case, the element in common between Scorpio and Pisces is water (Cancer is the third water sign). Your own experience tells you that nothing flows quite like water.

As a result, the growth motif of tomorrow’s lunar first quarter is emblematically enhanced by an aspect that represents all that makes life and growth possible in the first place. You have life-giving water connecting Mars (which, among other things, manifests in your life as desire) and Neptune (which, at its best, emerges in your life as sheer creativity). You don’t have to be Fellini to figure out that desire meeting creativity through a flow and exchange of fluid corresponds to sex — without which none of us would be here.

In sum, a plausible portrayal of the astrology this weekend represents not only life itself, but how it is most fundamentally met, made and continued in your practical everyday experience. To see something negative in that would be nothing less than condemning yourself, along with all that you love. To actively meet and make something of what your life presents this weekend would, on the other hand, affirm all that you are and all the world could be at its best. The choice is obvious, yet you still must act to make it true.

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