August 31st, 2025: First Quarter Sagittarius Moon

• First Quarter Sagittarius Moon (8 deg)

• Mercury in Leo trine Chiron Rx in Aries (26 deg)

• Mars in Libra opposite Ceres Rx in Aries (15 deg)

The First Quarter Moon (square the Virgo Sun) introduces some fast-moving news or events that challenge your grasp of the details. A tightly-held solution or improvement is incorrect as something bigger and newer pushes its way in. You might be resistant, keeping your head down and focusing on what you already know. But you'll feel restless and anxious if you ignore this fresh wisdom.

No one enjoys being proven wrong, but the key to damage control is flexibility: put your ego aside and quickly accept the new input while taking action to make the appropriate changes. You may need to step back to broaden your perspective or travel/take a leap of faith.

Words (Mercury) are healing (Chiron Rx) when the painful issue is communicated publicly and proudly. Passion for a cause or for bravely discussing a vulnerability/wound is naturally expressed - it's not forced because it lights up every word as you spotlight the wound. Communication is a blend of creativity, charisma and empathy. Others are magnetized by what you say because they hear their issues being expressed fearlessly. Any pain you may be feeling eases when you give the issue a name and illuminate it - now you have power over it.

Mars/Ceres is the embattled culmination over nurturing, parent/child relations or a lifecycle. Actions are unbalanced. This can range from nurturing that's too forceful to anger over the wrong type of nurturing to passive-aggressive efforts that end a situation (the lifecycle) which has been brewing for some time.

Mars rules the sign Ceres Rx is in, and Mars is uncomfortable in harmonious Libra. So we have a showdown between someone who's trying to parent and someone who's ready (or think's they're ready) to leave the nest. This could be an actual parent and child, a couple, or any two people who are playing out parenting dynamics from the past. Ceres is Rx so, in addition to looking back, you're also looking within and dealing with a very specific issue. Action is necessary at this tipping point but make sure you're bringing things back to centre, not swinging all the way to the other extreme.

Remember that today is a First Quarter Square in the lunar cycle and the Sag Moon says the way improve things is through flexibility and making room for new wisdom/new experiences. The necessary actions may feel uncomfortable - perhaps you want to keep things nice and polite, even though an argument is in the works. Or, perhaps the other person is waffling, avoiding the core issue around nurturing/parenting. You don't have to be cruel but a correction is needed so you will have to take some risks or be brave in order to rebalance things. Maybe it's time to nurture by allowing the other person to fly free (they may or may not come back). Or, maybe you're finally acting on an internal passion that needs light and air to grow .

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