Moon Sesquiquadrate Chiron

(Transit Moon → Natal Chiron)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Moon sesquiquadrate: In hardened people, the heart has an iron shell; in more sensitive ones, a plastic one. This aspect brings in the areas of the planet a general inner clumsiness and coarseness of perception, along with reflexive habits. For example, with a Mars-Moon sesquiquadrate, a person at a low level best understands the language of violence and tends to express themselves in the same manner, which also applies to their inner life—meaning they can be extremely harsh with themselves, possibly engaging in self-persecution, cornering their own psyche, reshaping it without anesthesia, and so on. In the planet’s domains, at a low level this person may provoke irritation in others due to what seems like emotional coldness and a tendency to straightforwardly ignore anything they dislike, focusing only on their own (usually crude) needs, which they satisfy with iron determination. The individual themselves usually doesn’t notice this behavior, but occasionally—though not always—sensing others’ negative attitudes, they retreat into their egoism, considering such complaints unjust, unfounded, and altogether incomprehensible. Indeed, working through this aspect is difficult and requires strong desire for self-development and overcoming inner coarseness. It is extremely hard to bring this into consciousness because the censorship of the subconscious here is coarse (just like the programs themselves) and often simply erases large chunks, leaving outright blank spots in memory and perception (the person says: “I don’t remember that at all, no matter what… and somehow I didn’t notice this at all, which is strange”). Processing this aspect leads to the ability to precisely and subtly manage at a distance the corresponding planetary fragments of the subconscious. Chiron sesquiquadrate: If you lie down on your side, the upper and lower ends become, respectively, the right and left. This aspect creates a tendency to use ideas and methods whose true meaning is inaccessible to the person, while the side effects remain unclear and unpredictable. This is a dangerous aspect, especially for individuals with a strong Saturn capable of prolonged, focused study and deep but narrow penetration into poorly understood areas. The Chiron sesquiquadrate brings the temptation to crudely use subtle instruments, whose power may manifest very unexpectedly, turning the person from a subject into an object of a karmic experiment. A typical example of the unprocessed Chiron sesquiquadrate is the attempt at a materialistic-“scientific” study and application of esoteric techniques involving perception of the astral and causal planes, traditionally passed from teacher to prepared student. Here, amateurism quickly leads to the person’s subjugation to a rigid magical egregore and the loss of free will and thought (in pronounced cases, to desocialization and mental illness). Proper integration opens the possibility of breakthroughs into previously practically inaccessible realms of the subtle world, enabling adequate work within them through unusual yet entirely real methods and instruments which the person perceives as physical, although their effect extends into subtle realms as well.