Sesquiquadrate Moon – Saturn
(Transit Moon → Natal Saturn)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Sesquiquadrate of the Moon: In hardened people, the heart has an iron shell; in sensitive souls, it is wrapped in plastic. This aspect imparts a general inner clumsiness and coarseness of perception in the planet’s spheres, along with reflexive skills. For example, with a sesquiquadrate of Mars–Moon, a person at a low level best understands the language of teeth-grinding and tends to express themselves in the same manner—this applies even to their inner life. Such a person may be very harsh with themselves, prone to hounding, cornering, reshaping without anesthesia, and so on. In the planet’s spheres at a low level, this person may provoke irritation in others due to what they perceive as a lack of feeling and a tendency to ignore anything that does not suit them, focusing only on their (usually crude) needs and satisfying them with ironclad determination. The person themselves usually does not notice this in themselves but may occasionally (not always!) sense the negative attitude of others, retreating into their egoism and considering their complaints unjust, unfounded, and utterly incomprehensible. Here, indeed, processing is difficult and requires a strong desire to grow beyond oneself and overcome inner coarseness; it is very hard to bring this to consciousness, as the subconscious censor is as crude as the programs themselves and often simply erases large chunks, leaving glaring white spots in memory and perception (the person says: “I don’t remember that, no matter how hard you try… and for some reason, I didn’t notice this at all—it’s strange”). Processing here develops the ability to clearly and subtly remotely control the corresponding fragments of the subconscious in the planet’s spheres.
Sesquiquadrate of Saturn: If the wheel of fortune is stuck in a ditch, the cross of fate can be carried on one’s back. This aspect creates obstacles in the planet’s spheres akin to shackles: one can walk, but with difficulty. The person, however, does not always feel them (as with a square to Saturn), and sometimes they develop a peculiarly clumsy, inelegant gait that is nonetheless generally acceptable. If this becomes habitual, it becomes very stable, and the person tends to regard others with skepticism, especially those endowed with what they see as unnecessary or even harmful freedom: a steam hammer has only one degree of freedom (up and down), yet it works so well that it is a joy to behold, while a ram’s horn can be flattened into a pancake. Subconsciously, however, the person feels strong constraints in the planet’s spheres that force them into a very narrow path of interaction with the outside world, and they may harbor strong inferiority complexes but try to suppress them into the subconscious. In their inner life, they seek—and for a long time fail to find—a path to deep mastery of the planet’s spheres, as their rigid initial schema allows them to proceed only along entirely certain crude routes, as if blocking subtleties. Processing here transforms the harsh collar of a dog into the flexible mind of a sage who sees the flow and branches of karma even in seemingly hopeless situations—but to achieve this, one must overcome the inner constraints in the planet’s spheres and realize that in the external world, tribute is far more effective than serfdom.
