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The 28 Lunar Phases

The Moon’s own calendar divides her journey from the Sun and back again into twenty-eight. Where she stands in that journey when you are born is a lifelong signature; where she has reached in your progressed chart is the chapter you are living now; and where she is tonight belongs to everyone at once.

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All twenty-eight

Ellias Lonsdale’s reading of each phase, as the phase you were born under and as the phase your progressed chart has reached. They run in seven families of four (Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus), repeating four times around the circle.

How the twenty-eight are measured

These are phases of the Moon, not places in the zodiac. The measurement is the angle from the Sun to the Moon, divided into twenty-eight equal parts of 12°51′26″ each. Phase 1 is centred on the New Moon, so the conjunction sits at its middle rather than at its edge; the first quarter, the full Moon and the last quarter fall at the centres of phases 8, 15 and 22.

Because the measurement is an angle between two geocentric longitudes, it is the same from anywhere on Earth. Your birthplace makes no difference to it. Only the moment does.

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