DAY: 18.5 - 22.5
PHASE ARC: 225º - 270º

Keynote: Social interchange and a growing need for significance.

Since the Full Moon activity has shifted from gathering resources and building the foundation necessary for the realization of your Lunation Plan to its early fruit-bearing stage. At the opposite end of the cycle, the Crescent Moon phase called for careful and quiet planning, and mobilizing resources. Now the Disseminating phase calls for much "show and tell" and drawing others into the action. Especially around the waning trine, the time is opportune to close business deals, to sign contracts and to synchronize work with others.
      Your Lunation Plan is now beginning to bear fruit. What was felt, planned and envisioned in the waxing hemicycle is now becoming an objective reality. Your work is being shared with others. Its social, artistic or commercial worth is under scrutiny. Even if your Lunation Plan is of an inner nature, your inner work will be tested by how you participate and interact with others.
      During this phase difficulties and problems often show up, and you may need to exercise patience, skill and inventiveness in order to keep your plan on the right track. Others may notice shortcomings or flaws you have overlooked, and it may be difficult to keep your balance amid disappointment and criticism. Expected help, assistance or materials may not come, or may prove inadequate. Under such circumstances it may be easy to feel overwhelmed, resentful or rejected, or to lash out at others and attempt to force our ideas and beliefs upon them. But it is more productive to calmly and objectively re-examine your plan and to make necessary adjustments and refinements.
      If you were unable to successfully advance your Lunation Plan during the waxing hemicycle, or unable to turn it around during the Full Moon, now is the time to break the hold of inertia and to focus on making a new start at the coming New Moon.