Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

I don't know why it feels like this, but I've been watching my quarti-lunars lately, and it feels like they've all been absolute dead ringers every time, even more obviously than the main SLR or demi. My theory is that they're just narrower and more focused, almost like quick-but-punchy transits (conjunctions by inner planets or something on that power scale), so they're easier to pick out. I am admittedly bad at recognizing SLR themes in real life.

Anyway, here's a crazy one...

So I was really unusually extraverted the past 2 days; on Nov 16, after bringing my car in for maintenance (again) for them to mostly shrug at me and tell me they couldn't find anything wrong (again), I went out for lunch with two very close friends and their parents, who paid for the lunch. It was pretty expensive and was high quality food. My friends were really kind and supportive to me the whole day (I'm a sensitive soul and I remember this kind of thing.)

Today, Nov 17, I woke up to a surprise text from an old friend, who invited me out an hour and a half into NYC for a birthday lunch for his brother (our former coworker). Once again, I got fed and given alcohol for nothing, and got hugged and complimented way more than I was expecting.

Here's the QLR which fired on 9:12am on Nov 16:

t. Saturn sq Asc 0º56'
r. Saturn/Neptune on EP 1º29' (both equidistant in RA)
t. Jupiter on Asc -2º38'
t. Venus on Asc +3º39'
----t. Neptune 90 t. Venus 2º20'
r. Sun on Asc -5º18'
----t. Jupiter 0 r. Sun 3º09'
r. Moon on MC +7º29'
----t. Saturn 90 r. Moon 4º29'

I think all of the Saturn/Neptune was the car stuff, but the rest is pretty clear.

I mean, going out to social events and being gifted food is about the most Venus-Jupiter thing there is.

I find it fascinating that you're seeing this kind of reaction because I struggle to find even a small subjective shift out of a Quarti-SLR let alone any kind of event.

Your current example is a mixed box. I agree with your assessment of the Venus-Jupiter meaning, but would consider the chart fundamentally a Saturn time with anything else being in that context. It's mixed, could be either this-or-that.

But admittedly the "that," in this case, was quite vivid. Not a fuzzy event.

I should also mention, now that I think about it, that I've gotten mid-grade nightmares for the last 2 nights (so, beginning the night before the QSLR). In the last one, an ex-girlfriend (who I loved deeply) died - pretty fitting for Saturn-Neptune. Maybe relevant.

Given that I've also been watching all of my Enneads (and peeking at the demi and quartis - mostly unimpressed) and KLRs, this might just be a phase in which I'm watching too many charts at once, and getting overly impressed by stray hits.

But it's hard to chalk this one up to much else, from what I was able to find, at least. My transits for the last 2 days don't seem to explain it:
- Venus 135 s. Uranus is good, but too minor for how grandiose it all was;
- t. Mars to s. Moon/Uranus/Neptune was brief but intense travel frustration, noticeable but not on topic;
- t. Venus 45 r. Venus is good, but again, way too minor.

The quotidians don't say nearly as much as the chart does. Normally I see lots of Venus for things like this, and there was some, but again, the scale of the events were too large for me to feel like it was just the quotidians (or octiles by Venus) responsible.

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My Oct 26 SLR seems to be about bigger topics, with complex clusters of t.Pluto/r.Mercury, t./r. Saturn, r. Sun, t. Jupiter, and t. Mars, and some more friends. This one looks like it's mostly about work, intense mental activity, and some recognition, which is right for the past few weeks.

The Nov 9 DSLR does have t. Venus on EP 1º32', but once again, it's mostly Mercury (transiting this time), Mars (natal this time), and some Sun (transiting this time), which makes me think most of the chart is, again, about work or work-topics; Sun-Mars with some Saturn is a good fit for the way work has been going and the mood I've been in about it in general.

So I find it strange that, at least from the examples I've seen so far, the QSLRs feel so direct and focused (and then vanish), like transits, when compared to the other SLR variants. I feel like I have to sit and decode SLRs and DSLRs at least twice per chart, whereas the QSLRs usually feel obvious to me. Maybe it's in the way I'm approaching it.

You have been having transiting Jupiter exactly oppose your progressed (SQ) SSR Moon.