
At the time of the 3rd quarter all possible events in the Magickal Planes have been squeezed upward and their energy begins to flow into the Spiritual Planes to seek their astral counterparts. At the same time the Spiritual Planes are absorbing energy from the sun causing expansion and growth from the sunlight itself. Again, this is much like the action of a syringe that draws in fluid as the plunger is pulled back.
Once more the activity begins at the lowest levels and gradually moves upward to the highest levels of the Spiritual Planes.
This happens for all 118 layers because it is the energy and not always the event itself that moves upward. Imagine a piano keyboard with 118 keys. Now visualize pressing down the lowest key and sliding your finger smoothly all the way from the lowest tone to the highest. Each note is individually toned. Now imagine it happening once more as the notes are again sounded from the lowest to the highest.
The first sequence ruptures the astral fabric within each individual layer one at a time forcing astral events to either merge, grow or become destroyed. The activity remains within each individual astral layer of the Spiritual Planes.
Then at the midpoint between the 3rd quarter and New Moon the second sequence begins once more from lowest to highest. But this time the astral fabric ruptures and those events and astral bodies capable of moving upward to the next layer do so. In astrology the midpoint is the 45 degree point which is the most powerful in terms of energy.
After each layer has ruptured and every possible event has moved upward as high as it possibly can those events and astral bodies in the Spiritual Planes have merged as much as possible with their counterparts in the Magickal Planes and the energy is once more directed downward. Again these events do not need to be physical events but can be emotional events or spiritual events. They can take place on any level but they will need to be balanced energetically with the Magickal Planes before they can manifest.
You can see how the events and entities within the Spiritual Planes gradually attempt to find a common resolution with the Magickal Planes by going higher and higher. Typically this movement upwards brings things into conscious awareness so that it can be consciously dealt with.
Important events in your own life will not normally be at the top or bottom of the Spiritual Planes but someplace in the middle. They will be toned and activated when their key is struck and not at the exact moments of the 3rd Quarter or New Moon. Any magickal work in the astral planes should be done before the key is struck and that level activated, if possible and not after the fact. If the magickal working is done too late the activation will be postponed until the next month’s lunar cycle activates it! By that time most of the energy will have dissipated harmlessly away.
You can tell roughly where your personal activity is located by the time of your dream during the 3 1/2 day spread. Whether the dream happens immediately after the 3rd quarter or closer to the midpoint. Each lunar cycle will once more activate any active areas so that you may have dreams during the same time each month when that specific layer is activated until the process is complete.
To be more specific any dreams within 3 1/2 days after the 3rd quarter will only have horizontal elements. Dreams within the 3 1/2 days approaching the New Moon will have vertical elements as the astral activity moves up into the next layer and attempts to find it’s complement so that it can somehow manifest.
This completes a brief overview of the lunar cycle and shows how the astral fabric naturally ruptures on its own during the lunar cycle and to a lesser extent during the daily cycle. We now know enough about the astral planes to understand more about the solar cycle which we will be exploring next.