Last Quarter
Moon's left half bright, right half dark — half moon, after full quarter.
demolition · releasing old form · crisis as consciousness · reform
Archetype
Last Quarter is conscious demolition. The old structure (built in First Quarter) no longer serves enough; must be consciously dismantled. The person born in this phase is the reformer, the breaker of outdated structures. Not cruel — necessary destruction. The architect of structural change.
Natal reading
The person born in Last Quarter has the reformer's nature. Throughout life sees that old things "should no longer be" and carries the responsibility to break them. Revolutionary, critic, institution-critic, restructurer type. Advantage: sharp vision, consciousness-logic together. Determined when an old structure must be torn down. Risk: staying in continuous destructive mode, losing the value of the old too. What needs to be learned: the purpose of destruction is to build the new, not an end in itself.
Shadow
Constantly destructive; rejecting everything old; losing constructive power.