New lunar impact site, before and after
On 13 March 2025 a Total Lunar Eclipse occurred with the Moon at 23° Virgo 56′. When the chart is cast for Phoenix, Arizona — home of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Science Operations Center — that eclipsed Moon sits powerfully in the 10th house, close to the Midheaven. In mundane astrology the 10th house rules public visibility, reputation, and discoveries that reach the wider world.
Seven and a half months later, on 24 October 2025, image-processing specialist Robert Wagner of Intuitive Machines (working with the LROC team in Phoenix) noticed something extraordinary while running a routine temporal comparison of Wide-Angle Camera images. A bright ejecta pattern stood out. Further investigation revealed a brand-new 222-metre-diameter lunar crater that had formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024. It was the largest contemporary impact crater yet identified anywhere in the Solar System — a once-in-132-year event. The crater was later named McGetchin.
The formal scientific announcement came on 16 September 2026 with the publication of two papers in Science Advances and accompanying NASA coverage. On that day the Sun stood at 23°–24° Virgo — exactly conjunct the fixed star Alkes (α Crateris), the principal star of the constellation Crater, “the Cup.”
Traditional stellar astrology has long associated Alkes and the constellation Crater with vessels, bowls, and crater-like forms. The symbolism is almost too neat: an eclipsed Moon at 23° Virgo in the 10th house of the Phoenix chart “seeds” a major lunar-surface discovery; the discovery itself is made by a Phoenix-based team; and the public revelation occurs when the Sun returns to the same degree and activates the star of the Crater constellation.
This is a beautiful modern illustration of how eclipse degrees can carry a signature that unfolds over time — first through the actual event on the Moon, then through its detection, and finally through its formal announcement under the light of the very star that rules the Cup and the Crater.
The Moon, it seems, still knows how to speak.
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