Moon meets Saturn in the morning sky (image from Guy Ottewell’s blog, where he writes: “the Moon will be at its Last Quarter phase, and Saturn at its phase called west quadrature. Both expressions mean that they are 90 degrees to the ‘right’ (west) of the Sun.”

There’s a terrific harmony between the rhythms of Moon and Saturn, in that the Moon’s synodic rhythm (its motion relative to earth and sun from new phase to new phase) is 29.5 days, while Saturn’s orbital rhythm around the sun is 29.5 years.

Because this harmony is knowable without the use of telescopes and later astronomical technology, it’s easy to understand why ancient stargazers aligned these rhythms to the unfolding of human destiny, as members of a higher cosmic order.