Aries New Moon; If Not Now, When?

This is the first new moon of the astrological year. The start of the suns transit in the sign of Aries coincides with spring in the northern hemisphere, signifying a new season, and brand new beginnings. During a new moon, the sun and moon sit side by side, making for a dark sky at night. The moon doesn’t reflect any light during this phase which often influences our own quiet introspection or lowers our overall energy. However, the world isn’t so quiet right now is it? Anxiety is high, fear is rampant, illness is spreading, the atmosphere is buzzing.  ☾…

Sagittarius New Moon; Aim True

Sagittarius reaches out its arrow for us to grab onto, pulling us from the newly explored depths of our own inner ocean of emotion. We may be drenched from Scorpio’s waters, soaking in our new understandings that Sag now invites us to celebrate. We were in Scorpios sunless, obsidian valley and now we’re on Sag’s lustrous, carnelian peak, hopefully seeing from new heights and broader perspectives with eyes-wide-open. ☽ Scorpio is contraction while Sagittarius is expansion. Scorpio asked for emotional honesty so we could answer the archers call and stand tall in our truth. Before we can stand firmly in…

Libra New Moon: Harmonize Inner Tension

The sun + moon are cuddled up in Libra, drawing the cosmic drapes, leaving us to slow dance beneath a dark sky. We recently transitioned from Earth to Air, Virgo to Libra. In North America we see the shift in nature as the air cools, animals migrate, and plant life begins to die or settle to seed. It’s the dance of duality, of coexistence, of life. Libra challenges us to to harmonize and find balance within the polarities of our existence. Life and death, light and dark, self and other, yin and yang. Libra is the part in all of…

New Moon in Leo: Delight Your Inner Child

This new super black moon in Leo invites us into the realm of optimism. New moon cycles are a time of fruitful darkness, a period of internal retreat, drawing us into the caves of our being. However, this new moon in Leo isn’t letting us go into the dark without first handing us a fiery torch to light the way. At the same time Mercury begins to move direct and many other positive aspects make way for a surplus of opportunities to flow and develop. The Cancer eclipse season may have left us feeling drenched as we plunged into the…