New Moon in Libra: Resistance
October is a tough month in a tough year. Today’s New Moon in Libra reflects that. In an ordinary year, we’d look to a Libra New Moon as a time of harmony, peace, and beauty. This year calls for a … Continued
New Moon in Virgo: Fate & Free Will
For each lunar phase, I chose a title, a phrase to capture the theme of each Sun–Moon connection. For a New Moon in Virgo, a sign known for humility and service, anxiety and the desire to keep ducks in rows, … Continued
New Moon in Leo: Light the Beacons
The New Moon in Leo arrives Tuesday night in my eastern US time zone, earlier in the evening to the west of me, before dawn Wednesday in western Europe, and so on around the globe. Wherever you are, this New … Continued
New Moon in Cancer: Rebirth
We have come through the Cancer/Capricorn eclipse cycle having learned much. Perhaps more than we wanted to know. Now we arrive at the end of Cancer season. In a few days, the Sun enters Leo, bright, creative, playful, and passionate. … Continued
New Moon in Cancer: Circles of Shadow and Light
Today we enter the Solstice, which, this year, flows into a New Moon with an annular solar eclipse. It’s a complex and intense lunation. It will stir up (is already stirring up) strong emotions. We’re in transition, needing to reckon … Continued
New Moon in Gemini: Beginner’s Mind
The New Moon in Gemini arrives today, Friday, at 1:39 pm in my eastern time zone. Gemini is youthful, curious, clever, inventive, and optimistic. This New Moon brings in lots of Gemini. Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, and the North Node … Continued
New Moon in Taurus: New Horizons
Viola, having survived a terrible shipwreck, stands on new land she’s never seen and asks, “What country, friends, is this?” The play, Twelfth Night, was written for the time-outside-time that was the traditional Christmas season, a night also known as … Continued
New Moon in Aries: Check Yourself
Before dawn tomorrow (in my eastern time zone) the New Moon in Aries arrives. This year, the early meeting between Sun and Moon (each @ 4 Aries) links this New Moon closely to the Equinox and the beginning of the … Continued
Mercury Cazimi: Fire in Water
We’re still in the time of the New Moon, floating in the mists and drifting in the currents. Tonight, if we watch, we’ll catch a bright flash shining deep in the waters. Mercury will gain audience with the Sun and … Continued
New Moon in Pisces: Wellspring
The New Moon is always a dark Moon. Obscured, unseen, she waits in the shadows. This is the moment of maximum yin, which means yang is potentiated. There is a moment you can catch sometimes at the ocean, the moment … Continued