Moon Astrology
The Libra New Moon chart mirrors a deeply transformational, though perhaps uncomfortable, process. Venus, the Libra ruler, just turned retrograde (Oct. 5 – Nov. 16) in the intense, Pluto-ruled sign of Scorpio. As she ventures into the underworld, Venus as the Dark Goddess of death and rebirth (and bringer of justice when she retrogrades back into Libra throughout Nov.) makes a provocative square to Mars. A “battle of the sexes” is upon us.
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Libra is the planet of relating, but Scorpio is where we grow intimate. You and your partner begin your journey together together with your big shopping bags in hand, trying hard to balance each other out—the peacemaker with the scrapper; one moody and emotional, the other steady and patient. But if you stay together long enough, things will eventually get real. Occasionally, they’ll even get ugly.
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Venus retro begins underground, in the unconscious. Like a volcano readying to erupt, there is a kind of rumbling in the personal and the collective psyches. Since Jupiter entered Scorpio a year ago, sign of sex, death, and power, the awareness of power imbalance between women and men has reached a fevered pitch that will only get louder over the next few weeks. Yet what about you? What about your personal experience of the retrograde? That matters too.
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The time of Libra, ruled by goddess Venus and Air, always brings beautiful transformations in nature, as well as inevitable change. This change is felt in the air temperature, the way the light is shifting each day, and in the trees and all plants expressing themselves for a final hurrah in the northern hemisphere, or abundant growth in the southern.
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3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind… Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from […]
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This is the work of each year’s Full Moon in Aries: balancing the needs of self with those of community. Who are you, apart from your family, your career, and your partner? Among the cardinal compass points that orient us to our world, the point of self—the rogue element that is seen as a potential threat to the security of family, the order of society, and the fidelity of marriage—is one that is often misunderstood.
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Do you feel you have a right to take up space? To be Right, with a capital “R” (no matter another’s version/experience)? To do what you want (and not do what you don’t want)? To stand up for you? To draw a line? Do you feel how other people treat you in relationship is up to you (not them)? Do you feel like the Queen/Goddess of your life (not a servant to others)?
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Aphrodite smiles and takes a graceful turn through the circle, saying “Keeping your balance while dancing requires an awareness in the inner ear.” Then she stops and looks deeply into your eyes. “Keeping your balance with another,” she says, ” requires an awareness in the heart. You live in divided times.” She shakes her head. “It’s easy to fight. It’s harder yet more powerful to be receptive.”
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Goddess pose always feels like a sensitively strong shape to take with Libra energy. It helps us develop our strength inside of our peace. This is a pose you might want to do every day this month. Each time, sense what is happening inside of this shape.
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Imagine that you have become a Full Moon goddess, capable of balancing the earth and harmonizing its opposing forces. In particular you are tuned to the energies of Aries and Libra, the complementary energies of “me” and “we.” Aries wonders, “Who am I?” Libra wonders, “Who are you—and how can we work together?”
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The Moon is in its
Gibbous Phase
in the
Sign of Pisces
Today's Lunar Aspects:
