Aries New Moon, Round 2: The sprouted seeds that are ready to be nurtured
Your story is your offering
Here we are at the tail end of the Aries season with, yet, another Aries New Moon. However, by the time you’re reading this, the Sun and Moon will most likely have already moved to Taurus, a Fixed Earth sign that is inviting us to nurture what we’ve sown.
But first, Aries New Moon round 2.
It’s not the same place as the one under the spring equinox New Moon. Conversations have evolved. Inner and outer shifts have taken place. Our position in time and space is not what it was around a month ago.
Personally, this last lunar cycle has been liberating in quite a few ways. It has given me experiences that have allowed me to start letting go of some old narratives that have kept me in a self-imposed prison. I’ve started to challenge my own stories. I’ve started to embrace the messiness whilst inviting in confusion.
I’ve started to deepen my knowledge in various modalities whilst leaning into the embodiment practice of the energetic blueprint of my human self. But not in a fixed, rigid sense. Rather, as I’ve deepened my body, mind, and soul connection, I have noticed I am able to hold different viewpoints without the need to judge or justify or defend my own personal viewpoints.
Dare I say, I've started to sense that maybe, just maybe, there is a place for me here. (A whisper I heard from Saturn in one of my morning breathwork sessions.) And later that same morning I read these words in the I'Ching Book of Changes:
“In order to find one's place in the infinity of being, one must be able to both separate and to unite.”
Well, if that's not Saturn himself telling us to define our own contours in which we discover our place in this world, I don't know what is.
I used to be very rigid with my opinions on which astrological system is “the” system, the ultimate true system that we should all use. I held onto a very black-and-white way of looking at it. With the information that I had available to me, I thought I had found the ultimate truth and that we’d all been lied to. But something shifted along the way.
I have started to hold the both/and possibilities. I have started to ask different questions. I have started to care less about being right and more about how these modalities and systems can help us be more present in our lives but also invite in the co-creation element.
How can we co-create the lives we desire with the support of the various self-awareness modalities?
How can we be more present in our lives with the support of our personal placements as well as the transiting energies?
How can we differentiate between what is ours and what is a residue of an outside source?
How can we unlearn the unhelpful stories that are keeping us prisoners?
Personally, this has shown up in my magical circle of emerging readers. In the three readings I’ve given so far, I’ve obsessed over their purpose. Yet, what’s been reflected back to me has been so illuminating.
I’ve realised that I have tried to think my way to a destination but that’s never the way, right? As a 3/5, my own natural way of going through this life is trial and error. It is only through the process of trial and error that I find what works and what doesn’t. With all that said, as long as this trial and error is fuelled by my Sacral, I know, I am on the right path for me, no matter how it is perceived by the outside world or my own mind.
By the way, if you're curious about how that might look like for you, take a look at your Type, Strategy, Inner Authority and Profile lines in your Human Design. We can learn a lot just by these four elements. With that said, I invite you to question it all and perhaps look into your past and present for data.
My own data brings me back to embracing the messiness and allowing confusion to be part of the process. As long as I allow myself to respond, I know I will attract the right experiences for me. What’s allowed me to get here is a deep self-exploration with the ancient and not-so-ancient modalities, self-reflection through journalling, and the added breathwork practice to help me get rooted in my body and hear the whispers from my inner well. And I am so excited to be nurturing these little fragile seedlings that have poked out of the rich soil of my past experiences.
I’m curious: what seedlings are you currently nurturing?
And now let’s have a little meandering with the lunar energies for this Aries New Moon to help us be present with what is. I'm also offering us a moment of reflection through the medicine of the Tarot. Plus, from my studio - a few sneak peeks of my most current creative project that I have started to call Breathwork Meditation mandalas.
There have been a few astrological shifts since the Aries New Moon at the beginning of spring. Pluto has shifted from Capricorn to Aquarius, if only momentarily. And Pluto is actually squaring the Sun and the New Moon, which to me, is the most fascinating aspect of this New Moon.
Square is an aspect that is often referred to as challenging or tense. My view on aspects is somewhat less fear-based and more open-minded. I view aspects as conversations between the planetary bodies involved and sometimes these conversations can get heated, just like in our own relationships.
So, in this case, we have Pluto in a Fixed Air sign conversing with the Sun and Moon in a Cardinal Fire sign. Fixed Air makes me think of gases. So we can sense the challenge with this square. Gas and fire tend to not mix well, right?
The fixed nature of air can be very rigid in their viewpoints whereas the cardinal nature of fire can bring sudden outbursts and tantrums.
So how can we be more mindful of the energies that we bring with us?
How can we be assertive with our inner truth but still leave space for compassion and understanding for everyone else’s?
Aries, the sign of personal willpower meets Aquarius, the sign that has an affinity with the collective.
Pluto is our impulse to heal, to regenerate and it is briefly stopping in the collective sign Aquarius before dipping back into Capricorn and then leaving the latter for good. We are getting a glimpse into these energies on a more collective level. Once Pluto enters back into Aquarius next year, it will stay there for the next 20 years.
If you’re curious about where in life this will play out for you, have a look and see which house your Aquarius is in. Personally, these energies will play out in my 6th House, a house that is associated with service, work, health, self-care, and daily routines and rituals.
This is also the house where my Black Moon Lilith resides which represents our capacity to refuse categories, norms, and programming.
This to me has always played out in my relationship with conventional jobs and a traditional way of working, a way of working that we are conditioned with and are only now starting to question in a more collective way. But it is also showing up in my personal beliefs around wellness and how the current healthcare systems are ignoring the root cause of our illnesses and only treating the symptoms.
But for now, let’s just roll with the conventional jobs.
As a Generator, it has never really been a problem to me because my sense of duty and responsibility, and possibly financial fear, run so deep that I will show up to a day job that does not matter, and that frustrates me because I have the energetic drive for it. But someone who’s a Projector type may have a slightly different story with it, and it is very common for Projectors to burn out. Not that Generators don’t burn out but it is harder to pinpoint.
Internally, I always rebel against having to commute to a 9-5 job and giving up my time to be on someone else’s schedule. I’ve already lowered my hours at my day job twice because I am not interested in spending the better part of my life on things that do not fulfill me. Although I could think of worse jobs than a library assistant. And I’ve definitely been in worse jobs that don’t fit my energy type at all, in hindsight.
If you’re curious about your own Black Moon Lilith and where you’re more prone to refuse societal norms and programming, look at the house it resides in. I’d be curious to know where yours is and if that resonates at all.
So maybe under this Aries New Moon, we are being asked to take a look at our own individual role in the healing of the collective whole.
What is the part that we play in it?
What are the friction points in our own lives?
Taking those friction points into account, what is our offering?
In the words of Aisha Badru:
“Your story is your offering.”
I would now like to offer us a Tarot reflection for this final degree Aries New Moon that is flavouring the energies. You might notice, a card from the last Full Moon has also found its way into this reading.
Could it be we’re invited to practice discernment for the cups coming our way? Which one are we ready to nurture and which one needs to be let go of?
As always, may you take what you need and leave the rest.
May we celebrate the path that’s led us here.
Yes, there are still plans to conjure up, dreams to make come true,
but for now,
may we revel in how far we’ve come.
May we admire and adore the little seedlings that are reaching out from the rich soil of our past.
May we hold the vision of the deep deep roots they’ll grow.
May we not get sidetracked or disheartened by the miles we still want to walk,
but rather,
may we embrace the journey and celebrate the victories along the way.
In the Full Moon Invitation, I shared a bit about the impromptu mandala I created after one of my breathwork sessions. Well, it has kind of become a thing and I’ve started to create one after each longer session. It has been such a magical experience. Something about these sessions allows me to enter this wonderful creative flow state - a state where these magical designs literally pour out of me. And I’d love to share them with you.
Whether they’ll ever be something other than just personal sketches remains to be seen. But for now I am fully embracing this creative breathwork practice.
Funnily enough, all three of them are from my conversations with Mercury. As I enter my conscious connected breathwork practice, I tend to set a gentle intention to converse with one of the planetary archetypes and how I can best embody my own natal placements. Mercury has shown up a lot recently and we’ve had some wonderful and insightful conversations. And I’m so glad I was able to capture the essence of these conversations in the form of these mandalas.
I’m finally feeling the excitement around creating again and breathwork has allowed me to enter into that flow state more easily. I lost that desire to create with all the various health issues earlier this year so this has been a truly welcoming practice.
Thank you for being here.
Sending you lots of love,
Silvia