In the late morning, the Libra new moon invites us to set intentions around giving and receiving. How do you define peace? How do you connect with poetic Venusian ideals like beauty, grace, and art? The new moon calls us to notice where our reality has become stripped down and spartan, and to supplement it with more color and life! Yet, ultimately, our focus is on harmony now, and achieving harmony in our environments begins by achieving harmony within. When it comes to our lifestyles and relationships, are the scales balanced? People-pleasing is an empty pursuit if it requires us to sacrifice our own peace of mind. To this end, the moon aligns with Mercury, helping us to call out injustice. We can have discussions that are civil yet diplomatic. Negotiations and fresh starts feature prominently.This new moon solar eclipse also opposes Chiron in Aries, reminding us of past occasions where we sold ourselves short, doubted our abilities, or allowed others to make false assumptions about our character. We must call this out for what it was—unfair discrimination! If not, we will continue to center it within our experience, when it’s time we let it go and move on!
Libra Mercury’s opposition with Chiron in Aries arrives mid-afternoon, but its effects are implicit within the Libra new moon solar eclipse. This aspect makes it difficult to find our voice. In fact, we might make our past pain central to our current story. It’s impossible not to talk about an old grievance. This is fine if we are aiming to overcome our narrative. However, the risk is now that some part of us has overidentified with this story to such a degree, that we wonder who we’d be without it! Pain can become a crutch, a security blanket that we use to qualify an aversion to stepping outside our comfort zone. At this time, strive to ignore the notion that this past crisis has “made you” who you are. You’ve lived and you’ve learned. This is not the most interesting part of your story. A new chapter is ready to be written!
