The first New Moon of the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar! 6 out of 10 plan­ets in Fire! It does­n’t get more ener­getic than that. You should be streak­ing ahead, blaz­ing new trails, leap­ing tall…but no, wait, that’s not how it feels at all…

So, why do you feel as if things are not real­ly mov­ing for­ward? Oh, you remem­ber, maybe it’s because Mer­cury is ret­ro­grade. That’s right, you can’t go for­ward with­out turn­ing back; you have to fin­ish or fix some­thing before you leap ahead. Tie up those loose ends, dig into the fruits of your life just lived, take those seeds of yes­ter­year, and plant them in the warm­ing rays of the wax­ing sun…

Okay, well that’s it, right? Actu­al­ly, that is part of it, tru­ly, but there is a mes­sage in this New Moon itself that should make you stop, con­sid­er your path ahead care­ful­ly, before you can con­tin­ue towards your des­tiny. (And that’s a good turn of phrase, “to con­sid­er your path ahead” since that very word, “con­sid­er”, lit­er­al­ly means to be amongst (con) the stars (sider). Isn’t it mar­velous how our lan­guage speaks to us with the wis­dom of the ages, the wis­dom of the stars?)

For it so hap­pens that the pat­tern of this New Moon has the Sun and Moon oppo­site to Sat­urn. This is no sim­ple begin­ning, no sim­ple release of pure ener­gy. This begin­ning reminds you that that the uni­verse is found­ed upon a fun­da­men­tal rela­tion­ship between ener­gy and form, of ide­al and real.

The Sun and Moon have come togeth­er to release a new mes­sage that cel­e­brates the Aries truth of being “I”. It is the way of Aries to be one­self with­out restraint; you must raise your ban­ner and pro­claim “I AM!”, and so begin again as pure energy.

But Sat­urn replies; it speaks from the truth of Libra. The Lord of Time, Saturn/reality, says you are nev­er alone and your life has no mean­ing with­out con­text, with­out “the oth­er”. You are filled with poten­tial, and yet what you have so far real­ized in your present self is the prod­uct of the lives of all that have come before you. You stand upon the social-spir­i­tu­al foun­da­tion of that greater life that gave birth, sup­ports and gives mean­ing to your very exis­tence. You are, in fact, part of a great com­pa­ny of souls who have helped one anoth­er since the begin­ning of time.

So as the New Moon in Aries pro­claims a new release of self, Sat­urn reminds you to tem­per this release of pure self through the con­text of your social con­scious­ness. Cel­e­brate the release of your truer self that is the Aries Way; and hon­or The Bal­ance that is Sat­urn in Libra, by mak­ing your life mean­ing­ful through right­eous relationships.