Welcome to our New Aquarius Moon. It is not just a New Moon today. Mercury has conjoined Pluto. The North Node of the Moon has moved into Pisces while the South Node has moved into Virgo. The Sun is applying to harmonize with Jupiter. The planet Uranus is at a standstill before it stations direct tomorrow. Everything is changing. Everything is changing rapidly! Can we hold on? Can we help to create those changes? Or are we going to allow things to happen to us?

Let’s do our best to keep remembering this, and practicing it to the best of our ability, and all will be well.

While it is sadly not true for all of us, if you are reading this, you have made it through the season of death. Scorpio, the second to last season, brings us into confrontation with our mortality. We begin to digest emotionally our experiences of the previous year. We feel it all. We have felt at all. And here we are in the season of Sagittarius having escaped death, and we are free. Here is where we must be careful.

So, for this New Moon in Sagittarius, let’s do our best to look back on our year and synthesize what life experience we have had into a wisdom with which to begin anew. Let’s set an intention for acting instead of reacting and working towards the best of all possible outcomes instead of fighting the worst of all possible realities.

When it all comes down to it, there are really only two answers: courage and love; how could we have shown more courage and how could we have shown more love? Ask yourself those questions about this last year and see what you learn. Ask those questions every day moving forward, and all will be well.

Any of our ancient shadows and traumas associated with this time of year have arisen in our awareness for healing and clearing. What resources do we have that we can offer for others? What areas are we needing help with? With whatever shadows arise, how can we still do our best to maintain equilibrium amid the impending gathering darkness of Autumn? How can we find peace, within and without?