We wake tomorrow into a New Moon in Aries that marks a powerful impetus to
action.
We're required to follow our instincts very closely during the following lunar cycle (until April 22) and to check in with our emotional impulses and reactions regularly. We're being asked to use our anger (and the anger of others) as a guiding force, harnessing its raw power for productive and constructive ends.
Even in this time of increasing authoritarian control over our daily lives, there are actions we can take, and indeed, every independent action matters, now more than ever.
The New Moon occurs at 4 degrees Aries early tomorrow morning (1:28 a.m. PDT) at
apogee, meaning it is the furthest the Moon can get in its orbit around
the Earth. The lunar apogee is symbolized astrologically by Black Moon Lilith. In addition to being conjunct Black Moon Lilith, the New Moon occurs in an exact conjunction to wounded healer Chiron. The presence of both Black Moon Lilith and Chiron in Aries indicates emotional volatility and a certain "edge" to things.
We're drawing on ancient suppression, ancient frustration, and ancient anger as this lunar cycle unfolds. This is bigger than just us (isn't it always?). This involves historical mistreatment by the violent and authoritarian power structures of this planet - the stepping on human rights, on the human spirit, on the right to live life unharassed and unmanipulated - and the anger from this historical mistreatment is being drawn into our courses of action this lunar month.
The emotion is very raw and very potent. If not channeled productively, it could become destructive, dangerous, toxic.
This is very intricate work, addressing historical sore spots in ourselves and others and doing it with the nuance and precision required, turning this anger, this raw and historical rage coming from every face that has ever felt the boot of tyranny and oppression on this planet, into useful fuel, into energy, action, and inspired movement.
Maintaining physical activity and movement is very important this month, even as these things are harshly constricted and controlled.
Black Moon Lilith is the wild and raw feminine force that has been suppressed, pinned down, ignored, downplayed, used, abused, spit at. We're drawing from some very deep zones in our emotional landscapes this
lunar month, and these areas are refusing to be pushed down, shut up, or
controlled any longer. We're standing up and making ourselves count, making ourselves known, in areas where we have been stepped on or discounted previously. Our experiences matter. We matter. And the actions we take now matter, too.
We're standing up for ourselves and for our rights as natural and sovereign human beings this lunar month. As we stand up for ourselves, we stand up for all those who never got that chance - or who do not have that chance now. We reach back into our lineages, both physical and spiritual, and we take action in our own lives that was inaccessible to so many generations prior. We do the things they wish they had had the opportunity to do, and we do it with their backing.