The New Moon

A friend of mine does Lunar Lady Nights every month on the new moon. This is the first time I am actually going, but I receive emails every month giving a little teaser of what this new moon will be bringing the month. April seems like a pretty intense month. It is also really exciting because she slightly mentions a big event that's happening on my exact birthday this year. I would love to get a reading from her in the near future, maybe for my birthday, because the many friends that have seen her say that they are totally blown away by her readings. Plus, when I told her when my birthday was the last time I saw her, she said that this year was going to extremely interesting for me since the 11th square falls exactly on my birthday.

Anyway, below is the brief description she sent all of us on Monday. Hopefully this will help explain things for people, like me, who have been struggling with some things this past month with Mercury being retrograde. I will give an update to this after tonight when we meet.

Happy Wednesday. And remember, if you're struggling, this too will pass. :)

From Donna:Spring has sprung and the Aries New Moon, the first new moon of the natural year, occurs on Wednesday, April 10th at 2:35 am MST.  This New Moon carries a lot of exciting, dynamic and even explosive energy with Uranus, Venus, Mars and the newly discovered planet Eris joining the Sun and Moon in Aries, the sign of instinctive, impulsive action and new beginnings.  So after months and months and months of what has seemed like 'celestial brakes' on efforts to move forward with various projects and ideas both individually and collectively, the time is finally ripe to be able to implement and initiate new plans and really begin to make things happen.  So Ladies, its time to start your engines!  But remember, Aries teaches us to be assertive -- not aggressive, courageous -- not impetuous, and above all, to consider the impact our personal decisions and actions will have upon others -- not just ourselves.

All this volatile energy comes with the following cautionary disclaimer:  Beware of angry or reactionary tendencies that are not at all well thought out (can you say North Korea?!).  We're nearing eclipse season once again, as well as an upcoming Pluto retrograde.  All of the Aries planets except Uranus are still in a wide square aspect (conflict/choices) to Pluto in Capricorn which is coming to a powerful standstill coinciding with its annual station retrograde on the 12th just two days after the Aries New Moon!  Uranus and Pluto are also closing in on their next exact square at 11 degrees Aries/Capricorn which will happen on May 20th. What's begun under this New Moon's ambitious influence will have long-term, far-reaching and consequential effects -- perhaps much more so than originally intended or bargained for!

Three eclipses occur during April and May:  two Lunar (Full Moons) and one Solar (New Moon).  The first Lunar Eclipse is on April 25th at 5 degrees Scorpio.  Next a Solar Eclipse occurs on May 9th at 19 degrees Taurus (conjunct the Moon's South Node and coinciding with next month's Taurus New Moon).  This Solar Eclipse includes occultations (eclipse like events) of Mars and Mercury which will only intensify the natural 'reboot' energy of this eclipse relative to desires and ideas.  Finally, a second Lunar Eclipse in this series happens on May 24th at 4 degrees Sagittarius.  It opposes the Lunar Eclipse that occurred last November 28th at 6 degrees Gemini.  Whatever came to an end last November is now ready to be reborn and birthed anew.  But I'm getting ahead of myself here...  More on these two upcoming eclipse events at May's Lunar Ladies Night.  Suffice it to say this Aries New Moon kick-starts a LOT of pent up celestial energy that's ready to breakthrough and bust out over the next several months!