dark moon recommendation

dark moon recommendation

NEW MOON IN ARIES | APRIL 5 @4:50AM EST | 15 DEGREES


dark moons are the time right before a New Moon, when we’re preparing our interior grounds for the seeds we want to plant. it’s a time to rest, hydrate, contemplate, & cleanse. we might feel insecure, angsty, & emoceanal. it’s a time to be gentle, to be easy, & take what comes up as valuable information about what you’re ready to release/change. even discord & discomfort can mean you’re in sync…

as for the flava of the New Moon: aries job is to follow impulse. aries is supposed to be directed by desire. actually, we are all supposed to be. it’s that beginner’s impulse, that innocence that keeps us trying again & again. the risk it is to be alive, to be truly present. aries is the start of life, that moment we wake up. birth. aries is guided by a self-trust informed by instinct rather than experience. the relationship to desire is instantaneous, visceral, & full of fire.

here’s where capricorn comes in tho: I keep saying Saturn & Pluto are not fucking around. out of all the planets, they fuck around the least. that means somewhere in your chart/life you’re being taught how to not fuck around. in more encouraging news, they’re also here (in conjunction with the South Node) to get the shit that’s in the way of what you’re ready to create in your aries area of life OUT. it may feel like pressure but you can really use it as a catalyst of agency & devotion to your self/work/love.

meaning: capricorn wants to help aries direct the desire & fire towards what will be sustainable in the long term. you’re response-able for shaping a future that comes whether you’re ready or not. that aries ability to be completely present to the here & now, the good/bad/beautiful of this moment, is an incredible place to generate from. look further than right in front of you. look deeper than everything that is behind you. what do you fucking want? sometimes it does just come your way. most times, you have to create it, initiate it, show up for it. take yourself seriously enough to invest your energy/attention into what’s really important to you. stay clear on it; that’s power. ‘cause this shit is short.

your horoscopes are waiting for you in the COMMUNE.

oxo
saltwater & stars

dark moon recommendation

MARCH 6 @ 11:04AM EST | 15 DEGREES

pray to yourself. document the sacred. know you’re going to time travel. forget about staying relevant. love this new moon like the multilayered portal into the past & future it is, tethering yourself to the present with patience. hold onto your most resonant medicine: prioritize it, expand it, deepen it. begin nothing & everything again & again until you emerge on the other side cleansed by the waters of ambiguity that teach you to surrender control. then you can begin for real (aries season got you, don’t worry). because fantasies are delicate at this time. you can fill the spaces between dissolving illusions with them if you wish, just know they may not stay. not here, not now, not yet. try becoming comfortable with people/places/things feeling on pause, feeling far away. it’s okay, you’re okay.

everyone & especially those of us with delicate relationships to our mental/physical health: take your ebb & flow seriously. tend to your needs with the most tangible strategies you can weave together. ask for support. practice the kind of vulnerability that makes you want to run & hide forever afterwards but that allows you to be held in the lingering. honor your edges; don’t be reckless with them no matter how tempting it may be to think that would relieve you from having to hold on anymore. refuse to subscribe to ideas of self-sufficiency or reliance that only serve to separate you further when what we need right now is a more embodied understanding|praxis of interdependence & interconnectivity. most importantly, b o u n d a r i e s.

on Mars in taurus & Saturn in capricorn: the planet of drive & the planet of linearity itself are supporting the New Moon from the realms of earthy sensuality & structure. there is not as much fragility as it may feel like if you’re able to tap into the pleasure of the pragmatic. give yourself food, give yourself sex, give yourself ground. open your hands to receive the fulfillment of taurean needs for desire-rooted pleasure. simultaneously, let Saturn show you the sexy ways of designing a life-framework of practice making progress, no fucks being given to perfection. it’s all back to basics in honor of the future you’re building. let rest be your default, if only for the month.

make them prayers wide & dreams deep to carry you floward…

oxo
saltwater & stars

dark moon recommendation

New Moon in aquarius | February 4 @4:04PM EST | 15 Degrees

the dark moon is upon us, the draining & cleaning of the tub before we can fill it back up again with clean water. with the astrology right now, facts like some of us don’t have clean water & some of us have an abundance of it feels very present. this comes with the questions of how much an individual can impact the collective & how much the collective is response-able for holding the individual. sit with that as you must. in the grief so intricately intertwined into that inquiry is the generative love we need.

the pro-tip for this dark moon is to not take shit so seriously. it’s in capricorn, along with erratic Mars/Uranus square Pluto & the tension of the Moon passing over serious Saturn, take no bullshit Pluto, & the purging South Node. your trust issues might feel wide awake right now. it’s real & it doesn’t have to be forever. watch your default for when your scarcity/fear/distrust comes up. could you shatter the paradigm by extending into vulnerability? could you have some fucking integrity in the shape of unconditional love for yourself that makes you transparent & trustworthy for others?

in the gaps between our fears & vulnerability or our integrity & self-love are the painful traps of pretending. the thing is, starling, you don’t needa be fearless to be vulnerable. you don’t need to love yourself to have integrity. the magic is that all of these things can exist simultaneously, pulling you in perpendicular direction. it is which pulls you choose, which threads you weave with, that creates the opportunity for growth. for something different, something real, something you.

if you start feeling like shit before the New Moon comes, take a moment to celebrate how much you’ve accomplished/survived/thrived. remember times when you’ve had integrity, self love, fearlessness or vulnerability. think about the pieces of yourself, if any, that you’ve been the most uncompromising & unapologetic with—especially if they’re not the most beautiful & near-perfect pieces. there is power in you, there is a core foundation, there is beauty. celebrate what you can identify, get ecstasy from what you can now recognize.

trust yourself & yes, I’m always saying this but I really fucking mean it. you don’t got nobody but you to be managing. and being that response-able with your energy requires that you trust yourself enough to know what is needed when & that you’ll figure out the rest. that it’s okay to not know. that right now is not tomorrow & that this moment is forever & that yesterday never left the future.

oxo
saltwater & stars

dark moon recommendation

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“Just because we may be capable of forcing ourselves to continue down a certain path does not mean our nervous systems or physical health will be OK with that decision.”—Healing from Hidden Abuse by Shannon Thomas

please take rest with you into this next era. it can be easy to default back into the “getting things done” & “being about my business until my body crashes” mode during capricorn season…during capitalism. take rest with you. look to the North Node in cancer…nourishment, spiritual & emotional well-being, relationship…those are our new priorities if we want to thrive. yes, even with a Solar Eclipse in hyper-capable capricorn. hard work, we know how to do. capitalism, we know how to do. surrender, intimacy, rest, inner healing…we’re learning.

take your spirituality with you. don’t leave the most sacred parts of yourself behind to climb the mountain. in another sense, the Eclipse is asking: how many tools do you need to gather before you start using the ones you already have? how much knowledge do you need to accumulate before you begin embodying? how much wisdom do you need to consume before you generate your own through lived experience & real-time reflection?

watch your tendencies to seek capital—social, political, financial, spiritual—it should be the sustainable result of a stable foundation, that is then distributed towards justice. it is not THE measure of integrity, success, longevity, or even resonance. be in relationship, not consumption. make your plans, craft your intentions, deepen your resolve—certain that everything will change. your initiation is required, for sure. but then your response-ability is needed. not your control. you will not be able to stay the same & have desired outcomes.

this is dirty work, as Dark Moons are. as soul cycles are. the only thing you have to master is yourself, and that process will never end. so choose what chooses you. that’s a resonance of longevity. who gives a fuck if you’re inconsistent? continue to reveal the you that exists outside of, underneath, & within what the kyriarchy (intersecting systems of oppression) has validated. build on that, because it’s the infrastructure that will unconditionally support you. yes, I’m saying lead with your heart, with your body, with your soul.

oxo
saltwater & stars