New Moon in Aries: Healthy Selfishness
The aspects for this New Moon are…yeah…intense
New Moon Conjunct Chiron - (“literally no one can feel my pain rn”)
New Moon Square North Node - (“why is fate is bitchslapping me out of my cozy bed”)
New Moon sextile Saturn - (“this is probably for my own good”)
Hold on, everything’s about to change again. With the New Moon in Aries (aka the true astrological beginning of Spring), the feral, lugubrious delight of breaking free from the hibernation of Winter is thrumming you like a sacred sound. You’re breaking free from death and approaching things like the Fool card: innocently and with abandon. Rational thought isn’t needed right now and you’ll soon see why in the coming weeks—the emotional landscape is vivid enough that you can set your watch by your instincts and really lay into making decisions with your gut. You’re going to be feeling feral and messy and you need to know that that’s ok.
Events are taking a wild turn, as a square to passing North Node marks a time of fated issues coming to light in order to create cosmic order (sextile Saturn). It’s not super comfortable, in fact, it’s quite painful right now, as Chiron is the wounded healer—he heals other’s wounds, but his always remains. You’re actionably in a chirotic role at the moment, and likely in a few pickles that are freaking you out and yet making you more courageous than ever. The passing North Node aspect indicates that this time will be very, very important on a global level, but also on a time level: time is speeding up and events that you thought were years away will be pushed to the front of the docket. Sacred healing is essential right now, and it’s healing by fire: burning away everything that has dried you out and sucked the life out of you.
I’m reminded of the story of the Legend of the Seal Woman from Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In the story, a seal woman’s seal skin (her sacred power suit) is stolen from her while playing on land, so she cannot return to her home, the water. The man who stole it makes a deal with her that after seven years he will return it, and in the meantime he will take care of her. Without her skin, she begins to “dry-out” and loses her connection to herself; she loses her ability to return home. I feel like this story mirrors a theft that happened to you, darlink. It’s time to return home and nourish your true self, but to do that, you’ll have to undergo the agony of wounding others who want to keep you where you are, safe and sound. You will have to listen to your instincts and know when “to growl, to pounce, to take a swipe, when to kill, when to retreat, when to bay ’til dawn.”
You’re having a personal renaissance now and it’s VERY inconvenient. It’s fated, it’s inevitable and tantrums, frustration, and chaotic pain are essential to getting the big deal shit of changing your life done.
xoxo,
Hayley
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