The New Moon in Libra on September 28th (2:26pmEST) is a curving connection point.

A venn-diagram. A partner dance. A meeting between opposites.

The flick of a wrist. The glance of an eye. An invitation in the shape of a smile.

A charming advance. A leisurely dalliance. A coquettish flirtation.

This moon is a familiar chill up the spine.

It’s a Moon of Making Love.

Look for the things you can love.

Beauty is everywhere. Beauty reminds us to live in a state of love.

Things to love are everywhere. There is something to love in everything; in everyone. All of life gives opportunity to make more love.

Asters blooming in the dimming light. Chestnuts falling and popping from their hulls as they crash to the ground. Old outbreaths rising from the soil, releasing memories through millions of minds.

Things are falling apart. Things are coming together. Find the intersection and in it,

Make more love.

Love grows love. Kindness grows kindness. Acceptance breeds acceptance.

All the world is a mirror.

Give what you want to get.

Look for the things that love you back.

Judgement is not love. Nor are platitudes, placations, or masks of assimilation. Love is not cosmetic. Love does not tiptoe for fear of upsetting false balance. Love is not “going along with” or “keeping the peace.” Love is not predicated on altering appearances or conforming to social mores.

Love is sharing. Love is connection and true companionship. Love is meeting the ‘other’ and realizing they’re the other half. Love is being met. Love is substantive. Love is joining together and producing harmonic resonance through union. Love is appreciating natural beauty. Love is a loud call for restoration. It is waging peace, and uplifting justice. Love is reparation and reconciliation.

This Moon is a rebalancing; on levels both personal and cultural.

The past week has contained major conversations and choices about righting wrongs and coming back into balance. We are setting up course for repair and justice. What we begin under this New Moon will come clear by mid-January 2020.

Since 2019 dawned, it has been a heavy year. If not heavy, then deep. A year of questioning, of ciphering, of existential crisis. A year of clarifications and shifting tectonic plates. At times, a fearful year of stuckness, resistance, and regression. At times, purposeful, like steering heavy machinery or finally getting into alignment with our own integrity.

(Learn more about the current transit of Saturn in Capricorn via this instant download course.)

With Saturn in Capricorn, things are real real. Like Baba Yaga in the deep woods, real. Like recalling cultural amnesia on genocidal collusion, real. Like figuring out the burning times never ended. We’ve been facing and clearing ancient karmic patterns. Trimming the fat. Pruning away non-essentials. Gaining wisdom and returning to necessity.

This is big work, this reckoning with culture. We are not just products of our environment. We are culture-makers. When we can no longer fit in, we re-create culture and society in the image of the lasting. But before we are makers, we’ve got to be culture-breakers - demolish to rebuild. It is here, in the wreckage, that we determine where to anchor our Love.

What are we being re-made into? Can culture become a clearer reflection of love?

What is beautiful about all these changes we’re moving through? Let’s uplift that.

Trust in balance.

We are settling into a new kind of equal.

Remineralizing the soils and bones.

Staring into the immensely insatiable beauty of a black hole.

A black hole holds the center of our galaxy. We are born of this black hole - the relationship between gravity, time, and space. These relationships forge an interminable balance.

Relationships make Art out of Us.

Balance is not something we do. Balance is what we’re in. It’s what we are, in wholeness. Balanced is what we become, in relationship to the whole. Two halves make the whole, and their dance is inseparable. Day leads to night, and night to day. Seasons change. Ages and epochs turn. Step back and allow the scales to find their way to equilibrium. It takes grace to know both sides as one.

To become more balanced, adjust your relationships. Start by making peace with yourself. Befriend yourself. Give some love in your own direction.

Identify; what will give you peace? What is within your control and jurisdiction that will bring about more peace? Where can you smooth out a wrinkle? Making peace is not the same as pretending everything is okay.

In heavy times, what still brings a lightness of being? Cultivate ease. Making ease is not the same as avoiding problems.

“Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
The Master never reaches for the great;
thus she achieves greatness.
When she runs into a difficulty,
she stops and gives herself to it.
She doesn't cling to her own comfort;
thus problems are no problem for her.”

-Tao Te Ching Chapter 63, translation by Stephen Mitchell

Become a connoisseur of the casual interspaces. Explore and know the small twixts and tweens, the tiny yet significant inroads that form connective tissue. The connective tissue holds the bones of structure in place. It’s worthwhile to work there.

This Moon is an equalizer. As such, it offers new ways of being in relationship. For relationships to improve, we right what needs righting. We come correct and become more connected to the whole.

Address the imbalance, and grow more love.

Looking in the mirror of life, we can see that goldenrod is still in flower and glinting in slanting afternoon light. Pears hang heavy on a backyard tree. Persimmons like tiny pumpkins burst at the seams with sweetness. Acorns layer the ground.

Be a friend to these miracles.

The world is sharing itself with you. Don’t withhold yourself from it. Take the chance of connecting with life, and share yourself back. Give and get. Meet, and be met.

Be easy and admire the beauty along the way.

Rose Gold Moon. Looking Glass Moon. Lovers Moon. Moon of Being Met. See-Saw Moon. Wage Peace Moon. Moon of Visages. Moon of Masks & Wrappings. Negotiations Moon. Moon of Being Charmed. Insignia Moon. Moon of Hanging in the Balance. Persimmon Moon. Persuasion Moon. Moon of Ma’at. Moon of Ruffled Skirts. Persephone and Demeter Moon. Course-Correct Moon. Moon of Drying Colors. Lace Jewelry Moon. Moon of Marrying Yourself. Moon of Reciprocity. Light-as-a-Feather Moon. Stiff-as-a-Board Moon. Moon of Middle Ground.

Embody this Moon through movement and journaling as guided in this Embodied Astrology ritual for Libra.

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Aries: I am interdependent.

Balance is showing up in my life in the form of people. Partners, friends, companions, lovers - I turn to others for the best advice. Co-operation is a keyword for me right now. I take myself and others off pedestals. I heal over-independence into interdependence - soothing struggle with grace. Collaboration helps me to know myself better. I admire all that is beautiful that others are bringing into my life. The best relationships are founded between people who have a strong sense of themselves. I bring my courage and confidence to the table, and use it to love fiercely.