Tis the astrological new year!—may you embrace new ideas, and new perspectives, and new lifestyles and sceneries!
Upon this Aries new moon, as shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera writes, “we begin things…”
Through this degree new realizations abound—and you may be interested in reading further into this first decan of Aries—this first degree speaks of ‘births, emergences, and taking the first, faltering and naive steps on any journey.’
The stirrings from within remain an ongoing theme now, these stirrings but a signaling new potentials and possibilities for growth, action, movement, and new beginnings.
Choices are everywhere, and self-discovery around every bend… and change begins when the next step is recognized.
You understand more, now, than you have till this point.
These are new days we’re embarking upon—offering entirely new landscapes and brand new adventures—if we’re but willing to take the first steps.
Will you take these first steps?
If not, why?—what are you frightened of?
The Aries new moon, specifically, represents The Fool card in the tarot—a card that encourages one to take first steps, to venture forth, to “blithely step off the cliff with unquenchable faith in the Universe’s benevolence…” as Kaldera continues…
Kaldera reminds us that, as Aries energies resemble, the infant—that the infant doesn’t yet know pain or disappointment, distrust, or disbelief… the infant intrinsically trusts.
And so maybe you’re struggling, not with fright or fear or worry, but with trust…
Ultimately, ‘whatever is emerging, either in you or around you needs to be accepted, welcomed, and nurtured… it’s best to resist the old familiar ways of being or relating as they can pull you back to outgrown and possibly unsatisfactory conditions—despite any setbacks, be aware that you possess the power to make the necessary changes in your life.’
It’s time. To begin something new.
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However, the sun moves from Pisces to Aries, marking the spring equinox at exactly 2:24pm PDT* which brings the sun into the first decan of Aries, which I will be posting about later today…
Happy Equinox to everyone!
This week’s energies will begin to increase and peak—today may remain balsamic, but rest assured tomorrow’s energy will surge.
Also this week—Pluto will move into Aquarius… I’ll be writing on this separately as well.
If anything, above all else, take today as a doorway—as a transitional type of day… a boldfaced Now moving into Not Yet, a final grieving act upon a new tomorrow.
This month will indeed be unlike any other month of the year… if it’s already been quite the month for you and you’d like to talk about it—I’m here.
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Today the balsamic moon connects to Saturn in conjunction—for the first time within Pisces…
The balsamic moon moves into Pisces from Aquarius quite early… and when in Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, the balsamic moon becomes all that much more… balsamic.
Which is to say—it may feel as though the drain in the tub has been pulled and the water has turned cold—very low energy and very low drive… other than seeking warmth and dryness most instinctively. Except today—dryness and warmth may not be so readily available…
And there may also be a very low focus and/or awareness toward the physical boundaries of one’s personal parameters, as likely too much attentive presence is being experienced within—within one’s inner energetic realms. Shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera suggests, through this moon, that it’s a moon to find a way to experience All That Is… to find ways to connect—without actually connecting.
And now that Saturn is moving in Pisces, the moon’s monthly experiences within Pisces will feel differently through May of 2025… if Saturn in Pisces, overall, symbolizes a personal responsibility toward trigger points and sensitivities—the moon illuminating these, now, on a monthly basis will either perpetuate a heavy burden to contend with or repress… or inspire a strengthened inner character over the course of the next two years, and beyond.
Last time the moon connected to Saturn in conjunction, back on February 19th, Saturn was still in Aquarius.
Today’s first Piscean moon/Saturn conjunction occurs through a degree that challenges you to be present…
Painfully present.
To be present in a more physical, actual, present way—not just energetically and/or psychically.
This particular degree illuminates “paying attention to signs that indicate all is not well…”
Preventions, precautions, and self-preservations are needed.
Discretions and discrimination…
Reservation.
I can’t help but feel as though yesterday’s energies were something of an introduction to today’s energies of concern, or, at the very least, off-ness.
Whether or not yesterday’s energies are in tandem with today—through a more awakened awareness of surroundings and details—there may also, however, be an inner pull to hide away in some capacity… to go/remain within, seemingly protected. Or to entirely let go.
Perhaps the caution will be directed toward an inner triggering, particularly if Saturn is already beginning to apply its weights upon that which triggers you or hurts… especially if you are ‘fretting about your position or future’ in some way. Further, ‘there may be a sense of aggression in the air… sometimes the ‘enemy’ is actually not really there, and we make it up through fear or paranoia…’
Ultimately, “to be cautious is to be wise, but hiding oneself away can lead to missed opportunities for any kind of nourishment and the possibility of freedom…”
❝One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious…❞
—Bahya ibn Paquda
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Something not only unexpected, but entirely random.
Something could actually throw you for a bit of a loop today.
Something might even alarm you in a manner that triggers sudden responses of defenses, protections and/or securities.
Try not to take anything to levels of paranoia or suspicion, or exaggeration… if it’s not actually necessary.
Try, instead, to reassure yourself of that which you are sure of, what you do know, what/who you can trust, and toward where your confidences do fall. And lean into these…
Also, are you getting enough sleep?—this could be a detail.
What you need more than ever today is to let your guard down—not to feel the need to raise it up.
Still…
Something may be off today.
❝Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.❞
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Today’s moon illuminates what I spent my entire morning yesterday writing about—it illuminates yesterday’s Venus/Pluto conjunction and its separation aftermath… and you can read more about that here…
And then the moon moves on to square the Nodes.
Opportunities and the sustainment thereof are intrinsically illuminated through this alignment…
All things are pointed toward renewal and rebirth—ultimately, through self-realization… if you should be so willing to explore your inner depths and shadows.
I don’t really want to repeat myself—as there’s so much information already detailing the long term regards of today’s energies. Please understand that limitations—those either put upon yourself by yourself, or those put upon you by another—are only hindering you and your ability to advance…
And, as shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera writes of this moon, that through this moon “we look to the future and think about got it might be…”
What limitations would you be willing to allow?
❝Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.❞
–Abraham Lincoln
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Today’s lunarly illuminations involve several things…
First of all, there may be a bit of unanticipated connectivity.
Jonathan Swift once said, “we are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same…”
There may be a coming together of sorts between you and another, particularly for purposes of healing a sense of brokenness from within. This may look like empathy, sympathy, or simply extending a human touch of kindness upon another’s life in a way that genuinely matters.
Otherwise, you may find yourself needing to look, and care, beyond yourself—and on, toward the horizons of another’s perspective… to understand, to see, and to feel something different through someone else.
In turn, these balsamic acts of connectivity will animate, for you, a new parameter of self-care and/or self-worth—or new sense of personal identity—to keep in mind, to implement after March 20th…
And so, finally, a vulnerability is… confronted, uncovered.
Revealed—in an effort to (re)connect with another, be a stranger or someone familiar to you…
Claude Debussy once pondered, “how much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling?”
This uncovering, however it unravels itself, may feel, indeed, quite exposed—but likely also liberating, surprising, and candidly unexpected… and much of the point of it all, today, is to disregard—or entirely abandon—any worries, anxieties, or need to consider what others might think of you.
Ultimately, whether you’re the one comforting or confronting—what may really be revealing itself is a naturally new layer of yourself…
❝There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him… every time he will give himself away.❞
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All the moon does today is connect to the North Node by trine through a degree accenting ‘mastery and self-assurance’…
The NN resembles where we aim toward, the NN exists, always, just beyond our comfort zone or compulsive preferences.
Unfortunately, this lunarly connection comes through a balsamic phase… any desired results will come ‘from thin air’, as they say—as actions are, specifically through the moon, are considered somewhat null and void at this time.
Further, this is a moon shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera associates to the Dragon Moon, a moon when we “take a long look at the limits on our lives and consider how we can surpass them… keep your speculation pragmatic and well within the realm of possibility—what you souls be challenging is your courage and ingenuity, not the laws of time, space, and physics…”
Something you can very potently and actively do is ‘take stock of your present situation, and where you will eventually be if you do nothing to alter the natural progression of events…’
Further still, ‘if you don’t like where things seem to be headed, it may be wise to make [some eventual] changes…’ after the equinox, of course.
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Today begins another, separate celestial buildup through the month of March…
This buildup begins to build up as the previous buildup begins to temper and separate—while this buildup is between Mercury moving toward the sun, ultimately connecting in a triple conjunction with Neptune, all three squaring Mars… and today—today the moon illuminates it all through moving into a t-square alignment with this building square.
Reflect back to the full moon and how it was in aspect to Mars, as well—this last quarter moon grows much tighter through its square to Mars now, by two degrees. Because overall—the moon is illuminating a last quarter moon… and so there’s so much more building here—there’s so much being pushed out into the ethers here.
So basically, in other words… yesterday’s reflections, whatever they were, as well as Jupiter’s conjunction to both Chiron and Vesta—which you can read about here—all of these details are likely trying to influence your moving forward despite whatever it is that is steadily, most persistently confronting you.
It is likely that you’re beginning to feel a heavier pressure… building, flickering, blazing.
Shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera writes of this moon Sagittarian last quarter moon, a moon Kaldera refers to this moon as the Hunter’s Moon, a moon that reflects the Hunter in its mercilessness—that “the only way out of this implacable trap is to develop some… needing to understand that people are on different paths and see different truths, and those truths come reasonably from their own experiences…”
We are all on our own independent journey.
This moon reminds us that we can’t change others, particularly if you’re unable to understand where another is coming from. Despite any reactions or responses, facial expressions, manipulative tactics or otherwise disapproving comments—this is a moon that reminds us of “this hubris in thinking…”
Further, it is within this specific last quarter moon in Sagittarius that Sagittarian energies become aggressively needy in needing to be right—or be assured of getting their way…
Yikes.
Kaldera writes that “what no one knows is that there is more to that fear, gnawing in the belly of every strongly Sagittarian individual, than just the terror of the enclosing walls with no way to escape—there’s also a fear of the other possibility—the fear of human failure… and Sagittarius knows this instinctively even as he twists away from committing, knows on some level how susceptible he is to it, especially when it comes to the emotional, irrational moon…”
The degree through which this ultimate fear of failing occurs is intrinsically associated with ambition, and the natural bolstering of your own personal ambitions.
This degree encourages you to participate with your own life—and its natural ambitions.
Participating in your own life with resourcefulness and creativity—you know that infamously old Sagittarian adage: to fake it till you make it… though, through this degree—faking it really is all that’s available, as it will eventually require an actual commitment… not to mention the human failing detail which may suggest, through this degree, that much repeating and repetition will also be expected—which it typically otherwise known as participating in commitment.
Much is to be learned now…
Further descriptions of this particular degree include: working oneself up into a creative frenzy; finding one’s own wavelength and going with it; tempering the spirit through life’s trials; an enthusiastic participation with life; and an excitement for living…
Do these represent, for you, that which is needing to be learned, or confronted, or faked at this time?
Are you faking your responsibilities?
Are your own personally appointed obligations keeping you from participating?—who’s fault is this?
Now to apply that upon this…
Today’s last quarter moon occurs within the third decan of Sagittarius, a decan governed by Saturn, associated with the 10 of wands in the tarot…
Astrologer Austin Coppock quotes Agrippa, explaining significations toward “the difficulties which one must endure to complete an act of will [now]… there is exhaustion here, but satisfaction as well.”
What must be done within your reality?
Coppock writes of this decan, that a sacrifice is indicative… “to set a goal and to follow it through to the end… yet not all such initiations are chosen—life does not always offer choices… we can press on, doing what we must, or abandon the path—these desperate circumstances serve as initiations to mysteries that happier moments leave unrevealed.”
Tarot writer TS Chang poses the question to the reader, of the 10 of wands, “what happens when you try to carry the weight of the entire world on a long-distance hike?”
The Ryder-Waite 10 of wands card depicts an image of a man struggling to carry ten sticks from the middle, with all the ends of either end positioned in varying directions, furthering the feeling of complicated burden… and Chang reminds us to keep in mind that that is not a real solution, nor will this effort last very long—and to prepare within your ego boundaries, to ask yourself “where are you going to drop them?—in front, or behind you?… drop them behind you, and you move on—less empowered maybe, but baggage-free… drop them in front of yourself, and you get to do this all over again.”
I really appreciate Chang’s elemental perspective of this card…
Chang speaks of the imagery itself, noting that the wands are made of wood—and wood fuels fire. As the last decan of Sagittarius, obviously, this is quite fitting—and as the last fire sign of the zodiac, particularly—one can either go out with a bang, quite literally, or learn to temper the fires in an effort to enjoy warmth, comfort, and light. Chang writes “one thing I can tell you about building a fire is that if you load in too much wood, it won’t light—fire feeds on earth—but it needs air to breathe… so too can ambition stifle the talent and inspiration that surrounds it.”
Isn’t that such an eloquently optimistic way to take this decan on?!
It is important to remember through these days that this third decan of Sagittarius is ruled by Saturn—and this is where “the taskmaster doubles down on [our] ambitions, driving us to extraordinary accomplishments while assigning almost unbearable burdens… the Master of the Hourglass will take all the time you offer, and more—there is often a sense of suffocation, being smothered in obligations—in order to make sure you have a little leeway to breathe freely, play by [Saturn’s] rules and schedule the downtime.”
Chang writes, essentially, that through the energies of this decan/card—that “there are more chores than can comfortably be done by one person… it’s the ‘workaholics’ card; Chang rarely finds this card “to signify new growth so much as dogged cleanup—the kind physically taxing chores which take you well beyond your current fitness level, leaving you with a bequest of sore muscles and stiff joints the next day…”
Finally, Chang reminds us that those sticks will fall…
Where, oh where, will you choose to drop them?—and how, oh how, will you choose to utilize them?
Of course—anything involving Saturn typically implies either working (quite harshly and determinedly) through the struggle or challenge—or resisting (just as determinedly) and wreaking the havoc and unimaginably harshened struggle that results. The choice, as always, is always ours to make… though, it may very well not feel like an opportunity—our Saturn-related lessons eventually, as it’s nearly always ‘eventually’ with Saturn, to reward us with Time.
I wonder if this third decan of Sagittarius, then, is largely one of either more closely learning or exploring our own personal limitations and consequential need for boundaries that work for us rather than against us—or an emerging need through these days to (finally) claim these for ourselves…
Sometimes we take on quite heavy matters that don’t even belong to us.
Sometimes we work so continually, so intensely, so fastidiously—that one day, we simply break, we’ve ‘worked ourself to the bone’, as such an appropriately Saturnine expression would suggest… perhaps these are the days when we are confronted with some of these matters so that we may better secure our personal parameters to further secure and safeguard our needs, as well as where we should put down our burdens.
Again, as Chang stresses—we must carry our loads… but we also get to put them down.
And this requires your participation…
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In fact, beyond reflection—or perhaps within a centered state of reflection—the emphasis, today, falls upon ‘the inner strength that derives from not placing either negative or positive values on experience during any immediate crisis…’
All you can hope to do—today, and ever—is to do your best.
To do your best… and reflect back on past experiences from which to learn—and then intend to apply.
Last week was one hell of a week for many… and we are continuing to navigate a very transitional week—and today’s moon does nothing but square Saturn: this much needed reflection will likely feel somewhat heavy, and maybe even negatively-toned… yet, it might be incredibly enlightening—and this will be the catch. Again, to share your wisdoms through a Sagittarian tone—what you share with others, or have to offer, will now feel much more philosophical, and maybe even a little righteous—and thereby completely, subjectively implied. Either way.
And likely not exactly relevant, or even very helpful.
Philosophically or righteously toned reflections, then, could easily bombard opportunities to share in an effort of understanding—however, typical Sagittarian energies tend to naturally resist memories from the past as they are often typically impatiently painful, and oftentimes remembered inaccurately, dramatically so… and this would create much more of an emotionally-driven reflection, which negates the celestial suggestion of remaining emotionally neutral—of finding that place within you that is emotionally balanced, emotionally resilient.
Basically—possessing an ability to reflect back to that which is painful, uncomfortable, heavy, and/or disappointing and possess an honest ability to confront the opportunity to reflect more meaningfully a new level of understanding toward your experiences, to appropriately apply actively within your current reality… this is the essence of today’s energies.
Otherwise—if you’re unable to navigate your reflections constructively—maybe just keep yourself busy with busyness, additional responsibilities, and/or maybe-another-day obligations.
Because one way or another—you’ll have something heavy to hold today… or something heavy to remember.
❝Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it…❞
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There’s a lot of planetary collaborating occurring through this transitional week, and you can read more about these collaborations here and here…
Though, as this post translates that which the moon illuminates–and thereby, how our moods may indeed fluctuate throughout—it is still essential for you to be aware of, and understand, this larger overall perspective—linked above—of what’s occurring underneath it all… mood be damned.
Further, in regard to the moon, today’s moon is disseminating, which shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera writes thereof, that “the soul gets a wake-up call that brings it out of its self-absorbed cocoon…”
What you have learned, essentially, since the new moon is now surfacing to be shared.
It need not be necessary to so explicitly share your experience—nor any other private reality or memory needs be exploited or re-conjured… but the lessons and wisdoms you’ve earned through the experience is asking to be communicated… and this time, through a Scorpio-charged voice or tone.
While the moon is in Scorpio, we tend to go inward—not outward toward others to be open enough to share much of anything…
Though when anything is shared—it is always extreme.
Scorpio energies tend to otherwise be closed off—guarded—and protected against that which lies beyond personal boundaries, as well as that which lies within ourselves. In Scorpio, the moon—and therefore an energy of constant movement and fluctuating—is somewhat taken hostage, protected of its own feelings and fluctuations, and attempts to control these emotionally charged potentials toward instability and loss of control… to be open, to a Scorpio moon, is to feel powerless.
Which is another layer of extreme…
So sharing—with others, while emotionally submerged within the depths of your own personal psyche—becomes a tricky dynamic.
Further yet, this is a moon that is asking you to explore and reassess your own potentials and actualities of powerlessness—and personal power—and then share these with others so that another can (hopefully) empower themselves…
The sharing, though, requires you to open.
And beyond the moon, as I mentioned above, there is much occurring, energetically speaking, that is more than willing to explore and assess such openness and sharing—particularly in an effort to empower yourself, to heal, and to exercise a most necessary self-care process that will only become more and more essential as we navigate ourselves into the future.
Your inner knowing, now, is trying to gain your attention—and perhaps it’s even trying to gain your trust…
Your inner knowing has something vital to share with you, if you’re only open to receive.
Your inner knowing is only clear when you’ve opened to much more than the willingness to receive this message—but willingly opened to much more than that which exists beyond yourself…
❝You cannot be afraid to change or pivot when your gut, or inner knowing, tells you to make a change. It is the illusion of fear or inability to adapt to change that prevents us from moving forward. If you have the desire to change your life, your circumstances, your perspectives, hold fast to your inner commitments and listen to your inner knowing.❞
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