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It may seem hard to believe, but this Aries New Moon is the first New Moon we’ve had since Venus left Capricorn and officially ended our Final Exam.
New Moons are always seed moments, fresh starts—they set the monthly story.
How appropriate that this one falls on the first of the month, on April Fool’s Day.
Are we really getting the fresh start we’ve been waiting for, since fall 2021?
Or are we being played?
This Aries New Moon pits us at a crossroads. Multiple choices face us.
These choices will also bear a lot of fruit, perhaps as quickly as May, in fruitful Taurus season, when we are having the first eclipses of the year.
Indeed, the north node moved into Taurus in January, just as Venus was drawing down her long retrograde cycle.
A lot of energy is dancing on the head of a pin, here on April 1.
Many things that have been in waiting are finally coming out of storage, ready for use.
We are firmly in spring; in a new astrological year (Aries season); and in a new chapter of our lives, post-Final Exam.
The New Moon christens all these beginnings. It is overwhelming.
We’ve become so accustomed to stewing and shadow work, that our muscles feel a little wobbly.
Aries New Moons are always about action, muscle, instinct, war, forward movement.
But there’s a lot of pain buried in this lunation. Pain not only from the plethora of choices, but also from not feeling up to the task.
We may feel slow to decide, and that reminds us of times we waited too long and missed an opportunity in the past—or simply held on too long in an endeavor that clearly wasn’t feeding us anymore.
We may be feeling very cautious, having been badly burned during the Final Exam.
“What strange flowers will bloom from the seeds I’m planting now?” you might ask, with a note of anxiety.
This is such an unusual lunation because most of the planets are clustered together, producing what astrologers call textbook seed moments.
So add that to the list of new beginnings, too.
It’s a veritable seed catalog—a potential bounty we could see as early as May.
Which I think is how we can comprehend the choices before us.
While the decisions we’re mulling may seem stressful, and trigger us with past regrets, we’re challenged to see the cornucopia ahead.
We do not know if everything we plant will sprout.
The gardener is a simple warrior. All he has is an intention to scrape the earth, bleed, sweat. He accepts feast, famine and everything in between.
Imagine what happens after you have a few seasons under your belt.
Maybe the suspense isn’t so scary to you anymore. Maybe you embrace it.
Spiritually, you’ve developed thicker skin. You’ve undergone real growth, and sometimes growth is scarier than boogeymen.
It means you’ve changed. It means you’re stepping into the future. It’s time to battle test your courage and your callouses. No resting on laurels.
Let’s explore.
Deja Vu: Scent of War
Many of us have been through a winter that involved intense focus on a particular issue or life area.
It wasn’t a very kinetic time. I dubbed it the Final Exam.
Typically what happens after you get your grades back is that you go and do something in the world.
You are met with a real challenge.
This is by no means saying that tests are anything to scoff at. But tests are structured experiences in a structured environment. The chaos is kept to a minimum. An outcome is trying to be achieved: to see if the student understands a lesson.
It’s more like being sledgehammered until the bell rings, rather than dealing with the erratic variables of an actual battlefield.
A fearsome simulation of what you might face, but a simulation all the same. A test.
And so now true courage is needed, because we recognize the scent of war but now the environment is more subject to chance and sudden change.
Will that knowledge kick in? Will we know how to use it in a way that produces a good result?
Worse, what if current choices/decisions remind us of a test question that stumped us? What if it was something we even got wrong?
Ah, this is where the chaos of the battlefield is a double-edged sword.
Despite all the great strategizing of generals and majors, the future always remains unwritten.
Anything can happen between the start and end of a battle.
This why courage and valor are a potent weapon. You may be outnumbered and outflanked, or again simply faced with a situation you chronically do poorly in.
But to embrace that pain and still charge ahead—or stand firmly as the enemy rushes upon you—is how tables are turned.
We are going to see great turnabout by the April 16 Full Moon in Libra, which is always about bringing fairness to whatever occurs at the Aries New Moon.
We will also likely see that much of the traction we gain at this New Moon is bolstered by what we’ve endured or learned in the past.
If we simply maintain a sportsmanship of the soul—a quality we’ve cultivated all winter—we stand a chance against what seems like a fearsome opponent.
In other words, the past is our ally in delivering us to a victorious, fair future—not an indicator of what we should fear next.
Battle Scars: The Great Triggering
Many times, taking a hit lets us know what we’re made of. This is the genesis of the “Red Badge of Courage”—a medal symbolizing the shedding of blood.
Pain is proof.
And what lingers long after pain has receded? Scar tissue, battle scars, badges.
There are signs and symbols all around us—badges, let’s say—which remind us of times we’ve taken a hit.
This can feel triggering.
A brief smile from a stranger reminds us of a loss in matters of love. A sibling’s promotion reminds us of our own long grind to finding career success.
Our wounds come back to the surface, like a phantom pain. The scar tissue aches.
But these eternally-healing wounds of yours are a gift to the collective.
Every scar is unique, a work of art.
The Red Badge of Courage is there to be seen, displayed, honored, recognized.
“How did he do it?”
The wearer of the badge himself is at a loss for an answer. “I did what I had to do, in the moment.”
To use your old scars as a map for the next war, that’s a powerful thing indeed.
These tattoos do not banish fear completely, but they do help you approach the cliff.
They are tattoos reminding you that you’ve grown; are still growing right now; and can grow yet even more—if you take that leap.
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