New Moon in Libra
Tuesday, 9/23/14
1º08′ Libra
11:14 pm Pacific
2:14 am Eastern 9/24
First, the turning point
On Monday, Pluto, the planet that opens us to both our most intense creations as well as destructions, the planet that represents our own individual underworlds and inner worlds — as well as those of our collective society — will turn direct in Capricorn. It’s been the case since November of 2013 that Pluto has been hanging about in Capricorn between 10º and 13º, first direct, then retrograde, then direct again. Pluto will finally move out of this station in January of next year. There may be some challenging — if not excruciating — changes and challenges coming at you, especially if you have any cardinal signs — Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn — in your own chart between 10º and 13º.
Get balanced. Stay balanced. Find your balance point.
Just a few hours after Pluto turns direct on Monday, the Sun will enter Libra, and we will be in that place of balance, that place of equal darkness and light that comes twice a year — the Equinox. Accept the invitation to stand in the stillness of this moment in the balance point, and if you feel called to do so, spend some time journaling what comes up for you when you look at the questions in the giraffe image.
The Sun in Libra invites you to pause, reconsider, and recalibrate your own inner and outer balance. Look back at the wheel of the year. What did you start six months ago at the last Equinox? What are you harvesting (in the Northern hemisphere) or starting (in the Southern)? What do you need to clear, refine, change in order to start your journey into the next season in balance?
The Libra Dark Moon on Tuesday
This is the first New Moon in Autumn. It’s the first of the ancient New Years that have been celebrated for centuries (the others are Samhain, Yule, and of course our modern calendar New Year). The one connected to the September New Moon is Rosh Hashanah, which falls each year on the day after the New Moon after the Equinox.
A suggested Dark Moon ritual
On the 22nd (if you can, or the day before or after), after dark, set a bowl or a jar outside. Make it a bowl you love, and place some water in it. Place a clean crystal or stone that calls to you in the bowl, if you have one. You’re gonna drink this water, so if you want to keep it as clean as you can, put a cloth over the top of the bowl and secure it with a rubber band.
After the bowl has been charging outside for a day, and absorbing the Dark Moon energy, spend some time in sacred space looking at what you wrote in your journal in response to the questions in the image above. What are the key themes? Write whatever comes to you on a piece of paper and place that paper under the bowl. Let that bowl soak up the darkness for another day or two. On or before Friday the 26th, pour the water into a glass and drink it, bringing your intentions to your center. Ritually dispose of the paper. You can burn it, or tear it up and roll it into seeds and bury them.
What did the questions above bring up for you? What other themes come to you in this Equinox / New Moon week? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.
This is such a beautiful exercise to set intention and create your reality of dreams! Thank you
Hi Wendy, welcome!
So glad this resonates for you. Let me know how your Dark Moon goes.
Blessings,
Sue
This is SO interesting! I’m currently working on a proposal about finding balance in midlife, sort of a response to the “lean in” conversation. Now I know why this project is getting my attention and some traction!
Kimba, What perfect timing. And what an important project. Can’t wait to see what you generate.
Love and light,
Sue
Thank you for such a detailed description of what is going on right now! It definitely makes sense for me: being in the halfway point, transition, and looking at the harvest of what has come to pass for me since the last equinox. Definitely a lot to think about and be still with…It’s helpful to see it explained this way.
~Christina
Christina, Glad you found it useful. May the stillness and the balance bring you exactly what you need; it always does, if we just get quiet and listen.
Blessed be,
Sue
Thank you Sue for the fabulous suggestions for both the upcoming Dark and New Moon. I naturally go inward during Dark Moon and lay low in order to get ready to set my powerful intentions for the upcoming month! Sending you many abundant blessings sister.
Lisa Marie, welcome here! So glad to be connected with you.
Enjoy the turn of the season and the Dark Libra Moon. Sounds like you’re all ready to rock it.
Love and magic,
Sue
Hi Sue, Spring equinox down under, I like the questions and going to write them in my journal, what a wonderful exercise, now to choose my fave bowl
namaste
Suzie xx
Hi Suzie, Equinox blessings to you. I’m putting my bowl out now.
Love and the light in the darkness,
Sue
Balance is such a huge theme in my life, Sue – it’s wonderful to be reminded that here, right now, it’s also a theme in seasons and stars.
Thanks for a wonderful post!
May you stay balanced as you go, despite the ups downs ins and outs….
Much love,
Sue