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The new moon in Pisces arrives on Saturday, March 17th at 6:12 AM PT. Conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer, this new moon speaks directly to the hurts that hold us back. That prevent a part of our humanity from realizing its potential. That possess the keys to a greater understanding of ourselves.
We are more than what hurts.
We are more than what has hurt us. We are more than the hurt we have inflicted upon others, the world, and ourselves.
Each time we consciously work with our pain we are working towards a more nuanced understanding of ourselves. An understanding that is less binary and more inclusive of our humanity. We cannot change the fact that we have been harmed, but we can create pathways towards our healing.
To hold space for this kind of potential we must develop an incredibly sturdy container. A personality that refuses rigidity. Identities that are seriously affirming, but that we don’t take too seriously. Philosophies that include the possibility of overcoming what others cannot fathom getting past.
This is not a one-size-fits-all situation, save for one ingredient that needs to be added, no matter the concoction. Compassion. For ourselves. For each other. For the fact that we didn’t know how to have it when we needed to.
Pisces has oceans of it. Forgiveness flows freely from this sign. Able to see the best in a person. Able to see possibilities in any situation. Able to witness beauty in even the most dire of conditions. Pisces extends itself out in the spirit of connection.
The new moon asks how we might have more compassion for ourselves.
Do you have compassion for what you are currently facing? For what you have historically faced? If not, why do you withhold it from yourself?
This new moon is trine Jupiter, its ruler. This is a fairly gifted set up, magnifying the impact of the new moon’s ability to help us repair. Restore. Recommit to our healing and the activities of this lunar cycle.
A couple of hours after the new moon, Mars moves into Capricorn. Spending the next two months in the same sign as Saturn and Pluto, Mars points out the areas of our lives where we need to make great strides while working through incredible obstacles. Mars and Saturn sharing space isn’t the most comfortable condition, but both are strong in the goat’s sign.
This creates within us a strong resolve. Add Pluto to the mix and the situation gets even more intense. Pluto leads us into a process of death and rebirth. Release and renewal. To hell and back, Pluto makes a point of purging all that cannot withstand its force.
This trio will help us all to accomplish a great many things. But we’ll have to be on the lookout for what the nature of each is. Cold-hearted accomplishment won’t keep us warm at night. Destroying the structure of something can be invigorating, until we realize that we need to rebuild something in its place. Remember that what happens under this transit has a long-lasting impact.
The part of our chart that contains Capricorn will give us much to work on and with. I will be addressing it many times over in your horoscopes, as well as in A Worksop for The New Moon in Pisces but, in general, look to the meaning of the house that Capricorn occupies in your chart. Consider the themes associated with this house to understand what might be in store for you in the coming months.
As the new moon initiates us into a new lunar cycle, the sun enters a new sign, and we move into a new season. On March 20th at 9:16 AM PT the sun enters Aries. The beginning of the astrological year in some traditions, the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere generally marks a time of beginnings, blessings, light, warmth and growth. The new moon does its best to help you carry them forth.
In the midst of these seasonal shifts, Mercury slows down for its next retrograde. From March 22nd through to April 15th, Mercury will retrograde exclusively through Aries. It’s roughest days come the first week of April, but in general this Mercury retrograde will challenge us to refine our messages, cultivate patience in getting them across, and deal with the usual snafus of the now infamous transit. This spring will be full of many red and green lights. Sometimes getting set off seemingly at the same time. Though these weeks may have a few bumps in their flow, they will lead to many insights about when to work and when to rest. When to circle back to compassion, and when to feed the fires of ambition.
Horoscope for Aries & Aries Rising
This moment calls me with an urgency. It asks that I take something on in my profession life that will be both challenging and rejuvenating. Both stressful and soothing. Both revealing and rewarding.
My struggle is sacred. Full of purpose. Forcing me to always confront both the discomfort of growth and the evolution of my talent. Friction is an energetic force that I am learning to recognize and respect. A source of get up and go. An honorable opponent that is asking me to steady myself in my own energy and expertise. Obstacles are put in my path to teach me, purposefully delay me, or derail me towards something more activating of my life purpose. I trust that the ones I am facing now, both professionally and personally, are great teachers. Instead of letting the stress of them consume my energy, I let the stress of them activate my creative intelligence. I protect my energy from undue, unhelpful, and unnecessary tension, strain or struggle.
Saturday’s new moon reminds me of how far I have come. Like an initiation, it attunes me to my own journey. Like a good therapy session, it reconnects me to myself by helping sort through what is difficult. I am reminded that having compassion for myself in this moment is the most important resource I can access.
I give myself copious amounts of it.
I allow myself to outgrow old hurts. I allow myself to experience life beyond what I know at the moment. I allow myself the space, the grace, and the opportunity to grow. It takes incredible strength to hold the uncomfortable feelings that accompany our growth. I acknowledge my fear while I stay engaged with my process.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Taurus & Taurus Rising
With this new moon I make sure that I put myself in the spaces and the places that help to reconnect me to myself. I seek out the social situations that are replenishing. I situate myself within the walls of what I hold to be holy.
With this new moon I make time for the people in my life that remind me of the power of generosity. Those with a commitment to creating less harm. Those that know how to respect their own boundaries, needs, and energy.
With this new moon I develop the quality of my connections instead of trying to amass huge quantities of them.
I know that offering love, energy, and emotional support to others requires that I do the same with myself. And first. This is a place that I refuse to be messy. I honor my boundaries too much to leave space for needless drama.
I know that the issues that arise with friends generally point me towards the emotional work that I need to do. Wounds that existed long before we met will be activated through our relationship. That is one of the reasons we are connected; to connect each other to what needs to be healed within ourselves. I don’t have to like the process of it to have appreciation for what it helps me ultimately understand about myself.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Gemini & Gemini Rising
I trust in the power of my professional vision. I know that while on the path of manifesting my dreams, every issue that I need to heal will meet me at one crossroad or another. I trust that every doubt I face strengthens my resolve and belief in myself.
I trust my process even when it’s less enjoyable than I think it should be. Even when it looks like my greatest fear in real life. Even when it seems like it isn’t going the way I think it should, I know that as long as I track my process and my progress, working to heal what I can where I can, I will always end up where I need to be.
I know that, professionally, joy relies on me to find it, feature it, and fill the empty spaces of my career with it. I know that I need to make a conscious choice to bring more pleasure into my pursuits. To bring more connection into my work-life.
I balance my efforts with an effortless joy.
I pay special attention to my collaborations during this next lunar cycle. This new moon initiates me into a deeper understanding of my work in the world, but it also makes me aware of the need to distinguish any difficulties I may have in my partnerships. So that I can address them with specificity and clarity. I am committed to working through the obstacles that arise for me with great patience, persistence, and professionalism.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Cancer & Cancer Rising
Saturday’s new moon draws my awareness towards my long-term goals. Dreams I am dedicated to fulfilling. Journeys that promise to test my faith and ability to stick it out, but trips that I am blessed to be on.
I plan out my life accordingly. I consider my most extravagant goals and then get to structuring my life around them. Getting my mind focused on them. Getting clear on what I am consciously choosing to do and then doing it without resentment.
I attune myself to my professional needs. I attend to my career goals and the relationships that help me reach them, over the next lunar cycle. Working through professional difficulties helps me to define what I am able to create with greater clarity. Working through the conflicts that come up helps me to understand where I get stuck. Where I let fear interrupt my growth. Where I doubt that I am deserving of a work-life that supports me as much as I support it.
Working through these issues helps me to see where I need to show up, grow up, and get to the good work of working through what is difficult but ultimately professionally refreshing.
My career needs constant readjustments. My continual re-commitment. My careful reassessments of its needs and my own.
I am free to find my way towards a greater alignment with my work. In fact it is my greatest responsibility. My greatest calling. My greatest achievement. Each time I do so I am reminded that, like any good relationship, both parties need to know the door is open. Nothing keeps me at this save for my willingness to work through the doubt, fear, and feelings that will always accompany great advancements. Each time I do, I am reminded that the cure for my anxiety is the application of my time, talent, and effort towards what is meaningful to me.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Leo & Leo Rising
Saturday’s new moon asks me to clarify my collaborative commitments. If my professional partnerships aren’t helping me to both create and replenish, they aren’t sustainable. I look to see where I am leaking my energy, where I might be misusing my talent, where I might be investing in something with little to no payback.
Before, during and after the new moon, I call my energy back from any entanglements it has gotten caught up in. I remember that clarifying my agreements in relationships is essential to my success. I know that my ability to build something meaningful and long-lasting with others depends on my ability to be honest in the process.
I prepare for the next lunar cycle by paying attention to my health. My body calls on me to address its needs. I know that stopping to take care of myself is a powerful disruption to the ceaseless commands of capitalism. I refuse the pace at which it would have me produce. I am a creator in need of refueling. Refusing to be run into the ground, I honor the rhythms that are healthy for me.
I hold my productivity within the context of a larger perspective. These next weeks will demand much of me, but I will also demand much of them. I demand the time I need. I declare my right to say no to what isn’t essential given my current commitments. I have decided that my personal well-being is the foundation of my professional health. One feeds the other and I wish for neither to go hungry.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Virgo & Virgo Rising
Saturday’s new moon reminds me of the importance of finding relationships that are based on mutual healing. Relationships based on our mutual becoming. Relationships based on our understanding of the process growth requires of us.
In my relationships there needs to be enough space for both learning new things and letting go of what doesn’t work. Enough space to work on myself and work on our partnership. Enough compatibility in the ways in which we approach the prospect of living life authentically.
I work with this new moon to imagine what some, or more, of this might be like. I work with this new moon to infuse the ethers around me with the dreams I have for all my partnerships. I work with this new moon to make my dream love-life into a definite destination that I am traveling towards.
Whatever my partnering situation, I am committed to developing a deeper awareness of the ways in which carrying around old heartbreak can impede my ability to receive the love that is currently available to me. I work with this new moon to break any and all agreements that I may have unconsciously made to be married to sorrow, self-doubt, or self-denial. I claim this new moon as my time to marry my potential for love and being loved. I claim this new moon as my moment to remember my beauty and its ability to attract more of it to me. I claim this new moon as my cosmic invitation to declare my desires and decide that they are rightfully mine to seek out without doubt.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Libra & Libra Rising
The new moon dares me to dream up my ideal real-world work-life. It reminds me that healing my relationship to my work requires that I create spaces within it that are restorative. It reminds me that there is a flow to all that I do and following it will help me feel like I am moving less upstream and more with the tides that want to carry me towards meaningful projects.
I give in to these currents.
This new moon reminds me to heal my body from the pains of my past. My physical self holds every story I have lived through, every scenario I have imagined, as well as every bit of kindness extended to me. I work with this new moon in order to create the kind of environment that encourages my physical replenishment. Reawakens my natural ability to restore energy spent. Connects me to my needs, helping me to hold them with greater compassion and consciousness.
I know that if I want to work efficiently, I need to use my energy wisely. I work with the new moon to guide me towards a greater understanding of how to do so. I wish to live out the message of my work. I aim to be an example of what I teach, not just a curator of stylish content about it.
I’m in this for my inner growth, not the temporary applause.
As Mercury stations retrograde I work on clarifying my relationship commitments. I know that in order to be impactful in the ways I wish to, I have to be willing to own up to my end of any situation. I know that relationships are playgrounds of incredible growth. I know that how I show up in them is reflective of how I show up for everything else. I don’t skip these lessons. I settle into them.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
My creativity heals me. Never refuses me. Knows how to move through me.
I honor its process.
Saturday’s new moon reminds me to get out of its way. Reminds me to study its ways. Cultivating a deeper relationships with it reminds me that there is no end to the chances I get to grow. Evolve. Change what isn’t working.
Transforming through each creative action I take is a given, but it is also a great leap of faith. Saturday’s new moon reminds me that trusting my creative energy requires that I trust my ability to face the challenges that come with it. Manifesting it in the world requires that I confront my inner doubts about myself. My talent. My competence. My creativity’s relevance. It’s all part of the process.
During this lunar cycle I encourage my determination to deepen. Come doubt, fear, or insecurity, I will do it anyway.
My daily life is densely packed with important projects, deadlines and decisions that define the shape of things. My job is to find a way to work through, around, and with each obstacle as best I can. I remember to keep some energy for myself, keep some reserves for future use, to keep the things that aren’t urgent at bay when and where I can.
The next month will require me to put my ideas out into the world. Strategically weaving my beliefs into my work. Placing them where they will have the biggest impact. I am willing to communicate what might be challenging, but ultimately energizing and solution-oriented.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Saturday’s new moon reminds me that my healing is never done, nor should I wish it to be. There is always another layer, another lesson, another insight to gain.
Each one gathers me.
My well runs deep and in order to draw from its depths I have to be willing to enter into them. Live from them. Love from them. Witnessing the pains of my past. Healing the wounds left by lack of love. Surrendering to truth of what happened so that I can (re)build my life on honest ground.
I look to my origin stories to see what I might need to heal. For myself. For my folks. For my way forward. I hold both a deep appreciation of where I have come from and a deep respect for what I am learning to outgrow.
It is my duty to do so.
I was not put here to stay stuck in one place. Boxed into one idea of what my life could be. Confined to express only one dimension of me. I am here to fill out all the forms, shapes, and textures that my soul wishes to take.
I allow my work in the world to do the same.
I pay special attention during this next lunar cycle to the ways in which I am being asked to work with my assets. I am on the lookout for the complex issues I come up against in regards to who I work with and for. I make sure that I keep enough time, space, and attention on the most important of my work projects. The next month will ask much of me in this area of my life so I prepare myself by refusing to take on anything overly taxing or momentarily unnecessary.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Saturday’s new moon blesses my days with its healing ways. I am grateful for the compassionate reminders that it brings. Conversations that soothe even the littlest bit of my heartbreak help me make quantum leaps forward. Messages that remind me to take care of myself while I learn more about my healing journey are my medicine. I am not supposed to know what to do when wounds (re)surface. I’m supposed to investigate ways of holding, handling, and healing them.
Day after day.
This new moon asks me to commit to the most meaningful tasks on my schedule. Asks me what I plan to accomplish in the coming weeks. Asks me to leave room in my day for restorative practices. Reminds me of the importance of staying focused, working my way out of overwhelm and into what I can do.
This new moon calls for my discernment.
I structure my days in ways that set me up to receive maximum sweetness along with my success. Love along with heavy lifting. Attention to my needs as well as achieving my dreams. If my wellness isn’t part of my grand plan, then it isn’t so grand to begin with.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
I work with Saturday’s new moon to seek ways to activate my assets. My professional potential is experiencing an overflow, perfectly positioning me for abundant blessings. My work-life is primed to work wonders in the world.
I anchor the wishes I have for this lunar cycle with every faithful thought I can muster. I trust the tempo of this moment. I trust that what is mine will stay and what isn’t will fall away. I trust that I am an integral part of my profession’s unfolding and that my work in the field helps the field itself become more fertile and full of possibility.
I need it and it needs me.
This new moon asks me to heal through my work life. Asks me to heal some aspect of my relationship to my work. Asks me to find all the ways in which my healing and my work, work together. One enriches the other. I focus on the ways in which they mutually support each other, knowing that certain work projects are in my life for a reason. The majority of my day is spent working, thinking, and pouring my energy into my work projects, making them the perfect portals for my self-development. True success is my ability to discover meaning in the moments of my life. I work with Saturday’s new moon to declare my dedication to manifesting my professional passions, knowing they are connected to my personal healing, growth and faith in my life’s lessons.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.
Horoscope for Pisces & Pisces Rising
Saturday’s new moon is my moon to make the most of. I take it up on the opportunity to catch up with myself. To check in with myself. To remember the importance of staying true to myself.
I can’t fake, skip, or evade this process if I want to make the most of the opportunities that I have. Everything else needs to wait until I no longer have to work at getting my own attention. I deserve to receive what I need from myself.
The new moon in Pisces reminds me that my identity is something I have the right to outgrow. I am allowed to change. Shift. Shake off what was unfairly thrown at me. What I put on unknowingly. What I no longer need to hide behind.
When my self-perception gets cluttered with too many projections put upon me, it’s up to me to wash, rinse and repeat. To air out and remember that I am allowed to define myself for myself.
I am a continual process.
This new moon initiates me in to a lunar cycle that is filled with opportunities to grow through working in community. Working out issues with friends. Working on my reasons for joining forces with certain groups and organizations. I can always rescind my offer. If and when conflicts arise I am committed to channeling the creative intelligence needed to work it out. Sometimes conflicts are the exact kind of energy needed to awaken my determination. Dedication. Decision to direct my energy towards the hopes and dreams I have yet to realize and those that are capable of realizing them with me. I make it a priority to work with those in my field that know how to show up, grown up and able to let our collective creativity take root.
*For a detailed look at how this Saturday’s new moon in Pisces, the upcoming Mercury retrograde and the astrology of the next lunar cycle will impact your sign, as well as new moon ritual and altar suggestions, join me for A Workshop for the New Moon in Pisces.