“If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero, and once everybody is their own hero, then everybody is gonna be able to communicate with each other on a real basis rather than a hand-me-down set of societal standards.” -Richard Hell
Aries & Aries Rising
Holy guacamole, Aries! Happy freaky birthday to you! I do mean freaky; I want it to get weird, funky, free-wheeling and hella exciting (yes, I just said hella, I’m writing within the state of California which makes it legal) but accident proof if and when possible. I don’t think that you will have to do much that is different. However, I do want you to invite in the new, the different and the unique. This Sunday’s new moon is aiming to break up every old fuddy-duddy tendency that you have. This includes the one where you take everything personally and get all butt-hurt when the cookie crumbles according to how it wants to. Please make it a practice to take everything with a grain of salt. Please make it your M.O. to pause when agitated and shut the hell up when you know you are about to cut someone to shreds with a single sentence. I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m just saying pause long enough to consider if it’s really what you want to do. This is the beginning of your solar year. This is the new moon before two eclipses in April; in short this is some significantly potent pattern setting time. What patterns to you want to spend the rest of the year embroidering into the quilt of your life? This is also one of the most creative new moons of the year. I’m not talking about scrapbooking; I’m talking about unexpected, blow your mind, rebellious, spontaneous, combustable, high-octane, full powered forces of nature. Get some. New Moon/Birthday Affirmation: I co-create my life with full consciousness. I am making empowering choices that help to set up my life for success, meaning, connection and abundance. I understand that I can move quickly with great mindfulness but that I can also pause until clarity accompanies me. I am never short on time, only patience. I make it a priority to seek to understand rather than to be understood. I allow great feats of creation to move through me effortlessly and often.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
The ancients looked at the Twelfth House as a very bad house indeed but it’s important to understand their rationale. Mostly life was seen, astrologically at least, to happen outside of us. There were so many factors to fear that we now have a handle on. We have opened up a whole sphere of life that they didn’t necessarily view in the same way that we do; namely the inner experience of life. The Twelfth House is where this Sunday’s new moon will occur for you. It was seen as a somewhat weak place in the chart. Certainly it is one of the domains of life where we remain the most vulnerable because of the kind of transcendental states it produces. This isn’t the place that we want to do business in. This isn’t a rational sphere of life; nothing concrete happens here in terms of physical measurability. What can occur here are immensely mind altering, spiritual and otherworldly experiences. The experiences traditionally have a lot to do with loss. This makes complete sense when we pause to consider what one needs to lose in order to gain insight. We cannot belligerently hold tight to all of our routines, plans and systems of doing things when we have out of body experiences. We need those things to bring us back into present time but we cannot keep them on this leg of the journey. There comes a point when we must release ourselves into some larger experience to come in contact with the Divine. The ancients knew this, we should know this and it is precisely why we fight it like a little child that doesn’t want to go to sleep. It can be terrifying to give over to another realm of being. There is a beautiful prayer in Judaism that we say upon awakening called Modeh Ani, thanking god for giving us back our soul because when we drift into that other world it is thought that our soul travels back to god to be repaired. This is the kind of feeling I get when I look at your chart, this new moon and the upcoming astrology. You may not feel like you are in the best position for day to day rigorous activity all the time, but that is OK for now. There is something much deeper happening when you go to sleep, go into mediation and I would even venture to say while you are having sex. You are really giving yourself over to the experience; not giving yourself away to another person but to the thing that you are creating with them. New Moon Affirmation: I willingly release my consciousness every night to healing. I trust that all of the unconscious material that is being dislodged in my psyche will find its way to healing. I know this because I take the right actions for this to occur by leaving room for meditation, prayer, writing, dancing, painting or whatever practice helps me to access a healthy altered experience.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
Sunday’s new moon wants you to understand who you are as an individual in context of the groups that you are with. That is why I want you to consistently check in with yourself when with others. You are very adaptable, Gemini. So much so that it is easy to lose yourself in a crowd. I get it; other people are so compelling! Why not merge with them and experience life through their eyes and hearts and ears? This new moon is asking you to do social time differently namely by understanding your own needs first, no matter how interesting everyone else’s needs are. There is a very important self-discovery that you are making but it is done in contrast to others that you are with. It’s kind of like they become your best avenue for self discovery – especially if things appear to get rocky. I am not saying that they will for sure, without a doubt become so. I am saying that this week is the beginning of some very important self-realization for you. In short, no one needs to accept you for you to accept you. No one needs to give you permission for you to give yourself permission. No one needs to tell you you’re an amazing, unique, wild card of a beauty in order to feel like one. Revel in the fact that you are the only you. New Moon Affirmations: I can stand in a crowd and feel completely at ease being different from everyone else around me. I do not bend and sway in my conviction to stand by and for myself. I rejoice in my personality while understanding full well how flawed and frayed it can be. I regularly tell myself that it is because of these very funny flaws that I love myself. It means I am human and I love the fact that I am just another human on this earth trying to find my way back to loving all that is whenever I can.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
So what? It’s a little uncomfortable, a little exposing, a little raw. But isn’t it also kind of exciting? Like having your lover tear your favorite shirt because they just can’t stand to be apart from the warmth of your skin and the joy it brings for another second? Speaking of coming out of hibernation; this is an extremely potent new moon that we are entertaining on Sunday and it means to make you boss. Boss. If that’s something that you have yet to get in touch with I’m going to petition you to open your horizons a little more. Go for what you want for goodness sake! You are going to die sooner than you think. If you are not going after what you want in every way that you can then you either need to start doing so or step out of the way. The rest of your tribe is about to trample you with their sideways shuffle. You aren’t helping anyone by playing small and I know, trust me; I know how crippling self-doubt can be. Think of it this way: you don’t have to believe in yourself as much as you need to believe in your capacity to get out of the way so that something that is bigger than you can work through you. Sunday’s new moon looks like it wants to wreak havoc on outdated, hardened, crusty confinements. The more you let go of what is holding you in place, in the least helpful place, the easier this transition will be. Do what you can for your chosen profession; the new moon aims to shake things up in this area of your life. The more unconventional you can be right now in this domain of your life the better. New Moon Affirmation: I get real with my work by embracing risks and encouraging my creativity. I know that I am supported when I do this even if it sometimes feels like I’m going beyond my comfort zone; this is no time to play it safe. Taking appropriate risks means that I believe in my capacity to grow, stretch and find my way as I go. I risk my comfort to foster my growth.
Leo & Leo Rising
Looks like you are about to get your mind blown, Leo. I want you to read the most innovative authors, listen to the most far out music and take in some of the most liberated art that you can come into contact with. Invite friends that think outside the box over for tea. Entertain the most radical of rabbis, monks and spiritual leaders that you have in your orb. Allow yourself to seek out new material that will stretch your perceptions of reality. Learn laws of physics that remember you to your eternal nature and break from the traditions that bind you to a dead faith. This is no time to allow yourself to stay limited because you buy into “reality” exactly as you perceive it. Live everyday like it’s a radical experiment in creative ways to maintain your faith. Turn off the TV if you are mostly glued to it. Go watch some trees instead and see what they have to say about life. Get off Facebook if all you’re doing is reading the same things from the same people. Go talk to the humans that you actually come face to face with instead. If you can, get on a plane, train, in a car or Harley and get out of here. Get high on some deep and eternal wisdom, this is no time to hang with the lowest common denominator. New Moon Affirmation: I am open to new ways of thinking, newer than what I think of as new. My mind is a creative Petri dish of exponential experimental happenings. I unleash that kind of potential now. I am open to receiving guidance from all sources of knowledge; babies, flowers, mad hatters and texts that burn bright with the words of truth. There are no boxes in my thinking, no limits to my insights and nothing stopping me from being in line with the Universal Genius.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
New Moon Affirmation: I am willing to go through whatever it takes to understand myself better. I embrace the experiences that bring me into a greater awareness of self. I understand that there are many things about myself that I cannot see; things that may startle me blindside me and interrupt my usual daily functions once they have come to consciousness. This week I prepare for such realizations by shining the light on my side of the equation in any given circumstance. Other people that I am in partnership with have a responsibility to themselves and have equal responsibility for the shared experience. All I can do is focus on what is mine to care for, and I do care for it. I care because every experience that I go through is just another opportunity to shepherd myself through something; another opportunity to love myself through something. This is another opportunity to grow because nothing in this universe can stop me from growing spiritually. Nothing. That is a power, a right and an obligation that is indisputably mine. I take it as the most important job I could ever have. I lay at the feet of this new moon and I offer up my fear, resignation, stagnation and doubt. I prepare myself for unlimited connection to the psychic forces that are always there for me to utilize. The more honest I am about everything in my life the more connected I become to it.
Libra & Libra Rising
Just a few question for you, Libra. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? Do you want to live in self-righteous rage? Or do you want to line in a perpetual state of giving to yourself what you expect others to give to you? Are you constantly obsessing over what another isn’t doing for you or what another is doing to you (or so you think?). Sunday’s new moon is one riotous ride into self discovery via the ones that you are intimate with. For some of you singletons you may meet someone completely out of the blue that knocks your socks off and is gone in the same instant. For coupled folks you will most likely be struck by some very electrifying truth about how you relate and how the relationship is functioning. For others it will be precisely the thing that your ego may wish not to happen; the thing that makes you think, and this is why it never works out for me-God hates me. I am doomed to a life of miserable misery because nothing stays the same and everything breaks eventually. Then the heavens open up and send a bolt of lightning that fries you to the core. Let’s back up a dramatic twist or two. There is one job that you have and one job only as far as this week’s new moon is concerned: whatever you are wanting others to do for you, you must do for yourself. You must. I don’t care what goes down, put it to the side and get on with the business of loving yourself like your saying so-in-so isn’t. Do for yourself what they won’t do. Simply, effortlessly bring your conscious awareness back to your body, back to this breath and say what can I do for myself in this moment that would make me feel more loved, more seen and more valued? Make that your New Moon Affirmation.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
If ever there was a time to break a pattern that you know you need to break the time is now. The good news is that the currents are with you in such a way that it’s as easy as stepping on a twig. Crack goes the condition that binds you in illness if you really set your intention on making a clean break. Of course we are creatures of habit. We conform to early childhood conditions without taking much time to consider why until the pain is so great we are moved into action. Well Scorpio, it’s ready, set, go time. I don’t recommend that this process be forced or insincere; some habits we really want to keep. Retain habits that involve self-care, self-love and getting done what needs to get done. Showing up for our lives is the best possible thing that we can do. This astrology and the upcoming celestial movements speak to getting to the heart of the psychological fears that create the habits that keep you stuck in paradigms that ultimately just frustrate the hell out of you. Root causes are revealed; this is no week to strengthen your formidable talent to stay as stuck as a stick in spring mud. Nothing is more empowering than remembering the power that we do have, thought by thought, choice by choice, action by action. New Moon Affirmation: I make it count. Every daily action I shroud in love. Making myself a cup of tea, brushing my teeth, doing my taxes and taking my vitamins is a radical act of self-love. I challenge every memory of childhood trauma by taking present time action to counter that reality. I smash distorted patterns of self-denial and open the flood gates of self-approval. I need no one but myself to do this. I break every recorded moment of self-sacrifice and fear that has ever run through the DNA of my blood line. My ancestors did the very best that they could do and I use this life to do the same. I do better for myself every blessed day.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
For the duration of this horoscope I ask you to do one thing: suspend your disbelief in a power greater than yourself. Humor me. Whatever created the big bang, then organized itself into living breathing creatures roaming this earth that is kept company by countless other bodies in the vastness that is our universe. Whatever that creative power is, I want you to get in line with it. Bring it with you on the daily. Put it in your back pocket, put a reminder of it on every mirror and give every plan, fear, resentment and hope to it. Give up and let go. You are not in charge no matter what your pea-brain tells you. There’s too much creativity available to you right now to get mired in the limited ways our thoughts usually go from A to B. We formulate fancy strategies and claim magic through manipulation but the real deal, the big fireworks, the fantastic feature show only happens when we are bold enough, daring enough and wise enough to just play with the universe. This goes for your love affairs, romances and relationships with your children too. To whatever degree is appropriate, step back, let them have their own experiences. When all else fails imagine the cosmos creating itself; organizing itself without any help from you and know that the rest of life is like this. New Moon Homework: Sit down and get really real with your resentments; especially around romance and self-expression/feeling powerful, potent and vital in the word. Take all of that piss and vinegar and compose a letter to that power that is greater than you. Dear Goddess, you suck because of A, B, C and especially D. Write until all of the vitriol has emptied from your veins. Pause and take a deep breath. Like you’re a master actor switching characters become God/Goddess/Universal Love Consciousness or whatever you want to call it, and write a letter back to yourself as that force of creation.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Earthquakes aren’t easy but they are much more difficult without a survival kit. One of the most important things to have on hand I hear (from one of my fave and fab Capricorns, Jessica Lanyadoo) is to have shoes by the bed, cash in hand, water and a little space person food. I think the shoes are paramount. Odd as that may seem but when the ground gets quaky and massive amounts of ancient relics are unearthed one needs to navigate with some protection. It’s not healthy to remain too vulnerable in an environment that takes no prisoners; it isn’t personal, it just is. Being one of the most strategic signs out there, this is not new news to you. However, what you may be a little unprepared for are the waterways that also get unearthed. Yes Capricorn, I am talking about god forsaken emotions. Pipes tend to burst in all that shaking and breaking and we are left flooded, mucking about in soupy waters, mired in the past. In astrological speak I am talking about Sunday’s new moon in Aries in your Forth House of The past can’t hurt you unless you keep creating it in the present. It also contains the place we call home these days in physical ways; the folks that live there and what goes down in your temple. The new moon wants to shake the ground you stand on so that you walk away from the less useful aspects of your inner world. Walk away my friend, walk away. New Moon Affirmation: I protect myself from obvious hurtful situations by getting the gear I need to walk the path that is in front of me. I do not repeat old patterns of self-destruction, self-denial or self-abandonment. I choose to think about how to take care of the most vulnerable parts of me before I set out on any adventure. I strengthen my relationship to life by never asking why something is happening. I just assume that it is exactly what should be happening and act accordingly.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
New Moon Affirmation: Every single word uttered is a declaration of the faith I have in my innate intelligence, sincere seeking and divine disposition. I reclaim the power of speech as the sacred element of air moving through me. Many myths speak of goddess, gods and god breathing life into the physical form. I know that every time I speak I do this. I create with every syllable I utter. Therefore I let the ingenuity of the cosmos form my vibrational contributions to the landscape i inhabit. I do not say things merely to shock others but I am willing to be a lightening rod of truth; a soothsayer and a conduit for cosmic knowledge that can no longer be withheld from my local sphere. I recognize that I may ruffle righteous, pious and self-important feathers and so I do so wisely. I cover my most vulnerable of life circumstances when I can while being ready to risk quite a lot in the name of personal integrity. I make sure that I hold myself accountable when and where appropriate and I commit to letting everyone else do the same. I am my own authority. I give myself permission to be my most excellent incarnation of me. I look to no one else for approval; only the mirror can give me the go ahead. Facebook, email, texts, blogs and all other forms of communication are my tools for transformation. I use them with full consciousness; all the lights are on in this room. Full wattage. Mind blown.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
New Moon Homework: You are going to need a pen and paper, glue stick, flowers, a safe place to burn paper, crayons, tokens, symbols, talismans and a magic wand (my good friend and witchy-wooer, Ian Waisler, tells me that a high heel shoe works wonders) for this Sunday’s new moon. You and I are about to work some magic a la copious amounts of Luna love potion. First off it’s important that you create a space that is loving; putting objects of positive self-reflection around you (if you are advanced this would include a mirror). We must always do deep work inside of a field of support. Next you are going to write out all of your negative beliefs about your self-worth. Include all statements that start with “I am not..”, “I can’t..”, “If only I..” and “I don’t have..”. Let yourself write all of the viscous and unfriendly statements that rattle around in that lose canon of a mind of yours that are not supportive for your growth. Then take a red crayon and write over top of the lists “I no longer give my energy to these beliefs.” Then take them to a contained area outside and burn them chanting “No more, no thank you, love and light, GOOD BYE!” Then for the rest of the week I want you to write three things every morning that you do have. Things that are independent of any outside circumstance, things that you naturally contain within you, parts of yourself that under no circumstance could ever be taken away from you. For example statements like “I am a force of fierce compassion, mind-blowing beauty and deep devotion because I am a child of this universe.” From there live up to said statements by acknowledging every time you do so during your daily life.
*Edited by Laurence Joseph Jones