Lunations
New Moon
A New Moon is the dark, seed point of the lunar cycle, when the Sun and Moon meet in the same sign. It is the natural moment to begin, to set an intention, and to plant what you want to grow over the coming month.
Modern
The Moon moves through a full cycle about every twenty nine and a half days, and the New Moon is where that cycle resets. The Moon sits between the Earth and the Sun, dark in the sky, and life feels quietly ready for a fresh start. It is the time astrologers point to for beginnings: naming a goal, starting a project, or simply deciding the direction of the next chapter. The sign the New Moon falls in colors what that beginning is about. You do not need a ritual for it to matter; an honest intention and a first real step are enough.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
The When two planets sit at the same point in the zodiac, blending their meanings into one. The most powerful and direct of the aspects. of the two lights was read as the seed of the lunar month, the Moon renewed by the Sun's rays. Older writers held it a fitting time to commence undertakings whose growth you hope to see, since what begins as the Moon waxes was thought to increase as she fills.
- beginnings
- intention
- renewal
- the lunar cycle
- planting
Lean in
Setting a clear intention and taking one real first step toward it.
Watch for
Forcing a result the same day; a New Moon plants, it does not harvest.
Sources
- Hand, Planets in Transit (1976)The standard modern reference on how transiting cycles, the lunar phases included, are experienced.
- Brady, Predictive Astrology (1999)A modern guide to timing and the rhythm of the lunar and planetary cycles.
- George, Astrology and the Authentic Self (2008)Reads the lights and their phases through both classical significations and a modern lens.