Working with the New Moon in Aquarius

Time to innovate and push boundaries

We are approaching the first New Moon of 2025. The moon will move into Aquarius at 7:26 am EST. This is the first in a series for my paid subscribers that discusses at a high level the energies of these signs at the New Moon, the energies of the elements, and some suggestions for creating your altars, as well as, prompts and things to focus on while setting your intentions. The New Moon is the time to set intentions for the current cycle, and then use the rest of the moon cycle to deepen into that intention and take aligned actions. Some months you may choose to focus on an inner intention vs an outer intention or both. I highly recommend only choosing at MOST 3 intentions for a moon cycle, or if it is a deep intention you may choose to work it for a seasonal cycle and layer on the energies of the next few New Moons.

I want to give a disclaimer that I am NOT an astrologer, but I do work with the Moon, Elemental, and Seasonal cycles in my life and work design. (If you want suggestions for astrologers to follow or get personal readings from please let me know.)

This New Moon will be bringing a LOT given that Pluto moved into Aquarius for its approximately 20 year cycle so we have that layered on top. Being an Aquarius ascendant and someone who loves shadow work I think this is like the icing on the cake!! This moon will impact every sign and Aquarius is about innovation, stepping out of your comfort zone, and at the risk of sounding cliche “being the change you wish to see.” With Pluto’s shadowy nature being played out in the collective right now, many of us are on edge. So you are being asked to look at your shadows around taking risks, speaking your truth, taking up space, and putting your innovative ideas out into the world. Collectively we are being asked to use technology for good, innovate, understand what our part is to play to be of service to something greater, and to stop playing in the shadows of waiting for leaders to save us. This 20 years will be about humanity taking the reins, even though it doesn’t feel like it right now. We are just at the beginning and seeing the darkness and the chaos, which is necessary in the cycles of death and rebirth. But take heart that creativity is born out of chaos. So tap into your own creative genius and set some intentions around bringing that to light. Your intentions for this New Moon may be for the overarching essence of what you want to bring forward this year.

This is one of my favorite weeks of the year because February 1st is also Imbolc or Brigid’s Day a cross quarter day in the Wheel of the Year and marks the beginning of Spring and the Midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. This is about adding our creative fire to path and purpose, and the acknowledgement that the seeds are stirring under the soil. There will be a separate article on Imbolc later this week.

 Why Work with the Moon?

Working with the moon as a way to honor cycles and rhythms has been practiced since the beginning of time. The moon sets the pace with a rhythm, a cycle of beginnings and endings that never fails. She is always present even when you cannot see her. As humans and especially as women we have a natural connection to the moon, that watches over our menstrual cycles (or if we do not bleed there is still opportunity to tap into her rhythms and your own) the ebbs and flows of the ocean, and our intuition and imagination.

Looking at the moon brings a sense of peace, comfort, safety, and illumination. She is a constant yet is always moving and transforming. She transforms from dark to new to half, to crescent, to balsamic, to full and birthing and back again. She represents the cycles of death and rebirth that happens every single month and that represents every cycle of our own journey. She works in phases, as do we as humans when we wake up to that fact, instead of trying to “get it all done” according to some external arbitrary timeline. Our whole lives are a series of phases that we dance to and from and back again. When we tap into that power, honor it, and work with it, we have a powerful ally that assists us in bringing our visions into form. Working with the moon helps us to remember there is something bigger than ourselves and that connecting into nature helps us to do “our work” here on this planet.

As the moon travels around the Earth her phases change and at the same time, she moves into a different astrological sign approximately every 2.5 days. Each of these transitions in both how she shows up and where she shows up in the sky comes with a different “energy”. I also believe that the season of the year also represents our cycles of life and different energies depending on the element of nature that is most strong at that time. So, working in resonance with the phase of the moon, the astrological sign, and the seasons is what I have found to be the most powerful way of setting intention, and bringing it into form with the assistance of nature.

Setting Intention with the New Moon

Setting intention with the New Moon is powerful because the New Moon is the beginning of the moon phase cycle, and once we are aligned to what is calling us forward we use the other phases to bring more energy and joy to the intention, bring gratitude for what we have, and then release attachment to outcome while we birth that intention into the world. In the New Moon we first sit in the emptiness and the darkness of the New Moon, we tap into our inner knowing in a way we can only do when we “empty out” and step out of the mind chatter, so that we can fully receive the information our wisdom wants us to know, we allow the Mother (or the Moon or whatever your belief system is) to take what we do not need, so we can just be still and listen, and allow our intentions to rise up through our heart and souls and not come from the logical and linear mind. That is how we access what we truly desire and give it the energy required to manifest. We use this practice to learn what is real and true about what would we would like to bring into form, NOT what the external world says we should want, be or do.

Once we have grounded into the Earth, called in the power of the moon, and released we are then able to plant the seed, allow the intention to gestate and be nourished during the other phases of the lunar cycle, and then be birthed at the Full Moon.

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