Libra New Moon: September 25, 2022
Libra New Moon,
September 25, 2022
peaking at 5:54 P.M. EST
happening at 2°49’ Libra
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listen to the story (p.s. audio includes some extras that aren’t in the text)
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On the morning of September 10th, I woke to see that my right eye was bloodshot. It’d been red like this - without irritation, for no apparent reason - for at least twelve hours, and as I looked in the mirror and saw my red, red eye, I remembered: This happened before.
But when exactly?
I couldn’t recall, so I pulled up my records - the highly detailed journals I keep of synchronicities, visions, intuitive messages, somatic experiences, and other seemingly noteworthy moments - and I searched the word “bloodshot.”
That’s when I saw - in an entry marked 2-1-21, just beneath the description of my “bloodshot right eye” - the following words written in all caps: FROM BLUE TO GOLD.
My eyes grew wide in disbelief. I had no memory of having written these words then, but I remembered writing them recently - just a month ago - atop the story of the Mercury retrograde cycle that we are currently moving through. The cycle I named: From Blue to Gold.
I named the cycle this because in August, I had a dream. I dreamt about a blue light that turned to gold, and the next day, another woman - halfway around the world, not knowing a thing about my dream - also dreamt about blue turning to gold.
It’s as if some great shift was happening, something woven into the fabric of the universe that at least two of us were seeing, and then, on September 10th - just hours after Mercury turned retrograde - I found myself facing the words FROM BLUE TO GOLD.
But these words from 2021 had nothing to do with Mercury. Instead, they were about the planet Saturn.
Apparently (according to my records), I had just watched a documentary about NASA’s Cassini mission, and during the thirteen years and seventy-six days that the Cassini spacecraft explored the planet Saturn, it observed something beautiful, something unlike anything ever seen before in the exploration of our universe.
It observed that the huge hexagonal jet stream at Saturn’s north pole had changed colors.
It turned from blue to gold.
The spacecraft witnessed this shift between 2013 and 2016, and by September 2016, the hexagon was fully gold.
Where were you - when Saturn turned from blue to gold? Reflect back to September 2016. Did a major shift happen in your life then?
As of May 2017, Saturn’s hexagon was still gold. Scientists believe that the color change is likely related to seasonal weather patterns over the course of a year on Saturn (which is about 29.5 times as long as an Earth year). But they don’t know for sure. They can’t say how long the hexagon has existed, and they can’t say how often it shifts from blue to gold.
The Cassini mission ended in 2017, so we have no more recent photos of Saturn’s north pole. All we know for sure is that in 2013, it was blue, and by September 2016, it was gold.
What happened in between?
What has happened since?
I can’t say for sure.
But I can’t help but wonder if maybe, just maybe, it’s turning from blue to gold yet again.
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On June 4, 2022, the planet Saturn went retrograde. It’s been like that - up in the sky, appearing to move backwards - ever since. But now, during this moon cycle, it’s changing.
The Libra new moon on September 25th marks the start of a new moon cycle. Every moon cycle is approximately 29.5 days long. It starts with a new moon and ends the day before the next new moon.
The latest moon cycle starts now. It ends on October 24th.
During this time, Mercury turns direct (October 2nd), the Aries full moon rises (October 9th), Mercury completes its retrograde cycle (October 16th), and…Saturn turns direct.
On October 23rd, Saturn corrects its course.
Everything that happens during this new moon time (September 25 - October 8) feels connected to this. It is laying the foundation for a big forward sweep, an upward momentum, building to a series of eclipses that begin on October 25th, preparing us for the end of a Saturnian cycle that started years ago.
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Visible to the naked eye, Saturn has been known to exist for thousands of years and probably even longer. I imagine early hominids and dinosaurs, walking the earth - no light pollution in sight - looking up at the night sky and noticing the brightest of stars, which were actually planets. But it wasn’t until Ancient Rome that the planet now known as Saturn got its current name.
It was named after the Roman god of agriculture and wealth, the god believed to reign over a Golden Age, a time when peace and plenty were available to everyone.
Every year, Romans celebrated Saturn’s Golden Age with the festival of Saturnalia. It was considered “the best of times,” and the celebrations began every year on December 17th.
And it was on this day - December 17, 2020 - that the planet Saturn moved into the sign of Aquarius for the first time in twenty-six years.
This was a rare transit in its own right, but in 2020, Saturn’s shift into Aquarius was made even more special by the fact that it was shortly followed by the planet Jupiter, and on December 21, 2020, Saturn and Jupiter found themselves aligned at the same place in the sky, forming The Great Conjunction - a rare celestial event that was celebrated by astronomers and astrologers alike.
Saturn and Jupiter hadn’t been that close together in 400 years. They hadn’t aligned in Aquarius in 616 years, and they hadn’t aligned at the early degrees of Aquarius (as they did in 2020) in nearly 800 years.
The Great Conjunction was dubbed “The Christmas Star.”
And shortly before its arrival - on December 18th, the day after Saturn moved into Aquarius - I had a vision. In my mind’s eye, I saw a golden door opening, golden light pouring through, and as the light arrived, I heard:
Everything meant for you will come to you.
Everything meant for you will come to you.
Everything meant for you will come to you.
And it was around this time - on December 15th - that I started seeing something else.
In my mind’s eye, I saw a hexagon.
At the center of my chest, I saw a hexagon, held within a star, radiating within a swirling ring of fire.
The vision persisted, evolving and shifting from December 15, 2020, through February 4, 2021, and it was then, in February, that I saw - at the place in my chest where a golden hexagon had been - a blooming red rose.
When these hexagon visions started, I didn’t know anything about Saturn’s hexagon. I didn’t learn about that until watching the documentary at the end of January 2021.
And when I saw the rose in February, I didn’t know that if you were to look within Saturn’s hexagonal winds, beyond the clouds of blue and gold, you would see a swirling vortex, a polar storm that has oftentimes been called “The Rose.”
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Everything meant for you will come to you.
Everything meant for you will come to you.
Everything meant for you will come to you.
Like a sudden shift from blue to gold.
A great big blooming rose.
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Saturn entered Aquarius on December 17, 2020, and the next day, I saw a golden door and all this golden light, and then, later that day, I was flipping through a journal, and I saw this:
When I sketched this on June 16, 2020, I didn’t realize what I had drawn. It wasn’t on purpose. I was simply drawing a stick figure - the triangle a torso, the lines extending off of it my poor attempt to draw some arms and legs - but in December 2020, I realized: I drew a hexagram. I made the body a hexagram, a blooming rose at the center.
And beneath the image, I wrote a message that basically says: Everything meant for you will come to you.
And in the image, I drew an arrow pointing North.
Of course, I didn’t know then about Saturn’s north pole, its hexagon and rose.
I wasn’t thinking about Saturn at all.
But for some reason, in June 2020, I drew this. And it was then, in June 2020, that Saturn was completing a brief, temporary transit through the sign of Aquarius - a short three month stint that it did before officially entering the sign and staying in December 2020. And when December arrived - without even remembering this sketch - I started seeing a hexagram in my mind. The hexagram became a rose, and now…as Saturn’s 2.5 year cycle through Aquarius is approaching its final six month stretch, I was reminded of all of this.
I saw the old note that said FROM BLUE TO GOLD, and as I was lying in bed, thinking about Saturn’s hexagon, I saw in my mind the image I’d created for the Mercury retrograde story, From Blue to Gold:
I saw the hexagram at the center of the tree, and I suddenly remembered that I first sketched that tree in December 2020. I sketched it on December 22, 2020, to be precise - just one day after The Great Conjunction.
I chose to use it for the Mercury retrograde story because in my dream, the blue light was radiating from a tree. The tree was sick, toxic, radiating blue. But in time, it received all the golden light that was being sent its way, and by the time Christmas came, it was healed.
When I had the dream and when I created the image above, I didn’t remember Saturn’s blue and gold hexagon. I wasn’t thinking about The Great Conjunction known as the Christmas Star or how the ancient festival of Saturnalia laid the foundation for many of the festivities now associated with Christmas, how Christmas itself is subtly rooted in the ancient celebration of Saturn. And I didn’t remember that when I first sketched the image of that tree, I was inspired by a real tree. A tree that was in my front yard growing up.
It was tall and beautiful and strong.
But at its center, there was a large black scar.
The scar marked the spot where the tree had once been infected. The infection had been cut out of the tree, and afterwards, the tree was able to fully heal. Now, the only sign that the tree had once been sick was a large scar in its trunk.
The scar was in the shape of a diamond.
And when I sat to sketch the tree in December 2020, I thought of drawing a diamond on it, but then, I saw this in my mind:
I saw two halves merging to form a hexagram - a hexagon at its center, as always.
So that’s what I drew - not the scar in the shape of a diamond - the diamond a symbol of two opposing halves - but a hexagram. A symbol of healing of that which has been hurt and of the unification that comes when The Great Divide is bridged.
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Saturn’s transit through Aquarius came with a promise.
A promise of unification.
A promise of ease.
A promise of a great golden light permeating the land, spreading far and wide until the land itself changes color, shifting from blue to gold.
How do we get there? How does it happen?
The answer lies in the body of Saturn itself, embodied in its north pole like a fractal of an idea that later arrived in images in my mind and words on your screen and even earlier, in the symbol of the anahata.
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In December 2020, when I first started seeing the hexagram at my chest, the fiery ring swirling around it, I became very curious about the imagery. I googled it, and that’s when I learned (for the first time, to my conscious mind) about the anahata.
The anahata is a symbol of the heart chakra in certain Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and it looks like this - a hexagon, inside a hexagram, held inside a flower (its petals very much resembling flames):
The anahata symbol is all about the unification of opposing forces, the ability to hold all opposites with ease inside your heart.
Because that’s where it starts.
Like a seed blooming inside your chest, every petal unfolding to create more space to hold all the ideas and opinions and love and hate that are speckled throughout our human experience, tightly woven like competing forces, but when you loosen the threads, you come to see that those differences that were once fighting each other are now capable of maneuvering in balance and harmony.
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The sign of Libra is all about two opposing halves. It’s about finding balance between the halves. It’s about the diamond - two halves of equal size and measure, resting opposite each other on the scales of time.
And this Libra new moon comes with a message, a bridge between opposing forces, a rainbow connection leading us to our pot of gold.
The moon itself is conjunct not only the sun (as it is on every new moon) but also the planet Mercury and the asteroid Iris.
Both Mercury and Iris were named after messenger gods. Mercury was the main messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, and Iris was the Greek goddess of rainbows and yet another messenger of the gods, with feet just as swift as Mercury/Hermes.
Mercury and Iris themselves represent two halves - god and goddess, male and female - of the messenger deities.
They are coming together on this new moon, in the sign of marriage and partnership, and it’s not a coincidence that the last moon story also spoke of marriage and the unification of halves. The story is building on itself.
With each passing minute, we are moving in the direction of what comes next, and what comes next is MARRIAGE.
A unification that was promised.
A golden light that’s been working its way through, not immediately, not like an instantaneous wave of the wand, but like a long, 2.5+ year process, similar in duration to the shifting of the hexagon on Saturn itself. Blue in 2013. Gold in 2016.
What message will arrive for you?
What message will arrive for us all?
You maybe already saw an inkling of this around the equinox on September 22nd, but now, during this new moon time, it’s going to APPEAR.
Stay tuned from September 25 - October 8. Trust that the message will come exactly as it’s meant to and that you don’t have to do anything to push or make it happen.
Perhaps the message even comes in the shape of a memory.
Perhaps my August dream about the tree and the shift from blue to gold was all just some subconscious recollection of earlier events from 2020/2021, and perhaps subconscious recollection is part of how messages work.
Perhaps memory itself is a message. Not meant to help us accurately recall the events of our lives - because as every objective study has shown, we aren’t particularly good at that (thus why I keep my records) - but instead, maybe memory exists to help us receive whatever information is relevant in the moment.
Maybe the timing of our remembrance is important.
Maybe it’s pointing to connections that we struggle to comprehend but that do exist in the ultimate nature of our interconnected reality.
So maybe my dream was a memory.
And maybe that memory was a message.
And maybe the red eye was a message, and maybe all of it was telling me: WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW IS CONNECTED TO WHAT HAPPENED THEN.
So let us go back.
Go back to the end of December 2020 through the beginning of February 2021. What happened then? What can you remember? For now, don’t worry about looking back at your calendar or trying hard to remember every detail. Instead, simply trust that whatever you remember in this moment is a message meant for you now.
Trust that even though desire can make us impatient, Saturn’s promise is being fulfilled, and everything meant for you will come to you.
Like a memory floating to the surface.
Like a message, just waiting to be received.
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What begins during this Libra new moon time will keep expanding, reaching into April 2023, helping us fully acclimate to what life will be like after Saturn finally completes its transit through Aquarius in March.
In so many ways, this new moon feels like the beginning of the end of something, which is really just a way of saying that it’s the beginning of something new.
And this new moon coincides with Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - and in many Jewish prayer books, Rosh Hashanah is known as “the day of remembrance.”
What are we remembering? The birth of the world, a whole new beginning.
It starts with the blowing of a horn.
It’s followed by a bright golden light.
It burn burn burns like a flame, arriving on October 9th.
Stay tuned.
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Long story short:
The Libra new moon time spans September 25-October 8, and what starts now will keep growing and expanding through April 2023. It is now, during this new moon time, that Mercury turns direct and that we prepare to birth a whole new world, to receive all the golden light that was promised and that began flowing with ease in December 2020. This is a period of tremendous healing, a healing that will mark this entire moon cycle through October 24th. All of this is leading us into Eclipse Season. Everything is building, building now. A great momentum uplifting us all, and it’s starting now - during this new moon time - with A MESSAGE. A message arrives. For you individually and for us collectively. This message is a game changer, a mood shift, a rainbow bridge that leads to healing a hurt that has been affecting your growth since at least February 2022. This new moon marks the end of a huge karmic cycle as the asteroid Karma completes its eight-month long retrograde cycle, and we begin again - pure, clean, anew.
