The Sagittarius New Moon is accompanied by four other personal planets (Saturn, Sun, Venus and Mercury), and has great power to assist us with our humanitarian visions, empowerment and expansion. Sagittarius is the last of the fire signs, helping us to expand our inner light, and ignite the spiritual fire that keeps faith and hope alive and nourishes us through the long dark winter.

Venus in Sagittarius, conjunct this New Moon, helps us to re-ignite the feminine into the collective consciousness. Venus in Sagittarius symbolizes the wild feminine, the primal goddess — expressions that have been suppressed under the long held patriarchy. Venus’s involvement with the New Moon asks us to make our bodies’ needs and desires a priority and to expand into greater sensuality and pleasure. And at the same time guarding our bodies as sacred and powerful, not to be used, belittled and exploited. Women will have come fully into power when they easily say no to unwanted touching, advances and coercion.

Since the chaotic Uranus square Pluto energy and economic breakdowns that have accompanied Pluto in Capricorn, we’ve been working to create new and sustainable visions for our future. It is time to clear out selfish and greedy belief systems that serve the few and not the many, and have kept us stuck in out-moded structures that will not serve us in the 21st century. Saturn, moving into Capricorn in a few days, will help bring our humanitarian visions into form. What are your futuristic ideas you can move forward? What means can you use to break up any blocks you may have to higher vision? Real change starts first within each of us.

Chiron in Pisces squares this Sagittarius New Moon prompting the question: How can we maintain our optimism and invest in a positive future vision in the face of so much suffering? For the past year, the square between Saturn and Chiron has confronted us with the necessity of healing what we can, while coming to terms with the seemingly unhealable parts of ourselves and the world. Intense feelings may be triggered during this New Moon. Use your emotion to empower you to action. Compassion is a willingness to be with suffering, even if we can’t “fix” it. Then we can gain access to the higher potential of the Saturn–Chiron square, which is to allow our hearts to open to greater acceptance and love.

Jupiter, ruler of Sagittarius, is in the intense and emotional sign of Scorpio, supporting us to feel the full range of our emotions. The truth, faith, and higher vision that are available to come through us at this New Moon are found in our emotional depths. While Sagittarius tends to bypass harsh realities, Scorpio says the only authentic way to get to the light is to go all the way through the dark. 

Written by Wendy Cicchetti

PLAN YOUR OWN NEW MOON CEREMONY. Give yourself some quiet time in meditation to see where you need to seed new ways of becoming. List these areas within your life you want to change. What areas do you want to break free from the norm and become more productive and discerning? The NEW MOON is the time to manifest the personal attributes you want to cultivate as well as the tangible things you want to bring to you. Possible phrasing: I now manifest ____ into my life. I am now _______ . Remember, think, envision and feel with as much emotion as possible, as though you already have what you want. Thoughts are things and the brain manifests exactly what you show it in the form of thoughts, visuals and emotions. The Buddha said, and I am paraphrasing, “We are the sum total of our thoughts up to today. ” If we want to be different then we must change our thoughts. “If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” CONSCIOUS CHANGE is the key.