New Moon in Libra 2018: Balance the books




Sabian symbol for the New Moon at 16 Libra : After a storm a boat landing stands in need of reconstruction.
Sabian symbol for the ruler of this lunation, Venus Rx in Scorpio, 10 Scorpio: A fellowship supper reunites old comrades.

Libra. Refined. Graceful. Gentle close lipped dimpled smile. Intelligent. Relationship oriented. Negotiator. Mediator. Judge. Dancer. Makeup artist. Home decorator. People pleaser. An ability to create facade. Anti-thesis. A double edged sword. Etiquette. Manners. An ability to lead without shouting orders. Passive. Peaceful. Indirectly assertive. Socially adept. Fair. Equal. Takes on a detached and not immersed emotional stance. Logic. Exchange. Equality. Appearances. Sweet and polite...until she is not.

The ruler of tonight's New Moon is retrograde in Scorpio. What that movement is doing is exorcising toxins and bringing them into our awareness to let us know, this is making you sick. This is not fair to you or someone else. This is not a logical expenditure of your time, energy. This is where you are giving away too much and receiving back very little if anything. This is robbing you of pleasure, peace and comfort.
Venus in Scorpio in retrograde is the exorcist. Folks with this natal position can have a tendency to draw the worst out of folks and...they don't even have to try. How things go from there is totally up to how the native perceives it and what they decide to do in response. It varies. I've seen natives who literally exorcise demons in the literal sense. Their presence provokes a purge of toxin. What was exorcised, just like a demon, has been robbing its host of resource and quality of life. It was making the heart sick and unhealthy. It needed to be exhumed and purged. 

Under this sky, what's being exorcised are the things that are poisoning us to a degree that we are losing sight of what power we have in our lives. We are losing grasp of what is valuable.Held captive in a dystopian society. Venus will show us that there are better choices and why changing the set up is just a good idea in terms of our quality of life. She is also going to rip away at things we cling to in an unhealthy manner. Show us where we are resentful, neglectful, greedy, envious, projecting and making excuses. She will show us our addictions. Where we need to be more authentic. She will point out the ways in which we are disrespecting ourselves and sacrificing our self worth. Where we need to realize we have choice and power while showing us how our choices and power are currently being manipulated for someone else's gain. How we are being exploited and taken advantage of. She will reveal to us the relationships that are sucking the joy and serenity out of us. We will see who is using us and who truly values us. While also showing us which relationships are feeding us nicely and need to be appreciated and strengthened in return.

In the next two weeks, many folks will be prone to pull out their scales and start weighing matters of worth against matters of effort and payback. We will find those scales to be off kilter. And, hopefully, take action to commandeer a more well balanced set up in whatever area of life we are weighing for worth.
Yes. This is going to involve our love relationships, friendships and connections with the “other.” But, that is not the only place in which the dynamic of relationship exists. Whenever your energy is interacting with something else, you are having a relationship with it. Relationship covers your interaction with everything including your relationship with your self. Your relationship with “concepts” such as money, work, media...everything that we come in contact with. And, we come into contact with a lot during the course of just a day.
For example, you are driving to work and need gas for your car. So, you stop at a convenience store. The minute you walk in the door and to the counter to greet the cashier, you've begun a temporary relationship. You are in relationship with whomever is in the store. In their vicinity, their actions can affect you and vice versa. That's what relationship means. And, any well-weathered Libra will tell you that all boils down to your relationship with yourself. A healthy interaction is dependent upon the presence of healthy values and strong sense of self-worth from anyone entering one. Can be just one leg of that union for the relationship to thrive. It needs to be both or the dynamic becomes dependent and unhealthy. Not worth the resource we invest.
The Sun is not well placed in Libra. These folks can spend a lot of time creating their identity based on what others expect or what they think others will find pleasing whether they consciously realize that or not. It takes Libra a while to find, accept and appreciate who it is they really are. It takes them a little longer to realize they may have to displease others sometimes to maintain their sense of self. And, for Libra, that's a big deal. Solid and healthy personal boundaries in our relationships helps us to maintain our individuality instead of becoming lost in it. Saturn rules boundaries and it loves the sign of Libra. Little softness for his grouchy ass and some strong backbone for Libra. Saturn helps Libra say no. She needs that.

However, Libra matures toward the conclusion that it is not fair to suffer in discomfort and hide who they are just to gain the approval or acceptance of someone else who has no problem being exactly who they are. Libra finds their balance once they find themselves. If it is not fair, Libra is not having any of it.
As for any Libra who has a Solar Return this year? You will find that releasing negative attachment and learning to appreciate and respect yourself as thematic all year. This is your job. Fix your heart. Balance your relationships. Assess the equity of give and take. Find and maintain your sense of self respectfully instead of being who you think someone expects you to be. Your Uranus to Sun opposition was sent to help you prepare for this. Cutting you loose. Setting you free. Forcing you to be more independent. Embrace that. Your relationships will improve after the unhealthy crust falls away and heals. Let it go. Romance yourself this year. Look to where you have true connection. Shower and fertilize what you want to grow in your life. Let the rest go.


The good thing about Libra season is that it is a bit emotionally detached. Decisions take time because she weighs all points of view and options. With Libra, everyone is on level ground. In her courtroom, it doesn't matter if you are rich, poor, male, female, from Iowa or the Moon...either you committed a crime or you didn't. The facts will show us the truth not your emotional plea. Libra doesn't want to see that mess and gives it no favor in her search for true justice. Once she has assessed all the facts and evidence, Libra will deliver her ruling and dole out consequences. You get what you get whether you are heaving in sobs or not. You were right or wrong. You did this or that and here is the proof. Here are the results of that. Not my fault if you don't like them. You did it. Not me. Can't figure out how to share custody? Ok, we'll just cut the baby in half then. That's fair. Right? K, if you don't want me to get the sword it might be a good idea to figure it out then. That, my friends, is Libra. Fairs fair. Goose/gander and all that.

In the business and financial realm, Libra season is typically expressed by way of impartial balancing, too. October is the month to gather your business data and financial information for the year. You look at what the company invested in. What profit was gleaned. What marketing strategies worked and diagnose any issues with your clients. Adjustments are made where necessary in order to know how to direct the investments of resource for the following year. When Libra balances the books and finds out that the business took a loss because the marketing revenue investment did not deliver a return, it's not going to matter if she likes the lady she works through at that marketing firm. Its just business. She'll invest elsewhere. Maybe meeting up with the lady from the firm for lunch every now and then.
At this New Moon, with the emotionally detached and non-biased view of Libra during a Venus in Scorpio retrograde, we are called toward balancing the books off our own lives. Venus reviews what she invested through time, energy, money, love and resource in her history. She pulls out her scales and weighs that against what she received in return. And then, she adjusts accordingly.
Mars in Aquarius echoes the detachment and analytical theme. Aquarius, the scientist, is driven to know, discover, invent, pioneer. In order to do that, he conducts experiments in his lab analyzing results. This has nothing to do with emotions either. This is brain work.. This happened or that happened. These pieces fit together or they don't. This ability to detach in regard to Mars means the sky is delivering us the ability to step aside instead of being sucked into manipulative or dramatic efforts. We can rise above more base expressions of Mars and pioneer new advancements. Aquarius, like Libra, doesn't care for the emotional displays and definitely is not going to allow their own emotions to have control. He's part robot part alien anyway. Sweat, anger, getting swept up in emotions and being unwittingly controlled by others is totally a human thing. He's not going to sweat in labor or emotional turmoil. He will invent a more efficient and less messy way. Plus, he's in new territory as of today. We can take what we've learned in regard to matters of Mars as this retrograde ends and apply that as we move forward. We can power toward our goals as we now look to balance the books of Venus.

Our ruling sabians tell us that damage has been done. But, the storm is gone. It's time to assess what needs to be done. What is broken and in disrepair. Is it fixable? Or do we need to begin again. Which is the most efficient investment of resource? Venus says, look to who is standing next to you through this. Does it make you feel better or worse to be around them? Are you satisfied when you go to bed at night? Are you satisfied in your life doing the things you do or not? If your answers are all positive to those questions, keep up the good work. Use this energy to reward yourself gently. Feed what brings you pleasure, satisfaction and comfort. If you aren't comfortable...are not happy...do not think you have any worth, are lonely or feel like everyone around you is just out to make you miserable or for just what they can get from you then this is New Moon and this Venus retrograde is your chance to change that. If you need help, reach out for it. But, mostly, it's time to stop relating to others and learn to relate and appreciate yourself instead. Quit seeking in your dating app. Start seeking in yourself. Stop trying to pleasing to others and try to operate in a way that is pleasing to you. Stop reaching out for love and start choosing what and whom is truly worthy, appreciative and reciprocal of what it is you have to give. Your love, attention, time, efforts all that is equivalent to energetic currency. Assess your current investments of it. In a non-emotional way, assess their return. Balance your books. 

Once you start valuing yourself and allowing yourself to expend energy only in things worthy of you, the energetic attraction vibration that you send out magnetically begins to draw others who value you and worth to your life. As long as you continue to devalue and forsake yourself, that vibration will continue to attract in folks who may be looking to only use you and manipulate your low self worth. You don't have to let that dynamic continue. It can be changed. But, only by you. Nobody you meet is going to be able to restore that for you nor should they be expected to be anymore than you should expect yourself to be anyone else's source of self-worth.

Our guide for this New Moon is the 6 of Swords. In regard to intention setting this guide tells us that its time to move on. We are transitioning to a new place leaving darker days behind. Things may feel uncertain. Change is change and it's hard to predict how that goes. Yet, we've learned from the place we were and can apply those lessons as we move forward. We are allowed to seek and expect better for ourselves. We are allowed to leave sorrow behind. And, we are allowed to grieve loss even if what we are grieving wasn't really healthy in the first place. We are also allowed to decide when its time to say goodbye for our sake and the sakes of those who are important to us or perhaps dependent on our well being such as our children. When we choose to take care of our own hearts, we model what's healthy for our children. When we model healthy boundaries and fairness, they learn from that too. And, if we continually let them see us sacrifice ourselves in order to gain approval or when they see us allowing ourselves to be continually manipulated and abused...they learn from that too. Main point being, if its making you sick literally or metaphorically, it's time to move on to better things. It's time to cut your losses and find something more worthy. It's time to search your heart for what is most important to you and to feather those connections as you leave the rest behind. What are you leaving? What are you looking for? Tell it to the boatman. Give him your dime. In exchange, he will take you where you say you want to go. Make sure you give him clear instruction. Which means, you kind of need to know exactly what it is you are looking for. Figure it out. Take your time. And, then, go. Take your dear sweet time but don't procrastinate. Start now but remember Libra doesn't rush. 

<6 of swords...row row row your boat>

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