Aries New Moon: Even the seed needs to die to be reborn
Also, Venus in Taurus is inviting our bodies to be embraced as vessels of love, power and wisdom
(It is not the letter I had in mind but these are the words that emerged. I didn’t even know I needed to write them but I trust that whoever needs them will find medicine in them. Also, I have a strong sense that this one needs to be accessible so I am choosing to remove the paywall for this one. If you do feel like you want to reciprocate, I invite you to share it with someone who might need it, or you can become a paid subscriber and receive these New and Full Moon Invitations regularly.)
What do I want to say?
What do I need to say?
What’s been on my mind lately that needs to be shared?
As Spring is blossoming here in the northern hemisphere, as another astrological cycle is ending and beginning, as I am personally readying my embarkment to a magical journey with a community I am yet to meet, this Aries New Moon feels potent - full of change, full of fiery energy, full of gusto, full of courage unlike any other I’ve felt before, but also calmness, groundedness and hope for the future and the path I am about to follow.
Maybe you feel it too. Maybe you have your own version of it.
In a way, this has been a long time coming. I stepped onto this path as I lay in the hospital bed under the influence of laughing gas. Visions of butterflies, crystals, mandalas, and natal charts appeared to me way before I’d truly reconnected with astrology or any of the other discoveries since. And yet, ever since I did reconnect with the planets and the stars, I’ve had this nudge within me waiting to be answered.
I’ve mentioned the term Sacred Work before but what I didn’t know was the fact that there was a piece missing, a very important one at that.
Weirdly enough, this ending of another astrological year feels very significant. A journey that started on the day of my accident is only just beginning because I am now consciously choosing to walk a path untrodden. I am ready to devote my life to my creative self-expression in whatever form it calls to me, and right now it is a combination of words, Sacred Work, and sacred geometry.
The details are not yet there but I can see the bigger picture. I can feel the resonance it would have with the world. I can imagine myself speaking about the mind-body-soul connection. You see, as the Cross of the Vessel of Love, I was missing the body element. And that is ultimately what the last two years have been about - claiming back my body, reconnecting to it in a whole new way, and learning to love it once more.
The practice of breathwork has allowed me to come back to my body, to become present in this beautiful physical vessel, and challenge the feedback loops that have been keeping me stuck in my smallness for too long.
For too long, I’ve been giving away my power, the power that starts in my body. As a Generator, this was always the link I struggled to connect to. As a Generator, it is so important for us to be grounded in our physical bodies. And even if you’re not a Generator, your body is a beautiful vessel that holds so much wisdom if only you learn to listen.
Our bodies allow us to connect to our spirit. They allow us to be selective of what gets a voice in our minds. It’s where our powers reside but for whatever reason, we lose touch with it or we’re told to not trust what our bodies are telling us, or worse, we’re bullied for what our bodies look like or do or don’t do.
We disconnect. We detach ourselves.
We numb ourselves. We distract ourselves. We reach for perceived safety mechanisms.
It is only now, two years after my accident, that I am learning the importance of our physical vessels. It took a spout of the flu and Covid to truly realise what my body has been trying to tell me for so long. I was just too ignorant to listen. I was too rigid with the constant doing and forcing and proving my worth through my productivity that I could not see what was right in front of me. I could not see what my charts had been trying to tell me. I could not hear what my body knew all along.
Weirdly, it was during the Uranus-Mercury trine about a week ago that the message came to me: for too long I’ve been finding safety in the doing but it is in fact the opposite that is my true safety. My real sense of safety is in the groundedness of my body, the stillness of my mind and spirit, and the silence within and without me.
Productivity has been providing me with a sense of safety for my entire life. I learned that from my parents and grandparents and the wider society around me. We’re taught to be productive to be worthy citizens. We’re taught to play our part, to earn our keep. But at what cost?
Uranus entered Taurus in May 2018 and won’t leave until April 2026. Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign. It is ruled by Venus. Uranus, according to Caroline Casey, is our disciplined wildness. It takes the structures that the Saturn in us creates and disrupts the order not to be disruptive for its own sake but to liberate us from the confinements that are no longer serving us.
Taurus as Fixed Earth is the material world, the body, the physical plane, and our relationship with it but also with ourselves.
Are we abandoning our own physical needs for the sake of others, for the sake of our work? Are we celebrating selflessness as part of being dutiful?
Are we leaning into the feeling of self-belonging, self-validation, and self-worth or are we allowing external forces to determine that for ourselves?
Where does our sense of security derive from? Is it from the external world or can we feel safe and secure within our own bodies? If not, what can we do to build up that sense of safety? What even does that sense of safety feel like?
Where are we called to be that disciplined wild person? What are the structures that are no longer serving us? How can we liberate ourselves from the self-imposed shackles and from those imposed upon us?
This is not quite where I planned to go with this letter but we’re just gonna roll with it…
Venus rules Taurus, and has recently entered the sign. Venus is enjoying her time there. She feels right at home. She will soon pass Uranus and when she does, we’re called to pay attention to the things that want to be named.
What are the quiet whispers within our bodies?
What is the wildness in us we have been suppressing?
As the Sun is transiting through the fiery sign of Aries that is very much about new beginnings and forward movement, how can we lean into the safety of our physical vessels? What do we need? What are we ready to name?
As the New Moon in Aries pushes open the seed that is ready to sprout, what can we offer to our bodies? How can we take extra care of our vessels of love while the energies around us are rearing to go?
For the seed needs to die so that the sprout can emerge.
What’s ready to be shed?
What’s ready to be left behind?
What’s ready to be named and claimed?
There are big astrological shifts happening left, right, and center at the moment.
We had Saturn moving into the sign of Pisces recently. I love what my teacher Britten talked about in her recent workshop about Saturn entering Pisces. Instead of feeling into the restrictions and the boundaries that Saturn loves, what if we reimagined our limitations as portals?
What if we thought of the boundaries as contours to our creations? What if our limitations are our gifts, the boundaries only we can play within? Doesn't that feel more spacious than allowing ourselves to feel limited and restricted within our limitations? It certainly does to me.
What if Saturn in Pisces is here to help us tend to the limitations and the self-imposed boundaries and dissolve them so that we could emerge within the new contours of the magical souls that we know we are?
What if we tended to our physical vessels as portals to the beyond?
What if our bodies were not our physical limitations but limitless portals bridging what is to what could be?
I don’t know how you feel about it but I know that I am definitely ready to stretch my comfort zone, aka my perceived safety zone. It has been very potent in my mind, my body, and my soul.
By claiming our own power, we empower others in theirs.
By claiming our own worth, we empower others in theirs.
By claiming our Chiron, we empower others for theirs.
By claiming our truth, we empower others for theirs.
By claiming our untrodden path, we empower others for theirs.
By claiming our story, we empower others for theirs.
By heeding our call, we give others permission to heed theirs.
By lighting our lantern, we light the path of others.
Under this Aries New Moon, what are you claiming or what are you reclaiming? What seed is ready to die and rebirth?
As always, sending you so much love,
Silvia
P.S. If you’re not already subscribed to Lisa Olivera’s Substack space, I’d love to share her words here from last Sunday. I feel a deep resonance with Lisa’s words and her words are almost always a reflection of my own experience at that given moment. And so were these words below which I only connected to this letter after I’d written my version of it and read Lisa’s.
“I guess I’ll just say this: sometimes, we need to make the right choice before we know where it will lead. Sometimes, we need to choose before there’s a net, before there’s a known outcome, before we can predict the future. Sometimes, we need to trust ourselves to be with the unknown path when walking down the known one isn’t working anymore. Sometimes, we need to let ourselves linger in that place longer than is comfortable, longer than is admirable, longer than is relevant for our brand or our dreams or our image. And sometimes, choosing to do so is the greatest gift we can offer our own humanity, knowing the truest path is always going to bring us closer to ourselves.”
The beginning of this year has been somewhat uninspiring due to all the health issues but I'm slowly finding my way back.
I picked up my compass and sketchbook recently to noodle around with a lunar calendar design. I'm eager to make some changes to the way I've created the previous ones: only use the main phases and recreate the moon design as an accurate representation of its surface.
I feel like the whole concept is still very much in progress and each calendar I make reveals a new layer. I'm also being drawn to readjust the calendar from new moon to new moon instead of the calendar months. We'll see.
The perfectionist in me needs to recreate the petal and trace the lines with the ink pen in the compass. Funnily enough, I don't view it as negative anymore, rather, it feels more like taking pride in my work and making it the best expression of me that it can be. That feels very much like my devotional Virgo, my skillful Virgo that wants to master her craft.
I'm opening up to embodying these archetypes and energies rather than using them to “fix” myself. I'm allowing the stars and the planets flow through my creative self-expression. And that has definitely been a big part of experimenting with my Sacred Work and feeling into the whole framework, a framework I'm excited to tinker with fellow magical souls soon.
Yes indeed, the cyclical nature of life is what truly guides us. Every season ends with a new season waiting to teach us something new. We need to listen to our bodies and stay in balance as best we can. Thank you for a lovely post!