Friday’s Fiery New Moon in Aries

“What you can do or dream or can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goethe

“The bamboo for prosperity,” a friend explained to me,”the pine for long life and the plum for courage…the plum for courage because the plum puts forth blossoms while the snow is still on the ground.” Madeleine Engel

“I tell you, the past is a bucket of ashes.”Carl Sandburg

Mars is making a harmonious sextile to Chiron this week.  If you have been wanting to move forward in your life but have been  dealing with a nagging insecurity or if you have been dragging your feet to face an old or habitual obstacle in your path, Mars will support and  lend courage and determination  to any initiatives of this nature now.

Friday’s fiery New Moon at 15 degrees of Aries  has a lot of power to support and  help actualize strong intentions, given one caveat. The Sun and the Moon in Aries will be squaring Saturn, Pluto and the Nodes of the Moon. This indicates a karmic  threshold of sorts and to activate this energy favorably it bodes well to be willing to let go of perhaps longstanding beliefs or assumptions from the past  that hinder your forward movement and are  no longer necessary. Make space for new perspectives or a new orientation with Mars now in Gemini. This placement can help considerably with considering things from differing perspectives.

The Sabian symbol for this New Moon is, “Brightly clad brownies dancing in the warm dancing light.”

Sabian symbol from Lynda Hi