Dear Friend and Reader:

Sunday, March 30, is the Aries New Moon, exact at 2:45 pm EDT. (View full chart here.) Genevieve Hathaway has interpreted this lunation for each of the 12 Moon signs in her horoscopes below.

Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.

To read Genevieve’s horoscopes, it helps to know your Moon sign (where the Moon was at the moment of your birth), which you can find out by entering your birth data into Serennu.com. Often you can still get accurate Moon sign info even if you lack your exact birth time. You can also read these horoscopes for your Sun and rising signs for additional insight.

For the Aries New Moon, we have the Sun and Moon conjunct (that is, together) in early Aries. It’s the first New Moon of the astrological year, reverberating with a sense of presence in the world and the associated urge to get things moving. Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet of drive, libido, desire, physical action and even aggression or violence.

Incidentally, Mars is in its opposite sign, Libra, and is moving in apparent retrograde motion, which can feel like you’re moving inward into yourself or reviewing the past, rather than charging forward, as our Mars energies prefer to do. So in a way, the Sun and Moon are standing in for Mars, at least in terms of giving our self-awareness and emotions some forward thrust as this new season begins.

Sun-Moon conjunctions harmonize our conscious will and emotions, which is an advantage when trying to move forward in life — though it bears noting that such a close alliance between our two ways of knowing can also hinder our sense of perspective. It’s kind of like when you’re standing right next to someone: you can’t see them clearly or fully in your peripheral vision.

That said, perhaps the most exciting feature of this Aries New Moon is that it is aligned with three out of four of the planets involved in April’s incredible grand cross. The Sun and Moon are conjunct Uranus in Aries, and square to both Jupiter in Cancer and Pluto in Capricorn.

In other words, whatever inner tension you may feel this weekend around reinventing yourself, or breaking away from some aspect of your past conditioning, or expanding your sense of home and how you feel in it, consider it a preview of April’s big event. This New Moon is an opportunity to identify and align yourself with your most important goals and desires; you plant that seed by taking the first steps toward them.

Come April 23, when Mars enters the configuration, following through may come down to a matter of trust in yourself, as Eric mentioned last week — but it won’t come out of nowhere. You have to begin cultivating it now, in small, tangible ways.

Yours and truly,

Amanda Painter

 

 

These Moonshine Horoscopes are written by Genevieve Hathaway. Genevieve is an astrologer and Planet Waves contributor. She is available for astrology readings. You can contact her at genevieve@venusinblue.com.

Aries New Moon Moonshine Horoscopes | By Genevieve Hathaway

Aries (March 20-April 19) — This week’s astrology is bringing a powerful New Moon in your Moon sign. As the Sun and Moon align in Aries the energy and focus is shifting to your internal emotional framework. I suggest considering the relationship between your inner world and outer world. How does what you feel manifest in situations around you? Think of this also in terms of projection — taking an internal dynamic or belief and seeing it in your external world. You can project not only what you don’t want, but more importantly, also what you do want. Honor this ability to shape and craft your external life through how you feel. Tend to your emotions like a farmer tending to his crops, with meticulous care and conscious intention for what is growing from your feelings. You are fine-tuning your ability to manifest through your emotional self what you envision for your life. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Taurus (April 19-May 20) — The threshold between your conscious self and unconscious space is becoming more permeable. You may be experiencing sensations that feel like an expanding of consciousness, as though you’ve found a room, or many rooms, inside of your psychic space that you couldn’t access before but now can open. Exploring these new spaces, you are making contact with a few old emotions contained in these rooms that you are now re-assessing with a fresh perspective. I suggest taking time to get to know these emotions again. Get inside them, move around and see what you find. What you are making contact with is a backdoor to your desire nature, or part of your wants and needs that can be accessed through your unconscious self. Ultimately, this process is bringing you a greater understanding of the complexity that makes up who you are at your core. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Gemini (May 20-June 21) — Your Moon in Gemini tends toward more cerebral and intellectual expressions, though I propose that you also bring plenty of passion to how you meet the larger world. At the moment, how you feel in your public role may be quite intense, like the emotions are pushing up inside of you and could boil over at any second. Tune in to yourself before speaking or acting, weighing whether your response is thought out or impulsive. Think of these strong emotions as energy that can be channeled into projects to make considerable progress. I suggest approaching the conversations and projects you share with those in a professional or collegial setting from a position of being grounded in your inherent value. You have much to contribute to the conversations and projects, including the strong energy in your emotional space. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — A few situations are calling you to reexamine how you think of your career. Start with the ways you are feeling called to contribute to groups, individuals and environments around you. Think of the work you do in terms of what you can share with others. Your Moon sign in Cancer is known for its watery, emotional energy, but when it comes to work you can be just as assertive and action-oriented as any other sign. At the moment, the astrology is calling you to apply this focused action to a quickly developing situation in your work. I suggest using your desire — what you feel called by your soul to accomplish or attain — as the basis for any action you take. You are setting patterns for your career direction, patterns that are established through thoughtful decisions and action. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — A few of your long-held ideas and beliefs are feeling particularly malleable. Like a potter re-working a piece of soft clay to create something new, you will be able to shift these old viewpoints to something that better aligns with who you are in the present. Many of these ideas you may have carried around for a long, long time. New Moons come with an infusion of new energy, and in Aries there is the potential for an even greater sense of a new beginning. As you put this energy to work, apply a beginner’s mindset to evolve any old perspectives that are no longer serving you. Making these changes to your beliefs is bringing you more into alignment with your authentic self, which can feel a lot like a moment of arrival into your own life. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — Questions are arising regarding resources you share with other people, specifically what you provide them. Consider viewing resources as more than how much is in your bank account — expanding the idea to include your time, energy, love and what you have access to. As others reach out to use what you can offer, take note of what they ask for or are looking to access. Many skills and assets you may not have previously thought of as resources are now highly sought after. They have value to others; I suggest you also place substantial value and worth on those resources. Add them to your personal list of what you bring into any and all negotiations. You are in a moment of expanding the resources you have to draw on and offer to others, giving you greater adaptability in navigating the agreements you are making. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — I propose an idea about your relationships — that they are more about you than the other person. I don’t mean this in terms of narcissism, rather that you access your sense of potential through the act of relating to close partners. At the moment, this potential may feel even more tangible than it’s been in the past. You are moving through a period where your power to manifest your vision is particularly potent. Notice the impact your relationships have on you. Consciously choose who you surround yourself with, using how they support your sense of potential as a barometer. This may involve a process of selection that requires you to consciously choose who to allow into your close tribe. As you surround yourself with people who truly resonate with you, you will continue to feel an increased sense of making contact with your ability to shape your world. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — I suggest blocking out some time to examine how you spend your time. Are your daily routines and what you accomplish each day serving your higher vision for your life? New Moons are good times to change patterns and habits — ending old ways of doing things and establishing new methods of structuring your daily life. With this New Moon in a sign that has a lot to do with direct action, you have plenty of tools at your disposal to make a few important changes to how you schedule your life and where you apply your energy. Consider taking a step back from the flow of your daily routines, instead setting aside an hour or two to take an honest look at how you spend your days. Then assess where you wish to makes changes and follow up those desires with focused action. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — As the week unfolds you are gaining an extra dose of playful, inquisitive energy — particularly around sex. This astrology is focusing on fun and spontaneous interactions, rather than deep, structured relationship connections — though for you intimacy and meaning can be built just as easily on lively, light-hearted exchanges as on interactions that have tremendous depth. I suggest using this energy to operate from a place of openness about who and what comes into your life. Whether or not you are currently in an established relationship, approach sexual exchanges from a beginner’s mindset — as though the sexual relationship is new and part of a discovery process. As you adopt this attitude notice how you interact with your partner and how they interact with you. Ultimately, building sexual relationships based on the ideas of pleasure and authentic exploration is bringing everyone involved a greater feeling of intimacy. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Your astrology is highlighting your inner space — particularly how you derive your sense of having a place in the world. What you are making contact with is a bold, new sense of yourself and your ability to project your vision for your life into your external surroundings. This is changing the answer to the question “How do I fit into the world?” from an external response to an internal solution. You are being called to take an even more active approach in translating your wants and needs into focused action. This begins with knowing what is true and genuine for you and what you need from those around you. Think of this process as a confirmation of your right to exist and an affirmation that there is space for you in the larger world. — by Genevieve Hathaway

 

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Your Moon is located in Aquarius, a sign known for crystallizing and bringing things into form, including your emotions. You often experience your emotions as solid, fixed things rather than fluid, flexible states of being. At times, this may even come with the feeling that you are stuck in an emotion, or like that’s how it will be forever. I propose you have far more control over your emotional state than you may feel at times. Lately, you have been making contact with your emotions’ cyclical nature, working with a new perspective that is grounded in ebb and flow, just like the tides that are influenced by the Moon. Explore the role your thoughts play in establishing how you feel about something. Your mind is a tool that can help establish the kind of emotional patterns and cycles that you desire. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — As a Pisces Moon, you naturally may feel quite different in who you are from day to day, as though you can slip into many skins with different needs and desires. For a while, your astrology has brought deeper contact with all the facets of yourself — more than you may have realized. You are being called to make an authentic exploration of who you are and what you want from your life. This can seem like a daunting task initially as you probe the many layers, nooks and crannies of what makes you tick. As you make contact with more of yourself it may feel like an ocean of complexity is contained within you. I suggest viewing this exploration with a sense of adventure and curiosity. Trust that as you have new experiences and ask new questions of yourself you will gain a clearer sense of who you are. — by Genevieve Hathaway