New Moon in Aries 🍒 Mar 21, 2023

Tuesday, Mar 21 @ 10.23 am PST

Happy new moon/new year everyone!! Spring is here!! Aries season is inherently energizing and exciting, like a cosmic baby lamb born at the crack of dawn, cries cutting through the still air.

Last month we had the new moon in Pisces, the lowest energy point of the year. The new moon in Aries is the rebirth we have been waiting for since last spring. It’s time for all things NEW. This new moon is a renaissance. Whatever was flimsy or false or unhealthy will be flattened by the flames. Meditate on fearlessness and independence.

A few years ago I traveled to India. On the eve of the New Moon in Aries, I met a Vedic astrologer in Rishikesh and hopped on the back of his moped. He offered to take me to a ceremony to release past-life karma from my body. We rode more than an hour in falling dusk, looping along jungle roads speckled with wild elephant dung, until we reached Haridwar on the banks of the Ganges.

At a temple on a crowded street, another woman and I sat and chanted for more than an hour. Priests poured water from the Ganges on our bodies and into golden trays with flowers and colored powders, swirling together psychedelically. Afterward, I was given the water and instructed to bathe with it every day. Outside on the temple steps, I asked the other woman for a ride home on her moped. I was exhausted, head pounding, but feeling mischievous because I had skipped class to be there.

Less than ten minutes into our journey back, the storm began. My new friend and driver had a helmet, but I was defenseless. The rain fell so heavily that it cut my face as we zipped through twisting lanes of traffic. In India, the streets churn night and day in a wriggling rainbow of humans, cows, mopeds, rickshaws, and trucks. Potholes are deep and numerous. In the near darkness, my dear driver did not see one of these gaping holes, and I was so jolted that I almost fell off into oncoming traffic. Violet lightning arced intermittently across the sky and thunder cracked with such force that we found ourselves screaming.

Once I got off the moped, I discovered that I could barely move. My arms and legs were leaden and aching from gripping with all of my strength. I walked home with a huge smile, relishing my throbbing muscles, dripping clothes, squeaky, waterlogged sandals, and the feeling of being utterly, incandescently alive.

Everything feels entirely new and unprecedented now. Life as we knew it will never return. Anything is possible at this potent primordial conjunction of moon and sun. Rise like a mighty phoenix from the depths. Take up space like a motherfucking volcano, spouting cosmic magma up to the stars – who can stop you?

This is the vibe: rambunctious, childlike, then beautiful and refreshing, like a gorgeous flower walk in the morning sun, coffee, good vibes, active, feeling cleared out, ready to begin again, it’s all very very good, and we’re walking, talking, moving, eating, flowing, burning, lighting up the night.

Heads up: get ready for round 2 of this energy on Apr 20 with a New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Aries 🔥🔥🔥

Wear warm colors like red to honor the fire element. Focus on the solar plexus in meditation. Build your inner fire with Aries Yoga. To find your personal moon sign, click here.