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This week, the astrological transits remind us that the larger we dream, the extra life appears to satisfy us on this bigness. The extra we are saying sure to dwelling, the extra life says sure to us.
New Moon in Sagittarius
Because the Solar shifts by the hopeful and adventurous hearth signal of Sagittarius, the Moon involves align with it on December 12, 2023. It’s on this second that, from our view on the Earth, the Moon is nowhere to be seen. There’s darkness, vacancy, quiet, and house. There’s additionally potential. As if we had been starting anew on a clean canvas and may go in any route, select any colours, and invoke any emotions. It’s all accessible to us. Welcome to the new Moon in Sagittarius.
As an archetype, Sagittarius invitations us to step again and into an area the place we’re supplied a widened view. The place we’re taken past the narratives, the tales, the beliefs that say our life should, or can solely, be a sure means. It encourages us to suppose larger, to open to greater chance and vaster realities, to increase our notion in order that potentialities beforehand past our sight could also be revealed.
It’s a broadly hopeful new Moon. A loving new Moon. A divine and opportune-rich new Moon. An invite to increase our visioning, our thought of chance, and our desires for ourselves. The desires that land inside our consciousness below this lunation are ones which can be right here to stretch us. They could really feel outdoors of what we imagine to be potential, they could appear larger than us, too far-off, or for everybody else however us. However it’s on this evening that we let ourselves merely open to the chance with the 2 little phrases “what if?”
It’s this opening, this second, this “what if,” that creates the house for all the remainder to increase and for us to stretch to satisfy it. It permits us to note and reframe the inside narratives that sit in the best way, and for the wanted particulars, plans, and practicalities to then drop in on the proper time.
It’s our remaining new Moon of the yr, and never surprisingly, it’s a lunation that invitations us to consider the chapter that lies forward. What may the subsequent yr seem like? What may it really feel like? What doorways would possibly open for you within the yr forward? Or maybe, what doorways do you select to open for your self?
Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn
Hours after the brand new Moon, Mercury begins its remaining backward spin of the yr on December 13, 2023.
Retrogrades, in astrology, are alternatives for “re” phrases similar to evaluation, revise, reframe, retrace, renew, and realign. They’re a sacred pause to return to our consciousness, our inside steering, our reality. They provide a second in time to reconnect with what issues to us amid the outer motion, noise, exercise, and steering. And so they invite us to look again on the trail not too long ago walked, reminding us that there’s all the time extra to see, extra views to expertise, and extra knowledge ready to be gained by reflection.
Whereas Mercury represents our psychological processing, views, inside narratives, and communication, Capricorn is a zodiac that invitations us to turn out to be all that we could be. Dominated by the earth component it lives throughout the tangible realm, chatting with sensible, grounded, productive, and disciplined motion.
As we start to strategy the ultimate weeks of the yr, Mercury retrograde in Capricorn asks us to replicate on the trail we’ve taken to reach right here. What felt good, aligned, actual, or significant? What narratives have I been carrying in my thoughts and permitting them to form who I’m and the way I present up on the earth? What targets have I been holding and are they nonetheless what I want?
That is our evaluation earlier than starting 2024 on the identical path, trajectory, and route that we’ve already been strolling – reviewing first, if it’s the path, trajectory, and route that we want to proceed or if there’s some tweaking ready to be made. It’s our alternative to start the subsequent yr with objective, intention, readability, and route as Mercury strikes ahead once more on 1 January 2024.
Your Invitation
It’s no coincidence that Capricorn follows Sagittarius within the order of the zodiac. Sagittarius, the ninth zodiac, invitations huge potential and outsize dreaming. Capricorn, the tenth zodiac, represents the method of turning these desires into tangible actuality.
This week’s new Moon is deeply supportive. It’s right here to your desires—those you might be conscious of in addition to those ready past your present narratives. It asks you to widen the lens for what you imagine to be potential and set your intentions for these new visions to return true.
As Mercury shifts into retrograde in Capricorn the day after the brand new Moon, it’s by stretching what we imagine to be potential for ourselves that we’re supplied different views. It delivers info that helps the constructing of those desires within the yr to return. It asks us to take a second and replicate on our inside discuss—what narratives inside you, like not deserving this life or the life you want. Do you imagine in your self? What reframes are wanted so that you can turn out to be the one who can dwell your required life?
The week invitations a unique means of seeing the best way towards your imaginings, providing different sources, concepts, and alternatives so that you can transfer ahead throughout the new yr. It’s every week that appears to carry the house for visioning into the brand new yr. Might you, too, maintain the identical house so that you could be discover objective, success, and happiness within the yr to return.
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About Our Contributor
Jordane Maree is the founding father of Lady and Her Moon, a platform and neighborhood exploring Soul by the lens of astrology, tarot, and vitality therapeutic. She is a author, intuitive astrologer, vitality and soul information, and host of Lady and Her Moon, The Podcast. She is impressed, each single day, to be the mirror so that you can see all that you simply actually are, you in all of your infinite skills, in complete enlargement, in infinite alternative and love.