Category: New Moon
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This new Moon exalted in Taurus is applying to a sextile with an exalted Jupiter in Cancer while the other planets are either at the end or early degrees of their respective signs. This lunation is full of beautiful possibilities that speak to enjoyment and pleasure with gentle rolling sextiles throughout the chart. There is…
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This new Moon seeding is super charged and highly energetic. The ruler of the Moon is Mars and he is applying to a conjunction with Saturn while separating from a conjunction with Mercury. There is an air of frustration. There is pressure to move and nothing is moving as fast as we would like. With…
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The planetary weather of the moment is very concentrated in the signs of Pisces and Aries. This New Moon in Pisces takes place at the end of the astrological year just a day before the sun ingresses into Aries marking the beginning of the zodiacal year. It’s effectively New Years eve and we’re making our…
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This New Moon Solar eclipse takes place at 28 degrees 56 minutes of Aquarius on 17 February at 21:39 UTC. This eclipse is certainly marking the leavings of winter. Where I am in the North of Ireland there is what we call the beginnings of a “grand stretch in the evening”. This stretch of the…
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This Moon may herald a moment of clear understanding in the dark stillness providing something sharp to cut through the chaos providing clarity. This is a short sharp inhalation which may link timelines and storylines together in a flash of realisation.
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The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night or the darkest part of the dark half of the year. This moment is celebrated all over Ireland and centred upon the Boyne Valley monument of Newgrange. As the sun rises on the day of longest darkness it fills the chamber of this burial mound…
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The Moon is birthing in the sustaining sign of Scorpio. Scorpio is the dark feminine moment when we are in the dark part of the year where the dark is sustaining. It feels like the light will not return. The mornings are dark and the late afternoons are dark in the Northern Hemisphere. It is…
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Bound up in this partial solar eclipse is the need for forgiveness and the sacrifice inherent in that act. In Irish when asking for forgiveness we ask the other to make forgiveness on me – Déan maithiúnas orm. I love the feeling of active participation of both the person making forgiveness and the other receiving…
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The first of two Virgo New Moons in the coming weeks. This one at the very beginning of the sign at 0 degrees 22 minutes of Virgo happening on Saturday, 23rd August 2025 at 6:06 am UTC.
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Mag Mell The plane of delight or the plain of honey that shaft of light across the water that illuminates the road to the other world/ Tír na nÓg. This new moon in Leo speaks to that symbolic honey road that we wish to seek out through understanding what makes each one of us shine.