libra new moon solar eclipse - Transformational Gateway Through the Dark, Dreaming A More Loving, Beautiful Reality

Oct 10

Saturday, October 14, 2023 (1:55pm EDT)

“What appears to be contraction into self will eventually bring you full circle… into a more fluid and expanded state… What is contained in darkness holds the greatest potential for light.” - Ariel Spilsbury

Are you feeling the intensity?? Approaching Saturday’s Solar Eclipse, underworldly Pluto is stationing - a potent cosmic combination designed to dredge up whatever’s been repressed, denied, hidden in the shadows of the subconscious.

It’s time to feel, heal and transform - to release what we’ve outgrown and clear space for a new chapter to emerge.

A Solar Eclipse is an extra-powerful New Moon, planting seeds for a new life direction that will develop over the next 19 years. Eclipse season is like a birth canal into a new reality, when we’re submerged in the mysterious, fertile darkness of creative potential, and called to let go of the old without being able to see what will replace it. TRUST is key.

In October 2004 (19 years ago), we had a Solar Eclipse at the same degree of the zodiac (21 Libra). What was happening in your life then, and can you detect similar themes to what’s currently unfolding?

Relationships are especially up for change. Libra is the sign of “the other,” and this Eclipse catalyzes massive shifts in relationships of all kinds, and ultimately in how we relate to ourselves.

Getting triggered by our projections is part of the dynamic of this Eclipse, and we’re advised to keep turning inward, to see others as mirrors of the self and to consciously work with what’s being reflected back to us.

Venus, ruler of Libra and presiding goddess of this Eclipse, is now in Virgo after her months-long retro journey through Leo. While Venus in Virgo can default into judgment and criticism, the higher expression of this placement is grounded, healing PRESENCE. Deep listening to self and other, holding space for integration and returning to wholeness.

Venus opposes Saturn in Pisces, reminding us of our role as conscious dreamers in co-creating a more beautiful world, as well as the healing power of unconditional love, forgiveness and acceptance.

Saturn in Pisces, the sign of unity consciousness, also holds the wisdom that ultimately “there is only one of us here.” If we get caught up in polarization, thought patterns of right/wrong, victim/perpetrator, etc., we can lean into the higher truth of a third perspective, the divine view that transcends duality.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.” - Rumi

For more insight into what this new moon means for YOU, find the house in your birth chart that contains 21° Libra.

The areas of life signified by that house are where major changes are brewing, and where you’re shedding what you’ve outgrown to make way for a big rebirth. And where you’re invited to:

own your projections (what others are triggering within you) and focus on processing your own feelings;
release comparison, judgment and criticism and invoke unconditional love and acceptance;
reestablish an equal exchange of give and take, receptivity and assertion;
create more beauty and increase the flow of love;
plant seeds for new creative projects and collaborations.

I go into all the Virgoan details about how to work with these wild Eclipse energies in my 55-minute New Moon transmission, available to paid subscribers on Substack. You can gain immediate access to the recording, and all future New & Full Moon recordings, by becoming a paid subscriber ($16/month or $155/year).