#newmoon

Claire Burgess

Jul 2, 2019
3 min

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Cancer: Stay Soft

July 2nd, 2019 // 12:16pm PDT Three days before the summer solstice and the start of Cancer season, I found myself on a chilly Pacific beach littered with crab shells. Tangled among ropes of seaweed, there were hundreds of them, the empty shells deposited on the sand by the tide. My partner and I wandered the beach for hours, combing the ocean’s flotsam for treasures and marveling at the crab shells, some tiny and some six inches across, many with legs and claws and eye stems

NEW MOON IN GEMINI: Not in Kansas Anymore

Claire Burgess

Jun 2, 2019
3 min

NEW MOON IN GEMINI: Not in Kansas Anymore

June 3rd, 2019 // 3:02am PDT Words are hard right now, which is strange for a Gemini moon. Or maybe it’s not that words are hard—it’s that truths are hard. Hard to handle, hard to hold, hard to voice, hard to believe. Or hard to pin down. The Gemini new moon is making difficult aspects to Neptune and Jupiter, making this usually sharp and clear new moon muddied with uncertainties, unknowns, what-if’s, if-so’s. Pluto and Saturn sitting with the South Node add a foreboding to t

New Moon in Sagittarius: Don’t Fear the Dark.

Claire Burgess

Dec 6, 2018
3 min

New Moon in Sagittarius: Don’t Fear the Dark.

Tonight, the moon is new in Sagittarius and Mercury is direct, and finally it feels like we can breathe. This new moon comes only ten hours after Mercury’s station, with which all three personal planets (Merc, Venus, Mars) are direct for the first time in months. With expansive Jupiter lending its benevolence to its home sign of Sag, this new moon feels like the first sunny day after a season of fog. Sagittarius’s buoyant, optimistic, adventurous energy, which has been dampen

New Moon in Scorpio: Constantly Becoming

Claire Burgess

Nov 7, 2018
2 min

New Moon in Scorpio: Constantly Becoming

Today, the moon is new in Scorpio, offering an invitation to get intentional about our work of becoming. We’re always evolving, always transforming. The cells of our bodies are constantly dying and regenerating. We are constantly rebirthing. In the world outside of our bodies, we can choose to partner with our own transformation, usher in necessary change, be the doulas of our own rebirths. I offer my Scorpio spread to you today, recycled from the full moon six months ago, wi

Claire Burgess

Oct 8, 2018
4 min

New Moon in Libra: Tip the Scales

Last week on Instagram, I wrote about how current events have triggered old traumas in me, how they keep rising up in front of me on waves of despair and rage, and so many of you shared that you’re experiencing the same. Also last week, my partner ran into another one of the many bureaucratic nightmares our society foists on trans people, and through his tears he told me that the pain and anger moving through him felt m o r e than him, felt generational. Not generational thro

Claire Burgess

Sep 9, 2018
4 min

New Moon in Virgo: Do Good Work

This new moon in Virgo is about baby steps. It’s about digging our toes and fingers into the earth and letting it sustain us. It’s about harvesting the new knowledge and insights that have grown tall over the summer, separating the chaff from the wheat, and readying the millstone for grinding. This is the first new moon since the summer’s eclipses, and now it’s time to process all that’s happened, to turn it into something that will nourish us. This new moon, we make bread. A

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo: Remember Who the Fuck You Are.

Claire Burgess

Aug 10, 2018
3 min

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo: Remember Who the Fuck You Are.

How are you feeling, friends? Worn out? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Dog-fucking-tired? Me too. This summer of retrogrades and eclipses has taken the wind out of all of us. Pause. Take a deep breath. It’s going to get easier soon. And when it does, all that we’ve learned from the obstacles and challenges of the last three months will come to light. Things will start to make sense again. The raw data we’ve collected during the retrogrades will synthesize into the kind of hard-earn

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Cancer: Cracking the Shell

Claire Burgess

Jul 12, 2018
4 min

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Cancer: Cracking the Shell

This Cancer new moon teaches us about security and vulnerability. It teaches us about holding and withholding, sharing and protecting. Here, we learn about the cosmic crab that carries its house on its back. We learn about the shell that keeps us safe, impenetrable, hidden. We learn about the soft, emotional insides beneath that shell and all the truths, needs, and wounds that we guard so fiercely there. This partial solar eclipse is going to crack that shell, friends. It’s g

New Moon in Gemini: Reflecting Self-Worth

Claire Burgess

Jun 12, 2018
4 min

New Moon in Gemini: Reflecting Self-Worth

On this new moon in Gemini, we burn off the mental fog. We clear the air by verbalizing our needs. We honor our contradictions. We take a look in the mirror, see past the distortions, and love what we find reflected back at us. Or, if we have a hard time loving what we see, we at least try. Gemini moons can usually be counted on for a lighter vibe, but Gemini’s ruling planet Mercury has just entered the emotional water sign of Cancer on Tuesday, giving this air moon a humidit

New Moon in Taurus: Making the Bull Move

Claire Burgess

May 14, 2018
3 min

New Moon in Taurus: Making the Bull Move

N E W M O O N in T A U R U S U R A N U S ingress into T A U R U S There’s some major astrology happening right now, friends. Hours after the new moon in Taurus, Uranus, the planet of innovation, revolution, & surprises, moves into Taurus for the first time since the 1930’s. The rebel Uranus will shake things up in the fixed earth sign of stability, tradition, & loyalty for most of the next 8 years. The thing is, the grounded, sometimes stubborn Taurus doesn’t like

Claire Burgess

Apr 16, 2018
4 min

F*CK THE HUSTLE

Oof. Aries doesn’t fuck around, you guys. My new moon + mercury direct reading (see my last post for details) laid it out r a w and triggered an impromptu blog post/treatise on the hustle, how glorified it is, and how much it f*cking sucks. You ask Aries how to be a boss? Aries tells you how. First off, lets look at those foundational cards: Wanderer of Knives & the Hierophant. The Wanderer shows stunted movement, frustrated thoughts, that nervy itch to RUN. The Hierophant is

Tarot Spread for New Moon in Aries + Mercury Direct in Aries

Claire Burgess

Apr 14, 2018
2 min

Tarot Spread for New Moon in Aries + Mercury Direct in Aries

Tomorrow, April 15th, is big. We have the new moon in Aries, which, with Aries as the first sign of the zodiac and new moons being the start of a new lunar cycle, marks the beginning of the astrological new year for those who track by the moon. Tomorrow, Mercury also stations direct in Aries after being retrograde since March 22nd. Mercury going direct is nothing remarkable in and of itself (it happens 3-4 times a year, after all), but Mercury stationing direct in Aries so cl

Claire Burgess

Mar 17, 2018
2 min

Tarot Spread for the New Moon in Pisces

Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac and one of the most deeply rooted in intuition. Pisces is the element water and the tarot card The Moon. It’s the unconscious, the emotional depths, the psychic channel to source, the imaginative and visionary world of dreams. It’s also fucking intense. This Pisces season, many of us have felt like we’ve been plunged straight into a choppy ocean, like we’re treading water and just barely keeping our head above the surface. Emotional trig

Tarot Spread for the New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse in Aquarius

Claire Burgess

Feb 15, 2018
3 min

Tarot Spread for the New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse in Aquarius

Awaken Your Authentic Self. The new moon in Aquarius today is a heavy one, dense with change, upheaval, resetting. It’s demanding we rise to its call, break out of our former selves, and crack ourselves wide to the uncomfortable and unknown and absolutely thrilling transformation that’s been calling to us throughout this tumultuous eclipse season. Can you feel it? It’s electric, ecstatic, erratic. It’s probably painful. Don’t even try to dig your heels in. This new moon parti