The new moon tonight 🌙
We have a new moon in Libra tonight at 11:47 p.m. ET. It will not look like this.
That’s a full moon! New moons are the opposite—the sun and the moon are together and astrologically in the exact same degree of the same sign. So they look invisible, but they represent infinite hope and potential because your heart (the sun) and your emotions (the moon) are perfectly aligned.
I wrote all about this new moon for PureWow, but the bottom line is that this is one of the luckiest days of the month, and you should take advantage. The new moon’s power is strongest when it arrives and right after, so wait until 11:47 p.m. before making an important move—either having a consequential conversation or an interview (obviously you’re not interviewing at night, but maybe tomorrow) or buying something gorgeous, etc.
And as always, I advise writing down 10 wishes right after it peaks to capture the strongest current of luck and leverage it for my own dark purposes. I mean, my purposes. Ten is a big enough number that allows me to ask for everything I want and donate a few to friends and family. If you go to bed early, do it first thing in the morning. It’s a ritual I believe in, whether or not it actually works.
Venus retrograde is aimless ♀️
It’s also Venus retrograde, and this new moon is in a Venusian sign, Libra. I think this means that we’re called to apply our hopes and dreams for this month to questions of love, beauty, money, art, and possessions that are yet unresolved. This is the time to resolve them.
I’ve been paying attention to my own behavior since this retrograde for clues on what this all means.
(Because astrology is not real but human behavior is, and as far as we are getting anything from this practice, it’s probably because we’re reflecting honest observations—not because Venus has the power to affect my life. But then again, it totally is affecting my life. Thank you for indulging this digression.)
Lately, I have been writing things that don’t matter. Meaning, no one is asking for them, and there’s nowhere for them to go just yet (or maybe ever). It doesn’t quite feel like therapy, though—it’s just me working on stories from my life because I want to. That’s what Venus retrograde is. It’s our aimless artistic drive. We still want to express and create, but without the influence of external markers of success.
That’s the key, I whispered to myself, aloud, on the toilet, hopefully alone. My opportunity—all of ours—this retrograde is to temporarily suspend our desire for validation and make stuff anyway. If you can trick yourself into not caring, you’ll find yourself naturally doing the work you need to do. You’ll actually want to.
Then, on November 15, when this is all over, we’ll go back to our normal, attention-seeking, insecure selves.