Working with the New Moon in Leo

On Passion, Creativity, and the Boldest Breakthroughs

Photo by Bridjett Renae on Unsplash

Hello, sweet children. I’ve missed you!

I’ve been deep in Booklandia, but now that I’ve delivered my manuscript (just last night!) I’m here to share what in the HELL is going on with the stars right now, since you’ve all been texting, calling, DM’ing and finding other ways to ask me this probing question.

First, let me share this: I had basically closed my books to readings the last few months as I finished up my actual book, but now that it’s in, I’m reopening them and offering a special, brief Venus Retrograde discount to my very patient, loving subscribers. This can be redeemed for any kind of session, but you might dig my current Venus Retrograde-tailored offering, where we go deep into your journey and examine exactly where and how Venus is showing up for you right now, creatively, romantically and sexually, and how that speaks to past Venus Retro cycles.

You can grab that discount here, but please don’t share the link because I don’t want to get overwhelmed and have to say no to people. Your girl is kinda tired. This discount will be available through next Tuesday at midnight (the day before Mercury stations retrograde). If you don’t see any spots on my schedule that work for you, just email me and I’ll honor the discount.

So what the fuq is up with the planets, you ask? What’s up is that as you know, Venus Retrograde has been in effect since July 22nd, mucking up our relational forces, but we’re also approaching Mercury’s retrograde station (at 3:59 pm ET on August 23rd), while Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto are all deep in their own retro phases. Mercury is deep in the pre-retro shadow now, that’s why your tech is starting to bug out and people are canceling and forgetting appointments. But that’s just the start.

What’s making this moment so EXTRA is tomorrow’s New Moon in Leo, which is charged up with rich creative passion on one hand, but a clusterfuck on the other. That energetic window is wide open NOW. This lunation is square wild-child Uranus while simultaneously hugging it out in conjunction with Black Moon Lilith and trining Eris, goddess of discord. There is a lot of dark feminine power and rage forcing its way through this New Moon. We need this crucible of fire.

For me, the rage flares from what we’ve seen in Maui, not just as a “natural disaster” but the ways in which it was a very unnatural disaster. It’s the extreme of extremes for the climate emergency: hurricane-speed winds whipping up wildfires already burning because of the extreme heat. Invasive grasses, brought centuries ago by colonialist invaders, are what caught and spread the fire so fast. Lahaina was a wetland until they came. Now it is destroyed, and disaster capitalists are already picking on its dry, burnt-up bones.

I am thinking of the Native Hawaiians, the animals, and the trees all screaming with rage. Too many are lost, burned in their cars or while trying to escape into the ocean. There was no time to flee, no safe haven to get to. This is a stark metaphor for us. We are officially in the era of NOWHERE IS SAFE. You cannot dive into a burning sea to save yourself from a deadly fire. There is no place to run to. Why would we hold back our rage a second longer?

“Lahaina was the heart of Hawaii before statehood, before we were a territory, before we were illegally annexed,” he said. “The people who live on Front Street and adjacent to it tend to be some of the most rooted, most valuable keepers of indigenous wisdom in the world.”

I feel rage at the Exxon executives who knew this was coming in the 1980s, who conducted studies to see how uninhabitable they would make the Earth in exchange for another helipad on their second mansion, for a yacht, for a private jet. They decided, probably without blinking, that yes, it was okay to risk the lives of millions, to kill off endangered species, and to destroy the planet for all the generations to come, just so they could get theirs.

I am enraged. I feel Lilith and Eris bubbling up in my blood. Eris seems more and more to be linked to our climate emergency. But I want to turn my rage into a creative bonfire so large that it lights up miles of beaches, drawing people near to listen to the stories of ancestors who’ve had fucking ENOUGH. How do we build the future? That’s what Leo’s Aquarius polarity asks us. We need to decide, right now, if we care enough to keep our species going or if we’re going to give up and go to sleep.

I see warriors fighting back against fascism now. I see young people like Aries David Hogg starting a new PAC that will elect progressive Gen Z leaders. I see prosecutors like Fani Willis standing up against our most visible, disgusting living fascist, Donald Trump, indicting him and his cronies and saying no — you can’t have impunity anymore. People care. They are fighting. They are using their fire. This is our New Moon message.

Even if you fear the discord, even if it seems impolite, even if someone is going to tell you that there is nothing you can do — fight like motherfucking hell. That’s what my ancestors, who ran from pogroms and had their villages set on fire, are telling me. What are your ancestors telling you?

This lunation, somewhere inside you, is a creative fire waiting to strike and spread. The New Moon energy can help you find it. Which house is in? That’s where you’re burning and yearning to passionately give birth to cleansing fire that will make your people proud. You might feel horny, angry, bursting with creativity or all three at once. But I urge you to use whatever it is — don’t let it burn out and fade away.

PS:

Later this week, paid subscribers should look out for horoscopes for the remainder of August, including special Full Moon in Pisces content to make up for missing my usual forecast earlier in the month. This may be via podcast, still figuring that out!