Quest + Vision: New Moon in Sagittarius
How do we find truth? What are the processes and life experience that allow us to come forward and say what we believe? How do we recognize the very personal nature of truth and belief, and that sometimes they shift and change...and that allowing our beliefs to shift and change is a good thing?
On Wednesday, November 22 at 2:57pm PST we have a New Moon in 1° Sagittarius that allows us to explore a vision for our lives — and the beliefs and truths that underlie that vision. This is a lovely lunation, partially because it’s got that zesty, zinging, visionary Sagittarian vibe going for it. BUT ALSO, Sadge’s lovely ruler, Jupiter, is hanging out in late Pisces, bringing some hardcore “just look for love in it” vibes to the mix.
Sagittarian energy is most commonly associated with adventuring, exploring, questing and risk-taking. It is the sign that represents truth and belief. It loves growth, expansion, higher learning, culture. There’s a lot of movement going on there. Inspiration. Spark.
One way to look at Sagittarius is through its placement in the zodiac. It falls between Scorpio and Capricorn, two of the more overtly intense signs. After the clash of the conscious and unconscious in Scorpio, we emerge into Sagittarius where there is light, temperance and purification. We get to play for a bit, recovering before the work of building the manifest world -- the structures of our society -- begins. We synthesize the knowledge we’ve gained at all levels of being into a greater wisdom. We just know shit, y’all. Without having to map it out.
Sagittarian optimism is a thing. It’s a long haul through the first eight signs of the zodiac. Sagittarian fire is the faith that sustains us through the hard times. It is the beliefs that help us to make meaning. Meaning helps us to orient to our experience.
Since mid October, we’ve been in incredibly Scorpionic waters, tossing and turning and learning so much about our desires and fears… the ways our relationships actually work and the ways we want them to. For this New Moon, we still have some intense astrology going on (I’m looking at you, Saturn square Uranus and Mars ret square Neptune), but that stuff’s been there and will continue to be there. So let’s take a dang break for a burst of light, yeah?
But before we can get there, we need some time to receive the visions that are arriving for us. One thing can be said for living in a culture where so many structures and beliefs are falling apart -- there’s lots of space to envision the new. That square aspect between the Mars in Gemini and Neptune in Pisces invites us to engage with new dreams and visions as we re-vision our desires. These dreams and visions may seem foggy or confusing, but they ask us to pay attention, for over the coming years we will need to keep our visions for a greater, more life-enhancing civilization very close to our minds and hearts. The house where this lunation falls is an area of life where new truths, beliefs and visions might be starting to arrive.
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to receive those visions, be honest with yourself about what you want, and dare I say make a wish?
Remember that big time change requires adjustments to both our inner and outer worlds. Sagittarius’ association with wisdom and right action lies in its ability to be patient and present, but also it its association with intuition. Intuition is a spark of fire we have within us. It’s a function that orients us to our inner truth, the one based in the experience of our current lifetime, but also based in the way our cells remember thousands of years of living in harmony with the earth and each other.
Intuition is the still, silent part of us that knows how truth feels and that never guides us out of fear. We have an opportunity to recover and reconnect with our intuition -- our inner compass -- at this time.
Sagittarius is the heat of compassion. Compassion that fuels love for self, other and world, but also the compassion that is a force for justice. Not the kind of justice we associate with Libra, which is really more about fairness and equality. Sagittarian justice is the kind that holds the ideal of giving, sharing and receiving as fundamental human laws. Sag knows that abundance of food, water, shelter, art and education are human rights.
With Jupiter in Pisces, it is also worth noting that although these signs are squaring each other, they both also really understand that compassion is not a passive concept, but an active one, for once we see and believe in a world in which compassion towards the earth and all of its beings is a central ethic, the injustice of settling for anything less is intolerable and unacceptable.
So dream big for this New Moon. Even if it’s a big dream for a small area of life. We have some wish-making energy here, friends. The universe is sending some support for expansion and filling up your love-and-light-o-meters up in some grounded and essential ways -- so it’s important to be sure that you want what you’re asking for. But the seeds you plant now will begin to take root. Just remember to nurture, water and feed them along the way. Astrology and magic are not spectator sports.
Amanda is a queer astrologer who is very into relational, evolutionary and psychological astrologies. You can support her work — and get rad incentives like New Moon ritual guidance and one on one sessions — on Patreon.
