The Idea of You and a New Moon in Libra

What’s the idea you have for yourself?

A few weeks ago, I got back from Minnesota where I was working as a producer on a feature film. This is the first time that I have worked in this capacity on a movie, and the actual production process was rewarding, exhausting, and one of the most challenging experiences of my life. And the hours were simply not cute. Actually, neither was I after a couple days of it. But my greatest struggle wasn’t sleep deprivation or maintaining my girlish figure amidst the tables of craft service. Those were easy to manage in comparison to dealing with the internal question mark that arose over myself as the shoot wore on.

I went into this filming process thinking I had a pretty clear idea of myself. I’m a 36-year-old man. I got issues, but I know who I am. However, through this journey, I was forced to question the ideas of me I had in place time and again. For instance, I thought I was entirely compassionate when I’m actually a bit of a shady bitch. My thought that I was cautious in my decision making actually read to others as uncertain and lacking in confidence. And I saw that questioning my instincts was a constant epidemic of my mind, and it never lead to anything but disappointment. Mostly, I realized that one shouldn’t just sit idly by, waiting on a ship to come in. With that, all you do is grow old on some dock, watching as others go on about their lives.

When heavy trouble would arise on set, my go-to would be to just sit and observe. Someone smarter would come along and handle. But that mentality does nothing for one’s personal growth. And sometimes, I am that someone smarter. So I had to push myself to get involved. No one was going to ask my opinion. I had to force others to hear my voice. Thus, I forced myself to hear my own voice and acknowledge it. And that was something, with the exception of this blog, I had subtly squashed and put into submission as of late.

If we can’t see ourselves fresh every day, then we’re not giving ourselves the opportunity to truly evolve.

All this has allowed for a new me to emerge. I’m bolder. I’m more confident. And I’m less afraid to speak up about what I feel with the fear of rejection hanging over me. But this shift isn’t just about my actions. It’s about mentality. It’s about changing the idea I have of me. This is a perfect kind of realization for the astrological climate around this new moon in Libra.

What’s the idea you have for yourself? For one, there’s a sense of how we think we come across to others, which is usually a sharp difference from the actual truth. We can also identify ourselves too much around a job, a relationship, or even our gender or sexual identity. And sometimes, we labor to craft the perfect idea of what we think our lives should be. We know the career we want or would excel at if we weren’t stuck in the one we were currently in, and we think it’s just a matter of time before the boss notices or the Universe opens the door to the right opportunity. But really, that’s all bullshit. If we can’t see ourselves fresh every day, then we’re not giving ourselves the opportunity to truly evolve. We then can’t relate to others from an honest place. And we rob ourselves of growth and attaining a true balance within which is really all Libra wants us to do.

The process of finding your balance can be wobbly at times, so it requires movement.

Libra craves and creates balance, especially in relationships with others. But as people, we can only project a peaceful equilibrium and attract those who have one if we truly feel it inside. Right now, the planets want us to meet a new idea for ourselves. We need to be honest about what we’re looking for in our lives and stop letting our circumstances dictate what we feel, think, and do. Each of us is a unique being with a set of lessons to take on. So take a look at your life. Are you connecting and activating your specific life plan, or are you just responding to the world and events around you? If you’re not being active in the process, then you’re not achieving balance. The process of finding your balance can be wobbly at times, so it requires movement. Like in yoga, we must fall down when trying to hold a pose to fully know the strength and power of its opposition: complete stillness.

Let’s look more specifically at the signs and how this can be playing out for you:

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This New Moon Is So All About You

If you don’t feel worthy of applause, then you ultimately keep it from your life

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of doing an afternoon of readings for a lovely group of people. One of them was a double Leo, which means there was a strong need for recognition and approval within her. Of course, there was also a ton of creativity present, but the fact that she hadn’t gotten enough of it out into the world meant that her soul was starving for its time in the spotlight. All Leo’s need it. To some, that drive to be front and center can seem too self-serving. But for Leo, that’s just part of the astrological DNA. So unless one’s being an asshole about it, there’s no reason to shy away from that desire for attention. I stressed to her that there was nothing wrong about wanting to be recognized for her gifts and talents. In fact, for her, it was a must. The only reason she wasn’t allowing it was because of some subconscious notion that it was wrong to desire a spotlight. And that’s all wed to self-worth. Because the truth is, if you don’t feel worthy of applause, then you ultimately keep it from your life.

At the end of my long day, the hostess squeezed my shoulder and said, “You’re really good at this.” I smiled and deflected it with a comment about how great her and her friends were for being so receptive to the readings. She proceeded to say it a couple of more times. “You are really really good at this, Angel.” After about the third time, something clicked. It was as if a voice inside said, “Hear her.” And I did. I finally heard what she was trying to tell me. (See, I also have Leo issues.) In that moment, I connected to my soul’s core and with my whole heart, welcomed her emotional gratitude and recognition of my talent. I deemed myself worthy of her applause. Full of warmth, I smiled and said “Thank you.” I then packed up my things and left her home, feeling so wonderful for the opportunity to share my gifts with others.

Now is the time to shift focus and give yourself the attention you deserve

The Leo New Moon is here, and it wants us to connect with our deeper need to be accepted and loved for who we are and what we have to offer the world around us. To best understand what our greatest gift is, we must look to the thing that brings us our purest joy. Now I’m not talking about that bottle of wine you may suck back after a long day of work. I am talking about that activity or time when pristine, soulful joy rises up and overcomes you. It’s the specific thing that stimulates that place in your heart where creativity and romance lives. And it’s where you need to open yourself up to receiving appreciation and respect.

This also means making yourself vulnerable to your personal truth. Because if you are feeling disrespected or unacknowledged somewhere in your life, that may be Leo showing you that you’re barking up the wrong tree. Your greatest gift is perhaps just lying dormant or is at least being underutilized. If that’s the case, then now is the time to shift focus and give yourself the attention you deserve.

Let’s take a closer look at each sign and see how this could be affecting you:

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That Full Moon When You Dared to be Different

Embrace your uniqueness to a point that you feel uncomfortable

I was very excited and overwhelmed when I found out that we are having two Aquarius full moons this year. It’s not usual to have two full moons in the same sign in one year. But occasionally, the world turns in a way that allows us to catch one at the very beginning and one at the very ending of a sign. Being that I have a number of Aquarius’s in my life, including my mother and the man who I share my life with, I am pretty familiar with their energy. It’s quirky, out-of-the-box, inventive, and a bit unpredictable. In total, this can all translate to being rather exciting or extremely tiring. Thus, the next month or so will be a bit of both. I know, we’re all pretty exhausted from Mercury’s little stint in retrograde. However, this will be a good kind of exhaustion. It’s the kind of exhaustion that will stem from personal productivity toward an important goal rather than just sheer mental worry and confusion, which is something I’m sure all of us could use a break from right now. Especially when that worry is built from trying to please everyone around us.

It’s interesting how much stock we all can put into how others perceive us. We will all make important decisions for our lives based off of what we think other people will think of our choices. Now that is some tiring shit. I mean you’re already worrying about what you want. Then, add the concern of what you think other people will think about what you want, and you’re totally wiped out from the stress of worrying about you and everyone else. Well, Aquarius doesn’t have time for worry. It wants you to embrace your uniqueness to a point that you feel uncomfortable. That way, the thought of how others perceive you will vanish from the equation. Aquarius simply thrives on being completely different from everyone else. So with these two full moons, the rest of this summer is all about the need to own that special something we each possess inside.

Give over to the wave of your own crazy sexy coolness

You have to be okay with showing people who you really are. Some may be shocked by how verbally passionate you seem to suddenly be about an issue or project. Or they may wonder why you’re now deciding to go back to school or take up a seemingly odd hobby. But the great thing is that you have no reason to care about what they think. You are the only one on the path of your internal compass. You are the only one who has to stand accountable to yourself at the end of the day. And you are the only one who is in charge of your personal happiness. So stand in your power and give over to the wave of your own crazy sexy coolness. If you can, it will wash away the bullshit layer you have allowed others to place on your mind, your heart, and your life. And from there, you can start the process of coming clean.

So know that this is a two-parter. Again, we have another Aquarius full moon next month, so you have a lot to release around one aspect of yourself. So start gently and prepare to get real. Let’s take a closer look at how all this could work for you:

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Mercury on Shuffle

Yes, we are smack dab in the middle of a Mercury Retrograde

I had often referred to my Ipod as “my child”. It was this tiny, fragile creature that I had been entrusted to take care of, and I loved it with all of my heart. It practically went everywhere that I went. I had even named it. Dove. So you can imagine my heartache when last week, Dove wouldn’t sync up with my computer and then just wiped clean of all its contents. Multiple attempts to resuscitate Dove failed. And as I rushed Dove to the Genius Bar at my nearby Apple Store, I already felt that its spirit had left me. Dove had become a victim of Mercury’s retrograde, squeezing electronic devices of their proper, happy lives. And thus, frustrating their owners when their beloved possessions crapped out. Thankfully, I had purchased an extended warranty, so I was handed a brand new Ipod that I immediately began to love as strongly as the old one. But still, I had to bow to the Mercury influence. Perhaps why I have chosen to name this new Ipod just that – Mercury – with the hopes that the two will be friends moving forward.

Yes, we are smack dab in the middle of a Mercury Retrograde. So that means we have to be patient when communication breaks down. We have to forgive people when they don’t hear us correctly and do the exact opposite of what we wanted them to do. We cannot go to the rage place when travel gets delayed or our reservations are incorrect. And we must chill when our computers, TV’s, or other electronic BFF’s, who usually make our lives easier, decide to turn the tables and make life hell. It’s all just a response to the planetary energy at play. And we want to get emotional about it. We want to take it all to heart and place blame on our choices or ourselves for things not working out. I mean, I wanted to throw that damn Ipod against a wall or out the window. But we all must take a step back and a long deep breath before we can really take in what’s going on and discover the best proper solution for it.

Now is the time to go back over some of the pieces of the past and communicate with them

Mercury is the messenger. So when he stalls in retrograde, the messages are no longer clear. So how do we make the most of this? Well, we still have a ton of information that we took in before the retrograde began on June 26^th. We have projects that we started and never finished. Messes we created but didn’t fully get around to cleaning. Conversations we told ourselves we wanted to have but didn’t have the courage to initiate. Well, now is the time to go back over some of the pieces of the past and communicate with them.

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The Madonna In You, Under a Full Moon

Release your inner Madonna and go beyond the sky

During a not too long ago therapy session, I was asked if I had any sort of power symbol for myself. Immediately, Madonna came to mind, but I felt like that was actually too silly or cliché to say out loud. But saying “lion” or some sort of gemstone felt a little forced. After pondering in silence for far too long, I apologetically mentioned to my therapist that all I could muster up was an image of the diva. He asked me not to judge my choice. “Madonna is a perfect power symbol for you”, he said. “For anyone.” We then got into a discussion about what she represented for me and why those qualities were ones that were of importance for me. Confidence. Perseverance. Creative bravery. These are all very valuable characteristics for anyone to aspire to and cherish in life. And I, like a number of primarily women and gay men, happen to adore a woman who encompasses all of these features.

This weekend, Madonna premieres the film of her latest concert tour on TV, and some early clips have been released online. In watching with a friend, I found myself completely mesmerized. But unlike my friend, who threw some side-eye, I was able to overlook the shaky vocals that were coming from her mouth. I mean, come on, she’s Madonna. She’s been doing this shit for thirty years. So for me, the sum of it all is flawless. She can do no wrong. And regardless of how good or bad she sounds, she is a 54 year-old woman who still finds new career mountains to climb and pushes herself beyond the limitations of what society and history has deemed appropriate for a woman of her age. You see, for her, there is no ceiling on the room of her life. Madonna goes directly through the invisible roof, though some may continue to criticize her for it. Because Madonna sees that the end goal is always evolving. For this, we should all have some sort of power symbol like her. We should all be brave enough to see life through the lens of unlimited potential. Thankfully, the Capricorn full moon is here to aid us in our own personal expansion.

Our goal must be to manifest the vision we have for our future

Capricorn is a grounded energy that is concerned with the future. Capricorn wants us to create long-term goals and be responsible for seeing them through. And most importantly, Capricorn is concerned with our life purpose or destiny. Its energy wants us to push past our fears and limitations so that we achieve our most optimal expression of self. We are not here to just dream about what we want until we die, leaving us in our last moments to wish we had achieved the great thing we knew was inside of us. Our goal must be to manifest the vision we have for our future, thus actualizing our dreams into reality. Sure, this all means we have to buckle down and do a hell of a lot of work. But when you’re working on something that your soul’s passion is connected to, it doesn’t feel so much like work. It feels like art. It feels like magic. It feels like fun. And shouldn’t you be having some damn fun?

This full moon is about your need to exhibit some expression of your long-term goals. All of us are currently thinking and feeling more passionately about something that reflects our greater ambitions, whether it is a creative project, our home, our children, or our career. But it isn’t enough to just have that going on in your internal world where only you can experience it. You must project it out in some way as an offering toward your future potential. Whether it’s talking about it, sharing what you’ve already done, or committing to it in a way that takes it from the dream to what you’re actually doing with your life, you must concede to its power and take it on. You may have been working on something great but have been apprehensive or slow to show it to others. Now would be the time to invite others in and take responsibility for what you’re building – own the destiny you want to have and plant your stake in the ground. Whatever the case, release your inner Madonna and go beyond the sky. From there, you can release your bigger dreams out into the world in a way that the entire Universe can see and take part in a round of applause for you. You deserve it.

For some additional clarity, let’s get into each of the signs more specifically. And if you know your rising sign, read that as well:

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Permission Granted To Be Your Crazy Self

You have to give yourself permission

Last night, I had the pleasure of reading a lovely new client. Being an Aries rising, she had a lot of the current Gemini energy moving through her 3^rd House, the house of communication. As we discussed how she could get more deeply in touch with her passions and goals, I found myself using the same phrase over and over. “You have to give yourself permission.” We can have ideas for what we want in life or how we want to spend our time, but then we allow judgment to overcome our every “silly” whim so that we ultimately suppress potential avenues for our truest expression. We don’t give ourselves the permission to explore. And some of us may not even know what it is we’re passionate about yet. Not everyone is born with the idea of what they want to be when they grow up. So if we don’t tell ourselves that it’s okay to pursue every idea, despite what society, family, or what-have-you has taught you to think, then we are barricading ourselves from what could be the path we should walk down in order to actualize our truest self.

With this weekend’s Gemini new moon, we must offer ourselves a new mental vision for our lives. It must be filled with inspiration but also compassion. And we have to make sure that our spirit is involved, or else we will just get steamrolled by our old ways of thinking, which have grown powerful over the years. If we can give ourselves those gifts of clarity and self-love, we will find that we can harness and communicate ideas for the next phase of our lives in a way that is both intuitive and responsible.

Let’s face it, the main reasons that we don’t express ourselves entirely, whether they are ideas for a new line of work, our feelings in a relationship, or how we feel about our bodies, are that we are afraid of complete honesty and don’t want to be held accountable for what we say. We don’t trust ourselves enough to say and do the right thing. This must stop. We must give the man or woman in the mirror the permission to be brave and step firmly into truth, or else we are just auto-piloting our lives. And what the hell good is that?

Become more aware of the words you use in your mind before you speak

As stated, Gemini is all about the mind. But it’s also how we translate the mind. So with this new moon, not only are we geared toward a new mental outlook on ourselves but also on how we communicate it. First, become more aware of the words you use in your mind before you speak. If you can become more conscious with yourself, then you can offer a greater cognizance in your relations with others. And again, as we are looking to approach life with more of a responsible, adult-like spirit, we have to choose our words with that level of maturity. That way, we can take ourselves more seriously and be seen by others in the same way.

Let’s look more closely at each sign and how you can best make use of this weekend’s Gemini new moon:

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Speak the Truth or Get Off the Pot!

This Sagittarius full moon is all about releasing your enlightened truth out into the world

I am writing this from a Hacienda in Spain where my boyfriend and I are traveling for a wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, one of the grooms and I were chatting about the full moon, which will be hitting directly just some hours after he and his partner exchange their vows. “What does it mean?” he asked. “It’s in Sagittarius”, I told him. “Speak the truth.” His eyes got very wide. Later, as I sat on a poolside lounge chair staring up at the rising moon, his partner came over to ask how I was doing. “I heard what you said about the full moon. Speak the truth you said.” I nodded. “That’s all you can do with this one.” He also widened his eyes with the weight of that proposition. Before we could get too much farther into it, we were interrupted and the conversation shifted. But I was left to think that these two want to take this task on. I mean, it’s their wedding. The whole point is to stand up before your family and friends and state the honest to God truth about your feelings for the one you love. And before a gay wedding, there has already been so much “coming clean” that has lead up to the event that the party should be the easy part. (Or at least as easy as any wedding can be.) But being honest is scary. And most times, being honest to others isn’t as hard as being honest to your self.

This Sagittarius full moon is all about releasing your enlightened truth out into the world. Sometimes we speak and think that we are speaking from our truth, but we’re actually not. Instead, what we’re really doing is just talking to get through a situation. We are talking for the sake of it rather than connecting to our more divine self and allowing our words to be guided from that place. See, this full moon wants our spirit’s to be involved which makes honesty even harder to do. Because of the current Gemini energy at play, our brains are also operating at a higher level right now, which means we can sometimes talk ourselves into believing a truth that isn’t entirely the case. So, right now, we must work harder at connecting to our deeper selves so that we can be sure that our hearts and souls are involved along with our minds in making decisions. Because we can make good decisions right now that can lead to sustainable paths for our current goals. Again, it comes down to truth.

Come out of hiding about the truth of who you are

What area in your life needs your utmost truth right now? Perhaps you are covering up the truth with thoughts like “It’s all gonna be alright” or “I’m fine” or “I don’t really believe that, I’m just being silly or fucking around” when you really want to be curling up in a ball and saying “Lord God, help me.” Or you’re just not dealing with it at all and letting booze, drugs, or a fake relationship squash the pain. You could also be facing it but feel that you’re struggling with the challenge. Again, I ask you to turn to truth.

Come out of hiding about the truth of who you are. Don’t be afraid to feel what you feel and speak what you know in your core to be true. Show others the thoughts that exist behind the closed door of your mind. And most importantly, be willing to tell yourself that you accept you with complete and utter love. If you need to be a freak, so be it. If you are afraid your friends won’t get it, fuck them. If you’re partner doesn’t know something about you, share it now. Because like begets like. So enlightenment begets enlightenment. And if you illuminate yourself, then you illuminate your world. The lights on the path go on, and you can see more clearly where you need to go to make your dreams a reality. And you can’t deny the truth of a situation because it is lit up for the whole world to see. Yes, sometimes the truth is scary and painful, but it’s the only way to your personal destiny. And if you’re reading this, I know that your goal is to find that destiny.

Let’s get a more specific sense of where in your life this could be affecting you:

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Do You Love Yourself, or Whisky and Cheetos More?

When it comes to placing value on our selves and our own personal needs, we can all look pretty damn cheap

I was recently giving a reading to someone and we got into a discussion about the second house, which rules all things material and money. It’s also the house where Taurus usually lives. As we dug into the state of her financial affairs, I urged her to also think of value and worth in a different way. Perhaps this time in her life wasn’t about her raking in a pot of gold to then turn into a new house or car. Or maybe it was. However, in order for her to actualize that physical wealth, she was going to have to first get into contact with her own sense of internal wealth. And after chiseling away at that notion, she got it. She was making money but was unable to hold onto it in a meaningful way, because she wasn’t applying it towards things she personally valued. Instead, she was putting it towards things that she felt she should have based on other people’s ideas for her life. And this life isn’t about pleasing others. It’s about coming into contact with what we inherently treasure, and then materializing that into existence. This can be hard for a lot of us. Because when it comes to placing value on our selves and our own personal needs, we can all look pretty damn cheap.

The relationship you have with money is a direct response to your own sense of self worth. That doesn’t entirely mean that if you’re broke, you hate yourself. What it does mean is that you have to become more aware of where you place value in your life and whether that is in alignment with the worth you place on yourself. For instance, you may claim to value your health but then spend money on whisky and Cheetos. Sure, a splurge is important and we all should have some fun. But, if your idea of fun is getting drunk and licking that weird yellow dust off your fingers, then your personal values may be a little out of whack.

The Taurus new moon is here to help you hone in on where your sense of personal worth needs some attention

You must take stock of your life and become more vigilant about your choices and the messages they send back to your psyche. Thankfully, the Taurus new moon is here to help you hone in on where your sense of personal worth needs some attention. Once you better understand where your focus needs to be, it’s then a perfect time to plant seeds for new growth. And hopefully, if you play your cards right, the Taurus new moon tree that grows for you will have some money dangling from it.

Taurus is about manifestation. It’s about turning inspiration into the tangible. Thus, the Taurus new moon is about sprouting those ideas into living, breathing reality. And this one is powerful, as it has Mercury (thought, communication) and Mars (action) right behind it, pushing it toward optimal growth. But again, note that nothing will fruit if you’re not in touch with what you need. Or you will just have more of what you don’t want blossom, and then you’ll have an abundance of more to complain about in work, at home, etc. So how in touch are you with what you truly value? Are your actions in alignment with that? What is the state of your personal integrity? Do you need to make it stronger and, if so, how does happen?

Here’s a brief look at each sign, with the hopes of offering you some personal growth and a little realness:

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Can You Please Just Trust Yourself Already?

The Scorpio Full Moon teaches us that we have to let go of emotional control and trust that what we want is already in the process of being manifested

I’m sorry to be so late in the game with my Full Moon piece. I have spent the last week in New York City at work on the movie that I am helping to produce. I was also able to visit some old friends who I hadn’t seen in a while. And most importantly, I was able to reconnect with a city that I left almost ten years ago to pursue a new life and some bigger dreams in Los Angeles. On my last night in Brooklyn, I was able to stand on a rooftop overlooking Manhattan, and I was struck with the enormity of it. And I was struck with the fact that I lived there. A young man with barely any money and no job, I had moved there in my early twenties to follow the lifelong goal to live in New York City. And I did it. In that moment of remembrance, I was able to recognize the strength and determination that dwells within me. But I sometimes lose sight of it and feel afraid or apprehensive. This trip gave me the gift of hindsight and allowed me to see all of the man that I am. There, on that building rooftop in Dumbo, I was able to see the fearless man that I can be, and I was able to let go of some of the timid man I had become. A piece of me had come home, and just in time for the Scorpio Full Moon.

The Scorpio Full Moon teaches us that we have to let go of emotional control and trust that what we want is already in the process of being manifested. We may have fears around some of the things going on in our lives. A lot of us are being asked to step up and accept more responsibility for our selves and our life choices. And this full moon is amplifying that, as our souls are continuing their push towards maturity and growth. If we are able to trust our intuition and let our purest inner voice guide us, we then can really see the fruits of our greatest dreams start to emerge on the tree of life. And I know we all want that. But in order to truly get the dreams fulfilled, we have to believe wholeheartedly that they can. We have to let go and trust.

Be one who originates positivity and change in your life

The ideas for all the changes you want to take root are still emerging, and those projects you want to bring into full light are still immersed in a lot more discussion that you would like. But this is the test. We all must be willing to do the mental and physical work toward manifesting a goal with the belief that everything we want will work out. If we can’t allow that faith inside and instill it into the work we’re doing, we will instead work from a place of fear. And that will only cause us to destroy everything we have worked toward up until this point. So don’t be one of the destroyers. Be one who originates positivity and change in your life. Have faith in yourself and what you want. That is the only way to succeed.

This Full Moon is also an eclipse, which in astrology means that the energy of it intensifies over the next couple of weeks as we head to the new moon in Taurus. That one will also come with an eclipse. As Susan Miller calls it, this is an “eclipse season”, as we will then have a third eclipse at the end of May. All this is to say that everything we are trying to put into motion can happen, but it comes at a price. And it’s an internal one. We have to face everything with a strength and grace we may have never seen inside of us before. Or, like me, had forgotten that we already have.

So let go of your preconceived notions of you and invite a greater transformation into your life. I know you can. Here are some quick little capsules of knowledge to better help you do so:

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It’s Time To Be the Star of Your Own Show

Are you ready for the spotlight of your soulful awakening?

Like most of you, I am looking for a new beginning. But what I have realized is that it’s not going to come in the form of a new job, a move, or a lottery ticket. It is going to come from the inside out, so I must start by shifting how I think and feel about myself. You see, I have been clinging on to pieces of outdated fiction that have structured my internal story, and I am finally able to see them for just that – stories. Simply remnants from the young me that are unwilling to be left behind. Old mentalities. Wicked fears. Childhood regrets and insecurities. I have known of their existence for some time now, but my mind just could not detach. They created a sense of safety, as they had been all I knew. So even when I told myself it was time to let them go, it was just the old me creating a moment of self sabotage. I knew I wouldn’t really be strong enough to detach. Until now.

Given all the intense astrological business that’s been going on these last few months, I have crafted some new habits for myself. They are allowing me to get some distance from the outdated thinking that was holding on for dear life. Sure, there’s always a chance I’ll slip and end up eating a whole chocolate cake to myself, metaphorically speaking. (Mine would be a carrot cake.) But I have to believe that a new beginning is possible, one that I can cease and own. I have to believe in myself. For only from honest self-belief can one be inspired to birth his or her greatness.

Spring is here and the planets want us to move into action in a big way

The Aries new moon is here to illuminate the essence of our truest potential so that we can bring a soul-felt new beginning into existence for ourselves. These last couple of months have been a lot of “who am I?” and “What do I need right now?” moments. Lots of starts that have gotten us closer to our dreams, but then some stops too, which has made it all rather frustrating at times. What we must realize is that there were some much-needed tweaks to our internal selves that needed to occur before we could manifest our goals. Now hopefully you have been doing the internal work to get you more in touch with those necessary shifts you must make. If not, stop reading and get to work. Or just make this new moon all about initiating a more honest relationship with you.

A new cycle is upon us. Spring is here and the planets want us to move into action in a big way. No more daydreaming. As some would say, it’s time to shit or get off the pot. Either we are taking responsibility for the soul transformation into our new unique selves that wants to occur, or we are running away, perhaps never to be heard from again. And you wouldn’t do that, right?

Let this Aries new moon be your opening number

I hear a lot of you feeling this shift – this urge to break out of old patterns (relationships, careers, ways of being) and really bring the real you to light. Well now is “make it or break it” time. And I want to see you succeed. Think of it as if you have been working behind the scenes on the play of your life this whole time, and now it’s time to take center stage. Are you ready for the spotlight of your soulful awakening? Is it time to get out there and give it all you got? Let this Aries new moon be your opening number.

Per usual, here are some more specific thoughts on each sign:

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