NEW MOON ASTROLOGY

🌑 NEW MOON IN POORVA
PHALGUNI NAKSHATRA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 | 11:26 PM

The New Moon arrives in sidereal Leo in Poorva Phalguni Nakshatra, beginning a lunar cycle centered around creativity, pleasure, connection, and the values that shape how we experience life.

Poorva Phalguni is associated with beauty, leisure, culture, relationships, and abundance. Over the coming weeks, social gatherings, creative experiences, and even simple moments of enjoyment may offer more insight than expected. Pay attention to what draws you in, what feels meaningful, and where you feel most like yourself.

There is also a more sensitive quality to this New Moon. Both the Moon and Mars are positioned in mrityu-bhag, specific degrees traditionally considered more challenging in Vedic astrology. The Moon has also recently crossed the degrees activated by last month’s eclipses, which may bring old emotions, patterns, or unresolved themes back into awareness.

Rather than feeling pressured to begin something immediately, this New Moon encourages observation and discernment. Notice what your experiences are reflecting back to you, especially around belonging, creativity, joy, and the places where your energy naturally comes alive.

🌿 A New Moon Practice

Keep your practice simple.

Find a quiet place and take a few slow & spacious breaths. Give yourself a moment to notice what has been asking for your attention. Ask:

Where in my life do I feel most alive, most at ease, or most like myself?

What has been asking for my attention—not necessarily to be fixed, but to be noticed?

What do I want to make more room for in the cycle ahead?

As you bring each question into heart and mind, notice what happens in the body. Does something soften? Expand? Become warmer? Is there curiosity or energy? Or is there contraction, pressure, obligation, a sense of I should?

Not every contraction means “no,” of course. But the body can give us information that the thinking mind misses.

Choose one intention for the lunar cycle ahead, not from pressure to change, but from a clearer understanding of what you want to make space for.

Sometimes clarity begins simply by noticing what feels true.