Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Working With The Moon
Working With The Moon
The Moon:
Your Natural Day Planner
As the heavenly body that moves most
quickly, the Moon has always acted as a
sort of calendar and natural day planner.
Farmers rely on her phases and her
movement through each sign of the
zodiac in planting and harvesting their
crops. Sailors note her position and her
effect on the tides. Astrologers connect
the movements of the Moon to the most
mundane, domestic, habitual patterns of
daily life the warp and woof of daily
existence. The Moon, then, is your
natural guide for living in rhythm with the
forces of nature.
What to Initiate
The waxing phases of the Taurus New Moon (up to the Full
Moon) cycle are a good time to launch projects or set
intentions related to:
Financial security
What to Finish
The waning phases of the Taurus New Moon (between
the Full Moon and the Gemini New Moon) are best for
revising or releasing:
Stubborness
Selfishness
Prejudice
E C L I P S E S
This New Moon is a Solar Eclipse. Solar
by a Lunar Eclipse.
The 1st house is the house of Self, the place where you carve out an individual identity
that you project in your own, distinct personality. The New Moon in this house symbolizes
a month that invites you to assert yourself and to go after what you want without apology.
If you often have a hard time carving out time for yourself or putting yourself first, this New Moon
is a good time to set intentions to change that.
The month when the New Moon falls in the 2nd house of your birth chart is a great time
for setting intentions about improving your financial and emotional security. The
2nd house is the house of Values, the place where you determine what is important to
you and what is the price you are willing to pay in order to have it. Get your financial house in
order, and set intentions that help you better align your money making or spending with your
core values.
The 3rd house is the house of brothers and sisters, peers, and neighbors, as well as
skills-based education, short trips, and communication. I think of the 3rd house as a
quilting bee sharing the project of making a quilt is in many ways an excuse for the
social aspect of sharing ideas with others in your community. Youll likely be especially sociable
during the month after the New Moon falls in this house of your chart. You crave fresh input
now, and you need to share ideas! Set intentions to make helpful connections with others and to
improve communications.
In traditional astrology, the 4th house was known as the house of Home and Family. A
more modern interpretation reads it as the house of Roots. This is a cycle in which
you'll be inclined to withdraw from the world a bit, to spend a little time letting your
internal self catch up with last months dizzying swirl of events. Dig deep within and reconnect
with the fixed, unchanging core of who you are... identifying those unique characteristics that
make you who you are, and which will be carried with you throughout your life. Set intentions
related to finding, getting, selling, or improving your home, or improving relations with your
family.
In traditional astrology, the 5th house was known as the house of Children. A more
modern interpretation reads it as the house of Creative Self-Expression. This is a cycle
in which youll feel moved to put your own individual stamp on your everything you do;
your joy and excitement is infectious, and you easily attract new friends into your circle. Some
may become important friends of the heart, but some are arriving on the scene in order to play
an important, but ultimately transitory role in your life. Set intentions about creative projects, love
affairs, and the children in your life.
The 6th house was traditionally known as the House of Work. And while this is still
apt, the challenge of the New Moon in the 6th house is to find new inspiration in all
areas of your daily routine not just work. Especially as you engage in the fastidious,
detail-oriented, perfectionistic work of the 6th house it is essential this cycle to heed the lessons
of the 6ths opposite house: the imaginative, artistic, spiritually rich 12th house. This is a good
New Moon to set intentions about finding work or creating positive habits in your life.
The 7th house was traditionally known as the house of Marriage. A more modern
interpretation reads it as the house of Important Others. The others we find in the 7th
house are both kindred spirits and worthy opponents. They are our equals, our best
friends, our other half, and on occasion, our open enemies. All your important relationships are
subject to reappraisal during the month after the New Moon falls in this house of your chart. You
see yourself reflected in others eyes and sometimes, you wont like what you see! Its
important at this New Moon to make an effort to see things from other peoples point of view; set
intentions related to about finding, improving, and learning from important relationships.
Shared Resources are the traditional landscape of the 8th house; a more modern
interpretation reads it as the house of intimacy. The shared resources of the 8th house
are both financial (joint bank accounts, investments) and physical (sexuality) - and no
aspects of a relationship make us feel more vulnerable than money and sexuality! Ideally, these
are the parts of life that we share only with those whom we completely trust. During this New
Moon cycle, you are building a new level of trust with your closest companions including the
willingness to show each other your less desirable selves. Its a good New Moon to set
intentions related to attracting emotional and financial support.
Traditionally, the 9th house was called the house of Long Journeys Over Water. A more
modern interpretation reads it as the house of education and beliefs. The long
journeys represented by the 9th house can be literal ones you might travel this month
but are also journeys of the mind and spirit. Education both formal schooling and the kind of
learning born of exposure to different cultures and belief systems are 9th house territory.
During the month after the New Moon falls in this house of your chart, set intentions related to
education, travel, and adventures of the mind.
10
In traditional astrology, the 10th house was known as the house of reputation and
career. The month after the New Moon falls in the 10th house of your chart, you
will find a lot of people in your lives projecting qualities and motivations on you
much as children project qualities onto their parents, or employees onto their boss. The key
lies in making peace with these projections and expectations, without letting yourself be trapped
by them! Its also an excellent month to set intentions for your career not just the career in
which you earn your living, but what you might think of as your true calling.
11
The 11th house was known in traditional astrology as the house of friends,
associates, and the future. Making long-term decisions about your future is
hallmarks of this new Moon cycle. Your patience with emotional drama,
possessiveness, or envy on the part of your friends is very low during the month when the New
Moon falls in this house of your chart; you feel the need to assert your independence and your
freedom to enlarge your social circle. Set intentions related to public acceptance for your
creative ideas and for attracting a supportive group of friends.
12
In traditional astrology, the 12th house was called the house of Troubles. Modern
astrologers think of it as the house of spirituality, dreams, illness, and hidden
forces that are undermining you. You are apt to absorb a good deal of other
peoples stress during the month when the New Moon falls in this house of your chart, so be
sure to take care of yourself by getting plenty of rest. Meditation can also be a useful tool in
coping with this months challenges. Often, you find that unresolved stress from the previous
eleven months now comes to a head and asks to be dealt with. Resolving to do this consciously
can help you avoid a tendency to poor health during this cycle. Set intentions related to solving
problems and releasing the past.
Working with the Moon, pg. 6
April Elliott Kent
Moon in Leo
Monday May 5, 10:55 a.m. through
Wednesday May 7, 11:24 p.m.
Soul Collage:
http://www.soulcollage.com
at 16.30 Leo
Tuesday May 6, 2014
8:15 p.m. PDT / 11:15 p.m. EDT
4:15 a.m. BST (5/7) / 1:15 p.m. AEST (5/7)
Moon in Libra
Saturday May 10, 10:19 a.m. through
Monday May 12, 6:07 p.m.
Moon in Scorpio
Monday May 12, 6:07 p.m. through
Wednesday May 14, 10:43 p.m.
Elsewhere:
Handy calculator at
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Full Moon
at 23.55 Scorpio
Wednesday May 14, 2014
12:16 p.m. PDT / 3:16 p.m. EDT
8:16 p.m. BST / 5:16 a.m. AEST (5/15)
Intentions
Intentions for this month:
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________
2014 April Elliott Kent
www.bigskyastrology.com