Aries New Moon: The Spark in the Dark

Time is a construct. Rhythm is what we return to.

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Have you ever wondered why September isn’t the seventh month, even though sept means seven? Or why October isn’t the eighth, November the ninth, December the tenth?

If March were the beginning of the year, those names would make more sense.
And in many ways, it is.

We follow the Gregorian calendar, anchored to the sun.
But most indigenous and ancestral calendars follow the moon and the earth. They attune us to the seasons, the body, and the breath of the natural world.

In those rhythms, this moment, this moon, is the beginning.
The spark that sets the whole year into motion.

This New Moon arrived with a solar eclipse, an invitation to let go of linear clarity and feel into what’s emerging through the dark.
Eclipses blur the edges on purpose.
They close the outer eye so the inner one can open.
They ask:

Can you move forward without all the answers?
Can you trust the spark before you see the flame?

This isn’t clarity.
It’s consecrated confusion.
It’s the beginning that doesn't explain itself.

Aries marks the start of the Zodiac. Bold, initiating, and unafraid to be first, to lead.

In the Hebrew calendar, we enter the month of Nissan, a time of sacred risk, of moving toward freedom without proof.
It’s not just a beginning. It’s a leaving.
A trust-fall into the unknown with faith that something bigger will be on the other side.

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Living by the Moon

The Aries New Moon arrived through eclipse, a portal, a pause, a sacred spark.
This isn’t the kind of moon that whispers.
It arrives as fire.

This lunation carries the energy of initiation without a plan.
It’s the first breath after holding it too long.
The Yes before you know where it leads.

Let yourself begin.

🔥Elemental Focus: Fire

This is a moon of ignition. You don’t have to know what’s next, only that something inside you is ready to move.

Your ritual can be simple:

• Light a candle with quiet intention.

• Write down a truth you’re ready to act on, even if you don’t know the how.

• Burn the page, or tuck it beneath something sacred.

• Move your breath intentionally with 3 rounds of breath of fire.¹

There’s no right way to honor this moon.
There’s only the choice to show up lit from within.

✏️Journal Prompt

What is asking to begin, even if I don’t feel fully ready?

🌿Affirmation

“I trust the spark before I see the flame.”

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