New Moon in Aries ♈☉ ☾ Call Your Power Back ☾ Friday 17th April @ 9:52pm AEST

The New Moon Aries (cardinal fire) arrives like a spark in the dark moon as it is bold, initiatory, and unapologetically alive. This is a potent moment for New Moon intention setting, where desire meets action and the seed of your future is planted in fertile, cosmic soil.

Aries does not wait. Aries moves with action. Mars ♂ the ruling planet of Aries is part of a powerful Aries stellium that amplifies this fiery, cardinal energy: Mercury ☿, Neptune ♆, Mars ♂, Saturn ♄, the Moon ☽, Sun ☉, and Chiron are all activating themes of communication, conscious dreaming, mastery, ancestry, creative alchemy, and the sacred wound.

There is a palpable cosmic push for change, a dynamic ignition urging you to take aligned action and trust the path unfolding. Under this lunation, you are invited to honour sustainable transformation, embodied vitality, and a life that feels deeply, honestly fulfilling. This is not about rushing blindly forward but about choosing courageously, guided by the quiet fire within.

This is the month to follow your intuitive guidance and instinctive soul nudges. Whether your spiritual lineage traces back to witches, healers, midwives, or earth keepers, your soul may carry echoes of ancient remembrance.

This lunation opens a spirit doorway to that wisdom.

☾ Meet these spaces with reverence ☾

Venus ♀ in the sign of divine Taurus, dances in the western sky just after sunset.  As the Evening Star, Venus is the Dusk Witch and she shows you where you can love yourself more deeply, listening to your body and honouring the soul.  Venus meeting the waxing crescent moon on 19^th April activates the Venus/Moon gate of personal power and intuitive wisdom.

This is an invitation to honour your body as a sacred temple which holds ancient intelligence. Through sensation, emotion, and subtle knowing, it reveals whether you are aligned or where a gentle shift is needed. You may encounter places within that hold fear, particularly around safety, security, and belonging.

As the Sun ☉ ♉︎ shifts into the solar season of Taurus (fixed earth), on 20^th April, the pace softens, as the wildfire of Aries settles into the sensual, grounding energy of Taurus season. This is the realm of sensual embodiment and self-love rituals. This is the shift of soft earth beneath your feet, rose petals opening, the gentle medicine of damiana. The energy turns toward heart opening and sacred slowness.

Now is the time to create as you are entering a new chapter. This is first lunation of Aries, and the solar season of Taurus, asks you to nurture your emotional wellbeing, to honour the full spectrum of your humanity, and to trust in regenerative, earth-based magic.

Feel your roots reaching deep into the dark, fertile soil, and in this moment, whatever you need… that is enough.

Much love from the deep, wild woods…

Mikailah Rachael

The Star Witch

https://www.starwitchastrology.com/