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On Wednesday, the Aries New Moon takes place at 5:35 am EDT, conjunct Mars, Venus and Eris — bringing us a picture of the very personal internal sense of chaos we experience when our views on relationship and relating clash with our parents’ views. As we work through this high-energy alignment kicking off spring (or fall for folks in the Southern Hemisphere), we move through an opportunity to gain a new understanding of what it takes to balance our personal needs in relationships while meeting the needs of others.
This New Moon takes place with the Sun and Moon in Aries. New Moons are fertile moments or openings to begin new projects, endeavours, attitudes and relationships. In Aries, there is plenty of personal drive available for initiating and starting something new. With intense Mars, Venus and Eris all in alignment with the New Moon, we get an image of attaching jet packs to whatever we’re trying to start — there’s a lot of power and thrust behind new projects, ideas and relationships.
The challenge is to harness that energy so it moves in the direction we intend rather than as an unguided missile.
Mars is about wants and desires; located in Aries, it is effective in translating these desires into actions. Venus, even though considered in detriment in Aries, is also good at going after what it wants in this sign. But with so much driven, aggressive energy at our disposal, we are also being cautioned to move with tact and thought for all involved. We must be vigilant against stream-rolling anyone and anything in our path.
Mars and Venus are also about relationships, as are the Sun and Moon. The Sun and Moon in tight conjunction give us a picture of our parents and our parents’ parents’ types of relationships. Mars conjunct Venus only a couple degrees away gives another picture of a different type of relationship: one with greater focus on supporting the individual.