It’s a SECOND New Moon in Aries and if no one else has said it to you yet,

 

 

In a world that values quantitative gain over qualitative progress, we are conditioned to strive for an arbitrary, external standard of success. And there is usually little forgiveness if you don’t meet this standard perfectly on the first go.

Sometimes we only get one shot. The shutter closes on the lens, but the subject (maybe in this case, a bumblebee) has already moved on; the heartbreaking paradox of the present moment is both impermanence and perpetuity.

 

But more often an opportunity comes around again to improve upon our previous efforts and to potentially gain even more from the experience.

 

I delight in finding or creating an opportunity for a second go and encouraging folks to try and try again. For many of us, taking an experimental risk is a necessary part of the process. (Especially if you have a 3 or a 6 in your Human Design Profile!) Of course, if you’ve never done something before, it’s rare that you will be inherently good at it. We build skills by incorporating information from each attempt, altering and adapting to increase our chances of success.

 

A month ago, we were inspired to take action toward new goals, and step into the spring season with both drive and curiosity. Aries season hit hard. And many folks have shared that they are feeling unexpectedly wiped out. Excitement can be a great motivator but it’s not a sustainable form of generative energy, and this last season hit with a lot of excitement and potential for change.

 

Perhaps you’re also feeling a little spread thin, or ruffled up by challenges that popped up like noxious weeds threatening to take over your garden. You've put in a lot of work, and there may be new information that you've yet to integrate into your current direction. 
Although it may not always feel like it, you've got plenty of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just four hours after the peak of the New Moon in Aries eclipse, the Sun will move into the sign of Taurus. The energy of the upcoming season will be a welcome shift. Taurus energy is stable, sensual, and secure. During this time, we’ll be invited to tend to a healthier work/life balance and find the sensuality in our day to day. Giving ourselves permission for a little treat will feel all the more delightful, and practices that nourish the body will elevate routine into ritual. We’ll have both Mercury and Pluto station retrograde until May 14 and Oct. 10 respectively, which will also slow the pace down a little and give us time to reexamine our commitments and the work we’ve been doing so far this year. 

 

And then for the rest of the year, the new moons will fall in the middle-ish of the astrological seasons, like a boost of fresh energy to power us along.

 

At the peak of the New Moon eclipse, both the Sun and Moon will be in Gate 3, Line 4. In Human Design, Gate 3 is the Gate of Ordering, with a keynote theme of transcending chaos and establishing order. From the fearless action taken during Aries season, we can accept chaos as part of the process—releasing some control—and find a rhythm, or a pattern, or a balance that lays a new foundation. Located in the Sacral center, this is an energy for mutation that through individual expression changes others. Similarly to leading by example, changing yourself most often inspires shifts in others. If you no longer accept certain kinds of treatment, it will inspire others to act differently toward you and nullify those who come up against your boundary. 

 

I have this gate defined by my unconscious Jupiter and I certainly find expansion and luck through making a new beginning. For much of my early 20's I hopped from experience to experience, place to place, creating new beginnings over and over. And then, when the chaos of so much variety started to mount, I found a new beginning by committing myself to one place/person/path, and found order in my commitment.  When I later went through a divorce, it was chaos all over again and I was invited to find a new sense of order that expanded my perspective beyond what had defined me for so many years. 

 

In traditional IChing and HD texts, you’ll see this Hexagram referred to as “Difficulty in the beginning.” This name incorrectly implies that all beginnings are difficult and can effectively create an unwanted spell or fate over the making of all new beginnings*. Making a new beginning by transcending chaos and disorder is not inherently difficult. Sometimes we look around and realize that we are well-equipped (or more equipped than we thought) to make a new beginning.

 

*If you’re curious about a modern, anti-feudal, anti-patriarchal translation of the IChing, may I recommend I Ching, The Oracle of the Cosmic Way a book by Hanna Moog and Carol K. Anthony. I’ve been working with this text personally since 2017 and I appreciate that the authors share their process for retranslation throughout each hexagram. Many traditional IChing texts contradict the foundational concept of Cosmic Unity through the application of metaphors that are based on human concepts of hierarchy and goodness versus badness. This then perpetuates human-centric viewpoints of the world, instead of the unique dignity of all things in Nature. The more we further an individualistic mindset that places humans in the center or at the top of some natural order, the farther we get from understanding our place in the interdependent, unified Cosmos.