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The Burning Question: Where Do We Find Shelter in the Whirlwind?

Every New Moon asks us a question which we may hear when we listen. The question now is: How can I find a sanctuary, whether it is inner, emotional, physical or spiritual, amidst any growing storm you find yourself in? Where do you find your shelter?

Libra teaches us about balance, fairness, relationships and partnership, this is because of its ruler Venus, the planet of love and relationships. Libra III, with its Decanic rulers, Jupiter and Mercury (who occupy home signs opposite each other, bringing tension in their relationship), asks us to shelter, restore, and recalibrate as we try to find our place in a world that is demanding constant motion. The old adage comes to mind, ‘You cannot pour from an empty cup’. Libra wants to help, mediate, and please those around them, but to be effective in the longer run, we also have to take responsibility for our own needs too.

Those with placements in Libra, or its opposite sign Aries, and the Squaring Cardinal signs, Cancer and Capricorn, have had a bumpy 2 years as the nodes transited through Libra and Aries, bringing Eclipses from April 2023 and finally left after March 2025. It is time now for the dust to settle and for the changes the eclipses in these signs brought to be integrated into daily lives and routines as the outcomes and way forward become clearer.

Allow me to pull on the Astrological threads and maybe weave some of them together for the New Moon and help guide you to plan that path forward.

Maybe it feels like you have been teetering on a balance beam, one side pulling toward harmony, the other toward decisive action? If you have been working on healing relationships or addressing justice issues since the Libra eclipses began, allow the darkness of the night sky now to take you within, reaching inner truths. As the Moon begins to grow in light, allow her to grow your plans for this part of your life and your chart, helping you in your journey toward equilibrium.

Libra: The Cool Breeze

Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of harmony, beauty, love, grace, and connection. When Venus is in Libra, she is “at home” this means she can express her Venusian qualities in full, bringing diplomacy, attraction and social attunement to the front of our minds and supporting us in these activities. At this New Moon, Venus has returned to Libra, bringing her benefic attractions, (or things we tend to enjoy and regard as good) to bless the New Moon.

Libra is an air sign, cardinal in modality, and considered masculine or yang in gender, which means its nature is more outgoing and reactive. The Air element brings in the realm of ideas, communication, and connection across differences. Cardinal Libra adds initiative, beginnings, action and intellectual clarity, perhaps a sense of leadership or forward motion, initiating change or pivots coming as Libra season does at the turning of the season and changing of the light. A Libra New Moon asks us to initiate balance, speak new agreements and reset relational contracts.

Saturn is exalted in Libra, bringing discipline, structure, and long-term justice to add depth to Venus’ light-heartedness. But at this time of this New Moon, Saturn is in Pisces and retrograde, connecting us with flowing emotions, but averse to Libra, meaning the light of its rays cannot reach the New Moon. It is more of a dissolving pressure in the background, urging us to let go of rigid boundaries and reconnect to compassion, humility, and trust in flow.

As the first Libra New Moon since the Libra Aries eclipses in March 2025 concluded, this Libra New Moon offers a fresh slate to integrate the upheaval experienced and renew themes seeded during the previous Libra-Aries eclipses in 2023 –March 2025, before the nodal axis fully shifted to Pisces-Virgo. Though that eclips