It’s a New Moon in Sagittarius today, and it’s an especially powerful New Moon that carries with it a great deal of potential manifestation energy. It’s a New Moon full of magical promise and enthusiasm for a better future.
For me it falls in the house of work in my chart, and appropriately I shipped the manuscript of Love Begins At Forty to the publishers just before the last Full Moon, and have spent the past couple of weeks coming back to earth after a long period of intense creative productivity.
So now a new cycle of work begins. I have space for at least three new ongoing clients, so if you, or anyone you know, is looking to work in depth to maximise their potential, do get in touch.
It’s an appropriate New Moon for me to begin with new clients and also new students. One of the areas I focus on is how we find the balance between desire and reality, between dreaming and the truth of the moment. Another way of describing this balancing act (that I believe all human beings work and play with all the time, consciously or not) is to think of it in terms of acceptance and yearning. Yearning/desire pulls us forward, but trips us up if we can’t face reality at the same time.
We are creative beings who work with the energy of the present moment in order to shape the future. That gives us the potential to consciously shape that future in amazing and beautiful ways!
Sometimes those of us who are naturally mystical (myself included) have a bias against manifestation. We are more mystic than magician, and work to accept life as it is rather than to directly influence it. We might find it challenging to think of manifesting because it feels tinged with desire and ambition. Spiritual teachers can get into knots talking about desire, and often misunderstandings arise here.
Yet it’s clear that desire and ambition are not bad in and of themselves. Yes, they need to be balanced by care for ourselves and others, but human beings are by nature productive and creative, and any act of creativity begins with a desire to make something new.
At the other end of the spectrum we can focus too much on manifestation and develop a sort of capitalist spirituality in which people’s progress and worthiness are measured by how wealthy they are. This is a big trap in current New Age thinking.
In the creative middle ground between these two extremes we can work balanced, healthy magic to manifest what we need. For this we need self-belief, self-knowledge, common sense, and openness to the dreaming stream of information from our higher selves, our spiritual guidance, and the collective. And skill at shaping energy flows. For most of us, the most natural skill to develop in this context is visualization.
At this New Moon, think about what you want to create, how you want to live, which of your desires are center-stage in your awareness. What is most important to you right now? How can you work to manifest these desires? What do you need to do? How do you need to shift your thinking and perceptions to allow these dreams to come to fruition?
