What to Avoid During The New Moon
Human beings embrace ceremony and ritual in many ways. We have gatherings for birthdays, holidays, sporting events, educational achievements, end-of-life, and many other milestones. For the past few years, I’ve been cultivating spiritual rituals and ceremonies. In doing so, I’ve created a place of inner peace that nothing can shatter. I’ve also learned that we all have this same spiritual power to look within ourselves for the answers to what is our Soul’s purpose and how can we spiritually heal ourselves. The lunations in our physical world give us opportunities to work with these energies for the best possible outcome for our lives.
1. Avoid Being Confrontational
The New Moon is the beginning of the chapter for the next month. Opening this chapter with conflict sets the pattern for this month. Sometimes conflict occurs when we don’t express our needs and don’t ask for help. I’ve heard people say that they shouldn’t have to express their needs their life partner should just know. This is an unhealthy way of justifying anger. Many times this manifests in resentment which we keep bottled until it explodes. The healthy way of not getting the level of anger is to talk to others about what you need while you are still calm and collected.
2. Don’t Avoid Self Care
The New Moon is a Yin energy time. This is the dark moon. Self-care is necessary so we can show up each day having taken care of our own needs so we don’t put that expectation onto other people. As adults, we are responsible for nurturing our own needs. When we expect that our life partner or children fill that role we aren’t nurturing ourselves. It is very common that many individuals in the last few generations didn’t have a good role model for a nurturing parent. People with poor self-care skills put others first because that was taught to them in their childhood. It’s ok. We are adults now so we can nurture ourselves with loads of self-care.
3. Don’t Rush Through Self Reflection
The dark moon is a time to reflect on the past month. Not the past year, like we do during the winter solstice, just this past month, the last chapter. What did I do right? What can I change for this next chapter? What opportunities do I have coming up? What do I want to wish into reality for my life? Go ahead, grab your journal, and put some thoughts onto paper.
4. Don’t Ignore Opportunities to Change
We are all connected to the cycle of life and the New Moon is a great time to embrace change. One lunar cycle is like having all of nature’s seasons in one 28-day cycle. It is a mini taste of each season in one week. The dark moon is the week of winter. Change and evolution are necessary. We only get stuck when we refuse this natural part of the cycle. Imagine how silly it would be if nature refused to change. The best we can do is keep up with the change that is all around us. This is the week to reflect on the changes we would like to see in our lives. What do you want to change? This can be physical, mental, or spiritual in nature!
5. Don’t Hold Onto Grudges and Resentment
This is the time of making wishes and getting clarity on our manifestations. Holding onto grudges and past hurts keeps us STUCK to events and persons in the past. Our FULL focus and energy are not available to us to manifest our desires while energizing our cords to resentment and grudges.
The New Moon is a time of manifestation and forgiveness is the key to letting go of the past. Forgiveness is the door to the vibration of peace and love. The Full Moon and the waning moon cycle is the perfect time for letting go or releasing the emotions that attach us to the events of the past. But it is important that before you make New Moon wishes for what you want to manifest in this new chapter you let go of the past so you are free to put your full focus into manifesting.
The New Moon in Pisces
Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac. Inspiring, dreamy, romantic, and supercharged are the keywords for this last zodiac new moon which happens on March 10, 2024, at 5:00 am EST. This watery Pisces moon is a supercharged emotional new moon. People who are energy-sensitive and people very in touch with their emotions are going to feel this moon way down deep. This is ok, allow what comes to the surface to flow. Emotions are never wrong, allow yourself to hear what your emotions are telling you.
This is the last bit of respite before we charge a full blast into the beginning of the zodiac year. Meditation is the best way to use this New Moon and will help you tune into the energies of Neptune and Pisces. (*Please do not listen to meditations of any kind while driving or using heavy machinery.)
Try to find guided meditation to help combat the active mind that many people experience. I, too, had a racing mind and told myself and others that meditation was something I couldn’t do. Turns out I could! It does take practice and when I suggest a guided meditation, it is because it helps to use our mind to our advantage. Give our mind something to focus on and before you know it, you will be a meditation master too.
Meditation is now a full part of my self-care spiritual practice. I can look within myself for answers, I can call in angels, spirit guides, my higher self, and more. Guided meditation is also extremely relaxing to the mind. Once meditation was practiced, I could feel my mind stop thinking which was like a spa day for my mind.
Do you want to incorporate the Moon into your spiritual practice? Yasmin Boland’s Moonology Book is a fabulous resource. Here is my affiliate link for her book on Amazon.
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