New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries 2024
On April 8, 2024, the Sun and Moon will align on the ecliptic plane in conjunction with the Earth, creating a Solar Eclipse in the sign of Aries. If you are in the path of totality, this event will create a temporary darkness as the Moon crosses between the Earth and the Sun, blocking the Sun’s light. This New Moon Solar Eclipse carries the energies of intensity and initiation. This is a time to envision the life you want and to identify the actionable steps toward it.
During this event, the Sun and the Moon form a conjunction with Chiron at 19 degrees of Aries, triggering profound shifts in self-healing and identity. Chiron is known as “The Wounded-Healer” in Greek mythology, who was abandoned at birth and fostered by Apollo, the God of Light. From the guidance of Apollo, Chiron became a well-known scholar, teacher, healer, and prophet who helped train Greek “Hero” figures in their youth. The lesson with Chiron is that our wounds have the potential to heal us. We have no control over the ways in which tragedies manifest in our lives, but we do have the power to heal from those tragedies. We cycle through patterns and themes in life until we gain self-awareness of the wounds that are keeping us in these cycles. This self-awareness allows us to address the wound head-on, and relinquish the fears surrounding it so that it no longer controls our lives. This is an ongoing process of honest confrontation with ourselves to recognize what we allow in our lives, the interpretations we make, the feelings we have, and the actions we take to either continue or break the cycle. This New Moon is an opportunity to create space for healing any wounds that have kept you in a holding pattern and to identify what changes need to be made to break the cycle.
The supportive bodies of Mercury, the North Node, and Venus are flanking this lunar event in Aries to help guide us toward our higher paths. Mercury is retrograde, a beautiful opportunity for us to review, revisit, and reassess. Venus is at her detriment in Aries, and is the dispositior of the South Node in Libra. This placement requires conscious effort to navigate the themes of self-love, harmony, and balance. Together, these energies help to guide us toward our destiny, as long as we can address the wounds and do the work needed to heal.
This is a collective energy, and each individual will be experiencing these energies differently. It is important to recognize that while the world may be in chaos right now, this is an individual mission. We are all parts of the collective whole. The only way to heal the collective is to heal the parts that it consists of. It starts with you.
Everything has to break down to build anew. It has to happen this way. You are of little use to this world if you are feeding into the chaos, the fear, the control. The action to take right now is directed inward.
Ground your soul, review your patterns, restructure your actions, and allow the energies to alchemize within you.
