Annular Total Solar Eclipse | New Moon in Aries
A Fiery Moon That Answers To Mars in Cancer! Deep Sea Dive!
Sending this out on my birthday! So please do ignore any spelling errors :)
We’re now experiencing a New Moon in Aries, the second in a row!
This is no ordinary Moon meet-up, it’s a Total Solar Eclipse, right at the end of this zodiac sign (at 29º50’) …
Collectively, we can set our sights on a new beginning, with heady anticipation of plans already enjoying momentum!
The ruler of this lunation is Mars in Cancer; the trio of celestial bodies (Sun, Moon and Jupiter) are guided and influenced by water, and brooding emotions…
20th April 2023, Times:
New York / EDT 12.12 am
London / BST 5.12 am
Hong Kong / AWST 12.12 pm.
Here’s Your Horoscope!
Aries
Today sees an Eclipse in your first house – seize a new beginning for your identity, body and personal life! Amplify YOU, affirm your grand plans and special attributes: your presence, physicality, personality, character. Go further with a specialism, projects, with solo plans, give yourself the attention you deserve.
This Total Solar Eclipse is a personal cosmic re-set, an opportunity not to be missed, so take it easy, spending the day occupied with yourself!
The ruler of the New Moon appears in your fourth house, drawing you inward. Consider ‘home base’, identify with your heritage or come home to roost! Sensitivity could be high, emotions impossible to ignore.
This is your familiar sector of nurture, nourishment, clans and nostalgia so there could be a sense you’re actively dealing with the past, ready to show enthusiasm around household matters, parenting, a parent or members of your family. Touch on family, home life, your property, homeland, or domestic spaces, too.
Devote yourself to your needs and acknowledge where you’re from, your origins, the past and ways you’re inclined to nest, nourish or nurture others!
Taurus
Sun and Moon meet in Aries, with a new beginning in your twelfth house of retreat and rehabilitation. Examine the tools, methods and remedies you have to recover and find peace!
Spotlight projects or plans that are selfless, misunderstandings or unknowable outcomes that set you in limbo, wondering and anticipating. Unpack issues or stand by while matters reach a natural conclusion. Disappear off grid, switch off, check out, and hit ‘Airplane Mode’, try to ascertain where you’re going above and beyond with a thankless tasks, rescuing or being overly involved in supporting others (to a fault)… Embrace solitude, or tend to others in a way that sees you isolated.
Mars in Cancer brings enthusiasm to your local surroundings, and familiar environments; practice communication skills you’ve honed, engaging, sensing the healing affect this has on you and others. Find yourself among those closest to you: sisters, school friends, work mates or folk in your neighborhood or area, exposed to the sick, suffering or needy! Including a baby! Pause liberally, without resistance or struggle…
Move beyond yourself and into a profoundly spiritual solution. Take time in reflection, behind the scenes, mourning or retreating to explore a mystery or fantasy – dreams and escapism may lure you in, with (death and) the more elusive side of life before you…
Exhume the past and put certain issues to rest. Purge, detox and tackle old wounds, as secrets, scandals, mental health issues and catharsis gets louder!
Gemini
Today sees an Eclipse in your eleventh house – a new beginning for community endeavors, for the dreams you have in regards to society and your people!
Focus on humanitarian dealings, friends, your social sphere, and spotlight your company of peers (coworkers, team mates, alliances or allies). Mingle, willing to sense cheerleaders or acquaintances rallying you on. Step out with brothers in arms, (though they might be strangers,) part of an audience or crew ¬– part of an industry or movement!
This Total Solar Eclipse is a cosmic re-set around friends, your peer group, your social life, social scene and what you might accomplish as part of a crowd, community, team or organization.
Look to good company, and what you might come together on; lean into a community or network with a partner, get online to meet your mates! A wider circle and the spirit of camaraderie could now be apparent, highlighting the causes you care about.
The ruler of the New Moon appears in your second house, so the role or position you uphold may be important. Mars in your sector of money and self-worth suggests you might be eager to affirm your value – to be rewarded, compensated or paid! You’ll want your pay cheque to reflect all you contribute, with enthusiasm for the ways you carve out a living.
Pursue lucrative plans, knowing the company you keep count too. Find those you want on your team, able to build, and acknowledge your circle!
Cancer
Today sees an Eclipse in the highest corner of your horoscope, your tenth house, with a new beginning for your aims and aspirations.
Amplify your professional path, illuminate your public role, with confidence and headstrong courage. This is a time to advance in your chosen direction, heading toward your calling and a post of leadership … Step up as an authority, initiating what’s good for business.
Look to the reputation that precedes you, honest about the way you come across or what you represent in the world, your expertise. Welcome solo success, looking toward your aspirations, gaining an external endorsement for what you’ve accomplished or intend to do.
Maximize exposure around your title or public profile, embrace where you’re headed personally or professionally… Be occupied with your goals, ambitions and routes of advancement. Direct attention toward what you might accomplish in your vocation, trade or around the way you present yourself.
With Mars in your sign stand up for yourself! Touch on your physical body, your identity, character, personality or look, too. You could be raring to go, looking for praise and validation, a nod of approval. Bring attention to you (rather than your relationships), acknowledging if you need attention, to be seen, recognized, visible and prominent in the world! Sense ways to get ahead in your professional life or consider putting forwards a strong image.
Leo
Today sees an Eclipse in your ninth house ¬– a new beginning for your outlook on life, your faith, understanding and worldly experiences. Amplify global plans and connections, culture, wisdom and philosophy.
Venture further in body, mind and spirit, light up the ways you explore, expand, journey and grow, encouraged by your kids or creativity! Be broadminded and open, stepping toward a quest, visionary pursuit, or refresh notions of what you believe. Be honest and true to you! You may be faced with a moral feat, there may be a chance to publish globally, or have fun internationally. Go further, becoming educated, or getting philosophical about life, politics, religion and more.
The ruler of the New Moon is Mars in Cancer, in your twelfth house of personal unravelling ¬– the blind spot of your chart that prompts you to take the pressure off, observe and come undone. You might find life is elusive!
There may be opportunity for a reminder of how you recalibrate, rest and reflect. Dedicate energy to a pause, remembering ways you tend to others from a secluded, secretive angle, nursing or comforting in a genuinely selfless manner.
Find yourself able to navigate others’ tender spots (as well as your own)…
Virgo
Today sees an Eclipse in your eighth house – a new beginning for committed relationships and private investments.
Amplify ties to others or ways you find you’re under obligation, ways you’ve made a pact, or are beholden to others, including services providers or a partner and their resources. Focus on what you’re able to give and gain.
Contracts, a promise made, or an understanding you have with others may be enlarged, as you explore and discover more about ways you unify and develop support.
Re-set how you work with others and commit for the longer term. Look toward intimate mergers, and ways you’re bonded to others financially or energetically. Consider your legacy, marriage on paper, and future inheritance, as well as where you might be indebted.
The ruler of the New Moon Mars appears in Cancer and your eleventh house, your sector of peers, allies and acquaintances, so you might now be energized by your social scene, a group or network.
Touch on social issues, your friends, community or wider circle!
Try to balance agreements and investments, with awareness of your community. Supportive folk in broader circles could prompt you to deepen your ties and awareness of what you owe others, so be open to addressing expectations, explore trust and the taboo areas that usually go untouched.
Be willing to come together with a unified approach, committing, sharing space or resources, doing what you can and appreciating the part others play.
Libra
Today sees an Eclipse in your opposite sign, with a new beginning around partnerships and key unions.
Amplify relationships across the board, and affirm your status: single, attached, open to dating, or ways you’re involved with others (a therapist, business partner, creative collaborator etc.)
There may be one union you’re open to or looking to shift!
Look towards marriage and business partnerships, and all encounters you have that are intimate, up close and personal. Pay attention to a partner, spotlight issues coming up between you!
Focus on togetherness or allow your ‘other half’ to negotiate.
With Mars in Cancer, forge ahead with your purpose in the world at large and ways you’re perceived, aware that this influences your one-to-ones…
There may be an ambitious angle now, so you could be motivated by the way you come off in public. Your direction or career could be prominent, your profile, moving ahead with your professional or personal calling and the path you’re on.
Be seen or visible, with enthusiasm for the trade or vocation you’re in, for getting ahead, noticing ways you team up one-on-one, and how your unions lead you to succeed. A key person or significant figure may prompt you to affirm your reputation, so that notoriety may be exciting, with an accolade, your status or prestige to acknowledge…
You may want to be noticed or validated by a significant other!
Scorpio
Today sees an Eclipse in your efficient, productive, purposeful sixth house, with a new beginning for health, wellness and work life.
Amplify the regime or routine you keep, illuminate your lifestyle, and ways of bringing order to your day-to-day!
This is a time to reset the agenda around the more mundane facets of your schedule, with a look at system upgrades and even a fresh start for the job you do, or your approach to employment, employers, employees or the way you delegate, seek assistance or fulfill your tasks and obligations…
Be occupied with your wellbeing, lifestyle improvements, organization and work, encouraged in practices, organizational methods, or healthy living that works for you! Look to create efficiencies in your everyday doing more, getting a handle on living to your best, allowing wanderlust, spirituality and another culture or idea to feature.
Mars in your ninth house touches on your education, travel, overseas connections, and your personal growth…
There may be a person capable of steering you toward faith, or people that inspire you to make discoveries that resonate with your own truth and beliefs. Gravitate towards foreigners, teachers, guides and fellow pilgrims on a path like yours, reminding yourself of knowledge amassed and lean into a journey taken.
Sagittarius
Today sees an Eclipse in your playful fifth house ¬– claim a new beginning for modes of expression, creativity, fun, fertility, sexuality, entertainment and joy!
You’ve great potential to be inspired around matters of the heart – or around the things you might like to put heart into… Amplify your greatest passions!
From a child or your children (or kids around you), creative pastimes, or projects that make you happy, to a loved one, a hobby, the arts or a project that’s taking center stage, look to your love story, and consider romance, fertile stirrings and heated dynamics!
There’s potential for pregnancy or to affirm your stance on baby-making.
Focus on your own happiness, inspired to follow your heart and what will suit you, hone in on simple pleasures or interests that put you and your happiness (or kids) first.
With Mars in Cancer, touch on your investment of time, energy and resources, too – ¬promises, commitments, financial ties and pooled resources could be prevalent!
Now in your intimate zone of trust, close bonds and private agreements, the ruler of the New Moon might find you keen to come together, sharing space, exploring what it takes to be vulnerable, with a way to be devoted to your own long-term plans and security.
Becoming official may be an appealing prospect ¬– marrying or broaching a personal or professional contract, and where you’re in league… Contemplate unified interests, what you stand to gain working with others, creating joy, leaning into your personal inspiration, hobbies, the arts and heartfelt pleasures!
Capricorn
Today sees an Eclipse in your foundational fourth house – a new beginning around your roots, home life, domestic issues ¬or property!
Spotlight ways you parent, or note the way you were parented and taken care of, fed, nurtured or bought up, with all kinds of ways to expand on your nest, nourishment and what’s secure…
Amplify the issues around family, your land, where and how you might live, settle or base yourself. Expand on your emotional environment, security or your foundations! Remind yourself of your origin story ¬ see where the home fires burn warm and bright! Note a journey you’re on to deep dive into family, your land, lineage, even emotional sensitivities. Pay attention to your four walls, familiar places and faces, and welcome fresh shoots underfoot…
Feel comfortable with your inner landscape or where you base yourself, readying yourself for more attention on life under your roof! Spend the day occupied with your family, property, your heritage or space.
With Mars in Cancer, touch on your relationships, too. One person may stand out, so note those that seem impassioned! Show sympathy to another’s plight or be a little gentle around personal relations, knowing this is a sensitive time for us all. You could be keen to understand how someone else is doing, yet there may be arguments.
A key person in your life might alter where you live or your dwellings, your traditions or approach to the past.
Aquarius
Today sees an Eclipse in your third house – a new beginning for sibling interactions, your proficiencies in relating and close kindred spirits…
Amplify communication and debating skills, your local interests or head to a hangout that inspires you! It’s your time to connect and develop relationships in your environment, or to elevate blood relatives, close neighbors or those around you that you find yourself among by chance. Re-set your rapport, delivery, and what you have to say to those likeminded.
Verbalize opinions, your mindset, or cultivate skills to stay abreast of news and tight knit ties. Teaching, learning and mobilizing in your area breeds opportunities, so pay attention to your commute and information highways!
Note where you’re in touch with those in your area or a niche network.
Find people with something in common, and acknowledge the way you communicate, write, message or converse. Reach out and be honest, make note of a social buzz and your conversational style.
With Mars in Cancer, touch on your job and wellbeing too, your dutiful nature, and show you’re keen to get into a healthy way of life, with wellness rituals or a flawless schedule – a handle on admin!
Make space for routine endeavors, your lifestyle and day-to-day practices; drive ahead with body maintenance, your constitution and lifestyle!
Be curious and encouraged with a productive window that makes it easy to step into work, service and habits.
Pisces
Today sees an Eclipse in your second house, with a new beginning around money and earnings, your purpose and position.
Amplify income, investments, your job or the approach you have towards cash, material belongings, assets and your contribution. This is a time to be conscious of all you’re doing that’s worthwhile (including any unpaid roles!)
Find ways you’re valuable or appreciated, ways you can build, develop and make more! Occupy yourself with lucrative plans, leaning into maximum profits, what you have or your money and savings!
Look towards assets and methods of accumulation or conservation, your value and what you do that’s worthwhile (or a worthy endeavor). It could be a confidence inducing time to consider a raise or what makes financial sense!
The ruler of the New Moon (Mars) appears in your fertile zone of sexuality, conception, desires, love and pleasure seeking, suggesting potential for romance, your heart’s desire and affections to feature – your kids, love life, play dates or dating! Passionate ventures, your talents or self-expression, a project or party may be pertinent, too, recreational pursuits, something produced as an extension of you that you adore and cherish. Find space to be creative!
Note all you’ve put heart into – ways you find your own happiness, simple joys or indulgences: look toward recreation, procreation and ways to express yourself! Be self-sustaining, while pushing forwards in matters of the heart.