New Moon in Libra 16 October 2020

Sign: Libra

Ruling Planet: Venus

Element: Air

Keyword: I Balance

Affirmation: “I attract loving and balanced relationships”

The New Moon is a time of initiations and beginnings when we are given a chance to make a fresh start, let go and leave the past behind and plant the seeds of our next phase with clarity and intention. This New Moon happens in the loving and balanced sign of Libra on 16 October 2020

What is the energy and focus for a Libra New Moon?

The Libran New Moon energy is all about love, communicating, making people happy, elegance and sometimes expensive and luxurious things. The sign of lovers and of the balance and harmony that a healthy relationship brings, Libra is all about relating and being with others.

Beauty and peace and everyone getting on well is a real Libra energy, matchmaking and meddling in other people’s love lives is also likely. The symbol of Libra is a set of weighing scales and this represents the ability to weight things up and see matters from both sides, very useful if you are mediating or bringing peace to a conflict – another Libra trait.

Natural Zodiac Zone

Libra is the ruler of the Seventh House in the Natural Zodiac. This is the house of relationships, marriages and close interactions with others. It shows what your relationships will be like and also what you look for in a partner and feel comfortable with. It can also represent the kind of people who are attracted to you in love and marriage.

The Seventh House can act like a mirror to your personal self. It is where we can project our fears and hopes onto others, even if those attributes are within us all the time. The planets which occur in your birth chart indicate the issues and energies you will attract to you through your relationships and the role you may play in other’s lives.

Typical Libra New Moon Events

1 Meeting a new romantic love interest or beginning a new relationship

2 Having a makeover to bring out your natural beauty and give you a fresh new look.

3 Making your home and environment as beautiful and harmonious as possible, A haven of beauty and pleasure.

4 Playing the peace maker and bringing two opposing people together in co-operation and balance.

Spiritual Practices for the Libra New Moon

To be done during the night of the Libra New Moon.

Bringing in New Love Ritual

Your will need:

• Jasmine Essential Oil

• 3 crystals – rose quartz is especially good

• 7 white candles (can be tea lights)

• 1 red candle

What to do.

Go into your bedroom and open your curtains. If it's warm enough, open your windows too and let the moonshine and breezes in.

Light the white candles and place them (safely) around your bedroom and make yourself comfortable on your bed, placing the unlit red candle on your bedside table.

Hold the crystals in the hand you write with. Visualize yourself in love; love, given and received, enhancing your life. At this point, put a few drops of the jasmine oil on your heart and third eye.

Focus on the type of relationship you want, how you want to share your days and what type of feelings you wish to have. This is not about focusing on a specific person – it is about the loving energy and qualities you want to attract to you. Things like honesty, commitment, respect and love for example. Close your eyes and visualize yourself with love and happiness in your life.

Focus on the three crystals in your hand and imagine them filling with the positive love

emotions you generate and your wish to attract love into your life. Then set the stones

around your red candle. Light your candle and let it burn all the way down. As the candle slowly burns, the energy you charged the stones with is slowly released.

Rituals for any New Moon:

1 The New Moon is the best time for starting or launching new routines, diets, businesses, life phase – anything new that you want to last.

2 Write your intentions of what you would like to achieve or work on over the next four weeks of the Moon cycle. Use as a guide for focus during the month and check at the next New Moon how far you have come.

3 Declutter and let go of stuff you no longer need or have outgrown, creating space for new energy to come in.