Exact time of new moon: April 27, 2025 at 2:30pm Central
Keeping it real, here’s the difficult news, first. The World is on fire. If it’s not on fire, it’s drowning. If it’s not drowning, it’s imploding. If it’s not imploding, it’s exploding. If it’s not exploding, it’s trying to protect itself from the explosions. At the very least, everything is changing. Everything is up. Everyone is feeling it. We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop. Trust? Faith? In what?
“Things are rough all over, Ponyboy.”
-S.E. Hinton
That’s where the good news comes in! Since no one is immune to what’s going on in the world, it shows that we are all connected. Since we are all connected, we all as individuals can affect the whole. Since we can affect the whole, it’s imperative that we realize that any expression of peace in the outer world must begin with peace in our inner world.
“If everyone swept in front of their own steps, the whole world would be clean.”
– Goethe
While the intention we are to set this month may seem daunting, it is equally rewarding. The idea of the seed of our intention this month is to draw a circle around ourselves and, before we do anything else, give our complete focus to the needs of what is in that circle.
Are we hungry? Are we safe? Are we warm? We then provide everything we possibly can for what is in that circle. If we are hungry, and we have the ability, we eat with sacredness. If we are safe, we give a moment of gratitude, and if we are not, we do everything we can to become so. We drink some water if we are thirsty, breathe deeply if we are anxious, and stretch our body if we are feeling tight. We can make our home as comfortable as possible and sweep our steps- all in the context of, and to the best of our ability amidst, our circumstances. If we are struggling, we can ask for help.
Then, magic happens. When everything inside of that circle is attended to, we can widen our circle to include our Beloved and our family. We can provide safety and warmth, nourishment and comfort. Being strong with self-respect, we can encourage others to strengthen their circles. With our inner resources, we can be helpful- amidst the enormity of it all.
We can even widen this circle to include our friends, community, and country! We can hold the entire world in our heart, if we love big enough! When we feel the center of our circle needing replenishment, we draw those boundaries back to ourselves for restoration. We work to maintain as consistent a level of peace as possible in that inner circle. Whenever we begin to feel unsafe, we bring the circle back to ourselves.
Contained within the circle of our being are skills, talents, and resources. We all have a part to play in extinguishing the fire, rescuing the drowning, cooling the heat, slowing things down a bit and grounding them, keeping things from disappearing, and keeping other things from going too far. How can we do these things within ourselves, first? How can we assist others with these? It’s easy to feel peace when it comes from the outside, in. This month’s intention is to generate it from the inside, out.
– Courtesy of Evolutionary Astrology with Ryan Evans
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