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“The stars do not compel, but they incline.”
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The New Moon is barely a sliver of light, and you're being asked to begin something before you can see it clearly. Good. You've always been better at starting in the dark than you admit.
A 2%-lit New Moon sits at 8° Leo conjunct Jupiter at 3° Leo, seeding something generous and a little theatrical in your social sphere — this isn't a quiet beginning. Meanwhile your ruler Venus lands at 6° Virgo, squaring both Mars in Gemini and Uranus in Gemini with an uncomfortably tight orb of 2 degrees, which means the part of you that wants harmony and the part of you that wants to bolt are in active argument right now. Mercury is retrograde in Cancer alongside the Sun, so old conversations are still circulating — some of them are trying to find their way back to you for a reason.
You know that feeling when you've been circling a decision so long that the circling itself has become the decision? That's the texture of today. The New Moon conjunct Jupiter in Leo is an invitation to want things again — loudly, specifically, without the apologetic footnotes you usually attach to your desires. Leo energy doesn't hedge. It announces. And while that can feel foreign to your Libra sensibility, the cosmos is essentially asking you to try it on, just for a day.
Your ruler Venus squaring Uranus at a tight 2-degree orb is the real friction point. There's something — a relationship dynamic, a financial arrangement, an aesthetic choice you've made about your own life — that no longer fits the way it used to, and Uranus in Gemini is refusing to let you pretend otherwise. This isn't a crisis. It's information. The square doesn't demand you blow anything up; it demands you stop being polite about the misfit and name it to yourself at minimum.
Mercury retrograde conjunct the Cancer Sun is still replaying certain tender conversations in the back of your mind — things said or unsaid in June, matters of home, family, belonging. Don't chase resolution on those today. The New Moon asks you to plant an intention, not harvest an answer. Write down what kind of relationship — with a person, a place, or even a version of yourself — you are willing to begin building. The Moon trine Neptune makes that act of imagination feel less foolish than it sounds.
If you've been performing contentment in a partnership, Venus square Uranus at 2 degrees is making the performance harder to sustain — not to punish you, but to clear space for something more honest.
The New Moon conjunct Jupiter is genuinely lucky for pitching, proposing, or simply showing up with more confidence than you feel — lean into that Leo excess before your inner editor talks you out of it.
Today asks you to distinguish between what you want and what you want to want — they're not the same thing, and the New Moon in Leo is only interested in the first one.
““The Moon joined with Jupiter is a fortunate testimony, inclining the native toward generosity and public favor, especially in beginnings undertaken near her conjunction.””
TranslationLilly would recognize this New Moon conjunct Jupiter as genuinely auspicious for starts — not in a vague 'good vibes' way, but in the specific sense that what you initiate now carries the stamp of something larger than yourself. Use the imprimatur.
Write one sentence — just one — that begins with 'I am willing to want' and finish it without hedging, then leave it somewhere you'll see it tomorrow.
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