New Moon in Aquarius
January 24, 2020
1:41 pm Pacific, 4:41 pm Eastern
in the 4th degree of Beauty & Deep Healing
Stay together, friends.
Donāt scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake.
~Rumi
Holding the archetypes of the Freedom-Seeker, the Liberator, the Revolutionary, the Crazy One, the Misfit and the Humanitarian, Aquarius calls us to an inner awakening possibly so profound that we must leave, change, expand, move into a new future based on the truth of our souls’ destiny.
So what must awaken within you at this time?
Maybe the awakening will feel earth-shattering and maybe it will be just the gentle wakeup call you need. Ā
As part of my yoga teacher training, I’m reading The Bhagavad Gita, Hinduās sacred text that details Arjunaās revelatory conversation with Krishna.
Arjuna, a Warrior who has served his dharma well, finds himself in a crisis of conscience and consciousness over his next battle in which the āenemyā he must destroy is his blood, his uncleās family.
However, he morally cannot heed this call. He cannot fight his family no matter what his destiny seems to be pointing him to.
His dharma has asked too much of him, so Arjuna at a complete loss surrenders and turns to Krishna to see what can be done.
This Arjuna moment in which the Warrior for Love says no to what is no longer tolerable is intricately and symbolically tied to the liberating force of the Aquarius energy we’re collectively feeling right now, a freedom-seeking power we’ve all experienced in many forms.
What Arjuna moment has set you free?Ā
Like you, Iāve been pushed to grow, often through intense periods of tension and pressure that called me to make a decision that would change the course of my life. Many times. Some not so long ago.
But in contemplating this assignment I’d been given, I was drawn to the first time I said, āEnough. No more”–a decision that woke me up to something important.Ā Ā
I was 17 years old and had just discovered my boyfriend, my first love, was seeing someone else while we were still together.
I believed my heart would never heal from the pain that was making it hard to concentrate or even to breathe.Ā The weeks of crying turned into weeks of being consumed by jealousy and rage.
How was I to move through this?
Growing up as a child, I sometimes journaled about the problems I had, but mostly I prayed.
I loved the act and possiblity of praying, just talking to God or Mary or one of the saints I was fascinated with, truly believing they were listening to me share my fears or ask for blessings for my family.
But in the pain of this breakup, I didnāt write nor did I pray. I cried and I became angry.
Leading up to Easter that year, my family was busy participating in the prepartory rituals of the Catholic Church, one of which was to attend confession to share my sins and have the priest absolve me of where Iād missed the mark.
I used to love this sacramental act of reconciliation.
At the age of seven, I’d experienced a miraculous first confession.
With very little preparation, my grade two self innocently stepped into the confessional box to be guided by the kindly parish priest to tell him what sins I had committed.
#1. I had been mean to my sisters.
#2. I had lied to my mom.
And then because I was drawn to the number “3,” at the cost of negating confessional statement #2, I lied to the priest.
#3. I stole two extra chocolate chip cookies from the Cookie Monster jar.Ā
(What I was actually guilty of was shaving off a sliver of a row of the irresistible Nanaimo bars my mom had made.)
Father Griffin, the kindly priest, mumbled some ceremonious words, told me to say the “Our Father” and “Hail Mary” prayers a few times and then with a final blessing, I was done.
I donāt know what wand he waved in there, but I left that small, wooden box feeling my seven-year-old insides had been washed clean, like I had swallowed a magical peppermint elixir that had flooded my body with a profound sense of happiness, a feeling that my young self had not yet known. Or could explain.
I used to love that time in the box.
Except ten years later, here I was, a hurt 17-year-old teenager whose temperament had been changed by her life circumstances and was now flooded with an ocean of anger at men, from my father to this ex-boyfriend.
It was from this place of resentment and rebellion I decided I would not give a man I did not know, a man dressed in a robe, a man who was partially concealed in a small wooden box, the right to hear about my personal pain and the power to decide if and how I’d be forgiven of the sins I did or did not commit.
It became very quiet in the house of God until I heard the words that would detonate the pain:
āYou can ask me directly.āĀ
A blanket of peace fell on me in the moments of the aftermath of those words. I exhaled and the rage, breath by breath, loosened a little bit at a time until a few minutes later–stillness.
I didn’t know then until I’m writing now, but this Arjuna moment where I said “Enough, no more” to a way of doing and being gave birth to a lifelong intention of desiring direct communication with the Divine.
The defiant adolescent no longer wanted or needed a mediary, a middle man, someone to tell me what God wanted for me or that I was forgiven.
By saying no to what felt reprehensible to me at the time (as an adultĀ my views on confession have softened although I’ve never been back), I could say yes to something that my soul longed to experience in this lifetime.
This call has been made several times since then:
in my home, on my knees, hiking up the Pyrenees on the Camino, at sacred sites in India, in prayer at Mother Maryās Basilica in Mexico City.
Life experiences have continued to teach me through many human guises, from friends to spiritual teachers, from lovers to psychics, to ask for a one-on-one with the God and now Goddess of my understanding.
I see that itās been one of if not the biggestāof course the biggest— calling of my life. I just didnāt have the words or the space to articulate it.
So thank you to my yoga teacher who asked us to do this assignment and her relationship to and understanding of the power of our Arjuna moments that brought this question forth and these insights to my awareness.
And thank you to those of you here reading this story in the light and the shadow of the New Moon, you who have lived an infinite number of Aquarius-fuelled Arjuna moments yourselves.
What have they been and how did your life change in the aftermath?
What have you said no to so you could say yes to your soul, to come back to the sanctuary of your heart, to access your inner knowing, your intuition?
What Arjuna moment might you be leaning into now?
This New Moon in Aquarius may ask you to invite in new levels of liberation, flashes of cosmic insight, visionary downloads, ones that allow you to strip back the unkind lies and misguided steps to align you to your joy, your purpose, your passion, your truth.
In the kindest way possible.Ā
Living for those moments
of clarity borne from True Love,
Jennn
Your New Moon Ceremony
Aquarius is sign ofĀ the Water Bearer that flows with inspiration and truth.Ā Situated in the degree of Beauty this New Moon in Aquarius, we may be asked to go deep with our healing, to take the time to feel and see the transformation because on the other side is our liberationāa state of being from which there’s no return.
And while Aquarius is often seen as an energy on the move with its flashes of brilliant insights and cosmic downloads, Aquarius is also an energy linked to meditation for it is in those momentsĀ that the guidance is heard, the flashes of insight come, the cosmic downloads are given when we go withināeverything in our lives, begging us to go in.
One way to contemplate is to hold a question or intention, grab your favourite oracle or tarot card deck and allow the cards to dive into your subconscious and reveal to you what pearls of wisdom are there.

6 thoughts on “New Moon in Aquarius: When Your Arjuna Moment Comes, Your Life Will Change”
Thank you Jenn for sharing a part of your story. A heart break that no matter how young you were and what may be just an experience now, is one you transformed from, transmuted the pain into self love and healing. Reminds me of heart breaks of my own! Its amazing what time and deep healing can do.
Such an important time to go deep and great questions as usual to reflect on. ā¤š
Thank you so much! Yes, that’s it. It was so deeply transformational and I knew it to a degree then but not the “full” impact until now. Time and healing, time and healing. xo
My Arjuna moment? So many as well. In fact Iām sitting in a cafe as a result of one looking for a job whose boss respects the workers. And ultimately for a job that can express who I am and all I have to share. Thanks for the tarot spread.
Awww, thanks for sharing and I’m sorry and excited at the same time. Sorry for the discomfort and the disrespect you experienced and excited for you that on the other side now is a big yes to self-love and self-respect. Sending you blessings for the search for your new job. May it be in perfect alignment to your heart and soul.
Thank you for this!! Spot on as always. I am going through a serious Arjuna moment from breakdown to breakthrough who knew moving on a new moon could bring up so much. Love you M
Oh I feel you sister. And… don’t forget the Saturn and Pluto conjunction this month + last night we had a Moon-Pluto conjunction. Then moving in New Moon energy in Aquarius, on your birthday, in Aquarius, I might add again!! Love you so much. Sending you so much ease in the process–from this moment on, gosh darnit!!