Strange love - New Moon at 28°21' mins Libra, on 21st October at 20:55 pm GMT

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The New Moon occurs on 21st October, 2025 at 12:25 GMT, when the Sun and Moon conjoin at 28°22' Libra.

This lunation is tightly squared to Jupiter, opposite Chiron and functions as the focal point of a yod pattern that involves Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. A complex interaction, fuelling this new moon with energies that require major adjustment.

Libra themes

Libra rules over relationships, money and values. Any, or a combination of the three are likely to become central with this energised New Moon.

🌕 Libra orients through relating; its primary move is to map identity through others and through the mirror of mutual exchange. People and situations are weighed for fairness, reciprocity, and aesthetic harmony, and decisions are often processed by imagining how choices land across a field of stakeholders.

🌟 Libra’s avoidance of conflict can feel like diplomacy or like postponement; this sign seeks balance by smoothing rough edges, which preserves connection but can hide authentic needs. Healthy Libra practices articulate personal limits with grace while an unhealthy pattern is to people-please; sacrificing inner truth for external equilibrium.

At its best, Libra synthesises opposites into a third, more elegant solution; it values dialogic intelligence, design, and the choreography of give-and-take. This lunation invites using those faculties not to keep the peace at any cost but to craft relationships and agreements that reflect reciprocity, creative compromise, and shared beauty.

As per all New Moons, this is a beginning/seeding event.

💡 The shadow side of Libra

• Indecision and procrastination — weighing options becomes a loop that stalls action.

• People-pleasing and boundary erosion — saying yes to preserve peace until resentment builds.

• Passive-aggression and indirect conflict — avoiding direct confrontation while expressing displeasure through sighs, sarcasm, or coldness.

• Superficiality and image-first living — prioritising appearance, polish, and surface harmony over depth and integrity.

• Vindictiveness beneath the veneer of civility — holding grudges or enacting subtle retribution when wounded.

• Overdependence on external validation — basing self-worth on others’ approval and social mirrors.

How the shadow plays out in relationships and work

• In partnerships Libra’s urge to keep things pleasant can leave real needs unspoken until they explode or calcify into passive withdrawal.

• At work Libra may defer decisions to others, dilute their authority to avoid rocking the boat, or champion consensus at the cost of clarity and accountability.

• Socially Libra can trade honest connection for likability, fostering networks that look good but feel emotionally thin.

Ruler Venus at (9°) in Libra

With the moon's ruler in the same sign, the themes magnify. It is 'through' relationships and via our value structure, that we can potentially grow at this New Moon.

This is less a time of thinking about it and more a time of interacting to learn. Venus in Libra points to communications that factor in harmony, diplomacy, a win, win outcome.

New Moon in Libra aspects to other planets

Square Jupiter (24°) in Cancer

Amplifies optimism and appetite for growth while warning against overreach, promises that sound too grand, and inflated expectations in relationships or agreements.

Square Pluto (1°) in Aquarius

Newly direct Pluto wants to kill the dead quick and move forward. It's ready to push back on toxic relationships, behaviours and setups. This is an intense aspect, promising more focus on emotions and perhaps a logical conclusion.

Opposite Chiron (24°) in Aries

Our wounded healer Chiron, points to pain triggers being in the mix. Oppositions can produce a see-saw effect, where we jump in and out of the pain trigger, instead of using the pain to guide us towards balance and understanding.

Yod aspect pattern with Neptune RX (0°) in Aries and Saturn RX (26°) in Pisces, and Uranus RX (1°) in Gemini

A complex aspect that stimulates this New Moon.

Let's break it down. Yods consist of new quincunxes and a sextile. The quincunx planets feel like they have nothing in common. In this case - Moon/Sun and Saturn/Neptune and Uranus.

• The Moon/Sun is a new seed. A new starting point. In Libra this will be relationships, values and/or finances.

• Saturn in Pisces may refer to boundaries that are shifting, opening us up to new experiences and opportunities. Or our responsibilities and commitments.

• Neptune in Aries can refer to our relationship with our identities or how we take charge/initiate/feel courageous. Neptune fights behind the scenes, with the spirit of good and for others in need. It is sensitive and compassionate and internally strong.

• Uranus points to things happening suddenly, jolting us awake or appealing with innovation, logic and a progressive mind. It is truth, open to new and can handle intellectual.

With these planets in retrograde, the energy is more internalised and must hold before being outwardly expressed.

The sextile between Saturn/Neptune and Uranus is where we have an opportunity to combine to allow an adjustment to occur. Being open to change. Accepting that our rules might be too strict or inflexible. Taking a higher view (Uranus as observer) and stepping back enough to see the wider lens, or noticing what is 'alien' and embracing it.

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Let's look at the chart for the New Moon in Libra

Deep Dive Libra

• Social relating - meeting a diversity of others

• Relationships, partnerships

• Cooperation, harmony, balance

• Needs of others, understanding the viewpoints of others

• Giving and listening

• Diplomacy, justice, scales

• Values

• Beauty, attractiveness, aesthetics, art

• Finances

• Vacillation, indecision

• People-pleasing

• Over-focus on others

• Shallowness

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Questions for reflection

• Where in my relationships have I been smoothing over differences instead of naming what I truly need?

• What would balanced reciprocity look like with a specific person or in a repeating pattern I want to change?

• What one modest, honest commitment can I make now that supports long-term fairness rather than instant approval?

• In what area might I be tempted to overpromise or expand too fast, and what is one concrete boundary I can set to keep growth sustainable?

• What would I create differently if beauty and truth were equally important in the outcome?

Rituals to connect with the New Moon in Libra

• Relationship reset ritual: create a simple altar with two candles and a shared object that represents a key partnership. Sit facing the other person or a chair that represents them. Each person states one need and one boundary aloud, then together write a mutual intention on a note and seal it in an envelope to open at the next New Moon.

• Balance clearing: tidy and aesthetically refresh one shared space or your primary workspace. Clean a surface, arrange a small vase or art object, and move with deliberate small gestures to symbolically rebalance the environment and internal attention.

• Intentions for measured growth: with the square to Jupiter in mind, write three realistic steps toward an aspirational relationship or creative goal, then select one small action to complete within 48 hours. Anchor the step with a short breath practice: inhale 4 seconds, hold 4 seconds, exhale 6 seconds for eight cycles.

Looking at the aspects to planets and points in your own chart will help you see what may effect you - Look at 25 - 29 of the cardinal signs (Libra, Aries, Cancer and Capricorn). If you don't have access to a chart, you can create one here: Create a Natal Chart | Heart Horizon Astro. You'll need your date of birth, place of birth and the birth time.

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