🌑 Libra New Moon: Holding the Fulcrum of Balance
- Elise Hicks
- Oct 20
- 5 min read
October 21, 2025 | 28°22’ Libra | 5:25 am PDT
Venus’ Embrace at the Libra New Moon
This New Moon in Libra opens a gateway into harmony, balance, and beauty. The Sun and Moon are joined here by Venus, ruler of Libra, blessing the lunation with grace and the potential for reconciliation.
Venus reminds us of the healing power of love, of relationships in all their forms, and of the artistry in creating equilibrium.
Within this Venusian container, the New Moon is better equipped to hold the weight of the dynamic aspects woven into the chart.
The Cardinal Grand Cross – A Test of Equilibrium
The New Moon is not floating serenely in Libran skies; it’s drawn into a Cardinal Grand Cross with:
Jupiter in Cancer - exalted, expanding our need for belonging and emotional truth
Pluto in Aquarius - the collective transformer, demanding rebirth and reform
Chiron in Aries - the wounded healer, spotlighting identity wounds... and
Eris in Aries - the outsider, the disruptor, insisting that what has been excluded must be acknowledged.
This grand cross may feel feisty, restless, and challenging. Eris and Chiron in Aries are amplified by Jupiter’s magnification and Pluto’s relentless call to evolution. The energy presses us to ask: What must be brought into balance, and what is the cost of excluding the voices of the “other”?
Libra’s invitation is always toward harmony, but this harmony is not passive—it requires us to engage with discomfort, conflict, and contrast to find the deeper peace.
The Grand Water Trine – Capacity to Flow
Amidst the tension of the grand cross, a Grand Trine in water offers profound support.
Jupiter in Cancer provides emotional wisdom and expansion.
Mars and Mercury conjunct in Scorpio give us the courage to speak the truth that has been buried, and to take action with precision.
Saturn retrograde with the North Node in Pisces reminds us of the spiritual maturity being forged in this era, as Saturn prepares for his final months in Pisces before moving into Aries next February.
Together, this trine offers a flowing frequency of emotional refinement. While the grand cross pulls us into confrontation, the trine gives us the capacity to process, integrate, and deepen our connection to soul.
Planets in Strong Dignity – Expanding Our Capacity
The word capacity resonates strongly here.
Jupiter exalted in Cancer expands our emotional bandwidth and our ability to care deeply. He also harmonizes beautifully with Saturn and the North Node, anchoring our spiritual growth with gentle strength.
Mars in Scorpio, the divine masculine in his rulership, supports courageous, penetrating truth. Joined with Mercury, this offers language that cuts through shadows with clarity and precision.
This is a sky filled with both pressure and support. The challenge is real, but so is the capacity to navigate it with grace.
Where the New Moon Lands for You (by Rising Sign)
Aries Rising: Partnerships, agreements, and relationships.
Taurus Rising: Health, habits, and daily work.
Gemini Rising: Creativity, romance, and children.
Cancer Rising: Home, family, and ancestry.
Leo Rising: Communication, learning, and siblings.
Virgo Rising: Finances, possessions, and values.
Libra Rising: Identity, body, and personal path.
Scorpio Rising: Inner world, endings, and release.
Sagittarius Rising: Friendships, community, and aspirations.
Capricorn Rising: Career, visibility, and authority.
Aquarius Rising: Beliefs, travel, and higher learning.
Pisces Rising: Shared resources, intimacy, and transformation.
A Visitor from Beyond the Known — 3I/ATLAS:
During this Libra New Moon we have an extraordinary companion in the sky: 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet from beyond our solar system, now in superior conjunction with the Sun.
Its arrival reminds us that balance is not just about equalizing what is familiar — it invites the arrival of what is alien, what challenges our frameworks and demands expansion.
Libra governs the other, the relational, the space between. With 3I/ATLAS aligned with the Sun, we might ask: What visitor energy am I inviting in? What belief or relationship from my inner solar system is being shaken by something that came from outside my orbit?
The message is clear: harmony is not achieved by staying within your known circle, but by welcoming the stranger, the unknown, and letting it transform the shape of your world.
As you set your New Moon intentions, consider this: What paradigm-visitor am I willing to welcome? What limits am I ready to let an interstellar impulse reshape?
The cosmos is showing us that equilibrium is not the absence of difference — it is the brave space where the known meets the unknown.
Setting New Moon Intentions
While eclipses often caution us to wait, this Libra New Moon is fertile ground for intention-setting. With Venus present and strong dignities supporting us, we have a beautiful window to plant seeds of peace, harmony, and balance.
✨ Intention Window:
Opens: October 21 at 8:42 am PDT (Moon enters Scorpio)
Closes: October 23 at 9:14 pm PDT (Moon trines Neptune, newly back in Pisces)
This is a flowing, imaginative, and deeply soulful window. Scorpio adds courage and depth to our desires; Pisces adds faith and vision. Together they support intentions that bridge both the practical and the mystical.
Questions for your Intention Practice:
Where am I willing to create more equilibrium in my life?
How can I honor both self and “other” in my relationships?
What radical or “outsider” perspective (3I/ATLAS!) am I ready to welcome into my world?
How can I let love, compassion, and beauty be the guiding principles in my choices this month?
Closing Reflections
This lunation is a mirror: How are you creating equilibrium in your life?
In a world of extremes, our devices and feeds constantly entice us to choose sides, to defend ideologies, to divide ourselves into camps. Libra offers a radical alternative: to stand in the fulcrum, the quiet point of balance where both sides are held in awareness.
This doesn’t mean erasing difference or numbing conflict—it means finding peace in the midst of paradox. As we soften, breathe, and relax into the tension, more space opens within us. In that space, peace lives.
✨ May this Libra New Moon bring you the courage to embrace balance, the grace to hold paradox, and the love to see both self and “other” as sacred parts of the whole.
We are soon diving into the depths of Scorpio season… but for now, may you flow with harmony!
With so much love and reverence for the precious being that you are,
Elise
P.S. These are powerful times, and none of us are meant to walk them alone. If you’d like support in aligning your personal cycles with the bigger picture, let’s connect in a S.P.A. for the Soul™ Discovery Call. [Click Here]
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