feeling the shifts

MandMaud

Anyone else strongly affected by last week's new moon? I quite suddenly went into a weepy mood on Friday evening, which is VERY unlike me. I usually can't cry even when I feel like it... just occasionally a phase of crying (triggered by the most trivial things) hits for an hour or so, but it's very rare, less than yearly. On Friday I put it down to exhaustion since I'd overdone things badly for a day or so. But after an early night and lazy start, I was the same all of the next day.

That's far longer than this ever happens, and it was triggered by any happy feeling rather than anything sad, poignant, frustrating etc. For example as I fed the dog, it crossed my mind that she was glad and that made me tearful! Things like the shape of a tree against the sky being lovely, really small triggers but all positive. And then it went off towards the end of Saturday.

It came on mid/late evening on Friday, meaning 8pm-ish, but I only realised yesterday that the new moon was at 8.30pm exactly (BST).

This can't have been suggestibility, which I'm always wary of. Beforehand I knew which day the new moon fell on and that it was in Taurus, but hadn't bothered about more detail, and I didn't read any articles on it till a couple of days after it happened - when I discovered that lots of planets are retrograde at the moment. So now I'm wondering if my odd weepiness was about the moon and all those rx planets, and whether others had the same kind of reaction or maybe different but equally out-of-character reactions.


I notice that people who think of themselves as astrologers (everywhere, not only on AT) don't tend to be the same people who talk about picking up on the energy of the moon's phase, etc. In more general terms such as a year of overspending but socialising loads, related to Jupiter's position, yes... but the focus is almost all on the left-brain stuff. To the extent that I almost put this in Spirituality as I forgot that it related to Astrology, since the habitual character of conversations and ponderings in each of these two demographics (not quite the word but I'm floundering here ;)) are so different.

Anyway. I did remember that Astrology exists and this is about the Moon! :D
 

yannie

My experience was not quite with the new moon, but with the dark moon the night before that, when it was 1-2%, waning. I felt drawn to getting more crystals, then to the ocean that day. I didn't know it was the dark moon until after I'd made the trip to the ocean & everything, & then checked my phone for the moon phase.

I cleansed what could be cleansed in sea water then, & noted that it was high tide. The stars were also OUT! It was cloudless. & to notice that many stars in my country is rare, because we are a very brightly-lit skyscraper city. When the moon is away, the stars come out to play...

It was a night of letting go for me. I meditated on a little letting-go chant by the ocean, under the stars.
 

Shibiusa

It happened with me on the most recent full moon here (well, it was almost wanning quarter at that time and I was like that for a few days until the new moon!). I really can relate with that because I was almost crying with every tiny thing... I can't say why, though. I'm an empath and I know I absorbed too much stuff (up to the breaking point), but it's not really usual it happens. Meditating and using protection light usually kept me in check. Maybe the moon shifted our balance?
 

MandMaud

Sorry to start this thread and then drop it! I'm back now. :)

I feel the need to look into the astrology of this specific Taurus new moon in more detail, but I have so much on that I can't pootle around with astrology sites for a week or so! And I'm likely to forget after that. :rolleyes: I do know lots of planets were retrograde. Intriguing though.

My experience was not quite with the new moon, but with the dark moon the night before that, when it was 1-2%, waning. I felt drawn to getting more crystals, then to the ocean that day. I didn't know it was the dark moon until after I'd made the trip to the ocean & everything, & then checked my phone for the moon phase.

I cleansed what could be cleansed in sea water then, & noted that it was high tide. The stars were also OUT! It was cloudless. & to notice that many stars in my country is rare, because we are a very brightly-lit skyscraper city. When the moon is away, the stars come out to play...

It was a night of letting go for me. I meditated on a little letting-go chant by the ocean, under the stars.

That is beautiful. I've never been alone by the sea - you were alone? But Ocean is very important to me, speaks to me, I understand that. Bit of a distance nowadays, a good two hours' drive and then it's all seaside resorts and/or commericial ports, so real communing isn't very frequent for the time being. I wonder what Id have felt if going to the coast had been an option. I do see the stars very often, though, as I'm in a village with very little light pollution. :)

Your experience sounds very moving. I think of the new moon / dark moon as the 2-3 days' period rather than the specific hour. I'm sure this particular one was something particular and I wish I could work it out. But being Moon, she speaks to a part of me other than the verbal, understanding part!

On the other hand my understandnig of her "language" is increasing fast in the few years since I really cottoned on about paying attention to her. So I feel that in a few years, maybe I'll be getting things of a clarity that I'll actually be able to articulate.

It happened with me on the most recent full moon here (well, it was almost wanning quarter at that time and I was like that for a few days until the new moon!). I really can relate with that because I was almost crying with every tiny thing... I can't say why, though. I'm an empath and I know I absorbed too much stuff (up to the breaking point), but it's not really usual it happens. Meditating and using protection light usually kept me in check. Maybe the moon shifted our balance?

i'm an empath too, and I don't worry about crying easily, it's just that with me it very rarely happens. But yes, I really feel my energy being lower while the moon wanes. Maybe that lower strength (strength of the masculine kind, I mean) was enough to let the overload get at you more strongly?
 

JadePixie

I think the moon/planets affect me. I don't exactly know what's behind it all, the how or why but yeh I notice my energy levels and emotions change with what seems to be the moon phases/planets moving. Also this Mercury in retrograde has been a pain in the bottom - water and electricity here have both had issues in the past two weeks!
 

dadsnook2000

Feeling versus experiencing

I don't seem to ever "feel" a shift of the Moon to a new sign or to a new-full moon phase, or to a planet turning retrograde or direct. However, I do notice experiences related to those shifts. Dave
 

MandMaud

I think the moon/planets affect me. I don't exactly know what's behind it all, the how or why but yeh I notice my energy levels and emotions change with what seems to be the moon phases/planets moving. Also this Mercury in retrograde has been a pain in the bottom - water and electricity here have both had issues in the past two weeks!

I get that experience, but sometimes Mercury is retrograde and sometimes it isn't. I don't keep up with the planets enough to know if something else is going on at those times. ;)

I don't seem to ever "feel" a shift of the Moon to a new sign or to a new-full moon phase, or to a planet turning retrograde or direct. However, I do notice experiences related to those shifts. Dave

I don't always, even if I've been watching the calendar and am very aware of when things are happening. Other times it hits me hard even if I don't know how things stand on that date. But I never used to get any sense of it at all - I began to feel these things a couple of years after I started using a moon calendar which I glance at each morning (but with phases of ignoring it totally), and it built gradually. It's only in the last year or so that I've really been aware of it. That's one reason I ask for others' experiences: I'm not sure whether something particularly strong is "out there" or whether it's my sense of it still in the process of strengthening. :)
 

yannie

This feels like more than just a coincidence.

So tonight is the night the moon waxes to full, then starts to wane 5am-ish Singapore time. I decide to head to the beach again (alone - I always do this alone:)), & stay till sunrise - bask in the moon as it waxes to and from 100%, then catch the sunrise after. Sounds perfect doesn't it?

But then it starts raining AS SOON AS I GET ON THE BUS. It's been pissing down for hours now. Well at least I'm snug in a 24-hour cafe with a book and my journal for company. Still, I wonder if I'll get to sit out under the skies before 5am...
 

MandMaud

Still, I wonder if I'll get to sit out under the skies before 5am...

You could just swim out under the skies. Heh.

I see that it would feel meant. Maybe it's about connecting with someone in that café? Or similar?

I'm not feeling anything particularly this time.
 

CosmicBeing

I'm been keeping an eye on my transit. I'm keeping notes of my transit moon.

Moon transits are a bit more subtle I heard. But, I think I might have linked it to a specific event. So I looked for when it will transit my natal moon again in June. So excited to see if I have discovered a personal pattern.