We are at that time of year when we turn the page. We have reviewed the past year, released what we no longer want and set our vision for a wonderful, majical, fulfilling 2017. A new beginning, a fresh start.
Many people use a restart date that coincides with a natural cycle, like the Solstice or the Spring Equinox, wherever they consider the start of a new year. Many cultures start the New Year with a New Moon. For many others, though, January 1 is the reset button. It does helps to use markers for assessment and evaluation and the marker of the Gregorian Calendar Year is deep in our collective psyche.
In whatever measurement, a natural cycle or the common calendar, one year seems a long time to hold the focus. Much can fall through the cracks, distraction overwhelms and focus wanes. It seems inevitable that accountability falters when held in the frame for one full year.
There is another way to release, revise and measure. This other way uses each lunar cycle as a definitive unit for accountability. As I have written before, cycles are the current through which we flow through life.
This 28-day cycle measurement is easier on the body, the mind and the emotions because our Moon is considered Mother energy and we feel her flow. The Lunar Cycle is not as stern as a full year’s measurement. Yes, we can use both cyclic measurements, with perhaps the year as an overview and the lunar month as a consistent check-in point.
If you accept the invitation to use the Moon as marker for bringing intentions, goals and visions into alignment with your wisdom and your action, the twelve New Moons for 2017 are listed below. The two listed in bold are eclipses, especially potent days for reviews and restarts and I will write more about those in an upcoming blog post.
One suggestion for maximizing these review/restart pivots is to mark three full 24 hour periods that precede these dates and times on your calendar using the notation, “Dark of the Moon.” The Dark of the Moon is the emptying out phase of this natural cycle and bodies resonate with this rhythm. During the Dark Moon time, limit your schedule as much as you can and allow for extra rest and inner wandering. Soon after the New Moon, acknowledge the upward surge of energy; the restart has begun.
Use the Dark Moon for gentle release, stillness and divine time with your Soul. At each New Moon, you can set a goal, along with an action plan for how to get there.
For hearty souls who want more, there is an additional refresh, restart pivot time each lunar month that is determined by the phase of the Moon in which you are born. This is the Personal Lunar Cycle; the other is the Collective Lunar Cycle, as that is operational for all of us on Earth. Online training is in the works for the potent Personal Lunar Cycle. If you want more information before then, contact me.
Here are the dates and times for the New Moons in 2017.
Many blessing wishes as you align your Light with Moon Light.
2017 New Moons
January 27th New Moon at 7:08 PM
February 26th New Moon Eclipse at 10:00 AM
March 27th New Moon at 10:59 PM
April 26th New Moon at 8:18 AM
May 25th New Moon 3:46 PM
June 23rd New Moon at 10:32 PM
July 23rd New Moon at 5:47 AM
August 21st New Moon Eclipse 2:31 PM
September 20th New Moon at 27 degrees Virgo, 1:30 AM
October 19th, New Moon at 3:12 PM
November 18th, New Moon at 6:42 AM
December 18th, New Moon at 1:31 AM
0 Comments