On 10 October the Moon is new in Libra. This is where a lunar cycle starts over from zero, and it does so in the sign that never decides alone: the seventh, the one built on facing someone else.

What is happening

Libra is cardinal Air and falls on the autumn equinox, when day and night last exactly the same: hence its constant search for the point where two forces even out. With the New Moon here, whatever starts in these hours is already born in relation to someone else, not on your own: a project for two, an agreement, a relationship picking back up after a pause.

Venus is at home here, but it works on beauty more than on instinct: the urge to begin still has to pass your critical eye before it gets the green light. Saturn is exalted and gives this start the flavour of a pact meant to last, not a whim. Mars is in detriment and the Sun in fall: the launch is less impulsive than usual, and looks for agreement before it even tests its own strength alone.

How to use it

Use these days to open something that involves another person: a collaboration, a clarification you left hanging, a relationship you want to set on clearer ground. The New Moon in Libra favours those who start from mutual listening more than those who go it alone.

Where it pays to watch out is the start pushed off forever while you wait for the perfect moment that upsets nobody. In Libra the risk is not moving too fast, it is standing still between two options until the good window to begin closes on its own. An imperfect but shared beginning beats a perfect plan written alone and never put on the table.

Where you feel it most

If you were born at the New Moon, meaning in the first three and a half days after the Sun-Moon conjunction, this phase resembles you more closely: you act on instinct and find it hard to tell what you feel from what is happening around you, and these days turn that instinct toward facing someone else. For everyone, what matters is the house of your birth chart this Moon falls in: that is where something starts these days that needs another person to take shape.

Want to know which house it falls in and what that means for you specifically? Calculate your birth chart: all it takes is your date, time and place of birth.