Libra New Moon 10/21/25
Braving Wisdom
Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere reminds us of life’s cycles—where leaves turn, fall, and return again as potential. It is a season of beauty and reckoning, a slow descent into shadow where endings and beginnings entwine.
This Libra New Moon rises as the first true breath after eclipse season, a moment to re-center amidst chaos. But balance does not mean neutrality. The scales of Libra are not ornamental. They are instruments and symbols of justice. This lunation doesn’t ask us to stay comfortable. Change can’t happen there. It demands that we discern.
We live in an age when narratives are weaponized and truth is a commodity. Words are twisted until they mean their opposite. Movements born of integrity are co-opted by those who crave control. Even light can be used as camouflage for shadow.
The cosmic tension of this lunation mirrors that struggle. On the day of the New Moon, Mercury enters the shadow phase of its retrograde through Sagittarius and Scorpio. A day later, Neptune drifts backward from Aries into Pisces. The New Moon itself forms a grand cross with Jupiter in Cancer, retrograde Pluto in Aquarius, and Chiron and Eris in Aries. This is the crossroads we collectively face: will we serve truth or distortion disguised as it?
Where justice has been denied, where manipulation masquerades as freedom, where comfort sedates conscience, this New Moon cracks the illusion. It exposes the fault lines between shadow and integrity, showing us what must be rebalanced not in theory, but in practice.
These revelations are not meant to punish but to awaken. The fractures exposed now call for courage, not complacency. Because truth, unspoken or ignored, becomes complicity.
The Responsibility of Wisdom
Wisdom begins with the courage to see, not through the filters of ideology or belonging, but through the clarity of conscience.
Real wisdom is forged in the friction between knowing and doing. It isn’t an aesthetic of “love and light,” but a commitment to ethical seeing, to applying what we know, even when it costs us comfort or belonging.
To be wise in this era means refusing to outsource our discernment. It means noticing when spiritual language, media spin, or political theater seduce us into forgetting our humanity. It means recognizing how easily righteousness can mimic truth.
The Sabian symbol for this degree, “Humanity seeking to bridge knowledge across generations,” reminds us that wisdom is lineage work. We are the living bridge between what was and what will be. The ancestors are watching to see if we will repeat their mistakes or redeem them. The descendants are waiting to see if we will tell the truth.
Wisdom that does not lead to responsibility is just performance. This Moon demands action. Truth embodied, justice lived.
The Call of This Moon
As you set intention under this Libra New Moon, remember harmony is not the absence of conflict, but the refusal to abandon integrity in the face of it.
Somewhere in your life, you are being asked to weigh the scales of truth and illusion, justice and complicity, comfort and courage.
Listen closely. The world is trembling with messages-some false, some real. Our task is to discern which is which. To steady the scales between revelation and recovery, between outrage and repair.
This is a call to live our hallowed ideals, not just proclaim it. To hold truth with humility, wield it with care, and refuse to let cynicism or deception define what is possible.
Because in the end, wisdom is not what we know.
It is not the sparkle of crowns drowning out actual humanity.
It is how we live it.
How we treat one another.
How we stand when truth is on the line.
“Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I’ll tell you what you believe.”
— James Talarico
This New Moon occurs at 28° Libra
Photo by Kevin Butz on Unsplash
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