“Impaired Judgement” — The LIBRA NEW MOON at 28°♎21′, Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 12:26 UTC

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ” ~Carl Jung

Greetings Fellow Travellers,

Keeping this one brief, going into deeper nuance inside the individual horoscopes, but the backdrop matters. This is the first normal Libra New Moon since the Aries/Libra eclipse run began in 2023 — our first clean chance in three years to attempt equilibrium without the downward drag of karmic backlash. It’s not been good for Libra. We’ve learned plenty about imbalance since then: how inactivity and peacekeeping curdle into self-betrayal, how courtesy and hesitation harden into complicity, how a culture addicted to optics can’t tell harmony from inertia and moral decay. We’ve become a civilisation of soft apologists and professional blamers — well-mannered, well-informed, and, at the risk of being offensive, half-asleep at the wheel.

The Moon and Sun at 28° Libra oppose the freshly re-exact Chiron–Eris conjunction in Aries — the wound and the rage of the uninvited, the ones civilisation prettily excludes. The first point of tension since their Mar/Apr 2023 conjunctions, Jupiter in Cancer now squares both Chiron (see article) and Eris (see article), demanding belonging yet inflating tribal sentiment into a morally and ethically divisive spectacle. The collective outrage that foments into swelling protests is neither new nor final. So this is not a New Moon for Libra niceties; it’s more like a court hearing. We must decide what “fairness” costs when truth itself has become a highly subjective or partisan line.

So what does a Libra New Moon do amid this? It filters a world of chaos through our contact with others: contracts, conversations, alliances, decisions. Yet Libra at 28° is no longer tentative but reaching the terminal stages before things turn drastic in Scorpio. We’re past mere idealisations and grand abstractions, we demand acts that tie us together—what we will say and sign, what we won’t. Late‑degree Libra is fed up with the niceties and chit-chat, the indecisions and the flip-flopping; it wants terms of engagement that could stand up in court.

We try again, though the conditions are harsher. The air hangs thick with a gunk of unfinished verdicts — Gaza’s brittle ceasefires, Ukraine’s grinding stalemate, widening class revolts, festering racial traumas and resentments, ideological fracture, and the deep nausea of a civilisation that knows it has been lying to itself for too long. Things are wearing insufferably thin, and as the Sun approaches Mercury/Mars in Scorpio, it is about to rupture.

In mythic terms, Libra’s scales are trembling because every sign in this configuration is cardinal: force meets force, conscience meets consequence. And the string of outer planets buzzes like cosmic transformers at the edge of history — religion, governance, technology, and language all auguring massive conversion. The zeitgeist feels feverish: cultural revolutions written into computer code, faith transcending mere temples and biblical scriptures, human compassion running on fumes and an activism that refuses to rest.

Neptune retrograde at the Aries Point is the epochal undoing of collective glamour. Like the end of “The American Dream”, it shows us who believed too much in the dominant narrative, who lied to themselves, and who must now reorient their spiritual compass, not toward escape but toward presence. Idealists will fall. So will the grifters. Their schtick becomes a transparent ploy, a fiendish plot to fool us all. But from that fall, something truly sacred might begin—not based on illusion or the promise of fame, but on the humility of shared human longing.

And yet, paired with Uranus retrograde in Gemini and funneling through a yod on this Libra lunation while squaring Pluto in Aquarius, that revelation becomes disquieting. The dream (Neptune) and the machine (Uranus) are conspiring to rewrite what perception itself means, and Pluto’s cold circuitry ensures the rewrite is enforceable. We’ve entered an era where visual proof dissipates: seeing no longer guarantees believing. AI’s seamless simulations now rival the divine tricksters of old, creating images so convincing they collapse rational discernment itself. What began as inventiveness now corrodes ontology. We can believe nothing; we must dispel all evidence as proof when every clip or artifact can be fabricated and every confession synthetically rendered. Trust becomes the rarest commodity. This is the Yod’s quiet ordainment: to learn presence in this convoluted cavalcade of distortions, to locate truth not in evidence but in the steady throb of an emerging new conscience.

Oh, it’s lifting our game of perspective— insisting that we draw on every sense, every inner instrument measurement and evaluation, when only when engaging with the chaos streaming through our feeds, but in our vis-à-vis interactions with those most familiar, trusted, even beloved. Discrimination is no longer optional; for better or worse, it’s the primordial tool for ensuring our survival.

Still, the task remains deceptively simple: measure, don’t mirror. Speak in proportion. Restore balance where it exists, not where it flatters. Each honest negotiation, each recalibrated alliance, every sentence that abandons its trite pleasantries for the exactitude of spirit becomes the quiet sacrament of this New Moon. The rest — the pitiless wars, the ever-watching algorithmic systems, the relentless flood of fresh disclosures — is only the static that fills the air when we forget to keep that practice alive.

You’ll want to see how these forces land in your own chart — which corners of life this lunation is rattling, where the need for proportion and truth is most pressing. Premium (Cosmic Tribe) members, take the time to read both your rising and Sun sign forecasts. Between them, you’ll catch the full drift of what this Libra New Moon opens and what it insists you release. Inside, you’ll also find clear, sign-specific guidance on how to frame your intention—what to clarify, what to recalibrate, and what must finally be laid to rest under this cardinal light.

ARIES: Libra New Moon Reading

TAURUS: Libra New Moon Reading

GEMINI: Libra New Moon Reading

CANCER: Libra New Moon Reading

LEO: Libra New Moon Reading

VIRGO: Libra New Moon Reading

LIBRA: Libra New Moon Reading

SCORPIO: Libra New Moon Reading

SAGITTARIUS: Libra New Moon Reading

CAPRICORN: Libra New Moon Reading

AQUARIUS: Libra New Moon Reading

PISCES: Libra New Moon Reading

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