A Near Initiatory Cross & Out of Bounds Pluto at the Libra New Moon
The Libra New Moon takes place at 28° 21' on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 at 5:25am Pacific & 8:25am Eastern.
Though the quickening has long since begun, lately it feels as though a super accelerated period has made its mark, just to make sure we’re all on our toes with the work we’re meant to do and the roles we’re meant to play. The dynamic shifts in the Cosmic realm are welcoming us to expanded levels of awareness, increased vibratory experiences, and polarities that are meant to reveal what is still needed to be examined, transformed, and released. The great play continues…
Libra is the sign of the scales, associated archetypally with the mediator and the peacemaker, the lover and the best friend, the artist and the designer. Here to experience an unparalleled inner harmony, Libra learns to attune to its refined sensibilities and tend to its innermost needs to create and maintain this equanimous state. Art of any kind, music, and aesthetics offer Libra the placidity that keeps its sensitive system in a harmonious place. Concerned with issues of justice and harmony for all, Libra is gifted at seeing where the whole can be bolstered, and it’s more than willing to do what it needs to show up for others in support of this aim. It longs to be truly seen, felt, heard, and understood, inherently knowing how to offer these qualities to any with whom it shares space. Yet it must be careful that in this process it doesn’t give itself away, taking on too much for another or for many others, people pleasing, and saying ‘yes’ too often at the expense of it own time, energy, and attention. When this becomes the case or perhaps the norm, Libra’s scales will inevitably go catawampus, and the much sought-after and much-needed composure turns to a frazzled inner turmoil.
Now, this New Moon is being opposed by a conjunction of Eris and Chiron in Aries, as well as squared by Jupiter in Cancer on one side and by an out of bounds Pluto in Aquarius on the other, upping the ante for Libra’s sensitive and highly aware nervous system.
We’ll begin with Eris, whose name also can be translated to ‘Discordia.’ Discovered in 2005 as a dwarf planet, she is smaller than Pluto in volume but actually has more mass than he does. Eris also has a pretty gigantic ellipse that has kept her in the sign of Aries since 1926, and she’ll be there until 2044. The Greek myth from which this planet takes its name is an important one to read, for she single-handedly started the Trojan War with the toss of a golden apple. And while traditionally heralded as the planet of revolution, challenging social norms, and fighting injustice, when we take an astrological view that is more focused on the inner process, she represents the dark face of the feminine and what it means to find empowerment through approaching our shadows with awareness.
When the denigration of the divine feminine began over 2,000 years ago, shifting our planet into a long phase of imbalance and disharmony, women’s value and worth, power and purpose were hijacked, only to be slowly reclaimed over the following couple millennia, and then some. Women became valued solely for their physical form, associated with outer beauty and fecund sexuality, and the ability to mother, care-give, and run a household became the roles women were still okay to play. The inherently spiritual roles that many women played in society were taken away, and those who were keepers of the sacred saw these roles diminished by the patriarchal power structures that overtook them. Over time, rather than support and celebrate one other, many women began to turn on those who could have been their friends and allies, competing with one another for higher status or position, more powerful partners or social circles, holding themselves to high or unattainable beauty standards, and scapegoating and judging those who were weird or different to make themselves feel better about the division that had taken place within themselves.
Yet the awareness of how to be advocates and supporters of one another lives deep within our bones and blood, ready to be brought to life as soon as we can claim it. Part of this healing process, certainly the domain of Eris, encourages us to first learn to befriend ourselves, loving our aging faces and bodies, our gifts and talents as well as our inconsistencies, making space for the things that make us unique and interesting even when society might be more comfortable keeping us in a box. This work invites us to reclaim our own value in the world, leaning into the projects, pursuits, and pastimes that light us up and call our full selves forth so that we feed the potential that has always been within, shaping it passionately and lovingly in the world. This work also calls us to celebrate one another, to stand up for each other, and to cheer for those who are doing what their hearts have guided them to do in life, recognizing that they are helping free up a part of us that never had the courage to do what lights us up. That is, perhaps, until now, for every time one of us has the daring and boldness to shift the old and outmoded paradigm, to face our deepest fears of unworthiness that we are no longer willing to carry and that cannot hold us back, we are contributing to the collective in ways that shift it forever. And we can either stay in worn out ways of being, or we can co-create something truly awe-inspiring. But only if we are willing to do the courageous work of looking within ourselves, uncovering all the places where epigenetic traumas and patterns, karmic stories and narratives, have kept us small. And then rewriting them. It’s powerful work to do on our own and even more powerful work to do together.
Chiron, the wounded healer, also encourages us to this brave task, that of the hero and the heroine. Only when we show up to this aforementioned exercise is it possible to live in the world as integrated, aware humans, ones who are truly healed, restored to our innate capacity to bring joy, beauty, love, integrity, truth, virtue, and then some, to life within ourselves, becoming the medicine our world so desperately needs. Working with Eris in a tight conjunction that opposes this New Moon, Chiron reminds us that when we fiercely face what scares us most, we are given the opportunity to shift our relationship to it, and it no longer has a hold on us as it did before. This asteroid encourages us to valiantly reclaim our latent capacity to show up as the healed and integrated beings we came here to be, full stop, engaging with that process from start to finish. Otherwise, we get the shadow of Chiron, which is to simply show up as wounded victims, as well as Aries’ shadow, indignant that others are not giving in to our victimized states.
Now, this is a lot of talk about intensity, boldness, and courage on a Libra New Moon, who is undoubtedly in need of equanimity, tranquility, and grace. Yet to be “the change we wish to see in the world” that Libra so dearly yearns for, we must first begin with ourselves. If Libra wants justice, as with anything, it is truly an inside job. Doing the hard stuff allows Libra to find and more readily maintain the inner harmony that it knows and loves, able to right and regulate its nervous system with awareness and ease the moment it goes out of balance. The more external stress this sign experiences, the more the scales begin to tip in one direction. Yet if Libra has done a bit of Arietean work and created healthy boundaries in itself, if it has done the challenging tasks of facing what it must to claim its power from its fears, the external stresses don’t hold as much sway, and its sensitive countenance is free and clear of getting pulled too far in either direction that will have it out of sync for longer than it would like to manage.
Jupiter makes larger the energy of wherever it lands, encouraging us to broaden our horizons and expand into our greatest potential. In the sign of the healer, care-giver, and mother, we are asked to do some big work around healing through feeling, which means actually feeling the things that we’ve perhaps put off for a time, for ourselves, our beloveds, and our human family, especially with so much up in the collective. Jupiter in Cancer asks us to take part in nourishing self-care practices that support the process of moving emotions through our bodies so that we can feel deeply and fully, then release what we are ready to, shedding the skin that has held us for so long but that we will eventually be ready to outgrow. Holding onto all of this emotion keeps us blocked and crabby, unable to expand in the ways that Jupiter would have us do, and with Libra in the mix, this emotional processing is key for creating an inner harmony that calms our spirits and soothes our souls.
Now, to Pluto! Pluto is out of bounds from the end of August 2025 until November 2035. Yes, you read that correctly — for over 10 years! When planets are out of bounds, they’re given more freedom and instability than they would normally have, able to work in profoundly erratic ways that lead to either greater sovereignty for the whole on one hand, or the feeling of being more confined and hemmed in, on the other. And just to mention one more thing: natally, out of bounds planets give us a sense of eccentricity as well as outsider status, but they still offer the capacity to become more free in a certain expression of ourselves depending on which planets and signs are involved. I often talk about them as having an Aquarian energy since this is the sign of the one who marches to the rhythm of its own drum and does things quite its own way. Since Pluto is already in Aquarius, these energies of shaking things up, instability, revolution, genius, and authenticity are even more highlighted. If you’d like to read more about Out of Bounds Planets from an even more lensed-in perspective, visit https://www.astro.com/astrology/aa_article240604_e.htm
From an evolutionary perspective, Pluto is the planet of power and empowerment. He, like Eris, wants us to go deeply into the subconscious realm to find all the places we’ve been wounded and traumatized, all the places where we hold fear that incapacitates us, in order to alchemize the energy within them, turning it into fodder that drives us in meaningful, powerful ways. “Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed,” and Pluto is the key planet of this sentiment. Always a karmic and epigenetic planet, the Lord of the Underworld and the Riches wants us to transform what our ancestors could not and to shift what in other times, we could not. In Aquarius, we are meant to reclaim any and all parts of ourselves that we had to secret away in the days of yesteryear in order to fit in. We are meant to call the parts that couldn’t see the light of day in other times back home in the present, reminding them of just how important they are to make us the unique and beautiful beings we came here to be, even if we would have been burned at the stake or ostracized by our families because of them. Now is not then, and we are meant to write our own inspiring stories individually and as a collective. If we are wounded, we are invited to radical ways of healing that give us sovereignty and connect us with our true authenticity, ones that encourage a place of deep equanimity that is truly unshakable. If we continue to let a deep wound keep us a victim, we will never actualize our potential in the way that we’re meant to, and it will rule our lives as inner tyrants, yet we’ll fail to see the truth of how this is so. Instead, we’ll unconsciously project it into the outer world, causing those with whom we come into contact to do the extra work because of our inability to transform what we ultimately can. Thankfully, we have a choice in each and every moment, and the magic of the Cosmos continues to encourage powerful experiences that catalyze our potential.
In this cosmic play, Libra finds its true home, the point just in the center of the scales, when it integrates all the energies with which it is dancing for this cycle. As the world becomes louder outside and in, the call to true, deep transformation becomes ever more important, giving us the capacity to co-create a world that is harmonious and inspiring for us all.
May your next cycle potent and uplifting, your transformation deep and enriching, and may you know the equanimity that lives deep within.
