09 Apr God’s Spell ~ New Moon in Aries – April 11th, 2021

I’m movin’ on up now
Getting out of the darkness
My light shines on
My light shines on

On April 11th, 2021, the New Moon in Aries will arrive, initiating the first lunar cycle of the astrological new year. 

The fires of Aries come to illuminate the darkness, awakening you to a sense of purpose that has been hiding beneath many layers of confusion or despair. 

As the pulse of courage returns, so too does your faith in divine providence. And as you look towards the future, you see the day fast approaching when everything that the locusts have taken will be restored.

New Moons happen when the Sun and the Moon conjoin, blending their energies into a unified force. The power of rebirth and regeneration is enhanced at every New Moon, but the fires of Aries are a sudden rush and push of inspired growth and illumination! Sometimes, suddenly there’s God!

I was blind, now I can see
You made a believer out of me

This New Moon in Aries stimulates a rush of blood to the head. New visions erupt. New connections are made. Sudden realizations hit! 

Since the Full Moon in Libra, you’ve been pushed into the deep end of a healing crisis. The New Moon in Aries is joined by Mercury and Venus, all recently having crossed through the threshold of Chiron, the domain of the wounded healer. 

Chiron’s healing temple seeks to rehabilitate the mind and spirit for it is in these invisible layers that the physical experience of pain, degeneration, torment is first created. Thus, the healing crisis summoned by Chiron is deep and very humbling.

I was lost
Now I’m found

Over the last few weeks, with the Sun, Venus, and Mercury crossing over Chiron, you have had many of your weaknesses exposed. Your ill thoughts and emotions have emerged. Your misaligned actions have tripped you again. But your physical ailments have been revealing their metaphor. Your hands ache because your heart aches. Your head aches because your soul is crying. You can’t breathe because your grief is so heavy.

Being wounded is deeply humbling. Being sick is an opportunity to be still. And being addicted reveals how much pain you truly feel. Thus, the Chironic lessons that have come up this month have been a divine gift for those who are willing to learn. 

I believe in you
I got no bounds

Everything that will be born at this New Moon in Aries comes from the wisdom that only this deep pain can produce. And it will come on like a fever. Burning up, overwhelmed by a flush of excitement, anything that lifts your spirits will feel like angelic bliss. And anything that stands in your way will be scorched by a wrathful fury. Suddenly you are screaming for freedom and your soul will not be silenced!

I’m movin’ on up now
Getting out of the darkness

The spirit of the New Moon in Aries is the raw power of courage that changes fate and boldly goes where others have feared to tread. This New Moon demands that you honor this courage within yourself, screaming, “if you didn’t have this inside of you then wouldn’t be alive today!” You were born to be free. And with this flame of courage, you can declare your independence from the fate of this Dark Age! 

As St. Paul once told the Romans: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

The spirit of Aries demands that you be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Suddenly there is a light that you must follow. It guides you, warms you and it asks you to lead!

The fires of Aries initiate all the bold actions, romantic gestures and the wild flourishes of springtime. To dance with these flames is to be fearless, allowing the beautiful and wild things within you to be born. Observe that nature’s power to summon the fresh green leaves and delicate blossoms is followed by all the thorns, coils, and poisons necessary to protect them. 

The seeds that are germinating within you now have been protected against all odds. Many years of painful experience have still not destroyed your most sacred song of innocence, furiously resurrected by power of the Sacred Yes! 

Fear not! Fear is the mind-killer and the soul-crusher. To live without fear is the only way to be free. Do not sacrifice another moment of life’s joy to the fear of death. 

This New Moon in Aries is a baptism by fire, uplifted by the trine between Mars in Gemini and Jupiter in Aquarius. This is the spirit of the gospel itself, the good news of life everlasting! A tremendous feeling of spiritual triumph will erupt, Christ’s resurrection and conquest of death remembered in a sunburst of joy.

I was lost
Now I’m found
I believe in you

What is the gospel? The word is derived from Anglo-Saxon for god-spell, meaning God’s Spell, the divine Word, the Logos. It is God’s spell that reveals the light of eternity.

I’m movin’ on up now
Getting out of the darkness

And if you don’t believe in the power of God’s spell, then you don’t yet know the love that is within you. God’s-spell has given light in much Darker Ages than this one. And all the testimony you need is in the lineage of gospel music, the great spiritual and artistic tradition that emerged from the darkness of African-American slavery. 

My light shines on

The evolution of gospel music is deeply rooted in the musical forms of African slaves, holding the memory of where they came from and who they were before. Centuries of singing together in church, influenced by the Pentecostal ceremony of summoning the Holy Spirit has created an ongoing dialogue with the divine. History still marvels at the power of what the Oracle of Delphi channeled from the depths of the earth. But far more stunning to modern people should be the flood of wisdom and healing that has been opened by gospel music. 

This call and response between people and God has created a power that speaks for itself. Popular music would be nothing without it. It has changed the whole world with its heartbeat of transcendent beauty as an artform, a medium of wisdom, and a devotional offering. 

My light shines on
My light shines on

And because it was born from the tremendous history of pain that surrounds slavery and segreation in the American south, gospel music is one of the great triumphs of the human spirit, a true manifestation of the Holy Spirit on earth which ministers to all wounded souls.

The power and the glory that gospel music has offered to popular music is immeasurable. Thus, the power of the Holy Spirit has found its way into millions of unexpected places, including early 90’s Acid house. 

I was blind, now I can see
You made a believer out of me

Back in 1991, Primal Scream was establishing the sound of an exciting new era in music. But they chose to open their most iconic album, not with a trippy dance record, but with a sincere rock n’ roll gospel track with lyrics straight outta the New Testament. 

The sound is nostalgic, but not ironic. Movin’ on Up is a song of innocence restored, glowing with the joy of divine healing and redemption.

Guided by the power of gospel music, these drug-addled Scottish ravers flooded many underground places and abandoned warehouses with the Holy Spirit, not unlike the way it was first spread in first-century Rome’s catacombs.

I’m movin’ on up now
Getting out of the darkness
My light shines on

Through the tremendous reach and influence of gospel music, the spiritual wisdom of black people in the American south has changed the whole world. This music has inspired people in all times and places and has become a vessel for healing millions upon millions of wounded souls. 

Remember that the gospel is God’s Spell. Thus it restores dignity and places divine value on all human life, no matter what the world may say. In God’s spell, there is no social status or maligned identity that excludes you from divine love. 

God’s spell is the “Sacred Yes!” that reminds you that your spirit is a light and your light shines on.

The light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness has never put it out

(John 1:5)

So at this New Moon in Aries, declare your independence from the fate of this Dark Age. Choose not to allow another moment of your life be wasted by the fear of death and all the impoverished ideas that accompany that.

Don’t just remember the gospel. Be healed, be freed, and be transformed by it. God’s spell awakens the light that is already within you. 

My light shines on

        My light shines on

                   My light shines on

Much Love,

Rachel