Libra New Moon
- Lori Barnes
- Oct 21
- 7 min read
Updated: Oct 22
Mercury Retrograde
Libra New Moon Dates and Time
Tuesday, October 21
8:25 AM, Eastern Time
28 Degrees Libra
Time Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Libra New Moon: Introduction
Running a business requires constant decision-making, communication, and collaboration, all themes central to Libra. The New Moon each month marks a fresh start, a time to set intentions and begin new cycles. The Libra New Moon turns attention toward balance, partnership, and how you work with others while maintaining your own direction.
Each blog in this series connects lunar cycles with practical business insights. You’ll find astrology written for entrepreneurs, creative professionals, and career builders who use lunar timing to stay organized, strategic, and inspired. Every post explores the symbolism of the Moon, key planetary influences, and a simple ritual designed for busy schedules.
What’s Inside:
Understanding Libra: The Mirror of Aries
Libra focuses on relationships, harmony, and collaboration, seeking balance and mutual understanding with others. It navigates life by weighing perspectives, considering consequences, and fostering shared experiences through open communication, diplomacy, and fairness. Libra’s approach is rational and relational, striving to create beauty and connection through cooperation and equality.
Aries, on the opposite side of the zodiac, centers on individuality, independence, and self-assertion. It thrives on action and initiative, favoring directness and instinct over compromise and deliberation. Where Libra pauses to find equilibrium, Aries acts to define direction.
Libra leads with diplomacy and grace, while Aries leads with courage and action. One seeks connection, the other autonomy. Libra defines strength through collaboration and compromise, creating harmony where differences exist. Aries defines strength through bold pursuit and the freedom to act.
Together they form the axis of self and other: the balance between independence and partnership, assertion and cooperation, action and harmony.
Libra New Moon
Libra is expressed through balance, beauty, and connection. Represented by the Scales, Libra energy seeks fairness and harmony in all relationships. It thrives on cooperation, diplomacy, and the ability to unite people. Guided by Venus, Libra values aesthetics, grace, and the art of living well in relationships and the environments we create. Like an artist blending color and light to create perfect symmetry, Libra brings harmony to what connects us.
As an Air sign, Libra operates through logic, dialogue, and awareness of perspective. Air signs communicate, analyze, and exchange ideas to create understanding. Libra channels this energy into social intelligence, design, and negotiation, translating abstract principles of justice and beauty into shared experience. It mirrors the movement of air itself: invisible yet shaping everything it touches, carrying ideas and emotions between people.
Libra is a Cardinal sign, which means it initiates. Cardinal signs spark movement and new beginnings. Libra initiates through partnership, conversation, and collaboration. It starts cycles by building bridges, launching ideas, or forming alliances that depend on trust and reciprocity.
This New Moon in Libra marks a transition. At 28 degrees near the end of the sign, it marks both a completion and a beginning, a seed moment that blends closure with the anticipation of renewal.
With Venus also traveling through Libra, the energy of this lunation is especially strong, emphasizing relationships, creative expression, and balanced decision-making. As the Moon joins the Sun under Venus’s rulership, new awareness may arise around how you balance independence and connection, self and other, assertion and cooperation.
The Bottom Line: This New Moon invites balanced beginnings. It is a time to plant seeds for growth in relationships, leadership, and creative collaboration by aligning your actions with fairness, harmony, and beauty.
Libra Shadow
When Libra energy is strong, the need for harmony and connection becomes more pronounced. At its best, it creates cooperation, beauty, and understanding. Yet the same sensitivity that brings balance can also blur boundaries. When overextended, Libra’s diplomacy may shift into people-pleasing, indecision, or avoidance of conflict.
Because Libra seeks fairness and agreement, it can lose energy trying to keep everyone content. The desire for peace sometimes postpones necessary action or honest dialogue. This New Moon near the end of the sign highlights where balance has tipped too far toward accommodation and where self-definition needs to guide the next step forward.
This is a time to restore equilibrium by making choices that honor both self and others. True harmony comes from authenticity, not approval. The more clearly you define what partnership means to you, the more your relationships can grow on equal ground.
Libra New Moon Symbol: The Scales
Symbolized by the Scales, Libra represents balance, fairness, and the art of alignment. The Scales remind us that equilibrium is maintained through awareness of differing perspectives, adjustment over rigidity, and respect for both sides of any equation.
Harmonizing: The Scales weigh perspectives, revealing where fairness and understanding can bring stability. Libra energy thrives when dialogue restores balance and creates mutual respect.
Collaborative: The Scales reflect partnership, showing that true balance is co-created. Libra reminds us that equality grows through listening, cooperation, and shared responsibility.
Aesthetic: The Scales embody beauty in symmetry. Libra values what is pleasing, not just visually but energetically, favoring actions and environments that feel centered and at peace.
The Bottom Line: The Scales remind us that balance is a living process, not a fixed point. This New Moon supports decisions, relationships, and creative work that honor both harmony and truth.
Libra New Moon Theme: Healing and Nurturing Wounds
This Libra New Moon forms a powerful T-square with Jupiter and Chiron, spotlighting healing through awareness and growth. The Sun and Moon in Libra look across the sky to Chiron in Aries, revealing tender places where independence meets vulnerability.
Old stories of rejection, misunderstanding, or imbalance may resurface to show what is ready for healing. With Jupiter in Cancer forming the third point of tension, emotions run deep, and the desire to feel safe and protected is central to topics and themes that come up around the Libra new moon. This is a time to approach healing gently, with understanding and care for yourself and others.
Jupiter expands awareness, and in Cancer, it brings attention to emotional safety, family patterns, and belonging. Its square to the Sun, Moon, and Chiron reminds us to consider multiple perspectives.
How do your past experiences shape the way you nurture and connect?
The Sun brings vitality and courage to face old hurts, while Jupiter’s influence reminds you that growth takes place through willingness to grow and evolve by facing old hurts with self-compassion. Healing under this T-square begins with awareness: seeing both sides of a wound and recognizing how it has influenced your relationships. The opportunity now is to strengthen your relationships through healthy boundaries, fair partnerships, and accessing healing services.
Check out the October Business Outlook for the list of planetary transits this month.
Mercury Retrograde Season Begins
Pre-Shadow Phase Begins: October 21, Scorpio 20 degrees
Retrograde: November 9, Sagittarius 6 degrees
Direct: November 29, Scorpio 20 degrees
Post-Shadow Phase Ends: December 17, Sagittarius 6 degrees
Degrees: 6 Sagittarius to 20 degrees Scorpio
Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius and Scorpio
Mercury begins its retrograde cycle in Sagittarius, a sign connected to wisdom, exploration, and vision. This cycle brings attention to what you believe, how you share your philosophy, and the ways your perspective shapes the path ahead. Sagittarius energy is future-focused, yet during this retrograde, Mercury encourages a return to unfinished ideas, courses of study, or big-picture goals that need review before expansion. It’s a cycle for editing the story you tell, both to yourself and to others, so that your words match your truth.
As Mercury backs into Scorpio, the focus turns inward. Scorpio highlights research, depth, and what is private or unspoken. This phase supports audit and investigation, revisiting sensitive conversations, reviewing contracts, strengthening boundaries, and safeguarding data. Use it to look beneath the surface, update agreements, and resolve issues that benefit from discretion.
Because Mercury governs communication and Sagittarius amplifies expression, this retrograde can reveal where enthusiasm has outpaced realistic growth, while Scorpio concentrates attention on accuracy, accountability, and follow-through. Reassess how you convey ideas, double-check travel or publishing details, and verify information before making commitments. Use the period to reflect, review, and revise.
Mercury retrograde always presents an opportunity to pause and reflect on progress since the last cycle. Look at what has evolved in your business, communication style, or mindset since July–August 2025. The goal is to course-correct and strengthen your approach. This is an ideal time to reorganize schedules, reconnect with people or projects from the past, and realign your long-term strategy. As Mercury moves from Sagittarius into Scorpio, progress comes through review, renewed curiosity, and the wisdom to align vision with lived experience.
Libra New Moon Ritual: Work–Life Alignment
This simple ritual is designed for busy business owners who want to pause, reset, and realign with the energy of balance that Libra represents. You only need about ten minutes and a quiet space.
Create a balanced space
Sit at your desk or workspace and clear a small area. Place one item that represents your business (like a pen, planner, or laptop) on one side and one that represents your personal life (like a candle, stone, or cup of tea) on the other. Take a few slow breaths as you look at both.
Reflect and reset
Ask yourself: Where am I giving too much? Where could I receive more? Write one sentence that expresses what balance means for you this month. Keep it visible at your workspace as a quick reminder.
Set an intention
With hands resting lightly on both items, say out loud: I choose harmony in my work and relationships. I act with fairness, confidence, and compassion.
Close the ritual
Take one more deep breath and bring the two items together in front of you as a symbol of unity. Let the moment ground you in balance before moving back into your day.
This ritual supports the potential for balance between work and relationships. A brief pause for reflection can help you prepare for the coming weeks.
Words of Wisdom
‘Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.’ — Thomas Merton
Wrap-Up: Libra New Moon
The Libra New Moon emphasizes balance, partnership, and awareness of how you share space, time, and energy with others. With Venus at home in Libra and a T-square involving Jupiter and Chiron, this lunation blends harmony with healing. It brings attention to how you communicate, collaborate, and make decisions that reflect fairness and authenticity.
As Mercury prepares to retrograde in Sagittarius, clarity will come through review rather than speed. Take time to reassess your direction, reconnect with your values, and realign your goals with what feels right in both business and relationships. This is a new beginning shaped by cooperation and wisdom gained from experience.
