I used to fear the darkness—the quiet spaces, the unknown territories, the moments when life asked me to simply be instead of do. I filled every silence with noise, every pause with productivity, every dark moon with artificial light.
Then I learned the secret that the wise women have always known: darkness is not empty. It’s pregnant with possibility. The new moon isn’t absence—it’s the sacred pause before creation, the fertile void where all dreams are born.
Now when the moon disappears, I disappear too—into the quiet wisdom of my own becoming, into the tender space where intentions take root in the rich soil of surrender.
Vedic Astrology Teaching
In Vedic tradition, the New Moon—Amavasya—is a time of turning inward, of honoring the cyclical nature of energy and growth. This month’s New Moon in Virgo brings special focus to the Sixth House themes of healing, purification, and conscious daily practice.
This lunar moment asks us to examine our relationship with self-discipline and self-care. Are we approaching our health from force or from love? Are we serving others from depletion or from fullness? The New Moon offers us the gift of beginning again, of replanting our intentions in more nourishing soil.
Tantric Lens
In Tantra, darkness is revered as the creative principle—Shakti in her most potent form. The void is not empty but full of infinite potential. Just as life begins in the darkness of the womb, our deepest transformations happen in the sacred pause of not-knowing.
New Moon energy in Tantric practice is about releasing what no longer serves and calling in what wants to be born. It’s about trusting the intelligence of cycles, of rest, of the profound creativity that emerges from stillness.
Today’s Thought Exercise
Create a sacred space with a single candle. Sit quietly and breathe deeply. Then reflect on these questions:
“I’m ready to release old patterns. A new way of being wants to emerge through me. My body is asking for attention that I’ve been too busy to hear.”
Write your insights in a journal, then fold the paper and place it under a stone or in a small box—a symbolic act of planting seeds in the fertile darkness.
Special Invitation – September 2025
Join us for our New Moon ceremony and other lunar celebrations this month:
- Full Moon Ceremony: Sunday, September 7th, 2025
- Fall Equinox Seasonal Puja: Saturday, September 20th, 2025
- New Moon Ceremony: Sunday, September 21st, 2025
Each gathering at The Kundalini Kastle offers sacred space for ritual, intention-setting, and deep renewal through Tantric practices and lunar wisdom.
