New Moon Ritual: April 2026
The alternate title for this post could be, “New Moon - and other celestial bodies making a guest appearance - Ritual: April 2026.”.
This new moon ritual write-up is going to be a little different because I’m also bringing in some astrology and a serendipitous confluence of events. I want to be very clear, however, that astrology is not really my thing, mostly because I find it way too complex and overwhelming. That being said, I do find it really fascinating and informative, and I’m lucky to have several people in my life who are very knowledgeable in this area.
The April new moon occurred on April 17th in a very active and intense Aries cycle. There is a lot of celestial movement bringing planets into Aries, and setting the stage for Uranus to start a seven-year journey in Gemini bringing both innovation and disruption. The Sun and Mars in Aries is bringing in a lot eruptive energy signaling intense new beginnings. Saturn is creating a crucible for risk or opportunity, depending on how you play it. Whatever you start now should be things you are committed to pursuing for the next few years - especially if you are a Cancer, like me, where we have the chance to break free from some past hardships to step into new projects and patterns.
This is all stuff I learned about on Thursday. The day after the co-founder of the Queer Zine Archive Project showed up at my house for a three-day spring of events on queer zines, zine culture, resistance, and liberation.
That’s right, I unknowingly coordinated a series of community-based, counter-culture activism workshops during this astrological bomb.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the overarching message from this new moon ritual is centered on community and expression. I find it extra intriguing that Uranus is setting up for a multi-year run of challenging and disrupting our relationship to technology, and this coincided with really bringing people together around a return to analogue forms of in-community knowledge-sharing and expression.
The dreams associated with this ritual were full of laughter, sharing food around a kitchen table, and the creation of knowledge and expression that is much harder for those in power to censor.
It feels appropriate for me to leave you with two resources in this post:
This first one is a link to something that can help you format/make your own mini-zines: https://nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger
The second is a link to the Queer Zine Archive Project, which will definitely introduce you to the beautiful decades-long history of queer zines but might also inspire you to start making your own: https://archive.qzap.org/
