The Aries Full Moon 2025 arrives with pomegranate seeds and a cooler breeze. This Lunar Cycle is peaking. It started with a New Moon in Virgo and a Solar Eclipse, on the eve of Rosh Hashana, and the Equinox. It anchors us in Libra season, inviting us into the lively spark and initiative power of the Aries archetype, and weaving us into the Libra archetype’s desire for balance.
I can feel the desire for balance rising in me the way that Autumn wind picks a bunch of fallen leaves and spins them in the air. Right when the great scatter begins with the croaking of ravens and the dropping of acorns, as the colors of the witch paint the world with the magic of darkness, and nature throws her gifts off of trees in all directions, Libra arrives with a heart that wants equilibrium.
Aries Full Moon in Libra Season – A Cosmic Tension
The full moon always gives us the flavor of the other side; a delicious taste of the season, sprinkled with the spice of whatever sign is on the opposite side of the astrological wheel. The moon is full in Aries when the sun is in Libra. They contradict and complete one another. Aries begins the journey of the individual, and Libra starts us on the path of the collective. Aries sparks new ideas, Libra weighs out the options. The Aries archetype is impulsive. Libra Archetype wavers as it stands at the threshold of decision.
The tension between different aspects of ourselves is always here. Many of us seek to transcend the tension, but what if the tension is how we strengthen, cultivate wisdom, find meaning, and develop character? It is the season of the witch, and the witch archetype is one that stands in the liminal space, holding the tension, embracing the paradox, inviting us to work with the binaries, but not be tied to them. We are complex. We are layered. We are a multitude.
The Warrior Archetype of Aries
In the Northern Hemisphere, Aries arrives with the Spring Equinox, ushering in the light of the sun, calling the plants out from hiding, waking the animals up from hibernation, energizing the world with renewal. When we think of Spring, we usually don’t think about the intense force with which every blade of grass pushes its way up through the hard shell of the earth. We think of the beauty of blossoms, but not of the fierce power needed for this grand display of color and scent and renewal.
To spark the world into being again, Mother Earth aligns with the constellation of the Ram, so their horns can push the way from darkness to light, from the underworld back into life again. (a northern. hemisphere perspective, of course).
Aries is seen as a warrior archetype because it takes determination and the willingness to take a stance, confidence and eagerness, strength and courage to rise from the depths and to bring that which has been hiding out into the light to start again.
It takes battling our insecurities, forging the tools that we need for this endeavor in the fire of our will power, simultaneously receiving and pushing through our struggles, and not taking too seriously to the voices that try to put us down. Overcoming challenges is at the forefront of the Warrior Archetype.
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This warrior energy shows up in the fullness of this moon, inviting us to include resolution in the process of release, to consider what is rising on the journey of descent, to bring the passion and pioneering power of Aries into a season that teaches us about endings.
The Libra Archetype: Balance, Harmony, and Relationship
Oh! How Libra wants the beauty of the world. How deeply they care about harmony. Libra doesn’t want conflict. They want to bring the world into balance. They want to find a golden thread with which they can weave the world together. They arrive before Scorpio comes and tears it all apart. They show up at the scene to bring gentleness into a world that is about to go down into decay.
Libra is the part of us that is oriented toward relationship, toward connection, toward the capacity to make something work. As the world spins into chaos, Libra does all they can to find a way to make something beautiful out of the mess, to integrate it, to include it in the whole. It wants all the parts to work together – all while the world is falling apart.
While Aries comes as our focus on the self, Libra shows up to direct us toward the relationship between the self and other. The Libra archetype wants everything to be balanced, and so they do all that they can to bring justice and equality, beauty and harmony, to a world that tilts and twists and turns – a world that cannot keep it together.
The Aries Full Moon 2025 and Sukkot
Sukkot is a Jewish High Holiday that celebrates the harvest. It is an offering of gratitude for the bounty and the beauty. Observing Jews give thanks to the survival of their ancestors who wandered in the desert wilderness for forty years after escaping slavery in Egypts. It emphasizes generosity; The key part of the holiday is to invite others into your Sukkah to share a meal and a good conversation.
A Sukkah is a temporary structure made of wooden poles that hold canvas or other fabric for walls, with a roof made of plant material such as large palm leaves, through which you can see the sky, but still have shade. The Sukkah is decorated with the seasonal harvest and with homemade crafts.
The Archetype of Shelter and Belonging
The symbol of the Sukkah is one of protection. It’s a shelter from the harshness of the desert. Take that into your life. How can you structure your life in a way that it shelters you from the rough, intense, burning of the world? And how do you do it in a way that doesn’t disconnect you from the world? The Sukkah is sturdy enough, but it isn’t a permanent abode. It often has three walls, not four, because the point is to stay engaged with our surroundings, and not separated from it.
It’s hard to find it in the current culture, but the deep invitation of this holiday is to cultivate a sense of belonging; to one another as we invite each other to the Sukkah, to the environment as we allow the sky to be seen through the temporary roof, and to the land around us as we cover ourselves from it only partially.
The Libra desire for harmony, for connection, for relationship, for the integration of self and other, of personal and collective, is soaked in the meaning of Sukkot. The deep invitation here is to keep trying to find ways to connect, even as the culture severs us from one another.
Current Conflict
As I write these words I cannot ignore what is going on in Israel right now, and the tyranny of the Israeli government. I cannot not think about what is going on in Gaza. This ancient conflict turned into a living hell. The end of Sukkot two years ago was when Hamas invaded Israel and cold heartedly murdered and raped and mutalated more than a thousand innocent people. While it’s wishful thinking at the moment, I hold in me the vision that one day, all those who claim that land as sacred, all those whose ancestors called that land their home in the past, and those who claim that land as their home now, will all be able to visit one another’s Sukkah, or sit together under a fig trees, together under the harvest moon, in peace.
I hold the vision that the Aries Warrior Archetype fights for peace, and that the Libra Archetype leads us toward conflict resolution.
Harvest, Gratitude, and Temporary Dwelling
Sukkot is known as a time of gratitude and celebration of the harvest. The less famous aspect of Sukkot is that it honors impermanence, and invites not only guests into the Sukkah, but the spirit of mortality.
When the Israelites roamed the desert for forty years, they built these huts as temporary dwellings. They had to take them down and keep going. They couldn’t stay in one place for too long. This holiday’s ritual of building these temporary huts, holds this deep significance of remembering that life is ever changing, that form is not eternal, that structures must be built, but they can never be maintained forever.
There’s melancholy in this celebration. There’s grief woven into the gratitude. What we gather in the harvest must be shared. We might preserve some of it, so that we have nourishment in times of scarcity, but nothing can be held on to eternally. We must allow the natural cycles of death and rebirth. We must let Fall do its important work of decay and reintegration.
The Season of the Witch
The season of the witch is upon us, calling all beings to find their place in the world. The witch archetype invites us to integrate all our parts. She is on the edge, on the outskirts, on the sideline, keeping all the outcasts from falling off the cliff, and reweaving the threads that come undone.
Harvest Rituals Across Traditions
Between the Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice, the archetype of the witch is strong, peaking at Samhain, which is the European origin of Halloween; the last harvest, when all the fruit has fallen, and decay is en vogue.
The witch reminds us of the relationship between different traditions, of the ways that Autumn Equinox is mirrored in other harvest holidays such as Sukkot and Rosh Hashana from the Jewish tradition, and in other celebrations from other cultures such as Oktoberfest in Germany (which is a beer festival that carries many aspects of the harvest celebration), or Chung Chiu in China (which is a mid-Autumn festival of harvest). And modern witch rituals are sprouting around the world now to honor the harvest in modern ways that honor ancestral wisdom and ancient traditions.
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The harvest season continues to unfold in some places, depending on weather patterns in different areas. Goddess and witch archetypes carry the generosity of the season in the form of The Great Mother for as long as they can, while she also transmutes into Mother Death, and takes the form of the hag. She reminds us that this is a time of transition, and like Sukkot, she tells us that everything is impermanent.
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The Witch as Guardian of Thresholds
The archetype of the witch takes us to the crossroad. She carries us to the liminal space as she stands between the worlds. She is the archetype of the thresholds, neither here nor there, in between this and that. She holds the space between life and death, she holds the tension of the opposites.
We feel the space between life and death more and more strongly as the month of October unfolds. The season of the witch roars louder and louder as the trees change colors more dramatically, and the light of the sun grows dimmer and dimmer.
As we bask in the light of the Aries full moon 2025, we hold the tension between opposites; the contrast and collaboration between Aries and Libra, focusing on the self and the relationship between the self and the world, still influenced by the Equinox – standing in the midline between darkness and light, while honoring the shift toward the darkness. We hold the paradox of building a sheltering structure, while honoring its impermanence and vulnerability, we embrace the way that we endure and continue, as we must also let go of the old to make renewal possible.
Aries sparks our fire, Libra gives us a breath of fresh air. Aries is the part of us that cultivates independence and individuation. Libra is the part of us that shows us our interconnection, and integrates the individual into relationship. The witch as healer and rebel is the one who walks on the edge and in between things. She weaves together the opposites, while honoring differences, and stirring in her cauldron the possibilities of new forms to emerge from depths of what’s gone.
Aries Full Moon 2025: Courage, Conflict, and Connection
This is not an easy time. We’re living through a historical shitstorm, with fascism and authoritarianism, with war and famine, with cruelty and disconnection from the heart of humanity, from the soul of the world.
As October ushers in the time of death and decay, and harvest season invites us into our generosity, as Sukkot teaches us to be inviting and giving, to offer gratitude and to allow for durability and vulnerability to coexist, and the season of the witch drops us into liminality with fruit and leaves off of trees, can we we show up to this complex task courageously?
The Aries full moon 2025 is a call to cultivate ways to connect in the midst of conflict. However we choose to engage in this process – through conversation, contemplation, sacred secular witchcraft, Jewish holiday celebration, a good meal with good friends, a walk in solitude among the trees – holding the complexity of this time is important. Finding ways to connect is crucial.
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Have a meaningful Aries full moon.
Much love,
Hagar