Picture this. It is the new moon, you have taken out the nice notebook, lit a candle, found a pen that looks formal enough for a conversation with the Universe, and you write: “I want more money.” A month later you receive 20 euros more. Wonderful, the wish has technically come true and the Universe has probably already ticked the box next to your name, only you hardly meant exactly that.
This small problem opens the big subject of new moon wishes — how to write them, when the right moment is, what the sign of the new moon adds, what a void-of-course Moon is and how to follow a wish all the way to the full moon. The pretty page is pleasant, the candle sets the mood, the exact hour has its place in astrological tradition, but first of all it is worth understanding what you really want.
The lunar cycle lasts roughly twenty-nine and a half days. At the new moon the Moon lies between the Earth and the Sun, so from the Earth we barely see its lit side; a few days later the thin crescent appears, grows gradually to the full moon and then begins to wane again. It is this natural cycle that has made the new moon a symbol of beginnings — you start with something that cannot be seen yet, give it a direction and watch what happens to it.
In astrological tradition the new moon is linked with intention and beginnings, the waxing Moon with growth and action, the full moon with the visible result, realisation and culmination, and the waning Moon with completion and release. So a wish can become a small experiment that lasts a whole lunar cycle: you write it at the new moon, take a real step while the Moon waxes, check what has already appeared around the full moon, and before the next cycle decide what you want to carry on with.
You can follow exactly this path in Moon & Tarot on FatedWays, where the phase of the Moon, the exact moments of the new and full moon, the sign, the void-of-course hours, your wishes, your dreams and your mood across the days are all in one place. After a cycle or two you already have a story of your own, instead of a scrap of paper found by chance between the electricity bill and a cake recipe, with something very important written on it and no idea when.
Say your first thought is: “I want Ivan to come back.” Fine, but what do you expect his return to give you? You may miss Ivan himself, you may miss closeness, want to be loved again, wait for proof that the break-up was a mistake, or secretly dream of that message at 23:47, after which you will tell your friends with enormous pleasure: “I told you so.” In each of these cases the first sentence is the same, and the real wish is different.
Money works the same way. “I want more money” can mean a higher income, a paid-off debt, a business of your own, more freedom, or the chance to order dinner without first holding a short financial meeting with the menu. “I want a new job” can mean more money, recognition, growth, more time for yourself, or the wish to wake up without thinking what a wonderful institution annual leave is. “I want a home of my own” can be a dream of property, with a longing behind it for security, personal space, family, or the feeling that at last you have a place that is yours.
So before you write your wish, ask what will change in your life and how you will feel when it comes true. If the answer is “I will feel free”, “I will feel loved”, “I will feel safe” or “I will know I have made it”, you are already much closer to the heart of it. That very feeling will be useful at the full moon too, when you come back to what you wrote.
For one lunar cycle I would choose one to three wishes. If you reach the seventeenth, you are drawing up an annual business plan and we will probably have to invite an accountant soon. Phrase the wish in the present tense and concretely enough that a month later you can tell exactly what you asked for. “I want more money” leaves huge room for interpretation, while “I receive a monthly income of 3,000 euros from work that fulfils me and leaves me time for my personal life” describes a perfectly clear reality. The same goes for “I want love” and “I have a mutual, close relationship with someone with whom I feel loved, desired and free to be myself”.
When the wish involves a particular person, phrase it through the life you want to have. “Ivan loves me and comes back to me” already decides for Ivan what he will feel and do, and the man has a will of his own, a phone of his own and most likely his own version of the story. You will learn far more about yourself if you describe the relationship you want to live, the way you want to be treated and how you want to feel in it.
Finally, add one word for the feeling you connect with the fulfilled wish — love, joy, freedom, security, fulfilment, belonging. Keep it, because in about two weeks we will need it.
Every new moon happens in a particular zodiac sign, and according to astrology that sign adds its own theme to the cycle that is beginning. A new moon in Aries points to beginnings, courage, action and personal initiative; in Taurus to money, self-worth, security, the body and material goals; in Gemini to communication, learning, information, documents, ideas and contacts; in Cancer to home, family, roots and belonging; in Leo to love, creativity, self-expression, confidence and joy; in Virgo to work, daily life, habits, organisation and practical changes.
With a new moon in Libra attention goes to relationships, partnerships, contracts and reciprocity; in Scorpio to intimacy, trust, shared resources, deep change and release; in Sagittarius to travel, abroad, education and new horizons; in Capricorn to career, goals, responsibility and long-term plans; in Aquarius to freedom, friendships, communities, the future and new ideas; in Pisces to intuition, creativity, imagination and spiritual life.
The sign gives a theme, and the choice of wish stays yours. If the new moon is in Capricorn, love will not be turned away at the door and told to come back next month. It is more interesting to see how the theme of the sign meets your wish. If you want love at a new moon in Capricorn, for example, the question may be about the stability and future of the relationship; if you want work at a new moon in Aquarius, a theme may open around more freedom, a new environment or a completely different career path. In Moon & Tarot you can see the sign and themes of each specific new moon and work with the exact meaning of that month.
The calendar may tell you the new moon is on the 12th, but the moment itself falls at a specific hour and minute. In astrological practice wishes are usually written after that exact moment, once the new lunar cycle has begun. It is also worth checking whether the Moon is void of course — the period after its last major aspect in one sign and before it enters the next. Traditional astrology links these hours with finishing things, reflection, rest and activities already under way, so for an important new intention you can wait until the period ends. The Moon will not leave without you, and a few hours are unlikely to ruin the dream of a house by the sea.
I would also phrase wishes more carefully at a new moon that is part of a solar eclipse. In astrological tradition eclipses are linked with larger changes and processes whose direction unfolds gradually, so at such a moment it helps to leave more room for the way what you want may arrive. In Moon & Tarot the exact moments of the new moon, the full moon and the void-of-course hours are gathered in one place, which spares you the morning expedition through five astrology websites, three time zones and the inevitable question of which of them is right.
After the writing comes a part I really love — you do something, because magic gets along beautifully with a little human help. If the wish is for a new job, send off one CV; if it is for a home of your own, look at real listings; if you want to study abroad, check the requirements; if you dream of a project of your own, give it one hour; if you want new love, leave life at least some chance to introduce you to someone other than the courier who already knows your order by heart. Choose one concrete step that depends on you and take it in the first days after the new moon.
Then watch what happens around the wish. A conversation may come up, an offer, some information, a chance meeting, an idea or an opportunity you used to miss. Write down whatever catches your attention, because two weeks later the separate moments may already form an interesting picture. That is why in Moon & Tarot the wish can stay connected to the whole cycle and carry on after the moment you close the notebook.
About two weeks after the new moon comes the full moon, and that is when you take out what you wrote. See what is already moving, what you have understood in these two weeks and whether you still want the same thing. The last question may turn out to be the most interesting, because a person can want a certain relationship, job, home or change for so long that the wish itself becomes a habit. Then they read it again after a while and find that their life has already set off in another direction.
Go back to the feeling you wrote down at the start as well. If the word was “freedom”, look at where in these two weeks you have already begun to feel it; if it was “love”, see where it has come from; if you wrote “security”, look for what has actually increased it. The full moon may bring a concrete result, a first sign, a conversation, information or a realisation that changes the wish itself. If you find you now want something else, that too is part of the cycle — the waning Moon is a good time to close the old intention and enter the next new moon with a clearer direction.
After you write the wish, you can try a small experiment: for the next three mornings, write down the first image you remember from your dream, together with the feeling you woke up with. You have no need to remember a whole plot. What stays may be the sea, a house, a train, a staircase, an old friend, a baby, a closed door, a huge garden or a cat that has, for unknown reasons, decided to explain the family finances to you. Dreams have their own script department, and it clearly works without an editor.
Repetition is more interesting than instant interpretation. If the same person turns up around the full moon over several lunar cycles, if water appears whenever you face a change, or if roads show up after a certain kind of wish, you gradually begin to recognise your own symbolic language. In the journal in Moon & Tarot you can record your dreams and mood through the different phases and later compare what repeats. And when a dream keeps you busy long after your morning coffee, you can continue with Dream Interpretation on FatedWays and look at its images in more detail.
At the next new moon, choose one wish that truly matters to you, and before you phrase it, finish the sentence “When this happens, I will feel…”. Keep the first word that comes, then write the wish itself in the present tense and clearly enough that a month later you will know what you meant. Under it, add one real step you will take in the coming days.
For the next three mornings write down one image from your dream, and at the full moon return to the page to see what has already happened, what you have understood and what you want to carry on with. Before the next new moon read everything once more and compare the person who wrote the wish with the person reading it almost a month later. The wish may have come true, begun to unfold, changed direction, or you yourself may now want something else. Each of these outcomes tells you something.
A date on the calendar tells you when the new moon is, but the story between two new moons is far more interesting. In Moon & Tarot on FatedWays you can follow the lunar day and phase, the exact moments of the new and full moon, the void-of-course hours, the sign and themes of each new moon, write your wishes and return to them at the full moon. The journal gathers your mood and dreams, the rituals change with the phase, and reminders can bring you back to the important moment before daily life decides it has more urgent plans for you.
After a few cycles you can see your own patterns — what you wish for, how you begin, when you take action, what you dream, what happens and which wish slowly loses its meaning. That is exactly what turns a lunar journal from a pretty pastime into a personal trace through time. If you want to begin with the current cycle, open Moon & Tarot and see which phase the Moon is in, when the next new moon comes and what theme it brings.
Afterwards you can take the test “Which Lunar Path Will Your Wish Take?” — you choose one of four lunar images and see what may unfold around your wish before the full moon, in love, work and money, together with a personal practice for it. If you already have one particular wish that keeps coming back to your mind, “The Moon Wish” will follow it with Tarot through the whole lunar cycle — from what you are really seeking through it to the sign by which you will recognise that it is already on its way to you.
And perhaps that is why the most interesting question at the new moon goes on after “What do I want?”. Another one follows: “What am I ready to do when the wish begins to turn into life?”
In astrological practice wishes are usually written after the exact moment of the new moon, once the new lunar cycle has begun. It is also worth checking the void-of-course hours, especially if you want to connect your intention with the traditional astrological rules for choosing a moment.
One to three wishes are quite enough for one lunar cycle. That way you can follow what really happens with them and, a month later, see clearly what mattered.
The present tense is used most often, describing the desired state clearly and concretely: “I have…”, “I live…”, “I receive…”, “I create…”. The more recognisable the picture, the easier it will be to trace later what has changed.
You can start from that person, but it is worth seeing what kind of relationship you want to live through them, how you want to be loved and how you want to feel. That way the wording stays connected to your own life and at the same time respects the other person’s choice.
It is the period after the Moon’s last major aspect in one sign and before it enters the next. In traditional astrology these hours are linked with finishing things, rest and waiting before important new undertakings.
Read it again and see what is already moving, what you have understood and whether you still want the same thing. Go back to the feeling you wrote down at the new moon too, because it may give you a completely different view of the result.
Trace what has changed during the cycle all the same, what steps you have taken and whether the wish still matters to you. Then you can carry it into the new cycle, phrase it more precisely or choose another direction.
In astrology every sign is linked with particular areas of life, so the sign of the new moon adds its own emphasis to the cycle that is beginning. In Moon & Tarot you can see the sign and themes of each new moon together with its exact moment.
Lunar phases and dreams are connected in various astrological and folk traditions, and the most interesting way to find out how it works for you is to record your own dreams over several consecutive cycles and watch for repetitions.
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