Welcome to a portal, a beginning, an initiation, a spark. Where the cosmos hums clearly and deeply with the essence of Aries: The Sun. The Moon. Mercury and Mars. Saturn, Chiron and Neptune.
A vast line up of bodies held in the first sign of the zodiac – stronger together, singing the same tone.
A vast line up of bodies channelling the essence of our first fire sign – the direction is unmistakable.
When is the Aries New Moon 2026?
The New Moon in Aries meets us 17 April, 2026. See exact times for your location below.
- Wellington: Friday April 17, 11:51pm
- Sydney: Friday April 17, 9:51pm
- Tokyo: Friday April 17, 8:51pm
- Singapore: Friday April 17, 7:51pm
- New Delhi: Friday April 17, 5:21pm
- Dubai: Friday April 17, 3:51pm
- Istanbul: Friday April 17, 2:51pm
- Paris/Berlin: Friday April 17, 1:51pm
- London: Friday April 17, 12:51pm
- Rio De Janeiro: Friday April 17, 8:51pm
- New York/Toronto: Friday April 17, 7:51am
- Los Angeles/Vancouver: Friday April 17, 4:51am
New Moon April 2026 Astrology
We have crossed the threshold and arrived in the new Astrological Year. Beginnings already begun. Initiation already moving through us. And as we arrive at our first New Moon of this Astrological Year, we have been preparing for this moment. Where it seems as if all of Life is beginning again. Planets holding hands, beginning together. The cosmos aligned for this very moment, to begin again.
The invitation emerging through it all… Will you begin, too?
Will you let what is rising within you take up more space, feeling its spark, feeling its truth?
Will you open your heart and let inspiration flow through you, returning to your true state?
Will you surrender to the way life wants to move through you, with you, as you?
This lunation is a symbol of a larger season holding us all. Saturn entered Aries in February, Neptune in January. Together they initiated a new collective era – one guided by the Mars-ruled sign. These two cosmic bodies are fine-tuning our Aries selves and will be for years to come. This New Moon is a portal into one of many Aries-initiations awaiting us upon our journey.
Aries is the will of life, the original spark of creation. It is the first breath of existence saying yes, the initiating movement of truth. It disguises itself as personal desire – yet reaches far beyond personal desire.
It is the desire of existence to become, live, create itself, experience itself. The desire of existence that moves beyond wanting, into the expression of aliveness itself.
This desire lives within us too. It sparks within every cell of our bodies and sings from the centre of our hearts. It reveals itself as inspiration, as instinct. Moving through us as ignition, vitality and becoming. This desire comes alive within us until movement becomes inevitable – a natural overflow of life flowing through us into action. This is the desire alive tonight. This is the movement inviting us forward tonight.
April New Moon Healing
Travelling through Aries since 2018, Chiron sits with the Sun during this lunation, and with the Moon as she begins again. Supported, strengthened, and held by each other cosmic body in Aries, it is here that healing becomes possible.
Chiron in Aries has been walking us through spaces within where beginning has felt unsafe, where instinct has been silenced, and life-force stifled. It has been holding the voices that question our right to exist, express, create and move so that we may remember ourselves as the breath, spark, movement and becoming of the cosmos. We have been remembering. Year by year. Layer by layer. Moment by moment.
A minor grand trine reveals energy flow, an alive dynamic of supported activation humming from our skies and within our bodies.
With a deeper initiation of Pluto sextile Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune – like roots beneath the surface, we are held in quiet empowerment. A space to reclaim, anchor, renew, embody. A space to remember inner authority, strength, and trust. Connected to Uranus in a trine we see new life meeting a body, a nervous system, a way of living, that is ready to change.
Your Invitations: Aries New Moon
This lunation and this larger Aries-guided season are reminding us that the true power of Aries – and of each of us – isn’t in force or control.
The true power of Aries – and of each of us – is found where will and surrender are no longer opposites. Where action arises through alignment, rather than impatience, and movement emerges from truth rather than urgency. Where desire is guided by inner knowing, rather than pressure, and expression flows from self-trust, rather than proving.
It is a new beginning. Not one we need to will into existence or force into action. Rather one that is beginning through us.
Lean into it, and it will guide. Surrender into it, and it will open you.
A moon that dares us to dream. A moon that dares us to believe. Welcome to a moment in time, a collection of cosmic bodies, a shifting of your body – each singing together:
If you move with what is true, life will meet you there.
Aries New Moon Ritual
New Moon in Aries Energy Practice: Moving with Trust
A practice of courage, new beginnings, and sacred movement.
A space to come back into your body, into the earth beneath you, into the steady rhythm of your own life force. To remember the intelligence woven through you. The knowing that doesn’t need to be forced or figured out, only felt and followed.
Here, you soften out of the noise and lean into something deeper. Something more honest. A grounded aliveness that holds you as you release what no longer fits, and gently reorient toward what does.
You remember the innate guidance within your heart and the strength within your body to move forward, to begin again, to take a new step. Each rooted in knowing, in alignment, in courage, and willingness to live.
Here, we begin again.
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Aries New Moon 2026 Planetary Aspects
- Sun conjunct Moon in Aries
- Sun & Moon conjunct Chiron in Aries
- Mercury conjunct Mars, Saturn & Neptune in Aries
- Mercury, Mars, Saturn & Neptune in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
- Mercury & Neptune in Aries sextile Uranus in Taurus
New Moon in Aries Horoscope for each Zodiac Sign
Watch below for your New Moon in Aries Horoscope for your zodiac sign by Dilosh. Be sure to watch your Sun, Moon and Rising Sign!
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