The new moon on Sunday 30 October 2016 is at 7 degrees Scorpio. The new moon October 2016 astrology is dreamy and optimistic. This comes as most welcome relief following the heavy going nature, to say the least, of recent eclipses and major planetary aspects.
New moon October 2016 aligns with Mercury to make communication a major theme. A trine to Neptune brings spiritual communication, hopefulness and charity. This is certainly the best moon phase I can remember for some time, and hopefully just a taste of better times ahead.
New Moon Meaning
The influence of a new moon lasts for four weeks up to the next new moon, in this case, until the November 29 new moon. The best time for making a fresh start and for beginning new projects is during the first two weeks of a new moon cycle. This waxing phase of the moon lasts from October 30 to the November 14 full moon.
New Moon October 2016 Astrology
The October 30 new moon at 07°43′ Scorpio is the first regular moon phase in a new eclipse cycle. The September solar and lunar eclipses were very negative with challenging aspects to the traditionally malefic planets Mars and Saturn. Therefore, it is so important that we get a good start from new moon October 2016.
A new moon conjunct Mercury is neutral for good or bad but the harmonious trine aspect to Neptune tilts the scales toward good. There are also some fixed stars involved that assist Neptune in making this new moon a positive spiritual experience.
Sun conjunct Mercury puts the focus on your thinking and communications, making this a very busy time mentally. Your mind will be on the ball which favors lots of interactions, clearing paperwork and bills, receiving and sending letters and emails, and short trips around town. Because you will be thinking and expressing yourself clearly, this is an ideal time to make plans and initiate business deals, bargain, and buy and sell.
Moon conjunct Mercury adds emotional sensitivity and changeable moods. You can more easily make close emotional attachments to other people, or enjoy reminiscing about the past with family members. Conversation with women and family members in particular will be emotionally nourishing.
Your emotionally sensitivity can lead to a strong intuition and even psychic abilities. Sometimes, this aspect alone results in biased impressions but the Sun involved with a trine to Neptune ensures more accurate psychic impressions, lucid dreaming, and clear vision into the future for making plans.
New Moon October 2016 Horoscope
New Moon October 2016 Dreaming
Dreams have always been associated with the Moon because she rules sleep, intuition and the subconscious mind. In modern astrology, dreams are ruled by Neptune because its discovery coincided with that of anesthetics and hypnotism. Some astrologers like myself also look to Mercury for dreaming because he is the messenger of the gods. With our new moon conjunct Mercury trine Neptune we have all three rulers of dreaming harmoniously linked.
Sun trine Neptune increases your sensitivity to your environment and your empathy for others. You gain a deeper and wider understanding of your place in the world. This will help you set goals to manifest your hopes and dreams for the future. Your ego benefits from a more spiritual outlook, enabling you to work hard on achieving success. Your path to success can be helped by a strong self belief and psychic impressions.
Moon trine Neptune sensitizes your emotions, imagination and creativity. You may dream up or fantasize about an ideal partner but are just as likely to meet someone special now. Relationships formed under this influence would have a soul mate feel to them. Your intuition should be especially strong now so you should pay extra attention to any psychic impressions. This would be a good time to schedule a Tarot or psychic reading, even a visit to a psychologist.
Mercury trine Neptune also stimulates your creativity, imagination, sensitivity and spirituality. All of your communication skills benefit from a non threatening, caring and soft influence. People will want to listen to you, especially in person because of a sensual type of attractiveness. All of your senses are finely tuned so you can communicate effectively at the non verbal level, through gestures, your eyes, and telepathically. Any psychic abilities will be enhanced and you intuition will be strong and accurate.
New Moon October 2016 Fixed Stars
Fixed star Khambalia at 07 ♏ 10 is only half a degree from the new moon. Its names comes from “Crooked Claw”, which symbolizes ancient knowledge that you can only access through altered states of consciousness like dreaming. An excellent star for deep research and investigation, espionage, and esoteric or occult fields like astrology.
Fixed star Acrux at 12 ♏ 05 sits just within range of Mercury. I still expect its influence to be strong with the new moon so close. You will find that conjunctions of planets, or stellium aspect patterns, tend to increase the orb of influence of any nearby fixed stars. Elsbeth Ebertin said the Acrux gives:
intuition, a grasp for the inner nature of one’s fellow man, a preference for occult studies, the gift of successful investigation of the hidden side of things, an inventive mind, and a deeply religious nature connected with mystical and theosophical interests.
The mystical nature of the fixed stars with the New Moon and Mercury are enhanced by the trine to Neptune. Now Neptune on fixed star Skat at 09 ♓ 06 causes idealism and psychic ability. Meaning “The Wish”, this star gives good fortune, lasting happiness and safety in a deluge.
The new moon, Mercury and Neptune each line up with a fixed star that is esoteric or mystical in nature and generally beneficial. Together they give a similar dreamy and optimistic outlook to the planetary aspects, the Mercury new moon trine Neptune. Access to your higher mind will lead to spiritual enlightenment and hope about the future. Depending on how this new moon aspects your chart, you could make a new start in a spiritual direction in any area of life, from following your true calling to meeting your soul mate.
To politicians we can only hope that new moon October 2016 brings greater empathy and understanding of the suffering of so many at the moment. A new moon should promote new goals being set regarding refugees and immigration in general, but also foreign aid and disaster assistance. Neptune is the planet of socialism.
Mercury does suggest that meetings will be held and perhaps even agreements met. Putting them into action may be another matter with only a trine aspect and little help from Mars for initiative. Dreaming is a great first step but making your dreams come true does require some effort.
If new moon October 2016 directly impacts your horoscope decan you can read about its effect in your monthly horoscope. For more detail about how it affects your natal chart see Sun Transits.
Previous Moon Phase: Full Moon 16 October 2016
Next Moon Phase: Full Moon 14 November 2016
New Moon October 2016 Times and Dates
New York
London
Delhi
Sydney
30 October – 1:38 pm
30 October – 5:38 pm
30 October – 11:08 pm
31 October – 3:38 am
Venus and Saturn are trine natal sun. Mars is trine natal Saturn
Lovely moon phase. My natal Jupiter in 9 degrees of Cancer forms a grand water trine with Mercury and Neptune. Talk about dreamy.
With Pluto in its last pass exactly opposing my natal Venus with orb 1 degree, it’ll be interesting how that will play out.
That is a lovely comb, let us know how it feels.
I am looking forward to this one…”feels like home to me” love that song, anyway I have natal Neptune ati in 1st house in a grand trine with Mercury in Cancer and Chiron in Pisces, plus with Venus opposite Neptune, “I have a voice, quite a powrful one and with the trine it seems to be the voice of genuine “soothsaying” even if the psychic or prophetic truth is a warning of being ready for a.brilliant opportunity to embrace or a not good fhalle nge best forewarned and prepated for, it always flows with guidance to ease and work with it, so I am very relieved to hear that in some ways this may well be available through each and all at the basic level of Psychic, Medium and Empath we all have, sometimes the sting of the bee is painful, yet worth it for the sweetness of the honey and its healing gifts. Yes, quite inspired to be hopeful with this as we are rising to a more hive mentality 5th dimensionally from the pack, pod, flock mentality of the 3rd through 4tb. Thank you Jamie
Oops Neptune at 8 scorpio lol
Well said Debbie, and thank you. It was nice writing this one up after so much negativity.
Thank you also Jamie, I sense with this moon that not only is communication a major theme, it is also a somewhat majik theme, in the true sense of the word, to be honest with oneself about imposed by others or on oneself deep in the unseen layers of both emotional and thinking mind of limited structured restricted beliefs as to whether one is actually being a blessing or a curse in our expressing ouuselves, fear and war or love and peace in our relating within our own mind and inneralchemy. Its not always a nice thing to face, indeed sometimes it can feel so repulsive in the realisations it is quite nauseating, however, it is better out than in during a great purge such as this, just not spewing it over others lol!
So much Neptune. It creates a “shit eating grin” the subject is losing terribly while feeling blissful. I could go on but will skip it. Instead I certainly hope you are correct. You have made a believer out of me concerning stars so maybe there is a positive outcome here. Crossing my fingers, and choosing optimism.
There has to be room for some good to come from Neptune as the square eases up. I’m counting on three close trine trumping one waning square.
heh heh. Neptune is as much delusion as it is illusion. Venus conjuncts Saturn, and the day before, on the 29th, Mars squares Uranus. Mars will have conjuncted Pluto on the 20th, Merc square Uranus on the 21st. I see war coming. The Mars/Pluto conjunction is just past the square to the Saturn in the Sibley chart for the US, at 14 Libra. Saturn rules the 2nd house in the Sibley chart. gulp. November 25th, Venus conjuncts Pluto…. death of the dollar?
I find to look like I am swallowing the bullshit yet spit it out without swallowing when in private by releasing whatvis emtionally rising and trying to express its repulsion helps with the delusion of Neptune and then of course the imaginings, be honest with yourself, what are you really imagining thus actually expecting, good or not? It will be and addiction to recreate a feeling and/or a habitual reaction, so not able to change until you know the unconscious behaviour, until it comes into the light consciously? Hope that helps, Neptune has huge potential to be 0ercieved as a blessing or a curse, require understanding of why it feels like a curse to make good of its blessed state instead, or so I have been finding.
Wowzers! This is on my ascendant which is 8 deg Scorpio. It looks like a very powerful mystical new moon. I’m planning to run a circle with shamanic journeying 🙂 Thanks!
This is wonderful. I don’t think you could find anything better to do on this new moon. Please let us know how it turns out for you.
I seem to have a lot of things going on now. This new moon is exact to my natal moon and a wider orb of 6 degrees from my midheaven and neptune. ????
Your Moon is on fixed star Khambalia (06°26′ Scorpio).
Hi Jamie, This new moon conjuncts my natal Uranus ( 8°12′ Я Scorpio) and trines my natal Neptune (9°21′ Я Pisces)..
What does this new moon have in store for me?
Thanks !
I think it will stimulate some psychic abilities or talents that you started developing in previous lives. I have not written about your aspect yet so try googling Uranus trine Neptune. Natal Neptune retrograde could be significant.
I have Saturn, Sun and Mercury at 7, 8 and 9 degrees Scorpio, so this New Moon will conjunct all three. In my 7th house. I hope that, given that my Midheaven is Capricorn and thus ruled by Saturn, the New Moon will be positive for my career. That is the key issue – everything else is great, my marriage, my house, I even got a cat which makes me happy. I want to change career track from the corporate world, to the not-for-profilt world, I need to work for a cause. I have ideas and I hope this is a new beginning. Anyway, thank you for your site and articles, I always look forward to your horoscopes more than any other on the web.
Hi Matilda. I can see this new moon being ideal for making a serious decision like this, turning to a more idealistic calling.
This NM will trine my natal North Node in Cancer house V. It will be squaring my AC Aquarius and my DC Leo.
Neptune is transitting my house I and the NM will land in my IX house Scorpio.
GOOD ARTICLE SIR. I JUST LEARN ABOUT THIS.MY DETAILS – 28.3.1977. -6.35 AM- WEST BENGAL. HOOGHLY BORN. CAN I GET ANY GOOD RESULT OF NEW MOON? I HAVE SOOO MUCH HARD TIME NOW. PLEASE HELP. WHAT CAN I DO FOR GOOD RESULT?
I have pisces rising at 8 degrees, hoping this new moon is great for me! I think it will be!
New moon transit in 12th house Scorpi, Scorpio ascendant 11.14
Hello Jaime, this new moon sounds food and my monthly horoscope sounds food too, although I have a question: which month will be better for me to move to a new house and hopfully sign a long tern leas? Both monthly : new moon sound good but a littel conflicting to signing contracts so thats why im asking.
DOB: Aug.13, 1976, Baku, AZJ.
As always, thanks and blessings for you & yours.
Hi Jamie,
Tonight dreams have been very active (although not very good). It was interesting to read your post. My intuition has strangely been over active in the last 2 days….
This new moon squares my rising sing, would this aspect be stronger than the trine? could it help to put things in action ?
Can this new moon regenerate professional career if rising sign is involved?
Let’s hope that things will improve re refugees and immigration in general, but also foreign aid and disaster assistance although I am a bit worry that everything will be good words but not facts.
It occurs here in the first hour of the 31st, thus still in the hour of spiritual inspiration yet on the east coast it is in the hour of creative flow, hoping all do their part from their hearts on the eve, or day before the day intended for sacred union and an exceedingly powerful one in natures timing and order rather than the ritual one in accordance with the human invented calendars, who knows, its just a sense (neptune 8Scorpio1st house in grand water trine with Mercury and chiron) of huge healing potential for all to have a change of heart, becoming a bkessing rather than a curse, heres to hoping. Cheers Jamie 🙂
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for bringing light to this new moon, I’ve only noticed now that it will hit my chart LOL.
The new moon will be within 1°degree from my mc and less than 0,8° of asteroid pan.
I generally check my chart when i’m traveling, so I was aware that I would have Jupiter on the 9th house this Friday that i’m going abroad. But I didn’t notice that the new moon would be in the end of my 9th. I’m heading to India and Nepal, where I’ll volunteer and do my solar return.
So can I expect some pleasurable intuitive trip, or am I heading on another direction? Also, does it have any professional relation?
Ooooh its trine my Mercury(Rx) Good for all thinks educational? I’m applying to grad schools today
This new moon did not bring in any dreamtime for me at least… Bad dream I must say. Lost my job this morning and really not because of my skills or performance but because of lack of business. I want to take a break to give myself time to think through what would make me feel good doing, but that seems like luxury, being the sole breadwinner. It’s been a year of continuos struggle and what worries me is that I don’t see any respite from the situation in near future at least not in this zone where I live. Thanks Jamie for your insightful posts! I enjoy reading those and appreciate your effort.
I think I met my soulmate under this new moon! I’m Pisces sun with cancer rising and Taurus moon; he is virgo sun with Taurus rising and Scorpio moon.
Reading this six years later, I’m honestly in awe of your astrology post. I met my partner and my spouse now exactly at that time (October 28-29, 2016) and felt like it was fate.
I never cared about relationships then, I was battling homelessness and addiction but I just felt like this was the person I was going to spend my life with. I’m a Virgo and my partner is a Scorpio and I’ve always known there was something aura-like that was so magical and once-in-a-lifetime.
It was just perfect and ever since then life has been up and up and up. And I have no Complaints. Thank you so much for this wonderful insight. It’s such a joy to know what the planets were doing at the time that I found was a significant moment in my life. Thank you!