Aries New Moon 2008 

April 05, 2008:

Luna conjuncts Sol in Aries at the 17th degree. This Aries New Moon forms the apex of a T-square involving Mars in Cancer and Jupiter in Capricorn. The best way to set the will and emotions into harmonious conjunction to begin new projects would be to focus on the void in Libra (relationships and fairness) at the 17th degree.

If that’s not a good spot for you, you might choose to pass on this time for your astrological New Year’s resolutions because there is a lot of tension and potential stress in this pattern; it’s more like a grin-and-bear-it moment favoring stasis rather than the beginning of new projects, which could be marked by an intensely active tendency towards emotional turmoil having to do with an increase in restrictive energies. 

In the news, we are hearing about governmental initiatives to create new laws purporting to shore up the economy, and to do away with environmental laws concerning the borders, while attempting to increase surveillance of ordinary citizens accoding to the notion of policing “Homeland Security.”

Since there is a void in Libra, efforts to increase legislation to improve domestic security could get hung up in a battle over fairness, as could hastily enacted or unilateral personal initiatives.
Article: From the ACLU: “Newly Unredacted Documents Show Lack of Oversight in Military Domestic Spying Powers”