How to Navigate a Void Moon ⋆ Earth and Water

There are lots of aspects to life. How do we keep them all straight? How do we not leave anything out? Living by the moon has helped me to keep some organization to my life and make room for everything I want to do.

Syncing my life to whatever the moon is doing helps me to flow with the energies I’m experiencing so that I may better accomplish things and create mandatory space in my life so that I don’t become overwhelmed or over do it.

Usually. If I can stick to it. But that’s why it’s called a practice, isn’t it? Sometimes we do good with sticking to things and then other times we fall off for a few months or a year.

That’s the nature of life so don’t be discouraged because you’re normal – I remind myself often. Just pick it back up when you can and keep going like there was no hiatus. You’re doing great.

Speaking of hiatus’, that’s what the void moon offers us on a regular basis for rest and upkeep.

So what does that void moon thing even mean?

Well, as the moon travels through the sky, it’s entering and exiting the signs of the zodiac. When it’s in a particular sign, we feel more of that sign’s influence in our thinking, acting and goings about.

For example, if the moon is in Pisces, things may have a dreamier feel to them. We are more creative, kinder and willing to listen to others.

If the moon is in Leo, we may be more boisterous, fun, loving and confident.

Virgo turns our attention to health, organization and helping others.

The moon will stay in a zodiac for a couple of days before switching to the next. In between these switches, the moon is not in any sign. When the moon is traveling between this “voided” space, it’s considered “Void of course”

It’s really a simple concept although when I first learned about it, no one had explained it to me and I kept reading “Void OF COURSE” and always thought that was a little rude. “Of course” like I was suppose to know. But it’s actually as in “the course it takes”. 😅

Ok, So now what do I do with this info?

The basic concept is, while the moon’s in it’s void of course period, don’t do anything important. If the moon’s not working, neither am I. During this time:

Don’t start anything new that you want to stick (It won’t)
Don’t sign any important papers
Don’t schedule important meetings
Don’t buy anything big
Don’t take on new and important projects

If you message me about work during the void moon, I’ll avoid answering until the void period is over.

There’s no energy there to make anything stick and it’ll all be a giant waste of time. If you’re skeptical, do your own experiments with it and watch how nothing started during this period sticks.

There are those who say that the moon can’t be void if it’s leaving Cancer or Taurus, because those are it’s home signs, but I’m cool with extra void periods and don’t take any chances.

It’s also said that you can work on things that were started while the moon was active, but I don’t like to do that either. It’s really a personal preference on that one though.

So what CAN I do during a void moon?

Routine, unimportant things are great for riding out the void moon period. They never last more than 12 ish hours and are often only periods of 2-3 hours at most. A long void moon period occurring during waking, work hours usually only comes around once or twice a month.

During a void moon:

Clean
Read
Nap
Self care
Cook
Meditate
Exercise (especially yin yoga)
Plan
Hang out with loved ones
Simple, routine errands

Basically anything that’s chill, routine and doesn’t have any importance tied to it.

I mean, of course self care, exercise and meditation (etc) are important. But you don’t have to worry about things going wrong (generally) or them being a waste of time. I might do these things or I may schedule routine errands like grocery shopping during this time.

Benefits of the void moon

Tailoring my life around the void moon has given me mandatory rest times sprinkled throughout my week. This is especially helpful since this is a Kapha time and I am extremely Pitta/Vata. Meaning I’ll go go go unless something MAKES me rest.

I also have tons of planets in Capricorn which adds to my need for constant productivity.

Refusing to work during these periods gives me time to focus on myself and all of those “non essential” things I want to do but never make the time for. It’s helped me to create space in my life to breathe, grow and ground myself. All invaluable to progress and balance.

How do I keep up with this schedule?

That proves a bit tricky, honestly. You can google “void moon times/dates” and get results. But most of them I’ve found to be a bit tricky and difficult to follow. Many don’t take into account your specific time zones and you’re left to math. Most of them are written in a format that you can’t easily understand.

The best things I’ve found so far is an app called “Simple VoC moon calendar” and this google calendar.

Keep in mind, I’m an Android user and have no idea if it’s on Apple, so I apologize for being one sided on this if it’s not available to you. You can follow me on Twitter, turn on my notifications and I can be your own personal void moon notification since I try to tweet out all of the significant ones!

There are several aspects to living by the moon.

Manifesting with the moon helps you to accomplish your goals.
Assigning tasks to do during particular zodiacs allows you to harness their power.
Being aware of the void moon allows you to schedule rest times and avoid wasting your time.

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S.S.Blake; Spiritual Life Coach, Yoga + Meditation Teacher and Founder of Earth and Water

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How to Navigate a Void Moon

So what does that void moon thing even mean?

Ok, So now what do I do with this info?