Honour the Void, Plant the Seed: July’s Vedic Moon Guide

THE MOON CYCLES IN VEDIC COSMOLOGY | JULY NEW MOON 2025

TIMING: July 24, 8:11pm BST

SIGN: Cancer

NAKṢATRA: Puṣya

RETROGRADES: Mercury & Saturn

For the next 30 days from today, the New Moon or No Moon Day, Amāvasyā, offers us a theme related to the nakṣatra it’s housed in. The nakṣatra is Puṣya, the star of nourishment, governed by Saturn, who is currently retrograde. It is an area of the sky symbolised by the udder of a cow, carrying the theme of mothering: nurturing, tending to others’ needs.

It is through the relationship with the Other that we can see what we are blind to in our day-to-day interactions. The lack of nourishment, care, kindness, and emotional availability that we criticise the Other for can signal what is missing in our own relationship with the Self.

The New Moon is a portal for a new start, and in this cycle, the energy—due to Saturn’s influence as planetary ruler, along with Bṛhaspati’s (Jupiter’s) lordship of Puṣya—indicates a focus on one’s health, well-being, and spiritual discipline. If we don’t prioritise and meet our mental and emotional needs, how can we serve others, or even show up fully, in a state of depletion?

In Vedic cosmology, the Moon, or Chandra Deva, reflects the manas, our psycho-emotional state. As the moon begins its waning cycle, our emotional and mental energy wanes too, and by the No Moon Day, Amāvasyā, the body and mind ask for rest, stillness, and inner space—a space that women in particular are indoctrinated to fear rather than welcome.

Women are also conditioned to believe that this state of void is dangerous, that they must fill it immediately with distractions like food, doom scrolling, or [insert addiction].

Generational guilt and shame begin to build up in the silence.

We have a habit of burying our emotions.

What is a sacred moment becomes a time of dread and a feeling of stuckness or purposelessness. And spiritual women in particular, those with soul awareness, find themselves frequently in these moments of ‘limbo’, which can express itself as overwhelm or paralysis: An “I don’t know what to do.”

But there is a truth that one can anchor back to: There are Goddesses of the Void who show the Way. Hinduism, or Sanātana Dharma, has long celebrated dark Goddesses, meaning those who wield tremendous life-and-death-dealing power, like Kālī Mā, Nirṛti, and Dhūmāvatī, manifestations of deep transformation and change.

Without meeting these forces within, one cannot descend into the essence of consciousness and embrace a new beginning.

The void is not an empty place. It is, in fact, fertile — a place to plant seeds and diligently nurture them through the phases of the moon.

Through colonisation’s indigenous cultural erasure, we have forgotten the creative rituals that nourish our relationship with the Self, rituals that support us in communicating with our soul.

The dhārmic way of life, the Hindu philosophies and practices, are themselves a foundation that offers inner safety, stability, guidance, and the universal truths that help us align with the cyclical nature of reality.

Are you ready to descend into the depths of the Dark Goddess, your very own portal — the mirror of a-void-ance?

Are you ready to enter the Fertile Void-Space, the place to nurture your inner well-being, your true intentions and desires, and awaken your many potentials and possibilities?

Join me for an in-person event and an online workshop: The Fertile Void: A Yogic Journey Into Creative Rebirth. An inner immersion guided by yoga, art, and dharma.

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NEW MOON BLESSINGS. 🖤⃝⋆˚࿔

Payal

Email: payal@pranaandpoetry.com