Last Updated on July 31, 2024 by Kelly Ashley

 

Why Do I Feel So Bad During The New Moon? (and what to do about it!)

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Why Do I Feel So Bad During The New Moon Phase?

So the new moon is here. Great. It should be a time when as a member of the spiritual community we honour its lunar energy, feel connected and enlightened, experience a raised vibration and set our intentions what what we hope to manifest in the coming month.

Well, it should be. But if that’s the case, why oh why am I unable to sleep, climbing the walls with unsoothable anxiety, feeling like an emotional storm of fear and tears and terror is going to explode from my belly like some freaky sci-fi movie from the 80s?

Not. A. Good. Time.

 

Why Does The Moon Affect Spiritually Awakened Individuals?

If this is happening to you, please don’t worry (it happened to me too) – it CAN be changed, and we’ve got a tried and tested resource that will bring help and stability in just a moment. But first, let’s delve into understanding why the moon is affecting you in the way it is, since this is the key to clearing confusion and feeling more grounded again.

Humans have been tracking the Moon and stars since time began, so there is no doubt that since humans are comprised of around 70% water, the ebbs and flows of it directly affect the natural cycles of our body (e.g mood, sleep, circadian rhythm etc) but, in all honesty, the new moon energies don’t generally affect the average person much. To them, the new moon is just a moon. But for those of us who are going through the spiritual awakening process, the new moon can be a full blown nightmare. It can turn us upside down and inside out on an emotional and energetic roller coaster ride that we can’t get off of for days (and end up dreading as it approaches each month).

The new moon illuminates with it’s brilliant light and ultimately brings EVERYTHING to the surface, which really can be hellish – but fear not, dear friend, because I know how it feels. That used to be my life experience – dreading the moon’s phases and what it could do to me and my energy without my conscious control or permission. But, I’ve managed to learn the pitfalls to this experience, and while you’ll probably always be a little sensitive to any astrological shifts (which is a good thing, I promise) there are some steps that you can take to make it easier when it happens, and to feel better in the process. I’ve created a FREE 5 day step by step course to help you do that, but more on that in a minute.

 

Why Does The New Moon Make Me Feel So Weird/ Crazy/ Anxious/ Emotional (insert uncomfortable reaction here)?

So let’s break it down, because when you can understand why it affects you in the way it does, you’ll probably feel considerably better. In fact, usually when I explain this to my 1:1 awakening clients, their symptoms begin to ease almost immediately – purely because we have cleared anxious energy from their system. This whole thing is way more scary when you don’t understand what’s happening, and if only I’d had someone to guide me through it with knowledge and experience, it would have been so much easier to cope with.

The good news is that this reaction is TEMPORARY, and it WILL ease once the new moon has passed.

After a day or two has passed, you’ll likely feel the pressure lift. There’s more good news too, because even though it seems chaotic and unsupportive and messy, there is actually a really important purpose and structure to the new moon having this powerful effect on you (but don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you need to suffer it) so let me explain why.

The new moon has 3 key functions that serve those of us going through the spiritual awakening process (although it sure doesn’t feel like it at the time). Lets take a look at what those functions are…

 

3 Key Functions Of The New Moon’s Energies

 

#1 – The New Moon Raises Our Vibration

The new moon gives us a beam of that high vibrational energy once a month in a short burst so that we can (over time) acclimatise to it and become accustomed to it. Naturally, in the beginning it is too intense and too high a vibration for us to sustain in our sensitive nature and state, but it continues to be drip fed to us, month after month until eventually we BECOME the same vibrational energy.

It helps us rise from the dense, low vibrational negativity that we are carrying in our energy fields to higher heights, and once we do, we are so in alignment with that lunar energy (which has now become a natural part of who we are) that it doesn’t affect us negatively AT ALL. We align with it so much that it becomes more of a kinship, a comfort, a sameness. The moon literally pulls us up our of the heaviness of spiritual awakening to rise with it in its heightened energetic space – but it does take time for our physical bodies and energies to catch up. And if you’re being negatively affected by the new moon, it just means you haven’t caught up yet, but you WILL – and the new moon will help you do that.

 

#2 – The New Moon Makes Us More Sensitive (emotionally and energetically)

The new moon really has a knack for making us painfully sensitive. You might notice that every sound rattles through you, every interaction triggers unwanted emotional upset, you might be surprised to feel that you sense something is wrong (even if it isn’t) and no matter where you go you just can’t find peace. That’s because that pesky new moon is heightening your senses and intensifying your sensitivity. Believe me when I say, I know that this can feel like some sort of cruel cosmic joke, but it actually has a really important purpose.

The new moon energies prepare us for purging.

There is no way that you can be purged and your energies can be cleared without being able to actively FEEL and REALIZE whats coming up for you. You need to be that sensitive, otherwise there are still issues and feelings that you could run away from, deny and ignore. This is a fail safe designed by the Universe to ensure that NOTHING gets missed as you heal on this ascension process. The Universe does this because avoidance could be a serious threat to achieving your souls’ purpose in this lifetime.

Imagine if further down the line when you are standing in your power, expressing your gifts and aligned with your life purpose, an old emotional wound from the past rose up and completely threw you out of alignment and back into lower negative energy again. It’s not conducive to your life purpose, and it threatens your soul mission. Much better (even though I admit, it can be massively uncomfortable) to clear you out well in advance of everything you will step into so that you are properly prepared, clear in your energy and authentic in your truth. That way, you’ll be a much purer channel for the divine energies to pour through.

 

#3 – The New Moon Purges Us Of Lower Density Energy 

When this higher vibrational lunar energy comes into our space it opens every single one of our chakras through the center of the body (think of a column along the spine that goes from the root chakra at the base of your spine up to the top of your crown). That means that the energetic space right through the middle of you is wide OPEN. This is where old emotional issues surge up and intense feelings arise – maybe a wave of depression suddenly clouds over you and you don’t know why, you feel anxious or terrified with no seeming cause or your reaction to something seems disproportionate.

You’re not crazy and its not wrong. If you’re all triggered and emotionally messy, the new moon is actually doing its job perfectly; Its purging the old pains, hurts and emotions that cause lower vibrational density and darkness in our energies. It’s the old negativity trapped within our energy field that keeps us stuck in low vibrations (and 3D frequencies). So, the new moon’s lunar energies are literally pulling you up through the ascension process and knocking negative baggage loose as you go.

The good news is, there is no way on earth that you can possibly fail. The moon will ensure that you get where you’re going – simply because you can’t fight it or stop it or deny it – this means that any emotional issues that we’ve been avoiding or feel we can’t cope with WILL get healed. I’ll be honest with you, it can be horrible and uneasy to feel such intense emotional turmoil. I remember it well, (the new moon doesn’t affect me at all now) but please don’t worry as there are some things we can do to solve that!

 

How Does The New Moon Affect Us? (Common symptoms)

Ok, now you understand why the new moon affects those going through spiritual awakening in the way it does. Hopefully you can see that there is an important purpose to that experience and that even though it absolutely sucks while its happening, it is actually helping you to ascend in the grand scheme of things. So now, lets talk about how this process actually affects us.

The new moon (or, any astrological event for that matter) can cause a variety of challenging symptoms, and it affects us on 3 different levels…

 

#1 – The New Moon Affects Us Energetically

As the new moon opens our chakras and our bodies sense this influx of very high vibrational light energy, we tend to get massively ungrounded. This is because, like I stated before, we’re not aligned with it yet. It literally tries to lift us up to its vibrational level, and when it does that we become so ungrounded and charged with energy that we usually experience sleep problems, nausea, intense emotions, overwhelm and lots of anxiety too. BUT, if you can get effectively grounded, you WILL stop the new moon from having this intense effect on you – INSTANTLY.

Unfortunately, during spiritual awakening traditional grounding techniques often don’t work, don’t last or even make our symptoms WORSE – I know personally just how impossible it can be to ground when the new moon hits (and generally throughout awakening) which is exactly why I dedicated an entire energy healing meditation to fully ground (even if nothing else has worked) and stay grounded LONG TERM – even throughout astrological shifts – in our signature course to support those going through spiritual awakening. 

 

#2 – The New Moon Affects Us Emotionally  

When the new moon has opened our energies and heightened our sensitivities, next our emotional issues start to bubble to the surface. This means that emotional upsets, trauma, and negative belief systems from this lifetime or past start to filter into your awareness. This is where intense emotions and feelings tend to surge unexpectedly in response to things around you – or they may surge for seemingly no reason at all. This can make us feel pretty fragile during the new moon and tears, depression, fear and anger are common as they look to be released from your system.

 

#3 – The New Moon Affects Us Physically

The new moon can also be a time of unexplained fatigue, aches and pains, and old health complaints or injuries showing up again. Its natural that as we clear past pain and emotion from our souls, we find that some of that is held within the physical body too. It could be that specific organs or body parts have been holding those unresolved emotions for you, or that you sustained injury or illness in a particular area in this lifetime or past. So any pain or discomfort is just your soul alerting you to the issue, showing you where the energetic block is in your physical body and attempting to release it.

Please be really responsible and take care of your physical health if this occurs. Sometimes we do need the medical profession to intervene and treat health issues on the 3D level – even during the ascension process – so if you’re worried about something, nip to the doctor and get a quick check just to be sure.

Our 7 day energy healing course, ’Grounded Awakenings’ is specifically created for those going through spiritual awakening and can help with this.

 

How To Align With The Lunar Energies, Feel Better And Make It Through The Next New Moon Alive!

The new moon is going to do what it needs to do in order for you to fully ascend. There is nothing you can do about that. The purge still needs to happen, and healing still needs to take place, but what you can do, is fully ground your energy. Grounding your energy brings density to the physical body and anchors you to the physical reality. It kind of balances out the high vibrational energy that we can’t quite handle yet. So if you can properly ground your energy, you wont stop the purge from happening (nothing truly can) but you will feel much more stable and secure while its happening and it will take the experience from feeling chaotic and turbulent to much more manageable, reducing your emotional and physical symptoms in the process too.

 

Danger! Not All Grounding Methods Are Safe For Us During Awakening

Its important that you know that most traditional grounding methods don’t actually work for us during awakening, in fact, they can make our symptoms much worse and in extreme cases (like mine) can trigger spiritual emergency. Typical grounding suggestions like crystals, meditation and oils can actually stimulate our already overly active energies further, which ungrounds us even more, which makes more issues come up for healing more quickly and erratically. Its not good – trust me.

If you want to fully ground yourself to feel better right now, and to improve your experience for the next time the new moon comes around, then there are certain things that you want to remove from your energetic space. Nothing on earth will ground you during an astrological event as powerfully as simply avoiding additional energetic stimulants.

I’ve listed all of these in a step by step grounding course and included some tried and tested grounding methods that can help support you when the new moon hits – you can check it out below. Alternatively, we also have an energy healing meditation entirely dedicated to the new moon, to help you to reduce your symptoms when the new moon occurs AND help you to harness the powerful lunar energies for a refreshing spiritual restart, rapid positive change & the success of your goals too. Check out The New Moon Manifestation energy healing meditation here.

 

Frequently Asked Questions About The New Moon

 

What is the spiritual significance and meaning of the new moon?

The new moon is associated with feminine energy and intuition. It’s arrival heralds a time for a life review, fresh start, goal setting and in particular, manifesting your desires.

 

Can the new moon affect sleep, emotions, mood, behaviour, or cause anxiety, headaches and restlessness?

Yes to all, and much more! Since the human body is comprised of approximately 70% water, we are prone to the effect as it controls the ebb and flow of our natural rhythms, cycles and environment, plus for those who are energetically sensitive, the energy of it can play a large part too.

 

How can I incorporate the new moon into my spirituality or spiritual practice?

There are lots of ways, but its really down to the individual what resonates most deeply with them. Some like to meditate to honour the new moon, others make moon water, use crystals to harness its power, do yoga or other energy clearing practices. You can also use this energy healing meditation to align you with new moon energies while reduce challenging symptoms and boosting your manifesting power PLUS it will protect your energies from being so deeply affected as time goes on too. Check it out here.

 

 

Hey! If you liked this article you might also be interested in these other popular related resources:

• Free masterclass: Boost Your Manifesting Power With High Vibrational Lunar Energies (for rapid change!)
• The New Moon Manifestation Energy Healing Meditation 
• 3 Signs You’re New Moon Sensitive 
• Why Traditional Grounding DOESN’T work During Spiritual Awakening
• Grounded Awakenings 7 Day Energy Healing Course For Spiritual Awakening

 

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• Harness the powerful lunar energies of each and every new moon
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