This moon cycle moves through Taurus season, a time that invites you to slow down, reconnect with what matters, and focus on what you’re intentionally building. Unlike the momentum-driven pace of Aries season, this is a period for creating something steady, that feels supportive, sustainable, and aligned with your values.

Using the moon as a guide offers natural check-ins for the life you’re building. Each phase represents a different stage of the process: setting intentions, taking action, recognizing what has come into form, and releasing what’s no longer aligned. When you begin to work with this cycle, you create a way of moving through life that feels more grounded, more intentional, and ultimately more sustainable.

Below, you’ll find journal prompts, affirmations, and self-care practices designed to support each phase of this lunar cycle. You can revisit this guide throughout the month as the moon moves through its phases.

New Moon in Aries — April 17

Theme: Identity, New Beginnings, Self-Expression

Focus: Setting intentions that support independence, confidence, and authentic self-expression.

The new moon in Aries marks a fresh start centered around your sense of self and the direction you want to move in. Aries energy is initiating and self-defining, encouraging you to reconnect with your identity, your personal desires, and the version of yourself you’re ready to embody. This phase invites you to plant intentions that prioritize your individuality, personal growth, and the way you show up in the world.

Aries reminds us that identity is shaped through action and choice. This is a time to consider who you are becoming and how you want to present yourself moving forward. What habits, attitudes, or expressions reflect your most aligned self? Intentions set now support stepping more fully into that version of yourself.

Journal Prompts:

• Who am I becoming in this next chapter of my life?
• How do I want to show up in the world moving forward?
• What does my future self prioritize, and how can I begin embodying that now?

Affirmations for the Week:

• I confidently step into the version of myself I am becoming.
• I honor my individuality and express myself authentically.
• Each small step I take helps shape the life and identity I desire.

Self-Care Activities:

• Write down one intention and take a small step toward it today.
• Refresh your personal style or appearance in a small way.
• Write a short description of your future self.
  

 

First Quarter Moon in Leo - April 23

Theme: Fun, Expression, and Creativity

Focus: Taking aligned action in support of being seen and adding more fun back to your life

The First Quarter Moon in Leo is an activation point. With every first quarter moon, intention starts to meet resistance asking for action to be taken. Leo brings this action into the realm of self-expression, visibility, and creativity. Less about doing more, and more about showing up more fully in what you’re doing with joy and vibrancy.

You can make progress by allowing yourself to be witnessed — sharing your voice, your work, letting yourself take up more space in your life, and (most importantly) having fun with it.

When your actions are fueled by play, passion, and self-trust, momentum builds more naturally. This is a great time to review progress on your New Moon intentions and get creative with how you can have fun with them.

Journal Prompts:

• Where am I holding myself back from being seen or expressed?
• What would it look like to take up more space in my life right now?
• Where can I choose joy and play as part of my growth process?
  

Affirmations for the Week:

• I allow myself to be seen in my authenticity.
• My self-expression is valuable and worthy of recognition.
• I move forward with courage, even when it feels uncomfortable.

Self-Care Activities:

• Share something you’ve created or been keeping to yourself
• Do something playful without attaching it to productivity
• Wear something that makes you feel confident
  

 

Full Moon in Scorpio — May 1

Theme: Transformation, Impact, and Emotional Depth

Focus: Celebrating the transformation in your life, feeling it fully, and allowing natural release

TThe Full Moon in Scorpio marks the peak of the cycle. This is where your intentions are fully illuminated. Pause and recognize what has come into form, both internally and externally. What has shifted? What have you moved through? What feels more clear, honest, and true?

Scorpio brings depth to this moment. It highlights what has manifested and the inner transformation that made it possible. This growth may be both subtle and powerful like changes in your emotional patterns, your boundaries, and your self-trust.

Before focusing on release, this phase asks you to acknowledge and celebrate how far you’ve come. Feel gratitude for what has unfolded, even if it doesn’t look exactly how you expected. Something here that has reached completion or clarity and it wants to be noticed.

From this peak, the light begins to wane—marking the natural shift from fullness into release. This is a reminder to set your intentions to release, to breathe out. As awareness increases, what no longer aligns naturally begins to fall away. This is the butterfly moment—where you can recognize both who you were and who you are now. It’s time to part ways with your cocoon and take flight.

Journal Prompts:

• What has come full circle for me that I haven’t fully acknowledged yet?
• What part of me feels more powerful, honest, or self-trusting now??
• What feels complete and ready to be released?
  

Affirmations for the Week:

• I honor the growth I’ve moved through.
• I recognize my strength and transformation.
• I allow myself to fully receive this moment of clarity.
  

Self-Care Activities:

• Reflect on your growth over the past month and write down what you’re genuinely proud of
• Get ready or dress in a way that makes you feel powerful and fully expressed
• Revisit a past version of yourself (journals, photos, memories) and acknowledge how you’ve evolved

Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius — May 9

Theme: Community, Perspective, Letting Go

Focus: Taking action to release what’s no longer aligned, especially within your role in the collective

The Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius is a point of action for release. Aquarius brings your attention to the bigger picture — your community, your environment, and the roles you play within them. You may start to notice where something feels out of alignment. This could be a an expectation, a way of showing up, or even a belief you’ve been carrying that no longer feels true and supportive of your vision.

This is a time to consciously release. Not just mentally recognizing it but taking real steps to shift it. Aquarius supports change that feels liberating and future-focused, especially when it allows you to show up more authentically.

Use this phase to clear space so you can move forward feeling more free, aligned, and connected to both yourself and the bigger picture.

Journal Prompts:

• What outdated beliefs or routines need to be released?
• How can I show up more authentically in my community?
• What future vision am I ready to start aligning with?
  

Affirmations for the Week:

• I release what no longer serves the greater good.
• I am a visionary, and my ideas matter.
• I am rooted in a community that is supportive of me and my vision.

Self-Care Activities:

• Remove yourself from a space, habit, or expectation that no longer feels aligned
• Connect with a group or cause that inspires you
• Journal or visualize your ideal future and your role within it

 

New Moon in Taurus - May 16

Theme: Wealth, Stability, and Self-Worth

Focus: Setting grounded intentions that support long-term security, value, and consistency

The New Moon in Taurus is a reset around what you’re building and how you’re supporting yourself. This phase invites you to slow down and get intentional about what actually feels sustainable.

Taurus energy is steady and grounded. It’s less about big changes and more about creating something that lasts. This can show up in your finances, your routines, your environment, or the way you care for yourself day to day.

It also brings your attention to self-worth. The way you spend your time, energy, and money often reflects how you value yourself. This is a moment to check in with that and set intentions that feel both supportive and realistic.

Set an intention centered around something that can show up consistently. What you begin here doesn’t need to be big, it just needs to feel solid enough to keep.

Journal Prompts:

• What am I ready to call into my life and build over time?
• What does stability and abundance look like for me in this season?
• What is one intention I can commit to consistently?
  

Affirmations for the Week:

• I am building something steady and supportive.
• I trust slow, consistent growth.
• I allow myself to create stability and abundance over time.

Self-Care Activities:

• Write down what you’re ready to receive and why you’re worthy of it
• Set one simple financial or routine-based intention you can stick to
• Build a vision board centered around what stability and abundance mean to you

This cycle is something you can return to again and again. Each time, you’ll move through it with a little more awareness — refining what you’re building, what you’re releasing, and how you’re showing up for yourself. Let it be a simple ritual you come back to when you want more clarity, grounding, or direction in your life.

For guided journal prompts, audio reflections, and tools to follow each phase of the lunar cycle, download Luna Focus on the App Store and Google Play.