This is a fun project, highly recommended for the New Moon in Aries! Which happens THIS Saturday, April 18, around 1 p.m. Mountain Time. You have two days after that moment to complete your treasure map.

A treasure map is a simple glue-and-scissors collage like many of us did in grade school. It’s a tool to help you tap into your desires, what you really want, using the power of the Aries New Moon to turbo-charge your intentions for the future.

This is my treasure map from 2010. As you can see, material success is a major theme, as is the desire for happiness, peace, and compassion, and a desire to give something back, to be a force for good in the world.

A little over six months later, I would meet my now-husband and leave my long-time boyfriend and best friend. I left comfort behind, moved halfway across the country, and dove head first into the unknown like a true Aries. It was no fairy tale. I made some major mistakes in our first years. I trusted the wrong people. I let my anxieties get the best of me. I got beaten up a couple of times. I was also getting much sicker (hence the anxiety), but I didn’t know it yet.

The next treasure map I created, in 2012, had a far different focus that reflects something else that needed to happen before the success I asked for in 2010 could possibly manifest: I needed to get healthy. Early 2014, I finally figured out why I was so sick and began my long healing journey. At this stage in my recovery, I am feeling momentum building toward the success that I first called up in 2010.

This sh*t works, y’all!!!

The following is from a book I am very fond of and use often: New Moon Astrology by Jan Spiller Copyright © 2001. Visit the author at janspiller.com. I just ordered her new book, The Astrology of Success.

Spring Equinox Treasure Maps

Another exciting way to use the power of astrological timing to help make our wishes come true was pioneered by fellow astrologer Buzz Meyers. His idea was to use the visual potency of a Treasure Map (a collage) in combination with the Spring Equinox — the first day of Spring — a traditional time of new beginnings! Use the time of the New Moon following the Spring Equinox for creating your Map. You can determine that special day each year by locating the date of the New Moon in Aries.

For your Treasure Map, you will need to have the following materials ready in advance: magazines containing pictures of the kinds of events or experiences you would like to have in your life; scissors; glue sticks (paste or rubber cement); and a poster board (the standard 22” x 28” is recommended). Have your materials ready, but for maximum success, the process of creating your Treasure Map (including the selection of the pictures) must not begin until the New Moon in Aries actually occurs.

At the appropriate time, leaf through the magazines and cut out all pictures, photos, or headlines that attract you and set them aside. When you are ready, begin to paste the images and headlines onto the poster board. There are no “rules” for how your Map should be laid out, only that it be filled with images and headlines that feel happy to you and are in alignment with what you would like to manifest in the year ahead. You may find it natural to put different areas of life on different parts of the board. For example: the pictures of what you would like to occur in your love life on the upper left section; your work desires on the upper right corner, etc. OR, you may prefer to paste the images in a less structured, more flowing way on your Map. Let your subconscious mind, your intuition, and your heart guide you.

As you are creating your Treasure Map, it’s fine to return to the magazines for more images or headlines. In the moment of creative choice, you may find you select images that you hadn’t anticipated as particularly important to you. Of course, the dreams you have wanted for a long time should also be represented on your Map. Feel free to type out your own headlines or draw your own images on your Treasure Map.

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