New Moons happen at the beginning of every monthly lunar cycle. In astrology, the New Moon is a time to plant seeds of intention. That idea “intuitively resonated with my heart,” Guerrero-Nieto explains. She had cultural wisdom to back it, learning about ancient indigenous farmers who harvested during the New Moon to maximize abundance of crops to feed their communities, and Asian traditions where haircuts took place just before the Lunar New Year to shed back luck or energy and transition into a fresh start. In an effort to welcome her own personal “cycles of rebirth and transformation,” Guerrero-Nieto began aligning her salon appointments with the new moon. “[It] allowed me to move from simple aesthetic motivations into spiritual ones,” she explains.
