Disappearing Act by André Kertész Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius The Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4, 2021 is total, resulting in the blackness of night completely overcoming the light of the Sun. In Hesiod's Theogony, the earliest known mythical cosmogony in ancient Greece, it is Chaos who gives birth to Gaia along with Erebus … Continue reading Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius
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Lunar Eclipse in Taurus
The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, from The Magic Flute by Karl Friedrich Schinkel Lunar Eclipse in Taurus Eclipses are portals of intersecting pathways, signaling an upswing of new relational developments entering our life while older storylines end in release or fade from focalization. Lunar eclipses occur when a Full … Continue reading Lunar Eclipse in Taurus
Scorpio New Moon
City Beyond the Tree by Margo Hoff Scorpio New Moon Ancient astrology texts give the fixed, watery sign of Scorpio a special status due to being the place where the Moon experiences her fall. Being the place where Fortune has her fall, Scorpio is considered zodiacal terrain where nothing can be exalted. When planets are … Continue reading Scorpio New Moon
Full Moon in Aries
Wave Weave 1 by Sarah Wertzberger Full Moon in Aries The polarity between Aries and Libra centers around change of the most primordial sort. In the northern hemisphere the entrance of the Sun into Aries brings the propulsive eruption of Spring from the darkness of Winter, its entrance into Libra the turn from the light … Continue reading Full Moon in Aries
Libra New Moon
Mirror of Venus by Edward Burne-Jones "Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; … Continue reading Libra New Moon
Mercury Retrograde in Libra
Transmutation by Kate Flückinger Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the ShadowT.S. Eliot from "The Hollow Men" Mercury Retrograde in Libra In the space between the changing colors of twilight, in a moment of presence within liminal air charged by solar descent, the stillness of Mercury stationing saturates the atmosphere with his … Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Libra
Pisces Full Moon
Fan with Dragon Pisces Full Moon Like waves which inexorably approach, then retreat into the unfathomably vast recesses of their oceanic source, the siren songs of Neptune call us beyond the constructs of our everyday existence which tend to mold and condition our perceptions. While Neptune transits can correlate with being pulled into illusory experiences, … Continue reading Pisces Full Moon
Virgo New Moon
Pour Gustave l’adoré by Dorothea Tanning New Moon in Virgo The New Moon in Virgo on September 6 heralds the coming turn of season, uniting Moon with Sun sixteen days before the Libra Equinox initiates the final quarter of 2021. As a mutable sign Virgo bears wisdom for transitions, for attuning to how our inner mutations … Continue reading Virgo New Moon
Blue Moon in Aquarius
Evening (1907) by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis That ancient rock face, rosecolor, / image of steadfastness, / gathers the light / through the day and after sundown / and makes of it / something one cannot / call light nor color : an artifact, / as if a smile / broke some ravaged face / and … Continue reading Blue Moon in Aquarius
New Moon in Leo
Gold phiale (libation bowl), 4th - 3rd Century B.C. (Greek) New Moon in Leo The New Moon in Leo on August 8 will be brimming with the brilliant solar radiance that animates the Moon every year when she unites with the Sun in its fiery home of Leo, yet this year its inception will be … Continue reading New Moon in Leo
Full Moon in Aquarius
Andante (Sonata II) by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1907) Full Moon in Aquarius Standing guard at the liminal boundary between the visible and invisible, the constraints of time and the expanse of timelessness, the ringed planet Saturn is always occupying a role of heavy gravitas within astrology. However, in recent years as Saturn has been transiting … Continue reading Full Moon in Aquarius
New Moon in Cancer
Pelican Dream 1 by Michelle Doucette New Moon in Cancer The zodiacal, living image of Cancer is the watery home of the Moon. A place of deep emotional content where we hold memories of sentimental nostalgia as well as painful wounding; lunar patterning that draws and magnetizes us into resonant relational dynamics. Within the reflection … Continue reading New Moon in Cancer
Capricorn Full Moon
Agate ring stone (ca. 1st century B.C.–3rd century) Full Moon in Capricorn The Full Moon in Capricorn on June 24 will illuminate the solstice turning point of the year, the time of peak light in the northern hemisphere and peak darkness in the southern hemisphere. Capricorn is zodiacal terrain ruled by the resilient endurance of … Continue reading Capricorn Full Moon
Solar Eclipse in Gemini
Play Shadow by Leonora Carrington "I hazard the explanation that a shock is at once in my case followed by the desire to explain it. I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of … Continue reading Solar Eclipse in Gemini