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  • Rites of Lilith: Venus stations at a New Moon in Aquarius

    Rites of Lilith: Venus stations at a New Moon in Aquarius

    Venus Stations Direct conjunct Pluto Venus stations direct on January 31, 2014 at 13º34′ conjunct Pluto in Capricorn (12:49 pm PST). January 31 to February 1 is the traditional time of Imbolc, a holiday at the cross-quarter between the Solstice and Equinox (by zodiac degree, however, this will be happening more like February 3 –… Read more

  • Venus Retrograde in Capricorn

    Venus Retrograde in Capricorn

    Psyche’s Desire As 2013 comes to a close with a powerful Dark Moon in Sagitarius, and 2014 begins with a potent New Moon aligned with Mercury and Pluto, we are now over a week inside the portal of our current Venus retrograde cycle in Capricorn.  Venus retrograde cycles are magical portals that take us out… Read more

  • Asteria Alchemy of Asteroid Goddesses

    Asteria Alchemy of Asteroid Goddesses

    Emotional transformative crises are changing our psychospiritual vibrations so that we may attune our individual frequency to the spiritual core which resonates with the whole of creation. The positions of Ceres, Pallas Athene, Juno, and Vesta in our charts describe a personal way whereby we can effect this change. –Demetra George, Asteroid Goddesses, page 5… Read more

  • Lou Reed: the primordial poet

    Lou Reed: the primordial poet

    1942 – 2013 Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us. — Laurie Anderson, his loving wife and… Read more

  • Solar Eclipse Clearing on a Hekate Moon

    Solar Eclipse Clearing on a Hekate Moon

    Samhain Threshold Samhain is the ancient Celtic celebration of the mid-point between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice that is traditionally celebrated on the night of October 31 or dawn of November 1, our traditional Halloween holiday in Western culture, similar to how Beltane is traditionally celebrated on May 1. If you want to get… Read more

  • Mercury Retrograde: the liminality of being in between becoming

    Mercury Retrograde: the liminality of being in between becoming

    Mercury Retrograde in between Eclipses The painting “Bringing Light without Pain” above is by Roberto Matta, an artist with a Scorpio Mercury and Sun (11/11/1911), and so an apt painter to showcase in this time when Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio and headed toward it’s “inferior” conjunction with the Sun in Scorpio.  While being able… Read more