Mercury Retrograde in Cancer Mercury shifts retrograde at least three times a year, yet some are positioned at more pivotally important times than others. Mercury will station retrograde at 14º45' Cancer on the night of June 17 in Pacific standard time, only a few days before the Moon will eclipse the Sun on the solstice. It is … Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Cancer
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Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
Take up the blood from the grass, sun. Take it up. These people do not thirst for it. Take up the insect children that play in the grass, sun. Take them away. These people are sick of them. Take down the long slender reeds, sun. Cut them down. These people cannot make flutes any longer. … Continue reading Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
New Moon in Gemini
New Moon in Gemini The New Moon in Gemini on May 22, 2020 heralds a lunar cycle that will require the cunning skills of Mercury, the ability to consider many perspectives while navigating twists and turns in events and keeping an open mind regarding necessary changes in direction. Gemini delights in the discovery of new … Continue reading New Moon in Gemini
Full Moon in Scorpio
Full Moon in Scorpio The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 7, 2020 will illuminate the most inward depths of feelings and memories, penetrating underneath the surface of whatever emotional material has been gathered since the Taurus New Moon on April 22. Like laying down within a pastoral landscape of bees pollinating flowers, swallows diving … Continue reading Full Moon in Scorpio
Taurus New Moon & Uranus
New Moon in Taurus The monthly lunar cycle ends and begins in darkness. While the New Moon in Taurus on April 22 is an inception of a new cycle, there is a death and rebirth process for the Moon to undergo under the rays of the Sun that is necessarily nurtured by darkness. There is … Continue reading Taurus New Moon & Uranus
Full Moon in Libra
Full Moon in Libra Amidst so much uncertainty around the world, the Libra Full Moon will illuminate the changes that have been taking shape during the pandemic and how we have been adjusting. The Full Moon has a relational focus due to being in the outwardly directed home of Venus, with its pull to examine … Continue reading Full Moon in Libra
Ceres at the Crossroads of Civilization
Ceres and the 2020 Pandemic The krater above was created near the end of the life of Empedocles, who declared that forces of love and strife are at the root of creation. On the left is a crowned Persephone, while on the right stands her mother Demeter. In between are Hermes and Hekate, deities who … Continue reading Ceres at the Crossroads of Civilization
Aries New Moon: At the Crossroads with Chiron
New Moon in Aries These days you don't need astrology to tell you we have arrived at a collective crossroads. With the COVID 19 pandemic causing seclusion in quarantine around the world, with businesses and schools closed and public gatherings banned, the need to sustain drastic measures for containment has brought us betwixt and between, … Continue reading Aries New Moon: At the Crossroads with Chiron
Saturn in Aquarius
"The fisherman draws fish that he never saw from many fathoms beneath the water, the miner brings gold from the depths out of the earth, through which his sight cannot pierce. In this wise has God taught it. As there is nothing so occult that it shall not become manifest, so the same must be … Continue reading Saturn in Aquarius
Full Moon in Virgo
Full Moon in Virgo The Full Moon in Virgo on March 9 illuminates the finale of the Mercury retrograde period we have been experiencing ever since Mercury stationed retrograde on February 16. The Full Moon is in the exaltation and nocturnal home of Mercury, bringing amplified potency to Mercury stationing direct at 28°12′ Aquarius about … Continue reading Full Moon in Virgo
New Moon in Pisces
New Moon in Pisces The New Moon in Pisces on February 23 arrives not only during a change in season but also demarcates a threshold to cross into an intensification of the catalytic astrology of 2020. In the northern hemisphere, the days are growing longer as green shoots emerge from frozen ground; in the southern … Continue reading New Moon in Pisces
Mercury retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius
Mercury Stations Retrograde in Pisces We paused amid the pines that stood / The giants of the waste, / Tortured by storms to shapes as rude / As serpents interlaced, / And soothed by every azure breath / That under Heaven is blown / To harmonies and hues beneath, / As tender as its own; … Continue reading Mercury retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius
Full Moon in Leo
Full Moon in Leo Leo is the place of fixed fire, the indomitable flames that endure and resiliently persist in the face of extinguishing forces. The Full Moon in Leo on February 8 (or 9th, depending upon time zone) is an invitation for sustaining focus on the creations you most dearly wish to forge from … Continue reading Full Moon in Leo
New Moon in Aquarius
New Moon in Aquarius Following the flooding of last month's Capricorn eclipse season, the Aquarius New Moon on January 24 bears light within its darkness to discover and utilize in illuminating the emerging path ahead. Eclipses bring dissolution externally and internally, and so whether recognized or unrecognized the past month of intense astrological alignments have … Continue reading New Moon in Aquarius
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