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
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New Moon in Libra
New Moon in Libra Darkness surrounds every New Moon, as the Moon withdraws its reflected light to be reseeded by the Sun. With the Moon shrouded in black each month as it approaches its revivifying solar union, we are invited to silently recenter within the mysterious liminality of an old cycle ending while another begins … Continue reading New Moon in Libra
Communion of Venus & Spica
Venus conjunct Spica 104 A Evening, / you gather back / all that dazzling dawn has put asunder: / you gather a lamb / gather a kid / gather a child to its mother 104 B of all stars the most beautiful -- Sappho fragments translated by Anne Carson Venus has been glowing in the … Continue reading Communion of Venus & Spica