El Signo de Cancer by Remedios Varo Full Moon in Cancer The Full Moon in Cancer on 13 January is wildly catalytic and extreme. With the Moon in her own watery domain and forming a conjunction with Mars retrograde in Cancer, we may likely feel huge emotions or a magnified sense of emotional dynamics that … Continue reading Cancer Full Moon
Venus conjunct Saturn
Aquarius New Moon
La Belle au Bois Dormant by Gustave Doré https://youtu.be/Qw1GFjPYYzQ Audio recording of article on the Aquarius New Moon Aquarius New Moon The ponderous gaze of Saturn is responsible for the care of both sides of the border between Capricorn and Aquarius. The star of wily Kronos calls both celestial landscapes its home, yet there is … Continue reading Aquarius New Moon
Full Moon in Gemini
Full Moon in Gemini "Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light / I had a splendid dream of thee last night: / I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold, / Among the Gods, upon Olympus old, / The only sad one; for thou didst not hear / The soft lute-finger'd Muses chanting clear, … Continue reading Full Moon in Gemini
New Moon in Sagittarius
Sagittarius New Moon The cosmos works / by harmony of tensions, / like the lyre and bow. — Heraclitus, fragment 56, translated by Brooks Haxton The New Moon in Sagittarius on November 26 brings us to the final days of Jupiter's time in its fiery home of Sagittarius where it expresses its full essential nature. As the … Continue reading New Moon in Sagittarius
Virgo Full Moon: Torch of Regulus
Full Moon in Virgo Around the hollow of her right flank a great stream of the primordially-generated Soul gushes forth in abundance, totally ensouling light, fire, ether, worlds. In the left flank of Hekate exists the source of virtue, which remains entirely within and does not give up its virginity. The Chaldean Oracles translated by Ruth … Continue reading Virgo Full Moon: Torch of Regulus
Scorpio New Moon
New Moon in Scorpio Just feeling human the way a cloud’s a cloud tinged with blue or walking slow across the sky or hastening, but not a Thursday cloud formed for the anxious glance of Thursday people, simply a cloud, whose particles may fall Tuesday, just as well, on anyone’s spring hair, on any taciturn … Continue reading Scorpio New Moon
New Moon in Capricorn
New Moon in Capricorn The New Moon in Capricorn on January 9, 2016 is fecund with the dark matter of Saturn. Capricorn is an inwardly directed sign of initiating in the multitudinous manifestations of the earth element, the home of Saturn and its significations of structure, boundaries, determination, and transcendence. This particular Capricorn New Moon … Continue reading New Moon in Capricorn
Mercury Retrograde in Saturn’s Home
Hermes I call, whom Fate decrees to dwell in the dire path which leads to deepest hell O Bacchic Hermes, progeny divine of Dionysius, parent of the vine, And of celestial Aphrodite Paphian queen, dark eye-lash'd Goddess of a lovely mien: Who constant wand'rest thro' the sacred feats where hell's dread empress, Persephone, retreats; To … Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Saturn’s Home
Neptune stations in Pisces
The image above from Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds centers around a moment of epiphany, an opening of consciousness resonant with the dissolving of personal structures that can occur when Neptune stations direct as it has now at five degrees of Pisces. People love to write about the Age of Aquarius, but Neptune stationing direct is … Continue reading Neptune stations in Pisces
Mercury retrograde: a forest dark in liminal twilight
"I go along dreaming roads of the twilight" Antonio Machado Between thought and expression, between the colors of the sunset and the eye of the beholder, in the liminal light of twilight we feel the atmosphere of Mercury retrograde. Mercury retrograde is a three week period in which we can surrender to opening our awareness … Continue reading Mercury retrograde: a forest dark in liminal twilight
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