Bridget Riley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZgRwbccpuo Audio recording of Solar Eclipse in Libra article Solar Eclipse in Libra Eclipses render paradox into realization. There's nothing like experiencing the life giving light of the Sun extinguished, dissolved into an otherworldly darkness in which day suddenly becomes night. A paradox insists on coming to terms with events and material beyond … Continue reading Solar Eclipse in Libra
Venus in Virgo
New Moon in Libra
Justice (1550/69) by Bernardino India New Moon in Libra Libra is a sign of weighing balances, associated with the fall equinox in the northern hemisphere and the spring equinox in the southern hemisphere when there is an equality of day and night around the world. The New Moon in Libra on September 25 is only … Continue reading New Moon in Libra
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
Virgo New Moon
Virgo New Moon Following the radiant and raging fire set by the Leo Sun during August in which the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars were all occupying the sign of the Lion, the New Moon in Virgo on August 30 initiates us into a month dominated by the cool calculations of Virgo. As the Moon … Continue reading Virgo New Moon
Planets in Fall on the Liminal Light Podcast
I recently joined Chris Reppucci on his Liminal Light Podcast to discuss planets in fall and how we might think about them and where we might look to find stories that help us in better understanding their condition. I gave a talk at the NORWAC astrology conference in May 2019 exploring the fall of Venus … Continue reading Planets in Fall on the Liminal Light Podcast
Partial Solar Eclipse in Cancer on Pluto’s Nodes
Partial Solar Eclipse in Cancer All new lunations deemed eclipses are not equal, for those that succomb to total blackening of the Sun are far more potent than those in which only a sliver of a shadow obscures our solar light. The Partial Solar Eclipse in Cancer on July 12 (or July 13, depending upon … Continue reading Partial Solar Eclipse in Cancer on Pluto’s Nodes
Full Moon in Aries
Aries Full Moon The Full Moon in Aries arrives with a jolt within deeply shifting, turbulent astrological atmosphere. The Moon full of light in Aries calls us to show up with courage to areas of life and relationship needing our undivided attention. Aries stokes the flames of our personal sovereignty and drive to passionately go … Continue reading Full Moon in Aries
Aquarius Full Moon
Full Moon in Aquarius The Full Moon on 18 August 2016 is close to being a visible eclipse, and if you are a reader of astrological literature you have probably seen this lunation noted as an eclipse. Eclipses cannot be more than eighteen degrees away from the transiting lunar nodes, and so the Full Moon … Continue reading Aquarius Full Moon
Full Moon in Taurus and the Dawn of Jupiter, Venus, and Mars in Virgo
Taurus Full Moon The Full Moon in Taurus on October 27 arrives like a temporary rainbow following a savage storm, fittingly at the Sabian symbol degree of "the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." In the penetrating streams of the Scorpio season, a full lunation in the sign of the Moon's exaltation … Continue reading Full Moon in Taurus and the Dawn of Jupiter, Venus, and Mars in Virgo
New Moon in Libra
New Moon in Libra The New Moon in Libra on October 12, 2015 unleashes a visceral sense of new meaning following a period in which necessary elements of our past beliefs were dislodged in order to be released. The eclipses are over. Venus retrograde is over. We are still in the shadows of Mercury retrograde, … Continue reading New Moon in Libra
Mercury Retrograde in Libra
Mercury Retrograde in Libra Mercury stations retrograde at 15°55' Libra on September 17, 2015 Mercury unites with Sun at 7°07' Libra on September 30, 2015 Mercury stations direct at 0°54' Libra on October 9, 2015 Mercury leaves its retrograde shadow zone on October 26, 2015 The transit of Mercury retrograde in Libra beginning September 17 … Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Libra
Venus Retrograde in Leo & Virgo
Venus Retrograde Venus stations retrograde at 0°46' Virgo on July 25 and stations direct at 14°24' Leo on September 6, 2015. Inferior conjunction of Venus with the Sun, or "New Venus," will be at 22°39' Leo on August 15, 2015. The shadow zone of Venus retrograde covering the stretch of time Venus is contained within … Continue reading Venus Retrograde in Leo & Virgo
Dark Moon Equinox
Because the light that we see as coming from the moon is the sun's reflected light, the dark moon is in a sense the moon's true face. --Demetra George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon Balancing light and dark, equal parts lunar and solar, the Libra Equinox of 2014 occurs on a Dark Moon in Virgo … Continue reading Dark Moon Equinox
Super Pisces Full Moon
The Full Moon on September 8 is another Super Moon, meaning that the Moon will be as close to Earth as it gets in orbit, appearing larger in our sky, having a more extreme impact on the tides of our water, and looming larger in our consciousness as well (the term Super Moon was coined … Continue reading Super Pisces Full Moon
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