"All that fire, all that pain.
Perhaps the visit from my ex through this thinning veil was more about me than them not being able to move on?...
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Narrow winding roads lead up and down the steep hillsides that are ever threatening to be washed away. The hollers that they lead to are well kept...
For the past week, I have been fixated on the idea of activating my throat chakra. I did anything I could think of—I sought out lapis lazuli,...
According to myth, the underworld is ever-present. The Cumaean sibyl told us that the entrance to Hades is everywhere, but the trick to gaining entrance is to...
Oranges, reds, yellows and browns…these are the signature colors of October and they beckon to us at the core; our root, sacral and solar plexus chakras. Our...
On Saturday, September 28th, the New Moon in Libra arrives 5° Libra at 11:26am PT. Symbolically, each degree of the zodiac is significant, and carries its own...
On March 6th, 2019 at 8:04am PST, the New Moon in Pisces opened a door for us around themes of Piscean matters: Healing, empathy, connecting to the...
Refining, deciding, sorting, clearing and cleaning. We’re all sensing and tapping into the earthy practicality and grounding of Virgoan energy that’s trickling in as we set our...
At the end of a summer punctuated by fierce eclipses, powerful conjunctions between the planets and the nodes of fate, we are now in the solar season...
Warm, slow, satisfied. These are the words that float to mind as the month of August begins to reveal herself. Marked by the early harvest holiday of...
This last month has sort of rocked all the bits and bobs of my life that were quiet and hidden. Along with Cristina Farella’s New Moon in...
A quick backward glance This month has brought up so much — pain, pleasure, darkness, anxiety, as well as a glimpse of the future. I’m happy to...
We can identify this moment as one of chaotic suspension. This week we’re pulled briskly between the New Moon eclipse in Cancer and the Full Moon eclipse...
At 3:03am on June 3rd, the New Moon in Gemini arrives. As the Sun and Moon rest together at 12° Gemini, an as yet unknown doorway opens...
Today the Moon is Full in Scorpio. With the Sun and Moon opposed at 27° Scorpio, this lunation brings us the conclusion of a cycle we initiated...
On May 14, 2019, Venus and Mars ingress into new signs, signaling to us a fresh energetic narrative around themes of love, money, values, anger, conflict, and...
For me, the history of art and poetry is inextricably linked to the esoteric. Artists are individuals touched by daemon, inspired by genius, conspiring with muses. These...
This month’s full moon in Libra arrives on Friday, April 19th at 4:12am PST. You may have heard that this full moon is a little unique, as...
On Friday, April 5th, the New Moon in Aries arrives. Resting conjunct the Sun at 15°, the New Moon in Aries is here to help us cultivate...
In the classic book by Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and its 360 Symbolic Phases, Rudhyar offers this interpretation for 15° of Pisces: ...
At 7:54am the Moon will be full in the sign Virgo on February 19, 2019. The Full Moon arrives at 0° Virgo, opposing the Sun at 0°...
And just like that, the first month of the year is behind us. January’s dual eclipses did some heavy karmic work of ending the previous Leo/Aquarius eclipse...
In cultivating astrological self-awareness, one cannot help but encounter the fact, again and again, that energy is cyclical. Phases of life emerge, crest, and break like waves,...
The Sun has entered Capricorn, and a fresh astrological season is upon us! December 21st, 2018 initiated both the start of Capricorn season (at exactly 2:23p.m. PST)...
The English word “solstice” comes from the Latin “sol,” Sun, and “sistere,” to stand still. The word depicts a moment of rest for this traveling luminary. As...
On the horizon, something new is flickering. There are hidden pathways to the places you need to get. Do you have your bow and arrow? In fact,...
The story goes that as Jason and the argonauts crossed the wine-dark sea in search of the mythic golden fleece, the constellation Sagittarius loosed arrows made of...
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 brings us a New Moon in Scorpio. This New Moon arrives amidst a barrage of astrological change, and not a moment too soon....
On October 24th at 7:33am, the Moon will enter Taurus, just a day after the Sun enters Scorpio. At 9:45am the Moon opposes the Sun, initiating our...
Monday, October 8th, 2018, brings us a New Moon in cardinal air sign Libra, the sign of justice and harmony. After the past two weeks of patriarchal...
On Friday, October 5th, Venus, planet of love, sensuality, aesthetics, and resources, will station retrograde while in the sign Scorpio. Of all the planets, Venus’s retrograde is...
Royal power. A book on alchemy. Techniques of writing with gold ink on parchment. The sea reflecting the Sun. Zeus. A form of sea-silk. Voyages from Greece....
In September, our perception begins to change. No longer taken with the verdant greens of summertime, we find ways to shift our focus as the plants and...
In time, all this mess will settle down. We will finally start seeing the ways in which we can change our lives for the better, thanks to...
This summer has been incredibly tough for many of us. A continual slew of retrograde planets (that’s Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto at the point...
Here in the velvet center of summer, it is the season of eclipse. Held now between last month’s New Moon in Cancer partial solar eclipse, and August...
On July 12th at 7:48pm, the Moon will be New in cardinal water sign, Cancer, queen of watery intuition. She reigns over what is inward, private, foundational...
The next eclipse season starts on the 12th of July with a partial solar eclipse and then the Blood Moon eclipse on the 27th of July. While...
On June 27th, 9:53pm, the Moon will be Full in cardinal earth sign Capricorn, bringing us the opportunity to connect with themes of the domestic versus the...
Let’s talk about Gemini. The word Gemini is Latin for “twins,” and Gemini, accordingly, is represented by a set of twins. In myth reaching as far back...
Today the Moon is Full in mutable, masculine, fire sign Sagittarius, the sign of exploration of the higher mind, bringing us themes of expansion, and intellectual boundlessness....
On the 30th the full moon will be in Sagittarius. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere this full moon is known as the Flower Moon. It...
When the Moon is in Taurus, she is exalted. Dreamy Venus, ruler of Taurus, blends her energy with the Moon and we feel in love with beauty....
Dear Seekers, how have you been feeling? The past two weeks have brought me extraordinary emotional heights and depths, and as we move through the expression of...
Renewal. The word we’ve been mouthing to the mirror each morning. The sound we have been pressing into ears of friends and lovers. Renewal, renaissance. The feeling...
This morning at 5:37 a.m., the full Moon bloomed in cardinal air sign Libra. This full Moon comes to us at a time of great cosmic pressure,...
March 22nd, 2018 marks our first period of Mercury retrograde this year. A second planet, Jupiter, is also retrograde right now. Our period of Mercury retrograde lasts...
Pisces, mutable, feminine, water sign, is the last sign of the zodiac. She rules the 12th House, the house of the soul. Symbolized by two fish tethered...
On October 10th, 2017, Jupiter entered Scorpio, embarking on a journey through the sign of depth, the occult, sexual power, and shared resources. Jupiter’s time in Scorpio...
On Thursday, March 1st, at 4:51 p.m., the Moon will be full in Virgo. As the moon arrives in this mutable, feminine earth sign, we will be...
This Thursday, February 15th, at 1:05 p.m., the Moon becomes new in cardinal air sign Aquarius. New Moons are always a moment of release, a fresh start,...
A dream of sea at night. Sky swirled, clouded. The storm has formed in the distance, cartographers and lookouts are left powerless. The ship crests a sudden...
In The Aeneid, the solar hero travels to the underworld. Guided by the sibyl, Aeneas enters the mouth of the earth through the gates of Hades and finds...
Whenever retrogrades come through our astrological transits, they intensify our emotions. Many may cringe at the sign of the retrograde just as they cringe at the reversal...
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