Bring Forth What is Within You

New Moon in Leo, and a deep dive into the power and vulnerability of authentic expression. Today’s new moon greets us with all the irrepressible joy of the sign of the Lion! The New Moon occurs exactly at 11:12 am UT, at 12 degrees 33’ of Leo. We’re heading into the Cross-quarter day of Lughnasa/Lammas in the Northern Hemisphere, and Imbolc in the Southern Hemisphere. (Wait, didn’t that already happen a few days ago? Traditionally this feast day is celebrated on August 1st, but astrologically we’re looking for…

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The End of an Era

Harvesting the final pieces of Pluto in Capricorn with the Full Moon On July 21, at 10:16 UT, we have our second Capricorn Full moon in a row! (At 29° 08’) This Full Moon takes place at the final (AKA anaretic or critical) degree of Capricorn. The anaretic degree of a sign has a “last hurrah” feel to it; the planet moving through it feels extra intense, condensing the energy of the sign into an urgent final statement or lesson before moving on into the next…

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Tap Into Your Moon Senses: New Moon in Cancer, 2024

On July 5th at 22:57 UT, we begin a new lunar cycle with the moon at 14 degrees 23’ of Cancer.  We all have I like to collectively call “moon-senses”: all of the non-verbal, pre-verbal, body-knowing, mammal, imaginal, emotional and “right-brained” channels of information — bringing forth felt-truths from deep places inside.  These very same senses get to be center stage, massively boosted by today’s New Moon in its own sign of Cancer. The gates are wide open. Something beyond the rational and clear-cut is calling.  …

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Let Curiosity Light the Way: Jupiter in Gemini, 2024-2025

The biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, entered the sign of Gemini last weekend, where it’ll travel from May 25, 2024, to June 9, 2025.  Jupiter remains in a sign for roughly a year. Wherever Jupiter is currently transiting highlights an area of life that is due for an upgrade — and it’s also where we can get a lot of “bang for our buck” by consciously feeding our efforts for growth and expansion into that specific area of our lives. With Jupiter on our…

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Full Moon in Sagittarius, May 2024

Tomorrow’s Sagittarius full moon brings with it some special blessings. Sagittarius takes both physical and philosophical distance to take in the big picture: what is my place in the story of the world? In the midst of chaos and countless possible outcomes; in the midst of cynicism and shortsightedness, of busy-ness and information overwhelm — what best possible world do I stand for? What is the most generous, expansive, wonder-filled, wise story you can image right now? With the Sun’s trine to Pluto, there’s an element,…

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To Surf the Oncoming Chaos… Lean into Soul

“What is happening in the ethers? Why is everything so intense right now?” I’m hearing this from all directions. In the wake of March + April’s eclipse season, the Jupiter/Uranus conjuction in Taurus, Pluto’s retrograde shift for its finale in Capricorn later this year, and most recently, after the powerful geomagnetic storms giving us stunning auroras throughout the world in the last days — we seem to be feeling an intensity like never before. In his 2006 book Chaos Point, systems theorist Ervin László wrote that…

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Jupiter/Uranus Conjunction in Taurus – April 2024

We are in the portal of another long-anticipated sky event: the Jupiter/Uranus conjuction at 21 degrees of the sign Taurus. (I feel particularly lucky as this conjuction is happening on the degree of my natal moon!). This meeting of two future- and forward- facing planets indicates a new start, the beginning of a new 14-year cycle of growth, surprising new developments and innovation. All astrological events can go “either way” in terms of how we play them out, or respond to their underlying energetic currents. Collectively, we will…

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Inner Fire at the Winter Solstice

Solstice blessings everyone! Even though most of us who track these things celebrate the Solstice on the 21st, in my time zone the astrological Solstice is today, as our life-giving central star crosses over to the first degree of Capricorn. I don’t share this to be pedantic, even though I am a huge nerd about these things, but to highlight that there’s a real energetic threshold we’re crossing — something’s clicking over, it’s not just another day. The sign of Capricorn (if you’re not familiar or…

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Faery-tale Dream and Our Deep Longings

I had a dream this morning that felt more than a little mythical.  In my dream, I got married to a beautiful, tender man who was, in reality, a knight — but he was from the future. For the best chances at a good timeline, he had to travel back in time to meet me, which would help lay the ground for him to face the steep challenges to come in his native time.After celebrating our wedding, I was carried on a quest to solve a…

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