New Moon and Full Moon Writings
The Logic of Love: New Moon in Leo
The Logic of Love: New Moon in Leo

This Leo New Moon is a gateway which we may choose to step through into an altogether new land. We’ve been through much in these last two months. The Cancer-Capricorn eclipses, in line with Saturn-Pluto, came with much deep inner churning and trying transformation for many of us (especially for those of us with important points in the Cardinal signs: Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Libra). And whatever was stirred up in these past couple months, we’ll be working with for another year, as the Cancer-Capricorn eclipses play out. 

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Healing the Matrix of Being: Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer
Healing the Matrix of Being: Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer

Cancer is the energy of the Great Mother, the Cosmic Mother, that birthed this world, that creates existence itself. The eternal presence of this energy holds the fabric of existence together, supporting all life and creation in every instant. 

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Building Our Dreams: Full Moon in Sagittarius
Building Our Dreams: Full Moon in Sagittarius

At the peak of the Gemini cycle, Sagittarius offers a breath of fresh air, an escape from the city, an expansive view. It’s a moment to pause and take it all in. An opportunity to grasp the bigger picture before going back to the details and business of it all. As we talked about two weeks ago, this lunar cycle is about stories, and how the stories we tell shape our world and experience. Sag helps us to glimpse what world we are creating, whether intentional or not.

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Stories, The Air We Breath: New Moon in Gemini
Stories, The Air We Breath: New Moon in Gemini

Gemini’s great gift is as storyteller--the one who weaves the cloth of cosmos through word, who literally creates worlds--not in a grand scheming overarching theory-of-the-universe kindof way, but through shooting-the-shit. Through good-ol’ back-porch chat. And through myth, and jokes, and fairy tales, and long yarns, and tall tales. Through all the ways of sharing story.

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Astrology Beyond Horoscopes: Meet Your Natal Chart
Sep 8
Zenden Meditation
Astrology Beyond Horoscopes: Meet Your Natal Chart
Zenden Meditation

If you love horoscopes but want to deepen your understanding of astrology--and yourself--this workshop is for you. Astrologer Andrea Javor will introduced you to your natal chart: a map of all the planets and their placements at the moment of your birth. You will learn how to locate and understand your Moon Sign, and Rising Sign, in addition to your Sun Sign. You’ll also learn how horoscopes work, and how this knowledge can empower you to make the most of the astrology you were born with as well as the current astrological weather.

September 8th 7pm-9pm

Early bird price until August 25: $50

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Constellations - Advanced Astrology Circle
Sep 26
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Constellations - Advanced Astrology Circle
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A cross between an intermediate, experiential astrology class, and an astrology circle, this offering is for astrologers and astrology students who wish to deepen their understanding of astrology as well as themselves through experiential group practice. We will hold space for each other to gain insight and deeper self-understanding through an astrological lens. Each week we will start with a transit check-in, in which we’ll discuss the weekly astrology transits with reference to our personal experience. I will facilitate reading participants’ charts together, and we will further explore participants’ charts using Astrodrama, a powerful modality that brings the deeper chart dynamics to life. There will be plenty of time for Q&A as well, so come with all your astrology-related questions! (Some familiarity with the signs, planets, and houses is required.) 

Thursdays 6:30pm-8:30pm, September 26th-December 12th (12 weeks)
Location: Werklab, 1275 Venables St., Unit 290
$290 before Sept 1st, $330 after

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Astrology 101 - 12 Week Introductory Course
Oct 1
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Astrology 101 - 12 Week Introductory Course
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Learn astrology by studying your own chart and the charts of your friends and family. This course will give you the tools you need to interpret natal charts as well as transits (how the current astrology affects individuals). No experience is necessary.

Each class will consist of an informal lesson, exercises, group discussion, and Q & A. I'll offer optional reading assignments and exercises for those who wish to delve deeper. We'll cover the planets, the signs, the houses, aspects, and transits--everything you need to know to start doing astrology.

If cost is a barrier, please contact me and we can arrange a sliding scale, trade, or payment plan.

My classes are trans and queer inclusive and trauma sensitive.

Location Werklab, 1275 Venebles St

Tuesday evenings 6:30pm-8:30pm

October 1st-December 17th

To register, email Andi: andi@mysticsandwich.com or write me here

$380 until September 1st, $420 after

$80 up-front to register, remainder due on the first day of the course

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I believe astrology offers the medicine of a worldview in which Earth and Universe are understood as sacred, magical, and symbolic, and gestures to how we might live in harmony. 

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~Full Moon 🌕 Aquarius~ Hey hey, it’s your lion here (Leo Moon), reporting to you from where I write most of these blogs--bed. This Full Moon in Aquarius is the third lunation in a row with the Sun conjunct Venus. The lessons in love are not over. Mars, Mercury, and Juno are all also in Leo, bringing the heat and upping the fun factor. With the Moon opposite all that in Aquarius, we’re called to investigate the relationship between Leo and Aquarius. Leo is, among other things, the sign of royalty and top-down power. At it’s best, this aspect of Leo manifests as personal sovereignty, and rulership over one’s own inner king/queendom. But it also signifies downright greed, self-importance, and the desire to be at the top of the hierarchy. And this version of Leo best describes those who currently hold power. We can call our governments democratic all we want but that doesn’t make them so. Our society is blatantly elitist. We know that the billionaire class calls the shots. And when wealth is the only factor determining rulership, then we shouldn’t be surprised that those with money rig the system to get more of it. This is where Aquarius comes in. Aquarius relates to group-think and conformity, as well as to the rebel, the one who dares to be different for the sake of the group. I think there is a collective memory of being excluded, banished, tortured, or killed, for going against the group. And for those of us who live in societies where our physical safety isn’t at risk, there are nevertheless very real social and emotional risks to going our own way. So, in fear, Aquarius energy can lead us to conform (which includes conforming to the norms of subcultures as well the mainstream). It can lead to group-think: to going along with what we are supposed to think and say and do, rather than discussing ideas openly with respect for multiplicity and complexity. But at its best, Aquarius is the energy of innovation and creativity for the sake of the group. Aquarius is concerned with what is best for all. As the polarity of Leo, it’s about grassroots power, the power of the people. ~ Read the rest on my blog~
This Leo New Moon is a gateway which we may choose to step through into an altogether new land. We’ve been through much in these last two months. The Cancer-Capricorn eclipses, in line with Saturn-Pluto, came with much deep inner churning and trying transformation for many of us (especially for those of us with important points in the Cardinal signs: Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Libra). And whatever was stirred up in these past couple months, we’ll be working with for another year, as the Cancer-Capricorn eclipses play out.  The structures of our personal lives, our ways of thinking and being, our communities, our nations are undergoing massive transformation. Transformation isn’t merely change. It’s death and rebirth; a complete destruction and utterly new beginning. The old way is the patriarchal military industrial capitalist death machine that lumbers on toward its logical conclusion of total annihilation.  The machine is human powered. It is the oppressive labour of ordinary people who have been coerced or forced into cooperation that keeps the gears grinding. The machine eats human consciousness, breaks human bodies, and pillages the earth. And most of us, in our ordinary lives, to a greater or lesser extent, are hooked into the machine. To the extent that we participate in the economy and have jobs and speak a language, we ARE those gears. Through no fault of our own. The machine coerces us into participation.  Haven’t we seen just how deep the sickness runs? That our very language and modes of thought are linked to the madness? That we are so embedded in this way of life that even when we make changes, we so often duplicate the problem within the attempted solution?  So what do we do?
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Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer 🌚 These last few weeks have been rough for many of us (Saturn-Pluto business). And yet, I feel such healing energy coming from this eclipse. Cancer is the energy of the Great Mother, the Cosmic Mother, that birthed this world, that creates existence itself. The eternal presence of this energy holds the fabric of existence together, supporting all life and creation in every instant. Richard Tarnas describes the energy of The Moon, Cancer’s ruler, as “The Matrix of Being.” It’s not the content of our experience, but the container holding it; always present in the background, supporting all within it. The dominant culture is solar; it predominantly sees and honours the brilliant, the obvious, the central, the Logos; the one who speaks and does. It tends to neglect and undervalue the one who supports, holds, births, nurtures; the one who listens and feels. And so not only do we tend to undervalue the lunar people in our lives, the lunar parts of ourselves, but we also may not even be aware of the existence of this matrix of being; that which is in the background, holding our experience. This is the part of our experience created and fostered by our primary caregiver, by our earliest experiences on planet Earth, of being held and nurtured and cared for. These preverbal experiences form that difficult to discern background matrix that we carry into our adult lives. Its structure determines whether or not we feel safe in the world, whether or not we feel nurtured and supported by the people in our lives, by ourselves, and by the Cosmos itself. But after millennia of the lunar being undervalued and derided, many of us have damaged matrices, if you will. It’s not through any failure of our mothers (caregiver of any gender) that we weren’t supported, held, nurtured, and loved as we needed to be. I honour all mothers for all the mothering they’ve managed in times that dishonours such work. Our mother is as the Cosmos itself when we’re an infant. As adults we know our mother is not the Cosmos. Continued below...
When I call all my energy, all my awareness, back into my body..... When I stand in my divinity.... I am home. Welcome Cancer. #astrology #astrologytransits #witchy #astrologymemes #cancerszn #magicisreal #astrologyforhealing #astrologyfortranformation #cancerseason #evolutionaryastrology #horoscope #soulwork #shadowwork #partswork #healingisrevolutionary
Mars opposite Pluto can show up in many ways, and yes, some are difficult, but some are also empowering and exciting. I see more talk of the former on the internet though. And I see fear. 💫 When we let astrology scare us, we are giving our power away to it. Which is a shame. Because astrology really is capable of empowering us, if we wish it to. And funny, giving away our power is totally a theme of this transit. 💫 Yes, Mars-Pluto can show up as empowerment of the powers that be. It can show up as power struggles, passive aggression, or subtle manipulation under the surface, yes. And we can sit back and wait for the shit to hit, wait for what the dreaded planets will bring us. 💫 But Mars opposite Pluto can also mean empowerment for us, if we choose to accept it. If we STAND in our power. And this begins within. 💫 Do not deny your own divinity, and the power that flows through you.💫 For one, even when those shadowy manifestations of Pluto-Mars do emerge, they are such potent opportunities to look within. To seek to understand your own hidden motives better. To understand where you are hungry for power in less than healthy ways, or where you deny yourself the power that you deserve. 💫 It also can empower a deep look within, to discover, and connect with parts of yourself that may have been left in the dust for too long. Shadow work, therapy, journalling, are some possible tools for harnessing the energy of Mars and Pluto for inner transformation and empowerment. 💫 Another powerful modality that combines beautifully with astrology is parts-work. Find some quiet time to go within, and seek to connect to the different planets within you. You don’t need to know what the planets represent. They will speak to you if you trust the process. 💫 Say, hello Moon, or hello Venus, or hello Saturn, I’d like to get to know you. Do you have any insights for me? What do you need? How do you feel about such and such a situation? Do you have anything to say to the other planets? And so on. I suggest journaling while you do the process. Write out what the different planets say to you. 💫 I’ve been working more and more with this modality in readings, so if you wish for support, HMU. 💫
I have a bunch of events coming up in Vancouver! Hope to see you there! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ •Car Free Day Commercial Drive + Vancouver Folk Fest• I’ll be giving 30-minute readings at Car Free Day on July 7th and The Vancouver Folk Fest July 19-21, come get a reading or to say hi! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ •Introduction to Your Natal Chart• If you want to go beyond horoscopes, and take your understanding of astrology to the next level, this workshop is for you! I’ll orient you to your natal chart: what it represents, and how to start reading it. Learn your Sun, Moon, Rising Sign, and what they mean. And more. August 4th at 7pm-9pm at The Zenden ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ •Astrology 101• Learn astrology by studying your own chart and the charts of your friends and family. This course will give you the tools you need to interpret natal charts as well as transits (how the current astrology affects us). No experience is necessary. I’ve expanded this course to include more time for practicing reading charts together! It is now 20 hours (10 2-hour session). Tuesdays 6pm-8pm October 1st-December 3rd 2019 Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House Early Bird Price until August 15th $320 Regular Price: $360 I reserve two places for sliding scale or trade. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ •Astrology 102• For those already familiar (to some extent) with the planets, signs, and houses, this intermediate course will offer an introduction to Evolutionary Astrology (using the Lunar Nodes and Pluto to understand the intentions and evolutionary journey of the soul), as well as lots of practice reading charts together and lots of q&a. This is a more intimate course, as we will look at the charts of participants together. (You can always of course choose how much you wish to share). Thursdays 6pm-8pm October 3rd - December 5th Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House Early Bird Price until August 15th $280 Regular Price: $240 I reserve two places for sliding or trade.
👁🌕👁 Full Moon in Sagittarius 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹 At the peak of the Gemini cycle, Sagittarius offers a breath of fresh air, an escape from the city, an expansive view. It’s a moment to pause and take it all in. An opportunity to grasp the bigger picture before going back to the details and business of it all. 🏹 As we talked about two weeks ago, this lunar cycle is about stories, and how the stories we tell shape our world and experience. Sag helps us to glimpse what world we are creating, whether intentional or not. 🏹 Gemini works from the bottom-up: talk to story to worldview. Sag works from the top-down: belief to philosophy to talk. We need both. 🏹 This is a time to consider our beliefs. But not necessarily the beliefs we intentionally hold; the beliefs that are implied by our thoughts and words. 🏹 What must you believe to be true given what you say and think? What are the hidden beliefs underlying the ordinary workings of your mind? 🏹 Our philosophy isn’t always what we think it is or want it to be. But now we have an opportunity for adjustment. 🏹 Jupiter square Neptune activates our fantasies. While this can be a potent moment for dreaming our desires into being, it may also reveal where we have fantasies that are self-defeating, negative, or delusional. 🏹 The immediately following Saturn sextile Neptune offers the opportunity to adjust our fantasies so they are more in line with reality, and to make plans and take practical steps toward our dreams. 🏹 This is a powerful week for aligning our vision and working magic around it. Jupiter square Neptune can also induce escapism or addictive tendencies. Be gentle with yourself if that’s the case, and seek to channel the energy into activating your dreams and imagination instead. 🏹 While the Full Moon itself feels buoyant and optimistic, it’s embedded in a period of time that is a little more rough around the edges. (Continued in the comments).
A story: I’ve always had insomnia, but only recently have I stopped fighting it. (And now “insomnia” feels like the wrong word). Last night I awoke around 3:00am, when the New Moon was exact. With hardly a thought, I stole into the night--almost dawn, to seek rose--in full-bloom in these parts. And I found some drooping with the weight of ripeness over a neighbour’s fence, about to drop it’s petals, so I borrowed them. 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 Venus continues in Taurus till June 8th: super lush and sweet and beautiful. Last night Venus was exactly conjunct my own Venus, which perhaps accounts for this particular compulsion to forage Rose at dawn. To me, Rose is perfectly resonant with Venus in Taurus--its scent of love and harmony and sweetness. I sat in prayer in the growing light as the chorus of birds grew around me and I honoured the New Moon and it was beautiful. 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 How did you/will you honour the beginning of this lunar cycle? What are you witnessing about the stories you tell? What are some new stories you are writing for yourself? . . . . . . . . #newmooningemini #newmoon #astrologytransits #geminiszn #gemini #rose #plantmedicine #venusintaurus #insomnia #thestorieswetell