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On Wealth and Revolution: New Moon in Taurus

April 22, 2020

Every year, Taurus season in the Northern Hemisphere brings with it the thick blooms of spring, and the sprouts of seeds planted during the initiating season of Aries. We witness--if we are so fortunate--the wealth of nature, Earth’s riches, the blossoming that comes only after the dead of winter. And we are brought back to our senses with this beauty, brought into our bodies, and into the present. We may remember the magic of stillness and silence…. But, of course, it’s not so simple.

Image from Songs of Love and Death etc. by Margaret Armour Afterwards MacDougall; from the British Library Collection

Connected: New Moon in Aquarius

January 24, 2020

Aquarius is community oriented. It’s about friendship, connections, networks. Aquarius knows what it means to be excluded and isolated, and also what it means to be connected and appreciated. And it knows that the only way to find true community is to be your own weird and unique self. This month, the opportunity is to move forward in collaboration with others. What can we accomplish through community that we can’t do alone? How can we pool our resources and expertise in order to overcome the challenges we face?

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Disorders of the (Nervous) System: New Moon in Aquarius

February 4, 2019

This is an opportunity to reflect on and heal from trauma in a supportive environment. It’s also an opportunity to begin anew. To consider our hopes for the future, to make new connections, make new friends, and start or join new organizations.

First, We Feel: New Moon in Scorpio

November 7, 2018

This Scorpio New Moon marks a new beginning in intimacy. As we come more and more into the knowing that we are not separate, we turn toward each other, we turn toward home. We see that our isolation was self-imposed. We accepted shame, that lethal gift, that lie, that holds us apart. And because we accepted it, we can lay it down now.

Now we know. We are intricately, intimately, entangled with every other being in existence, whether we wish it so or not. The universe is an open system. Every move, every breath, every thought, ripples through to infinity.

It’s time to come home. It’s time to come together.

Material Revolution: New Moon + Uranus in Taurus

May 14, 2018

Expect your plans to change. Expect your direction to change. To work in collaboration with this energy, be flexible. Things are changing quickly. What we could once depend on is no longer stable.

Uranus is Genderqueer, Who Are You? New Moon in Aries

April 15, 2018

While Uranus asserts their individuality, they also long for belonging, and they know that both are possible. Uranus dreams of a world in which we make space for difference and respect each other for who we are, in which we are radically free, and radically ourselves

Love & War: Full Moon in Libra

April 7, 2017

There’s lots going on this week, both in our relationships, and on the world stage. There are always positive ways to use the energy, no matter how intense. There is a real potential this week to work through relationship issues that had been brewing beneath the surface, and to thereby strengthen relationships. Balanced relationships are likely to receive a boost of positive energy. There’s also opportunity for us, in our personal lives, as well as in society, to work toward greater freedom and justice--and sometimes, it’s violence or confrontation that spurs this positive change.