http://mooncircles.com/blog A wholly-owned subsidiary of Mooncircles.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:38:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New Agers proclaim that New Ages are launching all the time. I confess I’m a little skeptical at the flurry of emails each week, proclaiming how Great Cosmic Forces are opening Windows, or spiriting us along like Soul cattle across some Mystic Prairie. But this year I can’t ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2010/03/take-the-warrior-to-the-temple/ Mars rules athletics and competitions. So when the Winter Olympics is held during a Mars retrograde, one might expect the difficult and strange. The crash and death of the Georgian luger, Norda Kumaritashvili, made for an unsettling beginning—echoed symbolically by the fourth leg of the Olympic cauldron failing to rise. ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2010/02/olympic-retrograde/ This week Venus reappears as the Evening Star, in the sign of her exaltation (Pisces) and conjunct magnificent Jupiter. I would expect nothing less, as she's been kicking ass during her recent underworld journey (which began just as Tiger Wood's furious wife took a golf club to the cheater's ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2010/02/venus-evening-star-rise/ My hard drive crashed on the solar eclipse—just as Mercury was stationing, directly into the Saturn/Pluto square. The next day, the hard drive on my new laptop--the one I'd purchased in December and had just taken out of the box--also crashed. There was no receipt in the box. I'd ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2010/01/how-i-spent-my-solar-eclipse/ It's crazy out there. The traffic jam of transits, retrogrades, and eclipses make this the wrong time for pushing your little boulder up the mountains of the world. But the Capricorn New Moon is an exquisitely appropriate time to rearrange your inner world--dynamically, dramatically. It's ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2010/01/take-down-the-should-master/ Ten years ago, along with several hundred other pilgrims, I took a retreat with walking-meditation master Thich Nhat Hahn. We learned to walk very very slowly, mindful of every step, with little concern for our destination. All that mattered was just the rise and fall of each foot, one ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2009/12/slowing-down/ The Moon rules women--mothers, daughters, wives; also one's own emotional seas and tides. It rules the public too, whose affections can storm, ebb, and flow with the passion of Mother Nature. Tiger Woods knows this intimately now, as Uranus, strengthened by its direct station, recently squared his Moon, liberating ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2009/12/the-wrath-of-the-feminine/ Here’s a moment that best sums up my experience of the Pluto/Saturn square: I was stuck in a car with an emergency break that wouldn’t release—as a speeding bus headed toward it. “It’s going to hit us,” my son yelled. In that slowed-down time of impending doom, I was oddly ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2009/11/surrender-when-stuck/ I remember an exquisite moment after the World Trade Center Towers fell. The international outpouring of compassion and grief grew so strong, it seemed we might suddenly ascend and enter a whole new era, one in which the forces of love and peace became stronger and more viable than the ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2009/11/from-breakdown-to-breakthrough/ I know. There's way too much media exposure for this ridiculous balloon boy drama. But what do you expect from a gas giant? Jupiter brings luck, opportunity, and optimism. Also inflation, excess, and irrational exuberance. When Jupiter stationed direct last week, the Dow hit 10,000. The very wizards who ruined ... http://mooncircles.com/blog/2009/10/jupiters-direct-station-pranks/