Has it been sitting on a shelf? Are its pages silent? Gemini is THE cycle for talking and writing. And one of the best ways to do this--without risking the mischief that thinking out loud can cause--is to visit your journal if you already have one. Or start one if you don't . Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous journal keepers and not surprisingly, she had Sun, … [Read more...]
Get your Venus blessings!
“The invisible world wants to help us,” declares visionary activist and astrologer Caroline Casey, “but spiritual etiquette requires that we ask.” I especially like asking Venus for a little extra juju, using the Santeria ritual for Oshun (described by Casey in her Making the Gods Work for You). As the Yoruba goddess of fresh waters, Oshun oversees the same delights that … [Read more...]
Your Aries New Moon Focus
Take advantage of this month’s fresh-start energy! Which activities will be most energizing for your psyche? Your chart holds clues. The house where 20.41 degrees of Aries falls represents where you can most reliably turn this month to supercharge your own renewal and rebirth. If Aries is in your 1st house, for example, you may experience renewal through re-connecting with … [Read more...]
Inspiration from Astraea
I’m still recovering from my WONDERFUL trip to Oxford! Given jet lag and the mountain of work that was waiting for me, I’m happy to have guest blogger Portia step in for me with this post. Portia is an unusually gifted poet who saw light beings as a child and now, at 26, collaborates with various goddesses when she writes. Her poem for the Virgo New Moon is “The Promise” … [Read more...]
Thar she blows!
This could be an especially hot New Moon--with Mars squaring Pluto and opposing Uranus. It doesn’t help that Mercury is retrograde. I remember the last time these planets tangoed. I’d been wound tight for days; then, over nothing, I erupted like Mount Vesuvius. I rattled the walls, I frightened the children, I poured red-hot lava over my mate. And you know what? It felt … [Read more...]