The Aries Full Moon brings us another big, bright, low-hanging lunation to illuminate these tempestuous times. The Sun and Moon form a stimulating Grand Cross in cardinal signs, associated with action, decisive events, and yes – wake-up calls. This Full Moon is apt to spark strong feelings, and bring a call for truth and justice, especially related to climate change or political malfeasance. Mars in Cancer can be touchy, and Pluto at the final, last-gasp degree of Capricorn has a now-or-never feel to it.
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The Full Moon during Libra’s season is a fine time to practice the subtle art of coming into balance with another—the Aphrodite way. Imagine she’s in the room. She smiles and takes a graceful turn through the circle, saying “Keeping your balance while dancing requires an awareness in the inner ear.” Then she stops and looks deeply into your eyes. “Keeping your balance with another,” she says, ” requires an awareness in the heart.”
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For most of us, especially women I think, it’s safer and easier to play to society’s Libran values of harmony and cooperation; to make nice, and to maintain relationships at all costs. But the Aries survival instinct is within each of us too, ready to rise up and help us pursue whatever we need and want, even if that means stepping on someone else’s toes. Even if it means we’re not always nice.
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Goddess pose always feels like a sensitively strong shape to take with Libra energy. It helps us develop our strength inside of our peace. This is a pose you might want to do every day this month. Each time, sense what is happening inside of this shape.
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Imagine that you have become a Full Moon goddess, capable of balancing the earth and harmonizing its opposing forces. In particular you are tuned to the energies of Aries and Libra, the complementary energies of “me” and “we.” Aries wonders, “Who am I?” Libra wonders, “Who are you—and how can we work together?”
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If you have planets between six and 12 degrees of cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), you may reach a point of no return in some area of life. Because this Libra Solar Eclipse is so decisive, demanding, yet potentially liberating, it may be best to wait for a week or so for the dust to settle, before forging ahead with any major new undertakings.
read the full article »»October Moon Gazing: Best Dates for Planet Downloads
Any time spent gazing at the moon—from 3 to 30 minutes—can bring benefits (greater peace and calm, improved sleep and dreams, increased awareness of intuition). But the downloads you can receive are even greater on nights when she’s “conjunct” another body in our solar system (in the same zodiacal vicinity). Here are the best October nights for communing with the planets through the moon.
read the full article »»Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition
At the solar eclipse, something is trying to get your attention – like the Moon, rising up in front of the Sun as if to say, “Just hold it a second – you’re missing something!” People from the past or the present appear on the scene to behave in inexplicable ways. The person you used to be, the one you thought you’d outgrown, is trotted out in front of you as a reminder that maybe you really haven’t changed all that much.
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The time of Libra, ruled by goddess Venus and Air, always brings beautiful transformations in nature, as well as inevitable change. This change is felt in the air temperature, the way the light is shifting each day, and in the trees and all plants expressing themselves for a final hurrah in the northern hemisphere, or abundant growth in the southern.
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3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind… Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from […]
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