At one long ago Taurus New Moon, ever hopeful for increased prosperity and other cosmic bonbons, I decided to perform the Venus Santeria ritual that Dana recommended. It sounded so simple - a piece of bread, a smallish candle, a nickel, a body of running water - but it took me the better part of an afternoon to collect the right size candle, the right shape roll. Finally, I had … [Read more...]

The February 27, 2021 Full Moon is in Virgo, the sign associated with those routines that comprise most of our days— working, running errands, preparing meals—as well as the habits we form through repetition of those routines. For the most part, we regard these habits and routines as entirely separate from our spiritual lives; this perspective that extends to our astrological … [Read more...]

Some years ago, I discovered that I had to have a tooth pulled. Big deal, right? Yet I was astonished at the intensity of my reaction. Most nights I found myself awake at 3:00 a.m., tormented by thoughts of mortality. My poor old tooth prompted fears that growing older would mean a future in which I drop limbs like a diseased tree. Before long I’d be old, old and frail, old and … [Read more...]

In Gemini, the Moon finds comfort in language - in the reassuring hum of parents' voices down the hall as their children fall asleep; in the soothing mantra, the dog's welcoming bark, delighted laughter, a favorite poem. Even, when the time comes, in the sensitive eulogy for a loved one, delivered by someone with keen powers of observation and a lyrical tongue. Eclipses of … [Read more...]