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 your head to your toes. Any anxiety or … [Read more...]
Summon the Aries Spirit
Knowing Aries When You See Him Aries never looks before he leaps. His mother never cautioned, "If you run with a stick you'll poke an eye out!" At six, he challenged bullies twice his size. At sixteen he built his castle; he made the ceilings tall as sequoia trees. He strung an acrobat's tightrope from room to room—sixty feet up, no net below. Now that he's much older, he … [Read more...]
Aries Energy Meditation
Energy: Where to find it, how to grow it, how to conserve it, and how to channel it: that is the spiritual task for this new moon in impulsive, life-loving Aries. It's the beginning of the astrological new year. It's time to reboot yourself with new energy. As all true magicians know, the secret of magic lies in the skillful use of your life energy. Where you choose to … [Read more...]
The Art of Disappearing
There are stories about people who literally disappeared. There’s the Prussian prisoner Diderici, who in 1815, while shackled to a chain gang, slowly began to fade, his body becoming ever more transparent, said witnesses, until it entirely disappeared, as his empty manacles fell to the ground. Or the shoemaker James Worson who in 1873 bet his friends he could run … [Read more...]
The Underworld Journey: When Venus is Combust
On March 25, 2021, within orb of the Libra Full Moon on March 28, Venus is conjunct the Sun--a condition known as "combustion," which happens twice in every Venus cycle, once when she's retrograde and once when she's direct, as she is now . Read about both in this article from summer of 2020, when a retrograde Venus met the Sun. Last week, as retrograde Venus disappeared … [Read more...]
