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...]
Drink up! Saturn is in Pisces now.
We cannot help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. --Rumi (Coleman Barks) The shifting times are taking us toward the voice of water. In a later stanza of the same poem, Rumi asks us to cleanse our ears and listen for something we haven’t heard before, which is perfect advice for this moment. Saturn is entering the oceanic-water sign of Pisces for the … [Read more...]
Full Moon Play: The Great Mama Field
Sacred Vedic texts say that if the Goddess Devi closes her eyes for just one second, the entire universe will disappear. This is not a preposterous claim. Something similar happens every time we lose our connection to the Divine Feminine or the "Great Mama Field." We fall -- into a dull, meaningless, unkind, chaotic world in which our own significance seems to … [Read more...]
Pisces New Moon: Imagination, Pleasure, and Soul
Get in the mood for the next 2.5 years of Saturn in Pisces! Start awakening the lover and mystic in you. Pisces plays the mandolin and wears sky blue shirts that smell like lavender or sometimes roses. When he visits, you might hear snow melting. Tulips and daffodils poke their heads above ground to greet him, while starlings dream of their future: finding a soul mate, … [Read more...]
Saturn Returns: Earning Saturn’s Favor
I blew my first Saturn return. It was only years later, through astrology’s exquisite backward lens that I understood the full measure of my bad choices. During the time I should have been striding into early adulthood with hard work and gumption, I regressed into a floundering child. Saturn squares my natal Moon. Planets in square are archetypes in tension—the power can … [Read more...]





