Among the many odd scenes in Lawrence Wright’s Scientology expose was Tom Cruise sitting in a Home Depot parking lot doing “tone drills” designed to develop his capacity for intuiting the emotional states of random people leaving the store. I don’t know how this exercise fits into Scientology doctrine, but given his Cancer Sun sign, Cruise does serve the Moon. And he was … [Read more...]
New Moons are potent times to forge alliances with the gods. Visit the invisible world. Bow and open yourself to their touch. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing with these archetypes for thousands of years. When you call out to the zodiac, the gods do respond! Water was Cancer’s first language. As a child, she babbled like a brook, thundered like a waterfall, … [Read more...]
A "ring of fire eclipse" (also known as an "annular eclipse") occurs when the new moon is furthest away from us in her elliptical orbit. At the last two full moons her orbit brought her closer to us, creating super full moons. But that means at the new moons two weeks later, she's further away from us. This makes her look smaller than the sun at the new moon eclipse; … [Read more...]
Your body has already been inside the eclipse zone for a couple weeks. Eclipses arrive in two's (solar and lunar). Earlier this month, the lunar eclipse jittered the atmosphere; now it finishes with the solar. Given the one-to-three-week orb of each lunation, I find it hard to tell--energetically--which is which. Solar or lunar, we're more easily tipped off balance. It … [Read more...]
It's the Super Flower Wesak Blood Moon! The May full moon is traditionally called the "Flower Moon" because of the abundance of flowers in gardens this month. It's also celebrated around the world as "Wesak," the Buddha's birthday. This year the May's full moon will also pass through Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse, during which the moon will appear red, hence … [Read more...]
