May’s Full Moon annually brings the festival of Wesak (or Vesak). Known as the “Buddha’s Birthday,” this centuries-old festival honors the three best moments in Buddha’s life: birth, enlightenment, and death. More broadly, we celebrate the very idea of enlightenment—how regularly it is born, lives, and dies in us. We awaken to our spiritual potentials, we have a peak … [Read more...]
The Saturn/Uranus square is exact three times in 2021, giving us a long interval in which to make magic: from February 17, June 14/15, to December 23/24 To my “Crane Gang,” here comes part two of your Saturn/Uranus Impossible Dream ritual! In the glow after my first covid shot, the car in front of me all the way from the clinic to the freeway offramp had … [Read more...]
Venus has recently emerged as the Evening Star and will be visible for the next nine months in the west after sunset. Evening Star Venus is said to be at her most radiant and graceful--at the height of her powers. Until she descends into the Underworld in late December, 2021 on her way to becoming the Morning Star. I was born with Venus in Scorpio—which I couldn’t … [Read more...]
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...]
The Moon draws time on the sky, charting the pulsations of Shakti or Nature, the divine feminine energy that flows through us and IS us. For a life lived in tune with the Moon, this sensuous rhythm is second nature. For a life lived out of tune, the best time to re-synchronize yourself is during the Dark Moon, the three to four days before the Moon is new (that's occurring … [Read more...]
