Here's a lovely indoor Moon practice that begins as you drift off to sleep. Sleep is a neglected feminine art. The researchers all tell us that we need more than what we're getting. But researchers speak to us like we're logical machines. We're not. We're a chaos or a symphony of energy--especially during Full Moons. It's not unusual to have a little Full Moon insomnia. … [Read more...]
Venus just stationed retrograde in Scorpio (October 5 to November 16). Venus retrogrades (occurring every eighteen months) are high holy days for the Divine Feminine. For these six weeks, Venus is at her most powerful in the inner world. She is preparing to make herself new again. She is gathering her resentments, her foiled desires, her missed opportunities, her … [Read more...]
One Full Moon night years ago, I awoke at three in the morning. I had a panicky realization: “I need to get disability insurance NOW!” In the previous weeks I’d discovered in myself a new alertness to stories of car accidents, how sudden, surprising, life-changing injuries can come from them. I strung them into a private necklace of worry beads. Why wouldn’t the Full Moon … [Read more...]
These are contentious, polarized times. We know how it feels to be in a stand-off. We know how it feels to shake our heads in disbelief at the views and speech of the other side. What would it feel like to remember our essential unity? What would it feel like to add the energy of love to the fight? There is no better month to try this than when the Sun is in Libra … [Read more...]
Like everyone else, I'm weary. As a spiritual practitioner, I value the act of holding witness. While watching the news this past year, I've shed tears freely. As times keep getting stranger, I want to keep witnessing the aberrations I see. Yet this week, with so much hanging in the balance over decisions in Washington, it is at times unbearable. Yesterday, I turned off … [Read more...]
