Thar she blows!

This could be an especially hot New Moon--with Mars squaring Pluto and opposing Uranus.  It doesn’t help that Mercury is retrograde.  I remember the last time these planets tangoed. I’d been wound tight for days; then, over nothing, I erupted like Mount Vesuvius. I rattled the walls, I frightened the children, I poured red-hot lava over my mate. And you know what?  It felt … [Read more...]

Call and Response Cancer New Moon

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...]

Happy Anniversary to MoonCircles!

We hope you like our new look.  This month is the website's twelfth anniversary (that's one Jupiter cycle).  That means on our little piece of "the cloud" we've celebrated over 150 New and Full Moons.  We appreciate all of you who have joined us over the years in celebrating the Divine Feminine.  We hope our ever widening circles of Moon lovers continue to bring more wisdom, … [Read more...]

When Uranus Met Pluto

“I actually feel calm. It’s just that I’m traveling in an energetic field that’s bouncing all over the place.” I was describing to a friend what the Uranus/Pluto square was feeling like for me. It was easy enough to see it in the week’s headlines—on so many stages, there was a revolutionary and dogmatic Uranus in Aries butting against a determined Pluto in Capricorn, fighting … [Read more...]