I’ve been paying a lot of attention to Mars lately. It wasn’t just the Olympics, with its splendid display of Mars-ruled athletes, or NASA’s successful landing of “Curiosity” on the planet itself, or even the smoky skies from all the Mars-ruled fires currently around Southern Oregon. I recently entered my “Mars Dasa,” a 7-year period ruled by the warrior god and I've been … [Read more...]
It’s another new moon: when the magically minded make wishes and astrologers attempt to divine this cycle’s intentions. But fates are personal. Even if a new moon chart could be forced to describe them all, no single astrologer could tell that many stories. The wishes you make now may indeed be super-powered, but if you don’t have a strong relationship with the archetypes, … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
