Spring New Moon

It’s Spring!  When the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano--except these birds no longer visit the Capistrano Mission on the first day of Spring.  Urban development around the Mission has driven out the tasty insects that swallows love, so the birds have gone elsewhere. Tourists now flock to the town instead; they party without the swallows.  One of California's most … [Read more...]

Call and Response – Calling Capricorn, New Moon

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...]

Dark Sitting on a Winter Moon

The eclipse makes this a special “Long Night Moon.” For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the December Full Moon heralds the coming of Winter Solstice, which is always a good time for sitting alone in the dark. Dark Sitting is a simple yet profound practice. You can do it with or without lighting a candle. I recommend trying both ways. I like closing the practice with a … [Read more...]

Something to believe in

Eclipses signal moments of transition, and often disorientation, when things are revealed to be other than what they had seemed. This week's Solar Eclipse falls in Sagittarius, the sign of higher education, sports, and beliefs.  In the past two weeks, two scandals involving universities have sent shock waves through the media. First, a former defensive coordinator for … [Read more...]

End of the World Averted

Maybe all those emails worked--the ones promoting various global meditations to shift our consciousness and save the planet's future. Today, just eleven days past the end of the Mayan calendar (which occurred on October 28, according to some calculations), a large asteroid is hurtling past us, coming within 200,000 miles of our surface, making it closer than the Moon. How nice … [Read more...]