The Eclipse Dance of the Centaur

Last month, Bekah's guest blog piece about Venus and Pluto meeting in a bar offered a fine perspective on the plethora of wild sexual indiscretions that made the news last month. This month she invites us to dance with the Sagittarian Centaur! Solar Eclipse in Mutable Air + a Total Lunar Eclipse in Mutable Fire = ... Marshmallows, anyone? Sagittarius is a mutable fire … [Read more...]

Venus and Pluto enter a bar

Venus and Pluto rule the opposing signs of this Full Moon—Taurus as form and Scorpio as emotion—which prompted the following question from my guest blogger Bekah Finch: Can the Goddess of Love harmonize with the Lord of the Underworld? Venus does not bow to another's will easily. While her light side is all that is loving, thriving, sensual and beautiful, her dark side can be … [Read more...]

Celebrate Beltane

I'm pleased to have Mary Pat Lynch as my guest blogger for this wonderful cross-quarter holiday. Beltane is one of the four great Fire Festivals in the fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. In the ancient Celtic calendar, Beltane is a hinge ushering in the light half of the year, a time of fertility and abundance. In the standard calendar, Beltane is May 1. … [Read more...]

The Moon to Regain Balance

Energy sensitives are well aware of the current line-up of planets in Aries. It's easy to catch headaches these days! Aries is fire that burns hot in the head. It sends us charging forth--discovering, battling, creating, protecting--wherever our impulsive thoughts lead. With the Full Moon in Libra, the sign of balance, we get a not-so-secret instruction: pause and regain … [Read more...]

The Fix-It Retrograde

What was the message—when the winged Messenger, Mercury—entered its-retrograde shadow just as NASA’s Messenger entered this planet’s orbit? And what should we make of the first close-ups of Mercury’s surface being released on the very day the planet stationed retrograde? Of the gods, Mercury is the most clever and nimble, an artist of intricate puzzles. Perhaps he knows we’ve … [Read more...]