It's the midpoint of our year--the perfect time to make yourself whole again. But should you perform a ritual during an eclipse? Astrologers, magicians, and pagans disagree on this point. For many, the energy is just too unstable, hindering, even harming, your results. Others swear this is the best time for magical workings, as you'll be blessed with important celestial … [Read more...]
Aquarius Meditation: The Lightning Bolt
The Aquarius New Moon is a cosmically ordered moment to shake loose the restrictions that limit us from fulfilling our potentials. It is a time to set the world on fire, symbolically speaking -- to take risks, rather than remain safe. Look to your individual astrological chart to the house with Uranus in it, or that is ruled by the sign of Aquarius, to see where the trickster … [Read more...]
Follow Your Truth Star.
Sagittarius, sign of the philosopher and truth-seeker, is known as the sign of the happy wanderer. No Sagittarius is as happy as when setting off down a highway to new adventure, either literally or figuratively. Some Sagittarians travel the world. Others rove the inner planes of the spiritual world. Still others restlessly seek out the mind-expanding vistas of various belief … [Read more...]
Bonus Libra-Aries Full Moon Ritual
Preparation Find a quiet place where you can protect yourself from intrusion. Then, as the Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan recommends, take steps to "surround yourself with a zone of silence." Light candles and incense, or play a piece of contemplative music to help shift attention from the periphery, to the quiet center within. You may wish to recite a prayer or sacred … [Read more...]
Heaven is a Roadless Area
From the Mooncircles Archive: Anna Duval wrote this for us a year before her untimely death. We are pleased to remember her gentle voice and compassionate wisdom. At the Virgo Full Moon, the Sun stands opposite in Pisces, which means here in the northern hemisphere, the last month of winter is upon us. Ice packs begin their long melting flow into the sea. Slowly the Sun is … [Read more...]
