Without consulting a calendar or reading the blogs, your body knows the Solstice is coming. It cares little for the latest war or fiscal crisis. What’s important to your animal body is that we’re entering a new season. It may not register the exact date (which this year is June 21), but your body is already noticing the approaching change. In the three weeks before and after … [Read more...]
Has it been sitting on a shelf? Are its pages silent? Gemini is THE cycle for talking and writing. And one of the best ways to do this--without risking the mischief that thinking out loud can cause--is to visit your journal if you already have one. Or start one if you don't . Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous journal keepers and not surprisingly, she had Sun, … [Read more...]
Full Moons can be busy times--especially during a lunar eclipse. If you’re feeling tired and a bit off balance, you may be suffering from “energy retention,” a condition much like water retention (which is also common during Full Moons). With energy retention, the currents or flows in your field seem to expand without actually going anywhere. It can feel like you just ate a big … [Read more...]
I’m not a fan of celebrity astrology and the way it presumes to know all about the inner lives of famous strangers. Nor do I find Gwyneth Paltrow as obnoxious as many seem to. She’s a Libran with a Pisces Ascendant. Much like the princess sleeping on a pea, she’s sensitive to what’s not harmonious. Her commitment to living a refined and beautiful life suits her chart—as does … [Read more...]
We get such a brief window of retrograde-free time, I’m telling you way in advance, so you can mark your calendar for the next New Moon, when we get a precious twenty-four hours that are retrograde-free. On Friday, February 28, it’s a New Moon, no personal planets are retrograde, and aspects between many of the planets are lovely. Usually we would say a moment like this is … [Read more...]
Dana’s writing… brings the meaning of the planets to life like no other writer in this field. She’s the Meryl Streep of astrological writers: smart, sane, and insightful...”
Jeff Jawer, The Mountain Astrologer
