This week Friday comes on the 13th—Freya’s special day! Forget that nonsense about bad luck. Somewhere in heaven, Freya is riding joyously in her cat-drawn chariot, heading to meet her beloved consort Od, the god of ecstasy. Before the Church cast its gloomy superstitions on Friday the 13th, this was a pagan festival day, devoted to guiltless indulgence in pleasure and … [Read more...]
Sagittarius is a "mutable" sign--which means it's the one that throws the most changes at us. Whenever the Sun transits a mutable sign, the weather can become capricious and surprising. One day it's autumn, the next day we're in the heart of winter, then it's autumn again. This makes coat and sweater strategies difficult! At the mutable New Moon, Nature is speaking to us … [Read more...]
With the Sun still in Scorpio, the season of shedding continues. This is one of the year's best Full Moons for emotional healing. I remember such a Moon years ago when I went to the baths with my friend Holly. It was ladies night, when the Moon, mineral water, naked breasts, gossip and laughter always heals my soul. It was a great place to shed my tears over a recent failed … [Read more...]
For my very first reading, a co-worker was kind enough to dig up his birth time and let me practice on him. Kevin and I weren’t close, which made this a good test of whether astrology could guide a meaningful conversation between us. I saw that by transit, Saturn and Neptune were squaring his 7th house Moon. I considered the possibilities. Saturn can bring difficulties. … [Read more...]
The agricultural "first fruits" holiday, Lammas, is traditionally celebrated on August 1 and is astrologically exact on August 6/7 (when the Sun reaches 15 degrees Leo, just after this New Moon). It is energetically exact whenever you become aware of the spiritual truth that you are an expression of the Sun. To evaluate your current "sunniness" and creative harvest, check … [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
