It’s another new moon: when the magically minded make wishes and astrologers attempt to divine this cycle’s intentions. The wishes you make now may indeed be super-powered, but if you don’t have a strong relationship with the archetypes, don’t expect special favors. New Moons are potent times to forge alliances with the gods. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing … [Read more...]
Imagine you’d been caged for 50 years in a laboratory, with nary a glimpse of the sky. You knew there were others of your kind nearby, but you were unable to see or touch them and could only offer mute sympathy as each of you was tortured in the name of science. Then suddenly one day, everything changed. You escaped out a window into a grassy expanse where you could climb … [Read more...]
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...]
The Hindu name for this beautiful Full Moon is Kartik Poomima, and it commemorates the end of a four-month period during which Vishnu sleeps. It is also the birthday of Vishnu’s fish-incarnation, Avatar. It is also said to be the day when Krishna danced rasa with Radha and worshiped her. In North America, the Full Beaver Moon takes its name from Algonquin tribes who knew it … [Read more...]
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