Note from Dana: I'm happy to have as my guest blogger, the talented poet and shaman, Jane Galer. Her intimacy with the natural world makes her the perfect spokeswoman for this cross-quarter holiday. If you’re paying attention at all you by now will have noticed that about every six – eight weeks, roughly dividing the year into eighths, we are asked to clean house, mentally … [Read more...]
What do you stand for? Whenever my friend, Connie, feels challenged in life and is not sure what to do, she contemplates these five words that her mentor drummed into her many years ago. “All I have to do is say them aloud,” Connie explained, “and I feel centered and focused again.” Cosmically, it is all coming together—wildish energy, unavoidable challenge, self-doubt, … [Read more...]
My mom, a robustly optimistic Sun in Taurus person, was fond of saying that it’s the bad times in life that make us appreciate the good ones. That's a fine theory; but a certain amount of Moon/Pluto, Neptune in Scorpio skepticism persuaded me early on that bad times can, in fact, taint the good ones - by making us distrustful, jaded, and regretful. Consider Adam and … [Read more...]
From gunfight to lockdown… events in Boston yesterday mirror the Sun’s shift from Aries into Taurus—from fire into earth, from explosions toward stabilization, from crisis to peace. Your life reflects this solar cycle too. *** “What new initiatives did you launch last month in Aries? Were you a hero—or a terrorist? Did you start any projects or battles you now need to … [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
