Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.9, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Mooncircles Moon Astrology ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://mooncircles.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Summer Solstice: Dance with the Year's Longest Day!](https://mooncircles.com/summer-solstice-dance-with-the-years-longest-day/) - Shortly after the Gemini new Moon, June 21 brings the solstice. The word "solstice" comes from two Latin words: “sol” (meaning sun) and “sistere” (standing still). It literally means “sun standing still.” Note from Dana: It’s summer solstice, the longest day in the northern hemisphere. The Sun reaches its northernmost point, then pauses, before - [Double Your Pleasure: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/double-your-pleasure-gemini-new-moon/) - Miami-based four-year-olds Zuri Copeland and Jia Sarnicola hit it off instantly when they met at school, and have been best friends ever since. The girls, who just turned ten, actually believe themselves to be twins – and they became instant celebrities when their story hit the media in 2017. Unsurprisingly, both Zuri and Jia have - [The Secret to Successful Timing with Astrology](https://mooncircles.com/the-secret-to-successful-timing-with-astrology/) - Dear Dana, Is there a good date astrologically in the next week or so for me to mail a letter of closure—for a love relationship I’ve been holding onto? Energetically I need to let go, but it’s so very hard, I’m seeking guidance from the cosmic skies. Thanks, Rosie Dear Rosie, If you’re wanting - [Gemini New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-asana/) - Melting Heart pose is perfect for a New Moon in Gemini. New Moons are exquisite times to rest and surrender into a more yin-like space, to pause and look inward, and to plant good wishes/goals/intentions for your body, spirit, and behavior in the 28 days ahead. The power for healing at this New Moon comes - [Ritual: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Capricorn Full Moon: Finding Balance](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-finding-balance/) - Years ago, when Kim D’Eramo was sick with an auto-immune disorder, she felt a lot of fear every time her back or neck went into spasm or fatigue overwhelmed her. As this perceptive osteopathic doctor writes in her mind-bending book Be Your Own Healer: An Intuitive Doctor’s Guide to Activating Your Innate Abilities Through Mind-Body - [Capricorn Full Moon: Midyear Resolutions](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-midyear-resolutions-3/) - On the first day of this year, I swore I would make no resolutions beyond trying to be a kinder and better version of myself. I lied. Well, that’s not exactly true; I was sincere, actually. But old habits die hard, and I didn’t stick to that no-resolution resolution. I soon returned, like a swallow - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon-6/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Need a Full Moon Ritual? Make Moon Clay!](https://mooncircles.com/need-a-full-moon-ritual-make-moon-clay-3/) - The full moon is in earthy Capricorn, opposite the Sun in watery Cancer. A fine way to capture their gift is by inserting your hands into the elements: earth mixed with water makes clay. As told in ancient creation myths, stirring together the elements is what created the earth and all its creatures. Likewise: mix - [Capricorn Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-asana-5/) - The Cancer time of the year asks us to feel, feel, feel. When we get to the soft bits under our shells, what are the sensations saying to us? Can we find more compassion for it all and nurture ourselves during the process? The Capricorn Full Moon is designed to help, blessing us with the - [Gemini New Moon: Speaking Up](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-speaking-up/) - In 2001, when Julia Roberts received the Oscar for her gutsy portrayal of the title character in Erin Brockovich, few of us were surprised. She was a knockout in the role of a scrappy young woman who used her smarts and sex appeal to uncover info that took down a power company over poisoned water. - [Gemini New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-asana-4/) - Melting Heart pose is perfect for a New Moon in Gemini. New Moons are exquisite times to rest and surrender into a more yin-like space, to pause and look inward, and to plant good wishes/goals/intentions for your body, spirit, and behavior in the 28 days ahead. The power for healing at this New Moon comes - [Gemini New Moon: Connecting the Dots](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-connecting-the-dots/) - Tuning Out the Babble to Hear Your Own Voice When you connect the dots, it's easy to see the fraternal spirit of Gemini in its stars. Myth invites us to see Gemini's twins, Castor and Pollux, holding hands, and engaged in a lively conversation for all eternity. Yet on the night of Gemini's new moon, - [Gemini New Moon: On the Path to Mastery](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-on-the-path-to-mastery-4/) - Most of us don’t remember learning to speak in our native language. We may not recall, exactly, how we picked up reading and writing, tying our shoes, or riding a bike. Somewhere along the way we learned other skills, too, like how to get a library card, put on makeup, drive a car, flirt. Some - [Ritual: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [It's the perfect time to perform the Santeria Venus Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/its-the-perfect-time-to-perform-the-santeria-venus-ritual/) - Every Spring, on an auspicious Friday, I perform the Santeria ritual for Oshun, confident in its magical powers in bringing new pleasures, money and love! - [Beware of Jinns this Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/beware-of-jinns-this-full-moon-2/) - Under a Sagittarius Full Moon, the mind can become wildly alive and difficult to contain. This can be a tricky moon if you're not paying attention. To stay centered beneath this restless Full Moon, try the following practice. If the veil that divides the visible world from the realms of the invisible could be parted - [Sagittarius Full Moon: I Married an Alien!](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-i-married-an-alien-2/) - My sister and I enjoy chuckling over pictures from our childhood, which invariably feature me looking up at the sky, distracted, as if awaiting the return of my mother ship. Who knows, maybe I was; born with Sagittarius, the sign of the foreigner, on the Ascendant of my chart, part of me has always felt - [Freedom-Seeking Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/freedom-seeking-sagittarius-full-moon/) - Ken Allen was a Bornean orangutan who lived at the San Diego Zoo from the 1970s through the 1990s. Ken’s enclosure had been designed to be escape-proof: high walls, smooth surfaces, no obvious handholds. Yet on June 13, 1985, with the Sun and Mercury in nimble Gemini, zookeepers arrived to find Ken casually strolling through - [Full Moon Asana with Gemini and Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-asana-with-gemini-and-sagittarius-4/) - Full Moons send us into the colliding energies of opposition. What better pose to balance and focus these forces than Warrior 2, through which we'll integrate the opposing signs of Sun and Moon. We'll connect with the Sun-in-Gemini through the expansion of our breath, opening into the lungs, ribs, shoulders, arms, and fingers. The - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-7/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Ritual: Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Taurus New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-asana-3/) - Moon practice is best when it's embodied practice. We'll bring our awareness to the Earth with a simple seated pose for the Taurus New Moon. On the day of the New Moon, or perhaps, if it's convenient, at the very moment of the New Moon, take precious time for yourself with a simple grounding posture - [Can’t relate to your Venus? I wrote this is for you!](https://mooncircles.com/cant-relate-to-your-venus-i-wrote-this-is-for-you/) - Venus isn’t waiting on a cloud, fingers crossed, hoping we'll find her in an astrology chart. She's alive--hard-wired--inside each and every one of us. - [Taurus New Moon: A Call to Eros](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-a-call-to-eros/) - In her fabulous new book, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of our Ancestors, Perdita Finn tells a story about her husband’s grandmother, who’d just turned one hundred. The whole family had assembled at her house for a party. “At one point,” says Finn, “she told her great-granddaughters to go to her closet and take - [Three Magical Keys into the Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/three-magical-keys-into-the-taurus-new-moon-4/) - Every new moon is a doorway behind which lies a unique path, created just for you, for the next 29.5 days. The Taurus new moon doorway aches to draw you into deep relationship with the natural world, and specifically, the rich garden of the Divine Feminine. This is your annual opportunity to revive and - [Uranus just Re-Entered Gemini. The Shift is Underway.](https://mooncircles.com/uranus-just-re-entered-gemini-the-shift-is-underway/) - Revolutionary trickster Uranus has just completed a seven-year stress test of everything Taurus holds dear: money, food, land, and the structures we rely on for stability. Since his entry into Taurus in May 2018, we’ve watched the rise of invisible currencies, climate extremes, supply chain shocks, and the sudden unraveling of the 9-to-5 workday during - [Scorpio Full Moon: The Prosperity Dance](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-the-prosperity-dance/) - “The only way the gods know we're asking for help is ritual.” – Caroline Casey Taurus and Scorpio are the two signs of the zodiac that are most closely associated with money. So if your finances are strained or life just isn't giving you enough of what you want, the Scorpio Full Moon is the - [Beltane Full Moon: Raising Power](https://mooncircles.com/beltane-full-moon-raising-power/) - In the late 1930s, Gerald Gardner returned home to Britain’s southern coast after traveling abroad for many years. There he joined a coven of witches in Highcliffe-by-the-Sea. On the cross-quarter holy day of Lammas, August 1, 1940, Gardner and 16 other witches (or Wiccans, as they prefer to be called) gathered secretly at night - [Scorpio Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-asana-4/) - Like most Full Moons, this one blends two different voices. Sun-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. Moon-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-scorpio-full-moon-5/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Where Your Energy Goes, Your Life Follows](https://mooncircles.com/where-your-energy-goes-your-life-follows/) - An Aries New Moon meditation on directing your vitality Energy—where to find it, how to grow it, how to conserve it, and how to direct it—is the spiritual task of this Aries New Moon. This is a moment to begin again—with fresh vitality. As all magicians know, the secret of manifestation lies in the skillful - [Aries New Moon: Brave New World](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-brave-new-world/) - Crowds across the globe erupted in cheers last Friday evening as Integrity, the Artemis II Orion capsule, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean and four brave astronauts disembarked after their week-long lunar tour. Here in San Diego, local space aficionados packed the Aerospace Museum, and the historic Hotel del Coronado hosted a lively celestial watch - [Now or Never: The Aries Way](https://mooncircles.com/now-or-never-the-aries-way/) - A late-degree Aries New Moon brings a “just do it” moment—discover yourself through your actions. Aries never looks before he leaps. His mother never cautioned, "If you run with a stick you'll poke an eye out!" At six, he challenged bullies twice his size. At sixteen he built his castle; he made the ceilings tall - [Aries New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-asana-4/) - With last month’s New Moon in Pisces, we completed a year’s round of embodiment-through each-sign with a focus on our feet. With the New Moon in Aries, we begin again. It’s the zodiacal new year. Since the Aries region of the body is head, brain, eyes, and face, we start our journey of embodiment at - [Ritual: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-new-moon-5/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [I Know What It's Like To Be Supported](https://mooncircles.com/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-supported/) - Sacred Vedic texts say that if the Goddess Devi closes her eyes for even a second, the entire universe disappears. This is not a preposterous claim. Something like this happens every time we lose our connection to the Divine Feminine—the Great Mama Field. We can fall into a world that feels dull, unkind, and strangely - [Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-asana-5/) - Aries rules “me” energy, along with the head, face, and brain. The Full Moon in Libra rules “we” energy, along with the kidneys and lower back. These areas of the body want balancing now. Without enough “me” time, we’ll suffer in the lower back. Without enough “we” time, the brain overheats and gets agitated. A - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-libra-full-moon-5/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Libra Full Moon: What Are You Hiding?](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-what-are-you-hiding-2/) - We’re not in the market for a new home, but my husband and I enjoy visiting open houses for sale in our neighborhood. Recently we toured a tiny but charming bungalow a few blocks away. Beautifully presented, it had been updated in a way that respected the vintage of the house. It was inspiring—exactly the - [Libra Full Moon: I Am Because We Are](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-i-am-because-we-are/) - In the 1960s, an eminent European anthropologist was studying a Zulu tribe in Africa. Near the end of his stay, he invited the local children to play a game. The kids were of various ages and sizes; some had disabilities, others held hands with a younger sibling. They were instructed to line up and, at - [Pisces New Moon: Closing the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-closing-the-circle-3/) - The circle—a timeless image used in Tibetan mandalas, Native American medicine wheels, and astrology—conveys the ever-turning wheel of life. And in the circle of the year, the Pisces New Moon always arrives before the Vernal Equinox. The final New Moon of the zodiac arrives just before the zodiac resets, as two days later (March 20), - [When Pisces Comes Knocking at Your Door](https://mooncircles.com/when-pisces-comes-knocking-at-your-door/) - Pisces plays the mandolin and wears sky blue shirts that smell like lavender or sometimes roses. When he visits, you might hear snow melting. Tulips and daffodils poke their heads above ground to greet him, while starlings dream of their future: finding a soul mate, nest-building, teaching their young to fly. Pisces’ mother used to - [Banishing Ritual for the Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/banishing-ritual-for-the-aquarius-full-moon-3/) - On this fine summer evening, the full moon is in the air sign of Aquarius, opposite the sun in the fire sign of Leo, offering the elemental interplay of fire and air. These elements are ideal for rituals of purification: fire flames up and out, burning to ashes what obstructs. Air refreshes, blowing away what - [Make a Wish, Make it Real: The Saturn-Neptune Portal is Open](https://mooncircles.com/make-a-wish-make-it-real-the-saturn-neptune-portal-is-open/) - The sky is brewing something rare and luminous. In February 2026, at 0° Aries, Saturn and Neptune will meet for the first time in over a generation. These two slow-moving planets meet every 36 years. Their union brings one of astrology’s most potent invitations: If you listen to your soul now, you can build - [Fire After the Flood: Saturn and Neptune in Aries](https://mooncircles.com/fire-after-the-flood-saturn-and-neptune-in-aries/) - Neptune enters Aries: January 26, 2026 (through 2039) Saturn enters Aries: February 13, 2026 (through April 2028) For nearly fourteen years, we lived at sea. Since 2011, Neptune has piloted us through the dreamy, fantastical waters of Pisces. As the planet of illusion, imagination, and spiritual thirst swam through this misty sign, the once-sturdy - [When the Gods Speak: The Power of the Cazimi](https://mooncircles.com/when-the-gods-speak-the-power-of-the-cazimi/) - Mercury cazimi the Sun: January 21, 2026 Pluto cazimi the Sun: January 23, 2026 Neptune cazimi the Sun: March 22, 2026 Saturn cazimi the Sun: March 25, 2026 There are moments in astrology so brief they can be missed entirely, the way you might miss a knock at the door if you’re in the back - [Pisces New Moon: Healing Waters](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-healing-waters/) - An ancient Chinese story tells of a fisherman whose wife was gravely ill and near death. When doctors could not help, the man visited a small temple dedicated to Guanyin, goddess of compassion and healing. He prayed for hours, begging for her mercy. Then, exhausted, he fell asleep. In a dream that night, Guanyin told the - [Ritual: Pisces New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-pisces-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Pisces New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-asana-4/) - The astrological year begins with Aries and ends with Pisces. Aries rules the head. Pisces rules the feet. From last year’s Aries New Moon until now, we’ve traveled through each region of the body in tune with the seasons. Pisces calls for the integration of all that we have embodied, sensed, and experienced in the - [Virgo Blood Moon: The Eclipse of Competence](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-blood-moon-the-eclipse-of-competence/) - On March 3rd, the Earth slips between the Sun and the Moon, and the familiar Full Moon turns a deep, bruised red. A total lunar eclipse doesn't erase the Moon. Its light still reaches us — but it arrives altered, filtered through shadow. The same shadow crosses through the inner sky. A Virgo Moon - [What will you see in this Virgo Lunar Eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/what-will-you-see-in-this-virgo-lunar-eclipse/) - Here is what happens during a lunar eclipse: the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon, blocking it from reflecting the Sun’s light. How do you like that? Here’s the little Moon, furiously trying to find some light to bounce around, only to find there’s a big old ball of dirt in her way. Similarly, - [Virgo Full Moon Eclipse: Showing Up](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-eclipse-showing-up/) - Bob Findle died of cancer on March 16, 2012. A regular at Tish Sjoberg’s Expressive Arts Studio in San Diego, Bob was inspired by a Daily Art Show at the studio to begin his own daily art project. But within weeks of starting it, he learned he was dying. That might have been a good - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-pisces-full-moon-4/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Wide Awake under a Lunar Eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/wide-awake-under-a-lunar-eclipse-3/) - Some full moons are slow, rich and sonorous, making it easy for us to slip into meditation and communion. But a lunar eclipse is more electric and unstable. Its energy can rattle the nervous system and give you insomnia. It's 3:00 am and you're wide awake. What should you do? Calm your nervous system! But - [Is this Solar Eclipse Rocking Your World?](https://mooncircles.com/is-this-solar-eclipse-rocking-your-world/) - Meet Rahu—the north node demon who devours the Sun and Moon during eclipses. He rocks worlds. Is he jiggling yours? Below are a few signs that you’re being touched by this week's ring of fire eclipse in Aquarius. But first, a little perspective on this sky event. The terror of eclipses runs deep in astrology - [Aquarius Solar Eclipse: Off to the Races](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-solar-eclipse-off-to-the-races/) - Sometimes an awe-inspiring creature appears on the scene just when it’s most needed, sparking widespread devotion. Like gentle, loving Aloka (faithful companion to the peace-walking Buddhist monks, who has become a superstar during a time of rampant hatred and division), the racehorse Man O’ War held a similar level of fame in his day. This - [Aquarius New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-asana-4/) - Gentle Yin Dragonfly (upright or reclined) New Moons provide a worthwhile moment to rest, listen, and vision for the cycle ahead. Aquarius is the season for dancing wherever the wind (or inspiration) wants to send you. Aquarius is the sign of the Water Bearer. A fine posture for this New Moon is one that allows - [Ritual: Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aquarius-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipses-lunar-intuition-5/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [Leo Full Moon: Carry the Light](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-carry-the-light/) - On the morning of January 24, on a frigid Minneapolis street, all hell broke loose as intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was brutally murdered trying to help a woman who’d been accosted by masked ICE agents. Pretti was pepper-sprayed, then shot repeatedly by an ICE agent, in a horrifying incident that closely mirrored the January - [Leo Full Moon: Filled With Your Own Light](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-filled-with-your-own-light-3/) - I began my life as a musician at the age of 12, singing with my cousin. I was a shy little Leo; she was a slightly older, brash and unafraid one, with a full-throttled voice. It felt natural to let her take the lead, while I mastered harmony. Harmonizing came so naturally that it never - [Ritual: Leo Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-leo-aquarius-full-moon-3/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Leo Full Moon Asana: Play is Medicine](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-asana-play-is-medicine-2/) - It’s the heart of winter in the northern hemisphere. Thank goodness the heavens always bring the joyful energy of Leo into the mid-winter Full Moon. Leo is for fire, for playfulness and reconnecting to your inner child, for art and creative expression in any form, and for extravagant heart sensations in the ways that light - [Ritual: Capricorn New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-capricorn-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Becoming Who You Were Meant To Be](https://mooncircles.com/becoming-who-you-were-meant-to-be-2/) - Astrology says that you were born under a special star of destiny. It will take 26,000 years for your birthday's unique pattern of planets and stars to repeat itself in the heavens. The secret fate written in your chart is a sign that, as the Jungian thinker James Hillman said, "We are each born called." - [Ritual: Capricorn New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-capricorn-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Capricorn Meditation: Think like a Mountain](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-meditation-think-like-a-mountain-4/) - Capricorn is a striver. This sign loves to climb and achieve. But it couldn't reach its goals without knowing patience. To deepen into the heart of this New Moon, you may wish to cultivate the quality of interiority and receptive waiting that defines Capricorn's patience. One way to do this is to "think like a - [Capricorn New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-asana-4/) - The Capricorn New Moon can often inspire a mix of hope, overwhelm, and inspiration all at once. The remedy for overwhelm lies with this New Moon’s element: earth. With earth sign Taurus we might think of gardens, but for Capricorn earth, we think of mountains. Capricorn gives us strong structures. It is resilient. Its energy - [Capricorn New Moon: One Foot After Another](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-one-foot-after-another/) - When photographer Henry Eiland heard that Buddhist monks on a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace were coming to Alabama, he felt compelled to see them. So, on Christmas Day, he attended their peace gathering at a church in Opelika. There he saw people of every culture and background. As Henry told Stay Inspired News, “I haven’t - [Cancer Full Moon: Healing Your Feelings](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-healing-your-feelings/) - In her audacious memoir The Reluctant Psychic, Suzan Saxman tells the story of an elderly woman who once came to her for a reading. The client remained stern and unemotional throughout the session, though she did acknowledge things that the psychic pointed out. It was clear to Saxman that this individual had led a tough - [Feeling Held Again: A Cancer Full Moon Reset](https://mooncircles.com/feeling-held-again-a-cancer-full-moon-reset/) - Sacred Vedic texts say that if the Goddess Devi closes her eyes for just one second, the entire universe will disappear. This may sound mythic, even extravagant—but something very similar happens each time we lose our felt connection to the Divine Feminine, to what I call the Great Mama Field. We fall—into a world that - [The Awakened Heart: Learning to Love What Scares You](https://mooncircles.com/the-awakened-heart-learning-to-love-what-scares-you/) - A few years ago, I discovered that I had to have a tooth pulled. Big deal, right? Yet I was astonished at the intensity of my reaction. Most nights I found myself awake at 3:00 a.m., tormented by thoughts of mortality. My poor old tooth prompted fears that growing older would mean a future in - [Full Moon in Cancer: Belonging](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-cancer-belonging-2/) - This Full Moon in the family-oriented sign of Cancer brings to mind a story from a 2018 trip to New Zealand. Jonny and I are standing in a tiny house, part of a museum in Okains Bay, a remote village on an out-of-the-way peninsula southeast of Christchurch. We’ve made a pilgrimage here to visit the - [Cancer Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-asana-4/) - Cancer is the Moon’s favorite sign. The Cancer region of the body revolves around our center: our chest, our breasts, and held feelings in our belly. Cancerian energy is known to be empathic, sensitive, nurturing, and also to hold on to memories and sensations. With the Full Moon in Cancer always falling somewhat close to - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon-5/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Winter Solstice: Fill Your Inner Horn of Plenty](https://mooncircles.com/winter-solstice-fill-your-inner-horn-of-plenty/) - Three days after the 28 degree Sagittarius New Moon, the Sun pauses. On December 21, it enters 0 degrees of Capricorn, a turning point celebrated in the northern hemisphere as Winter Solstice. The Sun reaches its southernmost point and appears to stand still—the ancient meaning of solstice. In that stillness, something subtle but real begins: - [Sagittarius New Moon: Stranger Things](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-stranger-things/) - My mom’s father, who grew up on a Kansas farm in the early 1900s, had a front row seat for the tail end of the wild west. And as a Sagittarian, he loved to tell tales. We were never sure if his outrageous yarns were actually true, a complete fabrication, or somewhere in between. The - [Calling in Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/calling-in-sagittarius/) - Calling in Sagittarius The challenges of last month’s Scorpio cycle were meant to strengthen your capacities for patience, perseverance and resilience. Perhaps you were reminded of your strength. You do know how to put one foot in front of the other and survive. But Sagittarius plays an entirely different game. Even if your work this - [Ritual: Sagittarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-sagittarius-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Sagittarius New Moon: Walkabout](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-walkabout-4/) - A few years ago, just before a Sagittarius New Moon, our indoor cat Spike escaped the secure confines of our home and went walkabout. I soothed my anxiety by imagining him on a kind of exciting Spirit Quest, possibly involving medicinal-grade catnip. When he returned 36 hours later, Spike seemed calm and fairly mellow, if - [Menopause and the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/menopause-and-the-moon-4/) - When I went through menopause, following the Moon saved me.I was unmoored without my cycle.” I’ve heard words like these from many clients and students over the years. And they make sense. The lunation cycle keeps crones juicy and in rhythm. All beings on Earth are built for monthly tides, but women’s bodies know this - [Gemini Full Moon: The Gift of Listening](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-the-gift-of-listening-2/) - When my friend's son was small, he talked incessantly. Born with Venus in loquacious Gemini, he jabbered constantly about stories he'd read or what he'd seen on television that morning. His mother is a patient woman, but eventually the sheer quantity of words wore her down. One day, she recalls, driving along with her child - [Gemini Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-asana-4/) - Side Plank Gemini is the air sign ruling the flight of the mind. Its rhythm is typically “busy.” I think about having wings when the Moon is in Gemini, especially the Full Moon. Gemini governs the shoulders, arms, hands and (our human wings), the lungs. The Gemini Full Moon comes at a time when we - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-6/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Gemini Full Moon: Moved by the Spirit](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-moved-by-the-spirit/) - Recently, the 75th birthday of Archbishop Bernard Boberg was celebrated with a full-on rave. The event, at a 14th-century Slovakian cathedral, was emceed by Pope Leo XIV. To the sound of pumping beats and the brilliance of flashing lights, he extoled the virtues of coming together and living life with enthusiasm. The former Robert Prevost - [Scorpio New Moon: The Serpent and the Dragon](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-the-serpent-and-the-dragon/) - My mother, a steadfast Taurus, used to say that the hard times in life make us appreciate the good ones. A sensible view—but with my Moon/Pluto temperament, I’ve always felt the opposite: that painful experiences can linger in the shadows and make us cautious, even when life is good again. It’s the old story of - [Scorpio New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-asana-3/) - Dragon Lunge, Yin Yoga style Halfway through the current season, we can now truly embody it. It’s the ideal moment to contemplate what this season means to us. It’s autumn in the North, spring in the South. How do we honor this, feel into it, enjoy it, struggle with it, be in it? Water sign - [Scorpio New Moon: Powered by Gratitude](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-powered-by-gratitude/) - Gratitude is the most powerful emotion of all. If you can be grateful no matter what, you’ll be the happiest person on earth. (Buddhist saying). When San Diego resident Tracey VanSteenhouse’s elderly cats died, she and her husband decided not to adopt again. They traveled frequently, and making arrangements for the cats had become tedious. - [Offer Yourself to the Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/offer-yourself-to-the-scorpio-new-moon/) - Scorpio draws us into the mystery of the underworld. Here Isis and Ishtar descend. Persephone savors her pomegranates. Cerridwen stirs her cauldron. The snake goddesses respect Scorpio’s powers of transformation and its gifts of wisdom. They understand that underworld empowerments usually come with a price. Yet the reward is always greater wealth. Give a little, - [Scorpio New Moon: Meeting Your Spirit Guide](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-meeting-your-spirit-guide-3/) - Scorpio guides our relationship with the "other side"—the invisible realms hidden from ordinary view. The soul's journey through Scorpio takes us down into the underworld, then lifts us into a new, more evolved way of being. That’s the transformation symbolized by Scorpio’s mythical phoenix. No one is ever asked to make this journey alone. Each - [The perfect asana for the Taurus full moon.](https://mooncircles.com/the-perfect-asana-for-the-taurus-full-moon-3/) - This Full Moon blends two different voices. Sun-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and grief. The Moon-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. This - [Taurus Full Moon: Ancestral Magic](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-ancestral-magic-2/) - In her thought-provoking book Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Perdita Finn pierces the veil between this world and the next. She assures us that our ancestors are standing by to help us overcome obstacles, seize opportunities and conjure miracles. This often includes those who were difficult in life, and are now - [Taurus Full Moon: How I Broke Up with Cheez-its](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-how-i-broke-up-with-cheez-its-2/) - My husband recently decided to make a significant change to his diet. Since we eat most of our dinners together, I figured I would jump aboard and try it myself. It was a pretty big change for me, though, and during the day I hewed to my usual habits, which included a regrettable volume of - [It's Time for the Green Fire Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/its-time-for-the-green-fire-ritual-3/) - Fall is the season to call back and re-organize the loose, outward-flowing patterns that flourished in the warmer months. Like the turning leaves, something within you is changing colors. Perhaps a subtle new desire has flushed to the surface. What is it? However you name it, when the Sun is in Scorpio, the way - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-scorpio-full-moon-4/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Whispers and Revelations: What the New Moon Comets Portend](https://mooncircles.com/whispers-and-revelations-what-the-new-moon-comets-portend/) - The upcoming Libra New Moon holds a strange kind of magic. On the very day the Moon lies down in the arms of the Sun, Mercury slips into the pre-shadow of its upcoming retrograde (from November 9 to November 29). It's a quiet New Moon signal to begin slowing down, rethinking, and listening more - [Libra New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-asana-3/) - Sphinx Variations The time of Libra, ruled by goddess Venus and Air, always brings beautiful transformations in nature, as well as inevitable change. This change is felt in the air temperature, the way the light is shifting each day, and in the trees and all plants expressing themselves for a final hurrah in the northern - [Libra New Moon: Becoming Aphrodite](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-becoming-aphrodite-2/) - Are you a rogue priestess without a temple? No worries. You have all you need to be empowered by Aphrodite this month. Simply raise the vibration of the key Libra concerns, namely, the arts of listening well, making things beautiful, and loving each other with grace. These virtues are needed today more than ever. Let's - [Libra New Moon: Go Gently](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-go-gently-2/) - Like a lot of driven types, I move through the world a bit roughly. Whether along my career path or on a trip to the supermarket, I focus on the destination and pay scant attention to the journey itself. Down to the smallest gestures, my approach is instinctively direct and graceless. I’m hard on the - [Libra New Moon: Peace and Justice](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-peace-and-justice/) - I love the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize winners are announced when the Sun is in Libra, sign of peace, justice and balance. And this year’s unexpected winner, rather than a prominent world leader, is Marina Corina Machado – a pro-democracy Venezuelan activist who was born under the sign of Libra. Machado has been - [Ritual: Libra New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-libra-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Aries Full Moon: A Force of Nature](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-a-force-of-nature/) - “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived in what is now Tanzania to study - [Seeds to Sweetness: A Harvest Moon Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/seeds-to-sweetness-a-harvest-moon-ritual/) - It’s a special Full Moon. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the Harvest Moon—the Full Moon closest to the Autumn Equinox (September 22), when the Sun entered Libra and the Earth turned toward a new season. Libra is a cardinal sign, and in cardinal months we often feel stirred to begin again. There’s momentum in - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-libra-full-moon-4/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Aries Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-asana-3/) - Goddess Pose With Sun and Moon opposed in Libra/Aries, it's high time to find your balance! Libra encourages new journeys toward balance every year so that over a lifetime, if we're paying attention, we become experts. We know how to harmonize our body, mind, and feelings with with the ebbs and flows that life brings - [Aries Full Moon: Gallant Knight](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-gallant-knight-2/) - One recent morning, when I was on deadline and stressed out, an email landed in my inbox that made me angry. Angry, in fact, to a degree far out of proportion to the offense. Mars, the warrior planet, is strong in my birth chart, and I've always had a temper. But as a woman in - [Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse: The World as It Is](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-the-world-as-it-is/) - Virgo’s gift is for the work of the everyday – work that is never-ending, self-perpetuating, like washing the dishes or trying to keep your closet organized. Work that will never, ever be finished, because it’s the work of supporting and sustaining… what, exactly? That's a tricky question for our Virgo natures to grapple with. Virgo - [Pisces Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-asana-3/) - This Full Moon is the last of the season. The Sun-in-Virgo is here to help us find our ground again. This is helpful because society starts to speed up at this time. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's back to school, vacation gone, holiday stuff already in the stores; everywhere... it's rush, rush, rush. All - [Ritual: Virgo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [10 Signs this Eclipse is Touching You](https://mooncircles.com/10-signs-this-eclipse-is-touching-you-2/) - The terror of eclipses runs deep in astrology tradition. For the first astrologers, over three thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, solar eclipses were the top feared sky event, capable of unraveling a kingdom. Eclipses signaled floods, famine, disease, and the death of kings. Yet unlike us, the first astrologers didn’t believe the sky was causing - [Virgo Solar Eclipse: A Game-Changer](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-solar-eclipse-a-game-changer/) - In a fascinating twist of fate, a group of former Tesla employees in the UK has turned a devastating loss into an exciting new venture. After Elon Musk fired an entire team of Tesla engineers last year, the ex-employees banded together, quickly secured an impressive $80 million in funding, and launched their own electric vehicle - [Equinox: The Quiet Power of the Center](https://mooncircles.com/equinox-the-quiet-power-of-the-center-2/) - A day after the Virgo solar eclipse we meet the September Equinox. On September 22, the Sun enters Libra and we reach one of the year's two balance points, when the hours for day and night are equal. Soon this special balance will tip, with night lengthening in the Northern Hemisphere and contracting in the - [Equinox: The Quiet Power of the Center](https://mooncircles.com/equinox-the-quiet-power-of-the-center/) - We're about a week away from the September Equinox. On September 22, the Sun enters Libra and we reach one of the year's two balance points, when the hours for day and night are equal. Soon this special balance will tip, with night lengthening in the Northern Hemisphere and contracting in the Southern. Around the - [10 Signs Neptune-in-Aries Put a Spell on You](https://mooncircles.com/10-signs-neptune-in-aries-put-a-spell-on-you/) - Neptune entered Aries on March 30, 2025. He’ll briefly slip back into Pisces on October 22, then fully ingress into Aries on January 26, 2026, where he’ll be until March 2039. The ancient Greeks understood: sometimes the gods just like to mess with us. In March of 2011, as Neptune prepared to enter his - [Uranus enters Gemini: Choose Your Revolution](https://mooncircles.com/uranus-enters-gemini-choose-your-revolution/) - Uranus enters Gemini on July 7, 2025, then retrogrades back into Taurus in November. It re-enters Gemini in April 2026 and remains until 2033/34. A young farmer clutches his musket behind a stone wall at Concord, heart pounding, awaiting the shot that will ignite a revolution. Voice trembling, a Virginia slave, who’s secretly learned how - [Pisces Lunar Eclipse: How to Survive Quicksand](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-lunar-eclipse-how-to-survive-quicksand/) - If you’ve ever seen a movie protagonist dramatically subsumed by quicksand, you may be surprised to learn that such a fate is highly unlikely. Usually, even if you should accidentally stumble into one of these wet, sandy pits, you’ll only sink to waist level. That said, if you thrash and struggle to get out, you - [Is a lunar eclipse the best time for a full moon ritual?](https://mooncircles.com/is-a-lunar-eclipse-the-best-time-for-a-full-moon-ritual/) - There are two different schools of thought about performing rituals during a lunar eclipse. Some say that eclipses supercharge your ceremonies. Others feel the energy is wonky and shouldn’t be trusted with important workings. I say, investigate! Lunar eclipses occur twice a year, every year. You have lots of experience already. But likely you haven't - [Pisces Full Moon Eclipse: Your Life Blood](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-eclipse-your-life-blood/) - In the 1800s, across the harsh, windswept plains of Texas, the carcasses of millions of buffalo lay scattered — victims of mass slaughter that had brought the native peoples’ sacred animal to the brink of extinction. Most white folks saw the buffalo (aka bison) as a relic of a dying past. But Mary Ann (“Molly”) - [Wide Awake under a Lunar Eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/wide-awake-under-a-lunar-eclipse-2/) - Some full moons are slow, rich and sonorous, making it easy for us to slip into meditation and communion. But a lunar eclipse is more electric and unstable. Its energy can rattle the nervous system and give you insomnia. It's 3:00 am and you're wide awake. What should you do? Calm your nervous system! But - [Virgo New Moon: Practical Magic](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-practical-magic/) - For awhile several years ago, we were visited twice each month by a marvelous woman who cleaned our house. The place felt terrific after Angela had been here – not just clean, but calm. Centered. It was as though the place had been Rolfed, instead of merely mopped and dusted. Angela came to us through - [What's on your Virgo "Make Things Better" List?](https://mooncircles.com/whats-on-your-virgo-make-things-better-list-2/) - As a schoolgirl, every year about this time, I’d take out a clean sheet of paper and with a bold, optimistic hand, write at the top: "The New Me." Then I would list all the wonderful qualities I was determined to adopt in the coming school year: "Smile." "Be helpful." "Always say something nice." In - [Virgo New Moon: The Road Less Travelled](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-the-road-less-travelled/) - When Chinese businessman Jack Ma was a boy, he rode 17 miles on his bicycle each day for nine years to work as a tour guide for foreigners. The goal – to practice his English – eventually paid off. But this determined young man faced other challenges. Jack Ma (born Ma Yun), struggled academically, and - [Virgo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-asana-4/) - Seated Wide Leg Lateral Side Bend The light alters. There's a shift in the air. The Sun is in mutable Virgo. This sign helps us to remain-within-ourselves as we observe and adjust to the changing nature around us. We find Virgo in our feminine sensitivities, the ones that help us honor the connection between the - [The Moon Speaks](https://mooncircles.com/the-moon-speaks/) - Out Here, In There I am the moon. After 4.53 billion years, or so, I have decided to speak, only once, I hope. From here, I have watched the earth, the blue of it, the round of it, the continental drift. I have spent my phases listening to tunes crooned about me, for me, to - [Aquarius Full Moon: Looking for Lightning](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-looking-for-lightning-3/) - The weather’s been stifling here for the past few days, with hot, humid winds blowing up from the south and air so thick you can practically slice it. Early this morning I heard distant thunder and smiled, remembering the thrilling thunderstorms that punctuated the long, stagnant Midwestern summer afternoons of my youth. This nostalgia was - [Aquarius Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-asana-3/) - We are now at the end of Leo’s season—a fire cycle for a second full moon in Aquarius. Be sure to welcome Leo’s confident, playful, and courageous energy into your life and body! The Full Moon is in Leo’s opposite sign, Aquarius—its partner. Together they offer the potent collaboration of air and fire. Bring this - [Aquarius Full Moon: Back to the Future](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-back-to-the-future/) - When was the last time you used a pay phone? For younger folks, the answer may be never. In many places, these analog throwbacks no longer exist. Or, they’ve been creatively repurposed into fish-filled aquariums, as in Japan. But one rural Vermonter decided to bring them back as a public service project. “I realized, wow, - [Calling in the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/calling-in-the-leo-new-moon/) - 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. If you rarely play your cello, don’t expect a starring role in the - [Ritual: Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-leo-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Leo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-asana-3/) - At the Leo New Moon, welcome the shining light of the Sun into your deep lion-hearted self. Heart, solar plexus, and spine are the Leo regions of the body. This is the New Moon to check in: Are you staying true to your heart? Are you aligned with your integrity? The spine is sometimes referred - [Leo New Moon: Creativity & the Grateful Flow](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-creativity-the-grateful-flow-2/) - Creativity is a quality that most astrologers associate with Leo, the sign of this New Moon, and with its ruler, the Sun. Absolutely everyone is creative, with a mad desire to connect with a powerful and loving Source, although many people deny that they’re creative at all. But if you ask them to remember a - [Leo New Moon: Star Power](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-star-power/) - Auto, a six-year-old boy from Thailand who was dying of cancer, was granted his last wish not long ago — to see Moo Deng, the young pygmy hippo who’s become an Internet darling. When the Khao Kheow Open Zoo just south of Bangkok heard about Auto’s wish, they invited him for a visit. As if - [Capricorn Full Moon: Monopoly or Prosperity?](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-monopoly-or-prosperity/) - In 1904, stenographer Elizabeth Magie was granted a patent for her creation, The Landlord’s Game. A big hit with her friends in Maryland, Magie’s circular board game featured properties for sale and a ‘Go to Jail’ space, much like its later, more famous iteration – Monopoly. But Magie’s version had a much different purpose. She - [Need a Full Moon Ritual? Make Moon Clay!](https://mooncircles.com/need-a-full-moon-ritual-make-moon-clay-2/) - The full moon is in earthy Capricorn, opposite the Sun in watery Cancer. A fine way to capture their gift is by inserting your hands into the elements: earth mixed with water makes clay. As told in ancient creation myths, stirring together the elements is what created the earth and all its creatures. Likewise: mix - [Capricorn Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-asana-4/) - The Cancer time of the year asks us to feel, feel, feel. When we get to the soft bits under our shells, what are the sensations saying to us? Can we find more compassion for it all and nurture ourselves during the process? The Capricorn Full Moon is designed to help, blessing us with the - [Capricorn Full Moon: The Midwife, the General, and Mr. Wolf](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-the-midwife-the-general-and-mr-wolf-2/) - Jules and Vincent, professional hitmen, have a mess on their hands. They've accidentally shot someone in the backseat of Jules' car, and they need to get rid of the evidence fast. They retreat to the nearby suburban home of their friend Jimmy, who anticipates the imminent arrival of his volatile wife, Bonnie. With the clock - [Ritual: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-5/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Call and Response: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/call-and-response-cancer-new-moon-2/) - New Moons are potent times to forge alliances with the gods. Visit the invisible world. Bow and open yourself to their touch. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing with these archetypes for thousands of years. When you call out to the zodiac, the gods do respond! Water was Cancer’s first language. As a child, - [Cancer New Moon: True North](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-true-north-3/) - When my mother's only sister passed away in 2000, right around the Cancer Solstice, she took with her an entire era of my family’s history. Hers was a generation which seemed to produce more than its share of great ladies, my aunt and my mother among them. You can judge the success of a person’s - [Cancer New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-asana-3/) - The New Moon in watery Cancer, sign of the crab, can bring a month of deep emotional shifts. It can also launch a period of deep reflection on what kind of nurture you want and need most at this time. Perhaps there is something tender to look at under the shell. Welcoming the light sneaking - [Cancer New Moon: Decoding Patriotism](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-decoding-patriotism/) - You’ve probably never heard of him, but James Lafayette is a man worth remembering. Born into slavery in 1748 (records are sketchy, but he was likely a Sagittarian), James served bravely in the Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, whose name he later took. His efforts as a spy were crucial to the American - [3 Simple Gestures for the Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-simple-gestures-for-the-cancer-new-moon-3/) - The Cancer New Moon beckons you to reach deep. It’s time for nourishment and flow. To feel fully replenished, you will need to confront the walls you’ve created for safety. Feeling protected, being in control, and manipulating matters to ease life’s pain seem like reasonable strategies. After all, you’re a sensitive person. But too - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Don't Look Back](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-dont-look-back/) - In September 1954, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, 63-year-old Annie Wilkins decided that a big change was in order. After living on the family farm in Maine her entire life, and with all her relatives gone, she decided to hit the road. When a coin toss came up heads, she took it as a sign. - [The Secret to Successful Timing with Astrology](https://mooncircles.com/the-secret-to-successful-timing-with-astrology-2/) - Dear Dana, Is there a good date astrologically in the next week or so for me to mail a letter of closure—for a love relationship I’ve been holding onto? Energetically I need to let go, but it’s so very hard, I’m seeking guidance from the cosmic skies. Thanks, Rosie Dear Rosie, If you’re wanting - [Full Moon Asana with Gemini and Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-asana-with-gemini-and-sagittarius-3/) - Full Moons send us into the colliding energies of opposition. What better pose to balance and focus these forces than Warrior 2, through which we'll integrate the opposing signs of Sun and Moon. We'll connect with the Sun-in-Gemini through the expansion of our breath, opening into the lungs, ribs, shoulders, arms, and fingers. The - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Improve the Silence](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-improve-the-silence-2/) - With Sagittarius rising in my birthchart, Mercury opposed Jupiter, and lots of planets in the 9th house, I can seem like a natural born centaur. This is especially true on the occasions when I jump on my high horse (so to speak) and start delivering sermons like a self-styled Joan of Arc. I’m most apt - [Gemini New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-asana-3/) - Melting Heart pose is perfect for a New Moon in Gemini. New Moons are exquisite times to rest and surrender into a more yin-like space, to pause and look inward, and to plant good wishes/goals/intentions for your body, spirit, and behavior in the 28 days ahead. The power for healing at this New Moon comes - [Gemini New Moon: On the Path to Mastery](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-on-the-path-to-mastery-3/) - Most of us don’t remember learning to speak in our native language. We may not recall, exactly, how we picked up reading and writing, tying our shoes, or riding a bike. Somewhere along the way we learned other skills, too, like how to get a library card, put on makeup, drive a car, flirt. Some - [Gemini New Moon: Taking Flight](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-taking-flight/) - I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.” Psalm 55:6. There is a scene in the 1997 movie The Wings of the Dove in which a gentleman at a party - [Gemini New Moon Wishing Spell](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-wishing-spell-3/) - Lots of us are wishing for a better world these days. Gemini is one of four zodiac signs ruling magic (the other three are water signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces). As an air sign, Gemini oversees mind magic, making this a perfect new moon for a magical spell. Goddess knows we need magic. The problems - [Ritual: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Scorpio Full Moon: Stories of Magic](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-stories-of-magic-2/) - At one long ago Taurus New Moon, ever hopeful for increased prosperity and other cosmic bonbons, I decided to perform the Venus Santeria ritual that Dana recommended. It sounded so simple - a piece of bread, a smallish candle, a nickel, a body of running water - but it took me the better part of - [Scorpio Full Moon: Answered Prayers](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-answered-prayers/) - For two weeks, author Gregg Braden had acclimated his body to altitudes of over 16,500 feet above sea level. Along with 20 other seekers, he had crossed an icy river in hand-hewn wooden barges and hiked up the steep, jagged peaks of the Himalayas to a remote monastery, with one burning question in mind. As - [Scorpio Full Moon: Be a Beautiful Godzilla](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-be-a-beautiful-godzilla-2/) - “The only way the gods know we're asking for help is ritual.” – Caroline Casey Taurus and Scorpio are the two signs of the zodiac that are most closely associated with money. So if your finances are strained or life just isn't giving you enough of what you want, the Scorpio Full Moon is the - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-scorpio-full-moon-3/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Scorpio Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-asana-3/) - Like most Full Moons, this one blends two different voices. Sun-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. Moon-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and - [Your Best Venus Spring Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/your-best-venus-spring-ritual/) - I run this post every year at this time because it's such a great month for doing a Venus ritual. To me the most important timer for a Venus ritual in particular is if your heart feels really ready to do it ... not because of a clenched desire, but because you're really in the - [Taurus New Moon: Turbo-Charged](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-turbo-charged/) - Mrs. T, the Welsh wonder tortoise! A 90-year-old tortoise named Mrs. T made world headlines in 2015 after her front legs were gnawed off by rats while she was hibernating in a garden shed. Owner Jude Ryder of Pembroke, Wales, rushed her beloved pet to the vet, terrified she might have to be euthanized. Though - [Three Magical Keys into the Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/three-magical-keys-into-the-taurus-new-moon-3/) - Every new moon is a doorway behind which lies a unique path, created just for you, for the next 29.5 days. The Taurus new moon doorway aches to draw you into deep relationship with the natural world, and specifically, the rich garden of the Divine Feminine. This is your annual opportunity to revive and - [Can’t relate to your Venus? This is for you!](https://mooncircles.com/cant-relate-to-your-venus-this-is-for-you-2/) - Venus isn’t waiting on a cloud, fingers crossed, hoping we'll find her in an astrology chart. She's alive--hard-wired--inside each and every one of us. - [Ritual: Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Libra Full Moon: Justice for All](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-justice-for-all/) - Things can go awry, often when you least expect it. You lose your job or your 401K through no fault of your own. Someone you love gets deported and ends up in a foreign detention center. The politician you voted for, believing that he would make things better for you, ends up doing just the - [Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-asana-4/) - Aries rules “me” energy, along with the head, face, and brain. The Full Moon in Libra rules “we” energy, along with the kidneys and lower back. These areas of the body want balancing now. Without enough “me” time, we’ll suffer in the lower back. Without enough “we” time, the brain overheats and gets agitated. A - [Libra Full Moon: Befriending the Enemy](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-befriending-the-enemy-3/) - Astrologers are fond of observing that a Libra is nothing more than an Aries who’s been to charm school. Libra is every bit as determined as his fellow cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, and Capricorn) to get what he wants. But Libra has the ability to make it look as though serving his own needs is - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-libra-full-moon-3/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipses-lunar-intuition-4/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [Aries New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-asana-3/) - With last month’s New Moon in Pisces, we completed a year’s round of embodiment-through each-sign with a focus on our feet. With the New Moon in Aries, we begin again. It’s the zodiacal new year. Since the Aries region of the body is head, brain, eyes, and face, we start our journey of embodiment at - [Is the Aries Solar Eclipse rocking your world?](https://mooncircles.com/is-the-aries-solar-eclipse-rocking-your-world/) - Meet Rahu—the demon who devours the Sun and Moon during eclipses. He rocks worlds. Is he jiggling yours? Below are a few signs that you’re being touched by this week's partial solar eclipse. But first, a little perspective on this sky event. The terror of eclipses runs deep in astrology tradition. For the first astrologers, - [Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse: Stepping Up](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-solar-eclipse-stepping-up/) - Not long ago, singer Julia Price was getting some exercise, running along her usual path down a Chicago street, when she heard an older man yelling – loudly enough for her to hear through her headphones – “Sexy lady, hey hey hey sexy lady!” He kept screaming it, but she ignored him and continued to - [Ritual: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-new-moon-4/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-new-moon-3/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Heaven is a Roadless Area](https://mooncircles.com/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 - [Virgo Full Moon: To Serve Man](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-to-serve-man-2/) - A classic Twilight Zone episode tells the story of seemingly benign aliens who have come to earth and pledged their help to mankind. Indeed, one of their seminal texts is entitled "To Serve Man." Imagine the dismayed surprise of the humanoids who, having clasped these aliens to their bosoms, belatedly discover that the book is - [Virgo Full Moon Eclipse: Becoming Nobody](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-eclipse-becoming-nobody/) - In his seminal book Grist for the Mill, Ram Dass shared his experience of teaching meditation to prison inmates, including those on death row. He observed that the inmates condemned to die welcomed the teachings. They were so serene that he felt humbled to be in their presence. But when he went to the cell - [Virgo Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-asana-3/) - Revolved Half Moon variations With the Sun in Pisces and the Moon fully illuminated in Virgo, we reach the last Full Moon of the season. Dropping into the energies of water and earth, we might find a little order midst the swirling currents of chaos, compassion, and imagination. The Pisces region of the body is - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-pisces-full-moon-3/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Ritual: Pisces New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-pisces-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Pisces New Moon: Imagination, Pleasure, and Soul](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-imagination-pleasure-and-soul-3/) - Pisces plays the mandolin and wears sky blue shirts that smell like lavender or sometimes roses. When he visits, you might hear snow melting. Tulips and daffodils poke their heads above ground to greet him, while starlings dream of their future: finding a soul mate, nest-building, teaching their young to fly. Pisces’ mother used to - [Transform! Why Venus retrograde is important.](https://mooncircles.com/transform-why-venus-retrograde-is-important-2/) - Forget the fuddy-duddy astrologers. Follow Ishtar and use this sacred interval to transform your life. Take my 40-day Venus Retrograde challenge! - [Transform! Why Venus retrograde is important.](https://mooncircles.com/transform-why-venus-retrograde-is-important/) - Forget the fuddy-duddy astrologers. Follow Ishtar and use this sacred interval to transform your life. Take my 40-day Venus Retrograde challenge! - [Pisces New Moon: Closing the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-closing-the-circle-2/) - The circle—a timeless image used in Tibetan mandalas, Native American medicine wheels, and astrology—conveys the ever-turning wheel of life. And in the circle of the year, the Pisces New Moon always arrives before the Spring Equinox. In about three weeks, the Sun will emerge from Pisces into Aries, signaling the start of a new astrological - [Pisces New Moon: Navigating Overwhelm](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-navigating-overwhelm/) - During a particularly harsh Arctic winter in December 1984, native folks near the Bering Sea spotted over 2,000 beluga whales trapped by thick ice. Masses of frozen water were rapidly closing in on the mammals, squeezing them tightly together. For weeks, rescuers patiently hacked through the ice as best as they could, feeding the belugas - [Pisces New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-asana-3/) - The astrological year begins with Aries and ends with Pisces. Aries rules the head. Pisces rules the feet. From last year’s Aries New Moon until now, we’ve traveled through each region of the body in tune with the seasons. Pisces calls for the integration of all that we have embodied, sensed, and experienced in the - [Leo Full Moon: Be the Light](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-be-the-light/) - Some years ago, writer Elizabeth Gilbert was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. As she recalled, “The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritated – with one another, with the rainy, sleety weather, with the world itself. Two men barked at each other about a - [Leo Full Moon Banishing Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-banishing-ritual/) - The Full Moon is in the fire sign of Leo, opposite the Sun in airy Aquarius, offering the elemental interplay of fire and air. Both elements are great for purification rituals. Fire flames up and out, burning to ashes what obstructs. Air refreshes, blowing away what is old and stagnant. Purification rituals are especially powerful - [Ritual: Leo Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-leo-aquarius-full-moon-2/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Leo Full Moon: Filled With Your Own Light](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-filled-with-your-own-light-2/) - I began my life as a musician at the age of 12, singing with my cousin. I was a shy little Leo; she was a slightly older, brash and unafraid one, with a full-throttled voice. It felt natural to let her take the lead, while I mastered harmony. Harmonizing came so naturally that it never - [Leo Full Moon Asana: Play is Medicine](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-asana-play-is-medicine/) - It’s the heart of winter in the northern hemisphere. Thank goodness the heavens always bring the joyful energy of Leo into the mid-winter Full Moon. Leo is for fire, for playfulness and reconnecting to your inner child, for art and creative expression in any form, and for extravagant heart sensations in the ways that light - [8 Gifts of the Dark Moon](https://mooncircles.com/8-gifts-of-the-dark-moon-2/) - The dark moon sounds forbidding, but magicians know that nature often hides her best jewels in forbidding places. Discover the many benefits of this moon phase. - [Ritual: Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aquarius-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Aquarius New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-asana-3/) - Gentle Yin Dragonfly (upright or reclined) New Moons provide a worthwhile moment to rest, listen, and vision for the cycle ahead. Aquarius is the season for dancing wherever the wind (or inspiration) wants to send you. Aquarius is the sign of the Water Bearer. A fine posture for this New Moon is one that allows - [It's Calling You! The Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/its-calling-you-the-aquarius-new-moon-2/) - Call in Aquarius this month by breaking out of your box. Your inner genius is ready for a revolution. Anywhere you’ve been feeling stuck? If you’re not living the life you want, fresh Aquarian thoughts could be sounding through your mind-stream in the weeks ahead. New Moons are important moments to realign ourselves with the - [Aquarius New Moon: Snake Power](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-snake-power/) - When Luna first held a snake as a young child, she fell in love with it. Over the years she’s admired and handled a wide variety of (even venomous!) snakes, with the expert guidance of folks at the San Diego Herpetological Society. She received a junior reptile handler’s license at the age of five. And - [Cancer Full Moon: Time to Shine](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-time-to-shine/) - Most people associate Whitney Houston with the iconic hit “I Will Always Love You” (from her sexy 1992 movie The Bodyguard). But it was Dolly Parton who actually wrote the song in 1973 when, as a 22-year-old up-and-coming country singer, she was struggling with a professional breakup – not a romantic one. Parton had been - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon-4/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Full Moon Play: The Great Mama Field](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-play-the-great-mama-field/) - Sacred Vedic texts say that if the Goddess Devi closes her eyes for just one second, the entire universe will disappear. This is not a preposterous claim. Something similar happens every time we lose our connection to the Divine Feminine or the "Great Mama Field." We fall -- into a dull, meaningless, unkind, chaotic world - [Full Moon in Cancer: Belonging](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-cancer-belonging/) - This Full Moon in the family-oriented sign of Cancer brings to mind a story from a 2018 trip to New Zealand. Jonny and I are standing in a tiny house, part of a museum in Okains Bay, a remote village on an out-of-the-way peninsula southeast of Christchurch. We’ve made a pilgrimage here to visit the - [Cancer Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-asana-3/) - Cancer is the Moon’s favorite sign. The Cancer region of the body revolves around our center: our chest, our breasts, and held feelings in our belly. Cancerian energy is known to be empathic, sensitive, nurturing, and also to hold on to memories and sensations. With the Full Moon in Cancer always falling somewhat close to - [Capricorn Meditation: Think like a Mountain](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-meditation-think-like-a-mountain-3/) - Capricorn is a striver. This sign loves to climb and achieve. But it couldn't reach its goals without knowing patience. To deepen into the heart of this New Moon, you may wish to cultivate the quality of interiority and receptive waiting that defines Capricorn's patience. One way to do this is to "think like a - [Capricorn New Moon: Level Up with Saturn](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-level-up-with-saturn/) - As we begin 2025, Mars is retrograde (from December 6 to February 23). This suggests launching into this year gradually, without overly ambitious expectations. In these first few weeks of the year, avoid pushing and drama. Why? Because when you harmonize with the heavens, life becomes more effortless. You find yourself naturally engaged in auspicious - [Capricorn New Moon: Reclaiming Power](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-reclaiming-power/) - Susan Chernak McElroy was desperately seeking a miracle in her struggle against advanced cancer. In her deeply moving book, Animals as Teachers and Healers, the author recounts her experience being part of a support group in which 24 cancer patients danced, meditated, painted and chanted for a healing vision. “We cried and wailed together and - [Capricorn New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-asana-3/) - The Capricorn New Moon can often inspire a mix of hope, overwhelm, and inspiration all at once. The remedy for overwhelm lies with this New Moon’s element: earth. With earth sign Taurus we might think of gardens, but for Capricorn earth, we think of mountains. Capricorn gives us strong structures. It is resilient. Its energy - [Drink the Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/drink-the-full-moon-2/) - If somebody sold Moon Water in my town, sales would be brisk. Ashland Oregon is abundant with individuals who genuinely revere the Divine Feminine and believe in the powers of subtle energies. And while quite a few of us actually dance under the Full Moon, many more of us, unfortunately, simply dance with the idea - [Gemini Full Moon: Unexpected Uplift](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-unexpected-uplift/) - As the holiday season of 1938 approached, Chicago-based Bob May wasn’t feeling very joyful. The 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward was exhausted and almost broke. His wife was bedridden, at the bitter end of a two-year battle with cancer, leaving Bob to look after their four-year-old, Barbara. Barbara didn’t understand why her mommy was - [Gemini Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-asana-3/) - Side Plank Gemini is the air sign ruling the flight of the mind. Its rhythm is typically “busy.” I think about having wings when the Moon is in Gemini, especially the Full Moon. Gemini governs the shoulders, arms, hands and (our human wings), the lungs. The Gemini Full Moon comes at a time when we - [Menopause and the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/menopause-and-the-moon-3/) - “When I went through menopause, following the Moon saved me. I was unmoored without my cycle.” I’ve heard statements like this from many clients and students over the years. It makes sense. Aligning with the lunation cycle helps keep crones juicy and in rhythm. All earth beings are designed to live in monthly rhythm, but - [Gemini Full Moon: The Gift of Listening](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-the-gift-of-listening/) - When my friend's son was small, he talked incessantly. Born with Venus in loquacious Gemini, he jabbered constantly about stories he'd read or what he'd seen on television that morning. His mother is a patient woman, but eventually the sheer quantity of words wore her down. One day, she recalls, driving along with her child - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-4/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Mars Needs Women: How to Navigate Mars Retrograde](https://mooncircles.com/mars-needs-women-how-to-navigate-mars-retrograde/) - Mars is retrograde from December 6, 2024 to February 23, 2025 Mars retrograde describes an 80-day period when action can go haywire and erupt in mayhem—as the archetypal warrior is not at his best. Mars—the ultimate “doer”—needs his rest. Every two years, he requires these ten and a half weeks to cool his engines and - [Sagittarius New Moon: Walkabout](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-walkabout-3/) - A few years ago, just before a Sagittarius New Moon, our indoor cat Spike escaped the secure confines of our home and went walkabout. I soothed my anxiety by imagining him on a kind of exciting Spirit Quest, possibly involving medicinal-grade catnip. When he returned 36 hours later, Spike seemed calm and fairly mellow, if - [Sagittarius New Moon: Bells are Ringing](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-bells-are-ringing/) - On April 15 2019, a horrific fire broke out in the roof area of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. When the spire collapsed, it created a draft that slammed all the doors and propelled a fireball through the attic. Shortly before the spire fell, the fire had spread to the wooden framework inside - [Thighs are the focus in Sagittarius.](https://mooncircles.com/thighs-are-the-focus-in-sagittarius/) - This is a beautiful time to full on slow your life down. This is hard for many with the holidays approaching, but it can make a world of difference to your own well-being. The New Moon always gives us a chance to begin again. When it comes to the relationship we have with our - [Ritual: Sagittarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-sagittarius-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [It's Time for the Green Fire Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/its-time-for-the-green-fire-ritual-2/) - Regularly decluttering your psyche is an important skill. Doing this at the right time is even better. The Taurus/Scorpio full moon is ideal for releasing your shadow grit. My Scorpio planets love the idea of letting go--although when you look at my cluttered garage, you can see how far that impulse actually goes. But a - [Taurus Full Moon: Feet on the Ground](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-feet-on-the-ground/) - During the Civil War, brothers fought against brothers over the right to keep human beings as property. Decades of controversy were brought to a head when Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, triggering seven Southern slave states to secede from the U.S. The war began on April 12, 1861, as the Confederacy bombarded Fort - [Taurus Full Moon: How I Broke Up with Cheez-its](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-how-i-broke-up-with-cheez-its/) - My husband recently decided to make a significant change to his diet. Since we eat most of our dinners together, I figured I would jump aboard and try it myself. It was a pretty big change for me, though, and during the day I hewed to my usual habits, which included a regrettable volume of - [The perfect asana for the Taurus full moon.](https://mooncircles.com/the-perfect-asana-for-the-taurus-full-moon-2/) - This Full Moon blends two different voices. Sun-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and grief. The Moon-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. This - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-scorpio-full-moon-2/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Pluto Put Democracy on the Ballot](https://mooncircles.com/pluto-put-democracy-on-the-ballot/) - Slow-rolling Pluto goes like a great wave through the global sea, transforming the power dynamics in whatever sign he touches. Pluto defines generations. He alters history. And when he returns to his natal position (an event occurring every 250 years or so), he incites tremendous upheaval and change. It's this transit that best articulates - [Samhain New Moon Ritual: Meet Your Spirit Guide](https://mooncircles.com/samhain-new-moon-ritual-meet-your-spirit-guide/) - The Scorpio New Moon arrives during the cross-quarter holiday that honors the dead and the dearth of the coming winter. From October 31 through November 7, when the Sun reaches the middle degree of Scorpio, we in the Northern Hemisphere reach the midpoint between fall and winter. Christians call it All Soul's Day; for children, - [Scorpio New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-asana-2/) - Dragon Lunge, Yin Yoga style Halfway through the current season, we can now truly embody it. It’s the ideal moment to contemplate what this season means to us. It’s autumn in the North, spring in the South. How do we honor this, feel into it, enjoy it, struggle with it, be in it? Water sign - [Underworld Activities for the Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/underworld-activities-for-the-scorpio-new-moon/) - Scorpio draws us into the mystery of the underworld. Here Isis and Ishtar descend. Persephone savors her pomegranates. Cerridwen stirs her cauldron. The snake goddesses respect Scorpio’s powers of transformation and its gifts of wisdom. They understand that underworld empowerments usually come with a price. Yet the reward is always greater wealth. Give a little, - [Ritual: Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-scorpio-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Aphrodite's Subtle Art: Balancing Self and Other](https://mooncircles.com/aphrodites-subtle-art-balancing-self-and-other/) - The Aries Full Moon comes near the end of Libra's cycle. This is an auspicious time to invite the Goddess of Love deeply into your heart. We all need a real celestial encounter now and then. The following ritual draws you face to face with Aphrodite, who is the expert in the subtle art of - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-libra-full-moon-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Aries Full Moon: The Sweet Spot](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-the-sweet-spot-3/) - You know that movie, 'An Unmarried Woman'? Well - I didn't get it. I mean, I would've been Mrs. Alan Bates so fast that guy wouldn't have known what hit him!" ~ Judy Benjamin, Private Benjamin Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar." ~ Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the - [Aries Full Moon: Wake Up Call](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-wake-up-call/) - Many in western North Carolina were hard hit by Hurricane Helene. This includes the folks at Earthaven Ecovillage near Asheville, a region previously considered a climate safe haven. After the epic storm passed, the hundred or so Earthaven members were confronted with raging rivers in their roadways, downed trees everywhere, landslides, and bridges damaged by - [Aries Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-asana-2/) - Goddess Pose With Sun and Moon opposed in Libra/Aries, it's high time to find your balance! Libra encourages new journeys toward balance every year so that over a lifetime, if we're paying attention, we become experts. We know how to harmonize our body, mind, and feelings with with the ebbs and flows that life brings - [Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipses-lunar-intuition-3/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [October Moon Gazing: Best Dates for Planet Downloads](https://mooncircles.com/october-moon-gazing-best-dates-for-planet-downloads/) - The moon is, among many things, a medium and a messenger. Through a celestial talent known as “translation of light,” Luna can carry news or waves of energy from one planet to another. Similarly, on nights when she’s aligned just so, she can pour messages from these same planets into all receptive crowns here on - [Libra New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-asana-2/) - Sphinx Variations The time of Libra, ruled by goddess Venus and Air, always brings beautiful transformations in nature, as well as inevitable change. This change is felt in the air temperature, the way the light is shifting each day, and in the trees and all plants expressing themselves for a final hurrah in the northern - [Fight for Your Rights: Solar Eclipse in Libra](https://mooncircles.com/fight-for-your-rights-solar-eclipse-in-libra/) - Nobody could have foreseen the young Mohandas Gandhi becoming a world leader. Small and unassuming, with a big nose and jug ears, the Hindu boy was so shy he couldn’t speak up for himself. But another side of him began to arise after he was married at 13 to a girl of the same age. - [Ritual: Libra New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-libra-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [What will you see in this lunar eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/what-will-you-see-in-this-lunar-eclipse-3/) - Here is what happens during a lunar eclipse: the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon, blocking it from reflecting the Sun’s light. How do you like that? Here’s the little Moon, furiously trying to find some light to bounce around, only to find there’s a big old ball of dirt in her way. Similarly, - [Tuesday's Full Moon is Extra Bright, Chaotic, and Porous.](https://mooncircles.com/tuesdays-full-moon-is-extra-bright-chaotic-and-porous/) - It’s a big full moon this week, literally! Being at perigee, the moon is hovering at her closest to Earth, looming bigger and brighter than the average full moon. Tuesday brings a “supermoon” (one of four in a row from August to November). You can expect a bright night, high ocean tides, and likely, more - [Pisces Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-asana-2/) - This Full Moon is the last of the season. The Sun-in-Virgo is here to help us find our ground again. This is helpful because society starts to speed up at this time. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's back to school, vacation gone, holiday stuff already in the stores; everywhere... it's rush, rush, rush. All - [Pisces Full Moon Eclipse: Oneness with All](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-eclipse-oneness-with-all/) - This year, the San Diego region has been experiencing heat waves and drought conditions that have severely impacted local wildlife. All over California, birds and mammals are suffering from dehydration and heat stress – especially this week, as temperatures soared into the triple digits and wildfires raged. Living adjacent to a canyon, I’m concerned for - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-pisces-full-moon-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [What's on your Virgo "Make Things Better" List?](https://mooncircles.com/whats-on-your-virgo-make-things-better-list/) - As a schoolgirl, every year about this time, I’d take out a clean sheet of paper and with a bold, optimistic hand, write at the top: "The New Me." Then I would list all the wonderful qualities I was determined to adopt in the coming school year: "Smile." "Be helpful." "Always say something nice." In - [Virgin Goddess Meditation: Your One True Thing](https://mooncircles.com/virgin-goddess-meditation-your-one-true-thing-2/) - As remote and antique a term as “the Virgin Goddess” may sound to our modern ears, the inner meaning of this archetype has a lot to teach us. An archetype of the Divine Feminine, the Virgin Goddess has been found in myths and religions since the beginning of time. She is the Egyptian Isis, "She - [Virgo New Moon: Coming Clean](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-coming-clean/) - Most of us will remember Don Henley’s 1982 smash hit “Dirty Laundry.” The catchy tune was a scathing send-up of tabloid journalism, which was then on the rise. To air one’s dirty laundry means to discuss or argue about unpleasant or private things in front of others. And although the practice has never gone away - [Virgo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-asana-3/) - Seated Wide Leg Lateral Side Bend The light alters. There's a shift in the air. The Sun is in mutable Virgo. This sign helps us to remain-within-ourselves as we observe and adjust to the changing nature around us. We find Virgo in our feminine sensitivities, the ones that help us honor the connection between the - [Ritual: Virgo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Aquarius Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-asana-2/) - We are now at the end of Leo’s season—a fire cycle for a second full moon in Aquarius. Be sure to welcome Leo’s confident, playful, and courageous energy into your life and body! The Full Moon is in Leo’s opposite sign, Aquarius—its partner. Together they offer the potent collaboration of air and fire. Bring this - [Banishing Ritual for the Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/banishing-ritual-for-the-aquarius-full-moon-2/) - On this late summer evening, the full moon is in the air sign of Aquarius, opposite the sun in the fire sign of Leo, offering the elemental interplay of fire and air. These elements are ideal for rituals of purification: fire flames up and out, burning to ashes what obstructs. Air refreshes, blowing away what - [Aquarius Full Moon: Looking for Lightning](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-looking-for-lightning-2/) - The weather’s been stifling here for the past few days, with hot, humid winds blowing up from the south and air so thick you can practically slice it. Early this morning I heard distant thunder and smiled, remembering the thrilling thunderstorms that punctuated the long, stagnant Midwestern summer afternoons of my youth. This nostalgia was - [Aquarius Full Moon: Looking Up!](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-looking-up/) - Recently I’ve been playing with an exciting new approach to manifestation, as outlined in the book Scripting the Life You Want, by Royce Christyn. It involves a daily practice of writing down your intentions for the day ahead, including things you hope will happen along with others that you absolutely know will happen. This engages - [three word post](https://mooncircles.com/three-word-post/) - this is it - [Ritual: Leo Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-leo-aquarius-full-moon/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [Leo New Moon: Take a Bow](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-take-a-bow/) - Have you been watching Simone Biles at the Paris Olympics? If so, you know greatness when you see it. “She’s not even human,” I’ve heard several people say of the world’s most decorated gymnast – who’s been wowing star-studded crowds. And on Tuesday, Biles clinched her fifth Olympic gold medal as she triumphantly returned to - [Lammas: Time to Honor Self and Sun](https://mooncircles.com/lammas-time-to-honor-self-and-sun-2/) - Whether you're in the midst of a creative high or low, Lammas is an auspicious time to pause, measure, and appreciate your journey. Lammas is the cross-quarter holiday most often ignored. We're no longer an agrarian culture. Yet this "first fruits" celebration still runs in our blood, making this an ideal time to evaluate your - [Leo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-asana-2/) - At the Leo New Moon, welcome the shining light of the Sun into your deep lion-hearted self. Heart, solar plexus, and spine are the Leo regions of the body. This is the New Moon to check in: Are you staying true to your heart? Are you aligned with your integrity? The spine is sometimes referred - [3 Simple Gestures for the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-simple-gestures-for-the-leo-new-moon-2/) - Did you know that a lioness’ roar can be heard from 5 miles away? Your inner lioness—your Wild Divine Feminine self—is roaring. Now is the time to listen. The Leo new moon is calling you to express your confident, creative, and compassionate feminine self. No holding back. But first, you must explore your fears of - [Ritual: Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-leo-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Need a Full Moon Ritual? Make Moon Clay!](https://mooncircles.com/need-a-full-moon-ritual-make-moon-clay/) - For a second time this season, the full moon is in earthy Capricorn, opposite the Sun in watery Cancer. A fine way to capture their gift is by inserting your hands into the elements: earth mixed with water makes clay. As told in ancient creation myths, stirring together the elements is what created the earth - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon-3/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Capricorn Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-asana-3/) - The Cancer time of the year asks us to feel, feel, feel. When we get to the soft bits under our shells, what are the sensations saying to us? Can we find more compassion for it all and nurture ourselves during the process? The Capricorn Full Moon is designed to help, blessing us with the - [Capricorn Full Moon: The Midwife, the General, and Mr. Wolf](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-the-midwife-the-general-and-mr-wolf/) - Jules and Vincent, professional hitmen, have a mess on their hands. They've accidentally shot someone in the backseat of Jules' car, and they need to get rid of the evidence fast. They retreat to the nearby suburban home of their friend Jimmy, who anticipates the imminent arrival of his volatile wife, Bonnie. With the clock - [Capricorn Full Moon II: Cosmic Flashpoint](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-ii-cosmic-flashpoint/) - By the early 1950s, Frank Sinatra’s career had hit a low ebb. No one wanted him as a singer or an actor. Yet when he read the book From Here to Eternity, which was about to be made into a movie, Sinatra knew he was born to play the part of Maggio. So he contacted - [3 Simple Gestures for the Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-simple-gestures-for-the-cancer-new-moon-2/) - The Cancer New Moon beckons you to reach deep. It’s time for nourishment and flow. To feel fully replenished, you will need to confront the walls you’ve created for safety. Feeling protected, being in control, and manipulating matters to ease life’s pain seem like reasonable strategies. After all, you’re a sensitive person. But too - [Cancer New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-asana-2/) - The New Moon in watery Cancer, sign of the crab, can bring a month of deep emotional shifts. It can also launch a period of deep reflection on what kind of nurture you want and need most at this time. Perhaps there is something tender to look at under the shell. Welcoming the light sneaking - [Cancer New Moon: True North](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-true-north-2/) - When my mother's only sister passed away in 2000, right around the Cancer Solstice, she took with her an entire era of my family’s history. Hers was a generation which seemed to produce more than its share of great ladies, my aunt and my mother among them. You can judge the success of a person’s - [Cancer New Moon: Nourish and Protect](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-nourish-and-protect/) - One Saturday when I was 14, my friend Erin and I were hanging out at my home when the minister of our church stopped by to lay his hands on my mom’s sprained ankle. As this was not standard procedure for Methodist ministers, Erin and I exchanged dubious looks. We instinctively knew what the adults - [Ritual: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Capricorn Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-asana-2/) - The Cancer time of the year asks us to feel, feel, feel. When we get to the soft bits under our shells, what are the sensations saying to us? Can we find more compassion for it all and nurture ourselves during the process? The Capricorn Full Moon is designed to help, blessing us with the - [Capricorn Full Moon: Midyear Resolutions](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-midyear-resolutions-2/) - On the first day of this year, I swore I would make no resolutions beyond trying to be a kinder and better version of myself. I lied. Well, that’s not exactly true; I was sincere, actually. But old habits die hard, and I didn’t stick to that no-resolution resolution. I soon returned, like a swallow - [Stop! It's a Rare Solstice Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/stop-its-a-rare-solstice-full-moon/) - "Rare" is a stretchy term. But full moons occurring on summer solstice are relatively infrequent, coming every 19 years or so. This is observed in the Metonic cycle, a 19-year interval during which the phases of the moon repeat on the same dates of the year, one of the rare situations when the human calendar - [Capricorn Full Moon: Playing the Long Game](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-playing-the-long-game/) - Our beautiful green planet just marked a shocking new milestone – enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat. Every single month from June 2023 to May 2024 was the world’s hottest such month on record, and this alarming trend appears likely to continue. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, who are about to - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Gemini New Moon: On the Path to Mastery](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-on-the-path-to-mastery-2/) - Most of us don’t remember learning to speak in our native language. We may not recall, exactly, how we picked up reading and writing, tying our shoes, or riding a bike. Somewhere along the way we learned other skills, too, like how to get a library card, put on makeup, drive a car, flirt. Some - [Gemini New Moon Wishing Spell](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-wishing-spell-2/) - Lots of us are wishing for a better world these days. Gemini is one of four zodiac signs ruling magic (the other three are water signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces). As an air sign, Gemini oversees mind magic, making this a perfect new moon for a magical spell. Goddess knows we need magic. The problems - [Gemini New Moon: Power of the Mind](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-power-of-the-mind/) - What if, all through your childhood, your dad told you things like, “You’re gonna shake up this world,” and, “You’re gonna win Wimbledon.” And drove you past mansions in the wealthy part of town, assuring you that some day you’d have one of your own. For two young Black girls growing up in the 1980s - [Gemini New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-asana-2/) - Melting Heart pose is perfect for a New Moon in Gemini. New Moons are exquisite times to rest and surrender into a more yin-like space, to pause and look inward, and to plant good wishes/goals/intentions for your body, spirit, and behavior in the 28 days ahead. The power for healing at this New Moon comes - [Ritual: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Drawing Down the Holy Moon with Water](https://mooncircles.com/drawing-down-the-holy-moon-with-water/) - It used to be the Moon was immanent--that is, present on earth in all the things she rules, including bowls. milk and bodies. Yet as civilization sprawled, the Moon, along with all the other gods, was chased into the heavens. Once the gods left, people learned to worship from afar, using middle-men priests, religious traditions, - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Improve the Silence](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-improve-the-silence/) - With Sagittarius rising in my birthchart, Mercury opposed Jupiter, and lots of planets in the 9th house, I can seem like a natural born centaur. This is especially true on the occasions when I jump on my high horse (so to speak) and start delivering sermons like a self-styled Joan of Arc. I’m most apt - [Full Moon Asana with Gemini and Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-asana-with-gemini-and-sagittarius-2/) - Full Moons send us into the colliding energies of opposition. What better pose to balance and focus these forces than Warrior 2, through which we'll integrate the opposing signs of Sun and Moon. We'll connect with the Sun-in-Gemini through the expansion of our breath, opening into the lungs, ribs, shoulders, arms, and fingers. The - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Think Big](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-think-big/) - It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of us (like me) who spent our summer vacations haunting the local library and devouring adventure novels, but many U.S. kids have no library near where they live – and thus no access to books. Three years ago, this fact became apparent to Baltimore resident Araba Maze. As - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-3/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Taurus New Moon: What's Your Pleasure?](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-whats-your-pleasure/) - Waxing Moon Goddess by Ramona Szczerba I went salsa dancing last Saturday night for the first time in years. Salsa used to be my world, and I was out dancing at least five times a week. Over time, the scene changed – and so did I. But one of my favorite bands was playing nearby, - [Taurus New Moon: Calling Venus](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-calling-venus-4/) - I run this post every year at this time because it's such a great month for doing a Venus ritual. To me the most important timer for a Venus ritual in particular is if your heart feels really ready to do it ... not because of a clenched desire, but because you're really in the - [Three Magical Keys into the Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/three-magical-keys-into-the-taurus-new-moon-2/) - Every new moon is a doorway behind which lies a unique path, created just for you, for the next 29.5 days. The Taurus new moon doorway aches to draw you into deep relationship with the natural world, and specifically, the rich garden of the Divine Feminine. This is your annual opportunity to revive and - [Taurus New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-asana-2/) - Moon practice is best when it's embodied practice. We'll bring our awareness to the Earth with a simple seated pose for the Taurus New Moon. On the day of the New Moon, or perhaps, if it's convenient, at the very moment of the New Moon, take precious time for yourself with a simple grounding posture - [Ritual: Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [The Total Eclipse and the Medicine of Awe](https://mooncircles.com/the-total-eclipse-and-the-medicine-of-awe/) - I have never seen anything like it. It’s hard to describe… (long pause) but it changed my life forever. We were at the river. It went dark and all the animals got quiet except for the crickets and frogs. I’m not a religious person, but that was a religious experience. We were just a - [Scorpio Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-asana-2/) - Like most Full Moons, this one blends two different voices. Sun-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. Moon-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and - [Scorpio Full Moon: Be a Beautiful Godzilla](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-be-a-beautiful-godzilla/) - “The only way the gods know we're asking for help is ritual.” – Caroline Casey Taurus and Scorpio are the two signs of the zodiac that are most closely associated with money. So if your finances are strained or life just isn't giving you enough of what you want, the Scorpio Full Moon is the - [Scorpio Full Moon: On the Wings of Change](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-on-the-wings-of-change/) - A butterfly is a delicate, ephemeral creature. So, the Zuni Butterfly Dance, which took place off a dusty, remote New Mexico road, came as a shock to many. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes it in Women Who Run with the Wolves, the dancer, Maria Lujan, was a large, elderly native woman with long, gray hair - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-taurus-scorpio-full-moon/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [What Is this Solar Eclipse Telling Us?](https://mooncircles.com/what-is-this-solar-eclipse-telling-us/) - During the weeks before, after, and during an eclipse, the air is wobbly. Life ain't smooth. There are sharp and sudden changes. Odd events go global. The visual metaphor is simple: during eclipses, darkness--our shadow--is made vivid in dramatic ways. Between the March 25 lunar eclipse and the April 8 solar, among the head-turning events - [When the Moon blocks the Sun, Follow Your Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/when-the-moon-blocks-the-sun-follow-your-intuition/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [Aries New Moon Eclipse: A Twist of Fate](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-eclipse-a-twist-of-fate/) - Some years ago, motivational teacher Debra Poneman was preparing a big speech for Jack Canfield’s Transformational Leadership Council. But fate had a twist up its sleeve. As Poneman recalls, “I had my presentation all planned, replete with my flip chart and white board and power point, and I was ready to romp around the stage - [Aries New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-asana-2/) - With last month’s New Moon in Pisces, we completed a year’s round of embodiment-through each-sign with a focus on our feet. With the New Moon in Aries, we begin again. It’s the zodiacal new year. Since the Aries region of the body is head, brain, eyes, and face, we start our journey of embodiment at - [Wide Awake under a Lunar Eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/wide-awake-under-a-lunar-eclipse/) - Some full moons are slow, rich and sonorous, making it easy for us to slip into meditation and communion. But a lunar eclipse is more electric and unstable. Its energy can rattle the nervous system and give you insomnia. It's 3:00 am and you're wide awake. What should you do? Calm your nervous system! But - [Libra Lunar Eclipse: Welcome the Shadow](https://mooncircles.com/libra-lunar-eclipse-welcome-the-shadow/) - Human beings can be profoundly contradictory. Take Pope John Paul II, who helped usher the Catholic Church into the 21st century. A passionate social activist and champion of human rights, Polish-born Karol Wojtyla was actively anti-Communist and played a big part in bringing down the Iron Curtain. A Taurus Sun sign with his ruling planet, - [What will you see in this lunar eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/what-will-you-see-in-this-lunar-eclipse-2/) - Here is what happens during a lunar eclipse: the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon, blocking it from reflecting the Sun’s light. How do you like that? Here’s the little Moon, furiously trying to find some light to bounce around, only to find there’s a big old ball of dirt in her way. Similarly, - [Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-asana-3/) - Aries rules “me” energy, along with the head, face, and brain. The Full Moon in Libra rules “we” energy, along with the kidneys and lower back. These areas of the body want balancing now. Without enough “me” time, we’ll suffer in the lower back. Without enough “we” time, the brain overheats and gets agitated. A - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-libra-full-moon/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Ritual: Pisces New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-pisces-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Pisces New Moon: Closing the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-closing-the-circle/) - The circle—a timeless image used in Tibetan mandalas, Native American medicine wheels, and astrology—conveys the ever-turning wheel of life. And in the circle of the year, the Pisces New Moon always arrives before the Spring Equinox. In about three weeks, the Sun will emerge from Pisces into Aries, signaling the start of a new astrological - [Pisces New Moon: Imagination, Pleasure, and Soul](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-imagination-pleasure-and-soul-2/) - Saturn has been in Pisces for about a year, with another year and a half to go. Use this new moon to increase your resonance. Bring into form--Saturn energy--the lover, the dreamer, the artist and the mystic in you. Pisces plays the mandolin and wears sky blue shirts that smell like lavender or sometimes roses. - [Pisces New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-asana-2/) - The astrological year begins with Aries and ends with Pisces. Aries rules the head. Pisces rules the feet. From last year’s Aries New Moon until now, we’ve traveled through each region of the body in tune with the seasons. Pisces calls for the integration of all that we have embodied, sensed, and experienced in the - [Pisces New Moon: Keep the Faith](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-keep-the-faith/) - At age 35, Jennifer Flewellen was put into a medically induced coma after crashing her car into a pole. Doctors soon became certain she would never recover and encouraged Flewellen’s mother, Peggy Means, to take her off life-support. Means refused. Weeks turned to months, which turned into years, but Means’ fierce love for her daughter - [Compassionate Breathing: The Great Mother's Secret Weapon](https://mooncircles.com/compassionate-breathing-the-great-mothers-secret-weapon/) - The Great Mother in the Moon cares a lot about people's safety and well-being. She notices the desperation and terror running through the collective field. There are so many people who need our help right now. You can do something about it--for yourself and others. You can comfort yourself—and help to steady those in - [Virgo Full Moon: Perseverance](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-perseverance/) - “Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. And we here are living in darkness and tragedy, and rockets are falling on us, therefore I thought of creating light.” Using two fans salvaged from a scrap market that he rigged to some wires, 15-year-old Hussam - [Virgo Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-asana-2/) - Revolved Half Moon variations With the Sun in Pisces and the Moon fully illuminated in Virgo, we reach the last Full Moon of the season. Dropping into the energies of water and earth, we might find a little order midst the swirling currents of chaos, compassion, and imagination. The Pisces region of the body is - [Virgo: The Editor's Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-the-editors-full-moon-2/) - As a writer, I've worked with my share of editors. I've appreciated every one of them. A couple of them, I've downright loved. The editors I've loved working with have had something important in common. Their focus was on what was right with my work, instead of what was wrong with it. Eventually we got - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-pisces-full-moon/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [8 Gifts of the Dark Moon](https://mooncircles.com/8-gifts-of-the-dark-moon/) - The dark moon sounds forbidding, but magicians know that nature often hides her best jewels in forbidding places. Discover the many benefits of this moon phase. - [Aquarius New Moon: Moving On!](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-moving-on/) - There’s no place so identified with car culture as California. Once the fourth-largest crude oil producer in the U.S., my home state’s abundant fossil fuels and balmy weather helped birth a culture of iconic cars, highways, drive-in theaters and restaurants. Whether it was Model-T’s at the beach, Mustangs on the track or lowriders in the - [It's Calling You! The Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/its-calling-you-the-aquarius-new-moon/) - Call in Aquarius this month by breaking out of your box. Your inner genius is ready for a revolution. Anywhere you’ve been feeling stuck? If you’re not living the life you want, fresh Aquarian thoughts could be sounding through your mind-stream in the weeks ahead. New Moons are important moments to realign ourselves with the - [Aquarius New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-asana-2/) - Gentle Yin Dragonfly (upright or reclined) New Moons provide a worthwhile moment to rest, listen, and vision for the cycle ahead. Aquarius is the season for dancing wherever the wind (or inspiration) wants to send you. Aquarius is the sign of the Water Bearer. A fine posture for this New Moon is one that allows - [Ritual: Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aquarius-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [What to Do as Pluto Enters Aquarius](https://mooncircles.com/what-to-do-as-pluto-enters-aquarius-2/) - Pluto, the mythical Lord of the Underworld is an amazing transformation artist. But with clients, I never discuss his transits through the houses of their charts. Pluto is too slow. It’s like discussing hair growth—only after hair’s gotten too long do you notice. It’s not something you see (let alone direct) as it’s happening. Slow-rolling - [Leo Full Moon: The Thrill of Creation](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-the-thrill-of-creation/) - Martha Graham’s provocative dance, Errand into the Maze In the mid-1940s, legendary dance choreographer Martha Graham was on a flight to Iran that got caught in a brutal snowstorm. As the plane was tossed about, everyone onboard went into a panic – terrified that they were going to die. Everyone, that is, except for Graham. - [Purification Ritual for the Leo Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/purification-ritual-for-the-leo-full-moon-2/) - The Full Moon is in the fire sign of Leo, opposite the Sun in airy Aquarius, offering the elemental interplay of fire and air. Both elements are great for purification rituals. Fire flames up and out, burning to ashes what obstructs. Air refreshes, blowing away what is old and stagnant. Purification rituals are especially powerful - [Leo Full Moon Asana: Hooray for Play!](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-asana-hooray-for-play/) - It’s the heart of winter in the northern hemisphere. Thank goodness the heavens always bring the joyful energy of Leo into the mid-winter Full Moon. Leo is for fire, for playfulness and reconnecting to your inner child, for art and creative expression in any form, and for extravagant heart sensations in the ways that light - [Ritual: Leo Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/leo-aquarius-full-moon-ritual/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [66 Retrograde-Free Days: Use this Boon!](https://mooncircles.com/66-retrograde-free-days-use-this-boon/) - From January 26 to April 2 this year—all planets are direct. What an auspicious symbol for making progress! All the planets are going in the same direction. With none retrograde, we reach an exquisite space for manifesting dreams. This relatively rare celestial condition was dubbed “APDM” (All Planets Direct Motion) by astrologer Wave Rayne, - [Capricorn New Moon: The Real New Year](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-the-real-new-year/) - “Relax” is my word for 2024. At first I was annoyed when I drew this rune from a bag. What do you mean, relax? That’s all I’ve been doing in 2023! But then I thought for a moment. It’s true I’ve been resting a lot to regenerate my health, but relaxing? Not so much. So - [Capricorn Meditation: Think like a Mountain](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-meditation-think-like-a-mountain-2/) - Capricorn is a striver. This sign loves to climb and achieve. But it couldn't reach its goals without knowing patience. To deepen into the heart of this New Moon, you may wish to cultivate the quality of interiority and receptive waiting that defines Capricorn's patience. One way to do this is to "think like a - [Capricorn New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-asana-2/) - The Capricorn New Moon can often inspire a mix of hope, overwhelm, and inspiration all at once. The remedy for overwhelm lies with this New Moon’s element: earth. With earth sign Taurus we might think of gardens, but for Capricorn earth, we think of mountains. Capricorn gives us strong structures. It is resilient. Its energy - [Ritual: Capricorn New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-capricorn-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Drink the Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/drink-the-full-moon/) - If somebody sold Moon Water in my town, sales would be brisk. Ashland Oregon is abundant with individuals who genuinely revere the Divine Feminine and believe in the powers of subtle energies. And while quite a few of us actually dance under the Full Moon, many more of us, unfortunately, simply dance with the idea - [Cancer Full Moon: Soft Power](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-soft-power/) - When Time Magazine asked Taylor Swift to pose for the cover as their Person of the Year, her response was, “Can I bring my cat?” That’s how Swift and Benjamin Button (one of her three cats), ended up on the Dec. 25 cover of Time. It was a unique way for the multiple Grammy-winning singer - [Cancer Full Moon: Taproot](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-taproot-2/) - I’m not a sound sleeper. The question each night is not whether I’ll wake up, but whether I’ll be able to get back to sleep once I do. Some restless nights my eyes open and my mind immediately begins flitting from topic to topic like a fickle honeybee. I think about getting older, and about - [Cancer Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-asana-2/) - Cancer is the Moon’s favorite sign. The Cancer region of the body revolves around our center: our chest, our breasts, and held feelings in our belly. Cancerian energy is known to be empathic, sensitive, nurturing, and also to hold on to memories and sensations. With the Full Moon in Cancer always falling somewhat close to - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-cancer-capricorn-full-moon/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Follow Your Truth Star](https://mooncircles.com/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 - [Sagittarius New Moon: Walkabout](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-walkabout-2/) - A few years ago, just before a Sagittarius New Moon, our indoor cat Spike escaped the secure confines of our home and went walkabout. I soothed my anxiety by imagining him on a kind of exciting Spirit Quest, possibly involving medicinal-grade catnip. When he returned 36 hours later, Spike seemed calm and fairly mellow, if - [Sagittarius New Moon: Revive and Regenerate](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-revive-and-regenerate/) - When legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado took over family land in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, instead of the tropical paradise that he remembered as a child, he found a barren landscape devoid of wildlife. It was 1994 and he had just returned from a horrific assignment reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, he told The Guardian - [Thighs are the focus in Sagittarius.](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-asana/) - This is a beautiful time to full on slow your life down. This is hard for many with the holidays approaching, but it can make a world of difference to your own well-being. The New Moon always gives us a chance to begin again. When it comes to the relationship we have with our - [Ritual: Sagittarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Gemini Full Moon: Tell Your Story](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-tell-your-story-2/) - I was born with the Moon in Gemini, and I’ve been a writer ever since I can remember. Growing up, whenever I needed to relax, to reconnect with myself, I’d write something. Usually it wasn’t anything profound. Sometimes, it was as simple as composing lists of things I wanted to do and be in life. - [Menopause and the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/menopause-and-the-moon-2/) - “When I went through menopause, following the Moon saved me. I was unmoored without my cycle.” I’ve heard statements like this from many clients and students over the years. It makes sense. Aligning with the lunation cycle helps keep crones juicy and in rhythm. All earth beings are designed to live in monthly rhythm, but - [Gemini Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-asana-2/) - Side Plank Gemini is the air sign ruling the flight of the mind. Its rhythm is typically “busy.” I think about having wings when the Moon is in Gemini, especially the Full Moon. Gemini governs the shoulders, arms, hands and (our human wings), the lungs. The Gemini Full Moon comes at a time when we - [Gemini Full Moon: Boldly Go](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-boldly-go/) - Last weekend, as the Sun ganged up with combustible Mars in Scorpio, the second SpaceX Starship test flight took place in Texas. Unlike that of its predecessor in April, this iteration’s liftoff was perfect. But Elon Musk’s $5 billion Starship suffered two explosions, ending its trial run in eight minutes. Still, it’s being hailed as - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Ritual: Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Underworld Surrenders for the Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/underworld-surrenders-for-the-scorpio-new-moon-2/) - Scorpio draws us into the mystery of the underworld. Here Isis and Ishtar descend. Persephone savors her pomegranates. Cerridwen stirs her cauldron. The snake goddesses respect Scorpio’s powers of transformation and its gifts of wisdom. They understand that underworld empowerments usually come with a price. Yet the reward is always greater wealth. Give a little, - [Scorpio New Moon: Meeting Your Spirit Guide](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-meeting-your-spirit-guide-2/) - Scorpio guides our relationship with the "other side"—the invisible realms hidden from ordinary view. The soul's journey through Scorpio takes us down into the underworld, after which we ascend to a new, more evolved way of being. That's the passage symbolized by Scorpio's mythical Phoenix. No person, however, is ever asked to undertake this passage - [Scorpio New Moon: Be Yourself](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-be-yourself/) - Mary Moody Emerson was an original. The eccentric aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she had a great influence on the man often considered to be the greatest thinker of his time. Never married, Aunt Mary stepped in to care for her brother William’s children after he died. She set high intellectual standards for them and - [Scorpio New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-asana/) - Dragon Lunge, Yin Yoga style Halfway through the current season, we can now truly embody it. It’s the ideal moment to contemplate what this season means to us. It’s autumn in the North, spring in the South. How do we honor this, feel into it, enjoy it, struggle with it, be in it? Water sign - [It's Time for the Green Fire Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/its-time-for-the-green-fire-ritual/) - Regularly decluttering your psyche is an important skill. Doing this at the right time is even better. This month's lunar eclipse is ideal for releasing your shadow grit. My Scorpio planets love the idea of letting go--although when you look at my cluttered garage, you can see how far that impulse actually goes. But a - [Samhein Full Moon: Out of the Shadows](https://mooncircles.com/samhein-full-moon-out-of-the-shadows/) - A few years back, I built an altar for Dia de Los Muertos to honor my parents. We have no Aztec or Spanish blood in our lineage, but I’ve always loved the tradition. Creating the altar was a labor of love that involved hauling a lot of stuff to the Sherman Heights Community Center, including - [Taurus Lunar Eclipse: Fearless](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-lunar-eclipse-fearless-2/) - In the film Fearless, a man named Max survives a horrific plane crash. His survival has convinced him that he's immortal, and this belief has made him utterly (and dangerously) fearless. He does seem almost supernatural - for instance, his life-long and deadly allergy to strawberries seems to have miraculously disappeared since the accident. - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-scorpio-full-moon-ritual-2/) - Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly toward the moon. - [The perfect asana for the Taurus full moon.](https://mooncircles.com/the-perfect-asana-for-the-taurus-full-moon/) - This Full Moon blends two different voices. Sun-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and grief. The Moon-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. This - [10 Signs this Eclipse is Touching You](https://mooncircles.com/10-signs-this-eclipse-is-touching-you/) - The truth is, the Libra solar eclipse (officially arriving on Saturday at 10:55 am PDT) is already jittering the atmosphere—eclipses don’t wait until the day of to bring their news. The war that no one saw coming in Israel is an example of an eclipse-situation. But not everyone will be touched with the same intensity, - [Libra New Moon: Trust Your Instincts](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-trust-your-instincts/) - An inspirational tale for the “ring of fire” solar eclipse! Composite image by April Elliott Kent. One cold day in 1936 a stray tabby cat crept inside St. Augustine’s Cathedral in London, seeking food and warmth. Several times she was cast out. But eventually she prevailed, and went on to win hearts as the beloved - [Aries Full Moon: The Sweet Spot](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-the-sweet-spot-2/) - You know that movie, 'An Unmarried Woman'? Well - I didn't get it. I mean, I would've been Mrs. Alan Bates so fast that guy wouldn't have known what hit him!" ~ Judy Benjamin, Private Benjamin Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar." ~ Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aries-libra-full-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Aries Full Moon: Light My Fire](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-light-my-fire/) - On a sweltering May afternoon in 2015, D’Arcy Downs-Vollbracht heard an unearthly scream. She ran out of her Bullhead City, AZ ranch house and saw three neighboring dogs viciously attacking her pet goats. The protective mama managed to save one of the goats, but then the dogs turned on her. During the melee, the horses - [Balancing Self and Other the Aphrodite Way](https://mooncircles.com/balancing-self-and-other-the-aphrodite-way/) - The Aries Full Moon comes at the peak of Libra's cycle. This is an auspicious time to invite the Goddess of Love deeply into your heart. We all need a real celestial encounter now and then. This one puts you face to face with Venus. When performed sincerely, the good feelings from this ritual can - [Aries Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-asana/) - Goddess Pose With Sun and Moon opposed in Libra/Aries, it's high time to find your balance! Libra encourages new journeys toward balance every year so that over a lifetime, if we're paying attention, we become experts. We know how to harmonize our body, mind, and feelings with with the ebbs and flows that life brings - [Virgo New Moon: Claim Your Turf](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-claim-your-turf/) - When staff at the Meadow Brook Medical Care Facility in Bellaire, MI arrived one recent July morning, they were astonished to find a dog curled up on the couch in the waiting room. Miraculously, Scout had escaped the night before from a nearby animal shelter, managed to scale the 10-foot chain link fence and another - [Virgo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-asana-2/) - Seated Wide Leg Lateral Side Bend The light alters. There's a shift in the air. The Sun is in mutable Virgo. This sign helps us to remain-within-ourselves as we observe and adjust to the changing nature around us. We find Virgo in our feminine sensitivities, the ones that help us honor the connection between the - [Ritual: Virgo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-virgo-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Libra New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-asana/) - Sphinx Variations The time of Libra, ruled by goddess Venus and Air, always brings beautiful transformations in nature, as well as inevitable change. This change is felt in the air temperature, the way the light is shifting each day, and in the trees and all plants expressing themselves for a final hurrah in the northern - [Pisces Blue Moon: Capture Your Dream](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-blue-moon-capture-your-dream/) - About a month ago, during her summer vacation, eleven-year-old Esma Gljiva from Sarajevo, Bosnia, started creating folklore-style Barbies with Balkan costumes like headdresses and decorative aprons. The timing was interesting, given the enormous success of the new Barbie movie, released in mid-July. But Esma hadn’t seen the film. Her project was inspired, she says, by - [Practical Pleasures for the Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/practical-pleasures-for-the-pisces-full-moon/) - I know it's odd to call anything Pisces "practical," Pisces being the most impractical sign. Its Moon is drifty, dreamy, other-worldly. Yet the Sun in Virgo wants us to snap to and recognize the opportunity afoot. In your domestic life, no Moon is more useful than a Full Moon in water! Full Moons are - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-pisces-full-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Pisces Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-asana/) - This Full Moon is the last of the season. The Sun-in-Virgo is here to help us find our ground again. This is helpful because society starts to speed up at this time. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's back to school, vacation gone, holiday stuff already in the stores; everywhere... it's rush, rush, rush. All - [Pisces Full Moon: Pretend You're in Love](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-pisces-pretend-youre-in-love/) - When you fall in love—the kind that makes you want to be a better person—you become both softer and stronger than you were before. With no effort, you forgive all trespasses; you have no room in your heart for fear or meanness. Little children and dogs on the street flock to you, sensing a sympathetic - [Your Inner Pilot Light: the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-inner-pilot-light-the-leo-new-moon/) - This is the miracle-- Every tree becomes beautiful When touched by sunlight -- Rumi 1 A simple practice you could do for a year at every new moon is to make an offering to the planet who rules that new moon sign. And by planet, of course, I don't mean the astronomical body. I - [3 Simple Gestures for the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-simple-gestures-for-the-leo-new-moon/) - Did you know that a lioness’ roar can be heard from 5 miles away? Your inner lioness—your Wild Divine Feminine self—is roaring. Now is the time to listen. The Leo new moon is calling you to express your confident, creative, and compassionate feminine self. No holding back. But first, you must explore your fears of - [Leo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-asana/) - At the Leo New Moon, welcome the shining light of the Sun into your deep lion-hearted self. Heart, solar plexus, and spine are the Leo regions of the body. This is the New Moon to check in: Are you staying true to your heart? Are you aligned with your integrity? The spine is sometimes referred - [Leo New Moon: Reclaiming Pleasure](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-reclaiming-pleasure/) - Oakland-based Yeye Luisah Teish is a Yoruba priestess and a daughter of Oshun, the African Venus. When I first met Teish in the mid-80s at the Council of Feminine Fire in Ojai, California, she blew me away. As a newcomer to the ways of the Goddess, I’d never experienced a woman who was so in - [Ritual: Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Lammas: Time to Honor Self and Sun](https://mooncircles.com/lammas-time-to-honor-self-and-sun/) - Whether you're in the midst of a creative high or low, Lammas is an auspicious time to pause, measure, and appreciate your journey. Lammas is the cross-quarter holiday most often ignored. We're no longer an agrarian culture. Yet this "first fruits" celebration still runs in our blood, making this an ideal time to evaluate your - [Aquarius Full Moon: Who are Your People?](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-who-are-your-people/) - “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” –Muhammad Ali Comedian and talk show host Dick Cavett once stopped by to see his friend Muhammad Ali being filmed in New - [Aquarius Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-asana/) - We are now at the end of Leo’s season—a fire cycle for a second full moon in Aquarius. Be sure to welcome Leo’s confident, playful, and courageous energy into your life and body! The Full Moon is in Leo’s opposite sign, Aquarius—its partner. Together they offer the potent collaboration of air and fire. Bring this - [Aquarius Full Moon: Looking for Lightning](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-aquarius-looking-for-lightning-2/) - The weather’s been stifling here for the past few days, with hot, humid winds blowing up from the south and air so thick you can practically slice it. Early this morning I heard distant thunder and smiled, remembering the thrilling thunderstorms that punctuated the long, stagnant Midwestern summer afternoons of my youth. This nostalgia was - [Cancer New Moon: Ancestral Information](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-ancestral-information/) - Once upon a time in the 1830s, a young Englishman named Joseph and a young French woman named Elizabeth fell madly in love. But Elizabeth’s wealthy father, who was Joseph’s employer, refused to let them marry – and disowned his daughter when she eloped. So, the newlyweds took a brave step: They left France and - [3 Simple Gestures for the Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-simple-gestures-for-the-cancer-new-moon/) - The Cancer New Moon beckons you to reach deep. It’s time for nourishment and flow. To feel fully replenished, you will need to confront the walls you’ve created for safety. Feeling protected, being in control, and manipulating matters to ease life’s pain seem like reasonable strategies. After all, you’re a sensitive person. But too - [Ritual: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Cancer New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-asana/) - The New Moon in watery Cancer, sign of the crab, can bring a month of deep emotional shifts. It can also launch a period of deep reflection on what kind of nurture you want and need most at this time. Perhaps there is something tender to look at under the shell. Welcoming the light sneaking - [Dear Libra Moon: I'm Afraid and Overwhelmed](https://mooncircles.com/dear-libra-moon-im-afraid-and-overwhelmed/) - Dear Libra Moon, I have these big, exciting opportunities coming my way. I should feel excited, but all I feel is fear mixed with crippling self-doubt. My mind spins a mile a minute and I feel frustrated at myself for focusing on my fears rather than being excited for these new opportunities. I get - [Ritual: Cancer Capricorn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-capricorn-full-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [It's a Supermoon! Here's a ritual to celebrate.](https://mooncircles.com/its-a-supermoon-heres-a-ritual-to-celebrate/) - If you've been wanting to honor the moon with something special, like a full moon ritual, perhaps, you couldn't ask for a better moon. Monday brings a supermoon. It is the first of four supermoons this year. This is an ideal night to gather, play and experiment with the power of moonlight. When the moon, - [Capricorn Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-asana/) - The Cancer time of the year asks us to feel, feel, feel. When we get to the soft bits under our shells, what are the sensations saying to us? Can we find more compassion for it all and nurture ourselves during the process? The Capricorn Full Moon is designed to help, blessing us with the - [Capricorn Full Moon: Proactive Grace](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-proactive-grace/) - In her essential new book, Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations, Sam Horn shares a story about a man whose mother had been in a rest home for three years. He used to dread driving out to see her because all she ever did was complain. Mom’s favorite topics included her roommate (who - [Beware of Jinns this Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/beware-of-jinns-this-full-moon/) - A Sagittarius Moon opposite a Gemini Sun is a highly chaotic and stimulating energy. This can be a tricky moon if you're not paying attention. Keep divinely aligned with the following Full Moon practice. If the veil that divides the visible world from the realms of the invisible could be parted this Full Moon, what - [Sagittarius Full Moon: I Married an Alien!](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-i-married-an-alien/) - My sister and I enjoy chuckling over pictures from our childhood, which invariably feature me looking up at the sky, distracted, as if awaiting the return of my mother ship. Who knows, maybe I was; born with Sagittarius, the sign of the foreigner, on the Ascendant of my chart, part of me has always felt - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Take the High Road](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-take-the-high-road/) - The daughter of a sharecropper, Anna Mae Bullock picked strawberries and cotton as a child. While her mom and dad fought, she wandered the land, playing with the wind and the animals. When she was eleven, her mom ran off and three years later, so did her dad, leaving her to fend for herself. Yet - [Full Moon Asana with Gemini and Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-asana-with-gemini-and-sagittarius/) - Full Moons send us into the colliding energies of opposition. What better pose to balance and focus these forces than Warrior 2, through which we'll integrate the opposing signs of Sun and Moon. We'll connect with the Sun-in-Gemini through the expansion of our breath, opening into the lungs, ribs, shoulders, arms, and fingers. The - [Three Magical Keys into the Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/three-magical-keys-into-the-taurus-new-moon/) - Every new moon is a doorway behind which lies a unique path, created just for you, for the next 29.5 days. The Taurus new moon doorway aches to draw you into deep relationship with the natural world, and specifically, the rich garden of the Divine Feminine. This is your annual opportunity to revive and - [Taurus New Moon: Calling Venus](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-calling-venus-2/) - I run this post every year at this time because it's such a great month for doing a Venus ritual. To me the most important timer for a Venus ritual in particular is if your heart feels really ready to do it ... not because of a clenched desire, but because you're really in the - [Taurus New Moon: Blooming Anew](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-blooming-anew/) - In the preface to her book, Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma, Sister Dang Nghiem recounts a revelatory experience she had a few years back. After the Buddhist retreat she’d just taught was over, Nghiem was exhausted. But in deference to her hosts, she accompanied them to a garden behind - [Taurus New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-asana/) - Moon practice is best when it's embodied practice. We'll bring our awareness to the Earth with a simple seated pose for the Taurus New Moon. On the day of the New Moon, or perhaps, if it's convenient, at the very moment of the New Moon, take precious time for yourself with a simple grounding posture - [Ritual: Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse: Shedding Our Skins](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-eclipse-shedding-our-skins/) - Scorpio can be scary. It’s the shadows that lurk beneath the surface, the ferocity of feelings we dare not express, the stark reality of death. Yet it’s also the resilience and quiet power of the serpent, a creature which sheds its skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites attached to their old skin. - [Is an eclipse the best time for a full moon ritual?](https://mooncircles.com/is-an-eclipse-the-best-time-for-a-full-moon-ritual/) - There are two different schools of thought about performing rituals during a lunar eclipse. Some say that eclipses supercharge your ceremonies. Others feel the energy is wonky and shouldn’t be trusted with important workings. I say, investigate! Lunar eclipses occur twice a year, every year. You have lots of experience already. But likely you haven't - [Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse: Snake in the Grass, Dragon in the Heart](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-eclipse-snake-in-the-grass-dragon-in-the-heart/) - 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 - [Scorpio Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-asana/) - Underneath its eclipse, this Full Moon blends two different voices. Sun-in-Taurus is earthy. Ruling the neck, throat, and song itself, Taurus guides the outer voice. It resonates with beauty, grounded strength, and the pleasures of felt sensations. Moon-in-Scorpio is watery. It represents the inner voice, honoring intuition, depth of feeling, mystery, sensuality, autumnal release and - [Aries Solar Eclipse: Emigrants](https://mooncircles.com/aries-solar-eclipse-emigrants/) - In history’s darkest moments, when a people were faced with leaving their homes or facing deadly circumstances, some escaped to safety and others didn’t. Some tried but just didn’t succeed; others waited just a beat too long to attempt their escape. And I’ve often wondered: how would you know when the time was now, when - [Aries New Moon Eclipse: Now or Never](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-eclipse-now-or-never/) - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a mass twice the size of Texas, made up of trillions of pieces of plastic trash. Metastasizing for years in international waters, it was an out-of-control problem for which nobody had a solution. Until The Ocean Cleanup arrived on the scene. Founded in 2013 by Dutch whiz-kid Boyan - [Signs the Aries Solar Eclipse Is Touching You](https://mooncircles.com/signs-the-aries-solar-eclipse-is-touching-you/) - Meet Rahu—the demon who devours the Sun and Moon during eclipses. He rocks worlds. Is he jiggling yours? Below are a few signs that you’re being touched by this week's solar eclipse. But first, a little perspective on this sky event. The terror of eclipses runs deep in astrology tradition. For the first astrologers, over - [Solar Eclipse + Mercury Retrograde = Slow Down](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipse-mercury-retrograde-slow-down/) - First comes the solar eclipse--at an intense culminating degree (29 Aries)--and just a little over 24 hours later, Mercury stations retrograde at 15 Taurus, uprooting this otherwise stabilizing degree. Thirty years ago, along with several hundred other pilgrims, I took a retreat with walking-meditation master Thich Nhat Hahn. We learned to walk very very - [Take the Archetypal Journey into Aries](https://mooncircles.com/take-the-archetypal-journey-into-aries/) - A 29 degree Aries new moon--the second Aries new moon of this year--suggests a real "just do it" approach to the Aries themes in your life. It's now or never! Aries never looks before he leaps. His mother never cautioned, "If you run with a stick you'll poke an eye out!" At six, he challenged - [Ritual: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-new-moon-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-asana-2/) - Aries rules “me” energy, along with the head, face, and brain. The Full Moon in Libra rules “we” energy, along with the kidneys and lower back. These areas of the body want balancing now. Without enough “me” time, we’ll suffer in the lower back. Without enough “we” time, the brain overheats and gets agitated. A - [Aphrodite Medicine for Libra's Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aphrodite-medicine-for-libras-full-moon/) - Beguiling and bejeweled, the peaceful Libra Full Moon stands opposite the fiery warrior, Sun in Aries. Dressed as the Goddess Aphrodite, she winks at him, then slowly twirls, as if to say "Let's make a little magic from our meeting. Let's inflame the world with love and beauty!" He says yes. And now, that's your - [Libra Full Moon: A Cuddle or a Kick](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-a-cuddle-or-a-kick/) - We all need love in one form or another! In 2015, a 3 ½ pound wallaby (a petite variety of kangaroo) was found by the side of a road in Grafton, New South Wales. He may have been tiny, but this youngster had an instinct for survival. He bravely walked up to a potential rescuer - [Libra Full Moon: Befriending the Enemy](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-befriending-the-enemy-2/) - Astrologers are fond of observing that a Libra is nothing more than an Aries who’s been to charm school. Libra is every bit as determined as his fellow cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, and Capricorn) to get what he wants. But Libra has the ability to make it look as though serving his own needs is - [What to Do as Pluto Enters Aquarius](https://mooncircles.com/what-to-do-as-pluto-enters-aquarius/) - Pluto, the mythical Lord of the Underworld is an amazing transformation artist. But with clients, I never discuss his transits through the houses of their charts. Pluto is too slow. It’s like discussing hair growth—only after hair’s gotten too long do you notice. It’s not something you see (let alone direct) as it’s happening. Slow-rolling - [Aries New Moon: Warrior Spirit](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-warrior-spirit/) - When Viola Davis, sculpted and strengthened after months of training, first stood in the garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African soil, it was the apex of not just the seven-year push to produce The Woman King, but of a lifelong battle to fully express her warrior nature. “Whenever - [Aries New Moon Energy Reboot](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-energy-reboot/) - Energy: Where to find it, how to grow it, how to conserve it, and how to channel it: that is the spiritual task for this new moon in impulsive, life-loving Aries. It's the beginning of the astrological new year. It's time to reboot yourself with new energy. As all true magicians know, the secret - [Virgo: The Editor's Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-the-editors-full-moon/) - As a writer, I've worked with my share of editors. I've appreciated every one of them. A couple of them, I've downright loved. The editors I've loved working with have had something important in common. Their focus was on what was right with my work, instead of what was wrong with it. Eventually we got - [Drink up! Saturn is in Pisces now.](https://mooncircles.com/drink-up-saturn-is-in-pisces-now/) - We cannot help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. --Rumi (Coleman Barks) The shifting times are taking us toward the voice of water. In a later stanza of the same poem, Rumi asks us to cleanse our ears and listen for something we haven’t heard before, which is perfect advice for this - [Virgo Full Moon: Crow Wisdom](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-crow-wisdom/) - What message might the crow have for you at this Full Moon? Recently, I was watching a show with my cat on my lap when we were startled by three loud crow caws outside the window just behind our heads. This was unusual, as crows are rarely out at night. Three caws can signify - [Virgo Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-asana/) - Revolved Half Moon variations With the Sun in Pisces and the Moon fully illuminated in Virgo, we reach the last Full Moon of the season. Dropping into the energies of water and earth, we might find a little order midst the swirling currents of chaos, compassion, and imagination. The Pisces region of the body is - [Full Moon Play: The Great Mama Field](https://mooncircles.com/weave-yourself-whole/) - Sacred Vedic texts say that if the Goddess Devi closes her eyes for just one second, the entire universe will disappear. This is not a preposterous claim. Something similar happens every time we lose our connection to the Divine Feminine or the "Great Mama Field." We fall -- into a dull, meaningless, unkind, chaotic world - [Pisces New Moon: Imagination, Pleasure, and Soul](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-imagination-pleasure-and-soul/) - Get in the mood for the next 2.5 years of Saturn in Pisces! Start awakening the lover and mystic in you. Pisces plays the mandolin and wears sky blue shirts that smell like lavender or sometimes roses. When he visits, you might hear snow melting. Tulips and daffodils poke their heads above ground to greet - [Pisces New Moon: Closing the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-closing-circle/) - The circle—a timeless image used in Tibetan mandalas, Native American medicine wheels, and astrology—conveys the ever-turning wheel of life. And in the circle of the year, the Pisces New Moon always arrives before the Spring Equinox. In about three weeks, the Sun will emerge from Pisces into Aries, signaling the start of a new astrological - [Pisces New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-asana/) - The astrological year begins with Aries and ends with Pisces. Aries rules the head. Pisces rules the feet. From last year’s Aries New Moon until now, we’ve traveled through each region of the body in tune with the seasons. Pisces calls for the integration of all that we have embodied, sensed, and experienced in the - [Pisces New Moon: Born Anew](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-born-anew/) - The world took a collective gasp last week when volunteer rescuers pulled a two-month-old baby from the rubble of the catastrophic earthquake in Antakya, Turkey. The poor tyke had been trapped for 128 hours – over five days! – underground. Dusty and hungry but otherwise unharmed, the little boy with the limpid grey eyes immediately - [Saturn Returns: Earning Saturn's Favor](https://mooncircles.com/saturn-returns-earning-saturns-favor/) - I blew my first Saturn return. It was only years later, through astrology’s exquisite backward lens that I understood the full measure of my bad choices. During the time I should have been striding into early adulthood with hard work and gumption, I regressed into a floundering child. Saturn squares my natal Moon. Planets in - [Leo Full Moon: Sunshine After a Storm](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-sunshine-after-a-storm/) - A new baby entered our family last week when my nephew and his wife welcomed their first child. They had already chosen to name him after my late brother, and baby obligingly debuted on the 28th anniversary of his namesake’s passing. The kid has a keen sense of timing and a terrific origin story. He’s - [Leo Full Moon: Unexpected Treasure](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-unexpected-treasure/) - Nine-year-old Molly Sampson has dreamed of becoming a paleontologist for most of her life. She often hunts for fossils in Chesapeake Bay’s Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, with her father Bruce. And she’s always had one specific goal in mind: To find a tooth from a 15 million year old Megalodon shark, one of the largest - [Purification Ritual for the Leo Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/purification-ritual-for-the-leo-full-moon/) - he Full Moon is in the fire sign of Leo, opposite the Sun in airy Aquarius, offering the elemental interplay of fire and air. Both elements are great for purification rituals. Fire flames up and out, burning to ashes what obstructs. Air refreshes, blowing away what is old and stagnant. Purification rituals are especially powerful - [Leo Full Moon: The Grateful Flow](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-grateful-flow/) - Creativity is a quality that most astrologers associate with Leo, the sign of this Full Moon, and with its ruler, the Sun. Absolutely everyone is creative, with a mad desire to connect with a powerful and loving Source, although many people deny that they’re creative at all. But if you ask them to remember a - [Leo Full Moon Asana: Hooray for Play!](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-asana-2/) - It’s the heart of winter in the northern hemisphere. Thank goodness the heavens always bring the joyful energy of Leo into the mid-winter Full Moon. Leo is for fire, for playfulness and reconnecting to your inner child, for art and creative expression in any form, and for extravagant heart sensations in the ways that light - [88 Retrograde-Free Days: Use this Boon!](https://mooncircles.com/88-retrograde-free-days-use-this-boon/) - From January 22 to April 21 this year—all planets are direct. What an auspicious symbol for making progress! All the planets are going in the same direction. With none retrograde, we reach an exquisite portal for manifesting dreams. This relatively rare celestial condition was dubbed “APDM” (All Planets Direct Motion) by astrologer Wave Rayne, - [Aquarius New Moon: The Power of Friendship](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-the-power-of-friendship/) - A wonderful documentary on Netflix called Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, illuminates the sweet, playful friendship shared by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Based on their 2016 collaboration, The Book of Joy, the film showcases these eighty-something spiritual masters who had been through so much, yet - [Top 3 Gifts of the Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/top-3-gifts-of-the-aquarius-new-moon/) - Call in Aquarius this month by breaking out of your box. Your inner genius is ready for a revolution. Anywhere you’ve been feeling stuck? If you’re not living the life you want, fresh Aquarian thoughts could be sounding through your mind-stream in the weeks ahead. New Moons are important moments to realign ourselves with the - [Aquarius New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-asana/) - Gentle Yin Dragonfly (upright or reclined) New Moons provide a worthwhile moment to rest, listen, and vision for the cycle ahead. Aquarius is the season for dancing wherever the wind (or inspiration) wants to send you. Aquarius is the sign of the Water Bearer. A fine posture for this New Moon is one that allows - [Ritual: Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Launching 2023 with a Double Retrograde](https://mooncircles.com/launching-2023-with-a-double-retrograde/) - Mars is retrograde from October 30 to January 12; Mercury, from December 29 to January 18. If during the holidays, your flight was cancelled and your luggage went missing, you know what it’s like to be caught inside of a double retrograde. Between December 29 and January 12, both Mars and Mercury—the Warrior and - [Cancer Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-asana/) - Cancer is the Moon’s favorite sign. The Cancer region of the body revolves around our center: our chest, our breasts, and held feelings in our belly. Cancerian energy is known to be empathic, sensitive, nurturing, and also to hold on to memories and sensations. With the Full Moon in Cancer always falling somewhat close to - [Cancer Full Moon: Where the Heart Is](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-where-the-heart-is/) - On Christmas Eve, Buffalo NY was being pummeled by the worst blizzard in recent memory. Snuggled at home with his wife, Alex Campagna heard frantic knocking on the door. There stood two shivering South Korean tourists hoping to borrow a shovel to dislodge their vehicle from a gigantic snowdrift. Knowing it was hopeless, Campagna invited - [Full Moon in Cancer: Belonging](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-cancer-belonging/) - This Full Moon in the family-oriented sign of Cancer (Jan. 6, 2023, 3:07 pm PST) brings to mind a story from a 2018 trip to New Zealand. Jonny and I are standing in a tiny house, part of a museum in Okains Bay, a remote village on an out-of-the-way peninsula southeast of Christchurch. We’ve made - [The Cap New Moon: Grow Your Relationship with Saturn](https://mooncircles.com/the-cap-new-moon-grow-your-relationship-with-saturn/) - As we begin 2023, Mars is retrograde (from October 30 to January 12) and Mercury is retrograde (from December 29 to January 18). This suggests launching into this year gradually, without overly ambitious expectations. In these first few weeks of the year, avoid pushing and drama. Why? Because when you harmonize with the heavens, - [Capricorn New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-asana/) - The Capricorn New Moon can often inspire a mix of hope, overwhelm, and inspiration all at once. The remedy for overwhelm lies with this New Moon’s element: earth. With earth sign Taurus we might think of gardens, but for Capricorn earth, we think of mountains. Capricorn gives us strong structures. It is resilient. Its energy - [Capricorn Meditation: Think like a Mountain](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-meditation-think-like-a-mountain/) - Capricorn is a striver. This sign loves to climb and achieve. But it couldn't reach its goals without knowing patience. To deepen into the heart of this New Moon, you may wish to cultivate the quality of interiority and receptive waiting that defines Capricorn's patience. One way to do this is to "think like a - [Capricorn New Moon: Light in the Darkness](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-light-in-the-darkness/) - There is so much suffering in the world right now. Most pointedly, as the war in Ukraine slogs into its tenth month, people are facing sub-zero temperatures with no heat, water or essential supplies. Bombs are falling. Yet both sides have ruled out a Christmas truce as soldiers battle it out in bloody trenches. Pope - [Ritual: Capricorn New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Menopause and the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/menopause-and-the-moon/) - “When I went through menopause, following the Moon saved me. I was unmoored without my cycle.” I’ve heard statements like this from many clients and students over the years. It makes sense. Aligning with the lunation cycle helps keep crones juicy and in rhythm. All earth beings are designed to live in monthly rhythm, but - [Gemini Full Moon: Stay Focused!](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-stay-focused/) - Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, with a six-month-old orphaned baby elephant. Without their mothers, such calves have few survival skills and are vulnerable to despair. Once upon a time, when an elephant walked through town with its keeper, the pachyderm’s trunk would tend to wreak havoc. Expressing the - [Gemini Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-asana/) - Side Plank Gemini is the air sign ruling the flight of the mind. Its rhythm is typically “busy.” I think about having wings when the Moon is in Gemini, especially the Full Moon. Gemini governs the shoulders, arms, hands and (our human wings), the lungs. The Gemini Full Moon comes at a time when we - [Gemini Full Moon: The Gift of Listening](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-gift-listening/) - When my friend's son was small, he talked incessantly. Born with Venus in loquacious Gemini, he jabbered constantly about stories he'd read or what he'd seen on television that morning. His mother is a patient woman, but eventually the sheer quantity of words wore her down. One day, she recalls, driving along with her child - [Sagittarius New Moon: Awakening Your Happy Wanderer](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-awakening-your-happy-wanderer/) - The Sun enters Sagittarius on November 22. About a month before Christmas, the Sun enters the fire sign of Sagittarius, signaling the start of the holiday season. The lively crackle of conversation; the warm humor and expansive goodwill; the generous giving of gifts: these are among the qualities of Sagittarius. Yet like the sparkly wrapping - [Sagittarius New Moon: A Spark of Joy](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-a-spark-of-joy/) - Auri Katariina is the ultimate cleaning lady. She is so passionate about making things sparkle that she quit her job in Finland a year ago to help struggling women scour and declutter their homes at no cost. “My dream is to clean for free all over the world, and help people whilst doing something I - [Mars Needs Women: The Key to Mastering Mars Retrograde](https://mooncircles.com/mars-needs-women-the-key-to-mastering-mars-retrograde/) - Mars retrograde (October 30 to January 12) describes an 80-day period when action can go haywire and erupt in mayhem—as the archetypal warrior is not at his best. Mars—the ultimate “doer”—needs his rest. Every two years, he requires these ten and a half weeks to cool his engines and replenish his battle-worn heart. - [Mars Retrograde: In the Shaping Zone](https://mooncircles.com/mars-retrograde-in-the-shaping-zone/) - The most important period in any transit or retrograde is what I call “the shaping zone.” I’m not talking about how you can meditate in the months ahead of a celestial event on how to somehow “use” it to achieve your intentions. I’m talking about the time when stuff starts going down. When - [Taurus Lunar Eclipse: Cracking Our Comfort Zone](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-lunar-eclipse-cracking-our-comfort-zone/) - In The Call to Courage, now streaming on Netflix, researcher Brene Brown asserts that it’s impossible to be brave without being vulnerable. The tough-talking Texan, who came to fame in a 2010 viral Ted Talk on vulnerability, has made it her life’s work to dispel the deeply ingrained myth that this quality is a weakness - [Ready, Set, Stop! It's Mars Retrograde.](https://mooncircles.com/ready-set-stop-its-mars-retrograde/) - Mars is retrograde this year from October 30 to January 12, 2023; its path goes from 25 Gemini to 8 Gemini. Where do these degrees appear in your chart? This is the area of life where the retro may be most inclined to express itself. Planet retrogrades indicate times when the gods will mess - [Scorpio New Moon Eclipse: Feel the Pain](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-eclipse-feel-the-pain/) - Create a Grief Altar to get your ancestors’ help with processing deep feelings Though she was sitting next to a lovely pond blooming with water lilies, Tama Kieves felt anything but tranquil. She’d come to the retreat center hoping to get a handle on her suffering. Despite years of therapy and spiritual practice, dark feelings - [Eat the Moon! A Quiz](https://mooncircles.com/eat-the-moon-a-quiz/) - Our great-grandmothers spent more time in the kitchen than we do, baking mouth-watering breads, cakes, cookies and pies. Yet the yeast, baking powders and baking soda our ancestors used were inferior to the products we buy today. This meant they had to bring more patience, art, and skill into their kitchens. The smart ones also - [Scorpio Solar Eclipse: Snake in the Grass, Dragon in the Heart](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-solar-eclipse-snake-in-the-grass-dragon-in-the-heart/) - 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 - [Fire! How I Spent my Mars Retrograde Station](https://mooncircles.com/fire-how-i-spent-my-mars-retrograde-station/) - Mars turned retrograde on September 9. During its powerful station the day before, a wildfire devastated my Oregon hometown of Talent. I’m so fortunate my home survived. The Almeda Fire raced from the highway into my town—down my very street. It came within 200 feet of my house! Thanks to the gods, the firefighters - [Aries Full Moon: Need a Kitty Break?](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-need-a-kitty-break/) - Photo courtesy of Muncie Fine Portraits Sarah and Dave Herbert are photographers with a studio in Muncie, Indiana that specializes in family portraits. With the help of their beloved cat Rory, they are experts in getting kids to sit still for a portrait. A three-year-old black cat who might be termed a “child whisperer,” Rory - [Make Magic with Libra's Better Angel](https://mooncircles.com/libras-better-angel/) - “Humans always sing about what they most need,” said Libra one sunny afternoon. “The Hopi sing for rain. The Inuit sing for a successful hunt. And judging by your culture’s most popular songs, what you most need—or lack—is love.” I asked if she agreed and she replied in typical Libra fashion: “Yes and no,” she - [Libra New Moon: Enduring Love](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-enduring-love/) - Since they met in the early 1970s, Charles and Camilla (now the King and Queen Consort of England) knew they belonged together. They both love the great outdoors and championing social causes. He finds her captivating; she gets his oddball sense of humor, and always has a comforting word for him. He likely would have - [Pisces Full Moon: Summon Your Muse](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-summon-your-muse/) - Stephen King, one of the most brilliant and prolific writers who ever lived, is deeply connected to his creative inspiration. But King’s muse is no Greek goddess. “There is a muse,” King assures aspiring authors in his classic book On Writing, “but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter - [What's on your "Make Things Better" List?](https://mooncircles.com/whats-on-your-virgo-list/) - As a schoolgirl, every year about this time, I’d take out a clean sheet of paper and with a bold, optimistic hand, write at the top: "The New Me." Then I would list all the wonderful qualities I was determined to adopt in the coming school year: "Smile." "Be helpful." "Always say something nice." In - [Virgo New Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-asana/) - Seated Wide Leg Lateral Side Bend The light alters. There's a shift in the air. The Sun is in mutable Virgo. This sign helps us to remain-within-ourselves as we observe and adjust to the changing nature around us. We find Virgo in our feminine sensitivities, the ones that help us honor the connection between the - [Virgin Goddess Meditation: Your One True Thing](https://mooncircles.com/virgin-goddess-meditation-your-one-true-thing/) - As remote and antique a term as “the Virgin Goddess” may sound to our modern ears, the inner meaning of this archetype has a lot to teach us. An archetype of the Divine Feminine, the Virgin Goddess has been found in myths and religions since the beginning of time. She is the Egyptian Isis, "She - [Virgo New Moon: Firing on all Cylinders](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-firing-on-all-cylinders/) - Years ago, a friend and I drove to the remote desert east of Los Angeles to do a ritual. We hiked far out into the wilderness to set up camp and build a fire. The ritual was so powerful that we lost track of time. When we were finished it was dusk, and neither of - [Ritual: Virgo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Aquarius Full Moon: Finding Solutions](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-finding-solutions/) - When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was recovering from a massive stroke, she had a sign put on the door of her hospital room that read, “Please be responsible for the energy that you bring into this room.” She was asking every medical professional who entered to leave their negative thinking at the door, because she - [Aquarius Full Moon: Clearing the Air](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-clearing-the-air/) - My friend Alice called me late one Friday afternoon. "I thought you'd be on your way to happy hour," I said; it was her usual Friday post-work ritual to go for drinks with her co-workers. "Nah," she said. "Ramona will be there." Alice and Ramona had once been close friends, but the relationship soured when - [Leo New Moon: Making a Comeback](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-making-a-comeback/) - For the first time since 1952, cheetahs will soon roam wild in India once again. Eight of the big cats, famed for reaching speeds of 70 mph without breaking a sweat, are set to arrive in August from Namibia, to make their home at Kuno-Palpur National Park. A combination of hunting, habitat loss and food - [Capricorn Full Moon: Dig It Up!](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-dig-it-up/) - I was listening to a talk by evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest recently, when he said something that made me sit up and take notice. He was discussing his natal North Node in Taurus in the sixth house. Despite being in his early 70s, the world-renowned author admitted that until recently, he hadn’t had a medical - [Capricorn Full Moon: Nobody's Child](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-capricorn-nobodys-child/) - It's been 25 years since I had a living parent, and I'll admit, there are still days that I miss being someone’s child. However much one is loved by a spouse, friends, or children, there’s something about having a loving parent that makes you feel you’ve always got a soft place to fall. When I - [Cancer New Moon: Claim Your Power](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-claim-your-power/) - Deborah Kushner has been arrested three times for acts of civil disobedience related to gas pipeline construction and permitting. In one of those incidents (pictured below), the retired social worker chained her rocking chair to an old police cruiser painted with attention-grabbing slogans that made folks take notice! Mild-mannered Kushner, 67, isn’t your typical activist. - [Cancer New Moon: True North](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-true-north/) - When my mother's only sister passed away in 2000, right around the Cancer Solstice, she took with her an entire era of my family’s history. Hers was a generation which seemed to produce more than its share of great ladies, my aunt and my mother among them. You can judge the success of a person’s - [New Moon Empowerment Spell: Let's Unturn the Overturning](https://mooncircles.com/new-moon-empowerment-spell-lets-unturn-the-overturning/) - We cast new moon spells for increase. As women and wombs are key Cancer concerns, we cast this Cancer new moon spell to increase Women's Power, personal & collective. Women can and will restore the womb rights the Supreme Court has just erased. For this spell, you’ll need a basin large enough for your - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Improve the Silence](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-sagittarius-improve-the-silence/) - With Sagittarius rising in my birthchart, Mercury opposed Jupiter, and lots of planets in the 9th house, I can seem like a natural born centaur. This is especially true on the occasions when I jump on my high horse (so to speak) and start delivering sermons like a self-styled Joan of Arc. I’m most apt - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Aim for True North](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-aim-for-true-north/) - One spring night in 1968, 21-year-old Patti Smith went with some friends to see The Doors live at the Fillmore East in New York City. A recent college drop-out, Smith was working in a bookstore and wondering what to do with the rest of her life. Little did she know that an unexpected vision of - [How to process world grief without drowning](https://mooncircles.com/how-to-process-world-grief-without-drowning/) - I originally wrote this post in early 2020 as we were getting used to the realities of the pandemic ... of course, since then, world grief has continued to rise. After events here in the US this past week, I thought it was appropriate to post this again. You don’t need to be a - [Gemini New Moon Wishing Spell](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-wishing-spell/) - Lots of us are wishing for a better world these days. Gemini is one of four zodiac signs ruling magic (the other three are water signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces). As an air sign, Gemini oversees mind magic, making this a perfect new moon for a magical spell. Goddess knows we need magic. The problems - [Gemini New Moon: A Different Kind of Hope](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-a-different-kind-of-hope/) - When Michael Meade was twenty years old, he was thrown into solitary confinement in a military prison for refusing to go to Vietnam. “I wasn’t a very good prisoner,” he explained in a recent talk on Hope and Imagination in Hard Times. “I wouldn’t follow the rules.” So he ended up stuck in almost complete - [Lunar Eclipse Soother: Sleeping Goddess](https://mooncircles.com/lunar-eclipse-soother-sleeping-goddess/) - It's an eclipse and a supermoon. Eclipses make for awesome viewing and this one will be widely visible. Google around to check its visibility in your location. Some full moons are slow, rich and sonorous, making it easy for us to slip into meditation and communion. But a lunar eclipse--especially a bright supermoon--is more electric - [Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse: Embrace the Shadow](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-eclipse-embrace-the-shadow/) - Are you ready for the powerful Full Blood Moon Total Eclipse in Scorpio? I just spent a week at the Optimum Health Institute here in San Diego. It was an intense time of cleansing with wheat grass and raw foods, revving up the body, and learning more about healthy living. But when the usual coping - [Taurus New Moon Eclipse: Uncommon Beauty](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-eclipse-uncommon-beauty/) - “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.” – a favorite saying of Audrey Hepburn’s, by Sam Levenson Despite being widely admired for - [Taurus Solar Eclipse: Pennies from Heaven](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-solar-eclipse-pennies-from-heaven/) - Oh every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven… ~ From “Pennies from Heaven,” by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston This New Moon's Solar Eclipse in Taurus is in a close conjunction with Uranus. Eclipses are unstable times at best, and Uranus is a - [Ritual for Coming into Balance the Aphrodite Way](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-for-coming-into-balance-the-aphrodite-way/) - Peace, love, and harmony are significant threads in the weaving of Libra's Full Moon. They belong to Aphrodite. Call her in. This ritual can be done in a group--or alone in your bedroom. Preparation Find a quiet place where you can protect yourself from intrusion. Then, as the Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan recommends, - [Libra Full Moon: Meaningful Connections](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-meaningful-connections/) - My thoughts have been occupied lately by a very dear Libra man. His name is James Hubbell, and he turned 90 last October 23. Many San Diegans know him as the gifted artist-sculptor who created a wonderland of adobe dwellings inlaid with mosaic and stained glass in the peaceful mountains near Julian (now known as - [Libra Full Moon: Laws of Motion](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-libra-laws-of-motion/) - With the popularity of books like The Secret, it’s clear that people are excited about the idea of creating the life they want through the power of positive thinking. It’s an appealing concept. But I suspect that what appears to be a kind of loophole in Eeyore’s Law (which states that if your life can suck, it will suck) is - [Divinely Aligned: the Jupiter Neptune Conjunction](https://mooncircles.com/reason-to-hope-the-jupiter-neptune-conjunction/) - A special Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Pisces is exact on April 12, 2022. Despite the dark craziness of the times, I’m optimistic. Conjunct this year, Jupiter and Neptune are divinely aligned to inspire both our faith and our ability to create peace and happiness. After all, the peace sign was invented during a Jupiter/Neptune conjunction - [Aries New Moon: Stay Positive](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-stay-positive/) - When reasons to despair are everywhere, staying happy can be a challenge. Yet happiness is our natural state, and we feel best and do the most good when we stay tuned to that frequency as much as possible. Some people manage to be genuinely upbeat most of the time. Aries folks are often quite good - [Aries New Moon: Where's Your Energy Rebooting?](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-meditation/) - Energy: Where to find it, how to grow it, how to conserve it, and how to channel it: that is the spiritual task for this new moon in impulsive, life-loving Aries. It's the beginning of the astrological new year. It's time to reboot yourself with new energy. As all true magicians know, the secret - [Compassionate Breath: Weapon in the Great Mother's Arsenal](https://mooncircles.com/compassionate-breath-weapon-in-the-great-mothers-arsenal/) - With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, terror is running through the collective field. You can comfort yourself—and help to steady those in danger—using a wonderfully compassionate, transformative breathing practice from the Tibetan Buddhists: tonglen. I love this technique so much, it's been part of the Mooncircles full moon rituals for over twenty years. This practice - [Virgo Full Moon: Meaningful Habits](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-meaningful-habits/) - A client was expressing frustration over her untidy house and her struggle to manage the minutiae of her daily life more efficiently. Hearing Virgo and the sixth house in her statement, I summoned my Gemini Moon for a lightning fast conference and calculated a response: “Maybe you’ve just formed some bad habits out of fear - [Virgo Full Moon: A Clarifying Moment](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-a-clarifying-moment/) - In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl writes of an elderly man who came to him two years after the death of his wife. Dr. Frankl sat quietly as the widower poured out his still-fresh grief. When the man was done, Frankl asked him a question: “What would have - [Fierce Compassion: The Great Mother & the War Machine](https://mooncircles.com/fierce-compassion-the-great-mother-the-war-machine/) - An assembly line of Ukrainian grandmothers is making Molotov cocktails, as fathers and sons leave mothers, daughters and wives at the border. The men must stay and fight for their homeland. In basements and subway stations, families huddle on blankets, children are hungry. The sound of air raid sirens soars through empty streets. A - [Pisces New Moon: Taking the Plunge](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-taking-the-plunge/) - Do you remember the Hopi Elders’ message that was circulating widely about 20 years ago? It read, in part: “There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are - [Leo Full Moon: Bask in the Love](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-bask-in-the-love/) - Animals fall in love just as deeply as we do, says Ellie Laks, founder of The Gentle Barn, an animal rescue organization in Santa Clarita, CA. Many loving couples have gotten together there over the years, she notes in a recent newsletter, including a goat and a turkey who cuddle for hours, and two sheep - [Leo Full Moon: Filled With Your Own Light](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-filled-with-your-own-light/) - I began my life as a musician at the age of 12, singing with my cousin. I was a shy little Leo; she was a slightly older, brash and unafraid one, with a full-throttled voice. It felt natural to let her take the lead, while I mastered harmony. Harmonizing came so naturally that it never - [Venus Direct: Review Your Transformation](https://mooncircles.com/venus-direct-review-your-transformation/) - If you plow through a yoga class—moving from pose to pose—without pausing to notice the effect of each shape—you miss the divine conversation occurring inside you. It’s the same with astrology. If you drive from transit to transit—without stopping to observe the effect of these encounters—you miss the celestial conversations taking place within. Astrologers rarely - [Cross Quarter New Moon: Imbolc](https://mooncircles.com/february-2-imbolc/) - What an auspicious New Moon, occurring on Imbolc--one of my favorite cross-quarter holidays. The need to cleanse and refresh our lives at this time is coded in our DNA, as humans have been honoring this turn on the wheel for millennia. Below is what shaman, poet and mooncircles friend Jane Galer has to say about - [Aquarius New Moon: Idea Power](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-idea-power/) - An idea is a living entity. It can change the trajectory of our lives and open up new possibilities. But exciting new ideas, as powerful as they are, tend to also create chaos and trigger pushback, as they challenge the status quo. It can take years for a new idea to become accepted and integrated - [A soulful moon spell for 2022's first full moon](https://mooncircles.com/a-soulful-moon-spell-for-2022s-first-full-moon/) - We don't have local moon temples anymore. Yet it's still possible to cultivate a deep practice in the lunar mysteries. An auspicious way to begin 2022 is to connect with the first full moon of the new year. All you need is you, the moon, and a simple prayer--to cast a moon spell on your - [Cancer Full Moon: A Second Chance for Life](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-a-second-chance-on-life/) - We wouldn’t normally imagine beavers thriving in the scorching heat of Utah’s Moab Desert. Yet over the last three years, more than fifty of these intrepid creatures – all formerly slated for death as pests – have been relocated from populated urban areas to small, struggling waterways in the arid desert. Looking for ingenious solutions - [Cancer Full Moon: A Soft Place to Fall](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-a-soft-place-to-fall/) - I always forget how difficult Saturn’s transits are, until I find myself pinned under one. This week, transiting Saturn has been exactly opposed my natal Sun, and it’s a transit with the flinty shape of loneliness. Saturn shows you how alone you can feel with someone who says they love you, how hard you can - [Cancer Full Moon Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-capricorn-full-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual This Full Moon we tune into the opposing forces of Capricorn and Cancer. These signs represent the forces of "father" and "mother," protecting, securing, holding, and stabilizing, each in their way. Out of balance, they raise the shadows of authoritarianism and helplessness. When we confront their shadow expressions, we feel lonely - [A nation dying or being reborn? The US Pluto Return](https://mooncircles.com/a-nation-dying-or-being-reborn-the-us-pluto-return/) - Pluto returns to its natal position in the US chart on February 20, 2022; also, due to retrograde/direct motion, on July 11 and December 28 this year. Rome had two. England has had three. This year the United States gets its first Pluto Return. It takes Pluto approximately 250 years to circle the zodiac. - [Capricorn New Moon: Affirm a Miraculous Year](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-affirm-a-miraculous-year/) - James Hubbell’s gorgeous shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Old Mission San Diego. Photo by Anna Day Mona. At the New Year, we long for a fresh start and a clean slate. Yet all over the world, illness and restrictions continue. How are we to set our 2022 intentions and feel confident about - [The Surprising Reckoning: My Saturn/Uranus Journey](https://mooncircles.com/the-surprising-reckoning-my-saturn-uranus-journey/) - The Saturn/Uranus square is a tight symbol for old worlds colliding with new ones. It’s easy to see the extreme divisions and dire straits all around. Clashes are ongoing and everywhere—between right and left, the powerful and the powerless, democracy and autocracy, the believers of reason and those who tell lies. Things are tense - [Full Moon in Gemini: Grownups at the Table](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-gemini-grownups-at-the-table/) - Winter was relatively quiet on the farm where I grew up. We spent more time with neighbors and relatives in the long, dark evenings, after dads and uncles had spent the day repairing farm equipment or logging. In my memory, a lot of this wintry time takes place at my uncle’s comfortably ramshackle, two-story farmhouse. - [Gemini Full Moon: Practice Your Pivot](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-practice-your-pivot/) - Beyond all ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. --Rumi In a recent talk at Agape International Spiritual Center, Rev. Julie Moret spoke to the crazy times we live in. She gave tips on learning to roll with life and build up resilience, so you won’t be buffeted - [Becoming Who You Were Meant To Be](https://mooncircles.com/becoming-who-you-were-meant-to-be/) - According to astrology tradition, you were born under a special star of destiny. It will take 26,000 years for your birthday's unique pattern of stars to repeat itself in the heavens. The secret fate encoded in your chart is a sign that, as the Jungian thinker James Hillman said, "We are each born called." Imprinted - [What will this eclipse mean for you?](https://mooncircles.com/what-will-this-eclipse-mean-for-you/) - I write about eclipses a lot. They’re an astrological passion of mine, because I’ve seen their dramatic cycles play out in my life, the lives of those close to me, and the lives of my clients. I’ve delineated eclipses moving through the houses of the horoscope, eclipses in aspect to natal planets, and written about - [Sagittarius solar eclipse: What's your burning desire?](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-solar-eclipse-whats-your-burning-desire/) - I just deleted my profile on an online matchmaking site. Ninety dollars down the drain! The endless parade of unappealing men and clever scammers was just too much for me. I realized I’d fallen prey to a “cat-fishing” scheme after communicating with one of these fakers for an entire week. There must be a better - [Taurus/Scorpio eclipse: A turning point in your story?](https://mooncircles.com/the-taurus-scorpio-eclipse-the-turning-point-in-the-story/) - Eclipses are symbols of awakening, and the first one in a new pair of signs always gets our attention. New ground is broken. New challenges emerge. For a full, 29-year Saturn cycle, a small, empty lot at the end of our street was the site of a flourishing community garden. There was usually a long - [Taurus full moon eclipse: life springs eternal](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-eclipse-life-springs-eternal/) - Visible across the North American continent in the predawn hours on Friday, this Blood Moon will be the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century, at its peak, covering 97 % of the Moon. From the west coast, you can start watching at 11:00 pm on Thursday. But what will it mean for you? In - [3 upcoming sky events you should know about](https://mooncircles.com/3-upcoming-sky-events-you-should-know-about/) - December 2021 is busy with celestial potential. How to take advantage? Select which transit(s) call to you and get on their wavelength now. At its birth astrology was not about prediction. It was about collaboration. It was designed to increase people's abundance and happiness by teaching them how to harmonize with the Greater-than-Human Forces within - [Underworld Surrenders for the Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/underworld-surrenders-for-the-scorpio-new-moon/) - Scorpio draws us into the mystery of the underworld. Here Isis and Ishtar descend. Persephone savors her pomegranates. Cerridwen stirs her cauldron. The snake goddesses respect Scorpio’s powers of transformation and its gifts of wisdom. They understand that underworld empowerments usually come with a price. Yet the reward is always greater wealth. Give a little, - [Scorpio New Moon: Meeting Your Spirit Guide](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-meeting-your-spirit-guide/) - The Scorpio New Moon arrives during the cross-quarter holiday honoring the dead and the dearth of the coming winter. From October 31 through November 7, when the Sun reaches the middle degree of Scorpio, we in the Northern Hemisphere reach the midpoint between fall and winter. Christians call it All Soul's Day; for children, it’s - [Scorpio New Moon: Digging for Buried Treasure](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-digging-for-buried-treasure/) - You’re swimming along the cold, dark bottom of a river, fingers probing the mud, when suddenly you feel something hard and metallic. After carefully prying it loose, you rise to the surface with the bronze head of an ancient Hindu god, liberated from his watery grave after twelve centuries! This is just what’s been happening - [2021's Saturn/Uranus square: the Shattered Mirror](https://mooncircles.com/2021s-saturn-uranus-square-the-shattered-mirror/) - World transits are long in the making and slow to unravel. Astrologically we’re not done with 2020 yet; the orb of its unprecedented three conjunctions stretches throughout the year.* However, the defining influence of 2021 is this one: the Saturn/Uranus square. A new world dawned in 2020. The planets now battling to define this new - [The Saturn/Uranus Impossible Dream Challenge: Act 2](https://mooncircles.com/my-saturn-uranus-impossible-dream-challenge-act-2/) - The Saturn/Uranus square is exact three times in 2021, giving us a long interval in which to make magic: from February 17, June 14/15, to December 23/24 To my “Crane Gang,” here comes part two of your Saturn/Uranus Impossible Dream ritual! In the glow after my first covid shot, the car in front of - [Aries Full Moon: Who's the Fairest of All?](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-whos-the-fairest-of-all/) - In the Greek myth of Eris, this warrior goddess was not invited to a wedding on Mt. Olympus, due to her reputation as a troublemaker. But she turned up anyway – bearing a golden apple inscribed, “To the Fairest One.” Hera, Athena and Aphrodite began quarreling about which one of them deserved it. It fell to - [Ritual: Aries Libra Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aries-libra-full-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your armsabove your head. Let your palms face each other and curve slightly - [Aries Full Moon: Sharks](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-aries-sharks/) - In the film "Up in the Air," George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, whose career takes him all over the country to fire employees for companies that are downsizing. Ryan moves through life quickly, precisely, and without hesitation. He wields the machete of professional job termination with efficiency and (at least superficial) kindness, and once he - [Libra New Moon: Go Gently](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-go-gently/) - Like a lot of driven types, I move through the world a bit roughly. Whether along my career path or on a trip to the supermarket, I focus on the destination and pay scant attention to the journey itself. Down to the smallest gestures, my approach is instinctively direct and graceless. I’m hard on the - [Libra New Moon: A Call to Action](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-a-call-to-action/) - In two talks last month on climate change, Pope Francis called on us to heed the cry of the earth and pledge meaningful sacrifices for the planet’s sake. “There must be harmony between men and women and the environment,” asserted the pontiff. “We are not enemies; we are not indifferent. We are part of this - [Pisces Full Moon: When Things Fall Apart](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-when-things-fall-apart/) - In the miserably hot summer of 1963, when I turned eight, my next-door-neighbor Virginia took care of me while Mom was in the hospital, battling cancer. I adored Virginia, and spent as much time at her house as my own, hanging out and helping her with chores. That year, transiting Neptune was squaring my Midheaven - [Equinox: The Quiet Power of the Center](https://mooncircles.com/equinox-quiet-power-scales/) - On September 22, it’s Equinox. When the Sun enters Libra, we reach one of the year's two balance points, when the hours for day and night are equal. Soon this special balance will tip, with night lengthening in the Northern Hemisphere and contracting in the Southern. Around the world and here in the US, it's - [Virgo New Moon: Creatures of Habit](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-creatures-of-habit/) - From raging hurricanes and flooding in the Gulf Coast to out-of-control fires in Lake Tahoe’s primeval forests, each day brings more dire warnings from Mother Nature. Despair is rampant. What to do? We can raise our voices about climate change and support alternatives to fossil fuels, but how do we break the patterns that got - [Leo New Moon: Creativity & the Grateful Flow](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-creativity-the-grateful-flow/) - Creativity is a quality that most astrologers associate with Leo, the sign of this New Moon, and with its ruler, the Sun. Absolutely everyone is creative, with a mad desire to connect with a powerful and loving Source, although many people deny that they’re creative at all. But if you ask them to remember a - [Aquarius Full Moon: Conga Line](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-aquarius-conga-line/) - Modern astrology offers contradictory messages about Aquarius, the sign of this Full Moon: Aquarius symbolizes weirdness, iconoclasm, and innovation, but also friendship and membership in groups. So which is it? Well, I guess it’s both, really. Aquarius signals sensitivity to the collective, whether it’s because you feel an affinity for it or something a bit - [Aquarius Full Moon: Above & Beyond](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-above-beyond/) - Steve Chu went the extra mile… Late one Thursday afternoon, Vermont-based Brandon Jones emailed the restaurant Ekiben in Baltimore, MD, requesting their recipe for tempura broccoli. He wanted to make his mother-in-law’s favorite dish, so she could have it one last time before succumbing to the final stages of lung cancer. But when co-owner Steve - [Calling in the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/call-and-response-the-leo-new-moon/) - 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. If you rarely play your cello, don’t expect a starring role in the - [Leo New Moon: Seeds of Love](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-seeds-of-love/) - If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.” — Cher Recently I watched a series on Netflix called Love is Blind. In it, young couples get to know each other, sight unseen. Some fall in love as they forge an emotional bond prior to physically meeting. As - [Leo New Moon: The Grateful Flow](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-the-grateful-flow/) - Creativity is a quality that most astrologers associate with Leo, the sign of this New Moon, and with its ruler, the Sun. Absolutely everyone is creative, with a mad desire to connect with a powerful and loving Source, although many people deny that they’re creative at all. But if you ask them to remember a - [Floating in the Ocean of the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/floating-in-the-ocean-of-the-moon-2/) - This ocean meditation is a lovely way to drop into Friday's Full Moon. It takes just a few minutes to travel far--because your imagination is an amazing resource. Visualizations are an easy way to mingle with the subtle energies of the invisible world. This is a nice meditation to do while drifting off to sleep - [Gathering Ritual for the Dog Days of Summer](https://mooncircles.com/gathering-ritual-for-the-dog-days-of-summer/) - Welcome to the dog days of summer! Although canines do need to stay extra cool and hydrated at this languid time of year, the phrase actually refers to the rising of Sirius, the “Dog Star.” The star system Sirius (said to have uncanny ties to Earth) disappears below the horizon in the spring. Then it - [Your Cancer Superpowers: Sensitivity & Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/your-cancer-superpowers-sensitivity-intuition/) - The new moon in Cancer--a receptive water sign--invites us to be grateful for our sensitivity, sourced in the nervous system and the porous watery realm of our emotions. Among sensitivity's many gifts is the ability to read and understand--without words--the others in our environment. Sleep is important to this capacity. Among the surprising consequences of - [Cancer New Moon: Coming Home](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-coming-home/) - The first time California-based Jeannine Schrantz set foot on African soil, she knew she had come home. Her partner, Alan, had convinced her to take a month-long road trip between Uganda and Rwanda in Dec. of 2009. “He told me [Africa] would capture my soul – and he was so right,” she shared in a - [Call and Response: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/call-response-cancer-new-moon-2/) - New Moons are potent times to forge alliances with the gods. Visit the invisible world. Bow and open yourself to their touch. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing with these archetypes for thousands of years. When you call out to the zodiac, the gods do respond! Water was Cancer’s first language. As a child, - [Moonskills 101: Reading Feelings](https://mooncircles.com/moonskills-101-reading-feelings/) - Among the many odd scenes in Lawrence Wright’s Scientology expose was Tom Cruise sitting in a Home Depot parking lot doing “tone drills” designed to develop his capacity for intuiting the emotional states of random people leaving the store. I don’t know how this exercise fits into Scientology doctrine, but given his Cancer Sun sign, - [Capricorn Full Moon: Midyear Resolutions](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-midyear-resolutions/) - On the first day of this year, I swore I would make no resolutions beyond trying to be a kinder and better version of myself. I lied. Well, that’s not exactly true; I was sincere, actually. But old habits die hard, and I didn’t stick to that no-resolution resolution. I soon returned, like a swallow - [Capricorn Full Moon: Grit and Glamour](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-grit-and-glamour/) - Since Downton Abbey recently arrived on Netflix, I’ve been lost in early 20th Century England. Yes, I’m a bit late to the party – the saga of a highbrow household and its hardworking servants originally debuted in 2011 – but the sumptuous, superbly-written series does serve as an apt reflection of the Sun’s shift into - [Body Meets Solar Eclipse](https://mooncircles.com/body-meets-eclipse-part-two/) - Your body has already been inside the eclipse zone for a couple weeks. Eclipses arrive in two's (solar and lunar). Earlier this month, the lunar eclipse jittered the atmosphere; now it finishes with the solar. Given the one-to-three-week orb of each lunation, I find it hard to tell--energetically--which is which. Solar or lunar, we're more - [How will this Ring of Fire Eclipse affect you?](https://mooncircles.com/how-will-the-ring-of-fire-eclipse-affect-you/) - A "ring of fire eclipse" (also known as an "annular eclipse") occurs when the new moon is furthest away from us in her elliptical orbit. At the last two full moons her orbit brought her closer to us, creating super full moons. But that means at the new moons two weeks later, she's further - [Gemini New Moon Eclipse: Ripe for Revelations](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-eclipse-ripe-for-revelations/) - What’s up with the sudden resurgence of interest in UFOs? Yes, of course it’s connected to the recent release of a long-awaited government assessment of the mysterious flying objects. But why now? The timing is interesting, as it falls not long after the dawn of the Age of Aquarius at the Dec. 21 Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. - [Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse: I'm a Stranger Here Myself](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-lunar-eclipse-a-stranger-here-myself/) - This is one of my favorite pieces from my archives, written at the June 4, 2012 Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius. You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back - [It's the Super Flower Wesak Blood Moon](https://mooncircles.com/its-the-super-flower-wesak-blood-moon/) - It's the Super Flower Wesak Blood Moon! The May full moon is traditionally called the "Flower Moon" because of the abundance of flowers in gardens this month. It's also celebrated around the world as "Wesak," the Buddha's birthday. This year the May's full moon will also pass through Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse, - [Wesak: One with Wild and Pure Moonlight](https://mooncircles.com/vesak-becoming-one-wild-pure-moonlight/) - May’s Full Moon annually brings the festival of Wesak (or Vesak). Known as the “Buddha’s Birthday,” this centuries-old festival honors the three best moments in Buddha’s life: birth, enlightenment, and death. More broadly, we celebrate the very idea of enlightenment—how regularly it is born, lives, and dies in us. We awaken to our spiritual potentials, - [Sagittarius Full Moon Eclipse: Keep Your Eye on the Prize](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-eclipse-keep-your-eye-on-the-prize/) - The 1896 Quadricycle was Henry Ford’s first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile. He patched together an iron frame, a leather belt, a chain drive, a buggy seat and a primitive ignition system. The result was sketchy, but it ran! Ford sold the Quadricycle for $200, then used the money to build his second car - [Can’t relate to your Venus? This is for you!](https://mooncircles.com/cant-relate-to-your-venus-this-is-for-you/) - Venus isn’t waiting on a cloud, fingers crossed, hoping we'll find her in an astrology chart. She's alive--hard-wired--inside each and every one of us. - [Taurus New Moon: The Bottom Line](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-the-bottom-line/) - If you won the lottery, what would you do? Most would go on a spending spree, and soon the money would be gone. (Studies have found that bankruptcy rates soar for lottery winners three to five years after their win.) But Rachel Lapierre did something quite different with her 2018 lottery proceeds. The Canadian nurse - [Scorpio Full Moon: Stories of Magic](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-stories-of-magic/) - At one long ago Taurus New Moon, ever hopeful for increased prosperity and other cosmic bonbons, I decided to perform the Venus Santeria ritual that Dana recommended. It sounded so simple - a piece of bread, a smallish candle, a nickel, a body of running water - but it took me the better part of - [Scorpio Full Moon: Pleasure and Pain](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-pleasure-and-pain/) - When my mother died in the spring of 2005, I was inconsolable. My pain was an ocean too deep to be fathomed. Not only was I grieving the person I loved most in the world, but I was overwhelmed by my father’s pain and the hurtful ways he was expressing it. Then one day our - [Scorpio Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse: Snake in the Grass, Dragon in the Heart](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moonlunar-eclipse-snake-in-the-grass-dragon-in-the-heart/) - 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 - [Aries New Moon: Getting Fired Up!](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-getting-fired-up/) - Before Michael Beckwith became a minister and founded the Agape International Spiritual Center, he was a young man with a lot of potential who’d lost his way. The turning point came when he got caught dealing marijuana and was thrown in jail. Beckwith vowed to devote his life to God if he was set free. - [The Underworld Journey: When Venus is Combust](https://mooncircles.com/what-happens-when-venus-is-combust/) - “Combust” means the planet Venus literally disappears—overwhelmed by the light of the Sun. Venus enters the underworld at this time in order to transform. - [Libra Full Moon: What's Closest to You](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-whats-closest-to-you/) - A key feng shui maxim is: Whatever is in closest proximity to you has the most impact on you. In other words, what’s happening within your living or work space is a reflection of where you’re at in your life. This includes not only the structure and what’s in it, but the people and animals - [Your birth phase: The Disseminating Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-disseminating/) - This is a lovely Moon! Full disclosure: I was born under this Moon too. You and I were designed to inform and inspire other people. On the days we get to share what we know, it’s a joy to leap out of bed. We’re natural teachers. This also means we’re perpetual students. Disseminaters are - [Your birth phase: The First Quarter](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-first-quarter/) - You’re a doer. You like to make things happen. Your mind is quick and your body is eager to move. You’re at your best when you can strike out in new directions, away from the past. First Quarter babies erect the scaffolding for the rest of our futures. I always remember what my astrology - [your birth phase: The Balsamic Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-balsamic/) - Here’s one thing I’ve observed about your Moon tribe: You rarely understand just how creative and intuitive you are. You think that your way of being and processing is normal, that everyone is wired this way. But you’re special. Your intuitive gifts are stronger than most. You often have a sense of future trends—which - [Your birth phase: The Last Quarter](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-last-quarter/) - You’re ahead of your time. The future speaks through your Moon tribe. You’re visionary, revolutionary, and deeply thoughtful—which means you’re frequently frustrated with the way things are. That’s the problem with being ahead of your time. You have to somehow come to terms with the turgid pace at which reality actually changes. You may - [Your birth phase: The Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-full-moon/) - It’s said that obstetric nurses around the world know to prepare for a busy night whenever the Moon is full, as it often sends pregnant women into labor. If this were actually true, a lot of us would share your birth Moon. But it’s not. Empirical studies regularly confirm that there’s little correlation between - [Your birth phase: The Gibbous Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-gibbous/) - You’re a thinker. That broad swath of sunlight reflected on the Gibbous Moon signifies the importance of light—emblem for conscious awareness—to your journey. You have a fine analytical mind, likely sharpened by the whetstone of a few rough times in childhood. But difficult experiences got you thinking. And that’s how your mind was well - [Your birth phase: The Waxing Crescent](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-crescent/) - On your first day of life, a Crescent Moon blessed you. This Moon is so fertile and alluring, humans have been carving it into stone walls, painting it on sacred bowls, crowning their deities with it, stamping it onto coins, sewing it on their flags, and in the early twentieth century, they posed for - [Your birth phase: The New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/your-birth-moon-phase-new-moon/) - You were born when the Moon was New. Everybody is unique—but you’re exceptionally so. You belong to the Moon’s tribe of adventurers, explorers and visionaries. Your project this lifetime is to create the one spot in the world where you belong, which is likely a place where nobody has ever stood before. I love - [2021’s Impossible Dream Challenge: Make Saturn & Uranus work for you!](https://mooncircles.com/2021s-impossible-dream-challenge-make-saturn-uranus-work-for-you/) - Alice laughed. “There's no use trying,” she said. “One can't believe impossible things.” ”I daresay you haven't had much practice,” said the White Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking - [The Jupiter/Saturn conjunction still mingles inside you!](https://mooncircles.com/the-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-still-mingles-inside-you/) - Since ancient times it was noticed, whenever Jupiter and Saturn were conjunct—a sky show occurring every 20-years—the world turns a page. Collectively we start a new chapter. With the 2020 J/S conjunction, at its closest on Solstice last December, we could say humanity opened a whole new book. We began a new 200-year cycle. - [Jupiter & Saturn: Your Success Planets for 2021](https://mooncircles.com/jupiter-saturn-your-success-planets-for-2021/) - In my first five years as an astrologer, I hadn’t seen enough people or charts to know much. When it came to current influences, I relied heavily on two simple factors. I talked with clients about the two areas of life—or houses—where lucky Jupiter and hard-working Saturn were transiting in their charts. Both planets - [Pisces Meditation: Closing the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-meditation-closing-the-circle/) - The circle - a timeless image used in Tibetan mandalas, Native American medicine wheels, and astrology - conveys the ever-turning wheel of life. And indeed, the Pisces New Moon occurs just two weeks before the Spring Equinox. On March 19th, the Sun will slip out of Pisces and into 0 degrees Aries, signaling the start - [Let the Dark Moon Make You New](https://mooncircles.com/its-the-dark-moon-that-makes-you-new/) - The Moon draws time on the sky, charting the pulsations of Shakti or Nature, the divine feminine energy that flows through us and IS us. For a life lived in tune with the Moon, this sensuous rhythm is second nature. For a life lived out of tune, the best time to re-synchronize yourself is during - [Pisces New Moon: Sadness and Wonder](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-sadness-and-wonder/) - In the thought-provoking new film Nomadland, someone refers to people like Fern, the character played by Frances McDormand, as homeless. “Not homeless,” she counters, “just houseless. It’s not the same thing.” Ousted from her long-time home after the company town she lived in went belly-up, the scrappy widow has taken to the road in her - [Quick Guide to the Houses](https://mooncircles.com/quick-guide-to-the-houses/) - First House: Personality, physical body, beginnings. Includes the Ascendant and rules physical appearance, the image you project to others, your general outlook on life, how you start things; may describe your role in your family system, often guides your first impression of immediate environment. Second House: Money and personal finances, sense of self-worth and basic - [Full Moon in Virgo: Meaningful Habits](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-virgo-meaningful-habits/) - The February 27, 2021 Full Moon is in Virgo, the sign associated with those routines that comprise most of our days— working, running errands, preparing meals—as well as the habits we form through repetition of those routines. For the most part, we regard these habits and routines as entirely separate from our spiritual lives; this - [Virgo Full Moon: Get Down with the Material World](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-get-down-with-the-material-world/) - Recently I decided to clean all my light fixtures. In some cases, this had not been done in ten years. It’s amazing how much filth can accumulate in that length of time – and it definitely hadn’t been doing my feng shui any favors! The taking-down-and-cleaning part was easy, but when it came time to - [Aquarius New Moon: Renewed Hope](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-renewed-hope/) - In early Feb. 1962, Hindu astrologers braced for a three-day period during which the earth would be “bathed in the blood of thousands of kings.” At the same time in Britain, others were also awaiting disaster, believing the earth’s poles would flip and 75 percent of the world’s population would die. Why such dire prognostications? - [2020's Jupiter/Saturn conjunction: 5 Takeaways](https://mooncircles.com/2020s-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-5-takeaways/) - Among astrologers 2020 will be known as the year of 3 world-changing conjunctions--Saturn/Pluto, Jupiter/Pluto, and the last, occurring on December 21, 2020, the conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn at zero Aquarius. Here are 5 things to know about this wonderful celestial event: 1. Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions are sociopolitical game changers. For thousands of years, astrologers - [Meet the Sky Mother Tonight](https://mooncircles.com/meet-sky-mother-tonight/) - The dark New Moon nights are the best in the month for sky gazing -- enjoy! Aquarius is a sky oriented sign. In Egyptian mythology, the sky was a woman, Nut. Her body was imaged as the starry firmament bent lovingly and protectively over earth. Nut was called The Great Deep, The Starry One, The - [Leo Full Moon: Get Creative](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-get-creative/) - I’ve been loving all the hilarious Bernie memes flooding Facebook since the Inauguration. A bundled-up Bernie on the Dating Game, perched on the rings of Saturn, hanging with Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was an unexpectedly creative, slightly giddy reaction to our renewed hope for a better world. Over the last four years, hope has - [Full Moon in Leo: Follow the Sun](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-leo-follow-the-sun/) - The Full Moon in warm, open-hearted, playful Leo (Jan. 28, 2021, 11:16 am PST) stands in kittenish contrast to the Sun in Aquarius’ cooler, Saturn-ruled style. Ruled by the Sun, Leo seems custom-made to shine brightly and joyfully. But while I was born with the Sun in this extravagant sign, I’m something of a failed - [It's your second chance for Jupiter/Pluto magic!](https://mooncircles.com/its-your-second-chance-for-jupiter-pluto-magic/) - Jupiter/Pluto conjunctions, occurring every 12 years, are super transformative, often coinciding with major turning points: -technological breakthroughs, wild political shifts, viral pandemics, and their cures. This aspect perfects on April 4, June 29, and November 12 this year—yet it’s active throughout 2020. Shortly after I first wrote about this potent & explosive conjunction, someone emailed: - [Transformed? Your Venus retrograde report card](https://mooncircles.com/transformed-your-venus-retrograde-report-card/) - If you plow through a yoga class—moving from pose to pose—without pausing to notice the effect of each shape—you miss the divine conversation occurring inside you. It’s the same with astrology. If you drive from transit to transit—without stopping to observe the effect of these encounters—you miss the celestial conversations taking place within. Astrologers rarely - [Capricorn New Moon: Rise to the Challenge](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-rise-to-the-challenge/) - Is it possible to transcend difficult transits? In his article in the April/May 2019 issue of The Mountain Astrologer, “A Mystic Looks at Astrology,” Ray Grasse posed that question to occultist Shelly Trimmer. Trimmer replied with an anecdote about his teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda, renowned yogi and founder of Self Realization Fellowship. It seems that Yogananda’s - [Mastering Your Guilt, Self Doubt, and Fear](https://mooncircles.com/mastering-guilt-self-doubt-fear/) - It’s glorious to witness the power of a planet in its own sign, as is the case with Saturn in Capricorn. He’s on everyone’s mind these days. He’s in your fresh desire to be more focused, organized, and effective. He’s the newly fierce cultural call for accountability in positions of power. Saturn-in-Capricorn is inspiring the - [A magical offering for 2020's final Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/a-magical-offering-for-2020s-final-full-moon/) - At this extra moony moment--the year's only Full Moon ruled by the Moon--we find ourselves in an ultra-liminal space. We are poised between the years. 2020 is ending--2021 begins. Much of 2020's struggle is behind us. New possibilities are ahead. If you'd like to cook up a little authentic moon magic on this night, you - [Cancer Full Moon: The Awakened Heart](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-awakened-heart-3/) - Some years ago, I discovered that I had to have a tooth pulled. Big deal, right? Yet I was astonished at the intensity of my reaction. Most nights I found myself awake at 3:00 a.m., tormented by thoughts of mortality. My poor old tooth prompted fears that growing older would mean a future in which - [Cancer Full Moon: All in the Family](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-all-in-the-family/) - At the holiday season, we all crave the comfort of family around us – as difficult as that may be this year while the pandemic rages on. But some people naturally create family all year ’round. Christie Purviance, for example, is known for treating her patients like loved ones. The Houston-area ICU nurse regularly works - [Sagittarius Solar Eclipse: Changing Direction](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-solar-eclipse-changing-direction/) - What would you do if you found a live koala nestled in the branches of your Christmas tree? When she first spotted the adorable cub, Amanda McCormick of southern Australia couldn’t believe her eyes. But the special visitor quickly brought a big smile to McCormick’s face. And luckily for us, she took pictures before calling - [Gemini Full Moon Eclipse: Cultivating Curiosity](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-eclipse-cultivating-curiosity/) - Last night my cousins and I held our Thanksgiving gathering over Zoom. The Nevada City contingent kept cutting in and out, but we made the best of it, thankful to see one another again after an entire year. For so many of us, the Internet has become a lifeline. Yet it’s also been unreliable lately, - [Gemini Lunar Eclipse: Beyond Words](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-lunar-eclipse-beyond-words/) - In Gemini, the Moon finds comfort in language - in the reassuring hum of parents' voices down the hall as their children fall asleep; in the soothing mantra, the dog's welcoming bark, delighted laughter, a favorite poem. Even, when the time comes, in the sensitive eulogy for a loved one, delivered by someone with keen - [Scorpio New Moon: Changing Times](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-changing-times/) - Come gather ’round, people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin’, then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin’ There are times - [3 Rituals for this Rare Halloween Blue Moon](https://mooncircles.com/3-rituals-for-this-rare-halloween-blue-moon/) - Despite the cliche, full moons on Halloween night are relatively rare. They occur once every 19 years or so. Blue moons (typically defined as the second full moon in a calendar month) are more common, occurring every 2 and a half years, but on a Halloween night--well, that hasn't happened since 1944. Yet to be - [A Simple Samhain Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/a-simple-samhain-ritual/) - The veil between the worlds is at its thinnest during Samhain (October 31 to November 7), and it's an appropriate time to contact ancestors, release what's unnecessary, and prepare for the birth at Yule. Samhain is a "Sabbat," one of the special days of power on the wheel of the year. Perform the ritual on - [Full Moon in Taurus: The Center of You](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-taurus-the-center-of-you/) - Each time we visit my husband's native New Zealand, I spend the first five days or so completely gobsmacked by the physical beauty of the place, feeling emotionally massaged by the gentle and courteous manner of its people. And the cows! New Zealand’s sheep get all the press, but I’ve never seen so many cows - [Taurus Full Moon: Ancestral Magic](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-ancestral-magic/) - In her wonderful book, Jambalayah, Yeye Luisah Teish tells of a strange event that happened near the end of 1982. She was alone, bedridden with a severe upper respiratory disorder. Between the congestion, high fever and sore muscles, she was on death’s door and could not muster the energy to do anything about it. She - [Meditation to connect with your spirit guide](https://mooncircles.com/connect-spirit-guide/) - From October 31 through November 7 (when the Sun reaches the middle degree of Scorpio), Northern Hemisphere cultures have variously marked this midpoint between fall and winter. Christians call it All Soul's Day; for children, it’s Halloween; for pagans, it’s Samhain (pronounced “sow-wane”). With Pluto--the planet of death and rebirth--as its modern ruler, Scorpio guides - [Dana's Simple Samhain Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/simple-samhain-ritual-2/) - The veil between the worlds is at its thinnest during Samhain (October 31 to November 7), and it's an appropriate time to contact ancestors, release what's unnecessary, and prepare for the birth at Yule. Samhain is a "Sabbat," one of the special days of power on the wheel of the year. Perform the ritual on - [Purge. Burn. Release.](https://mooncircles.com/purge-burn-release/) - Tonight the Moon is full in earthy Taurus, opposite the Sun in mysterious Scorpio. What Moon magic emerges when transformation meets sensuality and pleasure? Perhaps you'll find a mysterious power in something routine and everyday—or maybe you'll achieve a new level of comfort with a strange situation. It’s a propitious moment to seek transformation. The - [Libra New Moon: Judge Not](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-judge-not/) - Years ago, a prominent spiritual leader shared an intriguing incident that impacted her life. In the May 2020 issue of Science of Mind, Rev. David Ault recalled her story of attending her first high-profile political fundraiser. She said she suspected she’d been invited because she’d been strongly critical of certain elected officials. Anxious to make - [Aries Full Moon: Stoking the Fire](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-stoking-the-fire/) - Some stars burn more brightly than others; Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of them. She mightily stoked the fires of justice, leaving a legacy we’d all do well to emulate. In the wake of her recent passing, Marianne Williamson wrote: “As sorry as I am that she’s gone, for all the obvious reasons, I think - [Virgo New Moon: How Can I Help?](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-how-can-i-help/) - At this New Moon, we find ourselves squarely halfway between eclipse seasons. This Virgo New Moon forms a critical square aspect to the upcoming Dec. 14, 2020 Solar Eclipse point at 23 deg. of Sagittarius. Accordingly, there is crisis in the air. Not only does this New Moon's resonate with the coming eclipses in November - [Virgo New Moon: Figuring it Out](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-figuring-it-out/) - Have faith in one another... We are living through extremely chaotic times. As Thomas Paine said just prior to the American Revolution – another very volatile period – “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Yet great challenges can open the door to positive change, if only we can summon the courage to do - [Pisces Full Moon: Take a Time-Out](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-take-a-time-out/) - I’d paddled out far into the tranquil bay on that warm summer afternoon. Close enough that my parents could still see me, but far enough away that I was blissfully alone. With an inflatable device around my waist keeping me afloat, I surrendered to the salty green water. Seagulls were calling overhead, and my parents - [Pisces Full Moon: Faith, Reason, and the Truth](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-pisces-faith-reason-truth/) - Each Full Moon presents us with an apparent dichotomy between the sign occupied by the Sun, and the opposite sign, occupied by the Moon. When we take a closer look, we realize that while these two archetypes may approach a situation from opposite directions, they’re at least moving toward a common center. The dichotomy at - [Leo New Moon: A Time for Heroism](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-a-time-for-heroism/) - It was July 21, 1944, a blustery day at Mitchell Field, Long Island. As gale-force winds buffeted the plane he was in, Dad’s heart raced. He knew it was not safe to jump. But his commanding officer was determined to impress a visiting general. So the signal was given. The paratroopers summoned their courage and - [Aquarius Full Moon: Alone, Together](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-alone-together/) - Growing up as part of a big, loud, extended family, I spent a lot of time alone in my bedroom, reading, writing, or playing my guitar. I savored my privacy and the relative quiet of my little sanctuary. But what made it possible for me to enjoy my time alone was knowing that just outside - [Aquarius Full Moon: Good Trouble](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-good-trouble/) - Let freedom ring! Just before his death on July 17, Rep. John Lewis insisted on visiting Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC. “I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on,” said the civil rights leader and congressman in a - [The Deeper Meanings of COVID-19](https://mooncircles.com/the-deeper-meanings-of-covid-19/) - Woe to the city under Her frown. She’s a pit trap for the headstrong. The evil and proud will bend under Her weight. * Big calamities—plagues, locusts, famines, floods—were long ago understood as messages from the gods. Today we might call this an event’s "spiritual message" or "deeper meaning." The way the ancients made sense - [Cancer New Moon: Facing Facts](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-facing-facts/) - What would you do if someone you trusted implicitly, who’d been your angel for many years, suddenly became your devil? That’s what astrologer and TV personality Walter Mercado had to deal with, when his long-time manager stole his name, likeness and ability to earn a living – sparking a six year court battle in which - [Capricorn Lunar Eclipse: What is true patriotism?](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-lunar-eclipse-what-is-true-patriotism/) - What does it mean to be a patriot? The term commonly signifies a person who loves his or her country enough to support and defend it. We tend to think of the American colonists who, in 1773, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor, precipitating the bloody American Revolution not long after as they - [Lunar Eclipses and Your Relationships](https://mooncircles.com/lunar-eclipses-and-your-relationships/) - Certainly, eclipses falling in your 7th house (or in aspect to natal Venus, planets in your 7th house, or the planet that rules your 7th house) are signals that your relationship world is likely to be rocked by change. But all lunar eclipses, regardless of which houses they fall in, represent critical moments in evaluating - [Moon Ritual to Make Yourself Whole Again](https://mooncircles.com/moon-ritual-to-make-yourself-whole-again/) - 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 - [Making 2020's Jupiter/Pluto Superpowers Work for You](https://mooncircles.com/making-2020s-jupiter-pluto-superpowers-work-for-you/) - “Explosion” is the energy signature of Jupiter & Pluto. How do you put this power to work? The same way the first astrologers did it, with a ritual of sympathetic magic. - [The Wheel Turns: Solstice New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/wheel-turns-solstice-new-moon/) - Recognition of the Solstice is in our genetic code. Deep in our cells we know what to do. In the North, all that is nurtured by the Sun is energized. It’s time to bang the pots and celebrate the King, our Sun. Our bodies want to dance. Our arms want to open and receive its - [Cancer New Moon: The Mother of All Eclipses](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-the-mother-of-all-eclipses/) - Kimberly Baskett Gunter was terrified. It was the third time her two-month-old daughter had nearly choked to death, yet doctors still couldn’t find anything wrong with her. This time, the new mother demanded to see every specialist in the hospital. And a surgeon discovered that the baby had a serious heart condition and needed a - [Sagittarius Full Moon Eclipse: A Tipping Point](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-eclipse-a-tipping-point/) - Rioting in the streets. Cop cars torched. Protests in at least 140 cities. After the horrifying May 25 killing of George Floyd by police, frustrations already stretched to the breaking point during Covid-19 lock-downs could no longer be contained. And around the world, people are standing in solidarity with those who have been oppressed for - [What will you see in this lunar eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/what-will-you-see-in-this-lunar-eclipse/) - Here is what happens during a lunar eclipse: the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon, blocking it from reflecting the Sun’s light. How do you like that? Here’s the little Moon, furiously trying to find some light to bounce around, only to find there’s a big old ball of dirt in her way. Similarly, - [2020’s Mind-Blowing Jupiter/Pluto Conjunction: Shadow & Light](https://mooncircles.com/2020s-mind-blowing-jupiter-pluto-conjunction-shadow-light/) - Seven of the ten deadliest pandemics in history erupted during Jupiter/Pluto transits—just like the conjunction that peaks this year in April, June, and November. - [Gemini New Moon: Seeking the Truth](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-seeking-the-truth/) - Lately we seem to be living in a parallel universe. Fact or fiction? Wisdom or delusion? When reality is as distorted as a fun-house mirror and people are at each other’s throats, it’s hard to say for sure. As the specter of death and financial ruin continue to loom, do we stay locked down or - [Your Gemini Ink Blot Test](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-ink-blot-test/) - When you connect the dots, it's easy to see the fraternal spirit of Gemini in its stars. Here are the twins, Castor and Pollux, holding hands, and engaged in lively conversation for all eternity. Yet this month you can't lie back and watch this pair stroll across the night sky. The Sun is in Gemini. - [When your Venus is in Aries](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-aries/) - Maybe you like a challenge. Maybe you like to play hard to get. Is there a part of you that oves an adrenaline rush? - [When your Venus is in Taurus](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-taurus/) - Your Venus wants to explore and embody deep peace. She desires equanimity. She wants to stretch out and savor the delights of this world. - [When your Venus is in Gemini](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-gemini/) - It's true, Gemini is a restless sign. It finds it hard to settle down. But your Gemini Venus is one of my favorite placements for the Goddess. Here's why. - [When your Venus is in Cancer](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-cancer/) - Below is an excerpt from the findings of my Venus research (more info about that here): What turns me on? Knowing that someone wants my company… Of course they’d also have to know I am ultra sensitive, especially my breasts.–GV I don’t know how I can stop men from turning me into their caretaker/mother - [When your Venus is in Leo](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-leo/) - Venus in Leo is generous, sunny, radiant. She says "I want to be in charge," but in a warm and friendly way. She likes a good party and loves to perform. - [When your Venus is in Virgo](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-virgo/) - Below is an excerpt from the findings of my Venus research (more info about that here): My body and I are very shy, very reserved, and hard to please. –AZ Please don’t treat me like a machine—pull this lever, push that button, get the desired response. Treat me like the material/matrix/matter for a deeply - [When your Venus is in Libra](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-libra/) - There’s a delicacy with your Venus in Libra. She’s refined, artistic, sophisticated, with a nose for fine things and a well-developed sense of aesthetics. - [When your Venus is in Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-sagittarius/) - She's fearless. She loves travel and being in nature. She loves truth as much as she loves her freedom, which is why she finds commitment phobic partners. - [When your Venus is in Capricorn](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-capricorn/) - What surprised me about Venus in Capricorn was her love for conventional girly things, like bubble baths, going to the spa, shopping for fun clothes. - [When your Venus is in Pisces](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-pisces/) - Says Venus in Pisces, "The nicest compliment I’ve gotten from a sexual partner? I was told I have I have a “soul” when I make love." Venus is exalted here. - [When your Venus is in Aquarius](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-aquarius/) - Spiritual people talk about unconditional love as a glorious concept, but in practice, it’s pretty damned hard. Yet your Aquarius Venus knows how to succeed. - [When your Venus is in Scorpio](https://mooncircles.com/when-your-venus-is-in-scorpio/) - It takes a long time for your Venus to open up. And a long time to let go. But once someone is "off the list" with your Venus, they’re off the list forever. - [Scorpio Full Moon: A Time to Howl](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-a-time-to-howl/) - What do you do when you’re at your wits’ end? You step outside and howl. You howl for a front-line worker who died in a car wreck on her way to work. For your dog that’s about to be put down. For your wedding that had to be cancelled. For your grandma who died of - [It's the perfect time to perform the Santeria Venus Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/its-time-to-perform-your-venus-ritual/) - Every Spring, on an auspicious Friday, I perform the Santeria ritual for Oshun, confident in its magical powers in bringing new pleasures, money and love! - [Taurus New Moon: Oneness with Nature](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-oneness-with-nature/) - Watercolor by Isobel Lillian Gloag The times are urgent. We must slow down.” –African proverb. What are you doing these days to stay relaxed and connected? Lately I’ve been taking afternoon siestas in the garden (when it’s not raining), where I created a sitting area. Stretching out my bare legs in the warm sun, I - [Libra Full Moon: Creative Collaborations](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-creative-collaborations/) - This time of worldwide illness and quarantine is frustrating beyond belief. But it has also proved to be an incubator for creative collaborations – from teenagers shopping for elderly neighbors to people rescuing foster pets at drive-through shelters. And, things can happen quickly when motivation is keen. For instance, manufacturing mastermind James Dyson recently got - [Libra Full Moon: Dispatches from a Small House](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-dispatches-from-a-small-house/) - It was a big adjustment for both of us when my husband retired almost two years ago. I went from having the entire house as my office each weekday, with plenty of quiet time, privacy, and elbow room in the kitchen at lunchtime, to…well, none of that. Perhaps some of you can relate in these - [Aries New Moon: Going Viral](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-going-viral/) - A new season is upon us and all of nature is coming back to life. The March 19 Equinox marks a fresh start. Yet here we are in the midst of a pandemic, trapped in our homes, insecure about our physical and financial well-being. It’s a strange state of affairs, triggered by a “perfect storm” - [Aries Equinox: Faces of Mars](https://mooncircles.com/aries-equinox-faces-of-mars/) - I've been neglecting the garden, and everything would be dead if it weren't for the much-needed rainfall that ended our winter drought last week. Now the lawn, which we let turn brown and dusty until the rains came along and took pity on it, is lush and verdant and keeps my husband busy for at - [Virgo Full Moon: Divinely Prepared for Anything](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-divinely-prepared-for-anything/) - Sometimes it’s hard to know which end is up. We’re living in a time of hype and fear-mongering, especially over the last few weeks with Mercury retrograde in fuzzy-headed Pisces (it has now backtracked briefly into Aquarius, where it turns direct on March 9). The latest virus scare is a good example. Around 100,000 Americans - [Virgo Full Moon: Clean One Drawer](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-clean-one-drawer/) - These days, the world can seem like a dilapidated vehicle with expired registration, careening headlong toward the edge of a cliff. The sheer scope of humanity's troubles is enough to make you want to take to your bed, pull the blankets over your head, and wait for it all to pass. Ideally, of course, we - [Why You Shouldn't Fear the Dark Moon](https://mooncircles.com/why-you-shouldnt-fear-the-dark-moon/) - The dark moon sounds forbidding, but magicians know that nature often hides her best jewels in forbidding places. Discover the many benefits of this moon phase. - [Pisces New Moon: Melt Your Frozen Heart](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-melt-your-frozen-heart/) - Recently I listened to an interview with shaman-elder Agaanagaq (Uncle) Angakkorsuaq from the far north of Greenland. In the Global Ecovillage Network Summit, he said that in the early 60s, his people discovered that an enormous nearby glacier was melting – something unheard of in their history. That was their warning that climate change was - [Leo Full Moon: Find Your Suit of Unconditional Love](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-find-your-suit-of-unconditional-love/) - One afternoon last week while driving down a peaceful boulevard in my neighborhood, I passed a slow-moving car. To my shock, the driver sped up and began aggressively tailgating me – all the way to my house! As I got out of my car, the red-faced woman screamed at me, calling me a danger to - [Aquarius New Moon Sabian Symbol: A Council of Ancestors](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-sabian-symbol-a-council-of-ancestors/) - The Sabian symbol for this week’s Aquarius New Moon (Jan. 24, 2020) degree is "A council of ancestors," which reminds me of a story from my youth. - [Top 3 Ways the Aquarius New Moon is Calling You](https://mooncircles.com/top-3-ways-the-aquarius-new-moon-is-calling-you/) - Call in Aquarius this month by breaking out of your box. Wake up from any slumbering limitations. Your inner genius is ready for a revolution. Anywhere you’ve been feeling stuck? If you’re not living the life you want, listen. Fresh Aquarian thoughts are sounding through your mind-stream now and in the week ahead. This New - [Aquarius New Moon: Is it the Age of Aquarius Yet?](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-is-it-the-age-of-aquarius-yet/) - Some say the Age of Aquarius begins this year, with the December 2020 Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Aquarius, which launches a 200-year period of Jupiter-Saturn pairings in brilliant, tech-savvy air signs, will signify the true start of the Aquarian Age. - [Aquarius New Moon: Call and Response](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-call-response/) - It’s another New Moon! 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. If you rarely visit your eccentric Aunt Ella, don’t expect her to gift you with the latest iPad on your next birthday. New Moons are potent times - [Aquarius Meditation: The Lightning Bolt](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-meditation-lightning-bolt-2-2/) - 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 - [Cancer Full Moon: Can Hard Times Make Us Whole?](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-can-hard-times-make-us-whole/) - It’s been a chilly holiday season here in San Diego. Not when compared to anyplace with real weather, of course, but the discomfort is real enough to us. Cold is a relative thing, and when a place that seldom sees daytime highs below 65 degrees experiences a string of days in the 50s, folks around - [Cancer Full Moon Eclipse: Snatched from the Jaws of Death](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-eclipse-snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/) - I stopped by Computer Geek yesterday to get a new battery for my old Iphone. But the process turned out to be more complicated than it first appeared. As Omar, the quirky proprietor, was removing the old battery, it suddenly caught fire! He yelped as a chunk of charred metal flew out of his hand. - [Capricorn Solar Eclipse: Let Ganesha Help You](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-solar-eclipse-let-ganesha-help-you/) - Every year around this time, I tell myself I’m going to do less and enjoy it more. That I won’t let the pressures of the season build up until I become overwhelmed. Yet each year the combination of a lot more socializing and an extra-busy work schedule becomes too much, and exhaustion ensues. How about - [Gemini Full Moon: Tell Your Story](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-tell-your-story/) - I was born with the Moon in Gemini, and I’ve been a writer ever since I can remember. Growing up, whenever I needed to relax, to reconnect with myself, I’d write something. Usually it wasn’t anything profound. Sometimes, it was as simple as composing lists of things I wanted to do and be in life. - [Gemini Full Moon: The Saturn Pluto Elephant in the Room](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-the-saturn-pluto-elephant-in-the-room/) - In Ivan Krylov’s 1819 fable, “The Inquisitive Man,” he tells of a visitor to a museum who observes many tiny details, but fails to notice the elephant in the room. Since then, that evocative phrase has come to symbolize any enormous, emotionally-charged issue which is obvious to all, but is being ignored out of fear, - [Roll the Dice. It's the Sagittarius New Moon!](https://mooncircles.com/roll-the-dice-its-the-sagittarius-new-moon/) - “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity,” observed the Roman philosopher Seneca. And certainly, doing your due diligence and being observant can lead to good fortune. But how do you explain a stroke of luck like the one that happened recently to a client of mine? This woman had been invited to a fabulous - [This is the New Moon to Think Big.](https://mooncircles.com/this-is-the-new-moon-to-think-big/) - Dana Gerhardt, the founder of this website, once wrote, "Feeling envious of someone else means you're not thinking big enough for yourself." Leave it to a Sagittarian to remind us of our limitless potential! Realizing that potential, however, relies on cultivating a vibrant imagination. Envisioning something that hasn't existed before is not unique to people - [Moonlight ecstasy under the year's second most passionate Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moonlight-ecstasy-full-moon-fertility-ritual/) - The Moon is full in earthy Taurus, opposite the Sun in mysterious Scorpio. What will happen? What sort of magic emerges when transformation meets sensuality and pleasure? Maybe you'll taste new vitality in something ordinary and routine. Perhaps you'll discover new comfort with a strange situation. It's a propitious moment to seek transformation. Consider the - [Fearless: Life regains its color and flavor at the Taurus Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-taurus-fearless/) - The movie Fearless tells the story of Max, a man who survives a horrific plane crash. His survival has convinced him that he's immortal and this belief has made him utterly (and dangerously) fearless. He does seem almost supernatural - for instance, his life-long and deadly allergy to strawberries seems to have miraculously disappeared since - [Taurus Full Moon: The Big Reveal](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-the-big-reveal/) - We are about to experience something auspicious that only happens about thirteen times in a century. Astronomers call it a “transit of Mercury,” in which the Winged Messenger passes directly across the Sun. Usually Mercury’s activities are hidden from view during its retrograde phase, but during this transit on November 11 the Winged Messenger in - [It's Green Fire time!](https://mooncircles.com/green-fire-time/) - Through Scorpio's eyes, a sudden disaster is just an efficient way to start over. That’s the message of its Phoenix— the mythical bird who, when cremated on a funeral pyre, rose from its ashes into new life, colored by shimmering rainbow feathers. It’s good to let go of things! Life improves. Release is the central - [Scorpio New Moon: Psychic Renewal and Greater Wealth](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-psychic-renewal-and-greater-wealth/) - Toward the end of his illustrious career, psychiatrist Carl Jung shared the story of a young female patient who had been to two doctors prior to him with no relief. She suffered from what Jung termed “animus possession,” (he defined the animus as the “deposit” in a woman of her ancestral experiences of men). After - [Aries Full Moon: Fight the Good Fight](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-fight-the-good-fight/) - If you’ve been sensing a “do or die” feeling in the air lately, you’re not alone. Our world is in a precarious place. A new U.N. report on the climate crisis just issued us a dire warning. From the precarious state of the oceans to coastal flooding and monster storms, the message is clear: If - [Aries Full Moon: Rights, Grievances, and Relating](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-rights-grievances-and-relating/) - The degree of this Aries Full Moon (20.14 Aries) falls on the Sabian Symbol, A pugilist enters the ring – so even before looking at the Full Moon chart, we know the coming weeks will be marked by conflict, competition, and courage. But that chart paints a full, stark portrait, with the Sun and Moon - [Libra New Moon: Soul Mates](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-soul-mates/) - Plato’s theory of the soul mate or “split-apart” asserts that initially we humans had four legs, four arms, and a single head with two faces. But at some point, said the Greek philosopher, we started to become as strong as the gods – so Zeus split us into halves to punish us for our strength - [Harvest Moon: The Fruits of our Labors](https://mooncircles.com/harvest-moon-the-fruits-of-our-labors/) - It’s been almost a week since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas. At least 45 people are dead, hundreds are missing and some 70,000 are homeless. There is no power or running water. Aid is arriving slowly to the island of Grand Bahama, which sustained the worst damage – the kind typically seen in a war - [Pisces Full Moon: Dancing with the Leaves](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-dancing-with-the-leaves/) - My sister-in-law tells a story about the man her company hired to sweep the leaves outside their building. He spends most days dancing around the courtyard in a graceful pas de deux with his gas-powered leaf blower while recalcitrant leaves scurry around him. "He’s not very efficient," she says, "But he seems to be having - [Is Virgo Talking to You?](https://mooncircles.com/is-virgo-talking-to-you/) - New Moons are auspicious times for introspection in the direction the New Moon is pointing. The Sun is bringing new vitality to this sign–and this part of your chart. The Moon says it’s time to begin something new.How is Virgo calling you this cycle? The August 30 New Moon is at 6 degrees Virgo. This - [Virgo's Wild & Productive Heart](https://mooncircles.com/virgos-wild-productive-heart/) - Virgo’s Prudent Heart is well known. She can walk into chaos, facing tasks of overwhelming difficulty, and make them quietly doable, organizing them into simple steps. She knows that anything is easy to do if you break it down, piece-by-piece. That’s why one of my client always pays her bills on a Virgo Moon. What - [Virgo New Moon: Kiss the Ground](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-kiss-the-ground/) - My Virgo mother disliked camping almost as much as she did gardening. The dirt! The bugs! It was more than her fastidious nature could handle. Each summer, however, she’d put on her tennies and sun hat to accompany us to church camp in the local mountains – but only because there were cabins to sleep - [Mutable New Moons](https://mooncircles.com/mutable-new-moons/) - Astrologers classify signs as cardinal, fixed, and mutable. If you have a lot of cardinal signs in your chart (Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn), you like action. With a lot of fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius), you prefer to keep things as you want them to be. With planets in mutable signs (Gemini, - [Say Hello to Your Inner Virgin](https://mooncircles.com/meditate-with-the-virgin/) - It is important for women to have the experience of living a "virgin" existence: a maiden alone, complete in herself, belonging to no man. --Tsultrim Allione Even if that's just for fifteen minutes! Clearing your schedule to give yourself a "maiden moment" at this New Moon is most auspicious. To deeply align with the celestial - [New Moon Musings](https://mooncircles.com/new-moon-musings/) - The August 30 New Moon is at 6 degrees Virgo. This tells us that the Sun has been in Virgo for six days. Perhaps Virgo thoughts have already started whispering in your ear. New Moons are auspicious times for introspection in the direction the New Moon is pointing. The Sun is bringing new vitality to - [Is Virgo talking to you?](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-musings/) - The August 30 New Moon is at 6 degrees Virgo. This tells us that the Sun has been in Virgo for six days. Perhaps Virgo thoughts have already started whispering in your ear. New Moons are auspicious times for introspection in the direction the New Moon is pointing. The Sun is bringing new vitality to - [Aquarius Full Moon: Widen Your World](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-widen-your-world/) - “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot Many years ago, I turned down a job that would have given me an exotic, international life. I’ve often wondered what things would have been like if I had gone down that path. What fabulous country would I be living in? - [Aquarius Full Moon: Born Free](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-aquarius-born-free/) - A friend sent me a stunning photograph from her boyfriend’s summertime expedition in the northernmost reaches of the Pacific—floating on a ship amidst a sea of ice floes “as thick as I am tall,” he wrote, for endless summer days that never turn into night that far north. Viewing it from San Diego, where delayed - [Leo New Moon: Open Minded and Open Hearted](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-open-minded-and-open-hearted/) - Melanie Knecht was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair – but she still manages to pursue her life-long love for camping. Trevor Hahn became blind five years ago after contracting glaucoma, but hasn’t let it stop him from scaling tall peaks. The adventurous Fort Collins, Colorado, duo met at an adaptive boxing class. - [Ambition and the Capricorn Gifts of Our Fathers](https://mooncircles.com/ambition-and-the-capricorn-gifts-of-our-fathers/) - One recent, beautiful day, I suddenly found that I couldn't bear being inside for another moment. I grabbed a hat and headed out to the back yard. It's a mess out there. Being an orderly person, I was beginning to feel desperate and panicky every time I walked out the back door. So while I - [Capricorn Lunar Eclipse: Hold Your Center](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-lunar-eclipse-hold-your-center/) - An aboriginal tribe had embarked on a long journey. After walking for a few days, they made camp and paused for another couple of days before moving on. When asked why they did this, one of them replied, “We need to stop and rest so that our souls can catch up with our bodies.” This - [Take an Enchanted Eclipse Bath](https://mooncircles.com/take-an-enchanted-eclipse-bath/) - Whether the solar eclipse is or isn't jittering your atmosphere, an imaginary Moon bath could be the perfect way to drop into this New Moon. Water was Cancer’s first language. As a child, she babbled like a brook, thundered like a waterfall, and sank deep into thought like a well. Speaking this way, she learned - [Cancer New Moon Eclipse: Suffer the Little Children](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-eclipse-suffer-the-little-children/) - I have always been a big fan of Liz Gilbert’s. Though I’ve yet to read her latest work, City of Girls, I’ve devoured everything else she has written, from Eat Pray Love to Big Magic. Maybe it’s because we’re both Cancerians, but I resonate strongly with the deeply feminine themes she so beautifully puts into - [Drawing Down the Moon, into Water](https://mooncircles.com/drawing-down-the-moon-into-water/) - It used to be the Moon was immanent--that is, present on earth in all the things she rules, including bowls. milk and bodies. Yet as civilization sprawled, the Moon, along with all the other gods, was chased into the heavens. Once the gods left, people learned to worship from afar, using middle-men priests, religious traditions, - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Dream Big](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-dream-big/) - I moved from L.A. to Sedona, Arizona in the late Eighties, seeking refuge from big city life. But as I soon discovered, the once-charming little town was fast becoming an overcrowded tourist destination. Jeep tours stirred up dust and noise near awe-inspiring red rocks once sacred to the Anasazi. And developers gobbled up pristine land - [Gemini New Moon: Stretch Your Mind](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-stretch-your-mind/) - Jean Houston often took her dog on after-school walks down Park Avenue in New York City. One day, distracted by grief over her parents’ divorce, the 14-year-old girl accidentally knocked down a frail old gentleman. But he just laughed as she helped him to his feet, and thus began an extraordinary friendship. As she relates - [Gemini New Moon: On the Path to Mastery](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-on-the-path-to-mastery/) - Most of us don’t remember learning to speak in our native language. We may not recall, exactly, how we picked up reading and writing, tying our shoes, or riding a bike. Somewhere along the way we learned other skills, too, like how to get a library card, put on makeup, drive a car, flirt. Some - [Full Moon in Scorpio: Thirsty for Magic](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-in-scorpio-thirsty-for-magic/) - I've been running at full speed for ages. Last week, I took off on a road trip that included lectures in several cities. Getting ready for the trip was so stressful I was losing hair that my post-menopausal self can ill afford to lose. And then, hours after finishing my first two events, a call - [Scorpio Full Moon: A Time for Divination](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-a-time-for-divination/) - After tending to a sick relative for hours, Peggy came home exhausted and fell into bed. At some point in the night, a noise awakened her. Groggy, she stumbled into the hallway to investigate – where she encountered a stranger. “Are you lost?” she inquired, instinctively putting her hand on his arm. “Can I help - [Did you feel special enough today?](https://mooncircles.com/do-you-feel-special/) - You should. On a daily basis, feeling special keeps your Sun happy. You're wired for this. Your Sun is your ego. And an unfed ego grumbles. Denied affirmation and appreciation for too long, it becomes wild and voracious, a danger to the other planets in your chart. And to the people in your world. Sun - [Kindling Beltane Fire](https://mooncircles.com/kindling-beltane-fire/) - 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 - [Taurus New Moon: The Electric Earth](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-the-electric-earth/) - It was a beautiful autumn morning in 1996 at Mike Reynolds’ headquarters outside Taos, New Mexico. I dipped my hands into the rich, brown mud and set a dollop atop a low wall. Smoothing it out with a trowel, I then nestled two soda bottles a few inches apart and layered them with more mud. - [Libra Full Moon: What Are You Hiding?](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-what-are-you-hiding/) - We’re not in the market for a new home, but my husband and I enjoy visiting open houses for sale in our neighborhood. This morning we toured a tiny but charming bungalow a few blocks away. Beautifully presented, it had been updated in a way that respected the vintage of the house. It was inspiring—exactly - [Divination 101: When an Ancient Spire Falls](https://mooncircles.com/divination-101-when-an-ancient-spire-falls/) - We sense an almost mystical importance with events like the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. The ancient kings employed teams of magicians and diviners for just such a moment. The fiery plunge of a much revered spire would have been seen as an omen. A warning. A message from the gods--who spoke as much via - [Libra Full Moon: Things Fall Apart](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-things-fall-apart/) - “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room - [This Month's Second Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/this-months-second-libra-full-moon-asana/) - Sacred Sensing in Goddess Pose plus Standing Balance options A Full Moon in Libra asks for beauty hunting, for letting the wind take you on a little dance, for pleasant time gathering with friends or like-minded others, and for standing up for justice, truth and sacred knowing. It is our second Full Moon in Libra - [Healing with Moonlight](https://mooncircles.com/healing-with-moonlight-2/) - Full Moons can be busy times. 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 - [Aries New Moon: The Law of Diminishing Returns](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-law-of-diminishing-returns/) - Over coffee, I asked Jonny his plans for the day. He detailed a quest for some particular hot peppers he needed for a new chili powder recipe, followed by warfare with the gophers that have taken over our back yard. Hot peppers and war? I’m just writing about Aries today; he’s living it. I have - [Aries New Moon: Hold Your Power](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-hold-your-power/) - Recently, a friend and I visited Old Town here in San Diego to seek Zoltar’s counsel. He had disappeared from his former location, so a manhunt was required. But at last we found him, in the foyer of the Alamo restaurant. Jumping up and down like kids, we fed our dollar bills into the machine - [Libra Full Moon Asana](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-asana/) - With the March Equinox we welcome the renewal of the astrological wheel. As the Sun enters Aries, we enter a new season. Seasonal shifts can be a bit tender as we have to make room for unpredictable weather, both externally and internally. For me, the shift from winter to spring can feel somewhat painful. Coming - [This Week's Semi-Rare Full Moon Equinox](https://mooncircles.com/this-weeks-semi-rare-full-moon-equinox/) - Full Moons occur on Equinox about once every 19 years. The last time this happened was on March 20, 2000. The next time is March 19, 2030. The really old ones—back in Mesopotamia four thousand years ago when astrology was born—would look at us on Equinox today and shake their heads. “Where are your great - [Libra Full Moon: Bonding in the Broken Places](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-bonding-in-the-broken-places/) - Born with a cleft lip and eyes of two different colors, seven-year-old Madden Humphreys often came home in tears after bullies at his school called him “ugly” and even worse names. “It broke my heart,” his mother, Christina Humphreys of Tulsa, Oklahoma, told People Magazine. “He had no friends and had to play by himself. - [Pisces New Moon: Go Surfing](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-go-surfing/) - One stormy day, a distraught man walked far out onto a jetty, as high waves crashed around him. In deep despair, he thought how all he had to do was take one step forward, and his troubles would be over. At that moment, relates Sophy Burnham in A Book of Angels, an enormous wave plucked - [How Sensing Others' Feelings Develops Your Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/how-sensing-others-feelings-develops-your-intuition/) - To sense what others are feeling is not difficult. We're a tribal species; this capacity is hardwired into our systems. Think about children playing in a schoolyard—how easy it is, even from a distance, to tell what various ones are feeling. The boy kicking gravel is bored. The girl sitting in a swing, dragging her - [Virgo Full Moon: Clear Space and Free Yourself](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-clear-space-and-free-yourself/) - Lately I’ve been giving a lot of things away. Inspired by Marie Kondo’s philosophy of blessing and releasing items that no longer spark joy, I’ve dug deep into cabinets and closets and let go of many items – everything from Mom’s old punchbowl set and Dad’s tools, to some lovely jewelry and clothes that just - [Heaven is a Roadless Area](https://mooncircles.com/heaven-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 - [Virgo Full Moon: To Serve Man](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-virgo-serve-man/) - A classic Twilight Zone episode tells the story of seemingly benign aliens who have come to earth and pledged their help to mankind. Indeed, one of their seminal texts is entitled "To Serve Man." Imagine the dismayed surprise of the humanoids who, having clasped these aliens to their bosoms, belatedly discover that the book is - [Midwinter Party Time is Here!](https://mooncircles.com/midwinter-party-time/) - We like the solstices and equinoxes as they begin the seasons. But just as special are the cross-quarter holidays which come at the heart of every season. Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere approach the heart of winter. This week we're exactly between winter solstice and the spring equinox--when the Sun reaches 15 degrees - [Aquarius New Moon: Be True to Yourself](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-be-true-to-yourself/) - In her inspiring, irreverent book You are a Badass, Jen Sincero tells the story of a memorable hike in the Utah badlands. The writer and her friends stumbled across a modern-day Tarzan in his late thirties who lived in a cave and sustained himself on deer and squirrels he caught with a home-made bow and - [What's a Supermoon?](https://mooncircles.com/whats-a-supermoon/) - I’ll admit it: I’ve been slow to jump onto the “supermoon” bandwagon. Nobody—neither astronomers nor astrologers—paid any attention to this phenomenon until a 20th century American astrologer, Richard Nolle, made it a “thing” in 1979. The term languished for awhile until the blossoming of the internet. Given its voracious appetite for content, astronomers now regularly - [Leo Blood Moon Eclipse: Us vs. Them](https://mooncircles.com/leo-blood-moon-eclipse-us-vs-them/) - The United States has become a battleground. Like Yankees and Confederates in the Civil War, we find ourselves on opposite sides of the fence, unable or unwilling to bridge the gap. We look on, aghast, at a relative’s righteous Facebook posts, or avoid family gatherings altogether. Many of us withdraw into our own little cocoons, - [Capricorn New Moon: Making Your Intentions Stick](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-making-your-intentions-stick/) - Few would dispute that positive thoughts make us happier, and negative thoughts bring us down. So it would make sense that visualizing a positive future would help us create it. And to some extent, it does. Yet research has shown that those who only think about what they want to manifest stand a poor chance - [Cancer Full Moon: Belonging](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-belonging/) - This Full Moon in the family-oriented sign of Cancer brings to mind a story from my recent trip to New Zealand. Jonny and I are standing in a tiny house, part of a museum in Okains Bay, a remote village on an out-of-the-way peninsula southeast of Christchurch. We’ve made a pilgrimage here to visit the - [Cancer Full Moon: Who Will You Feed?](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-who-will-you-feed/) - Perhaps you’ve heard the Cherokee tale in which an old man was teaching his grandson about life. “A terrible fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is between two wolves. One is evil and the other is good. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every - [Do New Moons really matter?](https://mooncircles.com/do-new-moons-really-matter/) - I've been doing New Moon rituals for years. There’s always a voice inside that wonders “What good is this anyway?” Another voice usually replies, “Shut up, this is magic. You want magic, don’t you?” The skeptical voice persists: “So what. You do a ritual or you skip it. It doesn’t change the world.” Cries the - [Sagittarius New Moon: Walkabout](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-walkabout/) - A few years ago, just before a Sagittarius New Moon, our indoor cat Spike escaped the secure confines of our home and went walkabout. I soothed my anxiety by imagining him on a kind of exciting Spirit Quest, possibly involving medicinal-grade catnip. When he returned 36 hours later, Spike seemed calm and fairly mellow, if - [Sagittarius New Moon: Where Are You Headed?](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-where-are-you-headed/) - "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake.” –Wallace Stevens The year that’s wrapping up has been a confusing and frustrating one for many of us. Yet since Jupiter entered its own sign of Sagittarius early last month, hope is on the horizon. Not necessarily in terms of external matters – although they - [Ritual: Gemini Sagittarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-gemini-sagittarius-full-moon-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Gemini Full Moon: Celebrate What Connects Us](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-celebrate-what-connects-us/) - Imagine sitting down opposite someone who’s vowed to hate everyone who shares your skin color and ethnicity. This is the position that filmmaker Deeyah Khan placed herself in when she met face-to-face with those who frighten her most – neo-Nazis and white supremacists – to see if they could find common ground. A Muslim woman - [Scorpio New Moon: Wrestling with Demons](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-wrestling-with-demons/) - It’s been an unusually bleak time lately, between bomb threats, hate-motivated shootings and pre-election political rancor. The Sun and Mercury are dredging the depths of Scorpio, while Jupiter transits the final degrees of that dark, inscrutable sign, spotlighting life-or-death struggles – and the power to overcome them. Sometimes the imagery can be shockingly literal. Take - [Wide Awake on a Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/wide-awake-full-moon/) - Here's a lovely indoor Moon practice that begins as you drift off to sleep. Sleep is a neglected feminine art. The researchers all tell us that we need more than what we're getting. But researchers speak to us like we're logical machines. We're not. We're a chaos or a symphony of energy--especially during Full Moons. - [The Power of a Venus Retro Rant](https://mooncircles.com/the-power-of-a-venus-retro-rant/) - Venus just stationed retrograde in Scorpio (October 5 to November 16). Venus retrogrades (occurring every eighteen months) are high holy days for the Divine Feminine. For these six weeks, Venus is at her most powerful in the inner world. She is preparing to make herself new again. She is gathering her resentments, her foiled desires, - [Do you believe in invisible guidance?](https://mooncircles.com/do-you-believe-in-invisible-guidance/) - One Full Moon night years ago, I awoke at three in the morning. I had a panicky realization: “I need to get disability insurance NOW!” In the previous weeks I’d discovered in myself a new alertness to stories of car accidents, how sudden, surprising, life-changing injuries can come from them. I strung them into a - [Taurus Full Moon: Come to Your Senses](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-come-to-your-senses/) - Dear readers, I am trading my "professional astrologer" hat for "intuitive reader," so today's post is my last for Mooncircles. You can read more about my changes here. If you have enjoyed my voice, please know that I am still writing for my website and astrology remains one of my tools. Receive my bi-monthly - [Taurus Full Moon: The Sorcery of Benign Neglect](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-the-sorcery-of-benign-neglect/) - We visited a Taurus-rising friend in her Bay Area home, and she treated us to a tour of her thriving garden. My husband and his Taurus Moon were especially taken with her “tater totes"—recycled tote bags, perfect for growing potatoes. But nothing impressed him more than her elaborate, three-section composting shed. While the two discussed, - [Quick and Easy Transformation Meditation](https://mooncircles.com/quick-and-easy-transformation-meditation/) - Here's a 3-minute imagination exercise that can reboot your psyche for the season. It draws from the power of Scorpio's Phoenix, that mythical bird of radiant plumage who, when cremated on a funeral pyre, rose from the ashes into new life. We all have this soul capacity. If you've ever experienced loss and difficulty and - [Libra New Moon: Busting the Soul Mate Myth](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-busting-the-soul-mate-myth/) - Plato’s theory of the soul-mate or “split-apart” asserts that initially we humans had four legs, four arms, and a single head with two faces. But at some point, said the Greek philosopher, we started to become as strong as gods – so Zeus split us into halves to punish us for our strength and pride. - [Libra New Moon: Towing the Gondola](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-towing-the-gondola/) - Wouldn’t it be nice if relationships were mathematical equations? We might not always be able to come up with the right answer, but it would at least be comforting to know that there was a right answer. The thing is, relationships kind of are mathematical equations. We think we fall in love by some happy - [Aphrodite Medicine for a Fractured Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aphrodite-medicine-fractured-full-moon/) - Like everyone else, I'm weary. As a spiritual practitioner, I value the act of holding witness. While watching the news this past year, I've shed tears freely. As times keep getting stranger, I want to keep witnessing the aberrations I see. Yet this week, with so much hanging in the balance over decisions in Washington, - [Aries Full Moon: Anchor Your Energy](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-anchor-your-energy/) - I recently visited Santa Fe again, my hometown. I love the high, mountainous, desert. The energy is so clear and earthy, and truly I charge up my grounding cords for the coming year when I visit. Sitting in the patio enclosure, feet on the warm brick floor with a blanket, the ozone scented air of - [Balancing Self with Other the Aphrodite Way](https://mooncircles.com/balancing-self-with-other-the-aphrodite-way/) - These are contentious, polarized times. We know how it feels to be in a stand-off. We know how it feels to shake our heads in disbelief at the views and speech of the other side. What would it feel like to remember our essential unity? What would it feel like to add the energy of - [Virgo New Moon -- A Physical Reset](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-a-physical-reset/) - In his book, The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, the fitness guru wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food, and suffered from headaches and bulimia. He had violent episodes against himself and others, calling himself “a miserable goddamn kid.” At 15, LaLanne heard health pioneer Paul Bragg speak about - [Virgo New Moon: I Am Okay](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-i-am-okay/) - I was at a beach, the topaz blue waves gently lapping, when I happened to overhear a conversation between the two women next to me. “I’ve been so screwed up...something something... Mercury retrograde...something something...I just can't figure things out,” said the younger woman, festive earrings dangling from her pretty but pinched face. Like a mantra, - [The Goddesses Meditation](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-goddess-meditation/) - It's crazy out there. If recent weeks have unmoored you, the Pisces Full Moon is an ideal time to visit the invisible world and support yourself with the grace, compassion, and empathy of the goddesses of the Divine Feminine. This is a simple ritual, but it will call in powerful assistance. You'll need six candles - [Pisces Full Moon: Paradise Lost and Found](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-paradise-lost-and-found/) - I took my first inter-island trip this past weekend, alone, to Kauai, a neighboring isle. My rental car, a huge boat of a Cadillac, belonged in Texas not backroad beaches, was what I call a “God car"-- a big boss of a car. It set the tone for the trip. I figured this weekend was about - [Ritual: Virgo Pisces Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-pisces-full-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Leo New Moon Eclipse: Good News!](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-eclipse-good-news/) - During this intense, scorching hot summer of retrogrades and eclipses, we’ll take our good news where we can find it. Especially if it’s in the form of a handsome newcomer poised to rejuvenate the dwindling mountain lion population of the Santa Monica Mountains! The strapping young cat, discovered recently via hidden cameras, has been dubbed - [Into the August Eclipse We Go](https://mooncircles.com/into-the-august-eclipse-we-go/) - New Moons tend to be seed-planting times. But solar eclipses operate more like Full Moons. They’re wild, energetic, and revelatory. Ancient Babylonian astrologers worried about eclipses. They understood the metaphor. The King—as the human Sun—was going to be darkened. He would lose power. And so would the vitality of the nation. The astrologer-priests summoned all - [Leo New Moon/Solar Eclipse: Walking the Circle](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-walking-the-circle/) - I'm a Leo. Most astrologers will tell you that being ignored is not a problem most Leos have to contend with, adept as we are at calling attention to ourselves. But that is not my story. I was born with the Sun in hard aspect to Neptune, the planet of obfuscation. Far from being a - [Aquarius Full Moon Eclipse: Full Stop](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-eclipse-full-stop/) - I had been looking forward to attending a concert all week. I had even gotten buy-in from my husband, whose musical tastes are vastly different from mine (we have Venus square Venus), so this was an exciting and huge accomplishment in and of itself! Yet by the time Friday night rolled around I had a - [Ritual: Capricorn New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Aquarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Pisces New Moon - duplicate-not-used](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-ritual-not-used/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/ritual-aries-new-moon/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Taurus New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Gemini New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Cancer New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Scorpio New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Sagittarius New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute New Moon Ritual Ground your body, clear your mind... Become aware of your body. Notice how gravity holds and connects you to earth. It’s as though your body is an ancient stone temple—solid, strong, secure. Sanctify this temple. Imagine a priestess is pouring sacred water and scattering rose petals, all the way down, from - [Ritual: Taurus Scorpio Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-scorpio-full-moon-ritual/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Ritual: Leo Aquarius Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/leo-aquarius-full-moon-ritual-2/) - 3-Minute Full Moon Ritual Drawing down the moon... Imagine above you the round glowing disc of the moon, bathing you in a protective circle of light. Vibrant with energy, your space is transformed, filled with the purity of spirit. Stand and raise your arms above your head. Let your palms face each other and curve - [Cancer Solar Eclipse: The Pressure is On](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-solar-eclipse-the-pressure-is-on/) - In 1977, I dropped out of college and moved to L.A. Having spent my whole life in San Diego, this was a big move for me. And my parents were furious. But I felt I would die if I stayed any longer. So I took a room in a huge Victorian mansion in Hancock Park - [Cancer New Moon Eclipse: Feel The Love](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-eclipse-feel-the-love/) - The thing about living in Hawaii is... everyone wants to visit. Your brother from another mother. Your fifth cousin three times removed who just found you on Ancestry.com. Everyone. All this visiting has lit up my Aries-Libra-Cancer chart like a pinball machine. In my family, I was taught to play by the rules, to not - [Capricorn Full Moon: Dancing With Pele](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-dancing-with-pele/) - Every few days or so I’ll receive a concerned email, asking: Are you okay? The Kilauea volcano is erupting, as it has continuously for decades; the last eruption was in 2014, lasting several months. The islands were formed by volcanic eruptions, so volcanoes erupting is part of life here. One resident sums up the destruction - [Your Gemini Rorschach Test](https://mooncircles.com/your-gemini-rorschach-test/) - When you connect the dots, it's easy to see the fraternal spirit of Gemini in its stars. Here are the twins, Castor and Pollux, holding hands, and engaged in lively conversation for all eternity. Yet this month you can't lie back and watch this pair stroll across the night sky. The Sun is in Gemini. - [Gemini New Moon: Road Trip](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-road-trip/) - When you're young, everything that happens is new. There's no telling which joys, triumphs, tragedies, or heartbreaks are random events, and which are the first installments in storylines that will play out across your lifetime. As a child, even into your teens and your twenties, you’re still figuring out what your stories are. Gemini and - [Gemini New Moon: What is the Universe Trying to Tell You?](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-what-is-the-universe-trying-to-tell-you/) - Seven years ago, when faced with a major remodel of my family home, I began searching for the right contractor. The first candidate showed up fifteen minutes late without bothering to call. Then, over the course of the interview, he admitted that his contractor’s license had expired. Just as I was starting to really wonder - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-intuition/) - To the uninitiated, downtown Waikiki is a surprise; people don’t exactly expect a cosmopolitan urban center in the middle of the ocean. One first timer, describing her experience, said it felt like Las Vegas. For many, this part of Honolulu doesn’t match the expectation of "tropical paradise"; for others’ this mecca of shopping, dining and - [Praise Be! Jupiter in Scorpio](https://mooncircles.com/praise-be-jupiter-in-scorpio/) - The pink "pussy hat" was a genteel Jupiter-in-Libra thing. Jupiter now in Scorpio is more ruthless, determined, and secretive. Weinstein accuser, Rose McGowan (above) has the right look: no nonsense black suit, shades, unsmiling, focused. Jupiter entered Scorpio on October 10, 2017. On October 23, Ronan Farrow's ground-breaking New Yorker article exposing Harvey Weinstein's abuses - [Blue Moons aren't a Real Thing](https://mooncircles.com/blue-moons-arent-a-real-thing/) - A Full Moon is supposedly "blue" when it's the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This happened in January, and typically happens once every two to three years, all of which may or may not be rare enough to deserve the cliche, "once in a blue Moon." Yet you won't find much about Blue - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Longitude of Happiness](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-longitude-of-happiness/) - I’m writing this from Chicago, where I’m in town for a big astrology conference. Chicago follows the same longitude as the city where I was born, on the other end of Indiana, and it suits me down to the ground. For starters, while there are plenty of skyscrapers here there is also a real respect - [Taurus New Moon: Down to Earth](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-down-to-earth/) - It hit me that I was now living in Hawaii. I mean, it finally hit me. I literally thought, “What have I done?” It wasn’t the move itself; the move was an external result of years of inner change. I was keening from changes that had been slowly happening over the years. Gone, friendships, community, - [Taurus New Moon: Staying Grounded through Winds of Change](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-staying-grounded-through-winds-of-change/) - On March 11, 2011, I was flying in to visit friends on the Big Island of Hawaii. As I disembarked, panic was in the air. People were rushing about, yelling into their cell phones. A tsunami alert was in effect – thanks to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. And indeed, severe flooding followed soon - [Aries New Moon: Bloom Anew](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-bloom-anew/) - If you saw the Sonoma Valley Regional Park last October after intense fires swept through, you’d hardly recognize it now. From charred blackness to a riot of beauty, the sky lupines, buttercups and other flowers are blooming aplenty thanks to reduced competition from annual grasses and increased nitrogen from post-fire ash. Something even more remarkable - [Ask Flora-April 15, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-april-15-2018/) - Dear Flora, I've come to a stressful point in my life where I'm just not sure what to do. I'm a sex worker who's heart belongs to painting and photography. I've finally found my soul mate just a few months ago and we are in the process of moving on from our current messy living situations. - [Aries New Moon: The Taming](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-the-taming/) - There’s more than a hint of madness in this New Moon in Aries, with the Sun and Moon conjoined Uranus and square Pluto. Everyone seems busy and overwhelmed to the point of exhaustion. It’s as though we’re suffering from collective adrenal exhaustion. Each day I wonder why I’m not getting more done, but when I - [Libra Full Moon: It's Not Fair](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-its-not-fair/) - Libra has a reputation for being nice and for putting other people first. But Libra also symbolizes comparison; to some extent, most of us gauge our relative success by looking at what others have accomplished. Even when we’re smiling on the outside, our inner Librans are keeping score and making sure the scales balance. When - [Libra Full Moon: Your Golden Shadow](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-your-golden-shadow/) - One of the most eye-opening, joy-inducing experiences of moving to a new location has been re-realizing what it feels like to be living in a just right resonant environment. In California, life had become unnecessarily hard. Even the littlest things, like going to the grocery and running errands, interacting with people too often left me - [Ask Flora-March 31, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-march-31-2018/) - Dear Goddess Flora, I recently had a very upsetting break-up with an old, old friend; she judged me harshly for an act I thought was a good deed and an act of integrity. Although I know how to process upsets pretty well, I can't seem to shake my obsession with the deep and dark feelings - [Pisces New Moon: The Wounds that Bind](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-new-moon-the-wounds-that-bind/) - Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, playwright and bon vivant, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor in 1895 – for the crime of being homosexual. During the time he was incarcerated, Wilde became determined to turn his suffering into a spiritual journey. He documented his ordeal and rebirth in a 50,000-word letter to his long-time lover - [Ask Luna-March 17, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-march-17-2018/) - Dear Luna, Can I banish all dark and unholy energy from my life and of those I love? Jamica Dear Jamica, When I read your question, I knew you had to have prominent Scorpio energy in your chart. This is the sign that deals with the dark side of life. And indeed, you have Pluto - [Ask Luna-March 12, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-march-12-2017/) - Dear Luna, Can I banish all dark and unholy energy from my life and of those I love? Jamica Dear Jamica, When I read your question, I knew you had to have prominent Scorpio energy in your chart. This is the sign that deals with the dark side of life. And indeed, you have Pluto - [When the Moment Becomes a Movement](https://mooncircles.com/moment-becomes-movement/) - The February 15 Solar Eclipse was a game changer. Why discuss an eclipse after it occurred? For one, eclipses continue to ripple and resound throughout the airwaves two to four weeks after their moment. The energy of eclipses is widely seen as unstable, disruptive, shocking, possibly even dangerous. It’s a cliché to say that madmen - [Virgo Full Moon: Let's Lighten Up](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-lets-lighten/) - It’s a gentle Sunday morning. The cuckoos coo, and the heavily Piscean energy invites lingering over coffee and puttering around the house all day long. Reading comics is a new habit I’ve adopted since moving here. It’s a gauge of how much lighter the energy is, here, how much lighter I am. I can laugh - [Virgo Full Moon: The Best Truth](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-best-truth/) - With Mars transiting Sagittarius and my first house in recent weeks, I’ve managed to antagonize a few people close to me without even trying. My intentions were good, but that’s only half the battle. How those intentions are communicated is just as important, and it's here that I appear to have fallen down on the - [Ask Aphrodite-March 1, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-march-1-2018/) - Dear Aphrodite, I have been in a complicated situation with a man I love for awhile. We are working on a project together and are very intimate on many levels, but he will not consider fully committing to me until the project we are working on is done, which will be in a couple months. - [Ask Flora - February 15, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-february-15-2018/) - Hello Flora, My Mom is in hospice. I believe that her time of transition is coming soon. Sometimes, I feel strong and feel that I can let her go back to the Great Mother Ocean. Other times, I feel so sad and empty and weep like a baby. What flowers can help me now? xox - [Ask Flora-February 3, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-february-3-2015/) - Hello Flora, My Mom is in hospice. I believe that her time of transition is coming soon. Sometimes, I feel strong and feel that I can let her go back to the Great Mother Ocean. Other times, I feel so sad and empty and weep like a baby. What flowers can help me now? xox - [Aquarius Solar Eclipse: Throw Out a Bone](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-solar-eclipse-throw-bone/) - Kathy Wilkes-Myers was walking along a highway in central Tennessee recently when she came across a scrawny, starving Rottweiler. The dog, who she later learned was named Ella, rubbed against Kathy’s leg looking for reassurance. “I could just tell right away she was somebody’s baby,” the Good Samaritan told CBS. Kathy took Ella home and - [Leo Lunar Eclipse: Make Your Own Kind of Music](https://mooncircles.com/leo-lunar-eclipse-make-kind-music/) - When I was younger, I knew women who would only date artists or musicians – even when their creative gifts came bundled with drug use, financial irresponsibility, or infidelity. During my years singing in a band, a lot of these women would hang around after the show, waiting to meet the guitarist or the drummer, - [Is this a Super Blue Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse?](https://mooncircles.com/super-blue-blood-moon-eclipse/) - The Super Wolf Moon earlier this month lived up to its hype. That was the week Michael Wolff published his Fire and Fury -- unleashing a political feeding frenzy that very much evoked the "wolves" that gave this Moon its name. Full Moons are illumination time and the revelations of that week rocketed the book - [Ask Aphrodite--January 31, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-january-31-2018/) - Dear Aphrodite, I've had 4 chronic years of unstable employment, (year long gaps between jobs). Nothing comes through. I feel like I'm being tested. In my entire life, I never wanted to do anything other than write, not even to be published, but just have time to activate my imagination. Time to daydream. That's all. - [Leo Full Moon Eclipse: The HI Life](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-eclipse-hi-life/) - It’s a rockstar morning in Hawaii. The Oahu sun is shining too brightly as I peel back my eye mask and feel the weight of fatigue. I feel like I went on a bender last night, when in reality I ate a healthy meal, worked out and went to bed. I recollect that we were - [The Reaper Ripples through the Zeitgeist](https://mooncircles.com/reaper-ripples-zeitgeist/) - Time's up! That's a Saturn concept. The Grim Reaper with his scythe goes cutting what has outlived itself. Why, I wondered, did the #timesup movement choose black as their unifying color? Why not a color of power like red? Or a spiritually luminous white? Black is Saturn's color and he just entered Capricorn--a focused, take-charge - [Capricorn New Moon: Time's Up](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-times/) - By now you’ve no doubt heard Oprah Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at last weekend’s Golden Globe Awards. Winfrey was one of many Hollywood heavy-hitters who spoke up that night to support projects like the newly formed Time’s Up campaign. A powerful response to the #MeToo movement that swept across social media late last year, Time’s Up - [Ask Luna-January 16, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-january-16-2018/) - Dear Luna: My long-term partner has been acting erratically in the last year or so, alienating us from our community. Now he is moving out of state, and though I love him, my life and business are here. I can’t imagine life without him, yet I long to reconnect with the cherished friends I’ve lost. - [Cancer Full Moon: Clear-Hearted](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-clear-hearted/) - Holidays generally leave me feeling over-extended, irritable and in need of alone time. It’s not unusual. Overheard in a parking lot, on our “vacation” to Yosemite: “I just want to be at home in my slippers, my new bathrobe, curled up with a good book.” I yearned for the exact thing for most of that - [Cancer Full Moon: Taproot](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-fullmoon-taproot/) - I’m not a sound sleeper. The question each night is not whether I’ll wake up, but whether I’ll be able to get back to sleep once I do. Some restless nights my eyes open and my mind immediately begins flitting from topic to topic like a fickle honeybee. I think about getting older, and about - [Ask Flora-January 1, 2018](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-january-1-2018/) - Dear Flora, Last year I was able to keep the best self-discipline of my life—my diet, exercise and spiritual practice were an infallible center. And the reward was a wellspring of creative ideas. This year, I’d like to bring these ideas to completion. But I recognize that I also need more playtime. All that positive - [Ask Aphrodite-December 17, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-december-17-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, How do I get over my fears of rejection and abandonment, so that I can make deeper connections with others? - Carissa Dear Carissa, None of us ever really “gets over” our abandonment and rejection fears. We just get more skillful at co-existing with them, to the point that they’re no longer in the driver - [Make Solstice New Moon Magic](https://mooncircles.com/make-solstice-new-moon-magic/) - In late November a few years ago, my partner and I left the ice-laden trees of Oregon and drove south for the vacation we’d planned months before. A friend had loaned us the use of her ocean home while she was out of town. I was in a gloomy mood. My father was dying of - [Mind your Money! Saturn enters Capricorn.](https://mooncircles.com/mind-money-saturn-enters-capricorn/) - Two of the great financial plunges of the last century occurred at moments just like this. At the tail end of Saturn's giddy ride through Sagittarius in 1929, a booming stock market crashed. The Great Depression followed as Saturn entered Capricorn. On "Black Monday," the colossal market crash of October, 1987, Saturn was also in - [Sagittarius New Moon: Changing Perceptions](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-changing-perceptions/) - From fake news, inflammatory tweets and breathtaking roll-backs on vital policies to devastating floods, earthquakes and fires, at first glance it might seem that 2017 was a bust. Yet consider how far we’ve come: After years of pressure by environmentalists, the World Bank just announced it will cease all investments in oil and gas exploration - [Ask Luna-December 3, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-december-2-2017/) - Dear Luna, My boyfriend and I are expecting our first child. We currently live in a small space that has no room for raising children. We are actively searching for places that suit our needs, but our main problem is finding the means to pay for such a place. We are trying our hardest to - [Gemini Full Moon: Remember Your Spiritual Tools](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-remember-spiritual-tools/) - We’re selling our 85 year old house, moving from California to Hawaii in January. There’s a lot to coordinate, and with many details, inspections, timing issues, repairs, and unwanted discoveries (like a 60k sewer fix) it is too easy to get caught up in my mind, into anxiety and worry, to hold the perspective of - [Is This the Right Time for That?](https://mooncircles.com/is-this-the-right-time-for-that/) - Blending Intuition with Astrology My client had three Scorpio planets in her chart. I was discussing her intuition when she asked, “What is intuition?”—which is typical of the Scorpio nature—not to let big concepts breeze by without investigating them. This sign likes to get to the bottom of things. It was a good question. My - [Ask Flora-November 18, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-november-18-2017/) - Dear Flora, I’m in my early 30’s and haven’t been in a long term relationship, ever, really. I just finished a long period of completing my Master’s Degree and am ready to put my attention towards my love life. What would be a good way to approach my search for romance? Signed, Looking for Love - [Scorpio New Moon: Rising from the Ashes](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-rising-ashes/) - For two years, Wayne Winters and his wife had been hoping for a kidney donor to save her from stage five kidney failure. But Winters was tired of waiting. So with passion in his heart and resolve in his 74-year-old bones, he took to the streets of Farr West, Utah last month with a sandwich - [Ask Aphrodite- November 3, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-november-3-2017/) - Do you have a question for Aphrodite? Ask the Goddess here. Dear Aphrodite, I sometimes pop off at people in anger, and while I feel justified, I later regret my actions. Recently, I’ve become more aware of this. I want to change, but it’s so hard. I go on automatic, and before I know it - [Taurus Full Moon: Come to Your Senses](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-come-senses-2/) - Mars is currently transiting my Third House (of neighbors, communications, transportation, mind), and as Mars transits goes it’s textbook aggravating. Seeking relief, I decide to go shopping but my stress-relieving trip proves more stressful. The mall is crowded with people wearing sour looks. I feel shamed, by the body language and tsk-tsk of both customers - [Taurus Full Moon: How I Broke Up with Cheez-its](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-broke-cheezits/) - My husband recently decided to make a significant change to his diet. Since we eat most of our dinners together, I figured I would jump aboard and try it myself. It was a pretty big change for me, though, and during the day I hewed to my usual habits, which included a regrettable volume of - [Ask Luna-October 19, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-october-19-2017/) - Dear Luna, I've always had bad luck with men. Is there still hope for me at 64? Thanks, Regina Dear Regina, I sympathize with your situation. You have natal Venus retrograde in Aries in the eighth house of sex and intimacy. Your long-time pattern, which dates back even before this life, is to jump - [Libra New Moon: Unlikely Partnerships](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-unlikely-partnerships/) - Who would have imagined that an eccentric tech billionaire would partner up with a Caribbean island to rebuild its electrical grid after a deadly hurricane? Yet that’s exactly what seems to be happening, after Tesla chief Elon Musk recently reached out to Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rossello offering to transform the American territory’s grid using - [Spell for the Harvest Moon](https://mooncircles.com/spell-for-the-harvest-moon/) - It's a special Full Moon. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's the Harvest Moon, the Full Moon closest to the Autumn Equinox, when the Sun entered Libra and the Earth turned toward a new season. Libra is a cardinal sign and in cardinal months we're often inspired to take new action. There is energy for - [Ask Flora-October 5, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-october-5-2017/) - Dear Flora, People don't know this about me, but I am severely depressed. To be honest, I cannot remember a time in my life when I felt happy or content. I feel guilty for having these feelings because I know that I have so much to be grateful for, but I somehow always come back - [Aries Full Moon: Keep Fighting](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-keep-fighting/) - The first message in my Facebook feed this morning was from my nephew, marking himself safe in "The Violent Incident in Las Vegas" His notification linked to a news story about the latest mass shooting, this one involving a gunman opening fire from his hotel room into an open-air concert next door, killing at least - [Aries Full Moon: Born This Way](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-born-way/) - I was feeling very vulnerable last week, struggling with feeling too open and too emotionally raw. You know those times when you feel too tender, too fragile, when just about anything can set you over the edge? I was on that edge. Then I watched Lady Gaga’s new documentary 5’2”. I was immediately struck by - [The Eclipse Happened. Now What?](https://mooncircles.com/eclipse-happened-now/) - Moderns have no useful narrative for eclipses. We hype ‘em. We marvel at the astronomy. We move on. Yet especially here in the US, if we could learn from the ancient intelligence of eclipses, we would be seriously alarmed. By eclipse measures used for millennia, last month’s total eclipse, what came to be known as - [Trust in Allah and Tie Your Camel](https://mooncircles.com/trust-allah-tie-camel/) - An Arab proverb tells of a nomad who was questioning his faith. He approached a prophet, asking whether he should tie up his camel while he slept, or simply trust that the animal would still be there when he awoke. The prophet replied that he must do both: “Trust in Allah and tie your camel.” - [Ask Aphrodite-September 19, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-september-19-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, I’m being stalked by someone - I don’t know who or why. They come into my house when I’m not here, call and hang up, etc. I’ve even moved to a new city within my state, but they followed me. I’ve hired a private detective, but apparently there’s not much they can do. - [Ask Luna-September 6, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-september-6-2017/) - Dear Luna, All I want is to be successful. I really want to make amazing movies and work in musical theater – and I think I can do it. I can’t help but doubt myself sometimes, though. What does my chart say? Thanks, Angelica Dear Angelica, Your chart agrees with your dreams! You have Pluto - [Pisces Full Moon: Do Nothing](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-nothing/) - At the end of each summer, like clockwork, I used to anticipate surviving the fall. Thinking about back-to-school, carpooling kids, back-to-school events, weekend social calendars, travel plans… as life spun like a top perilously close to the edge of the table, I believed I could alleviate this feeling of over-extension by getting everything in order. - [Pisces Full Moon: The World Without Us](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-world-without-us/) - In the middle of an exceptionally busy week when a series of deadlines had worn me down to a nubbin, I dragged myself to a client's office to do some bookkeeping. Bookkeeping is such precise, Virgo work that I enjoy doing it now and then; it's a bit like working a crossword puzzle. In an - [The Treatment for Election Shock](https://mooncircles.com/treatment-election-shock/) - I know how disappointed you feel because I feel it too, and so do tens of millions of Americans who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort. This is painful and it will be for a long time. –from Hillary Clinton’s concession speech As the election results came in, I was watching one of - [Expressing Anger](https://mooncircles.com/expressing-anger/) - While studying Tara’s charts, I noticed some difficult Mars patterns in her transits and progressions. What I knew of her before our session was that she was looking for a better job, and her mother had died some months earlier, about which she was understandably still feeling depressed. Halfway into her reading, I asked, “Are - [A Tale of Two Venus-es](https://mooncircles.com/tale-two-venus-es/) - It’s not fair. Some sky neighborhoods are more advantaged than others. Planets from these lush zones are born into comfortable nurseries. They’re typically well nurtured and/or naturally gifted. The roads to their success are generally smooth. The sky holds stark neighborhoods too. Planets born in these zones face more challenges. The roads are rough, - [Why is Donald Trump So Royally Orange?](https://mooncircles.com/donald-trump-royally-orange/) - People tend to look and act like their Ascendants. Donald Trump gives us a perfect example of how this works—energetically. The pervasive joking around Trump’s “orange-ness” goes beyond his tanning-booth skin and tinted hair. We’re also picking up on his energy. Donald Trump is a Leo rising. The warrior Mars stands on his Ascendant. Kingly - [The Great American Eclipse](https://mooncircles.com/great-american-eclipse/) - “The blue sky gets ripped away, and you can actually stare toward the center of the solar system, see the planets, see the stars in the background - the brighter ones. And you can actually see the sun, not the bright surface but the sun's outer atmosphere - which shimmers like a glorious wreath of - [A Simple Leo Enchantment](https://mooncircles.com/simple-leo-enchantment/) - New Moons aren't just for wishing. Better to enchant this area of life with the gift of your attention. Fire up the Leo "neural circuits" with authentic appreciation. My son is currently 24 and enjoying an internship in Portland. I'm proud of him, but when I think about Leo victories, I remember a night when - [Total Solar Eclipse: No Turning Back](https://mooncircles.com/total-solar-eclipse-no-turning-back/) - The 45 revolver was huge – and surprisingly heavy. I struggled to hold it steady. When I pulled the trigger, the noise was deafening. I didn’t want to try again, but Laci insisted. He was determined that I learn how to shoot the gun. He was leaving soon for Budapest to see his family, and - [Solar Eclipse, Lunar Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipse-lunar-intuition/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [Ask Flora-August 21, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-august-21-2017/) - Dear Flora, How do I improve my relationship with my difficult, moody, eighteen year old daughter whom I have nothing in common with and who at this point pretty much hates everything about me or that has to do with me? Yours, Danielle Hi Danielle, Thank you for reaching out for some insight on your - [When Moon Meets Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-meets-moon/) - When two people have compatible Moons (or flowing aspects between one’s Moon and another’s planets), astrologers say that this will be a comfortable relationship, with plenty of shared sympathies and intuitive understanding. The Moon describes what we want from family life and the way we like to be at home. Venus and Mars charge our - [Ask Aphrodite-August 7, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-august-7-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, Will me and my ex and I get back together? We love each other so much but many things got in the way. I want that love and passion back. Thanks, Tiffany Dear Tiffany, I’m going to tell you something I’m sure you don’t want to hear: 99% of the time it’s just - [Aquarius Full Moon: The Call of Truth](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-call-truth/) - Last December I did something bold, and something absolutely terrifying. I told my husband I wanted to move. Out of state. Away from California, our home for twenty years. Actually, I had been telling him I wanted to move for months, but I wasn’t being received. He didn’t want to move. We’d lose his retirement - [Aquarius Lunar Eclipse: Radio Silence](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-lunar-eclipse-radio-silence/) - The radio program This American Life recently devoted an entire episode to the topic of summer camp. Most of the kids that were interviewed loved camp, its rituals, language, and most of all, the feeling of belonging. Some said they thought about camp all year long, speaking “camp language” to bewildered hometown friends. A few - [Happy Birthday, Mooncircles!](https://mooncircles.com/happy-birthday-mooncircles-3/) - On the 15th day of July 2017, we celebrated Mooncircles' 17th birthday. We've celebrated over 442 New and Full Moons in the new millennium. We appreciate all who have joined us over the years in celebrating the Divine Feminine. We hope our ever widening circles of Moon lovers continue to bring more wisdom, joy, and intuitive understanding - [Ask Luna-July 23, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-july-23-2017/) - Dear Luna, Am I where I need to be in my relationship? Thanks, Danielle. Dear Danielle, You have two divergent themes going on in your chart. One is your great desire to help and heal others, shown by your Sun-Chiron conjunction – the ‘wounded healer’ archetype. Yet with Chiron so prominent, you may be afraid - [Leo New Moon: Sun Meditation](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-sun-meditation-2/) - "This is the miracle-- Every tree becomes beautiful When touched by sunlight; Every soul becomes God When touched by the Sun of Tabriz" -- Rumi 1 This month's New Moon takes place in gold-hearted Leo. Astrologers typically describe Leo as extroverted, playful, and creative. Yet perhaps because Leo is placed in the 12th house of - [Capricorn Full Moon: Time for Kindness](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-time-kindness/) - I bumped my elbow walking out of my office this morning. It hurt. My first thought was, Well, Jessica you shouldn’t be walking out of the office while still getting dressed. Do one thing at a time, huh? As my elbow throbbed, I paused and felt the real sting. This reprimand stung more than the injury - [Ask Flora-July 8, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-july-8-2017/) - Dear Flora, I’m digging for courage to overcome fear of being seen, public speaking, etc. and getting some meetups on limiting beliefs underway - I love the irony of it too! Any suggestions or recommendations of how to support myself with this? Thank you so SO much! Hello Digging for Courage, You have all the - [Be a Personal Change Maker this Summer](https://mooncircles.com/personal-change-maker-summer/) - Take advantage of this New Moon with a "season-sized" goal. Start something you're willing to carry through for at least two cycles. It's widely acknowledged that it takes 21 days to make a positive personal change. Turns out, this is somewhat fake news. This rumor got started with a popular 1960's book, Psycho-Cybernetics, written by - [Ask Aphrodite -June 23, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-june-23-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, I have a friend who has said she loves me, romantically, but is not attracted to me physically. Lately, she has done something I feel I cannot forgive. I was in love with her; I wanted to help her as much as possible. I committed to giving her almost anything she wanted, but she - [Cancer New Moon: A Time for Rebirth](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-time-rebirth/) - The maternal instinct is astounding. Recently, a British Columbian bald eagle took a young red-tailed hawk under her wing to raise as her own. Since bald eagles and red-tailed hawks are natural enemies, she could just as easily have ripped him apart and fed him to her eaglets. So why did she spare his life? - [Sitting with the Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/standing-under-the-full-moon/) - Especially this night--one of the noisiest Full Moons of the year--we need the deep and centering quiet of the Moon. I suggest giving yourself the luxury of nine minutes to hear Jessica's reading of her poem. Read a poem on the Full Moon? It's a litmus test, isn't it, whether we're still and patient enough - [Ask Luna-June 9, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-june-9-2017/) - My wife is staying separate from me…when will she be back to my life again? Dear Pramod, From looking at your chart, I can tell that your wife wanted far more independence than you were able to give her. The ruler of your house of marriage (Mars) is ‘trapped’ in the 12th house of bondage - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Strawberry Moon](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-strawberry-moon/) - http://mooncircles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Strawberry-Moon.mp3 To listen to the audio version of this poem, click play above or download as an MP3. Some days trying to find myself is like trying to find keys in a snowstorm I know She is there but I can’t see her The motion, energy and debris flies around, obscuring vision, clarity, knowing In - [Ask Flora-May 25, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-may-25-2017/) - Dear Flora, I've just completed a big project for work and am now wondering, “What’s next?” I have many possibilities, but am not sure which of these to focus on and which are actually real options. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed and uncertain about what direction to go in, but need to choose something in - [Gemini New Moon: Tame Your Mind](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-tame-mind/) - Not long ago, my computer was attacked by a malicious virus. I’d clicked on a link, and suddenly my entire system was in lock-down. At first I panicked, but then I remembered to breathe. At which point I contacted a tech-savvy friend who helped me disable the virus, and I was soon back up and - [Time to Summon the Gemini Spirit](https://mooncircles.com/time-summon-gemini-spirit/) - New Moons are potent times to forge new alliances with the gods. Visit the invisible world and open yourself to its touch. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing with these archetypes for thousands of years. When you call out to the gods, they do respond! Calling Gemini Gemini travels at an exhilarating pace. He - [Moonlight Ecstasy: Full Moon Fertility Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/moonlight-ecstasy-scorpio-fertility-ritual/) - The Moon is full in mysterious Scorpio, opposite the Sun in earthy Taurus. What will happen? What sort of magic emerges when transformation meets sensuality and pleasure? Maybe you'll taste new vitality in something ordinary and routine. Perhaps you'll discover new comfort with a strange situation. It's a propitious moment to seek transformation. Consider the - [Taurus Meditation: A Spring Ritual of Sacrifice](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-meditation-ceremonial-ritual-sacrifice-2/) - No zodiac sign is more grounded than Taurus. Yet its obvious "earthiness" obscures its more esoteric dimension. In the pre-Christian world, religious ceremonies often revolved around rituals of sacrifice. Bulls--the animal linked with Taurus--were commonly used in these ancient rites. Consecrated to the Moon Goddess, the bull's blood was sprinkled on stone altars and used - [Scorpio Full Moon: Hades Heart](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-hades-heart/) - I’m not a good person. I mean, I’m not a bad person, exactly. But let’s face it: there’s some ugliness in here. For instance, I'm not a forgiving person. Once crossed, I never forget, and almost never forgive. I can be vengeful and harsh. For most of my life, I was able to hide that - [The Scorpio Moon: Thrill of Desire](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-thrill-desire/) - May is a month of extended travel for my husband, which means I will be alone for most of the month. I used to look forward to this time away. When the kids were here and life ran at 100 mph all the time I couldn’t wait for the down time to cocoon, rest and - [Ask Aphrodite-May 10, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-may-10-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, I'm 62 years old and at last putting an end to a marriage in which I was lied to and emotionally abused. I've been through loneliness and self-doubt - and it’s not over, as I haven't divorced yet. I'm an addict in recovery since 2005, a translator, poet, meditator and I love astrology. I - [Ask Luna-April 26, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-april-26-2017/) - Dear Luna, I want to be feminine, but, at 25, I have no sexual life and no boyfriend. Sometimes, I feel the lack of a boyfriend but it is not obsessing me and I don't want to make an obsession of it. In fact, I prefer being alone than having a boyfriend with who I will - [Be an IT girl this month!](https://mooncircles.com/be-an-it-girl-this-month/) - Governed by sensuous, sassy, unapologetic Venus, Taurus is the cycle for savoring the delights of earthly life—in a body (yours!) with five senses (oh! doesn’t that smell nice, doesn’t that feel silky, doesn’t that taste heavenly, doesn’t that sound divine?). I’ve studied Venus for years … I’ve sought her out through meditation, tantric dance, pole - [Taurus New Moon: Getting Down and Dirty](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-getting-dirty/) - I’d been meaning to make it out to my friend Star’s ranch to meet her latest batch of baby goats, so I was thrilled to hear about her new Blissful Goat Yoga classes (link: www.theblissfulgoat.life). In case you haven’t yet heard of this phenomenon, which has taken the Internet by storm, Goat Yoga is a - [Homepage Banner](https://mooncircles.com/homepage-banner/) - [Getting Venus Retro Right and Wrong](https://mooncircles.com/getting-venus-retro-right-wrong/) - The Divine Feminine reinvents herself during the six weeks of her retrograde and so do we. Recently my college-senior son called to say he’d gotten a nose ring. This is a Libra Moon who’s had a quiet, scrupulous sense of style ever since he was five—piercings and tattoos were never part of his look. “I - [Drink the Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/drink-full-moon/) - If somebody sold Moon Water in my town, sales would be brisk. Ashland Oregon is abundant with individuals who genuinely revere the Divine Feminine and believe in the powers of subtle energies. And while quite a few of us actually dance under the Full Moon, many more of us, unfortunately, simply dance with the idea - [Libra Full Moon: Spring Cleaning](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-spring-cleaning/) - We had a real estate agent visit our house this weekend and we saw our house through his eyes. Our 1930’s cottage is quirky in the extreme, and he was sensitive with us about it. Yet both of us replayed his comments for the next few days--from the assumptions that the kids painted the poetry on - [Ask Flora-April 10, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-april-10-2017/) - Dear Flora, I have been invited to tour Europe, to assist in opening the Magdalene energies there. A part of me is holding back, fearful that it is TOO MUCH for me physically and emotionally. What is at the CRUX of the matter? Thank you, Rose Hello, dear Rose, The first observation I had when - [Libra Full Moon: Befriending the Enemy](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-libra-befriending-enemy/) - Astrologers are fond of observing that a Libra is nothing more than an Aries who’s been to charm school. Libra is every bit as determined as his fellow cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, and Capricorn) to get what he wants. But Libra has the ability to make it look as though serving his own needs is - [Shiva and Shakti are dancing in the Underworld--and you?](https://mooncircles.com/shiva-shakti-dancing-underworld/) - Venus and the Sun are conjunct today (March 25). Male astrologers throughout the ages have concluded that this condition disadvantages Venus. A Sun/Venus conjunction in someone's birth chart suggests that Venus is "combust"--which means she disappears, is overpowered, or burned up by the intense light of the Sun. Yet I've met enough people born with - [Ask Aphrodite-March 27, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-march-27-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, What do I need to do connect to my new soul city? I no longer wish to live in my current residence but I don't feel a strong connection to any other location. I know my soul city will be the place with the greatest amount of connection, support and love. I want - [Aries New Moon: The Fighting Spirit](https://mooncircles.com/aries-new-moon-fighting-spirit/) - Can you feel the sap rising? It’s finally spring here in the Northern Hemisphere – new life is bursting out all over! And there’s a gang of planets in feisty Aries urging us (especially women) to get moving and speak out. Women’s stories have long been ignored and devalued, a practice that continues in modern - [Virgo Full Moon: Knowing Woman](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-knowing-woman/) - I was sharing something deeply personal with a friend, an underworld issue I don’t have the answers around but I’m mucking around in, hard, like looking for something shiny in a swamp, when something she said caused me to reflect on the way we talk to each other when we’re in need of support. When - [Save the earth: open the inner eye, pour the healing balm](https://mooncircles.com/save-earth-open-inner-eye-pour-healing-balm/) - Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA—the agency whose mission it is to protect the environment—doesn’t believe in the basic facts of climate change, despite overwhelming scientific evidence. Such cognitive dissonance hurts. Thank goodness Donald Trump has awakened the sleeping beast of progressive activists. In such times we must remain awake and active. But this - [Ask Flora-February 26, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-february-26-2017/) - Dear Flora, It's time for me to start a career, my dream is to facilitate workshops in self-growth (shifting limiting beliefs) yet I am procrastinating, I am doubtful about my ability, I am paralyzed by a limiting belief. I'm in a relationship that confounds me, I'm showing up very differently than I ever have, it - [Venus is going retrograde; now what?](https://mooncircles.com/venus-is-retrograde-2/) - Venus is retrograde from March 4 to April 15 (from 13 degrees Aries to 27 degrees Pisces). Few people listen closely enough to their Venus. To make up for this kind of ignorance--well, that's what Venus retrogrades are for. At these times, Venus renews herself, transitioning from evening star to morning star, by first entering - [Pisces Solar Eclipse: Hold onto Your Horses!](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-solar-eclipse-hold-onto-horses/) - March, 2015 marked a turbulent time in my life. I was struggling to find my footing in my business and casting about in vain for the topic of my next book. Plus, the loss of a treasured relationship had me unmoored. Thus began a two-year period of groping my way forward, trying to find my - [Venus Retrograde 2017 Special](https://mooncircles.com/venus-retrograde-2017-special/) - Venus is retrograde—the perfect time to get seriously playful with your inner goddess. I'm excited to offer a new Venus retrograde special. From now until April 15, when you order "Your Venus Unleashed," you'll receive a free copy of my newest personalized ebook, "Your Bliss: The Heavenly Recipe," (a $19.95 value), which will be - [Leo Full Moon Eclipse: Be More Leo](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-eclipse-leo/) - I was in Hawaii with my husband, walking by the gift shop of our resort when I saw them: a precious group of hula dolls. My inner child went “oooh!” and I immediately texted a picture to my sister, saying “I would’ve died for one of these when we were kids!” I bought a doll for my - [Leo Lunar Eclipse: On Such a Full Sea](https://mooncircles.com/leo-lunar-eclipse-such-full-sea/) - Eclipses are the universe’s way of letting us know that we’ve taken a particular path as far as it can reasonably go, and that it's time to change course. The nature of eclipses is crisis, those fateful moments when we find we can no longer cling to the familiar and must move in a new - [Ask Aphrodite-February 10, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-february-10-2017/) - Dear Aphrodite, I have been in a complicated situation with a man I love for awhile. We are working on a project together and are very intimate on many levels, but he will not consider fully committing to me until the project we are working on is done, which should be by May, 2017. Until - [Drawing Down the Mother of the Stars](https://mooncircles.com/drawing-mother-stars/) - In Greek mythology, the male sky god Ouranus, or Uranus, embraces Gaia, the feminine earth. But in Egyptian mythology, the sky is a woman, Nut. Her body is imaged as the starry firmament bent lovingly and protectively over earth; Nut's legs and arms are steadied by four gods known as pillars of the sky—placing the - [The Inauguration Auguries](https://mooncircles.com/inauguration-auguries/) - Inaugurations are made for divination. The Latin word augur—meaning “to read the signs”—lies at the heart of the word “inauguration.” This ritualized ceremony recalls a time when humanity more consciously mingled its fate with gods, when in ancient Rome, diviners routinely chose auspicious dates for its leaders to claim their power. Augury helped the incoming - [Ask Luna-January 27, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-january-27-2017/) - Dear Luna, I'm trying to build my confidence and I've never had any. I might be the quietest most insecure Aries Sun you've ever met. I wonder how I can change that. Dear Erika, I suspect your problem lies in your childhood, which, with Uranus conjunct Neptune in your fourth house, was no doubt full - [Aquarius New Moon: Cocka-A-Doodle-Doo!](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-new-moon-cocka-doodle-doo/) - Last weekend I joined close to 40,000 people in downtown San Diego for the Women’s March. The streets were a sea of pink hats and protest signs as we dodged the raindrops to show support for human rights. We weren’t the only ones. Across the world, an estimated three million women and men took to - [Hug a Black Cat this Friday!](https://mooncircles.com/friday-13-magic/) - 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 - [It's the Perfect Full Moon for a Goddess Bath](https://mooncircles.com/perfect-full-moon-goddess-bath/) - Nothing nourishes body and soul more than a Full Moon in a water sign—and that happens this week, with the Full Moon in Cancer. It amplifies the benefits of activities like deep cleansing (the skin or kitchen floors), dying hair or fabric (the color soaks in more deeply), and healing (the cells of the body - [Full Moon Sesame Bath](https://mooncircles.com/full-moon-sesame-bath/) - Lighting candles and performing rituals is wonderful, but celebrating the Moon with ordinary gestures can be even sweeter and more intimate. Everything is juicier and more out-of-control during the Full Moon. That makes this short sweet massage with sesame oil especially rich and rewarding. It is grounding and beautifying. It’s an easy way to tune - [Ask Flora-January 12, 2017](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-january-12-2017/) - People do not know this about me, but I am severely depressed. To be honest, I cannot remember a time in my life when I felt happy or content. I feel guilty for having these feelings because I know that I have so much to be grateful for, but I somehow always come back to - [Cancer Full Moon: Follow Your Whimsy](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-follow-whimsy/) - Cancer is the sign traditionally associated with family, home and the past. And whimsy. Yes, whimsy. It's our best kept secret, perhaps the secret to surviving emotional ups and downs. Whimsy is good for the soul. So when, during an emotionally exhausting stretch of days tethered to my house, due to heavy winter storms, damage - [Ask Flora - November 6, 2014](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-november-6-2014/) - People do not know this about me, but I am severely depressed. To be honest, I cannot remember a time in my life when I felt happy or content. I feel guilty for having these feelings because I know that I have so much to be grateful for, but I somehow always come back to - [Ask Aphrodite-December 28, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-december-28-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, How do I get over my fears of rejection and abandonment, so that I can make deeper connections with others? - Carissa Dear Carissa, None of us ever really “gets over” our abandonment and rejection fears. We just get more skillful at co-existing with them, to the point that they’re no longer in the driver - [Why Do We Bother With New Moons?](https://mooncircles.com/bother-new-moons/) - I've been doing New Moon rituals for years. There’s always a voice inside that wonders “What good is this anyway?” Another voice usually replies, “Shut up, this is magic. You want magic, don’t you?” The skeptical voice persists: “So what. You do a ritual or you skip it. It doesn’t change the world.” Cries the - [The Astrology of Accidents](https://mooncircles.com/the-astrology-of-accidents/) - 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 - [Have You Ever Really Met Your Own Venus?](https://mooncircles.com/ever-really-met-venus/) - Venus has always been my guilty secret. I’ve got Venus in Scorpio. As a beginning astrologer I learned this meant I had an intense, seductive, and smoldering femininity. I wouldn't mind claiming this energy at all. I'd even make do with its shadow reputation as a vengeful sorceress. Yet the usual observations about Venus in - [Capricorn New Moon: Resolution Redux](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-resolution-redux/) - Batten down the hatches: 2017 is almost here. Especially for those of us in the U.S., the next four years are apt to be uncertain as the new administration finds its footing and attempts to dismantle much of what was accomplished during the last eight years. But regardless of who is president, we can still - [Ask Luna-December 13, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-december-13-2016/) - Dear Luna: My long-term partner has been acting erratically in the last year or so, alienating us from our community. Now he is moving out of state, and though I love him, my life and business are here. I can’t imagine life without him, yet I long to reconnect with the cherished friends I’ve lost. - [Gemini Full Moon: Dark and Light](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-dark-light/) - I was just turned away at the airport, from a much awaited trip to a handful of my favorite places: Vienna, Paris and Versailles. The ticket agent was unusually spry, warm and caring, a person you just feel good around. A good person for breaking bad news. As my husband prattled on about bag weight, she - [Winter Solstice Meditation](https://mooncircles.com/winter-solstice-meditation-2/) - The Sun steps slowly into Capricorn at Winter Solstice. On December 21 it stands still before turning North on the horizon. Light, hope, and joy are its themes--it is often imaged as rays of sunlight piercing winter's darkness. The spiritual message of this day is universal: do not despair; something wondrous and new will emerge - [Sagittarius New Moon: Taking the High Road](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-taking-high-road/) - “Things do not change; we change.” –Henry David Thoreau Grandpa Hewes was a true Sagittarian. Born at the turn of the last century, Mom’s father was a free-wheeling blacksmith-turned-postmaster who regaled us with songs on his banjo – and told dubious tales that he swore were true. While smoking a pipe filled with cherry tobacco, - [Calling in Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/calling-sagittarius-2/) - 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 - [Ask Flora-November 29, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-november-29-2016/) - I am about to have my 80th birthday, and the future suddenly looms pale and uncertain. I do have some physical problems, such as arthritis, fatigue, and the possibility of a knee-replacement, but it’s my lack of optimism and joy in my life that hurts more. Now turning 80 brings up a lot of the - [Mutable New Moon Strategy: Flow](https://mooncircles.com/mutable-new-moon-strategy-flow/) - 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 - [Taurus Full Moon: Spellbreaking](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-spellbreaking/) - The world is a spell, an enchantment, an amazement, an arabesque of such stunning rhythm and a plot so intriguing that we are drawn by its web into a state of involvement where we forget that it is a game. - Alan Watts I’ll be honest, I was hoping the content of this essay would be - [Ask Aphrodite-November 14, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-november-14-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, I am in love with a married man. I could tell he was my first true soul-mate from the first time we met, and only found out weeks later that he is married. We keep in touch, and although I have grieved, and am open to letting go, I can't help feeling pulled - [The Healing Moon](https://mooncircles.com/healing-moon/) - 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 - [When Mars Meets Pluto in our Sky](https://mooncircles.com/mars-pluto-meet-sky/) - Perhaps no planetary duo is more feared than Mars and Pluto. The traditional and modern rulers of Scorpio, these are the gods of war and the underworld. When they collude or collide—by natal aspect or by transit—even among the most seasoned astrologers, an involuntary shiver will run up the spine. This is an explosive combination—driven, - [Ask Luna-October 30, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-october-30-2016/) - Dear Luna: In the past year I have developed painful plantars warts on my feet that make it hard to exercise, and have gained a lot of weight. I’ve been getting acupuncture, but it’s slow going. I spend a lot of time taking my four-year-old daughter, a Sagittarius, to have fun experiences plus I’m very - [Life's Editing Ritual: Green Fire](https://mooncircles.com/lifes-editing-ritual-green-fire/) - This is my favorite autumn ritual. I usually perform it during a waning Moon, when the Sun or Moon is in Scorpio. But frankly, it's good anytime autumn's falling leaves inspire you to ritually let go of something that you know is no longer good for you. The Green Fire ritual is a powerful way - [Scorpio New Moon--Time to Regenerate](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-new-moon-time-regenerate/) - After making a big change in your life, no matter how longed-for, it’s common to suffer regrets. Wincing as the first payment comes due on that shiny new car you love so much, you wonder, “What was I thinking?” Or, as you lie in bed trying to sleep over your new beloved’s snoring, you muse, - [Aries Full Moon: Grapes of Wrath](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-grapes-wrath/) - One day, driving back from an otherwise uneventful trip to Trader Joe's, I became so angry at a fellow motorist that I screamed - and it felt so good that I screamed some more. I screamed so enthusiastically that my husband, over in the passenger's seat, started to get kind of concerned. He later told - [Aries Full Moon: Center Your Energy](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-center-energy/) - The debates have been difficult for everyone to witness. They say this is the darkest, nastiest presidential campaign of our modern history. As sensitive people invested in keeping our hearts soft, open and aware, how do we stay informed (which in large part includes at least tracking what’s happening) without being pummeled by the negativity we witness? - [Ask Flora-October 15/16, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-october-1516-2016/) - Dear Flora, I am 68 years old and I really need to know why I sabotage myself when I get close to a goal--be it weight loss, practicing my guitar work, or socializing. Thank you, Jeanie Hello, dear Jeanie, Whether it is with goals you hold especially dear, or those less significant, I am certain - [Libra New Moon: A Toast to Love](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-toast-love/) - Most astrologers associate Jupiter with good things. When this expansive planet triggers your money sector, you can expect more financial flow. When it enters your romance sector, get ready to fall in love. Or so goes the traditional wisdom. Observing peoples’ charts over the years has taught me that although transiting Jupiter does present us - [Ask Aphrodite-September 30, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-september-30-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, My stuck places have been unraveling lately, and support has been plentiful. I am deeply grateful, and it may seem like a strange time to write, when things are going so well. With so many profound shifts, though, I'd like to know how to ensure sustainability. I have a tendency to expand rapidly - [Intimacy with the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/intimacy-with-the-moon/) - People often ask why I’ve devoted so much study to Moon phases. Initially it was an act of insecurity. I figured Moon phases were something every astrologer knew about, except me. As a child I’d been told if I saw the Crescent Moon, it was wise to make a wish. A neighbor who gardened told - [Pisces Full Moon Eclipse: Your Own Private Idaho](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-eclipse-private-idaho/) - I used to feel astrologically cheated out of that zany and enlightened experience known as Pisces. I've thought about how fun it would be to bliss out during kirtan chanting, trip the light fantastic astral traveling, communicate with Spirit beings... but my reality has been far more mundane. Pisces holds only a small footnote in my - [Celebrating this Harvest Moon Lunar Eclipse](https://mooncircles.com/celebrating-harvest-full-moon/) - "By returning to the earth itself for the basis of our festivals, we include all the manifestations of Being wherever we live." Dolores LaChapelle While the Lunar Eclipse gets our attention this week, we shouldn't forget that it is also the holy day of the Harvest Full Moon. Astrologically, the Moon is in the compassionate - [Ask Luna-September 16, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-september-16-2016/) - Dear Luna, I'm lost in the sea of the 12th house. It is not a scary place nor overwhelming. Somehow from there I see glimmers of those from China long lost past and I work to put this into words. Will I go to that place of origin in the next five years? Thank you, - [Pisces Lunar Eclipse: How to Survive Quicksand](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-lunar-eclipse-survive-quicksand/) - If you’ve ever seen a movie protagonist dramatically subsumed by quicksand, you may be surprised to learn that such a fate is highly unlikely. Usually, even if you should accidentally stumble into one of these wet, sandy pits, you’ll only sink to waist level. That said, if you thrash and struggle to get out, you - [Ask Flora-September 1, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-september-1-2016/) - Dear Flora, After 25 years in one state, we have now moved to another. This is all according to the Divine plan as my soul has been craving to practice my light worker journey. Now that I have settled in, I am all of a sudden feeling lost and stuck. I know I need to - [Virgo Solar Eclipse: God is in the Details](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-solar-eclipse/) - Some years ago, shortly after my mother’s death, I lost my wallet. I’d been running around, preparing for a trip to Greece. When I realized the wallet was gone, I called every place I’d been, imagining the worst. How could I possibly replace my ID and credit cards in the short time before I left? - [Ask Aphrodite-August 18, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-august-18-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, A man I have been involved with has just moved on because he cannot give me what I want (he receives lots of adoration from women, he's a presenter, but one particular girl got between us and his attention went to her). How do I move on? Even though I have lots of - [Aquarius Full Moon: Dream Catchers and Dream Posses](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-dream-catchers-dream-posses/) - The eleventh is the natural house of Aquarius, associated with visions and dreams, hopes and goals for the future, friendships and allies. When I first began studying astrology, the eleventh house was enigmatic. I’d think: A planet in the house of "wishes? Well, sprinkle pixie dust and spin me three times. Over time, I realized the - [Lammas Break: First Fruits](https://mooncircles.com/take-a-lammas-break/) - 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 - [Ask Luna-August 2, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-august-2-2016/) - Dear Luna, I have been in consulting for 20 years, with the past 10 years as an entrepreneur leading my own company. Business has not been good in the past few years despite much effort. I wonder what I should do next. Any guidance on my future career would be very much appreciated. Thank you, - [Creative Solutions and the Leo New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/creative-solutions-leo-new-moon/) - Three-month-old Max is as cute as a button, but he’s a handful. My newly acquired kitten scrambles across my head at night, screams like a banshee when denied full run of the house, and screws up my computer settings by sitting on the keyboard. As much as I adore him, I’ve been wondering whether I - [Capricorn Full Moon: Wisdom Nature](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-wisdom-nature/) - When I was a child I remember suffering feelings of frustration over forgetting what I already knew. Have you ever had dreams where you knew how to solve complex math equations or speak Japanese as a matter of fact, when in waking life you couldn’t access that knowledge? That’s how it felt being in my - [Ask Flora-July 19, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-july-19-2016/) - Dear Goddess Flora, I have had a hard time trusting my intuition and being forgiving. I have been a little overwhelmed with apathy, where I used to be soft and caring. How do I return to my true nature of being knowing and loving without doubt? Sincerely, Elle Knowing and loving, Elle, Your softness and - [Capricorn Full Moon: The Midwife, the General, and Mr. Wolf](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-midwife-general-mr-wolf/) - Jules and Vincent, professional hitmen, have a mess on their hands. They've accidentally shot someone in the backseat of Jules' car, and they need to get rid of the evidence fast. They retreat to the nearby suburban home of their friend Jimmy, who anticipates the imminent arrival of his volatile wife, Bonnie. With the clock - [Happy Sweet Sixteen for Mooncircles!](https://mooncircles.com/happy-sweet-sixteen-mooncircles/) - On July 15, 2016, we celebrated Mooncircles' 16th birthday. No MTV-style parties here, but we have gotten a mobile friendly update. We hope you like the new look. And, we're offering astrological party favors! Find your free chart, moon phase and transit reports here. We launched Mooncircles on a Mercury retrograde near a solar eclipse. - [Moonskills 101: The Great Mama Field](https://mooncircles.com/moonskills-101-great-mama-field/) - Moon mystics and particle physicists are similarly obsessed with the invisible world. The physicists voyage into the unknown using the predictive power of their equations. In the 1960s mathematical conjuring took a few of them—the most renowned was Peter Higgs—to a startling conclusion. They’d been trying to solve the mystery of what happened in the - [Virgo Full Moon: A Little Broken](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-full-moon-a-little-broken/) - On top of several other conditions I was attempting to heal, I got really sick last week. It was the full catastrophe. Suddenly I was flooded with self-doubt. Was it the chocolate (sugar-free) I had been sparingly eating lately that had taxed my adrenals and made me vulnerable? Or the gluten-free naan bread I had treated - [Get in the Pisces Groove](https://mooncircles.com/get-in-the-pisces-groove/) - A solar eclipse in Pisces is about two weeks away. For now, with the Sun having just entered Pisces, we can get ourselves in the right space for what's coming. Pisces is the sign of the Dreamer, the Artist, and the Mystic. And Mystics want no outside intervention coming between themselves and a divine experience. - [Libra Lunar Eclipse: Fierce Medicine](https://mooncircles.com/libra-full-moon-lunar-eclipse/) - Several times over the past few weeks, friends and clients, while talking about their experiences with both making judgments on others, or being unfairly judged, have asked me a leading question, “I bet you have been judged a lot, being in the public eye?” Before my first book was published, I had a channeled reading - [Call and Response: Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/call-and-response-aries-new-moon-2/) - 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. If you rarely go jogging with your wild Uncle George, don't expect him - [Scorpio Full Moon: Be a Beautiful Godzilla](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon-beautiful-godzilla/) - “The only way the gods know we're asking for help is ritual.” – Caroline Casey Taurus and Scorpio are the two signs of the zodiac that are most closely associated with money. So if your finances are strained or life just isn't giving you enough of what you want, the Scorpio Full Moon is the - [Scorpio Full Moon: The Guts of Love](https://mooncircles.com/scorpio-full-moon/) - A few of my friends are in newly committed relationships. After the heady high of romance, things can get rocky. From listening to their stories, I’m reminded of the challenges a relationship faces during that precarious and magnificent time when two people decide to merge hearts & lives. John and I very quickly decided we - [Sagittarius Full Moon: New GPS](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-new-gps/) - Did you ever read the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth? It’s a story about the importance of being willing to engage our life journey, and to learn from it. It begins with a young man named Milo, who is bored. He receives a package one day, with a map, and note that reads, “For Milo, who has - [Gemini New Moon : Star-Crossed Love](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-new-moon-star-crossed-love/) - Of all the quirky, beautiful items I inherited from my dad, this Alberto Vargas print of Scheherazade is my favorite. The legendary storyteller has a place of honor opposite my desk, where she inspires me as I write. So I was recently thrilled to discover a gorgeous film from 2000 based on her story. In - [What's your journal doing right now?](https://mooncircles.com/whats-journal-right-now-2/) - 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 - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Wise Pilgrim](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-wise-pilgrim/) - I’ve been ignoring current events to the best of my ability for some time now, but the occasional atrocity slips past the goalie. I heard about what happened in Orlando and Oaklanda, nd the brutal murder of Jo Cox, a member of Parliament; I’m aware that Britain is deciding whether to leave the EU, and - [Sagittarius Full Moon: A World You Want To Live In](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-better-world/) - Have you ever found your self in a relationship dynamic that you didn’t want to be in? Ever find your self, wondering: How did it get this bad? Was it the leaky faucet we neglected to fix? All those times I went silent when I should’ve spoken? That’s how many of us feel, lately, living - [Why do we need these things?](https://mooncircles.com/why-do-we-need-these-things/) - There are often horrific events during Mars retrogrades. The Mars impulse--always in danger of getting dicey--comes more easily unhinged during these weeks. Events in Orlando just last week are a heartbreaking testament: Christina Grimmie's murder, the Pulse nightclub massacre, and the alligator who grabbed the little boy on a Disneyworld vacation. Bad things happen all - [Cancer New Moon: Listen to Your Fairy Godmother](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-listen-fairy-godmother/) - According to a recent study, there are now more obese than underweight people in the world. Thirty years ago, it was just the reverse. We can blame this on fast-food living, sedentary lifestyles or the fat-free craze, but the truth is that many of us use food as a substitute for something we’re not getting - [Praise the Strong Woman](https://mooncircles.com/praise-strong-woman/) - For several weeks this spring, a shouting Donald Trump made fun of the way Hillary Clinton was shouting. He complained that her voice was shrill and it hurt to hear it. All politicians shout. But women know exactly what it means when they’re accused of being shrill. It’s code for “Your strength is unattractive.” Recently - [Ask Aphrodite-July 4, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-july-4-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, I love a guy very much; he knows my feelings for him, but he just keeps saying “I like you” and “I don't want to lose you.” His changeable attitude towards me confuses me; he always calls me if he needs advice or help, or someone to understand him, but he has a girlfriend. - [Ask Luna-June 20, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-june-20-2016/) - Dear Luna, For the past seven or so years I have grown to really have a problem with organized religion, especially Christianity. It all seems like a bunch of fear-based BS used to control people who don't have a mind of their own. And no matter how hard I try I just do NOT understand - [Venus and the Darker Angel of our Nature](https://mooncircles.com/venus-darker-angel-nature/) - Venus suggests flowing robes, laughter like music, and a sensuous ease with life. She's feminine receptivity, beauty and grace, unless you're talking to an astrologer, for whom Venus the planet is primarily a symbol of love and money. But are these associations accurate? What is our real experience of the Venus archetype? And how does - [Beyonce's Lemonade and Inanna's Journey](https://mooncircles.com/beyonces-lemonade-inannas-journey/) - Last night I was working on creating and destroying energy in my feminine meditation class. Beyonce's Lemonade kept entering my mind. Specifically this image: Then, these: A point my teacher made was we often use our feminine energy to create, create, create (often to the point of obsession for us creative types) but neglect to honor the need - [Ask Flora-June 4, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-june-4-2016/) - Dear Flora, What I am I best suited to do in my career that will fulfill me in all ways? The doors to the past seem closed. I can't see clearly and don't know how to proceed. I wish I could find the right path, seize the opportunity, and secure a job. I am willing - [Healing with Moonlight](https://mooncircles.com/healing-with-moonlight/) - Full Moons can be busy times. 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 - [Sagittarius Full Moon: Improve the Silence](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-improve-silence/) - With Sagittarius rising in my birthchart, Mercury opposed Jupiter, and lots of planets in the 9th house, you could be forgiven for thinking I’m a born centaur. This is especially true on the occasions when I jump on my high horse (so to speak) and start delivering sermons like a self-styled Joan of Arc. I’m - [Ask Aphrodite-May 21, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-may-21-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, I’ve experienced some grievous losses recently and am despairing of ever enjoying any sort of deep love or relationship again, or even feeling real joy. Transiting Saturn is squaring my natal Venus, which goes right along with the uncomfortable way I feel about a most of my relationships right now, and my fears about - [The Jinn Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/jinn-full-moon/) - If the veil that divides the visible world from the realms of the invisible could be parted this Full Moon, what sight might greet us? Perhaps a bevy of swirling astral spirits known as "Jinns" said by Sufi mystics to govern the mental realm. Like the genie in the magic lantern in the Arabian tale, - [Ask Luna-May 6, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-may-6-2016/) - Dear Luna, At 58 yrs of age, is it too late to learn how not to worry about things that are not in my control, i.e daily news events and things? Are you able to offer me guidance in how to achieve this? Thank you, Robert Dear Robert, It’s natural that you’d be questioning matters - [Taurus New Moon: Slow and Steady](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-new-moon-slow-steady/) - On a stroll in the neighborhood, I turned the corner to see a large tortoise striding toward me. Hello! His guardian gave me a bemused smile; she’s used to the shocked expressions when people see her pet walking the streets. Welcome to the season of Taurus, a fixed earth sign. The tortoise is one of - [Ask Flora-April 22, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-april-22-2016/) - Dear Flora, I have been invited to tour Europe, to assist in opening the Magdalene energies there. A part of me is holding back, fearful that it is TOO MUCH for me physically and emotionally. What is at the CRUX of the matter? Thank you, Rose Hello, dear Rose, The first observation I had when - [Kindling Beltane Fire](https://mooncircles.com/kindling-beltane-fire-2/) - Beltane--or May Day--is a little over a week away. Start tuning in! 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 and physically. In the context of the indigenous Bronze or Iron - [Ask Aphrodite-April 7, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-april-4-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, My relationship has just ended, a relationship that I deeply believed would be a lifelong partnership. Our connection felt very unique and singular, but we neglected the third body, our relationship. He left me for someone he had just met. Is there any insight you can give into why this pattern of being left, either - [A Magic Carpet Ride at the Aries New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/magic-carpet-ride-aries-new-moon/) - Recently I bought a magic carpet, covered in beautiful mandala-like designs. My cat Nora thinks it’s magical too – she likes to sit at the very center and survey her domain. The carpet hasn’t yet taken us on any mystical flights, at least in the literal sense. But it lights up the living room with - [March 23, 2016-Ask Luna](https://mooncircles.com/march-23-2016-ask-luna/) - Dear Luna, Please enlighten me on my life's direction. I have taught in the past but now feel I am blocked by where I live. I have put out postings to teach in a group setting, but maybe I need a new avenue. Dear Esther, It’s no wonder you’re longing for a new direction—restless Uranus - [Ask Flora-March 8, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-march-8-2016/) - Goddess Flora, my husband and I are in a state of transition, between severing an old life and starting anew. We are happy, excited and committed to progressing, but have an anchor that prevents us from fully moving forward. I sometimes feel as if a spell has been cast on the selling of our home, - [Pisces Solar Eclipse: The Power of No](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-solar-eclipse-power-no/) - Living in L.A. in the 1980s, I often visited the Ojai Foundation in Ventura County for a dose of spirituality and nature. At that time, the gifted artist Beatrice Wood was still throwing pots in her enchanted studio not far from the Foundation. We’d bring her chocolates as an offering, and she’d hold forth about - [Ask Aphrodite-February 22, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-february-22-2016/) - Dear Aphrodite, I've had 4 chronic years of unstable employment, (year long gaps between jobs). Nothing comes through. I feel like I'm being tested. In my entire life, I never wanted to do anything other than write, not even to be published, but just have time to activate my imagination. Time to daydream. That's all. - [Ask Luna-February 8, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-february-8-2016/) - Dear Luna, I have a deep feeling to be of service to fellow humans, animals and the nature at large. I love writing, painting, give healing, tarot readings, recycling etc... But, my question for how I best can be of service/support, what specific ways I best can do good, as well as feel good myself - [It's Time for a Little Monkey Business!](https://mooncircles.com/its-time-for-a-little-monkey-business/) - Consummate Trickster Groucho Marx once noted, “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” And how about this one, which he uttered as he left a dinner party: “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” Tricksters have a unique perspective. According to - [Leo Full Moon: The Gift of Boredom](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon-gift-of-boredom/) - The economy seems to have picked up a bit—an observation that has nothing to do with the state of my 401k and everything to do with the topics my clients want to talk about in our sessions. These days, nearly all of them mention a desire to reclaim their sense of play and creativity. The - [Leo Full Moon: A Celebration of Life](https://mooncircles.com/leo-full-moon/) - People have been exiting the Earth in record numbers, lately. If there’s a welcome home party in the afterlife, there’s surely going to be some great music and conversation. Naturally, the question of the hour is, why is everyone dying? This isn't a new phenomenon. The past six or so years have been demanding. Uranus and Pluto, - [Ask Flora-January 23, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-january-23-2016/) - Dear Flora, Last year I was able to keep the best self-discipline of my life—my diet, exercise and spiritual practice were an infallible center. And the reward was a wellspring of creative ideas. This year, I’d like to bring these ideas to completion. But I recognize that I also need more playtime. All that positive - [Saturn-in-Sag Success Strategy](https://mooncircles.com/saturn-sag-success-strategy/) - Saturn energizes success, and when he's in Sagittarius, he especially supports those who act and think in Sagittarian ways. Since Saturn calls us to "focus" and optimistic Sag delights in what's "positive," one fine and simple strategy for 2016 is "Focus on the positive." Such an attitude can open us up. It can lead to - [Ask Aphrodite-January 9, 2016](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-january-9-2016/) - Dear Venus, I've often struggled with my romantic life. I often find myself in situations where I end up doubting my every move, whether I'm letting someone walk all over me or I'm doing the opposite and demanding respect. I have an even more difficult time knowing if I should or should not let certain - [Capricorn New Moon: Do Your Best, Bless the Rest](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-new-moon-do-your-best-bless-the-rest/) - Remember that awful fitness rule from the 80s, “No pain, no gain?” We’ve come a long way since then. Now most of us realize that torture is not the way to achieve our goals, fitness or otherwise. If we’re not loving and forgiving ourselves along the way, we may never get there – or if - [Cancer Full Moon: Mother Christmas](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-mother-christmas/) - Growing up, I enjoyed Christmas as much as the next kid. I became ambivalent toward the holidays some time in my mid-20s, but it wasn't until I got married that my indifference toward Christmas flared into genuine dislike. I found the unbridled materialism unpalatable (now that I was at an age when it no longer - [Cancer Full Moon: Weird Family](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-full-moon-weird-family/) - I grew up in one of those “weird” families. Maybe yours was, too. The parental units weren’t exactly hippies, but they didn’t mix well with the status quo, either. They didn’t wear Birkenstocks or smoke pot with their guitar-playing friends (or, not that I know of), but neither were there potlucks, potluck parties and PTA meetings. - [Merry Full Moon Christmas Solstice](https://mooncircles.com/merry-full-moon-christmas-solstice/) - It's the first Christmas Full Moon in forty years! This won't happen again until December 2034. People get excited about rare celestial events. But I've seen a few of them come and go. To me it seems the greater rarity now is any moment when a human fully meets the sky. Even if a Full - [Ask Luna -December 25, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-december-25-2015/) - My health is stopping me getting the fulfillment out of life I need. I have asked for help from my doctor. This has been frustrating. Three referrals failed to get processed alone for me via the N.H.S.this year. I am still waiting. I have been deserted by my son's father. He first left 8 years - [Libra New Moon: Mirror, Mirror](https://mooncircles.com/libra-new-moon-mirror-mirror/) - “A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” –Elizabeth Gilbert Every year when the Sun moves through Libra, I get a lot of calls from folks determined to find their soulmate. Some - [Sagittarius New Moon: 30-Day Challenge](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-new-moon-30-day-challenge/) - We all know the importance of physical fitness. But how much attention do you pay to your mental fitness? In a recent issue of Science of Mind magazine, Mitch Horowitz mentions a passage from a 1931 book called Body, Mind and Spirit. In it, a prominent (but unnamed) scientist describes how he transformed his life - [Ask Luna-September 27, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-september-27-2015/) - My life seems meaningless. I am thinking of relocating for stimulation and to get on my path. I wish to pursue the healing arts, either massage or esthetician or other modalities. I want to be sure what I am feeling is what I need to do and is now is the time? Or is this - [Ask Aphrodite-October 12, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-october-12-2015/) - Dear Aphrodite, I am ready to have the balance I've always desired in my life. I feel so exuberant about it and I can't take no or opposition for an answer. I'm basically starting from scratch and though I've had successes in the past, I want to be able to cultivate a life for myself - [Gemini Full Moon: Let Us Give Thanks](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-let-us-give-thanks/) - I’m feeling anxious about Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday, but for some reason the always-simmering but (usually) contained political hostilities within my family have flared up, and this can make family gatherings mighty uncomfortable. I don’t know exactly what has triggered the rage that’s spilling out all over my loved ones' Facebook pages this week. - [Gemini Full Moon: The Others](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-full-moon-the-others/) - Perhaps you have a friend with whom you are completely at odds in values and choices, or a sibling that vexes you by being the opposite of you in every way. Or a lover who turns left when you say go right. Yes, you've met the confounding, maddening Other, before...We all have. It can be fun to - [Ask Aphrodite-November 25, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-november-25-2015/) - Dear Aphrodite, This Saturn-Neptune square is throwing my normally positive Sagittarius upbeat self for a loop. I’ve been downright negative. Things that usually bring me joy, my healing work and socializing, aren’t. All I want to do is go to work and come home. That’s so not me! What am I supposed to be getting - [The New Old Man in the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/the-new-old-man-in-the-moon/) - I feel somewhat proprietary about the archetype of the Moon—so when it’s co-opted for some odd and sentimental advertising, which gets 12 million views in a couple of days and ignites admiration and controversy across the web--I’m interested. The commercial stars a sweet little girl—perfect emblem for the innocent heart of the Moon. She represents - [Sex and Money? Bring 'em on!](https://mooncircles.com/sex-and-money-bring-em-on/) - At first glance, this young Eve in the garden might seem offensive – even pornographic. Or at least anti-wealth. Granted, we may not want to be selling our bodies for money. Yet there’s nothing inherently dirty or degrading here, just a lovely young woman brandishing a symbol of prosperity. It’s only our interpretation that can - [Ask Luna--November 11, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-november-11-2015/) - Dear Luna, Is magic real? Since a child and now people all around me think i m crazy cuz i'm in love with the moon. A night without a moon seems really unhappy to me and until i see the moon i feel very down........and nowadays i feel like if there was no moon i - [Taurus Full Moon: The Money Fountain](https://mooncircles.com/taurus-full-moon-the-money-fountain/) - This summer’s Venus retrograde delivered much needed slow down time -to enjoy the bounty and beauty of summer, to get firmly reacquainted with pleasure again- which, for me, also coincided with diminished clients, and therefore less money. Like others who run their own business, I’ve learned to ride the cyclical nature of cash flow like - [Ask Flora-October 27, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-october-27-2015/) - My life in general is happy with my husband and a 4 yr. old son. The two things that worry me is my lost career due to our relocation to the United States from Asia and suffering from a chronic disease. I tried really hard to get into a job IT Software which is my - [Aries Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: Warrior Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/aries-full-moon-lunar-eclipse-warrior-intuition/) - Eclipses, with their otherworldly, wildcard natures, always attune me to the strange mysteries of the universe. For instance, the number 3. They say things -signs, omens, bad luck- happen in 3’s. You lose your keys, spill your coffee and are late for work. Or, a package you’ve long awaited for arrives, you find a twenty-dollar bill in the dryer, then you see a beautiful - [Celebrate Equinox](https://mooncircles.com/celebrate-equinox/) - When the Sun enters Libra, day and night are in equal measure. But this special balance soon will tip, with night growing in the Northern Hemisphere and shortening in the Southern. But at this moment, on the weeks before and after September 23, we're encouraged to bring ourselves into balance too. This is one way - [Rare Super Blood Harvest Moon](https://mooncircles.com/rare-super-blood-harvest-moon/) - This weekend we get a rare Super Blood Harvest Moon—doesn’t that sound dramatic! Before we go running through the streets, screaming towards our doom, let’s break it down. Moons didn’t become “super” until 1979, when an astrologer cleverly coined the term to describe New or Full Moons occurring when the Moon is at perigee, or, - [Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition](https://mooncircles.com/solar-eclipses-lunar-intuition/) - During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and temporarily blocks our view of the Sun. The Sun is furiously pumping away, emanating warmth and symbolizing spiritual and creative power to beat the band. Then along comes the Moon, who instead of reflecting the Sun’s light back to Earth, jealously - [Your body is also Nature and it's changing with the seasons](https://mooncircles.com/listen-body-now/) - Trust the intelligence of your body. Without consulting a calendar or reading the blogs, it knows the Equinox 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 September - [Ask Flora-September 12/13, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-september-1213-2015/) - Dear Flora, I need some help with clarity and direction. I'm traveling and writing, currently, after an injury ended my career and everything fell apart. Last month, I had a week where things shifted—new potential seemed to be opening up all around me, and I felt really confident that everything would work out well somehow. - [Virgo New Moon Eclipse: A Clean Slate](https://mooncircles.com/virgo-new-moon-eclipse-a-clean-slate/) - Shortly after being crowned Mrs. Universe, Ashley Callingbull is already stirring up trouble – and winning admirers. She’s calling for political change in her native Canada by thrusting the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women into the spotlight. Callingbull, 25, of the Cree Nation, recently made history when she became the first Canadian and - [The Sun is in Virgo now.](https://mooncircles.com/the-sun-is-in-virgo-now/) - Virgo’s Prudent Heart is well known. She can walk into chaos, facing tasks of overwhelming difficulty, and make them quietly doable, organizing them into simple steps. She knows that anything is easy to do if you break it down, piece-by-piece. That’s why one of my client always pays her bills on a Virgo Moon. What - [Venus Retrograde and the Summer of Heartbreaks](https://mooncircles.com/venus-retrograde-summer-heartbreaks/) - It’s been only a month since Venus turned retrograde: how the goddess' pot has been stirring! During her once-ever-18-months retro periods, Venus typically puts on a good show. She peels back the cultural and personal curtains to reveal what troubles her in the areas that she rules. Her big topics of course are are love, - [Pisces Full Moon: Dreamers And Believers](https://mooncircles.com/pisces-full-moon-dreamers-and-believers/) - I sat at the feet of the venerable wise teacher Byron Katie last weekend at Spirit Rock, the meditation center down the road from where I live. She opened the class by saying, Raise your hand if you ate breakfast this morning. Hands went up. Then she asked, Is it true? Where’s your proof? Hundreds of - [Ask Aphrodite - August 29, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-august-29-2015/) - Dear Aphrodite, My Venus retrograde outrage has to do with not being in the mood romantically (dead tired, short on time etc.) and having to figure out that an emotional withdrawal/moody acting out from my partner is due to his fear that I have taken away all romantic inclination forever, even though we were exceptionally close - [Outrage, anyone?](https://mooncircles.com/outrage-anyone/) - Venus has recently disappeared from the night sky. Like Colorado's gold-stained Animas River in the picture above, she's entering the Underworld. She's readying herself to meet the Sun god and be made new again. And, like the contaminated river, she's not going quietly or gracefully. This is the time in her 18-month cycle when we--and - [Ask Luna-August 14, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-august-14-2015/) - Dearest Luna, I have felt for many years that I needed to use my creative talents & embark on a career that could possibly involve communication with a very wide audience. Unfortunately - as a teenager & young adult - I allowed those I trusted around me to convince me that I was not pretty - [Leo New Moon: Smile!](https://mooncircles.com/leo-new-moon-smile/) - In the 1970s, random guys on the street would always exhort me to “Smile!” I perceived this as a come-on, and enjoyed it about as much as those obnoxious “happy face” stickers that were everywhere then. But times have changed. People are more guarded now – nobody expects us to smile on the street. So - [Why I don't care about "Blue Moons"](https://mooncircles.com/why-i-dont-care-about-blue-moons/) - A Full Moon is considered "blue" when it's the second Full Moon in a month, a phenomenon occurring approximately once every two to three years, which may or may not be rare enough to deserve its cliche, "once in a blue Moon." You won't find much lore about Blue Moons in ceremonial history. That's because - [Aquarius Full Moon: The Opposite Way](https://mooncircles.com/aquarius-full-moon-the-opposite-way/) - Thoughts about “future plans” have been buzzing around my head like flies. Choices I want and need to make loom imminent and large. Should I sign up for this class that could be inspiring (but what if I do, and I’m bored out of my mind)? Will a book project I’d once shelved rise from - [Ask Flora--July 31, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-july-31-2015/) - My life has been out of sorts since 2005. Loss of my career, it was my identity, loss of father, loss beloved Sabrina my Siamese cat of 19 plus years. Moved away from my beach home and back to PA with my mother since 2008. Things with my mom have been getting much worse and - [It's Leo time!](https://mooncircles.com/its-leo-time/) - Last week the royal Sun entered his own sign—ripening his favorite qualities! The Leo season celebrates love, self-confidence, generosity, romance, dignity, joy, enthusiasm, pride, courage, and passion. This is the month to see life through the eyes of a child. Children live in the moment; having fun is their primary goal. Especially when they’re feeling - [Happy Birthday, Mooncircles!](https://mooncircles.com/happy-birthday-mooncircles-2/) - On the 15th day of July 2015, we celebrate Mooncircles' 15th birthday. That means, on our little piece of the cloud, we've celebrated over 375 New and Full Moons. We appreciate all who have joined us over the years in celebrating the Divine Feminine. We hope our ever widening circles of Moon lovers continue to bring - [Ask Aphrodite-July 15, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite-july-15-2015/) - Dear Aphrodite, In a week, my divorce from my abusive ex- will be final. I have being doing a lot of work on myself but after experiencing four years of emotional abuse, part of me is still afraid of men in a romantic context -- afraid of being controlled, sexually rejected and powerless. How do I - [Cancer New Moon: Call and Response](https://mooncircles.com/cancer-new-moon-call-and-response/) - New Moons are potent times to forge alliances with the gods. Visit the invisible world. Bow and open yourself to their touch. Make an offering. Humans have been rendezvousing with these archetypes for thousands of years. When you call out to the zodiac, the gods do respond! Water was Cancer’s first language. As a child, - [Floating in the Ocean of the Moon](https://mooncircles.com/floating-in-the-ocean-of-the-moon/) - Old as the Moon is the ocean, earth’s watery womb and source of life. They're a loving pair, these two, as the Moon measures out the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides. They're our teachers too. To move instinctively with the rise and fall—the emptiness and fullness—of life's cycles is the basis of Feminine - [Reclaim Your Inner Queen](https://mooncircles.com/reclaim-your-inner-queen/) - Your happiness is the spark that will ignite global change.” –Ross Arntson Rarely do the stars align in such a way that it makes my jaw drop. But we’re entering such a period now, in which one potent point of the zodiac will be activated so strongly and repeatedly that an important message is obviously - [Capricorn Full Moon: Slowing Down, Turning Around](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-slowing-down-turning-around/) - I pick up the phone to hear my sister's voice in mid-reminiscence: "Hey, you know what I remembered today?" "What?" "Remember when we used to go to pick mom up from work, and we'd be sitting in the car waiting…and finally she'd come out, and as she was walking towards us, one of us would - [Capricorn Full Moon: Grandfather Moon](https://mooncircles.com/capricorn-full-moon-grandfather-moon/) - "If you can't get rid of the family skeleton you might as well make it dance." -George Bernard Shaw "Your ancestors send you good wishes." -Anon “You do know that we are descendants of George Washington,” said my cousin, who proceeds to send me a text image of the index card my grandmother wrote up in her wobbly - [Benefic Sky Show](https://mooncircles.com/benefic-sky-show/) - If you're lucky enough to have a view of the Western sky at sunset, no doubt over the past week you've been inspired by a most beautiful display. Venus and Jupiter--the two brightest planets--have been growing closer and closer. They will be at their closest on Tuesday night, when the Moon will be almost full. - [Ask Luna-July 1, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna-july-1-2015/) - Dear Luna, I struggle to feel connected to the everyday mechanics of life and want to return to a time when my spiritual insights helped me provide focus and structure to my life, which I now lack. How can I reconnect and move forward more consistently with My Life Purpose with focus, sustained commitment and - [Earth and Water Make Clay: Capricorn Full Moon Ritual](https://mooncircles.com/earth-and-water-make-clay-capricorn-full-moon-ritual/) - On this Full Moon, the Moon is in the earth sign of Capricorn, opposite the Sun in the water sign Cancer. Their gift to us lies in the interplay of the elements: earth mixed with water makes clay. 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It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere; the days are short, as the - [Sky Events Worth Noting](https://mooncircles.com/sky-events-worth-noting/) - Linking the heavens to your earth-bound life is beneficial. Your inner rhythms become more confident as you harmonize with the outer symphony and your life acquires a more beautiful soundtrack. The two sky events most worth paying attention to this cycle occur on June 21, when it's solstice and Venus enters the shadow of her - [Ask Flora-June 16, 2015](https://mooncircles.com/ask-flora-june-16-2015/) - Dear Flora, About 9 months ago I ended my 6 year relationship with my long term partner. We were great friends, and had a wonderful shared life together but I was no longer sexually attracted to her. Shortly after we broke up I had an intense but brief romance with a high-profile woman I knew - [Gemini Meditation: Your Wisdom Voice](https://mooncircles.com/gemini-meditation-wisdom-voice/) - Our spirit guide for Gemini’s New Moon journey is Mercury. This trickster god of small talk, idle speculation, and airy fantasies has another, deeper side. Known to the Greeks as Hermes, and to the Egyptians as Thoth, he is the god of wisdom, the inventor of writing and commerce, also the primary guide for travelers, - [Sagittarius Full Moon: The Shallow End of the Pool](https://mooncircles.com/sagittarius-full-moon-the-shallow-end-of-the-pool/) - Because genetics and fate seem to share a wry sense of humor, I often find myself at uncomfortable family gatherings where I'm one of only a few liberals in a crowd of very outspoken conservatives. It's ironic, given these are exactly the sorts of situations I’ve spent my life avoiding. 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This morning I dreamed I was driving in - [Moon in Gemini Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-gemini-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt Put fresh bird seed in a feeder and wait. Within an hour, maybe a day, you’ll discover one lone bird pecking happily at the plentiful seed. An hour later there will be twenty more, fighting to - [Moon in Taurus Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-taurus-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt Once long ago a goat herder saw an odd sight: above a fissure in the earth, mist was rising and his goats were leaping wildly. Drawing close, he peered into the swirl of vapors and suddenly - [Moon in Cancer Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-cancer-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt "Imagine this: You are an interstellar voyager. You left Earth when you were very young. You’ve lost count of the years during which your world has been a cylinder of hybrid metals, silent, cold, unimaginably swift, - [Moon in Leo Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-leo-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt "Never plant seeds on a Leo moon—your sprouts will wither." You wouldn’t think this moon lover knows a thing about working in gardens. Or anywhere else for that matter. Her house is a sumptuous castle. Awash - [Moon in Virgo Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-virgo-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt Every wall of the room is filled with floor-to-ceiling shelves, neatly filled with boxes, bottles and vials, meticulously labeled and organized around the ailments they’re meant to treat. "I had one client with digestion problems and - [Moon in Libra Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-libra-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt "Not too long ago I would have laughed at anyone who said facials were a necessity. But especially on a Libra moon, we must remember we are not machines. We need to treat our bodies like - [Moon in Scorpio Today](https://mooncircles.com/moon-in-scorpio-today/) - Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From the "Moon Lovers" series by Dana Gerhardt "If you want to say good-bye to someone and be sure it sticks, do it on a Scorpio moon." Our moon advisor laughs. 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She is abundance, fertility and pleasure. Flora brings fragrance and color into our lives, fostering creativity and joy and reminding us when it’s time to play. She helps us tap into our need for rejuvenation and juiciness, connecting us to a wellspring of inspiration - [Moon Phases - Balsamic Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-balsamic-moon/) - This Moon rises after three in the morning and sets mid-afternoon. I love to watch for this Moon each morning. Its crescent of light that grows thinner and thinner until it finally disappears in the light of the Sun. That’s when I know the New Moon is just around the corner. Visit Chart Play for - [Moon Phases - Last Quarter Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-last-quarter-moon/) - Light and dark are in balance again on the face of this Moon. You won’t see the Last Quarter in the evening sky if you retire early. It rises after midnight. But not too worry—you can find it in the morning sky. This Moon sets around noon. Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase - [Moon Phases - Disseminating Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-disseminating-moon/) - This Moon rises mid evening and sets mid morning. I especially love to see this Moon in the morning, heading for the western horizon. Big and beautiful. Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From Dana Gerhardt's Moon Workshop You've learned your lesson, received your illumination... now: what will you do - [Moon Phases - Full Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-full-moon/) - This Moon shines the whole night long. It rises in the east at sunset and sets in the west at dawn. Always. Without fail. So now you know exactly where and when to find it. At sundown, pick your favorite eastern-facing spot and wait for this Moon to peek above the horizon. Like magic. Visit - [Moon Phases - Gibbous Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-gibbous-moon/) - You can’t miss it—this Moon is bright, almost full. The Gibbous Moon rises in the east mid to late afternoon. You can see it clearly, even before the Sun goes down. It will set around three in the morning. Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From Dana Gerhardt's Moon Workshop - [Moon Phases - First Quarter Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-first-quarter-moon/) - Visible during the first half of the night, this Moon rises in the east at noon and sets in the west at midnight. At sunset, you’ll find the Moon poised above the southern horizon, half light, half dark. Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From Dana Gerhardt's Moon Workshop A - [Moon Phases - New Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-new-moon/) - The New Moon rises at dawn and sets at sunset, which is why you won’t see the moon on the day of the New Moon. Because the Moon rises between 15 and 50 minutes later each night, you’ll see a sliver of moon in a day or two, just after sunset, low in the western - [Moon Phases - Crescent Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-phases-crescent-moon/) - Against the bright crescent of this Moon, you’ll see a dim outline of the whole Moon—a reminder of the fulfillment that is to come. Look for this Moon in the west in the early evening, after the Sun has set. Visit Chart Play for free charts, moon phase reports, and transits! From Dana Gerhardt's Moon - [Ask the Goddesses](https://mooncircles.com/ask-the-goddesses/) - Goddesses are known by many names and forms—and all are eager to help us. Yet spiritual etiquette requires that we ask them first. This is easy enough to do, for gods and goddesses are as close as breath and always listening. But especially on bad days—when we need help the most—we often forget. 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When I was growing up, most calendars, if they listed the Moon - [Moon Astrology Articles](https://mooncircles.com/moon-astrology-articles/) - [Venus as Morning Star](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-as-morning-star/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Ancient priests would sit in towers and watch the horizon, waiting for the moment when Venus emerged as the Morning Star. Her appearance was met with great celebration. As the Morning Star, Venus is audacious, impetuous, and fearless. I hope you’re lucky enough to witness at least one of her - [Venus Retrograde](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-retrograde/) - From Dana Gerhard's "Your Venus Unleashed" Report: When Venus retrogrades, she slows down and focuses her attention in the sign and house of your chart where she appears. This makes her influence stronger now than her usual swift transits. It’s as though Venus is following you everywhere, ready to provoke, pout, or bring new harmony - [Testing forms](https://mooncircles.com/testing-forms/) - [Venus in Superior Underworld](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-superior-underworld/) - From Dana Gerhard's "Your Venus Unleashed" Report: Venus has disappeared from the morning sky. Ancient myths suggest that when Venus disappears, she enters the Underworld. During her 18-month cycle, Venus “disappears” twice—like now, when she’s out of view for about six weeks, transitioning from morning to evening star, and again, when she’s invisible for about - [Venus as Evening Star](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-as-evening-star/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Look toward the western horizon at sunset. As the Evening Star, Venus is one of the brightest objects in the early night sky. Especially when the Moon is dark, you can bathe in her glow, as though it were moonlight. How should you make contact? 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The next time - [Venus in Gemini](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-gemini/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: This goddess is flirtatious. Which just means she’s interested in her world. Do you notice that tree waving down the street? That coy flower in the garden? They’re looking at you! Nature loves to flirt. And if you don’t think Nature is watching, you haven’t been paying attention. Mama Gena, - [Venus in Cancer](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-cancer/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: The goddess is a chemical! Chemists have a name for Venus in Cancer: “oxytocin.” It’s the “cuddle hormone.” Its presence was first noticed in nursing mothers, but was later identified as an active ingredient in romantic bonding for both sexes. It’s what transforms sex into love. Emotional support--caring, compassion, soothing - [Venus in Leo](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-leo/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: This goddess has a flair for the dramatic. Think Cleopatra, who drenched the sails of her ships in the attar of Damascus roses, so that up and down the Nile, offshore breezes carried news of her arrival. Don’t be shy now. Announce your inner goddess with an intoxicating detail. Experiment - [Venus in Virgo](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-virgo/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: If only astrologers would stop maligning wonderful Venus in Virgo! Don’t think of her as a cold, constricted and barren goddess—or an uptight, disapproving school marm. According to the Sumerians, Venus (as Inanna/Ishtar) was most fertile in Virgo. See if you can discover why. Tune into her sensuous ease. Experience - [Venus in Libra](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-libra/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Aware and impressionable, this goddess is a Stradivarius of sensations, a fine-tuned instrument of receptivity. Tomorrow morning awaken this goddess through awareness of scent. Bring your hand to your nose and smell your skin. Walk through your house and notice if one room smells differently from another. Notice how the - [Venus in Interior Underworld](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-interior-underworld/) - From Dana Gerhardt's "Your Venus Unleashed" Report: Venus has disappeared from the twilight sky. According to ancient Venus watchers, this meant that Venus was in the Underworld. What happens to her in this dark place? In one Meso-American myth, Venus is playing a fateful game of ball after which she’ll become a man! I’m not - [Venus in Scorpio](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-scorpio/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Nothing escapes this goddess. She’s on intimate terms with her own ecstasy. She regularly has tea with her inner bitch, not intimidated by her own power. This goddess hides nothing from herself, but is an expert at keeping secrets. When she was young, a wise crone whispered, “The world loves - [Venus in Sagittarius](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-sagittarius/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Mornings when this goddess awakens, she says, “Yummm… how will I fall in love with myself today? Shall I pour the most delicious cup of coffee? Serve myself fresh raspberries and cream? Shall I wear hiking boots to the office? Schedule an adventure for lunch? Or take a half hour - [Venus in Capricorn](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-capricorn/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: This goddess never turns away a compliment. If you admire her purse, her car, her coat, she doesn’t say, “Oh this old thing?” That’s because whenever she buys something, she’s fully present. She lets it catch her eye, like an admirer from across the room. She senses its energy, runs - [Venus in Aquarius](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-aquarius/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: She’s sudden as weather, wild as a lightning storm, and kind as the clouds. From her sky god daddy, Aquarius Venus was blessed with an unlimited mind. She can think up ideas no one ever thought before. She can hold global conflicts without choosing sides. She’s gifted in the art - [Venus in Pisces](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-pisces/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Aphrodite has a magic girdle that can make anyone & anything beautiful Venus in Pisces has a similar gift. It’s called imagination. And it works like fairy dust, invisibly transforming what she sees, so there’s nowhere she can go, no one she can meet that disappoints or displeases her. A - [Payment Pages](https://mooncircles.com/payment-pages/) - [Free Charts & eBooks](https://mooncircles.com/free-charts-ebooks/) - [Venus in Aries](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-in-aries/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: This goddess makes things new. She lives in a vibrant aliveness, without boundaries. She goes where she’s never been before. How can you do this without an unlimited budget or time? Just look at life as though it were a fresh discovery. Forget your judgments. Your tired old concepts. Let - [Venus as the Morning Star](https://mooncircles.com/venus/venus-cycle-morning-star/) - From Dana Gerhardt's Your Venus Unleashed report: Ancient priests would sit in towers and watch the horizon, waiting for the moment when Venus emerged as the Morning Star. Her appearance was met with great celebration. As the Morning Star, Venus is audacious, impetuous, and fearless. I hope you’re lucky enough to witness at least one of her - [Ask Luna](https://mooncircles.com/ask-luna/) - Luna, the Great Mother, invites you to enter the soft places of your heart. She hears your fears and longings, and whispers her wisdom through your intuition and nightly dreams. High Priestess of hearth and home, she connects you to your ancestral lineage, and helps you shape your living space to reflect who you truly - [Ask Aphrodite](https://mooncircles.com/ask-aphrodite/) - Aphrodite/Venus is the Goddess of Love, Money and Pleasure—of all that we desire—abundance, ease, joy, and happiness. 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It doesn’t change the world.” Cries the - [If We Didn't Have a Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-astrology-articles/if-we-didnt-have-a-moon/) - How did our Moon come to be? Most scientists today think Earth’s Moon emerged from a disaster. A big planetary whack. For millions of years, we were Moonless, until a Mars-sized planetoid whacked into us. Just a five-minute blast. But it hit with the force of a billion, trillion tons of dynamite, exploding a ring - [Fall into the Gap: VOC Moon](https://mooncircles.com/moon-astrology-articles/fall-into-the-gap-voc-moon/) - A good office witch or urban sorcerer will know about Moon phases. And will be aware of the void-of-course Moon, which occurs every few days for a number of hours. You won’t know when it’s void by scanning the skies for a runaway Moon. It’s something an astrologer sees in a chart or anyone can - [Dana's Blog](https://mooncircles.com/danas-blog/) - [7 Moon Practice Secrets](https://mooncircles.com/7-moon-practice-secrets/) - [Divine Feminine Slow Dance](https://mooncircles.com/divine-feminine-slow-dance/) - "Move slowly. When you think you can’t go any slower, slow down even more." A few days before the Taurus New Moon, I went to my first Tantric dance class. If you had ever told me that one day I’d find myself doing a sensuous dance, all alone, in front of seven strangers, I would - [Venus Revisited I: What the Research Revealed](https://mooncircles.com/venus-revisited-i-what-the-research-revealed/) - Felicity sat on the fence of her family's ranch in Wyoming, her eyes scanning across miles of wide open fields and flat land. "I am so f&king bored," she complained, tossing her thick mane of blue-black hair across her shoulders. 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But I did not think about pennies as a symbol of Venus until I received the following from astrologer - [Venus Revisited II: The Darker Angel](https://mooncircles.com/venus-revisited-ii-the-darker-angel/) - Venus suggests flowing robes, laughter like music, and a sensuous ease with life. She's feminine receptivity, beauty and grace, unless you're talking to an astrologer, for whom Venus the planet is primarily a symbol of love and money. But are these associations accurate? What is our real experience of the Venus archetype? And how does - [Tips for Working with Moon Signs: Elements and Stones](https://mooncircles.com/moon-astrology-articles/tips-for-working-with-moon-signs-elements-and-stones/) - 1) Use a daily Moon calendar. Use a daily Moon calendar to determine the mood for the day. By using the element of the Moon's sign, you will know the emotional shift for the day and the actions to take in order to work with the Moon’s agenda. If you don’t have a Moon calendar, - [Let your Moon practice be ordinary](https://mooncircles.com/7-moon-practice-secrets/let-your-moon-practice-be-ordinary/) - Secret #7: Let your Moon practice be ordinary. If you’re like me, you’re overly ambitious. And if you’re not, you can skip this last secret. Read it only if you’re plagued by a desire to be the best at whatever you do. Which for Moon practice means you want to travel on a moonbeam, connected - [Don't be frightened of void-of-course Moons](https://mooncircles.com/7-moon-practice-secrets/dont-be-frightened-of-void-of-course-moons/) - Secret#6: Don't be frightened of void-of-course Moons. Sometimes astrology is scary. You might have blissfully spent all your days unaware of void-of-course Moons, but once you hear about them, you’re panicky. The news about void-of-course Moons does sound hopeless. Anything begun during them goes nowhere. Your job interview won’t bring employment. Your visit to your - [Keep the Moon's two rhythms](https://mooncircles.com/7-moon-practice-secrets/keep-the-moons-two-rhythms/) - Secret #2: Keep the Moon's two rhythms. The first rhythm the Moon plays for us is the song of high and low tides, formed by her dance around the planet. When Earth was covered in oceans, our ancestors, the first itty bitty life forms, moved to this rhythm daily. High tides carried them far inland; - [Waning Moon: Chop Wood, Carry Water](https://mooncircles.com/moon-astrology-articles/waning-moon-chop-wood-carry-water/) - Chop wood, carry water. According to an old Zen parable, this is what we do before enlightenment. And it’s what we do after. In other words: enlightenment is no big deal. The small rituals that sustain life are as important as our bigger dreams. This is especially true at the waning Moon. 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