Can you imagine being so happy with your job that you wouldn’t want to retire – even at 95? To round out my trilogy of extraordinary women who embody the current planetary theme of female power, I give you spunky Elinor Otto, the last working “Rosie the Riveter,” who answered the call for women factory workers during World War II – and has continued to build airplanes at Boeing … [Read more...]
Sagittarius Full Moon: A Life Less Ordinary
“Dwell in possibility.” “Truth is so rare it is delightful to tell it.” - Emily Dickinson Famous Sagittarian (Sun, Mercury, Venus) poet Emily Dickinson may seem an unlikely fit for this adventurous sign. Emily was an ordinary recluse, an eccentric social hermit who wore white clothing and eventually lived her life from one room. You wouldn’t know it from her poetry. Born … [Read more...]
Call and Response Sagittarius New Moon
It’s another new moon: when the magically minded make wishes and astrologers attempt to divine this cycle’s intentions. But fates are personal. Even if a new moon chart could be forced to describe them all, no single astrologer could tell that many stories. The wishes you make now may indeed be super-powered, but if you don’t have a strong relationship with the archetypes, … [Read more...]
Sagittarius New Moon: An Invitation to Stillness
The time of the Dark Moon is upon us once again. Prior to this New Moon in Sagittarius the influence of Scorpio brings us back into the depths. As the energy of the Earth Mother settles down for Her winter sleep so we can settle into stillness and leave the noise, distraction and activity of the everyday world behind for a while. This is the dark time of year and I invite you … [Read more...]
Sagittarius New Moon: Apocalypse or New World?
“At the ‘end of the world as we know it,’ the Unseen World waits to be found again.” –Michael Meade Last week, to allay escalating fears about an impending apocalypse on December 21, Russian officials demanded that the country’s main TV stations stop airing a sensationalized program about Mayan prophecies. The government even took the unorthodox step of reassuring the public … [Read more...]