No Peace Without Conflict, No Love Without Duality: A Reading for the Full Moon in Aquarius on 8-3-2020
Every full moon is a time during which seeds planted under a new moon can begin to sprout if they’ve been nurtured and cultivated. Under this lunation, Mercury and Vesta are conjunct close to the New Moon at the beginning of this cycle, so this moon is likely to bring messages that correspond with what was happening for you on/around the New Moon. Vesta represents the eternal flame within you, the place within you that can’t be destroyed, where you belong only to yourself and the divine, where you’re always whole—so these messages may also relate to that place within you that’s untouchable and how to cultivate that space more.
Follow the Rules, But Have Fun: A reading for July's New Moon in Cancer - 7-20-2020
This week, the moon rebirths herself in Cancer alongside both fun AND challenging energies just before the Sun moves into its home sign of Leo. Watch this vide to receive more in-depth information and guidance. Have a fantastic week!
Skate Boards, Video Games & Removing the Columbus Statues in Your Mind: A Reflection on the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn
This eclipse season has seen the removal of Columbus statues around the U.S., but the question is: to what extent have the monuments to your own internal colonizer been removed along with them? It’s easy to remove and shun the “bad guy” when it’s some other person over there, but it’s often much more difficult to remove the inner colonizer living inside of you, the Columbus statues in your mind. Colonialism is the most effective mode of oppression in the history of humanity because it is as much (if not more) a deeply embedded mode of consciousness into which most people in the world have been indoctrinated to a certain extent as it is a set of external structures. To remove the Columbus statues that remain in your mind is what it really means to “emancipate yourself from mental slavery,” as Bob Marley sang famously.
TRANSFORMING THE STRUCTURES THAT DICTATE OUR LIVES: ASTROLOGY FOR THE WEEK OF 6/28/2020
Under this 1st Quarter Moon, what are the actions you feel moved to take? Libra is the sign of partnership and contracts, but equally important for the current moment, Libra is the sign of justice—as in balance, equity, and the scales. Libra, ruled by Venus, tends towards connection first. But it’s also the only sign represented by an inanimate object. Libra is the sign of the equal offender. It’s an intelligent, intellectual, sophisticated energy – the little black dress of the Zodiac. Therefore, the action you feel called to take (or that would be most beneficial for you to take over the next few days) may not be massive. Perhaps you feel called to focus on a particular idea. Perhaps you feel called to shift a relationship (even if only in your head). Perhaps you feel called to reach out to someone, connect, or explore ways of forging justice.
Move Like Water: A Reflection on Mercury’s Retrograde in Cancer and the end of a season
Mercury’s review often comes through unlikely or out of the ordinary conversations with people from your past or even with strangers. It often comes from detours or being redirected down unexpected paths. When you take the same route all the time, you always see the same things. When you take a different route, you see different things. Every detour in life, regardless of its size or impact, is an opportunity to encounter and see something that usually remains outside of your line of vision—a concept that also defines eclipse seasons, such as the one in which we’re currently embedded.
Truth, Care & Beauty: A Reflection on the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
Sagittarius seeks the unified theory. But the problem with unified theories is that they’re inherently exclusionary. Whenever ONE theory, belief, or system is privileged, others are excluded. It’s a harsh truth that most people in the U.S. (regardless of who they are) don’t want equity or multiplicity (within individuals or within collectives). Instead, we want our own systems and beliefs to be the privileged ones. That’s how the system was built, and it’s working, because we’re still fighting against one another about who is right, rather than acknowledging that everyone has a little bit of truth and merging our truths to work together.
Things are changing regardless—guide the change in your favor!: A Reflection on the New Moon in Gemini
This is a great weekend to allow focusing on what you want to be what you’re doing. Again – Gemini is a quick energy that likes to move around and be busy because its mind is always moving so quickly. But rather than waste your energy just doing things to do them, find stillness in your body and channel all of that mental energy into using this moon for manifestation.
Retrograde Season: Don’t Brace Yourself - Settle In & Surrender
Retrogrades are periods to settle and surrender. Energy that is usually considered to be external becomes internalized. During these times, the energies up for review are expressed internally, to ourselves, rather than externally to the outside world. We become more intimately aware of what we express to the outside world because, during these periods, the narratives we typically express externally are now expressed internally. It’s an opportunity to see an energy more clearly. Retrogrades are amazing times to evolve and shift narratives that aren’t working anymore—if they ever really worked.
You can’t heal what you don’t feel: A Guide to Venus' Retrograde through Gemini 2020
One thing I’ve learned about love is that I can’t fight it. I can’t squash it down, ignore it, bypass it, avoid it or rid myself of it. I try, but it doesn’t work. I have to feel it all the way to the end. I believe that each love in a person’s life (however they want to define that themselves) appears in order to take them on a journey to healing and recovering a part of themselves. I’ve also found that the journey doesn’t end if and when the person (or place) disappears.
Every Right Comes with Responsibility!: A Reflection on Saturn Retrograde - 5-11-2020
Saturn retrogrades for a solid portion of the year every year, so his retrogrades don’t have the acute impact of Mercury, Venus, and Mars’ retrogrades. Nonetheless, his retrogrades tend to be felt in the days and weeks surrounding his stations. His transformations are slow, but it’s likely that you’ll notice a change between now and the end of September when it comes to the themes I expand upon below—especially in the area of your chart that Saturn inhabits.