it's monday, july 10, & moon moved from pisces into aries just after sunrise, from the starspace called revati into the starspace called ashwini. if you were up before sunrise, as i always am, maybe you felt that liminal space hard, that in between, that neither here- nor there-ness. it can feel like not being [...]
it's monday, june 26, & moon is in virgo, in the starspace called hasta. virgo vibrates with the frequency of perfectionism, which means seeing everything that's wrong, starting with ourselves. virgo casts a supercritical & super-microscopic eye over all, doesn't miss a speck of dust. virgo invites us—impels us!—to clean up our acts, get our [...]
it's wednesday, february 22, & moon is in pisces, in the starspace called uttarabhadra. in the environment of pisces we want to surrender into the mystery of all that is, we begin to realize that we are not a drop in the ocean but the ocean in a drop, as rumi said. the key to [...]
it's tuesday, february 14, & moon is in scorpio, in the starspace called anuradha. in the environment of scorpio, we can get stuck, cling to our darkest, most paranoid, thoughts, spend too much time in the deepest nooks & crannies of our psyche, worry ourselves sick about what usually turns out to be a nothing [...]
it's friday, november 4, & moon moved from aquarius into pisces just before dawn mountain time while being supported & transported by the starspace called purvabhadra. whereas aquarius vibrates with the frequency of taking responsibility for being a citizen of, say, the united states or planet earth, pisces vibrates with the frequency of being a [...]
it's monday, october 31, & moon is in capricorn, in the starspace called uttarashadha. saturn-ruled capricorn vibrates with the frequency of tangible commitments, of putting one foot in front of the other, b/c we feel the threat of time nipping at our heels. with saturn now in forward motion after being retrograde for a few [...]
it's wednesday, october 26, & moon is in libra, in the starspace called vishakha. under the sway of libra, we are preoccupied with our relationships, with our interactions with people, strangers included. all relationships are a dance of mirroring. we get to see ourselves anew in each interaction. sometimes we like what we see, sometimes [...]
it's friday, august 5, & moon is in libra, in the starspace called vishakha. libra vibrates with the frequency of relationships, whether romantic or familial or business or platonic. &, unlike cancer, which is about giving-giving-giving, libra wants us to give as good as we get & not more. which doesn't mean we have to [...]
it's tuesday, august 2, & moon is in virgo, in the starspace called hasta. virgo vibrates with the frequency of our critical mind's eye, of seeing where our life could use some improvement & doing something about it. virgo is, among other things, the sign of the healer, so the point is to use our [...]
it's monday, june 20, & moon is in aquarius, in the starspace called purvabhadra. whereas saturn-ruled capricorn vibrates with the frequency of the finiteness of time & getting real about our own lives, saturn-ruled aquarius vibrates with the frequency of getting real about the world around us, realizing that we don't have forever to, say, [...]
it's thursday, october 14, & moon is in capricorn, in the starspace called shravana. capricorn is ruled by saturn, who i always think of as a stern old man, wagging his finger at us & reminding us that we don't have all day, that time is running out, the clock is ticking, that life will [...]
it's thursday, august 13, & moon is in the starspace called rohini, which occupies a sky-slice of taurus. taurus is ruled by venus, which is that part of us that wants to enjoy our embodied existence, wants to experience life through all of our senses, that loves food & beauty & being with the ones [...]
it's tuesday, december 31, aka new year's eve (!), & moon is in the starspace called shatabhishak (see yesterday's post for the deets) until about 1 pm mountain time, then moves into purva bhadra, where it will be when the ball drops in times square at midnight tonight. purva bhadra occupies a sky-slice that's mostly [...]
it's monday, september 9, & moon is in the starspace called uttara ashadha, which is partly in sagittarius but mostly in capricorn. this asterism creates a bridge of consciousness between the different energies of those two signs: in sagittarius we connect to our belief system, which may or may not entail religion or spirituality, & [...]