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In the Year of the Wood Horse: Become One with Its Power

Yesterday brought the beginning of the lunar year. In Chinese astrology, it’s the Year of the Green Wood Horse, who’s arrived in our lives with great energetic pomp and circumstance:  An Aquarius New Moon the day before infused it with power, bringing the seed energy for us all to receive life-changing inspiration in a silent hour. […]

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Cancer Full Moon: The Goddess Returns

Every Full Moon brings revelation. When the Sun turns its radiance on the Moon from across the sky each month, life itself answers.  A responsive surge flows into your life, from the deep current of intuitive lunar wisdom that runs beneath your conscious awareness. Like the Capricorn New Moon that preceded it, this Moon is […]

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Venus Conjunct the Sun, 2014: The Transfiguration of the Ancient Queen of Heaven

We’re just four days from Venus’ vibrational union with the Sun, her first in Capricorn since January 2006.  An eight-year cycle in our relationship with the Cosmic Feminine is drawing to an end in the next four days.  On Saturday, our Star will turn its radiant fire on all that is irrelevant and superfluous about […]

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The Sun and Venus Retrograde: The Part of the Past That Your Future Needs

Today our Star has been moving through the degree of Capricorn where Venus will bring her 40-day vision quest to an end on January 31. The Sabian symbol for the energy carried by 13 degrees of Capricorn is this:  “In a dense jungle, a perfectly preserved Mayan bas-relief.” Your Future Needs Your Past “The fecundation […]

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Mars, Uranus, and a Consciousness with Room for Everything

Christmas celebrates a (re)birth of Light and Love — and today, the Cosmos has reminded us that Love is anything but bland. It’s the fiery, passionate energy that holds the Universe together, and upends what doesn’t serve life. And today it was pulling us towards all the different truths that live in our hearts. Mars, the […]

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Jupiter Trines Saturn: Become “the Vessel Through Which Love Can Pour”

Tonight Jupiter and Saturn, two of the great carriers of cosmic power, have joined forces.  The grace and abundance of Jupiter has flowed, with the superconductive force astrologers call a trine, straight into the structuring realism of Saturn.  For the second time since July, these two very different forms of power have shown us what […]

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Solar Eclipse in Scorpio: Renew Your Life. Change the Game.

A For those of us in the U.S., the dawn of this day began as the two great lights of our sky began the ancient dance of solar and lunar power we call an eclipse.  The field for this dance is Scorpio — the sign of the Cosmic Transformer and the energy that raises the […]

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From the Shadows to the Light: The Transforming Feminine at the Aries Lunar Eclipse

At 7:37 p.m. EDT tonight, Luna, glorious and full in Aries, dips into the shadow the Sun casts over the Earth.  This penumbral lunar eclipse is the first of six eclipses that will occur in Aries and Libra over the next 18 months.  Eclipses are the most dramatic ways the Universe brings about change in our […]

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Shifting Towards Breakthrough: Saturn and Mars Take Their Positions

Two of the multiple shifts that are about to unfold within you and around you take place today and tomorrow. These are enormous shifts, crucial not only to empowering breakthrough in your life but just as importantly, to your ability to contain and ground the breakthrough — to make it part of the reality of […]

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Venus, Persephone, and the Nine Nights of the Goddess

Tonight, ancient feminine energies — Venus and Persephone — meet in the last, critical degree of Scorpio.  This is the sign of the Cosmic Transformer, the realm of the depths, where the mysteries of regeneration take place and the cycle of death and rebirth plays out in all its myriad forms.  Tonight, the feminine powers […]

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