Planets

The Structure Where Your Dreams to Come to Life: The Capricorn New Moon

Over the last twenty-four hours, a day deep in  the Dark Moon before Friday’s Capricorn New Moon, the Cosmic Feminine has activated the dynamic crucible of change known as the Cardinal Cross. First Venus and then the Moon have moved into Capricorn’s first degree. They’ve come to change the power balance in our lives and […]

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In the Heart of the Cosmic Serpent: The 2012 Scorpio Solar Eclipse

  We woke this morning to a cosmic mandate: shed your dead skin. As day broke over the Eastern time zone in the U.S., tomorrow’s total solar eclipse in Scorpio was less than 36 hours away. Luna prepared to move simultaneously into the deepest portion of her Dark Moon phase and into Scorpio, the portion […]

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Four Things You Reallly Need to Know Today

The Moon and Mercury are running the show today, and if you’re tuning it, their directions really couldn’t be clearer.  Each one of the energetic themes below reinforces the other.  It’s a  four-part harmony. Much more on what’s ahead is coming up soon.  In the meantime, here’s the scoop you really need to know right now: 1. The […]

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Breaking Down and Breaking Through: Scorpio-Taurus Full Moon

We are deep in the force field of tomorrow afternoon’s powerful Taurus Moon (3:49 pm EDT).  This weekend has brought a dramatic shift in energies, as the volatile yang vibrations of fire and air came whirling into a yin sky, full of earth and water.   Venus’ and Mercury add to the heat as Venus enters Libra—and […]

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The Political Is Personal: How to Release the Life Force Into Your World

In our corner of the great Multiverse, Mercury, the ancient Messenger of the Gods, is one of the busiest energies there is. Only the Moon moves faster, or has more on her plate. For most of October, Mercury has been doing the ancient dance with Venus that astrologers call a sextile. This weekend, he’s spreading clues everywhere […]

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Turning Up the Heat on the Cosmic Feminine

It happens so often we don’t even notice. The Cosmic Feminine is where she almost always is–at the pivot point of the cosmos’ transformative processes. It’s through the Cosmic Feminine energies–Venus and the Moon–that we’re able to take Life into ourselves. She rules what we love and value, how we nurture and relate. She presides over […]

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You and Your Dreams

  The Universe is asking you to make a choice today and tomorrow.  It’s all about how seriously you relate to your dreams. When I say “dreams,” I’m not talking about what you don’t take seriously.  I’m talking about what you do.  I’m talking the great ineffable power of the Oneness. Reality is saturated with the […]

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Saturn in Scorpio: For You Are the Cosmic Shape-Shifter

We’ve turned a corner.  Before our eyes, the Cosmos is dissolving an old reality and creating the conditions for a new one. The great cycles of time aren’t just ending–and beginning—all around us. Before they ever happen around us, these epic endings and beginnings occur within us. Let’s recall some of what we’ve already experienced, […]

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When Breakthrough Feels Like Blow-Up: Full Moon in Aries

This weekend the Universe is pulling out the stops to shake us loose from whatever are keeping us stuck in dynamics that just aren’t big enough for the new life that is trying to be born in us—and in our world. In many ways, tomorrow’s Aries Full Moon is a repeat of last week’s Uranus-Pluto square […]

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A Tale of Two Hurricanes–and You, Part 2

Since finishing my post on Hurricanes Isaac and Katrina this morning,I’ve realized that I hadn’t actually finished. I’d only begun.  (Is your life, like mine, that way more often that not?)  All day I have continued to be haunted by three things.  One is John Nelson’s achingly, lyrically beautifully map and the Deep Truth it depicts:  each event […]

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