Highlights for Jan. 20-26, 2020: You Are a Message to the Future
Even if your life is pretty stable these days, allow this week’s transits to throw you off course slightly It’s time to adjust your setting.
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Episode 9 | It’s Aquarius Season, Charlie Brown!
This week in the Big Sky, the Sun dons Charlie Brown’s shirt for a tour of Aquarius, where he’s joined by the New Moon in this future-oriented sign. And while Aquarius may be hip, this week is all about the squares: the Sun and Moon at odds with unpredictable Uranus, and a gentle Piscean Venus crossing paths with zealous Mars in Sagittarius. Plus: Tinkertoys, why Aquarius is not a water sign, and the inevitable home repair metaphor. Full episode show notes and transcript
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Episode 4 | The Capricorn Solstice Is Frequently Sunny in Minneapolis
As April bravely endures a bone-chilling, 55-degree day in San Diego, she and Jen discuss the Capricorn Solstice, Venus in Aquarius (she wants her space), and this week’s Last Quarter Moon. Plus: Podpets on the move, more about square aspects, a preview of the upcoming eclipse, and a courageous attempt to explain mutual reception with a housesitting analogy.
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Full Moon in Aquarius: Born Free
Are you a restless lion, born free but now pacing in a cage of your own design? Without the balance of Aquarius, the creative heart collapses under the weight of insatiable longing for approval, petting, validation.
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Highlights for Feb. 25-March 3, 2019
The spark of genius that makes Aquarius so compelling, and its inherent contradictions, reflect humanity in its purest form. We all want to be completely original, but sometimes we need a tour guide to show us how it’s done
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Aquarius New Moon: Connections
Aquarius-style friendships generally sidestep the high emotional stakes of best friends, spouses, and “frenemies.” They are the mesh tank tops of relationships – loosely-knit alliances that keep us covered but let us breathe. They are the connections that let us feel like a part of society without losing our independence.
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Aquarius Lunar Eclipse: Clearing the Air
This Full Moon is a lunar eclipse, when relationships are often due for some reevaluation. And Mars, the planet of competition, war, and aggression, has been retrograde in recent weeks, and frustration has been building. So in order to do what’s needed to maintain vibrant and satisfying social connections, we’ll have to pay alms to Mars as well.
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Aquarius Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse: Radio Silence
This Full Moon–a lunar eclipse in Aquarius–is designed to give a full and truthful accounting of how well we’re navigating Aquarius’ territory. The Full Moon never lies. It’s that interval in the lunar cycle when not even the night time is dark enough to hide our hurts, fears, and flaws. Are you a happy Aquarian camper? Are you spending time with people who engage your finest qualities, or do you disappear in a group, unappreciated and overlooked?…
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Aquarius New Moon: The Unexpected Guest
To be agents of change, we need to connect with friends, colleagues, and like-minded strangers. We have many ways to do that in the digital age. But we have just as many ways to insulate ourselves from the uninvited, whether it’s blocking Facebook friends or hanging terse signs on our front doors. To unite in a larger mission requires that we seek ways of confronting and dancing with the things that we find difficult.
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Aquarius New Moon: The Greedy Cusp
Technically, it’s a New Moon in Aquarius, as fixed and stubborn a sign as they come, and perhaps you’re living a life that is technically much the same as it’s been for ages. But it’s a New Moon with one foot, or maybe two, wiggling their toes in Pisces’ waters. You might find yourself wondering what it would be like to grab for two lives with both hands, instead of settling for just one….
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