Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn: Live and Learn
This Full Moon ushers in a new, two-year-long cycle of eclipses in the signs of Cancer and Capricorn. Welcome to a critical phase of redefining safety and security and of figuring out how to provide for yourself and your loved ones. Our household is okay at the moment, but we do live in California, a state that is teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy. Many of our friends are unemployed, and others with government jobs have had their hours cut through furlough programs. It’s a little hard to see where it will end up, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be pretty.
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Roadblocks and shallow water: Sun/Saturn and the Full Moon
The chart for Sunday’s Full Moon in Sagittarius features a tight t-square between the Sun, Moon, and Saturn, so this morning has a bit more to demonstrate, I think, than the aggravations of a single morning. The Full Moon calls for reflection, and I’m reflecting on this: Where am I pushing too hard for the wrong things or at the wrong time? When is it necessary to push through blockages, and when is it wiser to heed them and wait for an easier moment? And, with the Sun and Moon in the communicative signs Gemini and Sagittarius, when is it time to speak, and when is it better to listen? …
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First, he killed his mother.
The fallout from last night’s tense Full Moon is spilling out all over today’s headlines. In Alabama on Tuesday, a quiet young man killed ten people – beginning with his mother (remember the Moon conjunct Saturn in that Full Moon chart?) and ending with himself. This morning, I turned on …
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Full Moon in Taurus: Grounded
For years I’ve thrown myself pretty enthusiastically into election seasons, and this one was no exception. After obsessing over polls and devouring political blogs for weeks, I had planned to surrender election Tuesday to all things electional – but fate, as they say, had other plans. Instead, I spent the …
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Full Moon in Capricorn: The Garden of the Gods
A friend of mine, born with the Moon in Capricorn, has an enchanting garden. It isn’t lush; there is a preponderance of desert plants, sages and succulents. But there are also a lovely little patch of lawn next to a soothing waterfall, wind chimes with a deep and resonant tone, …
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Full Moon in Sagittarius: Rebel Without a Pause
Buckle up, folks – it’s going to be a bumpy ride. This highly volatile Full Moon period pits the Sun and Venus against the Moon and Pluto, all in contentious aspect to combustible, unpredictable Uranus. The Sun/Venus urge to make nice is struggling against the Moon/Pluto compulsion to bluntly testify …
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Full Moon in Virgo: The Wheat and the Chaff
I have a confession to make: I don’t hold a very high opinion of popular culture. I prefer the gritty dramas of HBO to reality television, independent films to big-budget action movies, and Charlie Rose to Oprah. I loathe shopping malls, chain restaurants, and Starbucks. I’ve never been on the …
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Full Moon in Taurus: Enough
aurus Full Moon Reflections: Enough by April Elliott Kent As I write this, the county where I live is overwhelmed with enormous brush fires, worse than the firestorms that consumed whole communities almost exactly four years ago. Local news coverage is filled with terrified residents who were forced to evacuate …
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Travelogue
No Gemini/Sagittarius full moon would be complete with a travelogue, right? We spent the long holiday weekend making a pilgrimage to San Francisco, and everything was wonderful… the two daylong drives through surprisingly light traffic, the hotel, the meals, the visits with friends and family. Perfection. Even the cats had …
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Full Moon in Sagittarius: The Last Word
The past few years have been tough for Gemini souls and for anyone with Gemini’s quixotic, mercurial impulse to explore, examine, question, and sample experiences. With Pluto in Gemini’s opposite sign of Sagittarius since 1995, joined in 2003 by Uranus in Pisces, it hasn’t exactly been kicks and grins for …
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