Cancer New Moon: Setting the Table
It’s a big round table that we’re all sitting at, more or less together, and even those of us who grew up with wise elders and stable households are still frightened children, sometimes. And sometimes there are bigger, stronger people protecting us from life’s harshness, but sometimes we’re the ones who have to fry the chicken and set the table.
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Gemini Full Moon: The Gift of Listening
Listening – that simple gift of attention and love, like holding open a door for someone entering a store as you’re leaving – makes the world feel a little kinder, a little more civilized.
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Scorpio New Moon: Season of Long Shadows
I want to fight death because I’m determined to embrace life ecstatically. I want to proceed with joy into everything that makes life difficult, because they are the same things that make life dear.
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Aquarius Full Moon: Conga Line
Here are some of modern astrology’s contradictory messages about Aquarius, the sign of this month’s first Full Moon (Aug. 1, 2023, 11:31 am PDT): Aquarius symbolizes weirdness, iconoclasm, and innovation, but also friendship and membership in groups. So which is it? Well, I guess it’s both, really.
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Libra Full Moon: Befriending the Enemy
When I think about befriending people whose opinions, lifestyles, or politics are abhorrent to me, some flinty part of me digs in its heels and refuses to give in, loathe to give the impression of surrender. Why do most of us find it so difficult to befriend our enemies—and why is that those with Libra prominent in their birth charts often succeed where we fail?…
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Gemini Full Moon: The Gift of Listening
When we give up pretending that we know everything, we free ourselves to learn from what other people have to say. Listening – that simple gift of attention and love, like holding open a door for someone entering a store as you’re leaving – makes the world feel a little kinder, a little more civilized.
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Taurus and Scorpio Eclipses: Community Garden
The coming eclipses in Taurus and Scorpio will awaken us to the true value of everything, and often that begins with loss, sometimes very small, sometimes life-changing.
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Libra Full Moon: Laws of Motion
What we want is not always exactly what we’ll get – sometimes, it won’t even be close. And sometimes, maybe we shouldn’t get exactly what we want.
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Episode 115 | Capricorn Last Quarter Moon: Shakeups and Headbutts
An invigorating but unpredictable Mars/Uranus square; a Capricorn Last Quarter Moon; Mercury unites with Neptune before leaping into Aries. And a listener question about the difference between sun sign and rising sign birth charts.
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Aquarius New Moon: Little Solar Systems
Few of us can be happy with a completely solitary existence. But I think it’s unusual to bloom so spectacularly within a community garden—because we’re each of us little solar systems, too, with ourselves at the center, sovereign Suns who need to shine.
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