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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Aquarius New Moon: Other Tribes
The Aquarius challenge is to join with others to create collective creativity, to pursue aims that extend beyond our tribes, our society, and the current moment in history.
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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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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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Scorpio New Moon: On the Road to a Foreign Country
Once, there was so much road ahead of me that I could afford to make some wrong turns along the way. It doesn’t feel that way now. I can see that there is an end point to this journey.
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Virgo New Moon: How Can I Help?
When the world’s pain and troubles — or our own — threaten to overwhelm us, beautiful Virgo reminds us that there is always something we can do to help.
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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 6 | Saturn & Pluto Eat More Crunchy Things
Happy New Year! This week, Mars enters Sagittarius and the First Quarter Moon is in Aries. Otherwise, it’s a slow astrological news week – so April and Jen set you up for next week’s big Saturn/Pluto conjunction, which astrologers have been talking about forever! All this, plus: if planets were dogs, an iconic poison control spokescritter, and taking a bite out of the new year with lots of food references. CLICK THE SHOW TITLE FOR 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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