Virgo New Moon: Solitude and the Contented Heart
Where Virgo falls in your birthchart, you are complete. Here, you’re absorbed in the happy work of problem solving, figuring stuff out, and making things work. In this part of your life, you don’t need a report card from anyone else. You’re grading yourself on an entirely different (and probably much more punishing) scale….
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Virgo: Practical Magic
Most of us are not full-time priestesses or everyday saints. We’re just people with jobs, carpools, and colicky pets. We may wish for more time to meditate, but it’s Virgo and the sixth house that represent the everyday world where we spend most of our time. Virgo asks: what if each part of your day, tasks great and small, could be a catalyst for your spiritual growth?
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Eclipse?
Though eclipses are dramatic and interesting, few of them are truly life-changing. For many of us, this Solar Eclipse will come and go with some mild emotional disruption and perhaps some unexpected developments in some area of life, and that’s about it. But watch your chart closely over a number of years, and you learn to identify its hot spots.
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Leo New Moon: The Grateful Flow
Gratitude opens the heart to the world around you in the same way being in love makes the world seem like a kinder and more benevolent place. You’re not only happy, but inspired—available to receive whatever ideas and inspirations come your way.
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New Moon in Leo: Walking the Circle
The world is in the process of recreating itself, and we are weaving change and upheaval into the fabric of our new future as we go along. Sanity tells us to be afraid, but faith whispers that there are no false moves now; however random, even capricious these changes appear to be, they are embedding themselves into our new foundation like stray river rocks and sea glass….
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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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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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Solar Eclipse in Libra: You Were Asleep
You’ll never be the same person you were before life and relationships happened to you; every person you’ve loved has left a hairline fracture….
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New Moon in Gemini: Road Trip
It’s so easy to trivialize Gemini, to dismiss it as a fickle, gossipy, lightweight sign. But that is a young person’s way of looking at it, the perspective of someone who hasn’t yet learned about the tyranny of definition.
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Astrology for Feb. 20-26, 2023: Pisces New Moon – Xanadu
The epic poems of our lives, once interrupted by reality, may never be finished. But then… if we did, and if they were, what would be left for us to dream?
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