Gemini Moon
In the summer of 1988 I spent a long weekend in the place where I grew up, a tiny town in southern Indiana. As this is not a place I return to often or eagerly, you would be safe in assuming there was a specific reason for the pilgrimage: in …
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Libran Traffic Jam
Have you looked at the chart for Sunday’s New Moon? I have, all year long. With the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars all clustered together in Libra and in good aspect to everything else in the chart, this is a pretty good-lookin’ chart – which is why I’ve recommended this …
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Thursday Thirteen, Vol. 9
Because it’s late, and it’s been a long day, and I’m unspeakably tired… just 13 simple thoughts to keep in mind for tomorrow’s Virgopalooza Solar Eclipse/Autumnal Equinox extravaganza: 1. Be patient. 2. Be kind. 3. Give people the benefit of the doubt. 4. Measure twice, cut once. 5. Take your …
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Anatomy of a Ritual
Ah, the New Moon in Virgo. I’m partial to the Virgin, so I cracked open a fresh white pillar candle, burned some cedar incense, and put a bowl of totally organic, whole wheat cereal on the altar. Virgo seems like a sensible sort of girl who likes to make sure …
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New Moon in Leo: The Woman in the Mirror
I look in the mirror, and I don’t see a young, beautiful girl, a blank slate with her whole life ahead of her. Instead, at long, long last, I see someone I recognize.
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Beatin’ the Drum
My friend Simone has just posted a wonderful essay for the Gemini New Moon: “You could have 99 things going wrong in your life and one thing going right,” says Abraham, “and if you would beat the drum of that one thing going right, the other 99 would either have …
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The New Moon today was exact at 12:44 pm PDT, at 7.24 Taurus – the Sun and Moon square Saturn in Leo. Which sounds about right. Because when you’re all up in your own petty dramas, strutting and fretting your hour upon the stage – Leo-style – Taurus is the …
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There’s another eclipse this week, this one a solar eclipse at 8.35 Aries early Wednesday morning. What’s been stirring and awakening in your life these past couple of years? Aries is the sign of quickening, or coming alive; somewhere inside you, a seed is trying to push through the earth’s …
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The Sun conjuncted Uranus in Pisces early this morning, so take care – you don’t want to go dropping the blow dryer in the bathtub. This is the kind of aspect that can make folks a little accident-prone, typically because Uranus makes us want to shake up our usual routines, …
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This Friggin’ Book.
Lately I am reminded of a curious bit of truth initially gleaned in my reckless youth. I learned it first in the context of dating, but I find it applies to just about any situation, and it is this: You are never more desirable than when you are unavailable. Along …
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