New Moon in Leo: Days of Light and Darkness
Whether we offer a body to a human child, a loving home to a pet, a voice to a song, or a pen to a story, we don’t create spirit – only the forms through which it can express itself.
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Cancer New Moon: True North
I remember thinking, good god, now we’re all that’s left. Our mothers left us their compass, hidden deep in our fourth houses like buried treasure; but we’ll have to learn to read it ourselves if we’re to bring this ship safely into harbor.
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Gemini New Moon: On the Road to Mastery
We may think we’re only practicing doing a job, folding laundry, or creating social media posts. But there are no wasted moments as we make our way along the path toward spiritual mastery. We can practice doing it well, or we can practice being bad at it.
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Taurus Solar Eclipse: Pennies From Heaven
When things become too safe, it’s easy to get bored, lazy, and a little bit grumpy. Eclipses seem to catalyze the sort of scary change that we both need and dread, and it’s often the kind of change that, in hindsight, seems to have been inevitable.
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Aries New Moon: The Law of Diminishing Returns
ver coffee, I asked Jonny his plans for the day. He detailed a quest for some particular hot peppers he needed for a new chili powder recipe, followed by warfare with the gophers that have taken over our back yard. Hot peppers and war? I’m just writing about Aries today; …
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Pisces New Moon: Where is Your Sanctuary?
Where is your sanctuary? At this New Moon, find the Piscean sacred space in your life.
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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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Capricorn New Moon: Starting with Why
Capricorn will stop at nothing to climb to the top of the mountain. That’s why we pledge, at his New Moon, to climb important mountains of our own. But most of those resolutions don’t pan out.
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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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New Moon in Libra: Towing the Gondola
This New Moon is as passionate as it gets. This is no romantic gondola ride through Venice; it’s a season for rolling up your pants legs and wading into the stinky, swampy waters of the canal.
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