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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Capricorn New Moon: The Year of Maybe
Maybe just for a little while, come in out of the cold, where you’ve been rowing hard, for a long time. Sit by the fire with loved ones and rest a little bit. You’ve come a long way, and now is the time to figure out the next chapter of your story—to figure out when to say “yes,” when to say “no,” and when it’s best to just say “maybe.”
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Scorpio Solar Eclipse: Sparks
We’re reminded at the Scorpio Solar Eclipse how our bodies can be taken at any moment. But when we love another person, we create something deathless.
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Libra New Moon: The Way the World Works
Marrying someone who will supply what you lack seems like a precarious position in which to put oneself. But if you marry a person who is good at the things you’re not, they just might help you develop those qualities yourself.
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Virgo New Moon: A Grand Mess
When you get right down to it, life is a grand mess – and in fact, it’s kind of beautiful that way. Maybe everything is already perfect, just as it is, and your only job is to figure out your place in it, and to do the best you can with what you’ve been given.
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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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