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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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….
Read MoreCancer New Moon: Vacation
Sometimes, leaving behind what’s safe and familiar is the only way we’ll learn who we are… but it can make us fear that we’ll never find our way back home.
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Gemini Solar Eclipse: Brothers and Sisters
Few people get the opportunity to influence us when we are so malleable as in childhood, when brothers and sisters leave their hand prints on us as they might in wet cement.
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Highlights for June 7-13, 2021: We Happy Few
Eclipses bring change and often, some agitation. But as we go through the current eclipse spin cycle, we can rest assured that this process will move us in the direction of growth, curiosity, learning, and open-mindedness.
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Taurus New Moon: Living Well
All of us make trade-offs of time, money, and energy every day. The opportunity in this Taurus New Moon is to figure out whether you’re making the trade-offs that are right for you.
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Aries New Moon: The Beast in Me
Wherever Aries appears in your chart, you probably don’t play well with others. There’s still something untamed beneath your refined veneer—something songwriter Nick Lowe once called The Beast in Me, and which an astrologer might call Aries.
Read MorePisces New Moon: Lilies of the Field
Several times each week I put away my brain and my clever, touch-typing fingers and I break out The Nap. For a brief, luxurious time, I let go of the past that propels me so punishingly in the present. For awhile, my imagination is freed from the constrictions of the identity I’ve created for myself.
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