Aries Full Moon: Rights, Grievances, and Relating
But all long-term relationships are a high-wire act of helping someone else live their best life without abandoning your own. It’s tricky work, and even the best-matched partners erupt from time to time over old hurts and resentments.
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Episode 33 | Kittens and Composite Charts
April and Jen review the week’s planetary highlights: Mercury turns direct after a feisty aspect to impulsive Mars; the Sun hits the beach with Neptune; and an energetic, possibly aggravating Last Quarter Moon in Aries. Plus: Composite Charts – they’re two charts in one!
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Highlights for March 23-29, 2020: Gathering Seeds
In Persephone’s half of the year underground, the fields are fallow and there is want. But when she rises in the spring, there are pleasure and plenty. In this Pluto time, we’re underground. But this isn’t the end. We’re gathering seeds. We will emerge again.
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Episode 17 | Saturn in Aquarius: All in this Together
Saturn entering Aquarius, the Aries equinox, a planetary traffic jam in Capricorn, and time-traveling between the early 90s and 2023. And as Saturn in Aquarius reminds us, we’re all in this together.
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Aries New Moon: The Taming
We start out as wild horses, all of us, and life is the process by which we’re tamed. Some of us are civilized by gentle masters who teach us restraint without breaking our spirits. Others were brutalized by cruel circumstances that taught us to trample everything in our paths. Most of us have encountered both types of master; some days we gallop, and some days we trample.
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New Moon in Aries: Sharks
Among the cardinal compass points that orient us to our world, the point of self is one that is often misunderstood and given short shrift.
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Spring: Faces of Mars
Loss and savagery, failure and ruthlessness, cruelty and hurt come to us inevitably as a natural consequence of Mars energy in the world — the price paid for progress — and we lose our innocent Aries enthusiasm soon enough; but over time it is broken down into the rich, emotional loam of Scorpio, from which beautiful things grow….
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New Moon in Aries: Hair of the Dog
I suppose I think of the planets and the gods they represent as something like the ancestors who live in our DNA. We think we’re completely unique, a product of our own creation. We make our own decisions and choices, or so we think; but could it be genetics, years of television viewing, or our third-grade teacher making those choices? Or even … planets?
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Mars in Aquarius: Working with friends
Uranus in Aries’ “pop” combined with the “fizz” of Mars in Aquarius should be enough to revive the most careworn and depleted among us, a sort of bromo fizzy for the soul. The entrepreneurial snap of Aries and the networking brilliance of Aquarius have the potential to propel creative or business projects to exhilarating heights.
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Mercury Retrograde: Doublespeak and ticking time bombs
Last December, Mercury turned retrograde at 6 Capricorn, near Pluto. At the time, I wrote about Mercury drawing us into the “darker woods” of ugly truths about ourselves and our world. The work of self-examination we did then holds us in good stead today, as Mercury turns retrograde again. This …
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