Eclipses in Natal Houses: Dancing in the Dark
The cycle of eclipses moving through the houses of the horoscope presents opportunities for understanding and healing. Each house axis represents where you face a critical turning point, a “crisis” in their life. Using eclipses, it’s pretty easy to pinpoint the source of the crisis….
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Eclipses: Defending Your Life
Imagine viewing scenes from five days of your life: The days on which, at 19-year intervals, solar eclipses conjoined that planet in your birth chart. You were at a turning point, struggling to overcome one of your darkest fears. What events defined these turning points, and how effectively did you handle your fear?
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Episode 27 | The Amazing Disappearing Venus & Cancer’s Flavor of the Day
April and Jen track Mercury as he moves into Cancer; assess the First Quarter Moon in Virgo; and play hide-and-seek with Venus.
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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 18 | An Aries New Moon and a Kerflooey World
As the world’s anxiety level is turned up to eleven, April and Jen share some mindfulness techniques to help you be here now. And in the Big Sky this week: the Aries New Moon, this year’s eclipse season midpoint, and Venus offers Jupiter and Pluto an earthy elbow-bump. Plus: monarch butterflies, tortilla chips, a new imaginary sponsor, and Larry, Moe, and Curly. Oh, and pie. Always, pie.
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Episode 5 | Unboxing Eclipses
Begin your list of 2020 goals, because Mercury moves into Capricorn this week! April and Jen spend the rest of this jumbo-sized episode discussing the upcoming Solar Eclipse, and in general what eclipses mean, how they work, and why we use them. Click here for complete show notes and transcript
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Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition
At a Solar Eclipse, the earthy part of you may feel a little cold, compacted. Take a time-out; sit at the knee of the wise Moon and let her reflect the Sun in you. Is there a wildish ego that’s running around unchecked? What is the part of you that you’re trying to disown? Let the Moon guide you, like a wise mother, toward self-acceptance and humility.
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Eclipse Astrology: Lunar Eclipses, Earthly Instincts
At this lunar eclipse, know that the Earth is offering you something, some smooth block of marble, a piece of wood, a section of clay. Open your instinctive mind, and ask yourself: What is it that wants to be brought into being? And what is the right tool with which to carve it out?
Read MoreChecking in with the eclipses of war
The potential for military conflict that I explored at the December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse is unfolding exactly as expected: “Eclipses bring matters to a turning point, whether they’re matters of love, loss, financial changes – or conflict…. (T)his eclipse degree is conjunct the fixed star Betelgeuse (27 Gemini), a …
Read MoreThe Upside of Eclipses
Eclipses are coming! Eclipses are coming! Time to hide under the bed, batten down the hatches, buy duct tape to seal off the doors and windows? In a word, no. But we astrologers can sound a little like tabloid journalists as we breathlessly – urgently – proclaim the drama of …
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