Sagittarius New Moon: Walkabout
Are you going on a Spirit Quest, or are you simply, wastefully throwing away a perfectly good job/relationship/happiness with both hands?
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Scorpio New Moon: Sparks
We’re reminded at the Scorpio New Moon how easily accidents, illness, and murderers can take our bodies, at any moment. But when we love another person, we have the sense of creating something deathless.
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Virgo New Moon: Dharma Protector
For Virgo, truth has a lot to do with high standards of conscientiousness, duty, and efficiency in service of some ideal. It really is the opposite of Pisces, for whom love and acceptance are themselves the ideal.
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Gemini New Moon: Road Trip
It’s so easy to trivialize Gemini, to dismiss it as a fickle, gossipy, lightweight sign. But that is a young person’s way of looking at it, the perspective of someone who hasn’t yet learned about the tyranny of definition. When you’ve spent decades writing, editing, and telling your own life stories, you begin to see Gemini quite differently. Is it fickle to decide that you want the opportunity to explore something new about yourself, or is it a response to something primal and creative? Is it intellectually lazy to gossip about other people, or is it simple curiosity and fascination with fellow humans?
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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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Capricorn New Moon: The Leap
Because there is nothing wishy-washy about Scorpio, Saturn is finishing its transit here in decisive fashion. “No longer this,” we think, even if we’re not sure what will fill the gaps opened by loss….
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New Moon in Aquarius: Doing the Math
There comes a moment when it’s time to let go of things. But how do you know when enough is enough? I suppose it’s when you realize that something consistently takes more from you than it gives back….
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New Moon in Capricorn: Delicious Truths
Mars and Pluto may glower, but the secret weapon at the dawn of 2014 is silent, shimmering Venus moving retrograde through Capricorn. Accordingly, my plan of action is this: Instead of hollering at myself for my failures, I’m going to experiment with a more flirtatious approach….
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New Moon in Sagittarius: Walkabout
At this Sagittarius New Moon, you may feel a strong urge to roam. In fact, you may feel that you have no choice but to run away from home—or your job, or your marriage. You need to open up your life in some way, or reinvent yourself, and you simply can’t manage it without a change of scenery. You feel you’ll go crazy if you don’t break free….
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