The Moon and Momzilla
While I have my virtues, I’m simply not the person I could have been had she been in my life awhile longer, to help me smooth off a few more of the rough bits. I suppose we’re all our mothers’ little magna opera – ambitious symphonies that they nurture, refine, and eventually must leave behind, unfinished.
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Aquarius New Moon: Year of the Full Metal Rabbit
Hail the Aquarius New Moon (Feb. 2, 6:31 pm PST) and the Chinese Year of the Rabbit! I confess that I know next to nothing about Chinese astrology, but over the years I’ve been baffled by descriptions of the alleged gentleness and delicacy of those born in Rabbit years. Since …
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Mercury retrograde, Pluto, and the darker woods
mercury rx darker woodsOn Friday, Mercury turns retrograde at 5.58 Capricorn. The Sabian Symbol for 6 Capricorn is, I think, a beautiful and exciting one: “Ten logs lie under an archway leading to darker woods.” The logs can be the things that are blocking your mind, and powers of perception, from seeing the truth. But lay them out in a certain way, and they can also serve as steps that take you deeper into the darker woods.
Mercury is turning retrograde in a conjunction with Pluto and the Moon’s North Node, and the combination is, I think, related to telling some ugly truths – about yourself, about your world. Sometimes loss and shock and grief open up channels of communication that can’t be opened any other way.
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Full Moon in Scorpio: While You’re Making Other Plans
The Sabian Symbol for this Scorpio Full Moon is “A dentist is hard at work,” and I think it speaks eloquently to the deep, difficult, often painful nature of Scorpio and its ruling planet, Pluto. I started going to dentists at the age of five, and I’ve never feared them. …
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