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The partial lunar eclipse at 27° of Taurus is upo The partial lunar eclipse at 27° of Taurus is upon us, arriving at 12:58am PST in the early hours of Friday. During a lunar eclipse, the earth is between the moon and the sun, casting an earth shadow on the moon during the time when the moon is typically fully lit. This gives the moon a reddish cast, giving it the name “blood moon.” North node eclipses are said to initiate new desires and energy increases, and this is the first in a series of north node eclipses in Taurus over the next year and a half. We may have been getting the first hints (or very strong messages) for weeks already about where this is happening for us personally. In general, Taurus is about the root systems – all that anchors, stabilizes, and nourishes us. It’s ruled by Venus, goddess of love, so maybe it’s especially about the relationships and connections that resource us and have our backs and make it safe for us to reach. Taurus parties by slowing down and chilling hard, turning up the sensory pleasure and love beams. Wherever it is in our charts, we might have a gift for steady beauty, for deep nurturance, for long-game manifestation. An eclipse in this area is likely to shift what kind of nourishment or stability we make and seek - what kind of roots we need to put down to secure the success and sustainability of our next round of growth. Uranus is this moon’s back up choir – it’s been busy in Taurus for 3 years already, breaking down and composting old structures and dead forms, creating the raw material for evolution and new life. This eclipse is also happening on top of the fixed star Algol, associated with Medusa, the snake-headed guardian. Medusa’s myth is a trauma healing journey; she embodies the intense activation of the defenses after trauma. Things could get a little hot and spikey and fated; the whole vibe is very Queen of the Underworld. As with any eclipse, there is nothing we need to “do” ritually to capture the magic – this is a happening, we don’t need to bring it on, and we can’t control or direct it. Rest if you can, and take exquisite care. Some of your power is going to be available soon to reclaim. Art by @jamesturell, purple disco slime moulds by nature.
The new moon renews herself today at 2:14pm PST at The new moon renews herself today at 2:14pm PST at 12° of Scorpio. Mars is here as well, in its domicile as Scorpio’s ruler, adding power to whatever stings. Scorpio encodes the wisdom of the underworld. Wherever she is in our charts, we might have some real ferocity; an instinct for what thrives in secrecy; some innate sense of how to navigate dark depths and channel oceans of emotion for healing. Scorpio teaches us one of the keys to transformation is a willingness to shed our status and soften our defenses so we that may descend into the depths of our vulnerability, into our inner world of memory and raw feeling - the intensity we experienced as children, or at our most difficult times, our emotional low-points. The younger-self-parts and ancestral-parts we meet in this descent may be in some pain, having taken responsibility for carrying alone a memory charged with terror or grief or shame. We unconsciously cut ourselves off from these parts order to function, to move on, to survive. They may appear distorted and ugly and “unloveable.” It might break our hearts to have to remember, and actually feel, what we’ve been through. Our job is just to love. To meet these shadow parts with empathy, compassion, and respect. To witness them, attune to them, welcome them exactly as they are. We can feel with them. Agree with them about how hard and scary being human is. Praise them for surviving, for helping us survive. Ask them what they need. Let them know that whatever they’re carrying, they no longer need to carry it alone. In this steady stream of love and connection, what was poison becomes medicine. Every time we face our own inner “monsters,” as we love and accept them and reintegrate them, our capacity for empathy and compassion grows. We love ourselves and others more wholly, more deeply. Deep love activates faith - the faith that love is real, that love exists, even if love seems nowhere to be found. On this new moon, if you’re down in the dark, I’m wishing you a steady spark of this faith. Here’s my prayer I use on repeat when preparing to love my shadow, when I’m in it, and you’re welcome to it: oh Heart, great sage of love, show me what you’re made of.
Sending love to my mother’s mother, sweet Irene Sending love to my mother’s mother, sweet Irene Marie today ❤️ I’ve been told a story that she told about a near-death experience she had when she was young. She was very ill, dying from a sickness, maybe scarlet fever before antibiotics. She reported seeing a bright light and going towards it. When she arrived it was a beautiful place, green and heavenly, and her ancestors were there to greet her with love. One of them told her she needed to go back to her body, to live, and like that, whoosh, she did. She woke up and recovered. After that, she was not afraid of death. She told this story to my mother and also passed on this direct transmission to her, this fearlessness or feeling of peace about death or “the other side.” My mom grew up to serve as a death worker: a hospice chaplain to the dying, a funeral officiant, and a grief counselor for those left behind. She passed this transmission from my grandmother on to me, along with many stories and transmissions of her own from her experiences tending to the dying and the grieving. While I’m not attached to any specific beliefs or ideas about death and “what happens,” when I imagine dying, when I call in my own Death to come closer and speak with me, alongside this animal body fear of leaving everything and everyone I know and love, I also feel this peace. The peace of Irene Marie, the peace of some deep place in me that does not know but trusts. I’m not yet a death worker (though surly if I live long enough, I will have the honor of serving many at the end), but I am able to sit with others in their fear and pain most days, people who may not feel like they want to live, and no matter how big this trauma is, it doesn’t rattle me all the way. I feel my grandmother with me, like a steady brook, like a stream of compassion and love and faith. Thank you grandma, so much love to you and your own mother Marie, thank you for the gift of life.
Happy end of harvest to all magic skeletons out th Happy end of harvest to all magic skeletons out there! May all our relations be well fed tonight. May we be guided wisely by our great teacher, Death. Live now, love now, eat a tiny Kit Kat now! Before it’s too late!!
Happy full moon 🌕 this full moon peaks this mor Happy full moon 🌕 this full moon peaks this morning at 7:57am PST, at 27° of Aries, the holy shit starter. Aries is cardinal fire, initiating the zodiac sequence; in the northern hemisphere it brings the spring birth/rebirth energies, calling all the seeds into an emergency of awakening and growth. It corresponds meaning-wise with the first house - with the formation of an ego and a strong enough sense of one’s instincts and impulses to be able to enter the world. Ruled by Mars, Aries has the bravery, the audacity, the awesome fucking nerve - to do exactly what it feels like doing, right now, without checking the temperature of the room or asking anyone’s permission. Full moons are big finishes of a growth or expansion cycle, and this is felt as a celebration or a funeral, or a little of both. Every month, full moons give us a chance to honor what is over, to practice endings, to practice letting go. This one is coinciding with a cardinal T-square between the Aries moon, Libra sun, Mars in Libra, and Pluto in Capricorn. With Aries’ ruler Mars in its opposite sign Libra - who loves (loves!) to check the temperature of the room and ask permission first - there’s real transformative potential in any tension you feel between agency and empathy. Where has Libra season been highlighting imbalances for you? Where have you been shown that you can’t both priortize your own needs and desires and prioritize the needs and desires of others? What have you been shown about what has to change? Pluto’s trying to tear down toxic power arrangements, as always, so if you’ve been locked into any relational contracts that aren’t ultimately good for you, or anyone, any you only agreed to unconsciously, this is the moment to ritually, energetically be done. Since this is an Aries full moon, maybe use fire. Maybe tap a vein of instinct, write down what you know you will no longer be putting up with or colluding with in yourself and others. Maybe write it in red ink and sign it furiously. Burn it and be done. Full moon inspiration art by Peter Sato 🙌🏼
Mercury has stationed direct 🙌🏼 and Jupiter, Mercury has stationed direct 🙌🏼 and Jupiter, too, but also, it’s a full moon in Aries week 🔥Just reminding myself to put a hand on my heart every once in awhile and breathe out the intensity. Hi. How are you?
#Tbt 💙💙💙🦋 love to my original partners #Tbt 💙💙💙🦋 love to my original partners in crime, Ben Rojas and Danielle Franzen - and Paul Mathers who is maybe behind the camera? This is an accurate portrayal of my heart and my eyebrows at 16. Also ya’ll - last days to register for this Sunday’s Regenerate writing workshop on Vortexes and Counter Vortexes, on the day that Mercury goes direct, of course. You can join for $45, sign up on my site 🙌🏼
Hi friends, this is what my face looks like now, s Hi friends, this is what my face looks like now, still mostly cheeks. Still the same long side-part bang wave I had in the 80s & 90s and now this fine, fraggley brown hair, just a couple of starter grey streaks, you can’t see them in this photo but they’re there, very exciting. I often meditate or sleep at the foot of this tree of life glyph I painted on a wall in my office. When I lean back onto it, my head is in Yesod. Anyone who tunes in with me over Zoom is used to seeing it behind me/growing out of my shoulders or head. It’s full of teachings I will never finish exploring. Meanwhile, Portland, Oregon. It’s fully fall here, lots of gray wet days now and some sunny hours so beautiful you could cry. Evidence of impermanence everywhere. It makes me want to say thank you to everyone who has found me. Every friend, everyone who reads my moon posts and leaves comments or sends messages, everyone who has joined a class or sought me out for somatic trauma therapy or trusted me to hold space in some way for their creativity or healing. As I sink/sync further in to the season of descent and unraveling, I know I’ll be with you all, and my heart is full. There’s no one I’d rather live the crumbling of the empire with. If you paused long enough to read this, I probably mean you. Thank you. I’m glad I know you, and get to be known by you. I’m glad we are alive at the same time. I just thought I’d leave this message here, on this electric wall, that might anyday disappear or become obsolete. Seems fitting.
Happy new moon friends 🌑 this one goes dark ear Happy new moon friends 🌑 this one goes dark early on Wednesday at 4:05am PST, at 13° of Libra, the cosmic harmonizer. Libra represents our turn toward and urge to master relating with others. It can teach us how to tune in and blend in, how to smooth a relational field, how to be diplomatic and generous with the benefit of the doubt, so that we sew seeds of loving kindness and generosity in others. Wherever Libra is in your chart, it’s probably trying to throw a party. It might also be conjuring deep utopian fantasies: gorgeous green cities where everyone belongs, everyone is thriving, everyone has a favorite cocktail and the bar is open. All of this is great and feels great, and we need this positive loving energy to manifest utopias for real. But problems arise here when problems arise - when we tune in and sense that something is not right, but let our instincts to people-please and be cool override our judgement. What Libra needs but might not always know how to work with is Mars, the hot tempered warrior who knows how to not just recognize injustice or wrongdoing but also say no to it with its entire being. As ✨ would have it, both Mars and a retrograde Mercury are also in Libra, squaring Pluto a bit as it goes direct. This combination might highlight any imbalances we are living right now, within or without, and give us some time to reflect on that shit and prepare to make the necessary adjustments. Since this is a new moon, it’s probably best to begin within: contract, rest, self-attune, self-empathize, sense if all of your parts are being treated with respect and getting enough of what they need. The capacity to be with others and show up in the collective in a good way is rooted in how we are with ourselves, in whether our own cup is full. If you sense any unmet needs, bring some compassion and honoring to that place in you that’s been going without, and set an intention to pour some good love on it. Maybe throw a tiny restful party for yourself - a nap, a warm beverage, cuddling with animals or ferns, a float in sea of stars. New moon inspiration from @lacabezaenlasnubes
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