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It’s the equinox friends! A deeply holy day —

It’s the equinox friends! A deeply holy day — the sun enters Aries, the Zodiac cycle renews itself, and for those of us in the northern hemisphere, spring officially begins. Then Tuesday morning at 10:23 am PST, the moon enters Aries, and we have the newest new moon possible – a new moon at 0° of Aries. Mercury is also here in Aries, and Chiron and Jupiter, adding blessings & magic for healing and growth. Pluto is sextiling this new moon from its own death/rebirth threshold, just days away from entering Aquarius. And Mars is about to complete its transit of Gemini (finally!) and enter Cancer. This is the most auspicious confluence for rebirth that I have seen or felt in a while.

Aries is represented by the great ram, an archetype of individual power and will and commencement. Just picture a giant, majestic, muscley ram with its enormous spiraling horns and it’s at home on these craggy mountains because it is so strong and god-like that hard rock is comfortable and nurturing to it. Picture it winding up its power to charge an obstacle—there is nothing that can stand in the way of that kind of force. Wherever Aries influences your chart, that’s what you have access to—that pure energy that operates on impulse, that doesn’t over think, that just wants and acts and charges forward. Through this wanting and acting on the world, Aries helps us discover who we are.

Any lunation at 0° is a wild card. Zero is the Mother Nothing, the fertile emptiness. So what we are experiencing here in Aries is an awakening of pure potential, connected to who we are here to be and become. You do not need to be ready for this new potential. You probably can’t be; it might even be essential that you wander into it innocently or foolishly, without knowing what you are getting yourself into. What you can do is be open. You can be willing to get ready, or to get ready to get ready. This new moon is inviting us to (again!) let go of needing to know or control the final outcome. It wants us to plant seeds of faith in ourselves and in our becoming. It wants us to follow an impulse, and then the next one, and the next one, until magically, what’s beginning has begun.

Tuesday morning at 4:40am PST, the full moon peaks

Tuesday morning at 4:40am PST, the full moon peaks at 16° of Virgo. Then, just one hour later, Saturn enters Pisces. Virgo is the holiest editor, the priestess of precision. It’s gift is for assessing, somewhat severely, what’s working and what isn’t. It actually loves cleaning up a mess, and restoring order, and doing hard steady work, as long as it is meaningful. Wherever Virgo influences your chart, you’ve likely got real work to do in the world, diagnosing and healing and upgrading dysfunctional systems. While Pisces may be the most obviously spiritual of the Zodiac signs, the one most-stoned on cosmic love poems and embodied visions of wholeness, Virgo is the one of the signs most-equipped to put that love and spiritual insight into actual practice.

As Pisces continues loosening us and readying us for the coming spring growth, this full moon in Virgo is inviting us to do a deep process edit. What have you learned about putting your aesthetic sense and sacred values into living practice? Are the systems you have created for yourself still supporting you? Where is it clear, from the hot mess, that you need to re-stabilize or re-tailor that support? Sometimes systems breakdown because we are outgrowing them, and our needs are changing. Listen to the wisdom of what is breaking down, and what isn’t.

Under the light of this full moon, Saturn brings it teachings about the magic of limits to the Piscean dream realm. This will likely open a direct line to ongoing insights on how to manifest something very real that right now you can only imagine. For more on all of it, head to my substack, In the River of What’s Happening Now. Longer downloads on the new and full moons with ritual and creative writing prompts are free for subscribers. Happy full moon!

Later tonight at 11:06pm PST, the moon goes dark a

Later tonight at 11:06pm PST, the moon goes dark and renews herself at 1° of Pisces. Pisces is mutable water, the water of transformation, the ending that gives birth to new beginnings. It’s the final month of the 12-fold Zodiac development cycle that begins with Aries and the first personal instincts declaring themselves so that an ego can form, and ends with the total dissolution of that singular ego identity. It’s represented by the cosmic fish of nonduality, forever swimming the ocean while being the ocean, washing boundaries into boundarylessness, dissolving distinctions into unities, merging thoughts into feelings into meanings.

In the northern hemisphere, Pisces guides us out of winter. In the outer world, it’s the rains that come and thaw the frozen earth. It calls on the seeds that have been planted in the cold and the dark and quickens their dreams of becoming. In the inner world, it’s the opening and loosening of psychic and bodily channels to bring us out of contraction. If you set an intention for new life back on the winter solstice, and there is anything in you that’s stuck and frozen and blocking the path to that new life getting to even begin, Pisces season has the potential to dissolve that stuckness. It does it by restoring the feeling function and flooding the poem gates. It does it by tapping higher forces like love and beauty. It does it by showing us to the limits of our gripping and control, and giving us the option to, instead, trust.
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Today at 10:29am PST, the moon is full at 16° of

Today at 10:29am PST, the moon is full at 16° of Leo. Leo is a fixed fire sign, the hot hot heart to Aquarius’ cool intellectual starlight. Leo is embodied, loose, passionate, fearless. It wants us to love and glorify and express our unique, individual form. That’s where the moon mirror is going full right now, reflecting all the sun’s light. From a northern hemisphere perspective, it’s like a little portal to peak summer has opened up in the middle of our psychological and actual winter.

Leo is an archetype of mastery, self-dominion. It represents the kind of strength that comes from unapologetic individuality, from the totally free and controlled expression of our beings.
This full moon weekend might be calling you to reflect on your indivuduation, and to celebrate how far you’ve come. Where are you at on your journey to acknowledging, embracing, and serving your nature? Where are you at in devoting time and power to developing your unique style and gifts, and bringing them into the collective where they are desperately needed? How is that fire in your belly doing?

Here's what Leo knows: no one can tell you who you are, and no one can grant you access to your power and your gifts – only you can do that. But like, you can do that. You don’t have to live a life of quiet compromise. You can claim your life. Self-love and self-recognition are the keys. So is honoring the intelligence of the body, and all of its subtle signals. The more we honor our unique design, the more releasing we do of all that is not us and not right for us, the more our life force is liberated, and the more we can be in right relationship with others. Our liberation is entangled, so the ball of sun in the center of me thanks the ball of sun at the center of you, for all you’ve already done to be a light in the world.

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Today at 12:53 pm PST, we get our first new moon o

Today at 12:53 pm PST, we get our first new moon of the year – a new moon at 1° of Aquarius. There are many benevolent contexts surrounding this new moon that deserve a brief mention and celebration. Mercury in Capricorn and Mars in Gemini are both now direct, hallelujah, liberating our flow of physical energy and increasing the fidelity of our communications. Venus is also closing in on an exact conjunction with Saturn in Aquarius, bathing the gateway of form in the scented, healing waters of Love and further blessing this new moon. Then on Sunday – also the lunar new year – Uranus turns direct in Taurus, ushering in a period of 3 months where all planets and energies are moving freely forward.

Have you been experiencing a welcome shift in energies in the last few days? Are you taking longer, more luxurious breaths? Has a great question happened to you? Would you like to climb onto a proper throne of wonder this weekend?

Aquarius is a fixed air sign, the most air of the air signs. The energy is very mental and future-y visionary here, which is good for loosening the hold of tradition or others’ expectations, getting free and far far out. Wherever we are at on our winter vision quest, these are excellent conditions for doing some inner spelunking, exploring and expanding on the questions and dreams that have been showing up. What do they tell you about what is emerging for you, and what might be particularly valuable to focus your energies on? What might you want to do to show it how important it is to you?

If you’re ready to manifest some new direction or feeling, just remember that Aquarian rituals are most powerful when we play our desires a few octaves higher, and want something for not just ourselves but for everyone. Like, I don’t just want abundant love and resources and meaningful work and play for myself, I want that for everyone. Call it in for everyone. That’s what time it is. We are all containers for the living forces of the universe, made out of the living forces of the universe. May this new moon free our minds from fear fuel so that we can feel it, relax into faith and awe, and imagine creatable futures where all is in right relationship.

This Friday at 3:08 pm PST, the first full moon of

This Friday at 3:08 pm PST, the first full moon of 2023 crests at 16° of Cancer – the moon’s home sign – and bathes us in dreamy, stirring light. Cancer is cardinal water, an archetype of nuturance and protection. In the northern hemisphere it guides the first month of summer, the time after the rebirth of spring when a lot of young, still-vulnerable life has been born. Cancer teaches us how to mother that which is new and needs some time and safety and care to establish itself; it teaches us the art of emotional labor.

This full moon is arriving just as the year has been freshly born. The general astrological weather conditions – a retrograde Mercury in Capricorn, a still retrograde Mars in Gemini – want us to be moving slowly, as energies are still solidifying and reflecting on what they want to do. While this might frustrate any rational linear planning, it’s creating ideal conditions for intuitive navigation.

Intuitive navigation often begins with cultivating receptivity – pausing any and all unnecessary doing in favor of unwinding and nourishing, listening and resonating, dreaming and being. As we re-enter our routines after hopefully getting some of that time to contract and be, Cancer wants to give us a heightened sensitivity to our bodies and feelings and needs, to any part of us that might need some extra support. The year ahead has some very dramatic turns in store. We don’t have to know anything about all that to prepare - by meeting those needs, filling cups that need filling, emptying cups that need emptying.

We might find ourselves cleaning to trance music or having a good hard cry. We might schedule some therapy or massages or vacations. We might curl into a pocket of quiet time to study and think and feel and journal and, if not have a proper vision for the year, at least have a vision of a vision. The Sabian symbol for 16° of Cancer is "A person studying a mandala in front of them, with the help of a very ancient book." Conditions seem very good for receiving insight into how to nurture our individuation this year. Let’s open up a channel and find out.

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Happy anniversary and new marriage year to my husb

Happy anniversary and new marriage year to my husband, my best friend, my ride or die ❤️❤️❤️ and happy new year to you all!

This morning at 2:17am, the moon went dark and ren

This morning at 2:17am, the moon went dark and renewed herself at 1° of Capricorn, the holy sea goat. Deep breaths. It’s been a year and we’re being called into the dark cave where imagination sleeps and dreams and cooks up the new new, so I’ll try to keep this short. Capricorn is cardinal earth. While all earth signs teach the art of manifestation, Capricorn teaches lessons in its initiation, how to begin working an idea into something actual in the world of physical, concrete, limited forms - how to make something very real.

The archetype resonates back to Amalthea’s horn of plenty, the original cornucopia. Amalthea was the she-goat who nursed Zeus as an infant on Mount Dicte. “Dicte” is a referent to language itself—“dict” is Latin for “say.” What we say, the words we use, is one way to begin the manifestation process. When we set intentions ritually, like we do on new moons, we choose words that call in a desired meaning, and this communicates to the universe and to every part of us the direction we need to start moving in. If we do this wholeheartedly, it can harness a lot of lifeforce, which we will need. Because then we have to embody and enact that intention. We have to climb the mountain of it every day for as long as it takes. We have to greet obstacles with curiosity and attend to them with grit. We have to surrender fully to the steady, rigorous, mundane process of creation.

This Capricorn new moon wants you to plant such a seed of power. It wants you to dream about what you would like to create in your life and in the world next. And when you know what it is - it might be a minute, since we are still in the early first days of winter - it wants you to commit to it formally, ritually, whole heartedly. As this moon grows in light over the next six months, the spirit of Capricorn can gift us the sturdiness we need, the willingness to be uncomfortable we need, the love of hard but meaningful work we need, so that we can be the living cause of the effect we want to see in our lives and the world.

That’s it - happy new moon friends. Rest up. Dream. Call in a vision of how to use your power wonderfully and wisely. Ice sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy ❄️

Tonight at 8:08 pm PST, the last full moon of the

Tonight at 8:08 pm PST, the last full moon of the year will peak at 16° of Gemini. Gemini is represented by doubly by The Lovers and The Twins. Mystically speaking, it’s an archetype of separation and unification – it teaches us about how wholes split off into parts, create a lot of drama and electricity, and then somehow realize themselves as whole again. It teaches us how evolution happens, how oppositional tensions can be frustrating but also sexy and generative: it’s how we create new states and beings. Ruled by Mercury, Gemini is also associated with speech and communication, speaking to how words are one of our most powerful vehicles for evolving consciousness.

This full moon is in an exact conjunction with Mars, highlighting the shadow work Mars has been trying to accomplish here. We are being asked to reclaim the power of our own voices as one of the powers we do have, in a world of forces that are larger than us. The Sabian symbol for 16° of Gemini is “woman activist on a platform, giving an emotional speech, dramatizing her cause." If we’ve been playing small to stay safe, avoiding confrontation with our oppressors, consider that these are difficult but also ideal conditions for moving beyond those old, passive defenses.

Wherever you are at in your own journey to claim your voice, hone its powers, and use it to free yourself and others, this full moon wants you to celebrate how far you’ve come. Healing comes from transcending the entrapment of former paradigms, but it takes time – years, lifetimes, generations. We are at a culmination point in our expansion. Let’s honor that. A part of us will always need control and safety, and a part of us will always need freedom and power. The tension between those two parts won’t ever fully resolve, but as our evolution proceeds, as we find a way to both/and, the tension loses its charge. Here’s to releasing more fear from our bodies, to replacing it with trust and permission, and building capacity for the electric life to come.

**art inspiration is a doubled figure from Kazumasa Nagai**

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