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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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Hey friends, Mars is crazy activated right now as

Hey friends, Mars is crazy activated right now as it the full moon draws closer. So just an old perfect meme to remind us to focus on fighting for what matters most, and let the rest rest, at least while emotional temperatures are so high.

And - some potential gifts! Just in case it’s really helpful for some of you during this season of gift giving, I've put up 10 signed copies each of Glitter in the Blood and Open Your Mouth Like a Bell on my shop page. Glitter in the Blood is my how-to book on writing good poems, it’s a perfect gift for someone new to writing poetry or just trying deepen their seriousness and curiosity about the poem writing process. And Open Your Mouth Like a Bell is my most recent collection of poems, its good for anyone healing, falling in love, or going through some big change. You can leave me a note when buying with any special requests for personalization.

The last day I'll be shipping is Wednesday, December 14th, so they can arrive for the holidays - so books are only for sale for one week, through the 13th or while supplies last.

You can also find a link on the shop page or at the link in my bio to buy a gift subscription to my Substack In the River of What's Happening Now. Anyone who loves my poetry books and moon posts will likely love getting these writings in their inbox. Paid subscribers get new content on new and full moons and the quarter moons in between, almost all of them with ritual and creative writing prompts. Subscriptions are also a gift to me, they help me make time to write and create the three (!) books I’m cooking up.

All links in my bio, or up at thecultofmindy.com. Hope this helps someone out there get some inspiration or pass some inspiration along! And even if you don’t buy my books, thank you for giving poetry to yourself and others when you can.

A portrait of the salad of my youth by the talente

A portrait of the salad of my youth by the talented @erikaleesears 🙌🏼 Happy days-off to everyone who has the privelage today. I’m thankful to be alive, and at the same time as you, I couldn’t feel less alone.

There’s a very buoyant, hopeful feeling to Sagit

There’s a very buoyant, hopeful feeling to Sagittarius season. It’s ruled by Jupiter, so while it’s a philosopher/teacher archetype, it also has a very sky daddy/cosmic Santa/blessings-raining-down thing going on. Jupiter is an archetype of expansion, and in Sagittarius it wants to expand and evolve consciousness. Represented by the centaur archer, it activates this far-seeing part of us – the part of us that wants to get stoned on the wisdom of the stars, the part of us capable of glimpsing the whole. Sagittarius knows how an idea becomes a philosophy; how a poem becomes a religion; how to plant an ember in the darkest night and call the light back.

Here in the north, Sagittarius guides the last month of fall and our transition into winter. In a practical sense, it’s like Libra guides the harvest and preparation for dark times, Scorpio brings the actual dying and death rites, and Sagittarius hosts the wake that follows, where everyone is still in mourning but also cracking jokes. There is really only so much grieving we can do before we need to break the tension. We need to drink and dance and affirm that we are still, in fact, alive. That’s Sagittarius, partying with honor, restoring any part of us that has lost faith in the return of the light, because winter hasn’t even started yet – we have to fix our spirits now or we might not make it.

So this is an ecstatic new moon as far as new moons go. Coming in right after an epic healing/eclipsing, sliding in at 1° of Sagittarius, it’s inviting us to find the meaning in our pain and struggle. It wants us to be open to the insights and ethical calls arriving now, intuitions about how we might apply ourselves next to making this world a better, more just, more loving place. New moons and the days that follow them are times when we plant seeds and place calls to the future. Consider what new growth is needed right now. Imagine that it has already happened, what it will look and feel like fully flowered, write it down, light a fire, and then tell the fire all about it.

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At 3:02 am PT on Tuesday morning, the final eclips

At 3:02 am PT on Tuesday morning, the final eclipse arrives, a total lunar eclipse at 16° of Taurus. That’s the exact degree of a retrograde Uranus, the Promethean fire-bringer. I’m not sure what the chances are of that – it seems very unlikely, but here we are. Later this same day, Mercury makes an exact conjunction with the sun, with Venus just a few degrees off. Saturn is also at 18° of Aquarius, near an exact square to all of this. This is astrology of revolution.

First – hi. How are you doing? Are you getting enough water? Rest? Attuned attention? Are your kids and plants and other people ok? Has nothing been working the usual way? Do you feel swirly and uprooted? We have been in the currents of this eclipse season for 3 weeks now, and the south node clearing effects of the Scorpio eclipse have been ongoing. We are now hitting the north node increase side of this vortex. It’s happening wherever Taurus rules your chart, where you might be used to feeling a lot of steadiness, and these are incredibly destabilizing conditions.

This eclipse is coinciding with an election here in the U.S, at a time when the democratic experiment is in crisis. If it were simply a matter of the majority speaking, I want to think we’d be good. Protections for abortion rights would be reinstated; policies would advance that increased the affordability and availability of basic needs AND addressed climate change; we would check greed, the growth of white supremacist violence, and the Christian right’s project of control. But Republicans have been manipulating the structures of our democracy for decades to make minority rule possible. They are counting on us being confused and overwhelmed, going numb to the chaos.

So let’s not be confused. Let’s vote. And let’s also be clear that voting alone is not going to get it done. As Diane di Prima said, “No one way works. It will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down.” Taurus knows one of the secrets to our success will be falling in love with liberating the world & finding joy and pleasure in enacting this revolution. Let’s fight joyfully, and make beauty everywhere we go.

Collectively, Scorpio season finds us deep in the

Collectively, Scorpio season finds us deep in the crisis of patriarchal violence. Here in the U.S., disrespect toward the feminine has been sanctioned by the highest court, and codified into law in a third of states in the form of abortion bans, many without exceptions for rape or incest or even to save the life of the mother. This is not about the sanctity of life, this is about control, this is about diminishing the safety and autonomy of people with wombs. When I remember how many generations this war has been waged, how many thousands of years, how many lives have been forfeit to this ignorance, I feel a primal scream rising.

One aspect of the Scorpion archetype is the dark mother, the fierce and furious protectress, and right now she is ready to eclipse the sun. It’s happening Tuesday, October 25th at 3:49am PT at 2° of Scorpio. The Sabian symbol for this degree is “a broken bottle and spilled perfume.” These are conditions under which a shattering can occur.

The Republican party is in the middle of an extinction event, and the MAGA party that has wrested control is not interested in democracy or civil rights or equality before the law. They mean to impose their white nationalist agenda and faux Christian values on our bodies, on our children. It’s an abuse of power so unconscious, so deeply confused, so frankly fucked, we cannot wait and hope for them to have an awakening of conscience. It’s not coming. And we cannot consign our sisters and brothers to this oppression.

While eclipses are no time for asserting ego control or conducting rituals of personal power, we can reaffirm our passionate commitment to using the power we do have collectively – the power of the vote, the power of the stories we tell and shape the culture with – to channel some serious voltage into reasserting and re-enforcing protective boundaries and beginning to clear the toxicity of these crimes against wisdom. Over the next two weeks, culminating on the total lunar eclipse in Taurus on election day, we have the chance to let that primal scream be heard.

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Happy Saturday friends 💗 Today Venus is cazimi

Happy Saturday friends 💗 Today Venus is cazimi the sun, a conjunction that’s like the goddess of beauty and pleasure going to the Source of light and heat and life, bathing in love beams of power, and returning rejuvenated. I hope we all receive the exact gift of insight that we need, or some renewal of our joy, to fortify us for the coming weeks.

Today is publication day! Happy birthday you beaut

Today is publication day! Happy birthday you beautiful book, congratulations to editor/author @amberrosetamblyn and all the authors you gathered for this project! I am so proud and honored to be in it, & I can’t wait for everyone to read it 🔥

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This Sunday at 1:55 pm PT, the moon is full and fe

This Sunday at 1:55 pm PT, the moon is full and feeling itself at 16° of Aries, the fiery ram. A full moon in Aries is peak heartbeat, peak temporary insanity, peak all in good times! Peak I had to run uphill and make out with a stranger just to write this. Aries is ruled by Mars, both archetypes that represent all that instinct and lifeforce, the impulsive drive that burns through obstacles and resistance and gets thing to actually happen! Right now! Wherever Aries rules your birth chart, you have a talent for starting shit, and this is sometimes married to your anger, and sometimes married to your creativity. For better or worse, we need Aries to move us out of stuckness and fear, and this is a moment to celebrate the gifts and lessons it has given us.

This full moon is happening 2° from Chiron, the wounded healer, which is more than halfway through its 7 year transit in Aries. Chiron’s job here has been to subtly and not so subtly activate any woundedness it’s possible to activate around identity and life purpose – what we’ve been brought here to do with this life. If you have been in the process of rearranging your understanding of all that, the last 4 years have likely included some harrowing times. You might have received some signals that you need to start taking bigger risks – or risk the worst, which is never finding out who you are and what you’re made for.

That’s both real and not. But during a full moon in Aries in such a close conjunction to Chiron, my guess is right now it feels very real. You are, as the saying goes, a motherfucking sorcerer of divine light, being given the chance to live out some potentials on this limited physical plane. Taking risks, facing your fears, doing something imperfectly but fucking doing it, this is your birth right. This is how you get where you’re going. Everyone who loves you wants to see you shine, and be completely yourself, whoever you discover that is. Use this full moon to burn away whatever’s been holding you back.

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