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Tonight - technically Monday morning, at 1:30am PS

Tonight - technically Monday morning, at 1:30am PST - we get a full moon lunar eclipse at 8° of Gemini. This moon initiates an eclipse season that in two weeks gives us a new moon total solar eclipse in Sagittarius, and then the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter at 0° Aquarius a week after that on the winter solstice. Major cycles are coming to a close. This death portal of a year is nearly over, the power of the moment that’s coming to set a new direction cannot be overstated.

Gemini encodes the secrets to having two halves. Two sides. Two natures. Multiple modes of perception and being that are opposed and often in conflict, but that only together can make a whole. Our task is to somehow hold all the tension, without letting either side cancel the other out, without letting any one part dominate completely. Our task is to somehow outgrow the state of opposition - to integrate. In the context of this year, of where we are at as a culture and a people, it’s a lot to ask. If we narrow the focus to our own personal struggles with having competing parts, it’s a lot to ask. But we need to get there.

This full moon eclipse and the waning moon phase that follows might bring us helpful information about the way forward - a way clearing to the next integration that’s possible. We might get tuned in to what we we are finished with, and how to create the conditions for what’s being born next. We also might just need to continue resting and healing from this year, writing love notes to Georgia voters, and keeping safe in a pandemic. Wherever you’re at, whatever this eclipse brings up for you, take exquisite care. What we dream of, the beauty that’s possible, it’s closer than we think.

Thank you @motherjuniper, this deserves to be regr

Thank you @motherjuniper, this deserves to be regrammed all day (and thank you @seedingsovereignty 🙌🏼) We no longer face real scarcity as a species. We’ve mastered technologies that can connect us all and feed and house the world. And yet we allow billionaires to hoard resources. We argue over whether people - specifically poor people - deserve to live in a society where their basic needs are met, or even should be allowed to exist. It’s eco fascism. Scarcity is a myth - a master narrative - and when you live under it/through it, nothing is ever enough. There’s not enough time, not enough money, you don’t have enough, you’ll never be enough. It damages the imagination, and then it damages the soul.

Lynne Twist wrote in The Soul of Money that the opposing myth - the antidote myth - is the myth of sufficiency. When you see your life and the world through this lens, it transforms everything. Right now we can make the choice to rejoice in sufficiency, which she defines as “an act of generating, distinguishing, making known to ourselves the power and presence of our existing resources, and our inner resources." This is an old and powerful teaching, coming from indigenous cultures around the world that practice and model ways of life that center sufficiency and sustainability, sharing and collaboration. What would be possible if we imagined there was enough resources? If we imagined the only problems to solve were practical ones of sharing and distribution? Could we stop talking about “overpopulation,” and start talking about how to gently but firmly end the rein of capitalist dragons?

What would happen in our own lives if we began to see everything through the lens of enoughness?

Tonight the moon is brand new at 23° of Scorpio,

“If you can walk away for days, weeks, or years

“If you can walk away for days, weeks, or years at a time, it is not an ambition, it’s a wish. Wishes feel good and rarely come true. Ambition, on the other hand, fuels your days and refuses to be ignored. It challenges your sense of self and fulfills your sense of wonder.” - Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams is showing us - as have so many others, but we are shining that shine on Stacey right now - what is possible when you channel the power of ambition not for personal gain, but for collective systemic good. This is the path. We need to take our selfishness, our desire for comfort and safety and power and plenty, and play it an octave higher - play it in the key of the everyone. Want that for everyone. Be driven by that. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

This morning a bald eagle perched on top of the ta

This morning a bald eagle perched on top of the tallest tree in the park across from where we live. We dug out our binoculars and stood outside in the rain just to get a closer look, and sure enough it was indeed a bald eagle, gorgeous, stately, unfuckingbothered by all the crows swooping around it, just regally surveying its realm.

I feel like this eagle was like, hey. Look at me. Look how good I look. Do this, be like this. Get some higher perspective. Find a still point. When the wheel of fortune is spinning, don’t try to stand on the edges and spin out, come to the center. From the center, from the stillness, from the vantage point, you will know what is eternal. The projects of democracy and self-governance, justice and equity, they cannot be diminished by this one man, this one election. They cannot diminish us. We demonstrated, we voted, and we will stay climbing this mountain.

Joy Harjo said basically the same thing this morning, “let truth be your walking stick.” May we all find still points and ways to steady and focus ourselves today, and through what is to come.

31 years ago, Halloween 1989, Act Up (@actupny) an

31 years ago, Halloween 1989, Act Up (@actupny) and Housing Works (@housingworks) demonstrated at Trump Tower to raise awareness about the growing crisis of homelessness among people with AIDS, and the soul crushing disparity of Trump receiving a 6.2 million dollar tax abatement for his tower while the government allowed others to rot and die. Thank you @lgbt_history for this timely dose of history 🌈

We are part of a movement for liberation that has been going on for longer than we can know, and will live on long after us, and we must must keep the path open. Neuroplasticity is real. Change is real. We can evolve past this time of insane concentration of resources and wealth. We can evolve from scarcity into sufficiency, from competition to community. We can unlearn supremacy. We can rematriate & learn from #landback & learn right relationship to the earth and how to meet our duty to ensure the future. But we must cultivate both joy and vigilance to get it done. Love with accountability. Liberation through obligation. Peace through justice and grief. Plus all the dancing. So much dancing.

Happy full moon friends - first of all, I’m so p

Happy full moon friends - first of all, I’m so proud of us. Look at us. Still here. Riding the waves of anxiety and fear and discord and joy and rage and love. Some of us showered. Some of us are phone banking and texting strangers who happen to live in the handful of states where a couple thousand small individual choices will swing destiny. Some of us are praying on repeat.

This morning the moon peaked in Taurus, queen bull 🙌🏼, subterranean ruler of roots, on a holy-day for honoring spirits and the dead. Conjunct Uranus, the disruptive god of revolution, on the eve of an election that will have epic repercussions, there’s no reason to believe we will be visited by Taurus’ grounded steady vibes. Uranus in Taurus is more of an earthquake. The ground of our collective being is shifting beneath our feet, again. The dead are agitated with us, holding vigil with us. We all called for change, and change came. The coins are in the air.

I hope you find some time and space to tend tenderly to your own heart this weekend, being gentle with all the ways this tension and intensity has been visited upon you personally. The one thing that can be said about Taurus is that it plays the long game. Its rootedness and steadiness has a purpose - to ensure that those things we want to grow and survive have a strong foundation. To make our growth real and sustainable. We can honor this full moon by tending to our foundation in small meaningful ways. We can take our vitamins. We can be kind and loving and put out food for the ancestors and give thanks to a tree we know. We can read or listen to some history. We can remember and reaffirm that we haven’t come this far to only come this far.

Radiant inspiration by @teyleen

Hi. How are you holding up? One week from today

Hi. How are you holding up?

One week from today we arrive, finally, (😭) at the political inflection point we’ve been waiting four years for. While Mercury finally turns direct on November 3rd, Election Day, this Mars retrograde that has been giving us the cosmic Shakespeare weather and intensifying all our power struggles doesn’t complete until Friday, November 13, just ahead of the new moon In Scorpio on the 5th. So - don’t burn through all your witch supplies and protection powders this coming weekend. Don’t stop voting and urging others to vote. Prepare to ride out a longer wave of activation.

Meanwhile these final retrograde conditions are an ideal time to reflect on and integrate what we’ve been learning about embodied agency this year. What it feels like when we don’t have it, what it feels like when we do, how to hold the paradox middle between appropriate surrender to that which is larger than us and beyond our control and appropriate fight to defend boundaries and enact our own and others’ liberation. What have we learned about honoring agency and empathy together, without letting one cancel the other out? What have we learned about resilience and how to cultivate it in hostile conditions?

Four years ago we were baby versions of who we are now. Four years ago we had just had eight years of sanity and sincerity and coherence in the White House. We knew racism and misogyny were rampant, but also thought they were disqualifying for high office. Whatever happens in the coming weeks, we have been permanently changed. We cannot unknow what we now know. And we get to take this evolution of agency into whatever happens next. We get to stay awake. We get to continue knitting our interconnectedness more intentionally and lovingly.

Final note - there is one spot left in the Western Mystery Schools study group starting in November. If you’ve been dreaming on it but didn’t act, DM me ✨

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