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Mercury has entered Gemini, where it will be until

Mercury has entered Gemini, where it will be until July 11th thanks to a retrograde coming at the very end of May. This is feel good astrology for writers and magicians - it will put us in the mood to pollinate a mood, to spread ideas and poems and good vibes. Today and tomorrow are also (!) the last chance to sign up for Rooted, the generative poetry workshop I’m teaching for The Poetry Lab, which begins on Thursday. There are atkeast three spots left. We will be experimenting with somatic meditations that flow into writing practices, seeing how grounded and connected to our genius we can feel, discovering what wild poems are ready to grow from/through us. If you’ve been waiting to sign up, waiting for a sign, maybe this is it ⚡️head to thepoetrylab.com or thecultofmindy.com to find details and registration links.

I’m channeling my 4th house Taurus stellium (Ven

I’m channeling my 4th house Taurus stellium (Venus, Mars, Chiron, Mercury, Sun) into a poetry workshop for @thepoetrylab 🌳🌳🌳 Did you know Taurus rules the neck, vocal cords, throat, and thyroid gland - that little butterfly-shaped organ that controls how we use energy? What would be possible if your voice, your vibration, your energy, were fully grounded and supported and nourished? What if everything that ever happened to you was soil for exquisite / devastating poem flowers? What if your life were the poem of your ancestors? Rooted starts next Thursday, May 6th at 6pm PST, and is appropriate for artists and writers at all stages. Please join me for this deep spring poet party if you’re feeling it! I would love to coin new poems with you! You can also tune in today/Wednesday at 2:30pm PST at @losangelespoetsociety for a short Instagram live interview - Danielle Mitchell of The Poetry Lab and I will be talking about the coming workshop, Taurus season, and other things poetry and astrology, I’ll bring my earthiest poem to share 💚💚💚

Tonight at 8:32pm PST, the full pink super moon is

Tonight at 8:32pm PST, the full pink super moon is at her fullest, peaking at 7° of Scorpio. If the skies are clear where you are, this is one to catch in person, out in the cool night air, face to moon face. Scorpio is an archetype of transformation and healing through emotional surrender - the healing that can only take place when we stop defending ourselves from feeling and descend into the abyss of our own dark heart. There’s a glorious rebirth on offer if we are willing to let an aspect of our foundation or ego identity die. It’s not kind of thing done in the bright exposing light of day. It’s not the kind of thing done brazenly or confidently. It requires sacred space, humility, willingness, and atleast a few solid, trustworthy allies who won’t be easily disturbed or frightened.

A full moon here might culminate some deep psychic sea diving begun last November. It might unearth hidden self parts or taboo feelings buried by our unconscious people pleasing. It might call for some passionate composting of artifacts of old beliefs or patterns, whatever kept us away from knowing our power. I feel like there is also a call to fearlessness in this full moon. We’ve been so focused on staying safe. That’s good - that’s well adapted - we should keep noticing danger and responding with appropriate boundaries and defenses, the pandemic isn’t over, the world is not a safe place. But in terms of our personal growth, this astrology is trying to prepare us for a coming expansion. It wants us to complete some work of internal stabilizing, some leveling-up of emotional maturity or agency. If you’ve been cooking up a secret power, developing one of your gifts in hiding, it’s nearly time to fully flower and share. Take a proper moment to get ready. Honor how far you’ve come, everyone that’s helped you get here. Integrate it. Own it. Then tap a vein of courage.

Processing the second dose of vaccine, another wee

Processing the second dose of vaccine, another week of police violence, a year of surviving and bracing, all mixed in with an embarrassment of flowers and light and the riches of spring. Everything on the wax. Also clearly already feeling the flowering intense emo vibes of the coming Scorpio full supermoon. Take exquisite care this weekend my friends, recharge if you can, invest in your healing and loving.

I also want to put out that there are 4 spots left in the spring storytelling intensive starting in 12 days on May 4th. This workshop is one of my deep grooves. I love gathering with a group of strangers to study and practice the art of live true personal storytelling - also the art of benevolent narcissism and sequencing events for meaning and weaving memories into epiphanies. By the end we’re a close pack. We’ve been through something together.

If you’re a fan of storytelling shows and always wanted to tell your own stories, this is exactly for you. If you’ve been cooking up dreams of writing a memoir or genre-defying creative nonfiction this could be you too. If you’ve been longing to work with some big personal material, or process the living story we are all moving through, and could use some structure and support and camaraderie, you’ll find that here. I appreciate you passing it on to anyone you know who might need this class container. Find details and register at thecultofmindy.com 💜💜💜

More Taurus season inspiration. I am feeling some

More Taurus season inspiration. I am feeling some shiny new levels of burnout from a year of adapating and responding and freezing and fighting. Maybe it’s something I’m feeling more acutely in the aftermath of my second vaccine dose. The emergency is ending and it’s not ending. Further resilience needs to be actively nurtured by slowing down, reconnecting with simple pleasures, deepening my roots, steadying my vibe. I’m getting it, there will not be “life in a pandemic” and then one day “life after a pandemic,” it’s more like how the seasons turn. We can’t go straight from winter to summer, and we can’t go straight from protected contraction to liberated expansion. I wish all of us the exact psychological spring we need - some strange mood or satori or shift that lightens us up and helps us find joy while climbing the impossible forever mountain.

Starting May 6 I am teaching a poetry workshop - the last until the fall - for @thepoetrylab on the very Taurus theme of deepening roots and groundedness. If any of the above is resonating with you, and you are a writer or even think you might be, you might love it. If somatic meditations and camaraderie and writing about interconnectedness and the great underneath sounds good to you, please join us, we are going to get grounded and weird and beautiful together. Information in the bio link 🌿🌿🌿

It’s Taurus season friends 🌿 time to gather f

It’s Taurus season friends 🌿 time to gather fresh nettles, replenish our stores, meditate, take edibles, take beauty, come back down to the ground and roll around some relaxing, cry some, pollinate joy. The heart is a very green place. Shout out to this malachite & chrysocolite mix, we cannot celebrate Taurus season without a gorgeous rock.

Joining the humans trying to surround Daunte Wrigh

Joining the humans trying to surround Daunte Wright’s family with protection and love and support in the wake of this devastating, preventable execution.

The third image is from @holisticheaux, please send monetary resources if you can: “We are collecting community support for the mother of Daunte's son. She has personally requested this help and we are here to amplify her needs. Please share and spread the word for those who want to help. May Daunte Rest In Love. Let's come together to help who he's left behind. 🧡”

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How to Support Daunte Wright's Son and Girlfriend

Daunte Wright was murdered by Brooklyn Center Police on 4/11. He leaves behind the mother of his child, Chyna, and his soon to be 2 year-old-son, Daunte Jr.

Holistic Heaux has been in contact with Daunte Wrights' girlfriend. We are rallying support for her and their son.

Monetary donations:
Cash App: $hubby98 (Chyna's direct Cash App)
Venmo: @thuy-jones (Will pass to Chyna)
PayPal: @holisticheaux (Will pass to Chyna)

At 7:31 pm PST tonight, the moon is new at 22° o

At 7:31 pm PST tonight, the moon is new at 22° of Aries. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, a cardinal fire sign. Represented by the horny ram, Aries is all about instinct and will and impulsivity and daring. Without it, nothing can begin. With it in charge, it’s all beginnings all the time. At its unbridled extreme, Aries will fill you with the drunk confidence of a 2 year old who has mastered running but not stopping. You will have a direct line to your power and your wants and needs and less of a direct line to self control.

We could use this new moon jolt of lifeforce and clarity. The question Aries can answer is - what would you want to do with your life, if what everyone else wanted, if what the dominant culture wanted, or your parents, or capitalism - if none of that factored in? What if you rejected all the projections of others? Who are you here to be? What wild thing do you feel like doing? What do you want to create next? What if you let your idea of yourself and what you’re capable of outgrow the small zone of safety and control? What if you let your ego inflate a little?

Take some time today and tomorrow to honor the reset on offer. If you have some intentions, some new ideas you’d like to materialize, do some cardinal fire ritualing. If you are uncertain what those intentions might be now, take to the wilds inside or outside and listen to life snake / life force within you. Let it take the lead. Get a little (a lot?) freer.

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