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Early Sunday morning, at 3:16am PST, the moon peak

Early Sunday morning, at 3:16am PST, the moon peaks in fullness again in Capricorn, cosmic saint of maximum adulthood, holy sea goat conqueror of all life’s most precarious heights and breadths and depths. The last one happened the day after the Solstice, at 1° of Capricorn, and a lot has happened since then. This second Capricorn full moon is at 29°, the anaretic degree or breaking point/ending degree, in a near-exact conjunction with Pluto at 0° of Aquarius.

These energies are constellating a Plutonic dark night of the soul, or a passage through the abyss, and at this moment, there’s just no denying the difficult and uncomfortable trial of transformation that this year is. It’s a lot of uncertainty to hold, and a lot of work to show up for. In Capricorn, there’s a kind of grim determination to meet our responsibilities, especially to collective survival structures. We may be more aware than usual of the consequences of not doing so, and, we might have more stamina than usual because of it. But also we might be waiting until we are completely depleted to rest, at which point we are in a full spiritual crisis, and not just physical burnout. That’s not great, that’s not what we’re going for.

These serious, studious, guardian moons in Capricorn are trying to give us the exact medicine we need. They are repeatedly constellating this deep, subterranean earth, this ambitious mountainous earth, to ground all this fire and freak out and violence and change. They are initiating us into the spiritual mystery of Capricorn’s profound selflessness, so that we can continue to show up steadily, joyfully, and reverently; so that we don’t miss this opportunity to accomplish something big for ourselves, each other, and future generations. Use this full moon to do an honest inventory of where you are at, how your energy and spirit are faring. Acknowledge how far you’ve come. Call in any healing or support needed. Cast spells to protect yourself and others from the kind of defeatism, dread, and despair that will keep us from fully participating and cocreating what comes next. Their are new energies coming we will need to harness for our own course of empowerment. Get ready.

Friday, July 5th at 3:57pm PST, the moon goes dark

Friday, July 5th at 3:57pm PST, the moon goes dark and renews herself at 14° of Cancer, archetype of the Great Water Mother. You may have been feeling the call of this moon all week, in the form of an especially tender heart, or the flaring up of distressing symptoms. It’s time to pause, reorient, and check in with our bodies; absorb any changes in situation and the arising needs we have because of them; notice what’s in need of care or repair. Cancer’s energy is intuitive, nurturing, and loving, and she wants to help us rest and recenter. She wants us to remember especially how to tend our creative lifeforce, so that we can sustain the long loving effort of bringing new forms into fully realized being. This new moon is arriving between two Capricorn full moons, and in the midst of a larger quality of time that is fiery and not so much about resting, but about the massive work in front of us. So let’s all really breathe this one in if we can.

Cancer is the Moon’s domicile. It’s the sign where she feels most at home, takes luxurious sighs, and has access to all her moon powers. Together they are the yin to the Sun’s yang. They teach us the way of receptivity, of stilling and sensing, of feeling our way through the dark. They want us to focus on being and being with rather than doing. All of our efforts will be for nothing if we are making them from a place of unconscious reactivity. In fact, taking action for action’s sake may make things much worse, intensify suffering, and prolong processes of resolution. Cancer and the Moon aren’t teaching us to be passive; rather there are times when the most effective response is an active surrender, a relinquishing of attempts to control, a pausing and syncing in to listen and wait. In that place, the rational fearful mind, consumed with what it thinks it knows, can start to quiet. We can contact and feel, instead, the wisdom of the whole. Eventually, and right on time, knowledge of the next right action for us to take will emerge. Consider using this moon to radically tune in and sense what’s needed now. Call in the inner resources you will need, that we all will need, to make it through the second half of this year.

June 20th is the Summer Solstice, the peak of the

June 20th is the Summer Solstice, the peak of the light and the longest day. It’s the official start of the summer season, the season of fruit and heat and all that the Sun gives us; the season when its impossible to think so much, and we are called very deeply into our bodies and the earthy, vibrating present. Then right in its wake, on Friday evening at 6:07pm PST, the moon peaks in fullness at 1° of Capricorn, the holy sea goat. Whenever a solstice meets with a new or full moon, it heightens the potency of the threshold - in this case, a current of manifestation coming to its fullest expression, and becoming a current of liberation. The inhale is becomeing the exhale, the expansion a contraction. It’s a big finish is what it is, and the start of a new phase.

Capricorn is cardinal, initiating earth. Its gift is for creating lasting material abundance, and its creations take time. Ruled by Saturn, Capricorn is big on duty, responsibility, and doing the work. It’s like, be an adult, mind your blood sugar, focus on the practical steps before you; be patient, be dogged, be devoted. Its higher teachings are about the joy that comes from accepting the difficulties of life. The Moon finds it a little hard to be in Capricorn, preferring the soft, protective waters of Cancer. Full moons here tend to exaggerate tensions between our personal needs and inner/emotional life, and our outer world work. Have we been prioritizing one over the other? How has that been going this cycle? Are we depleted? Energized?

These are high holy days, for those of us who honor the natural clockworks as sacred. Its a good time to connect with yourself and connect with the natural world, feel what time it is in your own life, and listen to your inner teacher. Reflect on the mountain you’ve been climbing, the life you’ve been trying to create, the world you’ve been trying to change. What have you given your attention and power to in the last six months? How are you doing? Where do you deserve some witnessing and some high fives? Celebrate any moves you have made, no matter how small, in the direction of your healing and bigger dreams.

Risograph joy from @juliakatarzyna_

Thursday morning at 5:37am PT, the moon does dark

Thursday morning at 5:37am PT, the moon does dark and renews herself at 16° of Gemini. This is the last new moon of spring before the big rush of summer, the season of unravelling and revealing and expanding outward; the season where it all bears fruit, or doesn’t. It feels like this moment is one when we get to draw our energies back and in, before another big surge of growth. We might not want to slow down, contract, and recenter right now, but if we can, we will be rewarded. Gemini is the sign of the cosmic twins and the Lovers, an archetype of dualities. It’s mutable air, “change is in the air” air, and I can really feel its essence right now. In my own backyard, the weather shifts by the hour. Everything green has put down roots and is growing up and out. There’s warm breezes and cool cross breezes, bright sunlight and deep rain showers, pollinators everywhere — the bees and other insects flying from flower to flower, having flower sex, spreading DNA around, ensuring that everything multiplies.

That’s all very Gemini, which is here to ensure a kind of diversity of experiences and forms. Gemini is ruled by Mercury, master of language and magic and traveling between states and worlds, which gives it its highly intelligent, highly verbal, highly flexible style. Wherever Gemini rules your chart and life, you are likely to have some of its verbal and mental gifts, and also some gifts for resisting simplicity, for choosing complexity and process and the adventure of wholeness. Like all new moons, this Gemini new moon is a time to begin again, to make a new vow to yourself and your life. A current of manifestation is kicking off, and you can hitch something to that current. Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are also now in Gemini, and conditions really don’t get more peppery and loving than this. The only constraint is a reality checking square from Saturn— but that will ultimately help. Saturn makes clear the limitations under which a new form can be made, and gives us the discipline and grit to effectively deal with reality. What new directions are you being called in? What change would you like to create?

Flowers by Big Sur, art by Nadia Waheed @nadiakwd 🙌🏼

Bright & early Thursday morning — May 23rd at 6:

Bright & early Thursday morning — May 23rd at 6:52am PT — the moon is full at 2° of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is mutable fire, and it’s a kind of blazing, high-spirited archetype associated with teachers and philosophers and saints. Its ruler is Jupiter, planet of expansion and generous resources, and together they create a kind of enlightened state — the state we arrive at after we have come through an intense healing trial, a time of difficulty or suffering, or the spiritual struggle of inner and outer wars. In Sagittarius, we get to occupy a kind of exalted consciousness for awhile. Fresh perspective, compassion, and understanding are just blooming like crazy. Our hearts and spirits are blooming like crazy. Like suddenly everything we have lived through is generating all this new awareness, and there’s a depth to it, and we feel compelled to update what we believe to be true, to coin new wisdom from our heartbreak, and to crystalize new philosophies and approaches to life.

The ultimate goal of Sagittarius is not just to expand the personal consciousness, but to influence cultures, ideally in the direction of Jupiter’s values of peace and lovingkindness and resources for all. Full moons here here tend to be pretty celebratory, and this one is also happening at the same time as a Jupiter Venus conjunction in Taurus, a signature of maximum beauty and goodness and groundedness. It’s like a big fat beam of love light shining out, the big finish to this generative few weeks of astrology, and something that began in the peak of the dark, just before the Winter Solstice. Take some time to gather and write down any epiphanies or insights that have arrived, or are arriving now. Reflect on any intentions you set back on the solstice. Take stock of what has evolved, and celebrate all signs of growth or progress. Commit to stabilizing this growth, to applying your insights and making changes you know you need to make. This full moon initiates a current of liberation that can assist you in clearing your path further over the next six months, moving you closer to the transformation you seek. May we all use it wisely, clearing obstacles to greater wisdom, love, and peace.

Jupiter cazimi in Taurus on my solar return eve, m

Jupiter cazimi in Taurus on my solar return eve, mood is buoyant and full and expanding. For your enjoyment:

(1) Sun Ra, 1973. Photo by Francis Ing, used in the ‘Altantis’ album reissue by Impulse Records.

(2) Two Taurus suns, me and my mom, she came earthside in 1949, I fell into orbit in 1979

(3) how Taurus sees life, the great holy river of spiritualized matter, an endless flow of beauty, a green that regenerates itself

(4) an elixir of Jupiter just being made, full of hope for the healing of all root systems and the healing of the world, from a dream I had that I made a sugary sunny lemony cocktail that got replicated in actual replicators so there was enough for everybody, literally everybody

To cheerlead all of us as we try to breakthrough sadness and stagnation into creativity and good work, I wrote something a little long on the myth of enoughness, transforming cultures around money and resources, and grounding all of our manifestation work in love, reverence for limits, and joy on the practical, bodily, grounded plane. You can find it on my Substack for paid subscribers, or by dm-ing me your email address - with this Jupiter gate open, ask and you shall receive ✨ happy cazimi!

The tree of life teaches us that there is a moment

Tuesday at 4:48pm PT, the moon peaks in fullness a

Tuesday at 4:48pm PT, the moon peaks in fullness at 4° of Scorpio, our dark queen of deep water and strong feelings. A Scorpio full moon is a lot. The moon is in her fall here, Scorpio’s intensity can be harsh for the body. It’s especially(!) a lot to have a Scorpio full moon be the kicker to an eclipse season that culminated in a total solar eclipse in Aries at the exact degree of Chiron. We’ve been confronting painful truths about our defenses. Some of the ways we’ve protected ourselves from getting hurt have ultimately hurt us, and we are being asked to take responsibility for how we’ve been contributing to our own suffering with patterns of defensive disconnection. This full moon is deepening that healing inquiry.

Full moons are also times of creative tension between opposing energies or archetypes, this time between Taurus’ fixed earth and Scorpio’s fixed water. This might reflect a way we feel split right now: a part of us is longing for the calm, solid ground of Taurus; we want to focus on beauty and feeling good, on gathering resources and creating. Another part of us is underwater, being drawn further into honoring what hurts and healing what’s holding us back. As with all full moons, the invitation is to hold the tension; to see how we can meet both needs. Over time, we learn what we can about how we might integrate these polarities, to experience more of our wholeness.

If you’re exhausted from this last six weeks, or last six months, or last six years, that makes sense. If this full moon had something to offer our exhaustion, it would be a compassionate warning, that healing work is communal, and we should be doing less of it alone. The Sabian symbol for 4° of Scorpio is “a massive rocky shoreline resists the pounding of the sea.” That’s us—that rocky shoreline. James Burgess writes, “Though slow to form, as is land, the ways of a community become firmly entrenched and together create a bastion against the storms and tides of evolutionary change.” Do something this week to love on your community—human, animal, plant, spirit—and to deepen your awareness and appreciation of your interconnections. Let your heart be opened just a little wider.

Monday at 11:20am PST, we receive the second lunat

Monday at 11:20am PST, we receive the second lunation of this eclipse season — a total solar eclipse at 19° of Aries, cosmic sign of the instinctual self. Where the Libra lunar eclipse occurred on the south node, and was all about releasing unhealthy relationship dynamics, this solar eclipse in Aries is happening on the north node, and is very much about calling IN fresh reserves of agency and resanctifying our relationship with our own Self. Aries is cardinal fire, it governs how we incarnate into this world through this specific body, with its specific nature and needs. Through Aries, we define ourselves as individuals and experience our drive for independence, to act as unique creative forces on the world.

If you’re noticing a strong need to be alone, or in some way to get clear of the energies of others so that you can hear and feel yourself, that makes sense for this kind of dramatic activation in Aries. If you’re struggling to connect with and love yourself, that’s understandable, too. This eclipse is happening in an exact-degree conjunction with Chiron, which represents our deep core wounds, the ones that can’t be fully healed or fixed, the ones that create openings in us through which compassion, love, and healing power may flow through. It’s like cosmic acupuncture: it’s happening on the precise point of a wound to your ability to connect with, accept, love, know, and be yourself fully, exactly as you are.

The energy field of this eclipse opened on April Fool’s day, as Mercury stationed retrograde in Aries, a clue that the deeper calling of this moment is the call of the Great Fool. In ancient wisdom traditions, the Fool is the most revered of the archetypes because the Fool risks everything in being themselves. This eclipse wants you to remember who you really are: who you are are in the dimension of your deepest cosmological truth. It wants to reconnect you with your innocent core self, and give you the courage or fuck it to go all in on loving that self, and living from the self. Whatever old or new insights are arriving, just take it in, and know that the task ahead is simply to go deeper into being you.

Art by Helix Nebula & @a__gilmore

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