Image by Rafael Chies * * * * * Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It […]
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artist unknown This theme is coming up quite a bit these days in client consultations and is an experience many of us share: How do we integrate our personal needs into the need to compromise and give up some things in our relationships? In fact, this theme is built into the astrological chart […]
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This beautiful poem is by Mattie Stepanik, the young man who died at the age of 13 from a rare genetic disease. Before his death in 2004 he had published seven volumes of poetry and was called “the most extraordinary person I have ever met” by President Jimmy Carter. Mattie began speaking poetry at the […]
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art by Erisiar Most of us thought we’d be out of here by now – the daily pressures of how to navigate this new world is getting kind of old. Is it safe to see our friends? What do I do about my job? It looks like there is light at the end […]
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The easy astrological times are not always the times when change and evolution can take place – sometimes these changes take an astrological punch, and that is what we have under this Libra New Moon. Libra is considered to be a somewhat “soft” sign – often polite and tactful, Libra urges us to relate to […]
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art by Myles Pinkney This week we are at peak retrograde, with six planets retrograde including Mercury. Expect and prepare for communication glitches under the Mercury retrograde which is at its midpoint this week. Pluto turns direct on October 6th to be followed by Jupiter and Saturn, and all three planets are stationary […]
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DeviantArt There’s a lot to talk about this week! Grab a cuppa something and let’s dive in. Mercury retrograde. Mercury turns retrograde on September 27th, the day I am writing this, at which point we have SIX retrograde planets, plus Chiron. This is not as extreme as last year when every planet (seven) […]
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This is a very personal poem for me right now. I’m in the midst of some intense planetary alignments involving progressed Mars and Pluto (geeky astrological details below) which I have been observing with some trepidation. Would I get in an accident? Set fire to my house? Blow up all of my relationships? But I […]
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art by Lisa Hunt There’s a lot of astrological juice in the skies this week, which means quite a few potent energies swirling around to affect us in a variety of ways. Emotions could be extreme under the Full Moon, and the portal point of the September Equinox will open up doorways of […]
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artist unknown by Lynn Hayes. At the Pisces Full Moon the Pisces Moon is opposite the Virgo Sun, requiring us to bring into balance the polarity of these two opposing astrological signs. Pisces, as Virgo’s opposite, lives in the realm of Spirit and ideals rather than the mundane. Where Virgo is concerned with […]
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