From Earth and Sky: The July 2018 full moon [in Aquarius] presents the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century (2001 to 2100) on the night of July 27-28, 2018, lasting for a whopping 1 hour and 43 minutes. (In contrast, the previous total lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018, lasted 1 […]
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(Note for newbies: “retrograde” means that as we observe it from earth, a planet appears to be moving backwards in the sky. Planets obviously don’t cycle backwards, but from our perspective they do appear to and we call that “retrograde.” When a planet is retrograde its astrological influence is more personal, it often turns our […]
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You have spent a lifetime quietly mourning or ignoring your losses and your lostness with no funeral, no wake and no way to nurture your joy. Time for a burial. No, for a burning! For a great funeral pyre that will light the night sky. Then a festal meal of bread and wine. And, from […]
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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about a referendum in Switzerland regarding the very nature of money. You will probably hit a paywall, but here is the relevant portion: A decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world is still debating the causes of the financial crisis—down to the meaning of money […]
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Art by Frenta. Neptune turns retrograde today and will remain in retrograde motion until November 24th this year. Neptune (and the other two outer planets) are retrograde for half the year every year, so it’s not a huge deal as planetary cycles go. Still, for the next few weeks while Neptune is gradually picking up speed in […]
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art by Nadia Turner. “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka , and that this center is really everywhere, it […]
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The astrological Mars often gets a bad rap. Mars is associated with war, hostility, anger and rage; it fuels the primal “id” of need and desire – all things we consider “bad.” But Mars is also the factor that provides energy and motivation, fueling our desires so that we can accomplish our goals and dreams. […]
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Art by Lucy Campbell. The New Moon in Gemini on June 13th calls on us to we have a unique opportunity to create change and become more adaptable to new ideas and new ways of living our life; to learn the inner strength that an increase in flexibility can offer us. Gemini is a shapeshifter and […]
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I apologize in advance, but I will be transferring a large volume of posts from my old Beliefnet blog which were never migrated back to my website. Unfortunately, I think that all of those posts will be emailed to you if you subscribe to blog posts. If this happens I know it will be a […]
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Nearly everyone now has heard of Mercury retrograde, thanks to the Internet. This is a good thing for those of us who follow the planets, because it’s easier to explain why we would rather wait until Mercury is out of retrograde to sign that contract. But because of the way we view the motion of […]
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