Is it possible to experience pain without suffering? As a person who has lived chronic illness for 23 years, and the last 11 of those with chronic pain, yes it is. Case in point: when my Fibromyalgia pain was at its most awful worst, awash with both pleasure and pain chemicals, I fell head over […]
Author: Jessica
Sagittarius Full Moon: A Life Less Ordinary
“Dwell in possibility.” “Truth is so rare it is delightful to tell it.” – Emily Dickinson Famous Sagittarian (Sun, Mercury, Venus) poet Emily Dickinson may seem an unlikely fit for this adventurous sign. Emily was an ordinary recluse, an eccentric social hermit who wore white clothing and eventually lived her life from one room. You wouldn’t […]
Gemini New Moon: Refreshing Power
Every day is a new chance to be healthy. I remember reading this phrase, cut out from a magazine, on a friend’s vision board twenty odd years ago. The “Every day is a new chance to…” felt so enticing to me. What I didn’t know even then was that I was about to make a big […]
Scorpio Full Moon: Vital Bonds
Love always involves a dance between closeness and putting up walls. We love each other, hurt, annoy and frustrate each other. Lately I’ve been doing the latter, tainting the precious time we have together with emotional jujitsu. I feel irrational when he talks too long and laughs too hard with the wait staff on date […]
Taurus New Moon Solar Eclipse: Basic Sanity
During the weeks surrounding Eclipse season, such as the one we are currently in, emotions and energy can be ragged, uneven, which can leave us feeling frazzled, disembodied, ungrounded. There’s dynamism in the air but unsettledness, too -including reactivity and disturbances in our relationships (Libra Lunar Eclipse). As my friend, April, succinctly said in her essay […]
Birthday Magic & The Solar Return Chart
Every year, the Sun makes its annual return to the same position it was when you were born. This day is your birthday. In astrology the Sun holds our vitality, willpower and life force, as well as what makes you special- uniquely you – so it’s appropriate to be made a big deal over on this […]
Pluto Station-Retrograde: Trials By Fire
Pluto, planet of taxes, death, rebirth, resurrection and sex tends makes a habit of turning retrograde around tax day, as it will this year on April 14- September 22. In my personal and collective experience, we are not good with handling Pluto. It’s hard to face what no one wants to either do (die, pay […]
Libra Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: Peace, Love & Understanding
These aren’t the easiest of times. Everyone’s cup is filled to the rim, and living with daily stressors can really wear you down. Paradoxically, stress lowers our tolerance for handling the complexity it brings into our life; science says stress chemicals hi-jack our brains, and narrowing our ability to think we literally become dumber. Under stress, […]
Aries New Moon: Energy & Action
At springtime, Mother Nature inspires us to begin anew so last weekend we got in the spring spirit and lined our red flagstone walkway with potted flowers and herbs. Mothers are known to nest when preparing for the imminent arrival of their new bundle, and as we readied the yard, I realised this was what I […]
Virgo Full Moon: Answers From Within
Problems. I don’t know a person who doesn’t have them. In astrology, problem-solving is associated with the sign of Virgo, and some problems are simpler to tackle than others. For instance, when I tell my friend, Marian, who has Venus in Virgo in her First House, that our new King sized bed is like trying to […]