Tag: new moon

Taurus Solar Eclipse: Pennies From Heaven

When things become too safe, it’s easy to get bored, lazy, and a little bit grumpy. Eclipses seem to catalyze the sort of scary change that we both need and dread, and it’s often the kind of change that, in hindsight, seems to have been inevitable.

Aries New Moon: The Law of Diminishing Returns

ver coffee, I asked Jonny his plans for the day. He detailed a quest for some particular hot peppers he needed for a new chili powder recipe, followed by warfare with the gophers that have taken over our back yard. Hot peppers and war? I’m just writing about Aries today; he’s living it. I have […]

Aquarius New Moon: Little Solar Systems

Few of us can be happy with a completely solitary existence. But I think it’s unusual to bloom so spectacularly within a community garden—because we’re each of us little solar systems, too, with ourselves at the center, sovereign Suns who need to shine.

Capricorn New Moon: Starting with Why

Capricorn will stop at nothing to climb to the top of the mountain. That’s why we pledge, at his New Moon, to climb important mountains of our own. But most of those resolutions don’t pan out.