Today’s post comes on the day when Saturn and Pluto make their exact alignment in the sky. So far it’s not as bad as I feared – the financial markets haven’t collapsed and it looks like war in the Middle East has been averted, for the time being. Yes, the Monarchy in Britain is about […]
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Photo by Martine Lambrechts A WINTER SOLSTICE PRAYER The dark shadow of space leans over us… We are mindful that the darkness of greed, exploitation, and hatred also lengthens its shadow over our small planet Earth. As our ancestors feared death and evil and all the dark powers of winter, we fear that […]
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Photo by Matt Champlin Long dark mornings gradually awaken to frost covered landscapes Green fields now hardened rock, trees with their cast iron fingers pointing Accusingly at grey overcasts skies, clouds pregnant with water to fall as snow Lights from house lined streets their a golden glow cascading before them. A damp dark […]
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Photo by Markus GrassThis beautiful poem was written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes on the death of the wonderful John O’Donohue, whose works appear frequently in these pages. Under the trine from Jupiter to Uranus this week our perspectives can shift and we can begin to see our world in a new light. The Painted Face […]
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Photography by Marianne McCann Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will […]
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Art by Belinda Paton When we talk about astrology, we are mostly talking about the personality. The personality has certain attributes such as talented, wounded, creative, tormented, successful. The soul is the deepest part of us; having no personality, it shines unabated from the heart and guides us on a path that is […]
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Saturn and Pluto are bearing down on the Saturn system in my own chart, and I am really focused right now on the idea of presence and surrender because with Saturn and Pluto there really is no other choice. I so love this writing from Rainer Maria Rilke, which speaks of the ways in which […]
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Photo by Andrew Offield In my own life, Pluto has been hammering my Libra stellium for the past two years (geeky astrological details: Saturn/Sun/Neptune squared by Uranus) and I have been forced to take a hard look at much of my life to see how the boxes I’ve put myself in (Saturn/Sun) have […]
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Art by Pamela Matthews Seek the beauty in life’s betrayals For all is forgivable in this grand dance Find the courage to see through ugliness and be grateful for the reflections of each mirror For all is an archetypal character playing a part in your own blockbuster movie Give yourself permission to fail […]
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“This is the time to draw nearer to each other. This is the time to forgo building our businesses to build intimate relationships; relationships of meaning and care, of day-to-day relevance and the wisdom of skin-to-skin. This is the time to measure our merit based on our actual, measurable relevance; relevance to the people around […]
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