As much as people complain about their problems, if asked if they would trade them for another person’s issues, invariably the answer is no. On a mundane level the reason may be that our problems are familiar. The devil you know vs who knows wha…
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Saturn, Nigredo and the Purpose of Change
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.” Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing “The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” C.G. Jung We’ve all been there. That feeling of ‘same old, same old’ where the sense of ‘same’ is particularly oppressive. […]
Saturn, Nigredo and the Purpose of Change
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.” Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing “The world is full of magic […]
Astrology of Now: Open The Door
The New Moon in a few hours falls in the last minute of the last degree of Aquarius, the sign of the waterbearer, but the Moon certainly continues to be New as it slides into the ocean of Pisces. Something ends, something begins. This is a threshold Moon. A potential-filled moment. Both Aquarius and Pisces are signs of collective, but we move from collective thought to collective feeling now, from a fixed position to a fluid one. And the monthly marriage of the Sun and Moon is not the only one taking place; Venus and Mars are about to embrace […]
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(Venus + Eclipse + Pallas) = (Love + Change + Wisdom)
In three days time — October 23 — we’ll experience the second of this month’s pair of eclipses. The first, the awesome and eerie lunar eclipse, on October 8, delivered some shocking revelations — Ebola, the economy, or something closer to home for many people. That eclipse was the very middle of Aries at 15° – a robust, total eclipse, full of Aries power and conjuncting Uranus the planet of surprise and electricity. The effect of that eclipse are still in operation, of course, and were certainly powerful to feel in these mid-October weeks. That eclipse also cast a spotlight on the cobwebby […]
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