Temples Of The Moon

At this current first quarter moon phase, we are at the mid-point between two eclipses. The stakes tend to feel a bit higher during the eclipse season as far as the events and confrontations playing out in our lives. Especially if you have natal planets at the same position as the eclipses, which are currently in the signs of Taurus and Scorpio.

Eclipses are famous for ushering in big changes and grand opportunities, and somehow on the other side of the eclipse season, we can experience feeling very different and living in a different way (the end of May.) It’s like a reset that comes every six months to clean house and propel you further towards your destiny (the house of your psyche, that is.)

The last eclipse season played out in November and December of 2021. Can you recall what major changes or events in your life soon followed to shift the direction of your life?

What’s different about this current cycle is that we have Uranus on the eclipses as well as Saturn squaring. With Uranus and Saturn strongly influencing the stage, we can expect the unexpected to be showing up in ways that represent our deepest survival instincts and our most primal needs and desires. These are Taurus/Scorpio matters.

Uranus is a force of revolution often preceded by shock and destruction of what has already been established to make way for the new. Saturn represents the institutions, what is law by man, and what is decreed. When the two come together, it is a force of intense tension between the established and progress, between the conventional and the revolutionary, and between old patterns and new ways of being. As we can see, what is going on with Roe vs. Wade is a clear example of this. In our own lives beyond how we are each impacted by that, there can be confrontations and the need for revelations and change impacting the deepest and core personal issues for each one of us.

The Taurus/Scorpio axis reminds us of our innate vulnerability as emotional beings and how utterly dependent we are on one another. We need, and we have. We need what others may need, and they have what we may need. Things like resources – money, food, shelter, knowledge, physical contact, companionship, love, compassion, and care, and in times like these, I am reminded of the value of decency, generosity, consideration, respect, and honor. These are all essentially valuable resources that, when embodied, could serve to balance out many of humanity’s greatest struggles.

May the heart of humanity heal in a collective revolution of peace towards one another.

We are in the last week of the lunar cycle before a New Moon Solar Eclipse. This is the waning dark moon phase, where we digest what we have experienced, assimilate what we have learned, let go of the unnecessary, and clear space for the new on its way.

Eclipses have a way of ushering in ripe new opportunities and boldly releasing the old. Through an astrological lens, eclipses are not a singular event. They are a “season”. The eclipse season encompasses an entire lunar cycle and then some. There are the weeks preceding the event, there is the eclipse which is followed by a second eclipse two weeks later, and then there is the dwindling off from the potency of the events through the following couple of weeks. Here we are.

As we move through this next week with the waning moon, increasingly we can observe in our lives the overdue change is perfecting. The readiness of the hour harkens “It’s time.” We have arrived. Eclipse Season brings the shift.

How this may look for you is personal. But the grander themes playing out now speak to our deepest survival instincts (Taurus), our most personal values, and our sense of powerlessness up against the vastness of it all, up against our ignorance, innocence, and inadequacy (Pisces). We are, after all, only human.

For many, it has a lot to do with changing ourselves regarding what we have previously needed or depended on to feel secure in life, as well as shifting values to match a new emerging identity that is very different from who you have known yourself to be.

In short, the astrology reflects a time when people are going through deeply transformational personal shifts and identity reorientations. Consider it as a transitional stage of an identity crisis! The awkward beginning gives way to the rebellious stage, leading to a greater sense of self, which inevitably humbles us to how far we still must go, and then the surrender as we accept the process of becoming.

Two major aspects will accompany this week’s Waning Dark Moon. The first on (Saturday, April 23rd, on the day of the Last Quarter Moon), Mercury will join with the North Node of the Moon in Taurus. For a few days, the Archetype of the Messenger dances with the symbol of the “Future,” or our destiny. Messages from the future, perhaps?! Or insights into our own purpose and destiny may come clearer. It’s a good week to open to possibilities and potential (unexpected) doors opening that point you forward on your path!

The second big event of the week is Venus, the Goddess of Beauty and Love coming together (on Wednesday, April 27th) with Neptune, the Divine, and Omnipotent potential (in Pisces). This could manifest in as many ways as there are expressions of love and beauty! It’s a day to tap into the power of creative manifestation – to dream life into being and participate in the dance of love, the creation of beauty, and the enjoyment of this worldly experience and all it has to offer.

It’s a time when boundaries can seem blurred (for better or worse), and the unimaginable can come true (for better or worse). The Pisces archetype wants to set us free from ego limitations and the confines of the physical. However, the downside can look a lot like escapism and a lack of self-care or even love for the sake of “getting out of this place.” Wherever you may be, make the best of it and seek the beauty if only from within.

The first quarter Moon phase is a time of building and growing into greater awareness and into the waxing light of the soon coming Full Moon. As this is the building stage, it represents a time to pay attention to your actions and how you are participating in life. The waning Moon is about integration and gathering one’s energy back inward, and in contrast, the waxing phase (currently) is all about the active externalized expression of oneself. The question becomes, “What are you DOING, and how are you doing it?”

Over this next week, building up to the Full Moon, it’s a perfect time to reassess and redirect your intentions and actions regarding the most important focuses in your current life. Get centered. Get aligned. Get your life in order because the Full Moon in Virgo is coming to shine a light upon exactly where there’s work to be done. And as it’s said, “The ball is in your court, make your move.”

Particularly, as we have had Venus and Mars traveling together (now in Aquarius), this time has a powerful emphasis on relationship and partnership dynamics as well as our most personal identifications around our own identity, desires, needs, and wants. Aquarius is always about refining one’s identity as closest to the center of individual uniqueness and genius possible by being the most genuine expression of yourself and showing up fully expressed and confident in your authenticity and expression. Aquarius declares, “Let go of the shackles, throw off the past, and liberate yourself. Be free. Be true. Be you.”

This current phasal relationship dance between Mars and Venus represents a major culmination cycle and a brand-new cycle beginning. So, in our personal lives and our psyches, we can be feeling and experiencing the end of cycles in our relationship dynamics and in the patterns and ways we have been relating to ourselves and others. Now, as we step into the new cycle, we are navigating fresh new ground and uncharted territory.

Over the next month, as Venus and Mars continue through Aquarius, we should all expect the theme of change, sudden insight, and unexpected events to continue to unfold and shape our lives. Aquarius invites revelation, rebellion, and revolutions, which is likely precisely the mark Venus and Mars will leave upon our lives for March 2022!

As the Sun comes to join Neptune in Pisces this weekend and Jupiter is gradually edging his way in as well, it’s a time where the Pisces theme is emphasized (big time)! Grand, larger than life, beyond comprehension, out of your control, and potentially some shade of “overwhelming” is ensured! This Jupiter with Neptune in Pisces is primarily focused from January to May 2022. So, we can see the extended theme of this longer cycle playing out. Pisces manifest on the whole spectrum from worst-case scenarios to dreams-do-come-true scenarios. Who knows what will happen, but we can trust that it will be mind-blowing and push us to some edge of ourselves, as we have all been participating for a while now in the collective unraveling of everything we thought we knew or could predict about this life.

As we move towards the Virgo Full Moon, we can begin to tap further into understanding what’s necessary on this human journey and what it takes to heal and make it through the wounding, the suffering, and victimization. It has so much to do with understanding our worthiness and our immense value as each of us is a part of the whole of this experience and the unique contributions that we offer. Cultivating compassion for oneself and others in our naivety, in our innocence, in our faults, and in our inability to know or understand any better in the moment is necessary.

Pisces/Virgo reminds us that we are indeed infinite spiritual beings all containing phenomenal genius and potential, while in this reality, we are also limited in a body, in a space-time reality, on Earth. We are limited while amid so much capacity and opportunity for expansion. We must have reverence for the process and wear our hearts on our sleeves if we are to see a better world.

The last week of the lunar cycle, when the Moon is waning towards its invisible face, carries that special nuanced vibe of darkening. It’s a deepening into the depths of the unconscious psyche where stillness and chaos collide. The Dark Moon days call us inward with a whisper of retreat. A beckoning to pause and assimilate all that has come; an invitation to take a moment and digest your experiences. You will need the nutrition gained for the next phase as we continue to cycle through this life. From one level, one stage, one season to the next.

As Nature makes its passages, so do we. Through rites and riddles, we release and gain treasures to take along the way. A continual (cyclical) process of give and take, of release and gain, of death and rebirth, with renewal always just on the other side.

As the Last Quarter Moon leads us into the final days of the Moon’s light, it is a reminder that for us also it is a time to shed. But lest it not be first without confrontation!

This week will be highlighted by the wave created by Mercury Retrograde joining Pluto (for the 2nd pass, the first being the days surrounding December 29, 2021, and the 3rd and final on February 11, 2022 – retrogrades go back and forth over one area).

Mercury is all about communication and conceptual perspective, and Pluto (Hades) represents the depths of the psyche and that which penetrates and jars at the soul. We can expect to experience moments where the mind is engaged in confrontational conversations, sparring with some potential demons, and digging up the past, as we have now been led to the Gates of the Underworld.

The “underworld” has been defined as “the mythical abode of the dead.” Which I find very apropos to this retrograde time of both Venus and Mercury in Capricorn, as we are indeed being ushered down into old and graveyard like territory (within ourselves) to tend to and dance with skeletons and monsters alike that once had a part in the constructing of our mythos, of our identities, our attachments, our scars, and our suffering.

There are times when we must return to the memories and the makings of yesterdays to recount and reclaim what was lost, to give meaning and purpose to today. We are in that cycle, a phase of rebirth and reidentification with who we are, but first, we must go through the process. For some, it may even feel like an initiation. A time finally arrived to that tests you to your core and returns you different from how you first entered. Strengthened, liberated, renewed, and revived at having gone through the ultimate of death herself! Simply said, we are being called to let go of some of our deepest attachments and ways of being so a higher potential can be manifested.

Mars enters Capricorn this week, joining the Capricorn party. Over this next month, it will gradually be making its way to its biennial reunion to the exact placement of his Queen – Venus. A joining of the masculine and feminine, a re-union in love and attraction.

In all the ways that we can feel at odds with ourselves and each other, this aspect represents the ways in which we can feel in harmony with ourselves and others, how we can feel alignment and perfect resonance and harmonic synastry. Yet again, we’ll find it is a process. Of getting there, being there, and then letting go into what’s next. Over the following weeks, we are working on getting there and being there – in love and harmony with ourselves and others, joining forces, connecting.
It’s a time of recognizing what is not working, letting go, and making space for what is truly in your heart that you want to be with and spend time on.

Mars is now in a closing cycle to Venus and will begin a brand-new cycle – of desire, intention, and love on the level of what is most personal and dear to each of us.

Right after Valentine’s Day is the reset point. The day of celebrating love and the people we share it with goes out with a bang as Mars then leaves his Queens side, after all the merging and bonding in unity, to once again experience the separation into the Self, with always the promise of return, back to union.

This First Quarter Moon highlights Venus, already into her retrograde cycle and presently conjunct the Sun in Capricorn. Issues around money, resources, and life-altering commitments are currently challenging our identities and sense of purpose. As life confronts us with what is no longer working and what is not right or sustainable, naturally, what arises is the need to figure out the new plan, system, contracts, and foundations to support the continuing process.

This is Capricorn territory – establishing solid and functional support systems. During this powerful Venus Retrograde cycle, we are given the opportunity to reexamine the current structures, contracts and agreements, routines and procedures, and overall influence of resources, monetary or otherwise, operating in our lives. Over the next month, it’s time to take serious accountability and make mature and wise choices regarding the long-term effects of your life and your decisions therein. It’s about how important it is to have a strong and solid foundation as support for any creative project, relationship, or endeavor. It’s about taking the time, effort, dedication, and devotion to be present and in integrity with what is needed. It’s about being mature and growing up, being responsible, and doing what’s right because it’s worth it in the end.

With Mars squaring Neptune this week, personal boundaries, desires, and motivations may creep up aggressively either from within or projected onto you. Major changes of old and deep patterns are being confronted, and courage is needed in the “letting go” process. Still, many may be feeling deeply triggered along the way into fear, anger, and just an overall need to assert oneself or else lose oneself in the chaos of it all. The confrontation to hold on or to let go is powerful this week, and the stakes can feel high with the personal choices at hand.

Next week’s Full Moon will bring more information into the light to understand further which direction is best as far as understanding what is truly important and what truly matters in your life. But, in the meantime, this week may feel like an erupting overflow of more and more to deal with as Jupiter continues to square the Moon’s Nodes. It’s certainly a time when life comes at us with a full dose of chaos, activity, and information.

Mercury goes retrograde mid-week in Aquarius and eventually enters back into Capricorn over the next few weeks. Where Capricorn establishes traditions and builds walls and foundations, Aquarius breaks them down and progresses forward into the wide-open expanse of the future. This combination playing out in all our lives and on the world stage looks a lot like a remodel. The demolition of the current outdated foundations must come first before the new ways can become a reality. However, the vision of what will be is the guiding force behind deconstructing the current reality in the first place. It’s a dance between what has been and what will become. The letting go and the establishing of the new.

Blessings on your path.

Moving through an eclipse cycle changes us. As deeper, more significant aspects of our life are unearthed or even erupted from untapped, buried, hidden recessives of our psyche, we are revealed. Greater meaning and purpose become us, and we are moved to grow, surrender, and expand into more.

By their nature, all New and Full Moons usher in a peak moment of significant closure and new beginnings. However, there is an incredibly potent statement brought in with the timing of the eclipses. It is the message of READINESS. You are READY.

It’s a time in the year where we have arrived. If we can imagine our lives as the journey that we are walking, dancing, running, crawling through (wherever you may be in this moment), then the eclipse cycle is when we have arrived at the next doorway to step through, or destiny path to go forth upon.

Eclipses are widely known as being likened to that of a portal. They are moments in our lives where a gateway is presented for us to step into, an entryway to a course change—A redirection and a new direction that is powerful, consequential, and life-altering.

For those usually tuned into the Full and New Moon times, the Eclipse Season can feel like a very intense Full or New Moon that lasts much longer. Rather than just the typical few days we experience every month, the Eclipses can have lingering effects for weeks on either side of the Moons.

It’s like that portal we arrive at, as we step into it, we are taken on a journey through another important realm in our life’s story, an alternate dimension, if you will, to eventually come out on the other side into a whole new world. And then we are returned home, but we are profoundly different, and so are our lives.

This will likely be a chapter where the impressive saga element comes alive in the chronicle of your life! Where you are challenged to become the hero or the heroine of your life. And slay, conquer and attain victory in some form or another.

May 19
First Quarter Moon 

As we are now a week out from the New Moon that kicked off this powerful cycle and a week away from the wonders of the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, today at the First Quarter Moon, we would be wise to pay close attention to where we stand on the path of our lives. What is beckoning for your attention? What is calling you forward? What is begging to be put to rest? Who are you with? Who are you being?

One way or another, you will arrive at the “portal.” However, how prepared and how “ready” you feel at the moment will be significantly determined by your actions this week. Quarter Moon times test us to rise and implement change where needed or redirect our focus where necessary. Looking up to the half-moon in the sky, we are reminded of the power of being centered and balanced, even within the enormity of the paradox and duality that we exist within.

May 21 – June 21
Sun ingresses into Gemini.

We’ve just come through a solar month where we were learning through Taurus about what is meaningful and valuable to us and lessons around grace, beauty, pleasure, and comfort. Hopefully, a deeper understanding has been acquired around what’s important and needed to feel good and secure in your life. As we get ready to move into the solar month of Gemini, the Taurus intention was to succeed in grounding deeper into your center and sense of self with greater purpose and meaning fulfilling your life.

From out of the stillness and quiet space of the “inner cave” that is the Taurus realm, in Gemini, we come out into the world and embrace the environment around us in all its activity, stimuli, commotion, chaos, and movement. Life moves fast, and Gemini is here to remind us of that!

With the Sun, the North Node of the Moon, Venus, and Mercury all in Gemini this month, it is about opening up and engaging with the world around you. Allowing, to some degree, to be affected by your surroundings. To be influenced, inspired, provoked, intrigued, and lead on a journey. To follow the story being told and be amused, entertained, and everything that happens when we embrace an experience of others and the multitude of perspectives, concepts, expressions, ideas, and colorful ways of looking and exploring life.

We get a taste of it all and experience the delight and sometimes the agitation of contrast. We get to expand into more or decide, “no, thank you, I’ve seen enough of that.”

Prepare also to be annoyed, bothered by, and perhaps even enraged as we see that this world we live in is a place where anything is possible and what is normal and natural to some is entirely alien and foreign to another.

Indeed, we can never fully understand another human being, even after attempting to walk a mile in their shoes. There is a great mystery so profound and beyond us, and it is here in Gemini that we get to dip a toe into the vastness of the nature of that Sea.

Monday, May 3
Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius 13, Conjunct Saturn 13

At this point, we are coming deeper into this Taurus Season, where we are being guided to ground into creating stability and finding peace within. Taurus teaches us to trust ourselves and to know what it takes to achieve such a virtuous feat—showing up for thyself with consistency, reliability, honesty, authenticity, and unwavering certainty that you will be there FOR yourself. Generally speaking, Taurus really love themselves!

They teach that we deserve pleasure and comfort and the finer things in life. They can’t have it any other way! They must surround themselves with as many things that feel good to them as they can get their hands on! Taurus teaches us the value of taking time with the self – for the good of the self.

To get still, return to silence, and find peace within is essential to everyone’s well-being. To nurture, support, and develop the self so to then be able to reap the benefits warranted is a crucial aspect of growth and being alive.

Rewards such as impeccable groundedness, admirable self-sufficiency, and earned talent and skill. They are the self-reliant giants of the zodiac. Self-contained by nature and holding within themselves an abundance of gifts. During Taurus season, we have so much to learn about the importance of cultivating personal values and following your heart’s desires.

Yet, even in times when it’s all about grounding, committing, and stabilizing, the “future” nonetheless still powerfully calls. The impulse to create and move forward, coupled with the need to let go of the past and liberate, is a force to be reckoned with these days.   

Raising us, inspiring, even shocking some of us out of our comfort zones as still, we reach lazily for our safety nets. It takes work to grow, to step forward, and into the unknown. To embrace more of the self and take on more responsibility for living in the realized self. It can be painful to live out of alignment and purpose, yet it’s not easy to fully embrace the task of living life and doing what it takes to stay in alignment with a world so out of whack with itself.

The Last Quarter Moon phase offers a moment of contemplation, often through bumping up against an internal conflict of understanding.

It’s the “Crisis in Consciousness” phase where we often must adjust our perspective in some vital way to help close this cycle off optimally.

Especially now, in Aquarius, with Saturn and Jupiter, the stakes are higher as we’re being called to access our best selves and manifest our highest potentials. Chances are all the significant changes, and unexpected events and offers of late have challenged your more profound sense of values and personal beliefs around what is good or not so good for your life.

It’s an important time where the resource of our energy reserves is coming into focus. Where are you putting your energy? Who is in your life? Who is not? What is the quality of your relationships? Are you showing up fully, sincerely, honestly, in love, in frustration, in exhaustion? It’s time to get clear with what you have and what you have not and make the appropriate adjustments to find the peace you need.

Foundations are being rocked, and this isn’t likely to change anytime soon as it’s the “2021 theme” with Uranus and Saturn squaring all this year. Think radical destabilization meets reformulation and reconstruction of foundations for future sustainability. We’re on an old crumbling bridge working hard to make it to the other side so we can successfully rebuild it for those behind us.

Can you see where in your own life some perspective you have may be hindering your path or limiting your options moving forward? Usually, our view is so deeply embedded to the point of becoming a belief or a truth. And this is where we may have to look very deeply at ourselves and ask, “Is this belief I’m holding onto really serving me?” We often limit ourselves and others by how we choose to see.

“Change your perspective, change the world.”

Taurus also teaches about getting too comfortable, stuck, and stagnant in one’s own values, beliefs, and preferences.

Now is a time to take a step back and see with eyes wide open. We are all in a rapid process of expansion, taking on an immense amount of pressure to get focused within all that is crumbling around us. Life is never going to be how it was, and we are letting go of so much daily. And amidst it all, like the pearl, many of us can see and feel deep within a grand new world is being created!

The Venusian Moon

In all its grandiose splendor, the Full Moon piques magic, mystery, and wonder in our hearts. To gaze upon her, bathe beneath her, and go out to get a glance, we can’t help to stare. We are touched. She provokes our psyche, riles our moods, tempts our instincts. We are moved. La Luna has the power to shift the tides and make waves not only on this Earth planet but within each one of us!

The Moon is a reminder that we, too, are shifting and changing through the cycles and seasons of our own lives each and every day. We ebb and flow, wax and wane, grow and let go, release and become more of ourselves. Many faces, dark and light, are we.

We live on the body of Mother EARTH. We are physical, embodied, having an earthly experience. And we are also so multidimensional – we have a physical body, an emotional body, a mental body, a spiritual body, an individualized self, a socialized self, an Ego, feminine attributes, and masculine aspects.  

In comes astrology! Astrology is the study of the human psyche and seeks to understand and explain all of these various aspects of the human experience. How else could we learn about the depths of who we are if not by observing ourselves and nature in relation to each other through the cycles of time?! 

The MOON represents the feminine, flowing, receptive, introspective, emotional depth of our psyche. In astrology, the Moon symbolizes the emotional body, and the Sun symbolizes an aspect of the egoic body. The SUN represents the masculine, purpose-driven, identity-focused aspect of our psyche. The Full Moon times are always when the Sun and the Moon stand in opposition – think polarization and external influences. During Full Moon times, we often learn lessons brought to us by other people or outside circumstances.

As we move through cycles and phases, we can see that we move through the various stages. Sometimes we can see that the theme playing out is about the mind, or sometimes it’s about the spiritual body. THIS TIME is about our most personal sense of self regarding our attractions and desires and what we want to do and have in life. It’s about our “identities” and our relationships. It’s a very “take things PERSONALLY” sort of time! We’re looking at how we are relating to ourselves and others on a very personal level. 

We want to have an experience of ourselves in the ways that we desire and prefer, and we want to have an experience of another in the ways that uniquely support and nourish us and the other. We have preferences, and instinctual desires, and sensitivities. We have boundaries.

It’s about getting in touch with the things that we want and need to feel good, feel free, enjoy life, be at peace, and live in harmony with our lives. How do we achieve this? By listening? By speaking? By acting? By observing? By being?
Otherwise, we experience tension, and conflict, and even war with ourselves and others, when we are not seen as or expressing what we are, but rather what we are not. Or perhaps we are met with that which we resist, or deny, or avoid. Either way, life shows us ourselves through one another and our relationship to self. 

This current cycle with the Sun in Aries opposite the Full Moon in Libra highlights the Masculine and the Feminine powerfully. These are the Mars and Venus-ruled signs.  

Here we find the attraction and repulsion instincts, how we relate to RECEIVING from life and others, and what we GIVE out and give back to life and others. We see our triggers. Libra speculates and intellectualizes about it, and Aries wants to have an embodied experience of it! These are energies that deal with extremes. Aries takes instinctual action, and Libra weighs out the consequences.  

She, Him, They, Them, however you relate, this is a time emphasizing the duality within our natures that speaks of being separate and individual vs. being in partnership and influenced by another/s. We are all living the paradoxes. Moments of extreme bewilderment and moments of grace and peace, moments of divine loving connection, and moments of hate can all overcome us. Living is a personal affair. 

How to be seen, heard, recognized for who you are and how to adjust, grow, and expand to share space with others harmoniously. It all takes time, understanding, patience, growth, knowing when to fight and when to give up. 

Essentially this time is about CONNECTION. Libra thrives in neutrality and knows that there is truth found in the middle way in all the diversity of perspectives. Aries knows that our own experiences powerfully inform us, and still others have so much to teach us about their own. 

What is so beautiful about this Full Moon is that the planet Venus joins up with the Sun finalizing a 1.6-year cycle, and begins again embarking on a renewed journey towards more LOVE and connection with self. This is a moment where we can let bygones be bygones and stake a claim to peace in our hearts. 

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu

But as if this wasn’t already enough, Chiron, the Wounded Healer archetype, is also positioned right there at the same degrees where Venus and the Sun will meet in opposition to the illuminated Full Moon! The wounded masculine, the wounded feminine, the wounded human. We each have carried so much pain. We each have so much love to give.

Be gentle. Be brave. Be the Warrior and stand with and for love.

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So much love and blessings to you on the way,
Jessica Dawn

First Quarter Moon at 01º 39’ Cancer ♋︎ | Mar 21, 2021 

The Equinox has arrived, and a new season now ushers in a fresh new light and perspective.

Birth is the tone, and we are each in its hour—a dance between the old self and the new self in the Mystery of it all.  The pains, the glory, the fright, the exhilaration, the confrontation with Life & Death. We birth in the form of new projects, realized dreams, new relationships, greater awareness. We birth ourselves.

༶How many different people can we be in a lifetime? How many expressions of self? How many lives can we live? The beauty is that there’s no answer! We simply get to live in the mystery and attempt to glean some discovery.

༶The bittersweet let go of the child’s babyface, the lover’s hand, the home which stores the memories of a lifetime of love and heartbreak. If walls could talk, if chubby baby cheeks could last forever, if growth did not separate us…

༶The cycles and phases of death and rebirth are what give purpose to the process of living. Growth carries us with such determination for success! It can often feel like we are along for the ride! However, as Aries season comes around, we are reminded that we have the power. That we are the power, and we create. Aries has an insatiable instinct to experience one’s desires and interests.  Above all, Aries wants to have an experience of Self. That unique individual self within each one of us. Aries says, “I must do, and have, and experience.” Aries says, “I am.”

༶Today, tomorrow, the next day – change is the only true constant.༶Within all things born lives the memory of what has come before. Carried in the blood and bones, the Earth and Stars. The past, the present, the future it is all so alive in the moment. We are what we make of this life. We are life! Aries says, “Take the reins and go forth and experience life! “Take a risk. Be brave, find the courage. Face yourself. Face others. Aries is the Warrior, and in life, there is always a war to find peace with.

༶Now is a time for celebrating. The battles fought and won. The demons conquered. The love lost and gained. Life is not easy. As we go out on our own, we realize we are not alone. We share this world, and we are connected.༶The challenges await to strengthen you, and the victories are there to honor you. It is time to celebrate being alive!

Without recognition of our feats and accomplishments, without honoring the true rites of passage that we each experience as we move through the cycles and seasons of our own lives, we risk the imbalance and the toxicity that is born from an environment that is full of too much neglect and not enough appreciation.

Celebration is medicine! Honoring each other’s triumphant journeys is healing.༶Aries asks us to stop and physically and intentionally CONNECT with Life. 

Be loud, be bold, take action, leave a mark, and for goodness’ sake, make some amazing memories!

 We are in for a very catalytic week!

As we’re now moving through the first few days after the New Moon, heading towards the First Quarter Moon this coming weekend, the “new theme” that this cycle is very much about is RELEASING. I

n Pisces, it’s often about letting go of some of the oldest, deepest, and longest-held patterns (think – lifetimes and ancestors). This process naturally calls for SURRENDER, into the void, into the unknown, and into the possibilities of a new life on the other side.

Here in this Pisces cycle, we’ve reached a natural end – the end of the zodiac, the stage in our own psyches where we can sense we’ve outgrown certain aspects of ourselves and that soon there will be a (re)birth. Soon the Aries energy will burst through the dark womb and new life, fresh identity, and inspiration will be ripe and in active pursuit.

For now, the work is in the surrender. Surrendering to let go where you know in your heart it is necessary. Surrendering to enter into new territory that you know in your heart will serve and support you. Surrendering to release aspects of the “old self” no longer necessary to carry forward. Surrendering to allow the greater, truer, authentic self to come forth.

Over the next few days as the Moon joins the Game-changer Revolutionary Rebel of the sky (Uranus). Expect SHIFTS. Prepare for AWAKENED moments of recognition and insight. Uranus represents SEPARATION from all that is not in alignment with your most unique true self. This is a time to honor your genius and play with your creative self!

Amazing things are being born from out of the Dark Womb of Pisces. However, as it always is with birth, we must ALLOW the process to happen, beyond our understanding and in surrender to the unknown and the pure and powerful potential of life force energy herself that is in co-creation moving with us.

By the end of this week as Mars joins the “Destiny” symbol of the zodiac (once every two years) we shall certainly see some real changes being ushered into our lives and powerful future-oriented opportunities manifesting.

Many people are going through so much! Remember to be gentle, be kind, and be compassionate with yourself and others as we are all in this together.

Take the time to create supportive, warm, and nurturing space for your process to happen. The shedding takes so much strength and birth takes courage.

With Venus and the Sun now in the sweet and wondrous energies of Pisces, a whole other realm of infinite potential has opened to us! Here we can soften a bit and surrender.  We can have faith that we will be held by seen or perhaps unseen forces.    

Pisces represents the womb space where dark and light are one. This is a solar month focused on releasing, letting go, and SURRENDERING into the Mystery. We are supported to soften the EGO and allow INNOCENSE and childlike wonder and inspiration to take the stage.

In Pisces, you are guided to cultivate Compassion, Acceptance, and Unconditional Love ~ for self & others.  Soon the Equinox will raise us into a fresh new beginning.  For now, we are in the closing cycle of the Zodiac and therefore releasing in our own lives as well.

The Virgo Full Moon (the sign opposite Pisces) is all about grounding, stabilizing, and materializing the spirit into form.  Virgo helps us to make real our intentions and dreams and realize the infinite potentials and the divinity that lives and breathes within each one of us.  Through our bodies and our ability to think and take action, we can manage and make something of all these possibilities. 

The Virgo Full Moon comes in with strong guidance around taking action to clear space, tidy up, and discriminate when necessary around what’s influencing your personal environment and what it may need to function at its most optimal for the best and healthiest outcome.  Self-care is a must for not only survival but success. 

Virgo and Pisces also very much represent the Victim archetype and the pain and suffering of the human experience.  Try as you might to find your own center of peace as we are each in the eye of the storm in our own lives as we work to confront and resolve where we are in the epic chaos of this life experience.

The weekend of February 27^th and the 28^th, 2021 ~ Full Moon in Virgo

With the Virgo Full Moon opposite Venus on Saturday and then Neptune on Sunday, we have the opportunity to tap into some very delicious expansive deep and sensual energies within our relationships (either to self-and/or other).  Full Moon’s always represent a peak energy and potential experience so this weekend could go big in some way!

Be careful not to indulge to the point of no return in the pain body as our sensitivities will certainly be heightened under the rays of the Full Moon.  Rather seek to see the love beyond the pain and the light eager to shine through the cracks into the dark. 

Virgo and Pisces remind us that there is strength in vulnerability and the humility.  It takes courage to allow ourselves to be held in a compassionate embrace of innocence and childlike wonder as we try to make sense of so much that is just simply confusing and out of our control in many ways these days.

Virgo wants results and learns in the process that sometimes the best way to get there is to let down one’s guard and step out of the way so that the miracles awaiting to be witnessed can have the space to show up.   It’s about that fine balance of knowing when to do and when to stop and rest in the stillness (or chaos) and wait as life continues to happen and perhaps someone else does something in return.  

This past two weeks New Moon cycle moved us through an incredible pile-up of Aquarian energy – the archetype of the Gamechanger, the Truth Sayer, the bold cold mic-drop.  Aquarius initiates the impulse to break free from the past at all cost and with five planets there, including the Mercury Retrograde cycle (now direct,) moving forward, beyond, and even up up and away has been the momentum.   

Essentially this time is all about enhancing the quality of our lives, by clearing away all the things possible that may be in the way of that bigger and better life experience. 

Mercury retrograde is infamous for throwing a monkey wrench into our plans and this time around joining forces with Venus in her own tension (square) with Mars, it’s been accentuating (or over exaggerating) the need for all kinds of confrontational conversations within our relationships to self and the other.

The need to separate from or the need to commit to… which one is it?  This is a cycle of life-changing decisions with so much potential to open up unknown possibilities for the future.

Mars and Venus represent our most personal instinctual desires and what we want and need to feel good and alive from day to day.  With Venus in a last quarter square closing in to culminate her cycle with Mars the potential for our wounds, pains, shadows and unmet desires and needs have been seeking a space to surface and to be seen and resolved.  Their complete cycle will come to a final conclusion this July so there is still plenty of time to realize and remedy what has been coming up these days to become aware of in regard to the deep song of your heart. 

As Mercury now edges within two degrees to join Jupiter by the end of this week, in the uber brainy sign of Aquarius, our neurons are being hyper-stimulated, and the synapses are firing! This is to say that there is a heavy influence on the mind right now.  It can manifest as clarity, insight, awakening, higher perspective or knowing, and for some also nervous breakdown, mental breakdown, overstimulation with symptoms like insomnia and anxiety. 

It’s a very electrical energy like a thunder and lightning storm and can be both unnerving and enthralling all at once.

With the power of the Saturn square Uranus transit that is defining the theme of the entire year of “2021”, in its first of three joining moments during this month and into next, it is like the two Generals are standing firmly in the background of each of our lives overlooking every move and decision we make.  Yikes!  Not so fun, however necessary in the seeming impasse we have arrived to.  But it is more of a standoff than a dead-end.  We have options and possibilities and that is what the Generals are there to remind us.  We must each choose and take action in some way to forward our lives to create the changes we are all dreaming of for this world.

They are like guides holding us accountable in this moment because it’s time and they are asking simply “What’s going to stay and what’s going to go? Choose wisely.”

What will we leave behind?  What will remain as a foundation of support?  What will we take a chance to let go of in hopes of a brighter future to come?  What will we risk to step into the unknown and embrace a new life and new self yet unrealized?   

No one says it louder than Aquarius ~ “Be the Change.”

Full Moon at 08º 20” Cancer | Dec 29, 2020

As it is now in the Cosmic Sky, la Luna (in Cancer) stands opposite the Sun (in Capricorn). It could be imagined as a dance between the Masculine and Feminine seen in the highest expression. The Divine Father (Capricorn) and the Sacred Mother (Cancer) are held in space and supported by the gravitational pull of balance between the opposites. Here it is all about the archetypes of the Provider, the Nurturer, the Leader, the Wise Guide – Crone or Wizard Sage, the Divine Parent.

Cancer and Capricorn’s axis teaches us that matters of the Heart are hard work and can be incredibly rewarding and/or devastating to our sensitivities! It takes strength, devotion, loyalty, commitment, and an immense amount of courage to love and be loved, live with an open heart, and allow oneself to be seen and touched by love, by another, and essentially by oneself. Here it is all about the depths of feeling and letting the waves of vulnerability carry you home into the heart.

To be a Leader in life by being led by the Heart ~ this is the balance of Cancer and Capricorn. And to be bonded and committed (to whatever it is that you choose) is the lifeblood that gives us meaning throughout our lives.

We all come from out of a Spiritual Family Tree – of one kind or another. Whether it be bloodlines or Soul Family, we are joined together by karmic ties and heartstrings. We are reflecting, mirroring, guiding, creating obstacles and challenges for one another as we each traverse the territories of ourselves in the maze of each other.

The past, the present, the future ~ a beautiful marriage of Unity forever linked in Harmony.

Cancer say’s “This is what I need to feel secure, safe, comfortable. “This is what makes me vulnerable.” “These are my needs.” “These are my fears.”Cancer say’s “I feel your pain. Come, let me embrace it. Let me hold you in the warm hearth of my nurturing presence, and we can feel the love that is near.”We are bonded and bound to our pain, to each other, to our patterns, to our hopes and dreams. Strands as powerful as the umbilical cord feeding us with life, and as determined as friendship knots binding us to vows we’ve said in gest or perhaps in desperation or even in pure love.

Our foundations vary, our shoulders to lean on come and go, and we learn to adjust to the winds of change and make way for the promise given each new day of hope, and more time to live it all out, to right our wrongs, and to leave something of value behind.

We plant seeds and grow into ourselves by and through each other. Strengthened by the nurturing or weakened by neglect or lack of light, we become who we are. Struggles and birth pains worn like a wound on our Nature and, if we are lucky, like a source of strength in our Spirit. Being Alive is Warriors Work.

We are all here fighting the good fight. In faith that we shall be redeemed for our efforts and forgiven for our faults as we stay steadfast on the path. Hopeful to be blessed with an opportunity to be witnessed, appreciated, held, and shared in the experience of who we are and all that we have to give. How beautiful it is to lay down our swords for a moment and stake a peace flag in the internal battles and rest in the reprieve of being loved.

Life gets lonely. One thing for sure that we can count on is the light of love, that no matter what, no matter where, eternally shines like a beacon in each of our hearts, like an old friend always there to connect with us.

No man is an island, and I am nothing without you.

Scorpio offers us a chance at self-mastery by stepping in with courageous willingness to do what it takes to confront and stand in the face of radical uncompromising truth.
For Scorpio, Truth is the Path and the Lifeblood to God. There is no map for the realms of the Underworld. We can only hope for at least a guide to accompany us.

It’s Scorpio Season! I’ll tell you my vice if you tell me yours!

 Scorpio pushes into our boundaries enticing us to open and enter into the darker (hidden) side of life. The more intimate, more personal, more private realms that we would ordinarily rather keep close to the heart or even sequestered away. The spaces where the light of TRUTH shines so bright it can be blinding leaving us with no other choice but to SEE lest we remain in the dark.

Scorpio energy often makes us uncomfortable with the nudges and the prodding into our secrets and hidden valleys of our past experiences and our desires unmanifested. The Scorpio realms are said to be not for the “faint of heart”. For it takes courage and often “grit” to go below the surface of the superficialities of our personalities and to embrace and be embraced by another.

Scorpio follows Libra in the evolutionary journey of the zodiac. In Libra, we learn to listen to others and to speak our minds, to toss around perspective, opinion, ideas, and concepts, to pay attention to thought. In Libra, we cross the bridge from Self to the Other and gain the experience of Relationship.

It is largely motivated by the desire to know the mind of the other, to understand the dualities, polarities, and the diversity of perspectives – to compare and contrast for the sake of the knowledge of oneself. Libra likes to “keep it light”, harmonious, predictable, non-confrontational (unless they know they can win the argument!)

Scorpio then, takes RELATIONSHIP to the next level into the depths of emotion. It’s about the UNION of the Souls and the mysteries found therein. It’s about the alchemical process that is unique always to the ones involved and can never be predicted beforehand. It’s about the merging of the Two that creates the Third and the perception, devotion, commitment, and honesty needed to realize what that creation has to offer.

From one moment to the next it is raw and ripe with an honesty that pierces into our vulnerabilities. And threatens our fragility. Libra says “I want to please you. Tell me something pleasing.” Scorpio says, “I don’t care if I like it or not, just tell me the truth.”

Scorpio offers us a chance at self-mastery by stepping in with courageous willingness to do what it takes to confront and stand in the face of radical uncompromising truth.

For Scorpio, Truth is the Path and the Lifeblood to God. There is no map for the realms of the Underworld. We can only hope for at least a guide to accompany us.

LIBRA ~ beckons us to find the Grace, Balance, and Serenity in the Giving AND the Receiving within our relationships. We are called to make peace with the extremes we find in our own nature and the ways in which those extremes are expressed, and to have understanding and compassion for that in others as we move towards the awareness needed to create balance within and out in our lives. Libra teaches us of the Art of Listening and Giving – as an Act of Love. Here we learn about the Relativity of Truth. Through the exposure to other’s opinions, thoughts, desires, and needs we come to understand that there is no one way – various lifestyles equal various truths. Libra is the Mirror. In reflection with others, we come to know ourselves. By embracing the reflection of self that we receive from another we can come to understand our own value as it is experienced out in the world. Not everyone will see you as you are. Some will see you as more, some will see you as less. How do you see yourself? 

Libra’s shadow is wanting to become something for someone else; to fulfill someone else’s desire at the expense of their own, simply for the sake of pleasing the other. To lose oneself in another for the other. And there are people who want another to become what they want them to be without regard for that person’s own truth. Projection onto another creates an imbalance in the equality between the two.

Libra’s polarity is Aries. Aries informs Libra of the importance of learning to speak one’s own needs, desires, and truth. And to take Initiative for what YOU want in YOUR life. To learn how to listen to your own self and inner knowing and be guided by not only your powerful intellect but by your own instinctual nature guiding you towards your own truth.

April 20th ~ May 20th 

Taurus calls us to Stillness.  It is Fixed Earth.  Solid, consistent, grounded, stability.  

Where Aries is about finding one’s Identity through experience, Taurus is about finding one’s Self through withdrawing and going within.  

Taurus teaches us about being deeply rooted in oneself.  Coming in from the storm and being the calm after the storm.  

It is the Inner Sanctuary and the Bear Cave, representing comfort, safety, security, and pleasure.  

Taurus is a Venus-ruled sign and here we come very in touch with the senses, the physical, the body, the material. 

New Moon in Taurus awakens us to the beauty, peace, and harmony that can be found in the space of sacred solitude.  To the value in tapping into your own resources held deep within as a source to your own happiness, joy, and pleasure.  Taurus knows the power harnessed in Self-reliance and Self-sufficiency, in Sovereignty. 

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Aquarius is a revolutionary energy that ushers in radical change and asks us to be TRUE TO OURSELVES and teaches that when we are centered in the heart it will always be for the good of all. 
We need to lead by example that it is our right to be self-expressed as we choose to show up in our own divine individuality.

As we say Yes to ourselves and make choices in support of our own greatest vision and dream, as we go forward, we’re cultivating more love within and experiencing the impact of what more love in this world can create.

This is the mission of Aquarius – through each of us honoring and harnessing the inspiration of our own unique spark of light within, we become a healed, divinely expressed humanity as a whole.

Don’t underestimate the power of a loving heart! We know that the heart field radiates several feet beyond our body and has the potential to go even miles (through distance healing work and prayer.) 
We have the power to create the change we want in our world/s but it must first begin with a vision. We must see it and feel it into reality.

This is a month to envision and dream big! Go beyond everyone’s (and even your own) judgment, expectation, conditioning, disbelief, and critisism because Aquarius doesn’t give a fu**!! It has a revolution to lead!

*What in you is ready for a change? Asking to be released? 
*What new seed ideas or opportunities are birthing you into your future?
*Where are you being asked to take a stand and lead the revolution within your own life? To be brave, and bold, committed and focused on the vision so that you can see it through into manifestation?

“I Believe In the Good Things Coming”

We’re in the Mid-point of the Two Eclipses! On this coming Monday is the First Quarter Moon.

✨We are in such a very important and potent time of taking a good look at our “Truths” and what it is that has given meaning to our lives – and how and what we need to shift and change as we move forward. Jupiter and Neptune are Squaring off at this time (one of three times this year so this will be a running theme) to bring in the expansiveness around attaining our Dreams by looking at what we believe. Are WE holding our selves back?

✨The Quarter Moon times – or the “Midpoint” are always a time of adjustment. It’s a “crossroads” where crucial decisions need to be addressed about what you need to do to continue to nurture and support the “seeds” planted on the New Moon a week ago.

What has come in for you over this past week? What new beginnings? What endings?

The New Moon Eclipse of January 5th was an “Eclipse of the Past.” Meaning – A time of recognizing and releasing what was. In combination with powerful energies focused on our “Truth & Beliefs” – many of us are coming clear with revelations around long time patterns that we are now ready to let go of. 
It’s time to move more freely into our future with this upcoming Full Moon Eclipse! 🦅🌕✨🌬

The Full Moon will bring us to a pinnacle point of growth and expansion ~ A moment of Celebration of all that we have accomplished in the prior two weeks.

Now is the time to weed the garden and tend to the new life that has sprouted up in your life.

A dear friend of mine, Abi Levine, gifted me in the mail a book this week! “Home Coming” by John Bradshaw. It is such a powerful book that feels so perfect for these immense times of shifting and healing the foundations and family/relationship structures of our lives. So many adults are walking around with the “wounded child” acting itself out… Part of my work this week has been around recognizing this in myself and taking another step towards embracing and supporting the inner child within me. 💗

It is all very much in alignment with this past CANCER New Moon Eclipse and the upcoming LEO Full Moon Eclipse. 🙏💗

I’ve only been reading it for a day and it is completely rocking my world and is exactly the medicine I’ve needed to help release and move more freely forward.

Love & Blessings, 🤩

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