Business as Usual is Cancelled: Mars in Capricorn
I do find it interesting that what with Coronavirus and the blockades in support of Wet’suwet’en, we are being forced to stop. As Mars moves through Capricorn (February 16th--March 30th), it activates the major themes we’ve been working with for over a year.
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Max van den Oetelaar
Remember Fun? Full Moon in Leo
Aquarius, for all its friendliness, can get serious. Too much future-scheming leads to living in the head. Ideas are important, but if we aren’t present, in touch with our senses, and able to experience the pleasures of life, then what’s the point? Leo is the remedy: it reminds us of fun, joy, embodiment, and play.
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Image from Songs of Love and Death etc. by Margaret Armour Afterwards MacDougall; from the British Library Collection
Connected: New Moon in Aquarius
Aquarius is community oriented. It’s about friendship, connections, networks. Aquarius knows what it means to be excluded and isolated, and also what it means to be connected and appreciated. And it knows that the only way to find true community is to be your own weird and unique self. This month, the opportunity is to move forward in collaboration with others. What can we accomplish through community that we can’t do alone? How can we pool our resources and expertise in order to overcome the challenges we face?
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On Not Knowing: Full Moon in Gemini
Free souls live dangerously: how invigorating to stand at the precipice of all you know and turn your face to the wind of Mystery.
Yes, fresh air, what a relief.
But what is that niggling? What is that incessant anxiety like white noise in the background?
Quincuncx the Moon, a triple conjunction between Venus, Saturn, and Pluto speaks to closing a cycle. It’s the end of a chapter with regards to how we relate to and in relationship.
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Your Initiation, Our Initiation: Full Moon in Aries
The Aries Full Moon is here to say “fuck ‘em”. Those people who don’t get you; fuck ‘em. It’s not worth wasting your life trying to please people. There are billions of different perspectives on this Earth. If you try to satisfy all of them you will be nothing in the end. Be yourself and fuck the people who don’t like it. They aren’t your people. And in the process, you will find YOUR people.
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The Scales of Justice: The Climate Crisis and Astrology
Libra seeks collaboration and cooperation. And with Libra’s ruler, Venus, sextile to Jupiter on the day of the New Moon, this is an especially beautiful month to make connections. But a sextile is an aspect that we have to act on. It’s not going to hand us gifts, we have to go out and make the magic happen. Venus and Jupiter together, speak to abundance, love, and connection. To allying our worldview with our values, and our resources with our beliefs. Libra also wants justice and values dialogue and the law and civil disobedience as means to achieve it.
Read MoreDoes Everything Happen for a Reason? Full Moon in Pisces
One belief I’m grappling with now is: does everything happen for a reason? Is there some divine plan for us? Is there an order of things beyond what our will can comprehend? This idea is central to all mystical traditions. And I think if we take our spiritual lives seriously, I don’t see a way to avoid it. And yet, the difficulty with it is that is seems to imply that there is a reason for injustice and suffering. Are we supposed to think that people deserve to be oppressed? That is clearly wrong.
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Art by EZ Naive (Elli Zogia)
The Deep Roots of Self-Care: New Moon in Virgo
For all the faults of this culture extending from Greek and European thought, there are nonetheless threads of wisdom and spirituality that we might draw on as resources. And we might even use those very resources to reflexively analyze the traditions they derive from--that reflexive process is actually definitive of the tradition. We are not floating, without ground, in some new-age soup. There are roots, thick and deep, that we just need follow down a little beneath the surface to find life-giving wisdom and spiritual nourishment.
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Disorders of the (Nervous) System: New Moon in Aquarius
This is an opportunity to reflect on and heal from trauma in a supportive environment. It’s also an opportunity to begin anew. To consider our hopes for the future, to make new connections, make new friends, and start or join new organizations.
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We're Gonna Fucking Do This, Kids: New Moon Eclipse in Capricorn
The other night, I was overcome by this profound wave of emotion and knowing, inexplicable and unverifiable, yet undeniable, this feeling of: we are gonna fucking do this. It felt like, collectively, we hadn’t really decided if we are up for the challenge. We hadn’t really decided if we are willing to be fully in our bodies and to face the wreckage of the past thousands of years….
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John LaFarge