Mystic Sandwich

astrology, tarot, and energetics

What is Truly Important? Capricorn Season and Venus Retrograde

January 4, 2022

There may be some clarity, or a sense of things starting to coalesce. But given that The Toxic Hustle is one Dark Side of Capricorn, I would avoid the temptation to New-Years-Pushing-Forwards and Tackling-Those-Goals because that’s all Old World Ways we are learning to shake off. The question now is: how do we do our work in ways that sustain and nourish us. How do we do our work like the goat climbs the mountain, one careful step at a time.

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Business as Usual is Cancelled: Mars in Capricorn

March 12, 2020

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.

Image from Songs of Love and Death etc. by Margaret Armour Afterwards MacDougall; from the British Library Collection

Connected: New Moon in Aquarius

January 24, 2020

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?

Untangling this Ancient Knot of Pain: Lunar Eclipse in Cancer

January 10, 2020

We tend to think change will require some great exhausting effort. That we will have to gear up for it and push really hard. But the change required now is to stop going about things in that way. To stop forcing and pushing. To do less, consume less, work less. Yes, Saturn in Cap lends itself to discipline and work. But as Saturn is with the South Node, we are called on to release the unhealthy patterns of Saturn, and that includes force and over-effort.

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This Sick Worldview: Jupiter in Capricorn

January 9, 2020

It becomes easier to discern the air we’ve been breathing all along. Through the hard work of examining our collective shadow--that many of us have been engaged in for many years--we can see better now how patriarchy and systems of power and control have shaped our thoughts, beliefs, and ways of life.

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We're Gonna Fucking Do This, Kids: New Moon Eclipse in Capricorn

January 5, 2019

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….

On Love and Anger (Or What to do When the World Goes to Shit): Full Moon in Capricorn and Mars Retrograde

June 27, 2018

Capricorn is the sign of the patriarch, the energy within all of us--regardless of gender--of discipline, focus, protection, structure, infrastructure, organization, governance, ambition, guidance….