Mystic Sandwich

astrology, tarot, and energetics

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The Erotic as a Primordial Force of Nature: Full Moon in Scorpio

May 6, 2020

While Eros eventually evolved into Cupid, the cute god responsible for inspiring love and romance, in the earlier mythologies of ancient Greece, Eros was one of the primordial Gods. Alongside Chaos, the original void from which all else emerges; Nix (Night); and Tartarus, (The Abyss); Eros was imagined as one of the original elements responsible for the birth of all else in existence, a non-gendered, procreative force spurring the creativity of the cosmos itself.

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On Wealth and Revolution: New Moon in Taurus

April 22, 2020

Every year, Taurus season in the Northern Hemisphere brings with it the thick blooms of spring, and the sprouts of seeds planted during the initiating season of Aries. We witness--if we are so fortunate--the wealth of nature, Earth’s riches, the blossoming that comes only after the dead of winter. And we are brought back to our senses with this beauty, brought into our bodies, and into the present. We may remember the magic of stillness and silence…. But, of course, it’s not so simple.

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?

Material Revolution: New Moon + Uranus in Taurus

May 14, 2018

Expect your plans to change. Expect your direction to change. To work in collaboration with this energy, be flexible. Things are changing quickly. What we could once depend on is no longer stable.

Rise Above: Full Moon in Scorpio

April 29, 2018

Scorpio courageously dives into the depths to grapple with that which has been repressed, to confront the dragons and turmoil within--to release, accept, clean up, forgive, love--ie to offer medicine to those monsters, not to kill them. And then to emerge renewed and utterly transformed.