On Wealth and Revolution: New Moon in Taurus
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.
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Astrology and Coronavirus: Aries Season
Just days after the total solar eclipse in Capricorn on December 24th, a Chinese doctor, Li Wenliang, raised the alarm about multiple mysterious pneumonia cases, the cause of which was unknown. (Eclipses are considered among the most significant astrological events, thought to correspond with significant events, often out of our control, that bring about changes that unfold over months.)
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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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Critical Mystic: Full Moon in Virgo
Pisces, without Virgo, risks idealism, delusion, and self-sacrifice. So many have been cheated into following gurus, teachers, and cults, that promise salvation but turn out to be frauds. Religions and cults have long abused the energy of Pisces, by convincing us that our critical faculties interfere with our spiritual lives. We ought to trust, have faith, believe, and not question. And then we are ripe for abuse by power hungry, manipulative leaders…
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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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Untangling this Ancient Knot of Pain: Lunar Eclipse in Cancer
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
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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Nebuchadnezzar by William Blake
