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In the Ramp-Up to a Retrograde ...
Habits can form on purpose or on accident. Repetition makes it so. The lunar trine to Neptune followed by a challenging aspect to Mars highlights the actions we put on replay in the hours and days to come. Since each recurrence strengthens neural pathways, making the next round easier, make sure you're doing something you would welcome as a ...Read more
Day of Double Trines and Oppositions
It takes energy to shore up discrepancies. When you feel one thing but must act in some other way, it creates a gap. To shore up those gaps and present one cohesive personality is the very definition of emotional labor. This is why people you can't be yourself around are so draining. Ask yourself: What energy is being expended to shore up a ...Read more
Avoiding the Scorpion's Sting
The stinger on the tail of the Scorpio moon is the lovely parting gift we take away from our interactions. Where two or more people are involved, there can be endless interpretations. Try not to be too literal, detailed or inflexible in your interpretation of things. Kindness often takes the form of an openness to other interpretations.
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Libra Lunar Power Move
Yesterday's full moon in Libra illuminated the path to balance and beauty. Today's Libra lunar power move is to remove unnecessary elements, streamline the aesthetics, and create a serene environment that fosters calmness and clarity. This may have to do with the physical surroundings, though organizing the physical will extend metaphysically....Read more
Worm Moon
Consider the lowly earthworm -- a creature without ears who processes sound vibration to "hear" and, though eyeless, processes light to "see." Crucial to all that grows on planet Earth, the soil-star has much to teach us about the perfection of being the way we are and using what we have to make space for ourselves in this world.
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Moon at the Car Wash
The moon moving from clean Virgo to shiny Libra recalls how clarifying our priorities is like washing a car. We do it knowing we'll have to do it again next week and the week after that. Unlike washing your car, you don't need soap or sweat tend to our values. Just reflecting on what truly matters to you is an act of alignment.
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Mars on the Observation Deck
Mars in the first degrees of Pisces suggests we don't rush new situations. Stay observant. Being fresh on a scene can make a person eager to fit in, but it's better to resist the social pull to conform and maintain a certain amount of independence until you understand where everyone is coming from. Don't lose sight of your own interests.
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Message from Mars
When you're many miles, weeks or dollars into a process, you feel committed and it's easier to keep going than it is to change course. Even so, assess your journey thus far. Mars slips into the sign of spirit and empathy with the following message: It's not how far you are from the destination that matters; it's how close you are to your own ...Read more
Young Aries
Children are typically taught that doing the wrong thing has consequences. But the lesson that often goes untold is how doing the right thing can also have consequences, and not always the ones one would expect. The sun in the first degrees of youthful Aries reminds us how doing the right thing is its own reward, so any consequences can be ...Read more
A Challenge From Jupiter
The planet of luck in the sign of commerce challenges us to get a result faster, cheaper or simpler, and then offers bonus points if we figure out how to maximize the enjoyable part of the work and minimize the rest. Much will boil down to excellent organization. It's not about a good list or method, rather it's about an entire system and an ...Read more
Tender Start for Spring
Negativity has long been considered "toxic," and now the "toxic positivity" that denies the complexity of human emotions gets its due. It's totally acceptable if the sun crossing into the new season feels poignant or bittersweet. "I heard a thousand blended notes/While in a grove I sate reclined/In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts/Bring ...Read more
Last Splash
Today brings the last splash of Pisces season, followed by the hush of transition. Like Max Ehrmann's famous work "Desiderata," which is the Latin word for "things desired," a reflection of the last few weeks will produce the acknowledgement of what's still missing. "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may ...Read more
A Vision of Luck
Those who believe in manifestation know that envisioning a desired outcome with great emotion and optimism is a key step in the process of attraction. Imagining the lucky circumstance is happening now and feeling grateful and celebratory is in there, too. The solar conjunction to dreamy Neptune lends augmented powers of vision to this St. ...Read more
Restless Moon
Existential boredom is a kind of painless pain, not acutely felt as a sensation, but as an ache of the soul. This is why, for many, empty time is unbearably uncomfortable. Even so, the challenge, under this Gemini moon, is to defy distraction and feel the space. Emptiness is pure potential. Get rid of things before you have a replacement. The ...Read more
Cosmic Casting Call
Mars and Uranus stress the importance of casting roles correctly. A change of cast changes everything. You can't always choose, but when you can, the right person in a role will be crucial. Try someone who will support without meddling, guide without taking over, connect without encumbering. It's better to be alone than to be with people who ...Read more
Latter Days of Pisces Season
Doing what you've already done the same way you did it before can spend your resources without giving you much back. Is there anything you can delegate or put on autopilot to conserve your energy and make room for the interesting opportunities ahead? It's the perfect time to transfer activities to the "no-think" zone by turning them into ...Read more
Under an Appetite Moon
Marketers know it's easier for most customers to choose between three to five options than to have an endless array of wonderful ones. Decisions take work. The one offering choices can do the work by narrowing them down, or the one doing the choosing can do it by knowing exactly what would be most pleasing and ignoring the rest. These thoughts...Read more
Venus Floats a Note
It is not humanly possible to take in everything about a situation, so instead, our brains make assumptions based on what we already know. These shortcuts help us navigate what would otherwise be a very confusing world of stimuli. Venus in the early stages of Pisces will float a gentle request for self-awareness, which reads like a ...Read more
As Venus Joins the Pisces Party...
It is entirely possible to be more attracted to how much someone likes you and how good they make you feel than you are to the actual person -- a dynamic to be wary of, as it's neither ideal nor sustainable. It is not too much to ask that both boxes be checked -- that someone you admire, share values with and enjoy being around also happens to...Read more
Poem for a New Moon
In its disappearance into the sea of Pisces, the moon somehow is more expansive than in its fullness, or as one poet described, "nature without check." If the new moon were a poem, it would be "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself/And what I assume you shall assume/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs...Read more