Today’s solar eclipse in Pisces not only coincides with the new moon but with a Uranus-Mars conjunction. All told, this is the astrological equivalent of a 1977 Buzzcocks show. In terms of tonight’s Oscars, expect the unexpected, not to mention a bevy of anti-establishment speeches. (Take it home, Moonlight!) In terms of your personal practice, all new moons are opportunities to set new goals but this particular constellation begs the question: What should I be blowing up? In terms of the U.S., the status quo is so obviously dunzo that the motto—nay, the mandate— is THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIRE. As spring progresses, we’ll build anew but, today, raise high the roofbeams, celestial carpenters! Postscript: Upset was right!
Venus retrograde approaches; my dreams heat up. I won’t even get into the mixed messages I’m receiving in waking life from those I desire and those I do not. I’ll just ill-advisedly share the dream I was sent last night from my greatest long-lost lover, he whose spirit sends me a postcard in the dream world every four years or so. In real life we’ve not spoken since my thirtieth birthday when he said, I don’t know if I can live without you but I’m going to try, and I didn’t get up from the kitchen floor until long after he’d left the country. Last night’s visit was such a middle-aged fumbling–rusty, desperate, hot.Continue Reading →
Today’s New Moon is in coolly compassionate Aquarius, and is defined by a square between Venus in Pisces (love, love and more love) and tough-lesson Saturn in break-the-mold Sagittarius. In English (not asstro-speak), this new moon is all about impersonally dealing with your personal blocks, especially in terms of how they hold you back from embracing humanity-at-large. Astrological shifts tend to occur just when we need them most, and it’s time for us to check our privilege, our personal biases, and our laziness so we can more fully resist this anti-humanitarian (read: anti-Aquarian) regime. In other words, this will be a powerful lunar cycle if we use it to march into a bigger picture. Goddess knows I’m looking at the woman in the mirror and lacing up my combat boots.
Today’s solar eclipse in Pisces not only coincides with the new moon but with a Uranus-Mars conjunction. All told, this is the astrological equivalent of a 1977 Buzzcocks show. In terms of tonight’s Oscars, expect the unexpected, not to mention a bevy of anti-establishment speeches. (Take it home, Moonlight!) In terms of your personal practice, all new moons are opportunities to set new goals but this particular constellation begs the question: What should I be blowing up? In terms of the U.S., the status quo is so obviously dunzo that the motto—nay, the mandate— is THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIRE. As spring progresses, we’ll build anew but, today, raise high the roofbeams, celestial carpenters! Postscript: Upset was right!
Venus retrograde approaches; my dreams heat up. I won’t even get into the mixed messages I’m receiving in waking life from those I desire and those I do not. I’ll just ill-advisedly share the dream I was sent last night from my greatest long-lost lover, he whose spirit sends me a postcard in the dream world every four years or so. In real life we’ve not spoken since my thirtieth birthday when he said, I don’t know if I can live without you but I’m going to try, and I didn’t get up from the kitchen floor until long after he’d left the country. Last night’s visit was such a middle-aged fumbling–rusty, desperate, hot. Continue Reading →
Today’s New Moon is in coolly compassionate Aquarius, and is defined by a square between Venus in Pisces (love, love and more love) and tough-lesson Saturn in break-the-mold Sagittarius. In English (not asstro-speak), this new moon is all about impersonally dealing with your personal blocks, especially in terms of how they hold you back from embracing humanity-at-large. Astrological shifts tend to occur just when we need them most, and it’s time for us to check our privilege, our personal biases, and our laziness so we can more fully resist this anti-humanitarian (read: anti-Aquarian) regime. In other words, this will be a powerful lunar cycle if we use it to march into a bigger picture. Goddess knows I’m looking at the woman in the mirror and lacing up my combat boots.