Peace, love, and harmony are significant threads in the weaving of Libra's Full Moon. They belong to Aphrodite. Call her in. This ritual can be done in a group--or alone in your bedroom. Preparation Find a quiet place where you can protect yourself from intrusion. Then, as the Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan recommends, take steps to "surround yourself with a zone of … [Read more...]
What an auspicious New Moon, occurring on Imbolc--one of my favorite cross-quarter holidays. The need to cleanse and refresh our lives at this time is coded in our DNA, as humans have been honoring this turn on the wheel for millennia. Below is what shaman, poet and mooncircles friend Jane Galer has to say about the holiday. Whether you live in northern snow, or the … [Read more...]
According to astrology tradition, you were born under a special star of destiny. It will take 26,000 years for your birthday's unique pattern of stars to repeat itself in the heavens. The secret fate encoded in your chart is a sign that, as the Jungian thinker James Hillman said, "We are each born called." Imprinted on your soul the split second it assumed a human body is the … [Read more...]
The Scorpio New Moon arrives during the cross-quarter holiday honoring the dead and the dearth of the coming winter. From October 31 through November 7, when the Sun reaches the middle degree of Scorpio, we in the Northern Hemisphere reach the midpoint between fall and winter. Christians call it All Soul's Day; for children, it’s Halloween; for pagans, it’s Samhain (pronounced … [Read more...]
On September 22, it’s Equinox. When the Sun enters Libra, we reach one of the year's two balance points, when the hours for day and night are equal. Soon this special balance will tip, with night lengthening in the Northern Hemisphere and contracting in the Southern. Around the world and here in the US, it's hard to think of balance in the wild times we've been living … [Read more...]
The Moon is in its
Last Quarter Phase
in the
Sign of Virgo
Today's Lunar Aspects (Greenwich Mean Time)
(subtract: PST -8 hours, PDT -7 hours, EST -5 hours, EDT -4 hours)
