Emotional uncertainty vs. Long term clarity: The real work

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This full moon in Capricorn gets rocked by the Mercury station-retrograde in Cancer. It can be choppy waters moving through the center of that commanding mountainous canyon. But very few lunations exist in isolation without contact and interaction with other planetary movements, such as no man nor woman is an island.

There’s usually a bigger story to be told that umbrellas the smaller, more personal stories. For example, there’s the rumblings from the changes of the upcoming nodal movements next month in July. We are saying “goodbye” to much victim consciousness and perfectionism and judgment with regard to the Pisces/Virgo nodal dynamics. The next set of nodal link-ups corresponding to our “destiny” trajectory is thematic of Aquarius/Leo: the collective vs. the individual. (Let me remind you here that duality is a glimmer of a more wholesome truth: that opposites are quite alike, and only apparently different).

That said, we are in the midst of a turn within the wheel of our season, in Summer, for the Northern Hemisphere, the Solstice energy has recently peaked. The fire element is revving up in the sign of Leo as Jupiter has just spent a while in Cancer and is about to join Venus in Leo—the two recently conjoined in Cancer and set off a new story around values and family, relationships and meaning: giving new possibilities to the old watery themes.

What’s next requires its own paragraph. Mars just entered Gemini to be with Uranus (newly in Gemini). That’s pretty big news for this Full Moon in Capricorn, as it’s happening at approximately the “same time” as Mercury station retrograde in Cancer. The air signs help us to “free” up some of this really intense water (water trine last year) that we’ve been experiencing, and finally dapple in some levity. There’s exceptional room for curiosity now, discoveries and mental flexibility. I believe the invitation with Mercury stationing retrograde in Cancer, which thematically is tied to the past and the emotions including sensitivity around comfort and caretaking–again–the invitation here is to use the mind to break free from former constrictive karmic cycles. Seeing the old hamperings in a new light, revising the personal narratives to set off better movements, and that is to say setting off onto the world’s work (Capricorn). (Because we have a lot to do.). Roll up your sleeves.

This full moon in Capricorn brings quite an ending, though, for sure. Ending is not as good of a word as the word: culmination. But I did want to punctuate the expression of a deep severance from the diseased parts of the old order. It’s time for new work. Thankfully this comes for those who have been doing the dutiful work and even the Great Work– Alice Bailey style “lifelong process of transformation–not simply self improvement but union of personality and soul, purification and initiation, service to humanity, co-creation with divine purpose.”

I pulled the 21. World Tree Card for our full moon in Capricorn reading, for all of my readers, near and far. This card ended up as perfect to help illustrate the energy of this full moon.

For more text on this card, it’s already online here. It’s from The Wildwood Tarot:

“As a symbol of the bridge of consciousness between the great universe in outer space and the small universe inside every human mind. The World Tree marks the end of The Wanderer’s trip and the starting point for another journey. The Wanderer began his journey around The Wheel with an innocent, passionate curiosity. It is the journey that has brought wise experiences, along with the gift of knowledge. Now, The Wander is taking the final steps along the path of the maze of life, entering the heart of The World Tree to become an integral whole with the cosmic memory.” …

“The universe blesses anyone who seeks knowledge and wisdom with a sincere heart. The universe has an absolutely generous heart, giving its richness and beauty unconditionally. No matter how long life can be and no matter how difficult, challenging, and harsh it is, if we persevere, integrity and success will come to us. The blessing is bestowed materially or spiritually. After a long process of learning and being suppressed by responsibility, now is the time to immerse yourself in the light of revival and enjoy your own glory. Take a breath of fresh air, drink fresh water, and warmly rejoice in the infinite energy of the universe.”

The above paragraph highlights that genuine caring and sincere heart, the unconditional love, reflected by the innocence of the child in the sign of Cancer, one who meets the harshness of the world in Capricorn, faces struggle and up-hill battles, only to be become freed through perseverance and sincerity… can finally… breathe (Mars and Uranus in Gemini).

“Take a breath of fresh air, drink fresh water, and warmly rejoice in the infinite energy of the universe.”

You have been purified, and you are purifying. Letting this former chapter go, is a good thing.

The culmination is here.

Gemini New Moon: More than a touch of chaos

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Who’s having fun? Anyone, anyone? This New Moon in Gemini might feel zippy and frenetic. It might feel like something to “manage,” but the truth is, today (while I’m writing this) we have the Nodes in exact square with the planet Uranus. There’s unexpected perks coming at you from all directions! Considering that the planet Uranus is in Gemini, the sign of the New Moon, it’s an extra-extra Uranian vibe to it. That’s okay. Weird things can work out on their own. You might have a problem one moment, and then the next moment it goes “poof.” You might have sudden insights around problems you’ve been trying to solve for a long time. Your tech: it might be acting up. Maybe your nervous system is a little bit wonky and you’re not sure what’s going on. Well, that’s kinda also been an on-going theme, right? But today and this weekend with the New Moon, the volume on the WONK is turned up, maybe past 11. In the midst of it all, we are doing the weird dance of “polishing up” things we want to have look extra good–or focused on visual projects with the artistic flare, AND, we are in a place of opportunity to have some extra fun. The reason I’m using the word extra, extra: it’s probably the Venus/Jupiter conjunction in Cancer that came and went and currently in a separating aspect. Mercury is on its way up in Cancer headed up to join with Jupiter. Mercury is the ruler of Gemini.

Fly with the butterflies my friends.

My post today is very brief because I will be away soon, and I’m busy working on the plans for that. I’m dealing with a lot of technology as well. Is there something special about this particular lunation? I think it’s the unique ability to run up against a maximum capacity, and then well, to find a way to go beyond it. It’s like the stars are reaching out for us. They want us to reach back to them. I like the connection of the hands. The hands are ruled by Gemini. This morning I saw a post where two spiral galaxies in Virgo (the other Mercury ruled sign) are in a dance. Here’s the image and the direct quote. But before we proceed to that: Set an intention. This New Moon in Gemini, I plan to go beyond what the mind can conceive and believe. I encourage you to imagine what thinking beyond your current mind might look like…

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

“Arp 240 is an astonishing galaxy pair, composed of spiral galaxies of similar mass and size, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. The galaxies are visibly interacting with each other via a bridge of dim stars connecting the two galaxies, almost like two dancers holding hands while performing a pirouette. Both galaxies harbour supermassive black holes in their centres and are actively forming new stars in their discs. Arp 240 is located in the constellation Virgo, approximately 300 million light-years away, and is the 240th galaxy in Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.”

With the exception of a few foreground stars from our own Milky Way all the objects in this image are galaxies.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

Celebrating the beauty of duality and multiplicity. Gemini twins show us that there’s a mirror, and on the other side, is another us. Multiple mirrors make new surface repetitions. The repetitions are like an echo into the infinite potential of what we all are.

Image credit unknown, found on astroseek: https://www.astro-seek.com/seek-images/sun-signs/gemini-sun-zodiac-horoscope-sign.jpg

For your viewing pleasure, I am attaching a neat site I just found with hand-print inspired drawing ideas.

And! Just for fun…. How much can you HANDle the chaos with Gemini-style levity and banter? Happy New Moon in Gemini loves! Make it fun.

Sacred ‘Wild Card’: Sagittarius blue moon

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I’m laughing to myself today as I write this today. I have Fox Mulder’s voice in my head: “The truth is out there.” I think that’s appropos for this full/blue moon in Sagittarius on May 31, 2026. Check the internet for your local time for this lunation.

Gazing at the stars we look for signs, but ultimately the truth is ‘here,’ right in our hearts. The truth is alive and it’s wild–untamable and majestic. The truth rises like a star in the night, certain and set to a course, its scene matched perfectly to the wobble of the precession of the equinoxes, but how it plays out by the time we receive the messages it mirrors, could be convoluted. Reliably though, we have this beautiful landscape of stars, ever changing, to keep us company, to keep us enchanted, forever. We, therefore, are never alone in our search for this truth in our hearts, this truth in the cosmos…and how they both match and unite as the wisdom found through living.

What culminates at such a full moon as this? Is there a vision or a dream that was evoked at the onset of the Aries Saturn/Neptune conjunction in February–a knowing that cannot be unseen nor erased? Is there a sacred longing to pair with this wild sacred summons? ‘Where to’ will the arrow from your quiver project? With the strong Uranus opposition to the Sun, trines with Pluto to Uranus and to the Sun, the taste of freedom is on the tongue. Once again, it’s time to hitch your wagon to a star.

There’s a desire that is wild and ready for adventure, expansion; a new way to “see” things has taken full shape. This whole Full Moon/Blue Moon energy is filled with Breakthrough energy. It also wafts in the unexpected on the winds, sharing with it the zesty scent of surprise. Just who knows from where these revelations will be elicited!

In the second week of June, Venus will meet closely with Jupiter at 25 degrees of Cancer. For those of you with personal planets here, the emotions will be especially rich. Jupiter expands and Venus softens and they work very malleably in Cancer, the water sign. Venus is shaped by family and concerns. Personal values are highlighted and find home in the tenderness of caring for others. This is a good opportunity for what is on the mind to join and merge beautifully with the heart. Starting at this full moon and moving through the month of June. Many more changes are upon us in July and August–as the nodes are about to shift once again. We live during the most exciting times!

Stay true and honest as you watch the show unfold. Enjoy being a participant in this grand story that you have chosen. As always, may all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. If you’re anything like me going through this journey with the stars, you’ve already been expanding rapidly, stretched and re-shaped… and the universe is still asking: keep widening ever more, more Spirit, more Love, and more Embodiment. And, yes, it’s kind of like a card game, with a deck that was already stacked long, long ago 🙂 Just what will you draw next?

Opportunity to build a new foundation: Taurus new moon

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New moon in Taurus

This new moon in Taurus has the following major aspects:

  • Conjunct Mercury in Taurus
  • Conjunct Uranus in Gemini
  • Sextile Jupiter in Cancer
  • Sextile Neptune in Aries

This New Moon, depending on which house in your natal chart, will open a door to the opportunity to lay a more enduring foundation and point of presence and security in your life. This may come through a deeper analysis of your values and how you want to express them in the area of your chart as indicated when projected onto the nativity chart.

Pluto is trine the Mercury and Uranus conjunction helping us to really pull out old thought forms, extricate them by the roots; and, that is part of the process for laying the new foundation with the Taurus new moon. Uranus lends the archetype for out-of-the-box thinking and unusual inspiration.

With the Venus and Neptune square at this new moon, there’s still a question around what possibilities can exist for which delusions and illusions are influencing your experience, how to enlighten these remaining questions around relationships, finances and values, is rooted in beliefs and perceptual overlay (Neptune).

Overall this New Moon is like a welcome mat to the new domain of a more enduring and unshakeable foundation within your life, one that is palpable, concrete, and able to discern.

During a time with so much chaos, uncertainty and unknown, there’s a place within your life is inviting you deeper into your solid knowing and inner core. This can be further activated with Taurean themes such as music and vocalizing, using the voice and getting your hands deep into the soil/soul of a garden. This can be opening your senses further to the vibrations of the cosmos that are ever more permeating the Earth experience with more awareness at the collective level. Feeling out the dance steps to a favorite song can be another way to boost your knowing and embodied experience of this New Moon and strengthen its potential to help you manifest and experience more solid ground.

Many blessings! May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. May we all move closer to our authentic beingness with each lunation, as we are part of the process of the awakening for all. W

e are the one being, each uniquely flavored aspects of this on-going creation, fulfilling our purposes and sharing our experience as we can, will, and do. Blessed be. blessed be!

Going beyond death: The May 1st Full Moon in Scorpio

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Making Peace with things not going the way we wanted…

When life doesn’t bear fruit, when the seeds we planted died, when the shocks aren’t absorbed well and destruction happens and it takes more time to clean up our messes and spills. Take a look.

I pulled this card specifically for this blog post (for all of us.). This is the gift of the shadow, the previously unknown, and the unveiling of what’s been unsteady, misaligned, or simply not ready yet. This is the foundation that seeks ever more stability (Taurus), structure, support, embodied wisdom-always to balance with its opposite axis. The sign of Scorpio will show us where our weaknesses and vulnerabilities are. Alas, Scorpio is also known as the most resilient sign in the Zodiac. Compared to the Phoenix that rises up from the ashes, the Scorpio archetype is never blotted out, never dies, effectively goes beyond death (even unintentionally!).

provided by Debra Rogers social media

In the midst of our grieving, we must dance atop our own destruction! The ego can be so very tricky. I don’t subscribe to there being anything ‘wrong’ with the ego, but it’s the part of us that breaks open and cracks like the outer hard hull, shell, or encasing.

When we break out, this is where we figure out what we are really made of. Who we are really, but the infinite as incarnate, carrying around skin and bones, and many temporary minds, for a relatively brief time?

I invite you to take this Full Moon, squaring Pluto in Aquarius, and liberate any discordant energy. Can it be with us? Can we allow it to be present? If not now, then when?

Uranus moves into Gemini ♊️

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I’ve been really looking forward to this transit. We had a taste of it back on June 7, 2025, to November 7, 2025.

Uranus is the Great Awakener. Known as the Prometheus archetype, taking fire from the Gods and giving it to the regular people.

It is said that Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury. I do find this to be true from my experience. The Uranian influence is one of my favorite and that might be because I’ve got Aquarius rising and Uranus is the modern ruler for Aquarius. But there are other reasons for me.

I’ve been enjoying the possibility of innovation, but I have been mostly noticing increased communication with my neighbors! Gemini is the sign connected to the 3rd house with neighbors and siblings. It relates to the voice and expression, as well as to the thoughts and nervous system.

Many are predicting even more technological innovations. I’m sure we are beyond saturation point with that and AI. Considering the trend, it’s an easy prediction. As far as humans are concerned, we are being required to adapt at much faster pace than ever before—constant changes and upgrades!

I’d like to offer, though, that fundamentally we are more than our environments. We can use this innovative energy to go within and reconnect and revision our inner pathways. We can embrace networks of support within and develop our relationships through this very foundation of the inner knowledge and knowing.

Recently I wrote a bit about meditation, self inquiry, and contemplation. I did have it mentioned in a few spiritual or religious contexts but I believe you have so many options with meditation and the inner dialogue. You can adapt ‘that’ to what is ‘your’ belief system you are strengthening or loosening.. finding your inner trust that is unshakable is the goal. Whether it’s with yourself and the creator or however you connect to the ALL, knowing and reverence is yours to experience.

It’s a good time to reframe how you talk to yourself, too. How loving can you be? How much compassion can you bring into that space of inquiry and to sit with the peaceful knowing that you are always more than your thoughts, more than phenomena?

Agency, identity and healing

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This New Moon with 7 “planets” in the sign of Aries is stacked up in the fire sign with harmonious aspects to both Uranus at the cusp of Taurus/Gemini and Pluto in early Aquarius.

The main theme of the New Moon ties to the Chiron conjunction within a one degree orb.

The area where we are wounded is also the area where we heal. The focus on this New Moon is around new beginnings, but Chiron has a history and legacy of abandonment. Chiron can heal others.

Let’s examine the areas in our own lives where we can set the intention for the deepest layer of healing around the abandonment of Self. How can recover those pieces that fragmented through trauma and division?

You might want to spend some time reflecting on new ways of relating to your own process of discovery and initiation. What triggers the spark of innovation in your own consciousness? What catalyzes the process of returning and being in reunion with thyself?

I’ve been meditating on many Buddhist practices with patient acceptance, tranquil abiding, and karma along with Advaita experiences of non-duality and investigations into witnessing awareness.

Our actions (Mars and its ruler Aries) are fundamental to how we express and experience the “call and response” of life and form. What is it that witnesses even before form or attention arises? When we make deliberate attempts and set our intentions on peaceful states of mind, can we witness our own becoming in the deep emptiness of an open and spacious sky?

Self inquiry, meditation and contemplation might not be for everyone, but healing deeply and reuniting aspects of the realization of oneness seems a worthy way to use this spark of life. Chiron can show us how our original pain points can be just the alchemy we need to put many profound spiritual practices into action, and transform the lives of ourselves and others through pursuing liberation and Bodhichitta.

May all beings be happy and free from misery and suffering.

Borrow from others

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Hope is here for us to stay,

Even if there is no solution to this day.

Arrogance lives in all the spaces

We cannot control these outward races.

It’s not our job to compete with masses or madness.

It’s only our job to look for the light.

When we ourselves cannot find it (hope), we must borrow it from others.

Hope is not a commodity. Hope is not faith in an outcome. It can be shared without being known, and it will never lose its supply.

Hope is a focus on light; it’s an end that creates a new beginning.

Hope can peer back at us from the abyss of darkness. When we wrap our whole heads in darkness: our imagination generates images.

This is the power to make your way through the darkness, to never let it win. Despair is the only real enemy.

Borrow hope from others.

Seek it out in your sleep.

No escaping this reboot

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Hello dear readers of my beloved heart,

You are family to me. Gonna speak to you straight from my heart.

I am slowly figuring out how to return to the chopping block without getting chopped! Wait— that’s my humor. But life has felt like being on a ninja challenge game show that I didn’t sign up for.

Since the beginning of the year, I wanted everything to fundamentally slow down. That’s what my ego wanted, that’s what my body wanted, and I’m pretty sure my soul was begging for a really deep moment to catch its soul breath.

How is everyone else doing, really?

For me, the energies of February knocked me sideways. It went right with the military war strikes. I felt the energy building. By March I started walking sidewise or slowly starting to move my crushed spidey legs—this is my energetic metaphor for a near full-squash. Also, I am still grieving for all the people involved in this ‘now’ global crisis— as we hope it resolves with a swift end, but most likely it won’t be. We who are the most removed from the day to day of war are still the most embedded in its psyche. We are part of the collective consciousness/unconsciousness.

I felt like this card was the main event/experience:

But now, something different is happening and there’s a turning point. I felt the energetic shift on Saturday. This full moon in Libra oppose the Sun/Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries. The fire is strong. Mars, Mercury and North Node are holding back with karmic queries in Pisces, but not for long. Change is to come for all. Pluto and Uranus will be holding an interesting trine and soon Uranus will move back into Gemini for its 7ish year stay: in April. Things will be slick.

April will be a *very* active month.

This full moon in Libra is really your chance to BREATHE. I’m not suggesting to breathe like the Virgo moon a couple of posts ago: as a strategy for calming the nervous system. This type of breath is the more spacious kind. There’s Libra’s quality of clarity and a momentary pause of balance. It’s like the double-breath called a physiological sigh. It will reopen the little air sacs in the alveoli.

I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t able to capitalize on the last Mercury retrograde in Pisces because I was too busy getting water flogged. Normally I get a lot more clear around any confusions with a Mercury nature. This can happen for me earlier in the retrograde transit (I thank my natal Mercury trine Uranus for keeping me ahead of the curve), or sometimes during, or at the end. I get more sorted during Mercury retrogrades because I naturally slow down or deepen, organize, or declutter. For me it’s only now beginning to happen with the energy of this Full Moon in Libra. I’m taking “inventory.” It’s a good time to take stock.

This is a good moon to get around to assessing. I think I’m also doing a personal “damage assessment,” it’s like the way the operating system turns on from a reboot. It’s a deeper scan. The system is doing a deeper check.

Being turned off was good for me. I was powered off. I’m not even sure if I was unplugged, but definitely powered off. It was just what I needed.

Take this special time to assess your alliances, your standards, your relationships and your inner relationship. Re-balancing is not a return to homeostasis (the old order), but an opening for a new dynamic of balance/ structure with this Full Moon in Libra it’s a new calling for relational systems. The scales have been tipping all over the place as we have been in some choppy waters that have been increasing in intensity.

We have so much opportunity here to navigate with our minds and the stars. Hands at the helm. But what is really required is to have those feet planted somewhere and a mind that’s guided by reason and with a return to steady-clarifying confidence: You can navigate this new fluctuating world. You have what it takes.

You can find your balance in your ‘new’ center.

The center connects us to all things and all people. The center is the axis of the wheel that connects us to all the radii outward and those points on the periphery.

This Libra full moon has me focused on this image:

I see a return to wholeness at a new level. I see a complete change of capacity and a whole new realm of discovery for an entirely new journey. The old one has ended.

Sending you all my deep love! May you all navigate this chapter’s end well. See you with the new beginnings in April!

This passage into the “new” will continue taking a while, but I can see the light through to the other side. It’s peeking through. It’s twinkling from the other end of the multiverse.

Mercury in Pisces

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Swimming heart songs

delay my mind’s questions

I’ve been reading all our memoirs

from as many of us as I can ~

those of us, who,

I don’t see in my office for

a treatment plan: I meet you in the ethers

through sound and vibration.

What plan then does your Spirit

have for you?

Are the symbols in your carefully written words

tenderly and deliberated stitched

in a direction

for the fabric of your life to flow?

Reams of life stories etched in Akasha,

the sounds of lifetimes, lessons, and timelines…

they echo with ancestry…interwoven and bidirectional

We are each of us a golden thread, a tune, a seed,

a mystery that peels open,

more delicate than flowers,

but hardier than time.

We transcend time,

we transcend illusions,

we stand tall in the face of today:

accepting our electrical assemblage,

still looking at the stars and their massive fusion. Wondering..

Sure we are made of stars and have their energy….

Just a pinch

And I awake inside each extra dream layer.

looking at you, looking at me..

15 years blogging! 🎉 Pisces New Moon

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I have been considering the direction for this blog in general, and taking a bit of blogging break—not necessarily on purpose, but because it matches the flow of things to either slow down, or pause for a bit. Blogging has been one of my favorite activities so it’s not coming from a place where I actually ‘want’ to move away from it. Necessity is intending certain things for all of us during these very uncertain times, however. I will see as the days go by. The terrain of our current experiences are very “up in the air” and maybe even moreso when Uranus enters Gemini for a good 7ish years.

Regardless, this milestone message came through, and it’s blown my mind. I’ve been regularly blogging for 15 years! Considering that RIGHT NOW I feel like I’m at an unknown transition point with blogging, that’s still a whole decade and a half that I was committed to blogging here! As a result, there’s a lot to reflect on—it was a stabilizing force. The Uranus in Taurus years were surprisingly productive for me on this blog in terms of my continuing to provide content and connection here.

Thank you to everyone who has been here over the years! You all are best readers, and I have so sincerely enjoyed interacting with you! We have grown so much, together! 🌱💗🌱💗🌱 There are also bloggers who I don’t see anymore and you are missed!!

May you all continue to thrive in your creativity and spiritual lives as you continue to blog and make a difference!

So here we are at the next turn of the wheel. The New Moon in Pisces: ♓️

The Pisces energy will quickly transform into Aries energy through the passage of the Vernal Equinox and each parading planet entering Aries to join the Saturn/Neptune conjunction.

In lieu of doing an analytical analysis of this New Moon in Pisces, I’m just gonna note my own experience of feeling like I’ve been living in the twilight zone lately, and even reflecting back on the level of sheer challenge and (sometimes) triumph I’ve encountered in relatively the past 14 years of my life. I’ve been through a major back injury and disability, graduate school and doctorate, parenting journey, the pandemic and extreme isolation while being an early parent, complications and challenges around that followed by other personal matters that I will not publicize, and having business setup challenges galore.

As for Mercury retrograde, we have had several expensive disruptions of technical, mechanical, physical and financial in just the last 48-72 hours.

All that said, the world has gone crazy with wars that are upsetting. There needs to be peace. I have nothing eloquent nor especially intelligent to say about this. I have zero desire to lay out details and expound on all the ways these wars are devastating for us all . I’m just so exhausted with it both the personal and collective journey.

But hope.

Deep in my bones is actually not my own hope but the hopes of people who I love. Their hope keeps me alive and thriving when all seems to have gone dark.

This to me is the heart of Pisces: the transcendent love that defies all darkness, especially when it’s overwhelming darkness—especially when real hope seems so fragile and vulnerable, to be held only within a child’s whim.

But we must have hope.

This Pisces New Moon is about unexpected sources, hope in the magnitude of the energy of stars.

I wish you all well, with the diamond wishes of bodhisattva to free all beings from suffering. I love all your precious lives.

Eclipse window widens at Virgo Full Moon

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Pisces energy dominates this full moon/eclipse chart, especially with the touch of ‘fire’ of modern Pisces ruler Neptune newly established in Aries. We are in a full surrender to the moments that we have no control around–which we could argue are all of the moments. I don’t need to mention the world events because the destruction and chaos is clearly happening and we are in the dynamics of massive change. Months ago, I spoke of end of February and the dynamic of Neptune and Saturn conjunction in Aries for the longer stays–Neptune being the longest at approx 14 years. We knew that a punctuated event would take place within the vicinity of the timeframe of the astrological transits, which is why astrology is so helpful to bring more awareness. It’s a mirror/mandala and a way to reflect. While it does not dictate the future, it can share with you the future’s weather in terms of the energies at play. I want to dial into more personally how we can benefit from this information. We each have our own ways that we relate to the impact of the whole.

The gift of this eclipse at Virgo is that we can more keenly respond bodily to the sensations of our awareness. Using the body as a tool for awareness and sensation, we can more immediately figure out how to apply care for our personal needs. Our routines and rituals can find grounded expression with meditation, exercise, and our spiritual practices. Spiritual practice can be a place to land when the energies are so intense and deeply impacted through fear, worry, or nervous system chaos in reaction to the lack of control. Breathing strategies can bring more sensation into the body and away from the mind such as box breath, oven this pursed-lip breathing as described below.

Jupiter features here while in retrograde, but it is forming a harmonious aspect to the Sun and the Moon in this eclipse. This means that Jupiter can amplify the intensity for better or for worse. Jupiter can bring us into our faith as well as to challenge it. Ultimately the bigger picture is in question when Jupiter is active in a chart. Jupiter can also symbolize the spiritual teacher and guidance. One looks to the “Guru” for removing the obstacles that obscure truth, reality, and by reuniting us beyond our inner suffering, to touch the infinite hope that cannot be extinguished.

May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. This message as all my messages are sent with love and respect for your unique journeys. May you be well. May you experience peace.

Confluence of Astro events & Happy Valentine’s Day ♥️

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It’s getting to be that time. The exact conjunction (of Neptune and Saturn) is on February 20th, but Saturn just moved into Aries yesterday—so now both planets are both at 0 degrees Aries (different minutes until exact conjunction)! Saturn/Neptune conjunctions happen every @36 years.

This adjusts the energy quite a bit. It’s going to become increasingly more focused, as it’s just the very beginning. Aries is all about starts and beginnings as the first sign of the zodiac, so that energy is “doubly” new-new.

With the Solar Eclipse at 28 Aquarius on February 17, we have the beginning of the Chinese zodiac of the Fire Horse year. Interestingly I’ve had an expert Chinese medicine shamanic astrologer say in a zoom call within my Chinese medicine community say that these energies began as early as Feb 4. I suppose, and it’s been my experience, that exact dates and times can conflict depending on your resource, but also that individual sensitivities differ. Since Mercury is swimming in Pisces, and will be going retrograde at the end of the month: we still have plenty of Pisces influence for a bit longer— despite the majors moving out. Yes, Mercury is currently in its pre-shadow retrograde.. Pisces is gonna continue with the themes of endings and undoings, and the lacking of clarity and concreteness—yet filled with divinity, boundlessness and inspirational capacity.

Side note: It’s so cool to notice that astrological events are becoming increasingly “common knowledge,” as they are being more talked about on all platforms. The social world is full of it. My recommendation is you always confirm dates locally with astrology software and with an ephemeris. Also, don’t follow the hype! Nothing is rarely as dramatic as it’s hyped up to be; and, no one’s nervous system deserves the constant activation. ♥️

Back to my point about Pisces energy still being strong despite these other beginning transits and massive (long-term energy) transitions.

If you look at the solar eclipse chart below for the 17th, you can see that the Node is still in Pisces and conjunct Venus with a nice trine to Jupiter at 15+ Cancer. This keeps that water energy flowing strongly for a bit longer.

Change is definitely underway, however—in multiple domains—and for the long haul with the planets of Neptune (Aries) and Pluto (Aquarius), for certain.

The nodes will be changing soon in July of 2026, so this eclipse is just a “touch” of that Aquarius “soon to be” nodal vibe change. Nodes change approximately every 2 years and influence the dominant trends of society. We have personal nodes linked to our birth charts and they return every 18 years approximately. There’s the nodal opposition every 9 years, too. (This is all linked to the birth chart).

Astrological changes, as you can see, are like waves that overlap. Influences are no more black and white than the temperatures of water in the ocean are not exactly hot or cold, as there’s many areas of influence across the landscape. Plus, you get the floaty bits of mixed temperatures on different body parts! Also, you are moving and swimming within it. Your senses respond differently than others (even right next to you) based on how your nervous system interacts with the environment.

Since it’s Valentine’s Day and all, I’m seeing extra hearts. The one below, however, is from a group I’m in, organized around seeing hearts in nature. This one is by Courtney Antonucci. I had asked her if I could share it and give her credit. The image brought me joy. She said “Yes.” She says she hopes the image brings more joy to others, too.

Courtney Antonucci photo credit

That’s just the thing, right. We want to spread peace and joy. We want to build up where it’s torn down. We want to provide salve to the injury, and prevent more injury!

But we are living in dramatically uncertain times—that, in itself, creates a bit of an on-going injury around safety and confidence.

Mud can be such a metaphor for our days as so much beauty exists within the slop of this “becoming,”

Even mud with some water mixed in can give a lovely reflection. You can still see the real things: the reflected things. (Don’t get me started on reality, let’s save that for another post.)

I am sending you all love from my heart to you and yours on this Valentine’s Day. If anything, can we please all just love each other more and more! That’s my wish! And, May all beings be free from suffering. ♥️