Month: June 2025

Clarify the basis in Self

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New moon in Cancer at 4degrees

This new moon is unique because it is conjoining Jupiter, just recently at Cazimi — an exact degree conjunction with the Sun. The new moon is therefore infused with Jupiterian energy. It is important to note that while this lunation is quite auspicious in benefic influences, it’s also in a potent pointed square with the challenging Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries.

Ideals and reality are colliding in uncomfortable ways to the dreams, visions and desire for peace and joy, abundance and plenty, radiating from the home and family front. There is also a sense of urgency.

But what is the sign Cancer for anyway? It’s traditionally associated with the home and the mother. Cancerians are long known to reflect upon the past and become attached to it. However, looking a bit deeper, the angle of the chart associated with Cancer is the Nadir/or low point. It’s the Imum Coeli (IC). It is the basis and the foundation in the traditional chart—that area from which we are planted and we are to stand.

I write to you now as the New Moon has just come off its exact moment and the clarity streaming through deposits my mind (as I am also experiencing my Mercury return as we speak) in complete clarity around this moon’s message.

Your basis for your life is a lot like your “why.” It’s deeply associated with your purpose. Your job is to check and tend to this area of your consciousness that props you up and look at the foundation. Does it need any crack-filling? Could it use another level of thickness? What is your daily mindset around comforts that nourish and replace your vitality? Have you been checking in on the mundane aspects of your ideals? It’s not the time to go out on a limb and go searching for what is already here.

The energy of Cancer lands us directly where we are planted to check for stability and resources. From where we are positioned do we have enough of our basic needs met? what actions can we take to ground our lives more deeply into commitment with our purpose?

As I sit with you here, I allow the energy to settle and flow through the soil and ground of my being. I breathe deep into the fortitude I have created to live in a modern world full of uncertainty. I stand firm with the awareness that I am not an island, and energies of nourishment and support continue to collect around me.

My wish for you this Cancer New Moon is that you take a look at your environment and anchor yourself into the awareness that you are here to live this special life you were given, with full purpose and inspiration. Any frictions are passing drains and distractions on clarity that will quickly be replaced with your own renewed presence, as you return to order and semblance, at the basis of your own being.

I’m available for consultations starting in the fall. If you want to come back and check for my offerings, it would be a good time to do it.

May you be happy. May all beings be happy!

With deep aloha and gratitude,

Ka

Summer Solstice

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Something altogether different, Transformation15 Comments

Someone convinced me to start recording YouTube videos. I have been reluctant to do this for years, but since I just finished up my last group class around reluctant shamanism, it’s time for me to also share my recent video here:

Everyone knows me as “Ka” that is my real name. Ka is resonant for me. All other names aren’t really as resonant for me. I received the name “Ka” in Hawaii back in 2011. Then I published my first book under my first spiritual name “Ka Malana.” Since then I have acquired: “Sees through water” and “Dechen Llamo.” Shamanic and Buddhist names respectively. It’s just a part of my magickal life!

Anyways a friend and coach convinced me that I needed to make my voice heard, because people need to hear it.

It’s taken decades for me to be convinced of this and so I basically just gave up the fight. I don’t need to believe it; I’m just doing it, instead.

The whole purpose of my life is basically to “reach” people. I’ve been doing it since being a child— offering those select, appropriate words to help catalyze another to their next level, or to lend compassion and support.

So I stepped out and started this channel, and I make weekly videos with zero preparation. I do this to just “get it done.” I have no idea what I will talk about until after it’s said.

This one happened to be about the summer solstice. My images aren’t self-flattering because I have put zero energy in to making them look pretty, so I hope ya’ll can get past that! Maybe they will get better as I go, because I sure am not gonna be “ready” first.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Leave a comment and let me know what you think. I love feedback. Just say “hey” and let me know you were there and are part of my beginnings 😃

May your light ☀️ shine bright like the sun, and you be full of vitality and love!

Happy Summer Solstice!

WIP …

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Artworks, Astrology, Creative Writing, Creatrix, Sketches, Something altogether different, Transformation7 Comments

i could

summon you,

but you are already here

you’ve been in my shadow

clinging to my insides

waiting for my consciousness

to ripen

waiting for my signal to open up

our shared eye

with you,

all our ancient promises arise

like shoots of green tendrils

ready to break through the land

and renew our promises

for a new

peace

Opening

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Something altogether different, Transformation, Vipassana4 Comments

Now this one was satisfying. One of the reasons is I took one of my favorite “for kids” supplies and I stretched it beyond its ‘given’ capacity. I mixed it with grown up tools and water and boom 💥

This one also has “legs” which to me means: some mysterious life of its own.

I dedicate this one to Vipassana and all the learnings gained from sensational awareness as the object of meditation.

A retreat for being real simple

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This dog.
Always a light
Pelican’s eye view
Amplifying
Heart’s acknowledgement
Lion 🦁 outside
The kindness of a gentle teacher
Chair of contemplation

The winds of mind calm

down, while

pelicans of light pass through

sweeping the air

with their flight

our

freedom is grounded and spacious

descending

through flesh and mind

a resplendent higher vision

I feel you in my soul

hugging me

intimate with me

knowing me from all my lifetimes

Sagittarius full moon: Rights in the Homeland

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By my title you might have thought I was going to go geopolitical, or cultural revolutionary, or some type of message about the collective resistance phenomenon taking place. That is valid. I’m swirling around that experience of “just expression” for the collective and bringing my attention back “home” to the point with Jupiter ingress Cancer. Jupiter is the modern ruler of Sagittarius. It’s also the ancient ruler of Pisces. I’m considering it pretty fortunate to have this full moon conjoining my natal Neptune in Sagittarius and activating the trine with my natal Sun and my natal North Node in Leo. So, I do feel like I have something to say. But in my mind’s eye it looks like a spiritual shield against oppression.

It’s easy to see that the tensions around Saturn/Neptune conjunction that won’t be near exact until July is going to be “messing with,” via square aspect, the Cancer planets (right now Jupiter and Mercury) but soon, it will be the Sun, too.

I’ve had Mars transiting my natal North Node in Leo, now, too, for a little bit here. What I can say is that I’m experiencing a new level of energy–it’s bonding nicely with the Moon here in Sagittarius. My natal Mars/Moon position isn’t so great, but this transit is feeling like a liberation of energy from those old constraints. I’m in a place of radical acceptance, and it’s not the kind of “lay down and take it” acceptance. I feel my empowerment is on the path of thriving.

To me the key to this chart is actually Pluto up there in Aquarius. Both Pluto and Mars strike me as very well-positioned in this FULL moon chart. Pluto is sextile to Saturn/Neptune in Aries and an out of sign trine with Uranus in the later degrees of Taurus. This is definitely energy that can be dedicated to deep transformation. Pluto’s play here is no joke. Despite that it squares Venus here– I think that “special square” points to the question that Pluto is asking us: What do you value most? What is at stake here? Freedoms, comfort, safety and all of the above. So how can you secure your own destiny within this crazy landscape of turmoil? How can you focus that life force very pointedly and directly to the inner worlds? I don’t spend a lot of my time in the thoughts of the world in order to solve problems these days. Although, I absolutely respect those who lend their voices and protest in peace. July is going to be transformational, and even more-so February of 2026 –but, I see the “setup” as taking place now. How can you position yourself in the most powerfully self-possessed way? You are the first arbiter of you. Don’t let the oppressors win inside your heart. The main oppressors: hate, greed. Guard your heart to the processes unfolding, and know that — you never stand alone.

This Mess We’re In

I invite the silence

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Chronic Pain, Creative Writing, Creatrix24 Comments

I invite the silence 

While I’m running fingers through my hair

When I slip a dish into the dishwasher 

I open my ears, 

The sounds of clink and swish from the water

I call to what’s under that

My heart beating 

Keeping pace with my movements 

Supplying me

One moment and I’m in 

A dream

In between the turning of this page

In between the passion of dreamed kissing

I’m between the sticks that rub together making fire crackling

I’m setting the table

I’m driving the car

I’m grieving for silence

To be alone with my precious losses;

or to run from them within the quiet

Where a scream cannot escape in the same way 

Under this examination 

Under this breath

The stillness of my inner winds

I crave the silent cave

Of my inner knowing 

The moment of sweat that collects on my brow 

That elicits the wind

That joins with the wind

That feels the flush of air 

That knows spacious longing 

And a settling 

That sits with grief as a blanket 

and while I lift this next dish into the sink, full now of sacred, too

I poise it over the dishwasher 

Considering which shelf is best,

I hug myself a little more tightly

I reassure me:

The trees know you long for them, too

The grass knows your ear against the ground

Listening 

The listening knows your listening even when 

You talk past everyone in the room;

Why? 

Because you are made of earth, and she is you. And you are not a random 

Stranger to this land

Your blood and veins 

And the molecules and atoms

And smaller still, inside quarks 

You are sparkling with divine 

delight 

And your silence is indeed so spacious and filled with creation, bustling and ready to go..

If only, if only, there was a response. 

Call and response is the nature

of dance,

music,

art,

Truth.

Shakti and Shiva

Yin and Yang

Bless me with this urge to know

As it is deeply sparkling within me;

Let my longing not be an imposter for

Another distraction

But lead to all the timeless Romes..

through silk roads and deep within

the forest.

A dish is not a dish here.

I can live many lives within this one,

I can live, even, quite possibly

without you.