the earth pulsates
around your poison;
vessel of dogbane,
mistakenly lured by you.
an example of
misdirection.
bombs choked Hiroshima
like your white touch obliterated
the promise of love.
lust woos in silences, pretenses
nearly touched the poison
bringing broken limps into the abyss
exposing the veins of
imbalance, impotence,
flagrant misuse of power.
This New Moon might feel a bit awkward. The reason is that it’s looking like an interesting aspect pattern, forming what is known and called a “Yod.” It’s like an isosceles triangle with two quincunx/inconjunction 150 degree “legs,” separated from 60 degree sextile aspect between (in this case) Neptune/Saturn conjunction, with a harmonious aspect to Pluto; but, both of those legs 🦵 form an inconjunction to this New Moon at 0 degrees of Virgo. ♍️ In essence, it looks like a skinny slice of pizza 🍕 with the center point landed right on the tip at the New Moon in the mutable sign of Virgo at ground zero.
It’s considered to be awkward because the energies flowing from the Saturn/Neptune (dreams and idealism vs reality and limitations) meanwhile colliding with each other, and the awkward Uranus in Pluto in Aquarius — novel ways for human evolution—both point to the New Moon in Virgo in aspect pattern referred to as “finger of God.” It’s a finger of God because it means this is the MAIN POINT a “fulcrum” for making the biggest adjustments needed to harmonize the celestial energies. Fulcrum is moreso a metaphor here but the “gears” can be perceived with that mind’s eye, 👁️ making the experience mutable or movable.
The point-blank interpretation here is that it’s time for new habits for the mind and body. In order to really “step into” of the ideal state/dream (Neptune) in a sustainable way (Saturn) thus making the dream real (as opposed to the nightmare) and therefore bring in a transformed humanity worth its salt (Aquarius in Pluto), the consciousness needs to focus on the mutable sign of Virgo and set new patterns and habits of mind and body—and make that new health a part of its regular, daily work.
For me, it’s just been hard to write about this New Moon, or quite frankly to find the time to compose the thoughts and express the patterns. I’ve been a bit busy.
Throughout, I’ve been reading an excellent book called: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, by Annie Murphy Paul. I brought it with me on the plane and am reveling in the scientific support for why our brains do better with movement, how using the insular lobe to improve interoception makes us better at pattern recognition and performance in even the stock market and trading; and overall, we are more efficient when not working from the paradigm of brain centrism. Ironically I think I just lost the book tonight. I’m in a hotel and preparing to rest now for a very rigorous day tomorrow, joining my colleagues for another milestone in our careers.
So, this will be a brief message, and has been a brief, albeit more than one bite-sized message, so far!
Suffice it to say, we are too early in the Virgo season with all eclipses set up for next month. This new moon is at 0 degree Virgo. The word on the Astro Street is that so much newness is at the forefront. But I think you GOT THAT. With all the major planets changing signs this year and the world coming apart at the seams in a grand “take apart.”
What can this particular New Moon mean for you?
Free your mind from any mental constructions that are forcing your mental-hand to re-volunteer to suffer again and again, non-stop. I’m reminded of Joe Dispenza’s book and body of work around “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself.”
What ways have you over-identified with suffering and gotten your brain chemistry to be too familiar with the recipe for enacting the habit and “install suffering program,” press “repeat,” “repeat”?
Wishing you all a “good enough” new moon and hoping you decide to shed any perfectionist tendencies and fears for undotted “i’s” and uncrossed “t’s” for the duration of the celestial show, and maybe even a little bit longer than that.
I might come back and edit this post after I’ve emptied my brain of much deep and deliberate study, full-on with my fellow friends as we walk unified yet individually. In the meantime, keep afloat, keep afloat. I will never give up on your dreams. Why should I give up on yours or mine? Plus, I will never forget our shared heart! ♥️
With love and compassion and a really strong appreciation for all your efforts and your presence in this life, and for reading this post that was so hard to write! Yikes!
Be well, be well.
Hold my hand
as we watch this morning rise
from distant skies.
I’ve known you since these planets were born.
Since we were born.
To touch the sky with our eyes
to feel the connection, and
to know that meetings come and go.
We only have moments here,
but within us, is that eternity, shining.
—-Ka Malana ©️2025
In astrology world, we have been looking at the grand trine formation of Uranus in Libra, connecting with Pluto in Aquarius, connecting with Mars in Libra. Everyone will have their own interpretation of this. The astrological wisdom is to to say that a trine is the “easy flow” between energies or aspects of consciousness tied to these planets as archetypal themes in our matrix. The kite is further formed because of the Mars opposition to Saturn: Mars in Libra is on the opposite sign/side of Saturn in Aries. Saturn isn’t by itself either–its been working through “Dream/Illusion/Spiritual Transcendance” Neptune. Saturn and Neptune are one of the most talked about transits because they won’t come into exact conjunction until February 2026. They are currently retrograde in Aries, soon to go back into Pisces, and then will go direct again and head into Aries for the full, long stay. Neptune the further away planet will be in Aries for a very long time, approx 14 years. So its trend is much more persistent.
Themes for Saturn/Neptune conjunction — (that has been squaring all the Cancer planets one by one through transit.)
The bottom part of the Kite is another harmonious aspect with Uranus in Sextile to Pluto. Sextile, is just 60 degrees and yes, the metaphor is “as above so below,” so a sextile aspect in astrospeak is a productive energy of communication between themes of novelty (Uranus) and transformation (Pluto).
This early week, upcoming, we also have a beautiful conjunction with Venus in Jupiter August 12, right after Mercury stations direct on August 11. That plays into the fold as Venus and Jupiter make their annual conjunction this year in the sign of Cancer. The place where the sun just was! Family is soooo important. It takes center stage importance. Jupiter amplies. Venus softens and beautifies. Venus wants to relate and create. We are best to lean into our comforts, to help make lives more comfortable for others, and to get settled into the big feelings that come up with a lot of Cancer-type energy. Thus, in comes the perfect balancing support:
The Aquarius Full Moon
I’m delighted to say that a good Aquarius Full Moon can help with detachment. It helps us to get a bird’s eye view and step aside the very intense yet meaningful energies of all the other planetary happenings. We have also more support from the stars. This is a magnificent time of the year where the Perseids are streaming like the best annual show you ever saw! If we take a moment to look up at the stars in the expanse of the dark night, we get to see, truly see, our connection within the cosmos and it’s not a mystery, completely, this science of space and meteors affecting our planet’s experience! I hope you can enjoy!
*images from wallpaperaccess.com free milkyway wallpaper
One beautiful Full Moon is not going to eliminate all our problems, but alas, it might help us to get some distance from them. When that happens, the spaciousness can lend itself to some new energies which can give rise to new experiences and maybe, just maybe, that can help you to take a break, or make a break for some better experience.
I wanted to have more time to find some better videos and write a better post, but this is what was available. I hope you all enjoyed! Let me know in the comets if you are gonna get a change to see the Perseids this year. I am going to miss them at my favorite viewing spot, but I hope to see them next year!
Happy Star Gazing! Thanks for all the Birthday Wishes. I’ve got Aquarius Rising and S. Node in Aquarius so this Full Moon leaves me a bit satisfied to take a step back and feel some SPACE.
(My typos were almost perfect 😉 , esp at the end, so I left them! ) comet fully. 😂
Opening to green
It’s birthday time.
and, I’ve been lighting candles
with fervor
burning away what is not working
illuminating the path, to show me the way.
in response, perhaps, the years have been softening me
though, I have not directly asked for that ~
showing me, in all my wrongness, there’s one thing I have right:
my love.
my growing capacity to love.
personal love,
impersonal love,
love of thyself
love of the moment
love of fleeting passion present
love that burns through time and space, with such eternity
knowing no end can ever come of it, because it would only do it to itself, and it really wouldn’t, because it’s matured.
This is my communion, my continuity, my flame for this life. This is my time, and this is its purpose.
and, I am so sincerely present.
without a doubt, I’ve never hidden under a basket.
nor behind a cloak.
I have been the bare me all along.
I have born myself of raw flesh and spirals
I have broken skin and wishes and daydreams.
My knees have been skinned on so many near-almosts…
…absolute misses…
while
Going for it, going for it all.
and there is never a guarantee in the program
the program is not built for guarantees. The whole thing is based on risks and risk assessments.
They say that only the courageous or the stupid put it all out there.
how about the one who knows
that there’s nothing else that’s worth it. Holding back is actually the norm.
and the more i can dig in, this year and next year, and maybe more years after that,
the more dirt under my nails, the more fires smoking in my eyes, the more the holy reckoning,
the more moments of absolute REST after the sheer ‘enoughness’ of my irrevocable ALL
I know I’m living.
I’m doing it.
HBD to me.
🎉
and if I should part before too soon
or even near soon at all,
I shall know that what I’ve done here,
is really, really lived.
i want to meet you in the
holy now
.
Rumi and Kabir
arranged their calendars
around the beating heart of time
Kali bespoke the destruction of limitations
.
I wiped my hard drive
tore the clutter from the cloud
and dusted under heaven
.
I dug out all the roots of that invasive
horsetail grass, a true medicine in
other contexts
.
i threw out context
.
i settled on this flower
and that flower,
.
and the flowering of you.
.
just to meet you.
☀️ 🌙
living without a body
may be the real body
.
actuated/destroyed
.
all is contained in the one,
who is already open
.
unboxed.
…
eye of ra
crescent moon 🌙
.
goddess’s breath: kinetic
.
shakti-love steers conception,
spinning the multitude of
galaxies sunder —
like cotton candy confections
each one is divided just for you to taste and describe anew.
.
her breath
set into motion,
opens the door.
.
furnishing evidence for creation,
another offer springs up
with fragrant flowers at your feet.
.
step into this ‘other’ dimension
through rebirth,
an unadulterated heaven.
.
the gateway swirls with fortitude
sewn into the fabric of dark matter,
‘behold your sacred name’
.
her galaxy’s rotational curves
are the mere eyelash-bats
of her curiosity,
a nod to wonder in a tryst of passion
.
mind’s vacated,
cavernous function
echoes grace
.
one swing of her stellar tresses
provides the light for an eternity.
.
a blink of quantum
a pinch of akash
sparkling petticoat of richness and splendor
.
her magickal presence expanding,
demonstrating, in full opulence ~
the
.
pure generosity of her touch.
⭐️
sliced down my mass
slipped into the cracks of the floor boards and
leaned into gravity like a cannonball, but bodiless.
slumped into empty breath
reorganized as microscopic, slippery, weightless, ether
waif of glitter
fleck of dust
leveling with dirt, I touched space around me like
the cushion it is,
like the softness that any regular nothingness adjusts to,
touching itself to its oceans of surrounding twin copies
.
I felt soft and full;
and from this view,
clarity arose like the shining star
of awareness.
I shouldn’t rush this one.
There’s a lot about Leo that isn’t captured by popular culture, or by “culture of astrology.” Of course, I am a Leo Sun (haha in my 7th house of others!!) So I will tell you what a Leo is! And you will believe me, of course! (silly!) Silliness is definitely a thing. It’s part of it. A bit of a performer… that too! Guess what else? Can you guess? Yes, yes, playful. Anything else?
If you guessed Shameless, well, no.
Brave.
Brave!
I wrote brave twice– you wanna know why? The first time is with a period. It’s the behind the scenes brave. It’s the actual brave. The show up and be brave behind the ready to be brave. Then there’s the other brave! is the one that looks cheery and courageous, but is probably just the product of this equation:
My LOVE > My Fear = Aligned Action
If you are looking at the truth: there’s no real difference between you and me. We have all the same possibilities and potentialities. Choice is what makes us different, and to a certain extent, circumstances also make us different. We all have different backgrounds, groups, families, environmental pressures, legacies and genes, and even experiences. Please keep reading for the substance…. You are special
This post is not going to be one of those posts that tells you “this is an excellent time for: x, y and z” It’s not even about what the sign Leo means. It’s more about an exploration into the depths of you. This new moon in early Leo at 2 degrees is in opposition to the planet, Pluto (overhaul), in Aquarius (each and every one). It’s in trine to Uranus (innovation) in Gemini (the mind). There’s a lot of pressure right now to find ways to survive. What are we surviving? We are surviving difficult living conditions that still manage to mostly look like the luxuries of modern life. However, underneath it all is the existential tension of not knowing the future, not having a stable sense of the cost of goods, not knowing how the slashing and burning and bridge dismantling of our institutions is going to affect America and the entire world. It’s already affecting America. What’s worse is the backdrop of environmental degradation and decline. The climate is changing so quickly that the *very* systems designed to protect us with early warning signals and organized response teams, even research around these pertinent topics: FEMA, EPA, and more, are being dismantled completely. How will we even know the true impact of what is going on until the years past when we are long and gone? This is not an easy landscape my friends! This is not an easy life. Yes, meanwhile, we have positivity consciousness telling us to “be grateful” and how each one of us can just “put our minds to it” and “have the life of our dreams.”
What is true?
Well, that is a moving target. So that sense for the scammers hunting us every day and the people who want to steal from our trust– well, are they creating a culture of distrust? I would say, “yes.” Now, I’m not laying all this out so that we all come together and agree to just give up. But there is a lot of war going on (in our hearts and on Earth, across nations) and very, very shady, nefarious characters are acting freely from their place of power. So, I must ask you, I must beg you to keep going. Keep finding the reason to LOVE. Keep finding the reason to TRUST. Keep finding the ways to soften your heart–while getting increasingly smart to the real danger that lurks for us. This is a life of survival for ourselves and our families. The values we have fought for need to stay intact. We do not sacrifice our freedoms for anything other than a higher vision. That higher vision must come from our hearts. It must come from the most courageous part within us. It’s the anchor that links us to the very air we breathe. The heart and lungs work in tandem, you know. So be the voice, be the hope. Be the authentic gift of your own life– and give to give. Love to love. You are not alone. I am not alone.
I’m just gonna do the same, okay?
I started a youtube channel and I talk about authenticity. Spoiler: I didn’t come to any conclusions. Go ahead and take a look; feel free to tell me what you think! Thank you 🙂 Do you like the silly poses I get caught in? What are your thoughts on the topics I introduced? Oh, and apparently you have to tell everyone to “like and subscribe” so if you noticed that in everyone else’s youtubes–that’s why I’m doing the same thing. 🙂
Today my body has
a different prayer.
its posture is the same
its form looks consistent,
but this stem of me
is rooted
into the Earth
in a new way.
.
With roots like tentacles
that gyrate when the earth shakes,
managing impact,
adapting to terrain,
lock-step in reconfiguration.
This is a different WAY
of holding form.
.
In her gentle vibrance,
she’s singing quietly, a hum
mmm from the glint of luminous
emanations,
the near-silence sheens flow
across the ringed-edge of activated
chimes.
Here vibrance meets vibration
in one cyclic, metallic, elemental breath
.
This breath is a request, the body a prayer
.
It is full of trust and knowing;
spacious gratitude meets patient
availability.
the vessel now is in
its holding power
knowing that she can sing for eons
.
just like this,
.
in this pose
.
in this posture
.
in this form
.
as a new prayer.
.
Singing from cavernous connection
with the Mother of all.
.
😮💨😌
Let us turn to joy.
Can we be in joy while the whole world is in tumult? Are we allowed?
For some of us, we ache from the insides, deep in our healing—all we’ve been exposed to, all that has dimmed us, our hopes, our hearts’ desires.
But the heart’s energy field is bigger than a brain as HeartMath will tell you, the following about the heart’s field. The energy produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to 3 feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers (Figure 6.1).
Figure 6.1 The heart’s magnetic field, which is the strongest rhythmic field produced by the human body, not only envelops every cell of the body, but also extends out in all directions into the space around us. The heart’s magnetic field can be measured several feet away from the body by sensitive magnetometers. Research conducted at HMI suggests the heart’s field is an important carrier of information.*
With Mercury retrograde in Leo it won’t be surprising to get clear on a number of things to review:
*How you put yourself out there
*What you do in life purely for the sake of joy and love
*What is your true need to be seen and heard by others
*Where you’d like to build more courage
I’m no stranger to this Mercury retrograde in Leo. Where Mercury is standing right now, He/She/They/It are directly on my natal Sun. ☀️
That very sun I have “given away” to “other” born in the house of “others.” (7th)
I have memories and contacts to explore. I have new relationships to consider. I get to PLAY with what possible wisdom may come from exploring those areas I need to show up with more courage.
At this point I have so many certifications, so much experience and expertise in a number of different fields that are all similarly related. I started a YouTube channel, and I’m maintaining this blog, my business, my house and plants, and my family.
Another BIG exam is slated for me to demonstrate my expertise in a new, deeper category of my TCM work: skin as an extension of my external medicine work. That exam will be at the tail end of the summer, during the “pause” right before a ton more astrological “action.” This is a category of achievement in my field where few have actually tread. The exam passing rate isn’t so high. That’s not why I’m doing it. I do it for love. Just love. I constantly and consistently invest myself in improving FOR others; to be of service.
But I’m human, and I’m making peace with a lot.
Much walking and physical movement, music, and catharsis decorates my summer Mercury retrograde party 🎈 banners/streamers and they look like balloons 🎈 around healing ❤️🩹 AND grieving at the same time.
I think we all know Trauma at this point. It’s become the collective consciousness’s main dialogue! How could it not? How many disasters are we recovering from, losses, interrupts, missed opportunities— at ANY given time?!
So, what can I offer you that has not been offered before? What will really make your heart sing?
Maybe… even just take some time out for some singing 🎶 and dancing. 💃 go outside and scream like a banshee, or if you realistically can’t, do it in a pillow.
No one needs to watch. Your own audience fills your inner world; it’s your shadow. Your shadow is your audience!
So don’t listen to anything that might hold you back from your purest heart’s desire. See what stands the test of time. See what stands the test of “this time.”
Mercury will retrograde from July 17-18 depending on where you live, until August 11/12.
What has been through the fire 🔥 that looks so shiny and sparkling now but has a lot of blood, sweat, and tears 😭 behind it?
You know. You are the one who been through the fire, through hell and back. You know: It’s your capacity to love.
During this Mercury retrograde when things might be better examined, slowed down, face unexpected technical challenges or fight inner demons.
You have a hand-holder, over here, in me. Somethings that REQUIRE courage, and the real movements can sometimes only be BABYSTEPS. I’m your girl. Your cheerleader. 📣
When you face those demons, you are not alone.
By next year I will also be offering my coaching programs and probably a slew of other carefully cultivated offerings. But I’ll still always be here— just like this. And this is MY love. To be here. With You.
*Source:
https://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/energetic-communication/
I could say I got caught
in an algorithm
It’s happened to all of us.
One minute a keyword is uttered to a
listening Siri, and the next,
either a target ad or a post with the same
applicable subject
will appear in your
“Feed.”
Just what are you being fed?
Because it better be a mirror to your soul..
I mean, what is the point of your light, if it never reaches out?
Does light sit in the dark?
Hide under a rock?
Or does it yearn to lift the rock from the inside?
Today someone special died. An artist, activist, and a poet. Each day, someone special dies. Many someones.
In their opportunity to share what’s inside them, they spoke of telescopes and friendship. Before they died, they told you about death and joy and grieving, and made it all make sense.
She left this world, today, just shy of her 50th birthday on August 13.
Andrea Gibson
I dream of Golden winters with sun shining across the cold Frost.
The cold never touches me
The silence claims me
This is my home of now.
She says,”
You are my chosen oasis in the land of crust and crystalline frames
While you were born from molten cosmic processes
You’re set apart, pristine during the heat
Slipping through dimensions to the time most appropriate to support the balance
You are a force, a fury of nature~
Subdued by sheer will and actual karma
Your boldness: freezing time,
Making your fierce desire a slice of form, manifested.
Liquid chills and stops at its intersection
When you are beyond seasons,
Your will is diamond.
💎
This full moon in Capricorn is coming off the heels of Uranus ingress Gemini with a conjunction to Venus. Pluto is sextile to Saturn (which is set to retrograde soon in Aries) and Pluto is also sextile to newly revised Uranus. These are “productive” and “efficiency making” aspects. Pluto is also Trine to Uranus (ease of flow). The energies are a little bit more grounding. Even though Mars is pulling some difficult aspects with the square to the Venus/Uranus conjunction, it’s still a fact of this astrology that the full moon is in @5 degree orb Trine to Mars. What does this mean? Well to me it speaks to emphasize that there’s a place for the errant energy to collect and form into a measured “response.” It’s like the universe set us a call to action and now the soul and the energy bodies need to regulate and then will ping back a response.
Capricorn is a bit of a “no excuses” sign. There’s a strong focus here on what is good for the family. The sun is almost nearing the second decan of Cancer. The second decan is also the most stabilized of the 3 decans in the zodical makeup. That is 0-10 Cancer is decan 1, and 11-20 is decan 2, etc…
What I see is the ability to channel these energies better and restore “function” in the areas that might have gotten a little bit “wiped” from the electrifying energy of the Uranus shift –> Gemini while holding hands with Venus, lock step. Relationships, money, exchange, sensuality, resources, comfort, values: all these Venusian themes have undergone a ginormous reconfiguration as a “call to action.”
Let it all settle. It will also settle on its own. Mars is also in opposition to N.Node in Pisces. That strong desire for “the dream” to awaken us, and to help us live our ideals keeps ricochetting. Now listen to that heart beat inside as Neptune, ruler of Pisces, has retrograde therefore living really close to that heart– easier for to see that dream lives inside you, as well as what is in the way of addiction and distraction from it. I suggest to let it be your continued inspiration. What your soul really longs for, after-all, is not as much as of “long-shot” as you might’ve thought!
Have a really blessed and safe Full Moon in Capricorn! You are loved by the universe, and by me… 😃 🌌
Fiesta Estrellas 
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