(Blog art by the incredible Georgia O’Keeffe - Feather with Bird’s Bone)
I selected this painting because of the contrast in elements - the lightness of the feather speaks to the air of Gemini that is abundant right now while the bones speak to the reality of Saturn helping us bring something from our mind into form.
This week brings changes in direction, high energy, potential for conflict & anxiety, and some small amounts of resolution.
Tomorrow, Mars conjoins Jupiter in the middle of Gemini: this is a high-energy, cerebral meeting that seems particularly zany with Gemini’s ruler Mercury trekking backward AND changing signs (from Virgo to Leo).
Read MoreThe New Moon in Leo has only just begun, and Mercury has stationed retrograde, imprinting this lunar cycle with a potential to re-align to Truth. Mercury retrogrades shake things up, showing us (sometimes quite dramatically), where we have been lacking attention and connection to the Divine Pulse.
Read MoreOn Sunday, July 21, we experience a second Full Moon in the sign of Capricorn (what some astrologers are calling a ‘true blue moon’).
This feels significant for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the Full Moon occurs at 29 degrees, the final degree of the sign.
Read MoreMy relationship to reading for pleasure waxes and wanes, unlike my husband, who, since the beginning of our relationship, I’ve observed to read at least a few pages of a book every single night. I’ve spent much time reading dry, scientific papers during the day, or mindlessly scrolling social media content, that sometimes reading at night, for pleasure, isn’t pleasurable.
Read MoreThis reflection on Aquarius is dedicated to the memory of Varya, who was born with the Moon in the final degree of Aquarius.
There has been much discussion of Aquarius and Pluto this week in astrology-land, given that former planet Pluto has now ingressed the second-to-last sign of the zodiac.
Read MoreOoh la la we are on the cusp of a shift in energy today! This shift slowly draws us into the growing eclipse portal of next month.
Today Luna moves into her first quarter phase with our Sun. The first quarter phase will occur in the final degrees of mutable Virgo (Sun) and mutable Sagittarius (Moon).
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