Patterns I walk down the garden-paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern. As I wander down The garden-paths. My [...]
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Your Month Ahead Podcast is Ready
https://audioboom.com/posts/7773358 I’m publishing this a bit early this month… so much going on!
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The Capitol Riot
On January 6, the seat of American democracy, the Capitol, was invaded by a mob. Lawmakers were hustled into hiding, while the place was overrun by a motley crew of mostly white men, some dressed for combat, some for the pantomime, and some for a corporate awayday. It was shocking [...]
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January-February Asteroids: Hygeia Special
The new asteroid report is up on the members’ page. As well taking a look at the actions of Vesta, Ceres and friends, I looked into Hygeia, the asteroid of health this month, because… pandemic. She’s retrograde again, and this time she’s in Leo opposing the [...]
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January Horoscopes and the Year Ahead
Despite the virus, the vaccine, the vicissitudes, I’m excited about the year ahead, and excited about January. There is a hurricane of airy energy rising in Aquarius, one of the signs of the collective. Each of us will need to get ready in our own way. For members, I’ve [...]
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Capricorn: A Self-Portrait and a Poem
For joy’s sake, from my hands For joy’s sake, from my hands, take some honey and some sun, as Persephone’s bees told us. Not to be freed, the unmoored boat. Not to be heard, fur-booted shadows. Not to be silenced, life’s dark terrors. Now we only have kisses, dry and bristling like [...]
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Your Month Ahead: December 21, 2020-January 21, 2021: Great Conjunction Specal
https://audioboom.com/posts/7754134 Listen up! And get a peep into what the next year holds for you.
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Your Year Ahead Webinar Recording
On December 6, Sally Kirkman, my podcast partner, and I recorded a two-hour webinar live. We talked through all the big astrology of 2021. What a year! The recording is available now . It comes with a workbook that lists all the major astrology of the year ahead, including lucky days. [...]
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Thoughts on the Great Conjunction
Details from the Journey of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Palazzo Medici. These are the two senior kings — Balthazar and Melchior. The mightiest planets known to the ancients, great Jupiter and stern Saturn, will meet on December 21, 2020 for the first time in 20 years. They will [...]
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December Horoscopes
There’s a huge change coming our way this December — and it’s about time too. We are whooshing forward into 2021 — and into the next decade, as we enter a brand new era. It’s very exciting, and the new birth happens exactly on the Solstice point! It’s [...]
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Sagittarius: A Self-Portrait and a Poem
I Am Much Too Alone In This World I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour. I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart. I want my free will and want […]
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New Video: Lilith in Taurus, A Walk in the Woods
Come for a walk in the woods to meet the Dark Moon goddess…. Cover image is from a medieval illumination depicting Eve talking to Lilith, who wears a crown and has the body of a snake, in the Garden of Eden.
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What Astrologers Said About the US Election
If you listen to Sally and Christina Talk Astrology, my monthly podcast, you will know that I picked Joe Biden to win and we agreed that there would be delays and recounts. This was a pretty straightforward bit of astrology, since Donald Trump had such bad transits, and the election took [...]
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Your November Horoscopes
We’re just entering a period of break-outs, bust-ups, burn-outs and break-throughs. It’s quite the month ahead. And I think it’s pretty useful to take the long view: when you’re on a bumpy ride, keep your eyes on the horizon…. I’ve written a longer than usual introduction this month [...]
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Halloween Special
The Full Moon on Halloween 2020 contains a zingy surprise. Now that may be grandma’s white teeth being a little longer and sharper than you thought, but it may be that the big bad wolf turns out to be a hirsute suitor. This is also the second Full Moon of October so gets the title of [...]
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Your Month Ahead Podcast: October 22-November 23
Oooo… a crackling Halloween Full Moon, Mercury turning direct — and the final conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn. So much to discuss — including Joe Biden and Leonardo DiCaprio. Put on your Groucho Marx nose and your witch’s hat and have a listen. Sally and I [...]
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Mister Rogers: The Opposite of Cynical
In Mister Rogers’ neighbourhood people are honest, your feelings are important, and you are special. Mister Rogers exuded goodness of heart, purity of intention and folksy wisdom. He was the opposite of cynical. I was tiny when I watched his show but I still remember how Mister Rogers [...]
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Scorpio: A Self-portrait and a Poem
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole– Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic By which soul rejoins its kindred soul! See! it teaches yonder roving planets Round the sun to fly in endless race; And as children play around their mother, Checkered [...]
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Astrology of Now: The Beautiful Melancholy of Regret
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.” ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago Do [...]
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Chaos, Order and the New World
This Sunday, October 11, I’ll be talking to Anne Whitaker on Zoom. We’ll be discussing the times we’re in now, how we might navigate them, and where we might be going. It’s clear that we are in a moment when old structures are falling apart. There’s chaos, [...]
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