The Winter Solstice in the northern Hemisphere occurs this weekend. The exact moment is Saturday, December 21st at 9:11am PST. The two solstices, when the day is the longest and the shortest, are like the lynch pins of our solar year. As human beings, we experience every aspect of life itself as a function of …
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New Year’s Eve is typically a holiday for setting intentions for the year we’re about to enter. The same is true for the New Moon. This year, we are treated to both at the same time. The Capricorn New Moon is exact just as this year gives way to next year in yet another in …
The Full Moon in Cancer is tonight at 8:52pm PST. That’s overnight in the wee hours in Europe and Africa and for those of you down under, it is exact Wednesday afternoon at 3:52pm. Cancer is ruled by the Moon and so this lunation has a particular power and beauty on an archetypal level. Everything …
This New Moon is the second one during the month of January and is therefore known as the Black Moon. This is similar to the Blue Moon where there are two Full Moons in a calendar month. There is some precedent in some Pagan cultures for imbuing such a lunation with more power because of …
The Virgo Moon is getting ready to oppose the Pisces Sun in what is possibly the most important Full Moon of each year. The Virgo/Pisces polarity is about bringing heaven on earth and the connection of Body (Virgo) to Spirit (Pisces). Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and is the archetype of the …
Equinox means equal and is the time when daylight and darkness are of the same length. Therefore it is fitting that the Autumnal Equinox has the Sun moving into Libra, the very archetype that embodies the idea of harmony. This is one of two moments in the solar cycle where we are in fact at …