…….if we were on a boat, I would be shouting “Ready About, Lee Ho” and you would be ducking to avoid being knocked out by the boom as I turned the boat into the wind to change tack…..
Read More Full Moon in Scorpio “Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area”the time between eclipses, (there is a solar eclipse on April 8th), is a strange time where the unthinkable can happen, suddenly and without warning.
Read More –Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse in Libra– Careful What You Wish ForThis month, the silvery light of the full Moon illuminates the 1st decan of Virgo, reflecting the Sun’s rays as it shines through the 1st decan of Pisces. The distinctly saturnine vibration of this lunation, with its underlying implications of death and resurrection, is distilled from the Moon’s application by opposition to a combust Saturn, the ruler of the first face of Pisces.
Read More -Full Moon in Virgo-Purge & TonifyAll the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.
― William Shakespeare – As You Like It
The decans that highlight the solstice points are loaded with energy. Cardinal Earth & Cardinal Water express strong, receptive, feminine energy, fertile and productive. All things are possible here at this turning of the seasons and as the Sun begins his six-month journey back to his supremacy, it is fitting that we release what is no longer required for the year to come.
Read More -Full Moon in Cancer -I am the resurrectionStay, furious contests, and avenging strife, whose works with woe, embitter human life; To lovely Venus, and to Bacchus yield, to Ceres give the weapons of the field; Encourage peace, to gentle works inclined, and give abundance, with benignant mind.
From the Orphic Hymn to Mars-translated by Thomas Taylor
I would rather be free to choose a path and hold my own opinions than be safe in a cage of another persons making, singing the rhetoric mantras of my overlords.
Read More -POWER STRUGGLES- Pluto in Capricorn The FinaleUnaware of the darkness contained within her own uncertainty she steps purposefully out into a rocky, sunless and mountainous land, the narrow causeway upon which she finds herself, crossing a deep ravine, before winding upwards through the bleak greyness of the mountains. The breeze blows in like a wastrel from the north, shuffling across the empty plains, plucking at her clothes as she contemplates the way ahead.
Read More The HermitThe silence of the place is immense, but within it, a long gracious avenue leads through a beautiful moonlit garden where a tapestry of blues, greys, cobalt and silver, are intimately and elegantly entwined, waltzing through a colonnade of urns and statues that line the marble flagged walkway. What a place, she is mesmerized by the calm, meditative beauty of her surroundings, and starts to feel even more relaxed than she already is; a profound calm descends, her heartbeat drops and the stretch of her breathing slows and deepens.
Read More AdjustmentShe approaches this goddess of the steppes, and sits quietly on the ground in front of her, folding her hands in her lap, waiting for something to happen. A small child brings her a bowl of tea and the woman begins to speak, explaining her position in the tribe, telling how she sits in the centre of their universe, that she has no place that she calls home, that her home is within her. At all times, she must be ready to leave, being called upon by the seasons, the tribes, the herds and the turning of the earth, ready at a moment’s notice; all her time is spent in preparation, becoming ready to move on once more and that her life is a moving meditation, a journey of discovery.
Read More The Chariot
Joanna-Kate Grant 