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New Moon in Virgo: Do Good Work

Sep 9, 2018
4 min

New Moon in Virgo: Do Good Work

This new moon in Virgo is about baby steps. It’s about digging our toes and fingers into the earth and letting it sustain us. It’s about harvesting the new knowledge and insights that have grown tall over the summer, separating the chaff from the wheat, and readying the millstone for grinding. This is the first new moon since the summer’s eclipses, and now it’s time to process all that’s happened, to turn it into something that will nourish us. This new moon, we make bread. A

New Moon in Taurus: Making the Bull Move

May 15, 2018
3 min

New Moon in Taurus: Making the Bull Move

N E W M O O N in T A U R U S U R A N U S ingress into T A U R U S There’s some major astrology happening right now, friends. Hours after the new moon in Taurus, Uranus, the planet of innovation, revolution, & surprises, moves into Taurus for the first time since the 1930’s. The rebel Uranus will shake things up in the fixed earth sign of stability, tradition, & loyalty for most of the next 8 years. The thing is, the grounded, sometimes stubborn Taurus doesn’t like

Full Moon in Libra Tarot Spread

Apr 1, 2018
2 min

Full Moon in Libra Tarot Spread

Libra is the cosmic balancer, ruler of the tarot card Justice. It brings harmony, fairness, equality, diplomacy. And if you’re riding my energy wave this month (this year, this lifetime), you’re feeling allll sorts of unbalanced right now. Shit’s been real recently, with the cosmos throwing things at us right and left so we can shed the bullshit and rise into alignment with our higher selves. That sounds great, but man is it hard sometimes, y’all. Thank goddess we have Libra

Tarot spread for Ostara (Spring Equinox)

Mar 20, 2018
2 min

Tarot spread for Ostara (Spring Equinox)

Happy equinox, friends! Today, the light and the dark stand in equal balance, in cosmic harmony. The sun rises directly due East and sets due West. The sun appears to travel across the sky in a straight line rather than a curve. The Earth’s poles point neither towards nor away from the sun. Today is the tipping point when the hours of day begin to rule over the hours of night. From now until the Summer Solstice, the light will grow ever longer and the dark will recede, all pa

Tarot Spread for the New Moon in Pisces

Mar 18, 2018
2 min

Tarot Spread for the New Moon in Pisces

Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac and one of the most deeply rooted in intuition. Pisces is the element water and the tarot card The Moon. It’s the unconscious, the emotional depths, the psychic channel to source, the imaginative and visionary world of dreams. It’s also fucking intense. This Pisces season, many of us have felt like we’ve been plunged straight into a choppy ocean, like we’re treading water and just barely keeping our head above the surface. Emotional trig

IMPROBABILITY

Feb 19, 2018
4 min

IMPROBABILITY

We humans have a tendency to cling to what’s safe, what’s known. We fear uncertainty, to the detriment of our dreams and aspirations. It’s a product of millennia of evolution telling us that the unknown is dangerous, that vulnerability is weakness, that taking the gamble, the risk, the leap of faith, is foolish. If we had money, we say, or more time, or a better support system, then we’d do it. Then we’d chase those dreams. So we never chase them. Last year, my partner and I