It’s Virgo season, with its back-to-school, new notebooks, and number #2 pencils energy. It’s also the new moon (the second one this month) which, for the astronomy geeks out there, only happens every 2 ½ years or so. This year Virgo season begins August 23 and lasts until September
The Earth isn’t flat—but our solar system mostly is. The eight planets (nine, if you still count Pluto, demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006) travel along orbital paths around the Sun on roughly the same plane. From August 17 through 20, six of those planets—Mercury, Venus,
“We may think of the stars [planets] as letters, forever being inscribed upon the heavens—or written once for all and set in motion as they carry out their appointed tasks. From these great tasks flows their power of signifying.” – Plotinus Nearly 1,800 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plotinus
"Compassion is a verb." – Thich Nhat Hanh The channeled reading for August brings forward the Queen of Cups. In the tarot – a collection of archetypal symbols – the court cards can be seen as reflections of our personal and collective development. The Suit of Cups governs the realm of
"Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't." – Andrea Gibson These are heartbreaking times. We are faced daily with accounts of disaster, senseless violence, and shocking cruelty. It's exhausting and overwhelming. Closer to home, we may experience illness, financial insecurity, the loss of a
“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear
"This life is built almost entirely of love and losing, isn't it?" – Andrea Gibson (1975–2025) Mercury, the planetary ruler of all forms of communication – as well as all forms of travel – goes retrograde today, July 17, and remains so until August 11. When a planet
"To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love more." – Nelson Mandela The full moon in Capricorn peaks today, July 10th. Full moons always occur in the sign opposite the one
“We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance.” (King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2) “Now that you're out of my life, I'm so much
Today is July 1, 2025 — the midpoint of the calendar year. It’s a good time to take stock, reassess, and refocus where necessary — especially in terms of where we’re directing our energy and resources. Are we tending to what matters most? As writer Annie Dillard observed about the
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was
Greetings, moon watchers and truth-seekers! The full moon reaches peak illumination tonight at 12:44 AM PT on June 11, in the sign of Sagittarius. Full moons occur when the Sun and Moon line up in opposite signs with the Earth directly in between. (The Sun is now in Gemini