The Nine of Coins is a card of mature development, stability, and progress. A woman stands in a serene vineyard, enjoying abundance and admiring her parrot. The number of coins describes the resources gathered through patience and good judgment. This is a card about material gain, but not about constantly striving for growth and accumulation. [...]
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It’s Mercury Retrograde Season Again…
Yes, my peeps, it’s about that time. Mercury will turn retrograde next Friday morning for the last retrograde round of the year. Sneaking one more in before New Year’s! Lucky us. I’m posting this now so you can get your house in order beforehand. A few points, if you like to read fast: No, Mercury [...]
A Planetary Lexicon
Time to rethink and reclaim some archaic words. Here are a few to test on your tongue: Solitary From the root sol, relating to the sun. Describing something or someone as solitary implies they’re a bit of a loner, but it also means one-of-a-kind. Your sun sign, and the placement of your sun, describe how [...]
Test-Driving the Pisces Brain
I’m back in Seattle now after several days of ducking out in Portland with Havi. Her adventures with finding a not-office space and turning it into the kooky awesomeness of the Playground was… strangely compelling. Partly because it sounded like a ridiculous amount of fun, and partly because her descriptions of things sound suspiciously like [...]
Iguana-Dropping Weather
It’s snowing in Seattle right now… we’ve gotten about two inches in my neighborhood so far. When I lived in Miami, winter was about 75 degrees Fahrenheit– I was happy to get used to that kind of cold weather. But occasionally, a frigid Canadian storm front would sag all the way down to us, and [...]
Full Speed Ahead! …Mostly.
Some days are rather “quiet” astrologically. Others are anything but. Today is the latter. Stephanie Gailing has a great reflective piece at Planetary Apothecary on what’s going on upstairs today. It’s a busy day for astrology! Jupiter has just turned direct after being retrograde since July, and Venus is about to do the same a little [...]
November Astrology Forecast (video)
Last week I trooped off to Redmond to see Jeff Jawer and Rick Levine give their generous free monthly talk at Soul Food. Always a good time, and there is lots of great info here. Check it out (with the delicate hum of espresso machines in the background): Part 2 – Part 3 – Part [...]
Balsamic Moon: Give It A Rest
Right now we’re in the balsamic phase of the moon- the last couple days before the moon goes totally dark. This is the final phase of the moon cycle. If you’ve studied astronomy, you may already know of this phase as the waning crescent. Going dark As the light of the moon grows darker and [...]
Significators
A significator is a tarot card, chosen by tradition or by inquiry, that you select to represent yourself. It may represent how you see yourself and the qualities within you, it may resemble you physically, or it may symbolize qualities within yourself that you want to develop. You can use your significator in all personal [...]
Halloween Weekend Transit Calendar
Here’s what’s going on in the sky this weekend (all times are Pacific, tweak as necessary): Friday, October 29 The Cancer moon goes void around lunchtime (12:48p PDT), and then doesn’t move into Leo until 5:38p. So there’s a big potential case out there of senioritis/Friday syndrome out there. Good day for brainstorming or connecting [...]
