Jessica Shepherd's Blog, page 23

The eleventh is the natural house of Aquarius, associated with visions and dreams, hopes and goals for the future, friendships and allies. When I first began studying astrology, the eleventh house was enigmatic. I’d think: A planet in the house of “wishes? Well, sprinkle pixie dust and spin me three times. Over time, I realized the way to properly understand this assortment of descriptors was through Aquarius’ golden rule: The right network of allies always help you achieve your goals and dreams. There is a universal truism here: We may be outsiders, aliens or iconoclasts but we never arrive at a future we want, alone.

A truism is true for a reason. I can trace every accomplishment that’s ever really mattered to me to people who have helped to make it happen. Like a string of pearls, each of these precious people had everything to do with my personal and professional success. I didn’t necessarily personally know those who aided and abetted my future self- not at first. Aquarian friends and allies are not your best friends (that’s Libra; although they came become your besties), but they are your friends. They are the people you get to know, through your interests, joining up in collective concerns, through other people you know.

Aquarius Full Moon is a time of nurturing both our visions for our future, and the friendships and alliances that help us get there. According to Robert Cole’s book, The Book of Houses, this is the house of the visionary. For the month when the Sun annually transits this natal house, we are open to receiving visions about our future, and are unconsciously or consciously choosing our dream-seeds for the next year. Eleventh house/Aquarius holds that kind of dreamy magic and, likewise, of harvest, of dreams-do-come-true. When we plant seeds and water them with friendship and support, they do.

Every year when the full moon alights in Aquarius it is a time for both planning and harvesting dream seeds. Where do you want to go next? Who is already where you want to be? Ally with a person or group who is doing what you want to be; that’s a strategy for getting there. Is a dream coming true for you now? If so, thank your lucky stars, and the friends and allies that surely played a role in your harvest’s arrival.

What if our vision for the future is about as clear as pancake batter? Or, what if, in our attempt to find allies, we simply don’t fit in? Questions of social belonging fall into our Aquarius/eleventh house(s), too. My astrology student’s Neptune was moving into Aquarius so I encouraged her to attend an astrology conference for the first time. The results were mixed. She reported back that while she had thought she was different from the crowd, everyone was much more weird and she ended up not connecting with anyone, socially. Ah. Feeling different, alien, not fitting in- also Aquarius.

What she did next gave me a double take on the “future” aspect of this house/sign. She had been circling a dying relationship and unsatisfying job. After months of talking about it, she finally left her job and relationship -without having a new one of either. Her eleventh house ruler was active both by transit and Solar Arc. She finally claimed her future.

Jupiter and Uranus form a quincunx at this full moon. Uranus, Aquarius’ ruler, is the planet of visionary progress and invention, Jupiter, possibility, faith and hope. Quincunx energy holds slippery magic, subject to wild changes of fortune and circumstance, and wooed by entertaining possibilities on the outer edges of reason. Build a dream catcher. Even if of wishes for “something better than this”, fairy wings, band-aids and rubber bands, this a hopeful vision for your future self to explore and, perhaps one surprising day, step into. Celebrate your harvest, and your tribe. They are your Aquarian dream posse. And as that famous Beatle sang about his own dream posse: We all get by with the help of our friends.

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As an introvert, with a cluster of vulnerable Cancer planets assembled all around my Mid-Heaven (MC), I doubt I’ll ever feel comfortable in the spotlight. Yet my progressed Sun, and MC, my evolving self and “calling card”, respectively, in the extroverted, notice-me sign of Leo, has impelled far more charisma from me than even I thought possible. So, as my progressed MC moves into Virgo in little over a month (a once every thirty-year shift), I honestly feel something akin to relief. Like Brigitte Bardot, the French actress, model and singer who decided to turn her focus from acting and showbiz to animal rights projects… I’ve already begun hanging up that Leo costume.

The Mid-Heaven comes with a set of expectations, even projections, from others about the contributions you are here to offer the world. At times, I’ve felt dreamed into a star role, urged, reluctantly on my part, toward an ever-shifting bright spotlight. It’s been a fun, often celebratory, ride. But despite all her panache, being the performer, isn’t something I deeply enjoy.

Yet it’s been life-changing. Without having taken the fierce risk of sharing my creative self, all of my books and writing would remain as they had begun: in journals. Without Leo urging my Cancer imagination to “put it out there”, “have fun with it” and “show the world what you’ve got”, I’d never had started my very first full moon mailing back in 2002. Without allowing myself to playfully explore astrology in new and experimental ways, I wouldn’t have taken the chance of starting this website. Without the thought, maybe it would feel good to have an audience… I’d never have found the audacity to publicly share my creative enthusiasms, my self, with you.

Even if, looking back, I cringe at some of my over-the-top-and-brimming-with-enthusiasm writings, I thank Goddess that I didn’t stop too long to second-guess myself, because that just isn’t in the spontaneous spirit of Leo.  Excruciating self-consciousness is a dimmer switch for the Lion’s light. Only in an atmosphere of generosity and playfulness do we discover the breadth of our talent, our largesse.

Sure, there are plenty of people who obtain notoriety based on charisma and style over substance; that’s certainly a shadow of Leo, but I’d say an even bigger shadow of Leo is our tendency to sell our selves short, to accuse our selves of getting too big for our britches, to even to deny our self the right to have thoughts, opinions, and abilities we believe are worth sharing – particularly as women. If a shadow of Leo is unearned bravado, the bigger one is feeling we don’t deserve to take up the space. After all, if its those with the largest mouths and egos (not largest talent, creativity or intellect) who are dominating the world stage right now… Why are you waiting for permission to shine?

Leo New Moon presents the invitation to each and every one of us to be far more audacious, and far less perfectionistic, about sharing our unique genius with the world. Maybe the first step to doing so involves something small, like changing up our hair style, painting our nails a vibrant notice-me color, or singing karaoke– despite what we think someone else might think about us.  Leo magic only works when we risk looking silly! Trying to look cool tends to dampen the fun.

Steven Forrest once wrote, “To perform for the world is to trust it. That unquestionable trust in life is Leo’s Holy Grail.” Some funny things I learned about being on the stage: Not only do you learn that you will not die from stage fright- you learn the world really is a friendlier place than you thought. Despite the endless chatter of criticism and judgment we tell our self, and project onto others, performing and expressing has a sort of alchemy to it. You learn people actually want to see you succeed; that you don’t have to be perfect, just real; and that you, just as much as anyone else, deserve to take up space and shine. And ooh, the outfits, the costumes! Every performer needs to be well-styled for their role, and my natal Venus-MC conjunction loves showing off her style.

Lately, I’ve been having a hard time contacting the radiant, playful spirit of Leo. This makes sense; Mars’ long sojourn through Scorpio has been grueling, and psychologically-oriented Scorpio is square fun-loving Leo, by sign. Mars moves from Scorpio to Sagittarius at this New Moon! We are ready to let go of private emotional struggles, crisis, death… and get on with living. Let’s all say sayonara to grief, loss, regret, and forgive any tortures we’ve endured at our own hands or that of others’. Let’s embrace the positive lessons learned and celebrate life again with the renewing power of a fiery New Moon. As our energies shift to exploratory, enthusiastic Sag, we may have no idea what new adventures await, but adventures do await. And with Leo, when we risk giving a big smile to life, life will smile warmly back.

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When I was a child I remember suffering feelings of frustration over forgetting what I already knew. Have you ever had dreams where you knew how to solve complex math equations or speak Japanese as a matter of fact, when in waking life you couldn’t access that knowledge? That’s how it felt being in my earthbound body. I knew the knowledge and wisdom was there, barely veiled. It was so palpable, so close, I could taste it…Why couldn’t the adults around me see it, too?

Spiritual traditions, people who have NDE’s and ADC’s (after death communications), all say that our souls drink from the river of forgetfulness before entering human form. This is a necessary forgetting because it allows us to do that thing Earth does best: Give our soul experiences that hone it. And our earthly job is to do the big reveal on the wisdom we already possess, but forgot.

Lately, it seems like there’s been too much forgetting.

Pluto in Capricorn has been square my Libra Ascendant and Aries Moon. My empathy with the environment has been off the charts. I have two choices. I could give authority to the fear, panic and survival energies I feel by believing in them, or, I can feel them, fully, allow them to pass by. The latter only works when I solidly believe and know I AM Eternal. The second I start reacting with my false, not my true, self, I invite fight-or-flight energies. This has been HUGE work for me.

I’ve got a new mascot for what it looks like to be in dialogue with Grace, though. So do you.

You’ve seen the picture of the young black woman, Ieshia Evans, in a flowing dress, facing police in Baton Rouge during a civil disobedience protest. When I first saw this picture my initial thought was “Goddess” and my second thought was “energy.” Look at her graceful, centered posture. She is rooted in that ancient oak tree of spiritual feminine energy. This is not just a picture of feminine strength- it is a spiritual one. Spirit is palpable; in her body, her delicacy of posture, hands. Her hands! She’s doing energy work, creating a mudra of light.

An unbroken chain exists from us, to the Eternal. It is always right here. Ieshia Evans had it in that moment. We all have it… if we know where to look, and how to reinforce it. Maybe Saturn in Sagittarius is here to help us remember to claim the forgotten authority of our wisdom natures. Neptune in Pisces, square Saturn (thru September), can help us integrate Spirit awareness, let go of belief structures that feed separation and generate false ego stances. Every time I listen to the small voice that says: “let it go”, or “go stand in the garden”, “listen to relaxing music”, “go on a walk” and act on it…I reinforce my spiritual-earth congruence.

It’s a dramatic time on Earth. Yet we always have access to our ground of being. Now’s the time to claim it. Imagine a cord of light flowing from bottoms of your feet, your sacral, and deep into the Mother Earth. Make it as big as a tree trunk if you need, then spread it out like tree roots. Release any anxieties and fears you’re holding in your body. Let them go. Feel into the space holding your Divinity. That’s how to feel, to be, as unruffled and elegantly centered as Ieshia Evans.

Capricorn Full Moon is a time for remembering who we truly are. Know this: You have spiritual roots. They run deeper and truer than what is playing out in the world today. Spirituality is a process of rediscovery, and with Saturn square Neptune we can’t afford to keep our divine identity separate from our earthly one.  With sea goat, let’s dive deep and re-claim who we already are.

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There’s a planetary conversation taking place between Saturn in Sagittarius, Capricorn’s ruling planet, and Neptune in Pisces (square thru September 2016). The promise of this combination is integrating the Divine Self into the Ego. The risk of this combination is exaggerated fears and feelings of separation. Molehills can become mountains when we take our fears too seriously, leading us to a macabre picture of believing in a very scary “reality”. To lighten up, let’s listen in on an edifying conversation between the two planets.

Scene opens on a misty mountaintop on a planet far from Earth. White-bearded Neptune, clothed in robes, looks down through a portal to Earth. Saturn suddenly arrives from a visit to Earth, looking worse for the wear.

Neptune in Pis: My, my. Things are looking a little cray-cray down there (laughing softly, stroking beard). And yet everything is as it should be.

Saturn in Sag: What?! Are you reading the news? Look at all these people that are doing it all wrong. If they would only believe what I say… if they would only be level-headed and open their numb nut skulls and listen…I could finally get things under control.

Neptune in Pis: (smiling bemusedly) You know, you really aren’t as separate as you think you are.

Saturn in Sag: What kind of half-a** response it that, Neptune?

Neptune in Pis: (pondering for a moment, stroking beard) Tell me something: Do you really think that you know the Divine plan?

Saturn in Sag: Why do you always speak in riddles, dude? I’m telling you that the world is going crazy and the only way to change it is… (suddenly loses train of thought, looks into the distance, Neptune smiles knowingly).

Neptune in Pis: You don’t really know how to do that, do you? Take a moment and feel into this. How about letting go of your beliefs about what needs fixing or changing for a bit?

Saturn in Sag: What’s my job, then? I’m an ego and an ego needs a job.

Neptune in Pis: Your only job is to align yourself with your Divine Spirit, the I AM.

Saturn in Sag: But won’t things fall apart then? Isn’t that the same as passivity? What… you want me to just meditate through all the chaos???

Neptune in Pis: Paradoxically, if you focus on being the light, the light will spread to the world, naturally and lovingly. If fear is behind your words and actions, you’re adding to that vibration in the world, not helping it. This is an opportunity to demonstrate your strength of character and wisdom, Saturn.

Saturn in Sag: (shuffling his feet, not enjoying the experience of being schooled) …Well, okay, I do see that I’ve been really afraid. Fear is behind all those Facebook posts I’ve been doing, and the conversations I’m having about the world. I can get pretty extreme, evangelical even.  I get… afraid… and I want to control things with my philosophy about how it should be. That’s my shadow.

Neptune in Pis: Now we’re getting somewhere! Honesty with your emotions will always open the door to the Spirit world. Saturn, don’t deny your fear. It can be terrifying having a body, being on Earth. It can be scary, this not knowing. Some things on Earth are very broken. Be with those feelings, but drop the story, and you settle into the ground of your being. The more you judge, blame and create stories, the more you make your ego self and ego world more solid and real than your Divine self and world. And as long as you do that you will always be in an oppositional relationship with your True Nature.

Saturn in Sag: Divine Self? True Nature? Huh?

Neptune in Pis: That’s me…and you. I am the origin of all things. I am the ground of your being. Every time you say “there’s nothing to do…no one to be…I AM” you call forth your True Nature, which is pure bliss, peace and grace. Hanging out in anything other than that isn’t you, and isn’t worth your energy and time.

Saturn in Sag: I feel I intellectually know this, but…

Neptune in Pis: You need to feel it. Feeling is where understanding becomes real for all of us. Let that really sink in. Here, let me show you (Neptune sends Saturn’s grounding cord into the Earth, removes misunderstandings and emotions from Saturn’s energy field and reveals his true nature to him).

Saturn in Sag: Wow, what…What is that? (feels overwhelming sense of peace).

Neptune in Pis: Mmm hmm…Doesn’t it feel so much better to hang out with me?

Saturn in Sag: Yes! I’m so tired of being depressed, anxious and exhausted all the time! How do I keep doing what you just did?

Neptune in Pis: Every time ego rises up in fear, judgment or blame allow it to pass through you like wind through leaves. I also like to think of this as colors moving over the body. It’s just your soul experiencing colors; colors are neither good or bad. The trick is not holding onto the comfortable, peaceful feelings, nor resisting the discomfort. Always return to the I AM. Rest in that, re-fill your Divine Self so that strong opinions and emotions don’t send you into a panic.

Saturn in Sag: Can you be more… specific?

Neptune in Pis: Hmm, I see you like structure. Well, why don’t you just make a practice of doing whatever spiritual means for you. Every day, do something that gets you in touch with this part of your self. Nature is the highest light vibration you have on planet Earth, so that’s an idea. I heard you like mountains, right? You could go for daily hikes. Or meditate, take a course in Reiki, paint, do yoga, listen to music…Put it on your schedule. You like discipline. Make it interesting and fun, too, so you feel like you’re on a journey. I know how much you like taking journeys…

Saturn in Sag: Oh wow, now I have a job to do- that’s great! I like to work. And I really jibe with this spiritual thing, me being in Sag and all. Even if you go about it differently, I can appreciate what you’re trying to do here. And I really do want to have a more expanded experience of myself.

Neptune in Pis: That’s great, Saturn. Just keep integrating the awareness of your Divine Self into your ego and before you know it you’ll lose your taste for all the ideas and thoughts that keep you separate from love, bliss, and peace.

Saturn in Sag: I don’t like admitting I’m wrong but, in this case, I think you’re more right. Thank you, Neptune, for remind me of what I’ve forgotten.

Neptune in Pis: (softly chuckling) Namaste, Saturn.

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“Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” -Rumi

I moved out to California, my home for almost two decades now, shortly after graduating from college and my mother’s death.  San Francisco proved to be far foggier and colder than I thought. The saving grace of that first home I lived in was its close proximity to a lush forest of eucalyptus trees and California lilies, providing a sacred space where I could be alone with my swirling thoughts, feelings and grief. The elegant lily called my name, asking to be painted. Though I have a degree in art, I’d never painted, but as I painted the lily, and eventually other flowers, I found the act of painting created a container for my grief, a way to connect to the loss of my mother. So I painted, my sadness pouring into the beauty, the act of creating beauty purifying my sadness.

Cancer New Moon touches our taproot: our home, feelings, how we nurture our self and others.  How are we caring for our self? If we have a flock of dependents relying on us, are we remembering that we must tend our basic needs, first? How do we feel? Cancer connects us to the watery sea of our emotions, and just as with the ocean, our emotional tide is always changing. Life flows, an unstoppable river. The emotional residues we experience in life, from daily disappointments and stressors to larger traumas can accumulate, like silt falling to the bottom of a pool. Cancer reminds us that to heal, we must feel. Sometimes the walls we build around us, to keep the sadness out, to keep the pain out, can keep out the joy, too. During Cancer season, emotional expression and release guides us to deeper healing and allows life to more fully nourish us.

Along with your New Moon wishes, take a cue from Cancer and muck around in your emotions with the intention of releasing any emotional backlog. Claim some private space and time to honor your feelings; reflect on any self-care or heart needs you have been putting off for a rainy day. This quiet instinct may run counter to the Cancerian impulse to spend time with and care for others, but we need both. We need the family gathering, with people who root us and root for us, and people we enjoy caring for and healing, and we also need our own secret escape –our own separate sanctuary. This sign is always busy creating something; there are cupboards to be cleaned, interior spaces to explore, and others’ needs to attend to… but how many personal needs, dreams, wishes and desires have been sacrificed on the altar of family?

What dream or desire, need or nagging feeling have you been putting aside for a rainy day? It’s time to listen to that small, still, voice. Where will you do this? You need a container. Safety and privacy are essential for this most delicate inner work, and so the natural space to do this work is at home. In the kitchen, a cooking session, a cup of tea shared with your friend, the journal, can be therapy. The dining room table can easily double as a desk for writing, or a craft space. If you don’t have a home that inspires you, feels nurturing and good inside, at this New Moon why not brighten up your haven? Right now, the domestic world has protective, healing and regenerative powers to offer you.

Sorrow can be sweet. Years later I still have these paintings, and the feelings that jump out of the paintings swirl with the deepening of a soul steeped in life’s changes. Reflecting, I’m so glad I made a container to honor the sacred and difficult experience of grief. Instead of having all that heavy emotion weighing me down, the healing waters of life found and freed me.

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image: The Charmer by John William Waterhouse

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Have you ever found your self in a relationship dynamic that you didn’t want to be in? Ever find your self, wondering: How did it get this bad? Was it the leaky faucet we neglected to fix? All those times I went silent when I should’ve spoken? That’s how many of us feel, lately, living in this world gone mad. And this dysfunctional, upside down relationship is extremely one-sided. Crazy is not a good listener. It doesn’t ask you what you want and need, nor does it care. No matter how much you try to fix it, no matter how much you try to help, like an alcoholic that needs to bottom out on its own, it does what it does. No, Crazy is not going to change — not anytime soon, anyhow.

Yet here we are, on social media, in our conversations, attempting to have a relationship with a world gone crazy. My social media feed is a noisy cacophony of responses, and sometimes, the more engaged people are in what’s happening, the more crazy they, too, start to sound. Planet of communication, Mercury, in Gemini, is filling out a t-square to the illogical Saturn-Neptune square at this Full Moon. Language is fairly futile right now; how does one engage nonsense? As the saying goes, You can’t reason with crazy… and if you try, it will drive you insane. I’ve decided the only appropriate response to world events is art. Perhaps, poetry. Maybe some spoken word:

Make all things possible again because I cannot see

I AM in a snowstorm searching for my keys

I’m being bombarded by a thousand things I did not ever want, nor ask for

None of this is mine

All of this is mine,

Now

No, this isn’t a world I created -at least I don’t remember doing so. Yet now it is mine and I, and you, have a choice about how to participate. We can throw our words into the ring- share the innumerable meme and hate-battling sentiments, fill up our rectangular white comment blocks with more… words (sometimes our participation magnifies something, making it bigger). We can allow the fire to purify our purpose and send us on a mission to do some real good and healing. We can become a more effective change-maker (and if you know how to do this, please step forward now). If we’ve ever contributed to the shadows of bigotry, prejudice, hate and injustice that’s plaguing us now, we have the responsibility to help clean that stuff up. Or we can choose to not participate.

I’ve noticed a number of us quietly pulling back from all the commentary and noise, lately. Let me say this:You are not a cruel and insensitive person for not openly bleeding all over your Facebook feed. Refusing to engage with a world gone mad is not avoidance. It is preservation of sanity.  I’m thinking of the recently deceased Muhammad Ali, a conscientious objector, a man who decided to not participate in something unconscionable- the Vietnam War. I’m thinking of myself, and all the empaths who, when an act of violence drops into the atmosphere, feel it in our physical body, as something painfully destabilizing that starts making little then more noticeable inroads into our sanity, centeredness, and ability to hold peace and healing for our selves and others. Empathic or not, we are all being impacted by world events on energetic levels.

We may not be able to choose the world we live in, but we can choose to inhabit a world we want to live in. Full Moon Sagittarius shines a light beam of hope and possibility into the darkness. Let’s reach for higher ground– if only inside our self. Let’s imagine a world we want to live in. Close your eyes. What do you see? Everything is possible inside your mind’s eye, perhaps not on the outside (not yet anyhow) but inside you have an arena to play and create. Follow your inspirations, now more than ever. Give yourself permission to have a sacred sanctuary that upholds everything you stand for, your beliefs, your loves, beauty, values and truth. Hang out there. Often. You are not burying your head in the sand. You are holding a light of peace for us all. 

I create the world I want to live in. I take many trips to the garden. I court hummingbirds, wear rose oil and read books I love because this makes me feel good. Instead of giving myself over to emotional depletion, I vigilantly fill myself up. I remember what’s important, as a practice, many times a day and when fear, paranoia and despair arises from the ego structures that perpetuate them, I let that stuff go. By not participating in a world I do not want, I start to create the world I want. That’s how I help heal everything. I plant flowers. I listen to music. I make dinner. I make love. I make art.

I do my women’s work

The work that all women do,

Silent but not quiet

We ask for fresh water, for healing, cleansing

We make magic disguised as small ordinary everyday things

Feeling blood pump back into muscle

Remembering what’s not mine and what is mine, strength grows

There is power in small places

A garden can feed a neighborhood

A bedroom can conceive a life

A dream can give rise to vision

An ant can pull 5,000x her body weight

Miracles happen

A hippopotamus gives strawberry pink milk to her young

My strawberry flows into me and into you

I leave a trail of sweet smelling fragrance wherever I walk

Light follows me

Sound of music and birds find me

I open my mailbox and I receive… my self

I can find myself again because I know where to look

I can take nourishment in the Mother

Venus has just entered Cancer, sign of the Mother Goddess. The feminine always has healing nourishment on hand. The feminine, with her ability to nourish beauty and all of life even in the most desolate of times, can turn bitter vinegar into sweet wine, can teach us how to heal, and, like a flower gently turning toward the sun, open our hearts to love. She awaits, a perpetual invitation to remember our divinity. This is my world, a world I want to live in. I choose to inhabit this world. How about you?

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While Mercury retrograded through my eighth house, in the silent sign of Taurus, I experienced a few hours of deep panic where I feared I’d lost my writer voice. Writing never is easy, but when I’d go to the page no words came. To an artist friend, I expressed how different this was from writer’s block, and that this journey of inquiry led me on led to a deep dark knowing that being a writer isn’t up to me. This seemed to have struck a nerve. She told me that her feeling was my problem was a belief I held about myself, and “of course you’re a writer,” then abruptly ended the discussion. To another friend, I told this same story and she said writers are ruled by the changeable Moon, and like the Moon and the tides, we too fluctuate. And then: “Of course you’re a writer.”

The truth is, my voice is changing. I’ve felt my voice coming from a different place for a long time. It’s not the silky, easy connection I used to have. Writers, and artists, often channel their work and I had a direct line for a long stretch, but something, at about the time of my Neptune square, shifted. Now I have to consciously go there, to invoke the Goddess, and I don’t always get there. When something is taken away you have to learn all the components, of what there is and what it takes to get to that place. When something goes missing, it takes detective work and painstaking re-creation to figure out how it all really works. I believe that’s why this is happening. To get to the next level I need to be intimate with the how of it. I have faith in the Universe, that there is a plan for me, even if I’m not privy to it.  Control is an illusion and, friends, we are not in control of any of it. Not the weather, our role in life, nor how our art expresses through us. And that can bring up a lot of fear.

Why am I telling you all this? Because things change, often imperceptibly so, and this is a keynote of the Saturn-Neptune square we are all experiencing.  Some changes happen so slowly we can’t see them; they are happening that deeply, reflected only by our dream life, our fears, or the way we perceive shifts in our inner reality. Loss, a clear theme of the square, isn’t always clear-cut, either. The pier knows its being gently eroded by the beach, but we can’t see it…till the day we do. Maybe we see our body aging and our well-intentioned partners may deny it, but we know the truth in our bones. This is how the Saturn-Neptune square feels. It’s the gentle erosion of time. It’s the loss of cherished illusions and dreams we didn’t realize we had to grieve and leave before moving into a new reality. It’s confusion, having a time-out in “not knowing”. It can look crazy- similar to an alcoholic bottoming out — we’ve been too head-in- the-clouds, far too long, and need to hit bottom, dry out, find solid ground underneath our feet again.  Visions and dreams are what moves humans forward, but they also test our grasp of reality. As Lynn Bell so eloquently says, Saturn-Neptune aspects test our vision, take us to the graveyard of dreams, and yet it also calls up new ones. Human beings generate dreams to keep them moving forward. (Saturn-Neptune was exact in March, this June, and again in September)

Gemini New Moon is picking up on all these changes. It’s forming a grand cross with Saturn in Sagittarius, Neptune in Pisces and Jupiter in Virgo. Gemini holds court over our monkey mind, perceptions, and our ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions. Do you trust what your inner process is telling you — or are you questioning it, running it by a million and one sources for verification? Tune into the quality of your mind. If you find fear and confusion there, that’s okay. Try to look at your fear with the loving energy of a mother who needs to hold her child’s hand as the child encounters a new experience for the first time. We’re all innocent hearts having new experiences. We are all apart of something happening that is so much bigger than us that it’s hard to comprehend… But you know what? You’re going to be okay. You’re okay, right now, because you’re here. Let’s acknowledge this.

Finally, Venus makes her once-in-a-year-and-a-half superior conjunction with the Sun at this busy New Moon so, if you remember to look, there’s beauty to be found, in connection and pleasure. Do what feels good in your body; pleasure yourself in a million and one ways. There’s a beautiful songbird in our throats, aching to express what we need to acknowledge or speak to and we can do that through art, speech or movement. Venus, invisible in the sky currently, is traveling in her underworld phase; we may be especially aware of the cycles of love, loss and the healing powers of redemption which we’re able to express through our art and connections. Appreciate the people you have in your life, because time is always ticking. I saw a touching meme with a picture of an older couple kissing, and the caption read: Want the secret to lifelong love? Every day of your life, imagine losing them.

Often news and communication arrives with this New Moon. Remember, it’s just information, it’s all neutral. Be a gentle listener. People are processing deep, perhaps imperceptible-to-you, shifts in their lives. Unless asked, no advice is needed. If they bring up fear for you, acknowledge that. Let’s honor what hard work growth is by generously giving each other the attention we all want and need.

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Last night I was working on creating and destroying energy in my feminine meditation class. Beyonce’s Lemonade kept entering my mind. Specifically this image:

Then, these:

A point my teacher made was we often use our feminine energy to create, create, create but neglect to honor the need for destruction. I thought of my twelfth house Pluto in Libra and the idea that Cosmos holds us accountable to the principle of balance, regardless of our desires. I also thought of Venus, naturally. Venus is the bright life giver; she is loving Mother Earth energy. Yet the Earth Goddess archetype that so generously gives can also take life away when enraged (not often discussed in the context of an astrological session, when we speak of Venus!). Through Beyonce, Venus has arrived.

If you haven’t watched Lemonade you’re missing out on a fiercely beautiful and feminine piece of ritual art that can best be summed up in one word: Archetypal. Beyonce is Innana, embodied, the Sumerian Goddess of sexual love and warfare. She is Venus, with teeth. There are many versions of Innana’s myth but all involve the journey to wholeness through the alchemy of betrayal, loss, redemption. There is a process, a descent through the seven gates of hell. In the story, at each gate Innana is asked to give up another attachment (her: jewels and clothing, magic girdle, worldly position, role as a woman, sexual power) so by the time she’s reached the last gate she is naked, stripped of her identity entirely. You can take nothing with you into the underworld. She then receives the integration of meeting her “dark sister”, symbolically, the part of our self who feels: undeserving of love, enraged, bitter, angry, victimized, powerless. Then Innana is left there to die, and that’s when her journey to resurrection begins. Plutonian, right? No surprise here: Beyonce has a Venus-Pluto conjunction in Libra.

Innana in ancient art

This piece is similarly process-oriented. In Lemonade, there are eleven phases, and each phase has its own song and emotional themes: “Intuition,” “Denial,” “Anger,” “Apathy,” “Emptiness,” “Accountability,” “Reformation,” “Forgiveness,” “Resurrection,” “Hope,” and “Redemption.” Some have likened these sections to the Kubler-Ross five stages of grieving, but this artwork screams of Innana’s journey. Similarly, at each gate Beyonce is forced to wrestle with her own denial, illusions of love, rage, etc. Beyonce sees how her sexual power is deemed impotent by the betrayal of the man she loves most. She is reduced to the enraged, ugly, dark sister, (Erishkegal) who was denied love and companionship… though she’s never diminished. She embraces her dark sister, and that’s when the journey to healing begins.

The imagery and lyrics of Lemonade are full on female: menstrual blood in a womb-like tunnel, voiceovers about the Moon’s influence mix with orgasms, ghost brides, voodoo, empty sexual longing, what it means to be an African- American woman and childhood reflections about her ancestor’s relationships, and how she sees herself in them. We are led from denial to recognition to rage to healing. The journey is thorough; she doesn’t leave us stuck in the injustice of betrayal, feeling like a victim. No, this transformation is total, which is what makes it so deeply process-oriented, feminine and healing.

Lemonade is self-described as “a conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self-knowledge and healing.” This is also a feminine journey into the underworld. We’ve all been there, before. But the beauty of Lemonade is we can use this artistic journey to heal our selves. Once upon a time, the function of dramatic performance, and the performer, was to help us process our feelings and experiences, to take us on a journey into our selves and come out the other side, cleansed, redeemed, reborn as truer, more integrated and whole. The word catharsis, derived from two root words meaning “cleanse” and “pure”, was popularised by the advent of Greek theater, which allowed the audience members to cathart –to release emotions through drama. Lemonade does this. It brings us to our knees, cleanses the wound, then gives us back to life. We are reborn -with the help of the Goddess.

There are so many Goddess motifs in Beyonce/Lemonade it’s stunning. Astrologer Dana Gerhardt and I were email chatting about Lemonade, and Dana noted that Beyonce often appears in the media at Brigid holidays like Candelmas/Imbolc, and she brings fire, literally (as she did at her superbowl performance). Whether familiar with the myths and archetypes, or not, genius artists are often channels for the collective, bringing the mythic down to Earth.

Use this wonderful piece of Greek theater for your own process — but don’t make the mistake of thinking Lemonade is about extramarital betrayal. It’s about loss, loss of illusion, how we use female power, how we heal from our shattered disappointments…or whatever you see into it, because this kind of art gives each person something different. It’s initiated an inner dialogue about my own creatrix/destroyer energy. As Dana wrote, in one of our exchanges, “It’s really about the relationship with yourself—or yourself with the world—and as it goes in the myth, we need the goddess to get resurrected!”

To that we say: All hail, Beyonce! Bow down. The Goddess walks among us.

Here’s Bey’s chart (rated DD in astrodatabank; birth time is questionable):

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Prince’s passing has become my preoccupation. Purple synchronicity is omnipresent. Everything is purple. Everything is Prince.

It’s been a year of death. People who are dying are so much younger than we think they should be. Life proves that we each have different expiration dates (we must have), and we are not in control, which makes the case for living life well and fully today all the more compelling for each of us.

Did he die too soon? Prince had Gemini on the cusp of his eighth house of death; Gemini is an air sign that rules the lungs and respiration, fitting for an airborne virus (death by flu hypothesis). It’s a sign of youth- so maybe, maybe not. Gemini is a sign associated with more questions than answers.

Did Prince achieve what he set out to do in this lifetime? Did he evolve and learn from the pitfalls he’d faced in the past? At face value this is a question that you don’t need to be an astrologer to answer– after all just look at his life and legacy.  Prince’s life appears to be an example of a life well-lived, and not just by worldly, but as we’ve been learning, by spiritual, standards as well. However, I can imagine him arriving in heaven, celebrating like it’s 1999, then sitting down in the Akashic library and taking a good hard look at the pages of his life.  After all, who among us really knows the answer to this question — that is, besides Prince Roger Nelson?

I love mystery and that’s why I love exploring the nodal story. In Evolutionary Astrology, we look at the chart behind the chart, noting the karmic tendencies of the past and growth curves for this lifetime, using the nodal axis. We can paint a picture of a character, a drama, and can get a pretty good idea of what seeks resolution this time around. A good place to put my purple obsession…

The South Node: Who Were You In a Former Life?

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner

Who was Prince in a prior life? With the South Node at 29 Aries in the sixth house, he was “Mars” – fiery, feisty, sexy and passionate, a fighter/warrior of some sort. His Mars, also in Aries, is in the fifth house of performance, self-expression and risk-taking and we might speculate that he was a performer in the past, too, since the house of the SN and its ruler describes the circumstances he was operating under. Mars and the fifth house both share similar several common grounds: sex, freedom and love of risk. He’s a fiery, sexy performer, and he’s inclined to take risks. We always frame the SN a little negatively because it represents a gift we overused, or that we got wrong in some way. Negatively, Mars can be selfish and arrogant, “my way or the highway”, especially when its freedom is compromised.

Prince was operating in the context of a hierarchal system (sixth house SN), perhaps under weighty duties and responsibilities, and dealing with issues of being under another’s thumb. What an interesting contrast to the picture of the fiery, confident individual we’ve painted! Imagine this martial character having to answer to another – a Prince who defers to a King.

In traditional astrology, the sixth house is the house of slavery and servants (when interpreting the south node story, a situation that presented problems, medieval descriptions always work well). In that light, isn’t it interesting that Prince, during the time when he and Warner Bros. were fighting over his record contract, made public appearances with the word “slave” written on his cheek?. If he were my client, I might float the story that he was a slave in a former life as that would help him to connect to those feelings of oppression of yesterday, today. Prince knew, deep down, what it meant to be oppressed.

What did Prince want, what motivated him? SN in Aries: individuality, a need for pioneering self-expression and entrepreneurialism. He wanted to be free to artistically and sexually express himself (fifth house) in a passionate, direct, and fiery way with no concern for what other people think or want of him. Can you see the conflict and tension here? How easy is it to be your own man/woman while constantly having to answer to others?

Venus in Taurus makes an out of sign conjunction to his SN, which adds another detail- Prince was both martial and venusian. What does it mean to be venusian? In a former lifetime, he was devastatingly seductive and charming and this was certainly the case today; Prince could seduce anyone. He would’ve had to deal with people in a graceful way, so he’d be a negotiator, which modifies all that Aries/Mars energy. With all the artistry significators, and the fact that Taurus rules the throat we might assume he was a singer then, too. Now, without all the Mars/Aries influence we might read Prince as a female in a former lifetime but that’s not what we are seeing here. We are seeing someone who is governed by both fiery, masculine energy -and- receptive, others-oriented feminine energy. The gender-bending rumors that followed him into this lifetime spoke to this split or integration of his feminine and masculine functions. In an early interview he confessed to Oprah that he had transgender multiple personalities, how fitting for a Gemini Sun. Of course he couldn’t choose an orientation because both planets are in their rulership, indicating great strength!

A character sketch of Prince in a former life: a seductive, gender-fluid, fiery, passionate, freedom-loving performing artist who could be selfish, arrogant and was in an oppressive hierarchal relationship under powerful others. And because karma repeats, we see that this is who he was in this life, too.

The Storyline: The Drama Unfolds

How long till my soul gets it right?  – Gallileo, The Indigo Girls

So what’s unfinished in this story, to the point that he’s repeating it today? What challenges did he face? Where did it all blow up, make problems? His nodal structure connects with 4 planets via hard aspects, and 3 soft. That’s more than half the planets in his chart. When so many planets connect to the nodal axis the current life themes are inextricably linked to past ones.

Uranus in Leo in the ninth house squares him (again, he is described as the sixth house node, Mars, and Venus, respectively). Squares afflict, that’s what they do; they are vexing, make life hard and difficult for us. As a negative person, Uranus is surprising, unpredictable and unreliable. As a negative situation, Uranus is an unexpected development, trauma, chaos. In royal Leo, this person was negatively motivated by: pride, ego, temptations of power and status, a need for attention and approval. This Uranian figure/situation operated in the context of: strong beliefs, morality, dogmatism, culture shock (ninth house). Given who he is/was, it’s easy to imagine a religious/moral zealot attacking his performance/art for being too sexual or sensual. A royal went on a moral tangent, creating trauma and drama for him. Sounds like: Tipper Gore’s political campaign that targeted Prince’s music, specifically, Darling Nikki (“I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating to a magazine…”), as sexually explicit and unsuitable for children.

As an artist born with Venus square Uranus, Prince would have creative and artistic ideas that are progressive and utterly out of step with the status quo, but because of the nodal tie-in, this wasn’t his first dog and pony show. He would once again go up against powerful forces of self-interest and dogma. This would feel limiting and frustrating for him (square). He must work through that square, in order to claim the promise of his north node.

Neptune in Scorpio and Jupiter in Libra both oppose the south node. Whereas squares are something we maybe could’ve gotten a handle on in the past had we changed our strategy, oppositions represent an impossible situation/person who utterly blocked him. Squares say, “vexing, problematic, but with work and effort you can turn it around.” Oppositions connected to the SN say, “the plane crashed, the boat sank, there was nothing you could do.”

Prince’s “brick wall of reality”, or coffin nail so to speak, was characterized by a Neptune situation/person and a Jupiter one. Again, we have permission to think negatively: Neptune is confusing, self-deceptive, glamorous, hyper-sensitive. This person/situation was motivated by Scorpio energies: wounded-ness, addiction, deception or misplaced loyalties. This situation/person operated in the context of a (negative) twelfth house: diseases of wasting, illness, addiction, hiding, confinement and the ultimate loss of everything.

Neptune in Scorpio describes something or someone that opposed him with devastating consequences. We could speculate addiction, or a crazy person or chaotic situation that got out of control, and led to ruin, “loss of everything.” But Neptune was was a force external to him -it opposed him. Prince saw Neptune as inimical to himself. What might that mean? Physical pain is indicated by the sixth house south node rulership of the fifth house Aries Mars making a tight quincunx to the tenth house Pluto. Imagine being in so much pain that despite your religious and moral feelings about drug use, you had to take drugs to do your job. Let’s bring in some reality, because we can. We know that he had a rigorous performance schedule, it’s reported he was extremely health conscious, abstained from alcohol and had an anti-drug policy for all his employees; if he knew they were using, they were fired. It’s highly unlikely that Prince wanted to use drugs, but he felt it was something he couldn’t get around. Of course, we know he could have gotten treatment, or quit performing, but within the realm of this story it would feel as if he had no way out. With fourth house Pisces Moon trine Neptune, comfort is also within easy (trine) reach, and we have found out that he did a good job of hiding this problem. If he were in our astrological office, we’d talk about this.

Jupiter in Libra opposes Prince (SN). As a person Jupiter has high status; as a situation, it is overindulgence and excess. As a person this suggests a need for people-pleasing and social status; as a situation, a desire for relaxation and harmony. Both/either lead to a catastrophic and ruinous situation (twelfth house). Imagine someone seduced by the proximity of being friends with the famous Prince supplying him with the painkillers that ended his life. Imagine being surrounded by friends, not knowing if they liked you for you, or for your fame, status, money (Neptune in Scorpio, too).

I once heard the singer and author, Jewel, say that if you want to work on your stuff, get famous. Fame magnifies your weaknesses. If you’re insecure, fame amplifies that. If you have any tendency for power mongering, fame magnifies that. If you’re prone to escapism and addiction at all, fame offers you plenty of drugs and drink. Imagine having the freedom to have your every desire met, and without having some sort of spiritual GPS, what that could do to your soul. 

The North Node: The Karmic Medicine

“The epiphany is where you see God, where you live at the level humanity is. You don’t let money, fame, the illusion rule you.” – Prince

Now, we re-enter the story through the north node. It’s like a cosmic re-frame, saying, there’s more to work on, here. Maybe you attracted negative situations and people, unconsciously, but now it’s time to integrate those energies in a new way. This time, reach for the highest expression and see things change.

In our hypothetical astrological consult, talking to Prince, we’ve addressed his need to separate from anything or anyone who stifles his freedom. We already noted that in the past, his art was out of step with the times, and this created discord. We’d also already warned him about the disastrous dangers of drug use and fame, though we’ll go deeper into that in this second round, as we focus on the opportunity for psychological integration.

Libra North Node in the twelfth house is guiding North Star in this life. An image for this is the relationship/creative artist who surrenders ego for higher truths. He’s working toward a lifetime where his life and art is no longer purely preoccupied by freedom of expression and self-interest (Aries SN) but creative collaboration and spiritual consciousness. Now he could let go, and commune with the Gods and Goddesses. Let’s include creative practice as spiritual practice. I heard a monk once say, ultimately there’s no difference between creativity and spirituality. We would talk about music, beauty and making art as a spiritual experience. With Venus in Taurus residing in the sixth house, he was a master craftsperson, a hard worker who constantly refined his art. This gift is still here. Yet in this life he must liberate the realm of work and service into spiritual calling. A twelfth house north node seeks a consciousness that everything is connected, and that separation of any form is a lie. This spiritual thrust need not be separate from his animal-sexual magnetism. He did this: Prince merged the sacred with the profane in ways no other artist has.

Spirituality, service and giving back (twelfth house) would play a key role in his lifetime. The anonymous philanthropy that has come to light since his death fits perfectly with this signature. He made a number of major anonymous donations to social causes. I love the story of the house call he made as a Jehovah’s Witness. When someone recognized him and asked his name, he simply answered, and went on spreading the good word. With selfless action, the egoism of the Aries South Node is worked free.

Prince needed to be famous! Jupiter is conjunct the north node, a signature that it’s time to go big and take leaps of faith. People with this chart signature, if they reach for it, are destined for big success. Read as an opposition to the SN, success opposed and eluded him in a former life. Maybe he was too controversial. Maybe he got into hot water, erotically, sexually and artistically. But this lifetime is about entering into a faith-based contract with Success, to trust that his big risks are going to pay off. His success is also tied into the lives of others- Libra. Collaborations would be beneficial. Former lives were spent as a “slave”, in in-equal relationship, but entering into equal relationships that have a foundation of reciprocity and mutual respect at core would be healing. Instead of being the outsider, though his artistic work pays homage to that, he could create a twelfth house sanctuary for himself, and for other artists. He did that in his creative sanctuary, Paisley Park, collaborating, experimenting with everyone who dropped by.  Prince may’ve been a slave-prince in a former life, but he needed to be King in this one.He was under another’s more powerful thumb, and denied that formerly. So he took the name of royalty.

We’d also go back and revisit the idea that fame would expose any weak area in his soul that needed work. He’d have friends, possibly in high places, who want to be liked and earn his favor, so would do anything for him, and this would be a problem. Prince was seductive; everyone, man or woman, wanted him. He could have anything and anyone he wanted. The world was his oyster. What could possibly go wrong (I’m joking)? His strong spirituality would be key to navigating the challenges he faced.

I love this frank account of his experience as an artist and person. In his induction speech for the R&R Hall of Fame, Prince said: “When I first started out in this industry, I was most concerned with freedom…freedom to produce, to play all the instruments on my records, to say anything I wanted to. After much negotiation, WB Records granted me the freedom and I appreciate that. Without any real spiritual mentors, other than artists I admired, I embarked on a journey more fascinating than I ever imagined. But a word to the wise: without spiritual mentoring, too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay. And a word to the young artist: a real friend and mentor is not on your payroll. A real friend and mentor cares for your soul as much as they do your own. This world and its wicked system will become harder and harder to deal with without a real friend and mentor…”

Did Prince fulfill the promise of his natal chart? While the question of his death still remains open, his birth chart, his work and spiritual ethics are consistent with one whose drug use was not recreational, but got out of control. He was honest at the end about it, but a day too late; reports say he had reached out to a pain clinic, and the doctor flew in on the morning of his death. Chronic pain is so difficult. From talking with people who have been in the music business, constant performance is a taxing and grueling endeavor for the body. So many artists have faced addiction for this exact reason. We tend to see celebrities as Gods, they are not Gods. They are human. And while I can speculate, only judging by the success of his life, that his consciousness took a few great leaps forward in this lifetime, only His soul knows the answer to that.

This exercise helped me make peace with Prince’s passing. My only lingering question is: Where does one go after living a lifetime as Prince? What’s the next lifetime for the man who touched earth and sky with his music, and the lives of millions? Only the Purple Guy in the sky knows …

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Reference: birth chart from Astrodatabank, rated AA for accuracy, and dozens of interviews and videos from the web.

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Did you ever read the children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth? It’s a story about the importance of being willing to engage our life journey, and to learn from it. It begins with a young man named Milo, who is bored.He receives a package one day, with a map, and note that reads, “For Milo, who has plenty of time.” The package instructs him to have a destination in mind, but he disregards that, and as he plays in his room a whole world opens up and he’s taken to his first stop, called Expectations, where he is sidetracked by the Whether Man’s incessant banter, and daydreams his way into the Doldroms, a colorless, boring place. But as he engages his journey, he meets companions, is inspired to undertake a quest and just when he decides life and the world is thoroughly interesting and beautiful and he was all wrong about the “boring” part, he’s dropped by the phantom tollbooth back into his own bedroom with a new note that reads: “For Milo, who now knows the way.”

Our natal chart is like Milo’s map, an object of wonder with its hints and suggestions “head this way… no, go that way” and even glimmers of arriving at a true north. Yet even if we have a map we all bungle through life to some degree, don’t we? That’s because we are here to have experiences, make new connections and learn. None of us are given a guidebook, a scripted “how-to” for seamless navigation of life’s ups and downs. Life is an object lesson in improvisation, in thinking on our feet, connecting the dots and reading feedback. We’re ALL doing stand-up here.

Especially, now. Doesn’t it feel like we’ve entered a new world, one where a high degree of uncertainty and volatility is the new normal? Gemini is the mentally agile part of us that responds to our busy, changing environment with curiosity. Gemini says, It’s a fascinating, changeable world, and one worth discussing. It’s an information-rich sign, with a lot of opinions and ideas– all worth considering –but too many can spin our brains into cotton and lead us into confusion. Sagittarius can be the evangelical know-it-all who expresses that there’s only one right way and morally condemns others for their views -or- the wise counterpart to Gemini, helping us to step back from all the noise, sort through information, look at the big picture through a philosophical framework, use higher reasoning to get to higher ground. This lunation asks us to cut through the noise and find our own inner mountain top, though we can get easily sidetracked in the heat of the moment.

I’ve been witnessing a lot of heated debates about right versus wrong, lately, people condemning others for their opinion while placing theirs above others. Mars in Sagittarius retrograde joins this Full Moon. Self-righteousness is in the air. There is a right way and there is a wrong one, and you better know the difference…. That’s ego’s perspective. Ego separates. Yet none of us can claim to know what the world, or others, truly need. That’s Spirit’s perspective. It’s helpful to distinguish. Fiery Mars invites us to engage life with our energy and choices, but retrograde, that may mean its time to pull back, disengage, recalibrate our compass. Maybe a behavior is no longer working. For instance, taking too many opinions to heart can send us into a land of confusion. Ah, the Whether Man. The more people take a fiery moral stance, the more it seems to cause division and drag everyone down. You’ve now entered the land of Expectations –bound to disappoint. Let’s remember that we’re all doing improv, here.

I’ve been on my own Mars journey, getting new information by connecting meditatively to my higher self – an unexpected side effect of starting to do energy work to learn how to manage being an Empath (Mars in Sagittarius has been retrograding around my Neptune). It feels like I’m driving the same car, the same body, but I’m getting a new GPS download, a new way of driving my vehicle. It’s been unexpected, but it wasn’t unintentional. I engaged the uncomfortable things that were happening in my life and I became willing to grow and learn from them. That’s always been my personal philosophy, and it’s served me well in terms of growth and life satisfaction.

What’s your guiding philosophy? Is your compass, your GPS, working – or could it use an upgrade? We are each intrepid explorers on a quest for personal truth in a world full of uncertainty and differences, and while we have more in common than not, we are also so different. It’s easy to generalize truth with a capital T, but that’s not working anymore. The old GPS says there’s one right way for everyone. The new GPS says there’s a right way for you, and only you can know exactly what that looks like for you.

If you have more questions than answers, that’s in the air, too. We’ve got time to puzzle this one out; this is the first of two Sagittarius Full Moons. But with Mars’ placement, this is a clear call for deliberate action/choices, from higher wisdom ground. After all, life will always generously carry you along its stream, but only you decide, with your willingness to engage, read feedback, and learn from your experiences, whether you end up any wiser for the ride.

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