This particular eclipse, given its placement in Swati, will challenge our capacity to stay grounded and centered. Swati’s shakti (power) is “to scatter like the wind” with the presiding deity of Vayu, the wind god. Swati is a creative constellation with many diverse ideas and talents, and its challenge is to stay grounded enough to not lose the potency of its energy through becoming overly scattered in the mental field.
A Valentine’s to Remember
This Valentine’s day, Mars and Venus, the two strongest archetypes of love and relationship, will be tightly together in the sky. A Venus and Mars conjunction always points to lots of passion. However this exact conjunction, where they are literally sharing the same degree, actually makes the planets feel a little too close for comfort in a phenomenon called ‘Planetary War.’
Eclipse in Jyestha Nakshatra
This Friday overnight (beginning at 11:33 PST) there will be a full solar eclipse in the constellation of Jyestha, which falls in the constellation of Scorpio. Eclipses are incredibly potent astrological events and I’m sure you’re all feeling the heightened energy right now. Eclipses are a great time for introspection, reflection, and taking extra good […]
Creating Renewal as the Old Falls Away
As things become more and more wobbly on the planet and within people, what can we do to be a positive source and contributor to a healthier, more stable future?
Holding Authentic Boundaries in a Changing World
When we think about creating good boundaries, most of us have an idea that “strong” boundaries are fixed boundaries – this idea is woven into the mainstream culture, a sense that who we are is mostly static and so things that we like stay that way, things that we don’t like stay that way. But this type of boundary can become stale and flat over time, a rote answer to life instead of a fluid, flexible, living relationship with who we are, what life means to us, where we fit in the world in a given moment.
An Important Solstice This Year
Solstice this year marks the final conjunction for the year of Saturn and Jupiter.