AQUARIUS FULL MOON 2021
The full Moon is at one degree 25 minutes Aquarius at 10:36 PM EST on 23 July A powerful combo is the Full Moon in Aquarius and Sun in the sign it rules: Leo.
Lightning bolts jolt us out of the beach chair enlivening the creative lines in our bodies and spirits.
Fiery Leo is fed by the winds of Aquarius. If we are expecting the unexpected we can be open to new pathways to creative self expression, generosity and love.
When we give from our essence, the energy emanating from that creativity can warm and encourage and feed those who are receptive to its touch. And of course, it feeds the creator, too.
Jupiter will retrograde into Aquarius on 29 July. The Greater Benefic – that’s Jupiter - invites us to expand into our creative gift that we can share with the community of life. What can we give that helps, inspires, solves, contributes to this with whom we share this adventure.
Leo is creative self expression. Aquarius draws that creative self expression out of the solitary experience into the shared experience. We can post an encouraging talk on all of the platforms. We can share a joke that takes someone’s day in a new and uplifted direction. We can add a piece to the puzzle of a solution in a community meeting on the environment or traffic issues or air quality conversations. We don’t have to be physically out and about in the world to participate in the community.
Aquarius likes to be a lone Wolf and it also likes to engage with friends, colleagues and comrades. Finding a way to stick our hand out, add our voice, share our wisdom, lend our creativity in constructive ways is called for now.
It feels good to do something. It feels good to bring something to the table. We don’t all have to bring a 3-tiered confection of multicolored buttercream. Just think of that one person who remembered to bring the lowly but crucial vial of salt to the picnic.
We all have something to bring to the table or we wouldn’t be here.
Leo Sun and Aquarius full Moon can help us to align with what to bring, when to bring it and where to offer it.
Venus is in Virgo adding practicality and a good sense of timing to how we can participate in a useful way to the whole.
Virgo is also the healer of the zodiac. Our contributions to and participation toward the common good can help to heal individual and collective trauma. It can feel good to take an action – large, small or anywhere in between. Planting a living thing helps the air quality for all, gives a landing place for pollinators and helps to cool off the city, for example. Remembering all that we are already doing for our own good and the good of the group is a step in the right direction, too.
Are you raising a child in a thoughtful way? Are you encouraging a downhearted friend? Are you sharing your artwork online? Are you telling your story? Are you tuning in to universal consciousness, nature spirits, devas, and the angelic realms in meditation and in daily life? Are you asking for help? Are you teaching someone how you got out of a particular hole? Are you saying hello to someone at the shop or on the street? Little, medium, big— who knows which is which? We can do what we can do. That old chestnut “take the action and let go of the results” is a wise adage in these times. Not knowing who we are inspiring, or whose life we’ve made a bit (or a lot) better is part of the creative fun!
Mercury enters Leo on 29 July to remind us to add our voice to the chorus. We are not on the life trip alone and there are so many ways we can dip our toes in the water of the shared experience- even if we aren’t ready or able to physically able to take a dip with everyone else at the local pond or pool.
Leo brings warmth, creativity and generosity. Aquarius brings the camaraderie, the flashes of brilliance that come from the Higher Mind and the energy of the group. As fixed signs they have a lot of oomph once they decide to take an action. Together they can make real change, evolution and solutions.
Okay! The sun is out. The lightning will strike. See what they illuminate and join your light to theirs. If you want. 😊🌻😊🦁😊⚡️⚡️💜
Lots of love at this powerful full Moon.
Lydia
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CANCER NEW MOON 2021
The New Moon is at 18 degrees Cancer on 9 July 2021 at 9:16 PM EST.
The Cancer new Moon reminds us that we are made up of mostly water and that the time and tide push and pull at us a bit less when we go with their flow.
Tide is Cancer and Time is Cancer’s polarity to Capricorn- ruled by Saturn, the lord over time.
We are at the new Moon, under the dark cloak of the Moon – who rules the sign of Cancer. It is the new Mooniest new Moon of the year. A crab is nibbling at our toes as we sink them deeper into the sand trying to gain purchase as the emotional body slides this way and that in the shallows.
Which way is up? What can we eat to make us feel better? How can we engage with, escape from feelings? How can we be mirrored by or affected the actions of others in regard to our emotions?
Cancer rules the stomach. How can we soothe and satiate the self on the physical and all other levels without entirely being consumed by our appetites or by extended time spent under the duvet?
Ah, Cancer.
Mars and Virgo in sunny Leo can divert focus over to the drive to create. What do we want to whip up at the moment? New recipes, new love, family fun, a heightened sense of generosity or drama?
The Leo Mars/Venus are squaring Uranus in Taurus who wants to dredge up some revolution, some unexpected ideas, some freedom, some rebellion, some new friends- or old comrades we haven’t seen in ages. Mercury, the lower octave of Uranus, moves into Cancer on July 12th asking us to have a comforting conversation with ourselves about how we are feeling.
Venus/Mars are in opposition to Saturn retrograde in Aquarius – more Uranian energy channeled through the structure and timing of our lives. At the very least, change your date night! Change the channel, speak in a different language, and see what ideas come from looking at things and hearing things from a different angle, a different perspective. Then run all of that through the tummy of the Cancer Sun/Moon conjunction – the New Moon - and see how if all we have been taking in is assimilating into our system.
Resting under the duvet with the window cracked open is also a great approach. The Cardinal energy of Cancer likes to retreat and begin again – the crab scuttles in a sideways fashion- not forward in a straight line.
The New Moon is each Month’s new beginning and each new day starts best when we are well rested, followed by well fed, clothed, and with loving words from our Self to our self.
We gain energy, intuition, insight and the desire to start again within a recalibrated schedule or structure of our day. Cancer’s natural polarity is to Capricorn— ruler of time and structure.
Cancer rules the tide. So, time and tide. We are mostly water and we operate in the construct of time.
Allowing our physical structure to expand into the ocean of all that is via intention, meditation, sleep can bring us to a new shore- a somewhat familiar, somewhat different and alien landscape – on which to start again.
Happy Floating.
Lots of love,
Lydia
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Capricorn Full Moon 2021The Sun is now in Cancer. We have just passed the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. The wheel of the Year keeps turning: come heat or high water.: The full moon takes place on Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 2.05 pm EST at 3degrees 6 minutes Capricorn. The Cancer/Capricorn axis is such a powerful one: home and hearth finding ways to relate with career, authority, and standing in the community. The intuitive archetype works it out with the active authoritarian. Cancer doesn’t have to explain how it knows. It just knows. Capricorn does t have to apologize or explain itself. It just exudes authority. We feel our place on the polarity of male and female and how that spectrum might be feeling for us at the moment. We have Venus in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces, sextile Pluto in Capricorn. These aspects invite us to feel into that ever-shifting relationship between our authority and our emotion, our mental acuity and our guidance of the gut. Trying on new ways of integrating these two kinds of energy can be beneficial at this time. How can we feel at home using our power and authority in a way that feels natural and in alignment with our emotional body? How can we remember to Invite our higher self into the conversation and the evolution of the unity of our being. How can we be master of our emotional body and of our active selves walking around on the earth plane: Working, conducting friendships, family relationships, recreation, and creative endeavors. With the Sun in Cancer trine Jupiter in Pisces, sextile Moon in Capricorn We may notice a very active dreamtime. It is beneficial to make an intention to remember dreams and make note of them upon awakening. Dreams at this time can give very pertinent information and solutions to issues that may have been on our minds during the recent mercury retrograde. Jupiter is now retrograde until 18 October. deep dreaming and self honesty are keynotes of this retrograde cycle. Jupiter trines the Sun at the Full Moon to enhance and highlight our emotional body and how we are relating with and attending to our emotions. Pluto in Capricorn is in opposition to Venus in Cancer. The way we relate to our personal power and evolutionary process – and our feelings, reactions, and responses to that process us highlighted. Take a breath or a beat before speaking, texting, picking up the phone. Taking time to attend to the inner swirl prior to engaging with others is recommended at this full moon. Uranus in Taurus is also in another to Saturn in Aquarius kicking up the feelings of freedom and liberation in relation to security, responsibility, and personal authority. We are wanting to shake free from perceptions that others may have authority over us. We may also encounter how others react to perceived power we may appear to have over them. Personal responsibility and accountability our keynotes here. Tuning in to where head and gut reactions can meet: in the heart- we can gain balance, equilibrium and a greater sense of fitting in our own skin and fitting in to the rhythm and flow of our daily life and responsibilities. Adjustments and calibrations can be intended and made. We do always have a choice. We do always have access to inner/higher wisdom if we can ask and listen. Attune you the inner tides. Allow them to wash in and out. Our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies can coalesce in new, more efficient, and more interesting ways if we allow it. I wish all the very, very best.
Much love, Lydia
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GEMINI NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE
10 June 2021 6:53 AM EST at 19 degrees Gemini.
We have a new Gemini Moon eclipse conjunct retrograde Mercury, ruler of Gemini.
We need to incorporate the entire scope of things.
We need to use the leftovers from the back of the fridge- at least LOOK at the leftovers and see if they can be incorporated into something else. If they can’t be added to the soup, then into the recycling they go.
What is not helpful right now is ignoring resources that are at the back of the shelf or in the far reaches of the consciousness. Let’s look at it all!
Mercury is Square to Neptune at this time so clarity will come through dreams and hidden desires that are digging their way to the surface.
Saturn Square Uranus in the 14th, an ongoing theme, will want us to find new and different and inventive ways to structure our lives – to find comfort out of chaos – or despite the chaos.
What gives you comfort? Knowing things! Gathering things? Routine? New ideas? Hope?
We don’t need to do the clear out / incorporation process all at once. We can open the packages and jars one at a time and expose them to the air. The Mercury retrograde cycle goes through 22 June. It comes out of it’s shadow on about 25 July. That is when it clears the degree that is began the retrograde motion in on 29 May.
The nervous system, ruled by Mercury, may be calling for some soothing and attention during this time.
Many have experienced a prolonged period of “high alert” due to the events of the past 15 months. Some PTSD symptoms may be popping up here and there calling attention to self care.
We may need more time to talk to a kind friend in the earthly realms and to our unseen beings as well.
We may need to stand barefoot in the garden and let the ground meet us, hold us and help to gain more stability.
We may need to make boundaries on how much we are willing to do in the wider world and when.
We may outline habits that have been released that we absolutely do not want to resume.
This is all Mercury retrograde stuff. With Saturn and Pluto retrograde, too, we are looking at how we can empower ourselves to structure our daily lives in a way that flows for us, that works for us, that is true for us.
It may mean standing up for ourselves in a way we have done before.
This eclipse is called a Ring Of Fire. I imagine standing in that ring of fire: protected, allowing it to vanquish what I no longer need and reminding me that my one life is worth standing up for, worth protecting, worth growing.
We have access to so much information. The nervous system, the heart and the higher self know what is true.
For the next six months, how we join with our mission, our daily routine, our evolutionary journey, our mindset, our daily practice, our work, our dreams, our goals, and our relationships is up for additional refining, distilling and enjoying. This is the life we have and the time is now to see it, experience it, honor it, reflect on it, embrace it, talk with it, and live it. One day, one minute at a time.
In love and strength,
Lydia
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TAURUS NEW MOON
The new Moon is at 21 degrees Taurus at 2:59 PM EST.
Taurus loves its safety and security so that it can appreciate the natural Beauty that is Life on planet Earth.
The simple pleasure of a well- loved breakfast - and second breakfast - can be a way to celebrate this new Moon.
Taurus is learning how to value the self – its physical form - via food, rest and cozy furnishings.
Taurus can be brave and adventurous when pushed out the door or pulled into a cause it cannot ignore.
Taurus prefers to be fully fed and rested before embarking on any quests, odysseys or other value-fueled worthy projects.
Safety first is the rallying cry here. Practicality will help the team survive the day.
If we survive the journey we can return home to tend the garden, raise the barn and laze in the Sun.
Attuning to what is important to us is the focus of the Taurus new Moon. We each have a finite amount of time here in this body, in this life.
How do we want to spend that time?
How do we want to spend our valuable time?
How do we want to live this valuable life?
In the dark of the Moon we can feel our way into what we value, what we we can fit in the palm of our hand— glistening, shining through the cracks between our fingers, saying “take me along.”
What is the nugget of pure beauty, of unquestionable value, that can speak to us about this one life?
This little and powerful meditation can be done by sitting in the garden and holding a seed or a clump of Earth. It can be done by going to sleep holding a favorite stone or talisman or teddy bear.
Ask the Higher Self, “what do I value now? And what is the most valuable action for me now?
Venus, ruler of Taurus, is currently in Gemini - as is Mercury. The Sun and new Moon Sextile Neptune — the higher octave of Venus – ruler of Taurus.
Simple questions can give us deep, helpful, useful, actionable and accessible answers starting with this new Moon.
The questions are asked. They reach out their tendrils to the higher Self and the Universal Wisdom.
Mercury in an air trine to Saturn brings ideas into reality in good timing when we attend to them.
Mars in Cancer Sextile Uranus in Taurus waters and makes fertile the ground laid for those ideas.
As the Moon waxes, the answers will reach toward us, as the grape vine in my garden twines around its neighbor, the pear tree.
The answers are seeking us.
Bask in the inner glow of the Higher Self in comfort and assurance that what needs to be answered will be answered and even, known.
Lots of love, Lydia
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SCORPIO FULL MOON 2021
The Full Moon is at 7 Degrees Scorpio on 26 April 11:31 PM EST. Of course, the Sun in Taurus directly opposes it.
It is a called the Pink Moon because the Phlox bloom at this time of year in some gardens.. My Creeping Phlox are out in lovely lavender as I write this post.
Joining the Sun in beauty- comfort- and safety-loving Taurus are Mercury, Venus, and Uranus.
The full Moon is squaring Saturn in Aquarius bringing a desire for a structure for the change and inspiration that is afoot. Get a bigger vision board, we may well need it… And make it 3D. 😊
The Scorpio Moon is in a trine to its watery cousin Cancer, reminding us to heed the emotionally-charged water that courses through our bodies and brains, and that we can “feel our way” through ideas, circumstances, and changes.
Scorpio will share resources with others, marshalling strength from what exists so that its energy can be spent leveling up in its area of focus.
Taurus wants to find is own way, saying “I want to do it myself.”
At the Scorpio full Moon we are wise to discern when to reach out and when to be self contained. Both have their time and place.
It is well to know how to change one’s own lightbulbs and when to borrow a taller ladder from a neighbor rather than teetering on a pile of boxes to do the job.
Both Scorpio and Taurus have their careful natures.
Taurus values physical comfort, security, and familiarity.
Scorpio values access to its own power. When giving over to a power greater than itself… Universal power, for example, it can hesitate. It also wants to individuate and think, for a while, that its power is self-generated.
It typically is reminded that the real power comes from letting go and allowing in the bigger, more expansive Energies.
Experience, experimentation, education can all be connectors to the power of All That Is.
Does this make sense?
Meditating and resting can allow the words to sink in and find a way to sync up with each individual’s Soul and Personality mindset and their own flow of understanding.
The Moon is the way to evolution and transformation. The emotions – those we are aware of and those we are not — lead us onward. The Scorpio (the evolver the and transformer) full Moon, therefore, is a potent time to have a look at our current path and how we are evolving into the next iteration of the Self.
Some transformations happen in a flash… others happen so slowly we barely notice the incremental steps that brought us someplace entirely new. Many transformations are someplace in between.
When we are in touch with our own habits, comfort zones, ouch points, and desires we can be as open as we can be to the lightning quick, the slowly unfolding, and the good orderly direction varieties of change, transformation, and empowerment.
The Scorpio Full Moon happens but once a year. Stand in the glow of its pink power… and empowerment.
Much love, Lydia
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ARIES NEW MOON 2021
On 11 April at 10:30 PM EST the first new Moon of the astrological year is at 22 degrees Aries.
Venus is conjunct the Sun and Moon inviting us to celebrate ourselves, the mere fact that we are here, blood pumping, experiencing human life in all of its hues and variety.
Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac: a pure burst of instinctual, initiatory energy singing, Here I am, World!”
We may access the exuberance to spring forth and gladly announce the arrival of some new energy – to ourselves, and, perhaps, to others.
It’s a bit like we can all celebrate a kind of birthday, a new beginning at this Aries new Moon. A first birthday – one where the pure potential of life force may prompt a yip, a whoop, a giggle, a scream, a cry — or perhaps all of the above. Our voice signals to all who can hear, “I am here…” in all the glory of the physical and emotional body to investigate, experiment and experience human life on Earth.
In Evolutionary Astrology Mars is the subjective desire nature, the instinctual yearning for continuous being, becoming, unfoldment, and change. We need a sense of freedom to make space to experiment, experience, adapt, and adopt.
Mars in Gemini is squaring Neptune in Pisces at this new Moon. Our actions may be informed by more than the ordinary reality at the moment. We may be linked to friends and even strangers in far off places and timelines by vision, statements, or memories that may or may not be our own. They could be from a past life, from history, from our best friend’s ancestor, or from an adjoining universe or reality.
Watching the words we use and being mindful that what we speak today can become reality sooner than we could imagine. Words really can bring about action and form. With Mercury also in Aries, the distance from thought to word to action to result could be nearly simultaneous.
This week’s Mercury/Chiron conjunction is also a reminder of how thoughts and memories and the way we welcome them, treat them
and process them can indicate the path to present and future ideas and experiences.
Pluto in Capricorn squaring the Aries Sun and Moon refers us to the instinctual drives that affect the structure of our reality and of future realities that result from our desires, actions, and evolution.
The moon and emotional body illuminate the path of evolution. With an Aries new Moon our instincts and emotions are on the surface: primal, childlike, tender, and wanting to be seen, heard, and appreciated.
Give the inner child a bit of what it wants this new Moon. No need to wait til it is screaming for ice cream or a cuddle or some time with funny TV. Giving in to some childlike desires can lead to feelings of security, comfort, and appreciation. The heart and mind may then open to inspiration and new worlds of possibility.
So happy first New Moon of the astrological year.
Howling, yammering, and giggling like a maniac or like a little baby are highly recommended. The exultation will be an invocation to the adventure that can be embarked upon each new day of this life on Earth.
Lots of love,
Lydia
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PISCES NEW MOON 2021
The New Moon is at 23 Pisces on 13 March at 5:21 AM EST.
In Pisces and nearly conjunct the Sun and Moon are Neptune and Venus.
Neptune is the ruler of Pisces. Venus is the lower octave of Neptune, so this is what I feel is a bringing of heaven to earth, and/or an earthing of our dreams kind of energy.
Mercury will join Sun, Venus and Neptune
in Pisces on 16 March and we can let in the ideas swirling just out of reach into consciousness and get them down on paint, paper, video, or straight out of our mouths.
Pisces doesn’t always speak in plain language.
We may need to invite our gardens, pets, favorite songs or dance moves decipher or translate the ideas for us.
We may need to open the mind to metaphor, jokes or zen koans to allow in wider understanding that funnels through our system and settles in the heart, the soul and then, the mind and its systems of language.
Pisces speaks in all tongues, in all art forms, in all hearts, the language that will most appropriately open us to deeper truths for which we have prepared our perception and methods of reception.
Some of us are dedicated writers. If we do it every day, when inspiration arrives, there we are, at 5 am, poised and ready, with pen and paper.
Some of us show up for our seated or walking meditations, our daily conversations with aging parents, our quiet time joining with the garden from the bedroom window, our soak in the bath. The polarity to Virgo may ask us to scrub the tub first. 😊
The dedication to daily practice is what prepares us to receive the voice of our higher self, our intuition, our inspiration.
Pisces is the 12th and final sign of the Zodiac, and it embodies the energy of all 12 signs. Pisces is the complete package, the fully stocked tool kit.
Becoming acquainted with, and increasingly fluent in, the languages that out Higher Self uses to share information, ideas, and actual help uniquely suited to us is one of the great adventures of human existence. It aids us in our human daily life and connects us to the eternal nature of our being. When I talk about Neptune being the higher octave of Venus, that is a smidgeon of that concept.
And Venus can reach out/in to our Neptunian dreams to remind us of, and ground us in, our human existence. The sight of a first snowdrop in spring gives hope of the lushness of spring and summer to come. The sound of a dear friend’s voice can remind us that we are loved and that we, in turn, know how to love.
The sharing of a favorite encouraging photo or saying can change our whole mood. When passed along to another person, a stranger on social media, for example, it could save their life.
Neptune and Venus join all of us together in beauty, in comfort, in transcendence.
We are able to receive what is wanted, what is needed, and in its polarity to Virgo, what will help us, and others, the most.
Pisces wants to join with the energy of All That Is.
It wants to helps us to dare to dive for the hidden gems and relics that have been buried, perhaps for millennia, in the depths of our psyches.
We have the courage to do it because while one fish is plumbing the depths, it is tethered to the other fish of consciousness that is happily sunning itself in the clear waters near the surface.
We don’t need to get lost in the past traumas and memories. Pisces’s power as a mutable sign invites transformation from one thing to another, or even a total reboot.
We can visit times past with the intention of revealing useful memories and ideas that can help us to better understand ourselves, our experiences, and our learning. We can resurface, grateful for the clear light of day, the oxygen, and the perspectives and integration that is a result of the adventure.
Lots of love to us all.
Lydia
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PISCES FULL MOON 2021
The Full Moon is at 8 degrees 57 minutes Virgo at 2:05 PM EST on 27 February 2021.
The Sun is in glorious Pisces, holder of the energy of all of the signs. Venus joins the Sun in Pisces to give us space to assimilate all of that Aquarius energy of the last few weeks and transmute the new downloads of information into insight and, in some cases, action. That assimilation can take place in the bath – where water will carry the emotional information that needs to sink in through the pores. I always think of Pisces and osmosis.
The Pisces Virgo axis is one that invites us to reflect on the last 12 months, as Pisces is the 12th sign of the Zodiac. The Virgo full Moon gives the clarity to view the emotional body and to see what we’ve gathered in over the last year- habits, information, relationships. We can separate the wheat from the chaff in our hearts, emotions and minds. We can get ready for a big release with the Pisces New Moon in a couple of weeks.
Then the wheel of the year starts a new cycle when the Sun enters Aries.
The Virgo Moon brings in the harvest of the last year’s thoughts feelings and actions as processed through the lens of our emotional body.
We can see what we have sown and what we have reaped. We can also see how ongoing projects are taking root and get clarity on what actions can be taken to enhance and encourage their progress.
Virgo full Moon likes to review and analyze how our emotional body has lead us to new experiences on the inner and outer. We can review what coping mechanisms feed us: walks, funny tv shows, chatting with friends, making a new recipe. We can see which coping mechanisms may not be as useful: gorging on depressing tv, eating unworthy snacks or excessive worrying about what we said yesterday or futures over which we have no control.
Virgo takes what it likes and leaves the rest. A wise practice all year round.
Lots of love and see you at the New Moon.