LIBRA FULL MOON 2019
The Full Moon is at 0 degrees Libra opposing the Sun entering Aries on the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere of planet Earth. It is called the Autumnal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
In September, they switch.
The Sun’s ingress to Aries marks the Astrological new year. A zero degree full Moon is like a start from the starting line of a completely new race. A fresh, fresh start.
We begin the year with the influence of Venus and Mars in a square to each other. Venus is the ruler of the Libra full Moon. Mars is the ruler of the sun in Aries.
It all starts with Venus and Mars.
Our relationship to ourself, our relationships with others and how they influence the development of the Self.
Mars, the nature of our desire, what fires us forward –the instinct that prompts us to move forward, that causes us to draw back, fingers singed.
When Mars is in Taurus, as it is now, we are considering our survival whenever the impulse to begin anew/change course/take a risk arises. Taurus considers how a risk will affect our ability to put food on the table, the means to have a table at all. Mars in Taurus may make a move, but it will consider it first.
Venus in Aquarius is squaring Mars in Taurus. Venus rules not only Libra, but Taurus, as well.
On this full Moon Mars is trine to Pluto in Capricorn. In the teaching of Jeffrey Wolf Green, the desire nature of the soul is consciously acted out through Mars. We can have a window open to that energy today.
Venus in Aquarius will listen to the voice of the aether to inform its decision about how and when to join with others. When you are channeling the voice of the cosmos, you may not waster time on niceties and chit chat. Venus shows us how we listen to ourselves and how we listen and relate to others.
The voice of the greater consciousness comes like the hammer of Thor to a walnut - laying waste to the nut’s outer shell and sometimes bruising the meat inside.
That nut does get cracked, though and the meat inside will be revealed.
While Mercury is retrograde in Pisces and again when it resumes forward motion, it will make a conjunction to Neptune. That idea, that thought, that solution, that next step that has eluded consciousness and articulation, can be coaxed into the conscious realm with a request to our higher self for connection to that which we need to know.
I find it useful to remember that I will know what I need to know when I need to know it.
Then I can turn my attention to some of the tasks that make up my daily life secure in the knowledge that my higher self, my best connection to the source of all that is, will give me a tap when the solution is on its way.
I can relax and remain open to the perfect unfoldment of what’s next. It’s a bit of Aries instinct in the mix, as well.
At the Equinox, we are in total balance— you know, the egg experiment that only works at the Equinox. And then, we go back to the norm, which is moving around on the trajectory between polarities. Spring and Fall are the bridges between the extremes of Winter and Summer. We spend more time somewhere in between the extremes of insular me time and an exhausting whirlwind of social experience, for example, on the Aries/Libra trajectory.
We enter a new season with this Equinox Full Moon. We begin again every minute of every day, and seeing that big Moon up there is a great reminder that we can breathe, relax, and breathe in the new whenever we want.
Aries and Libra are cardinal signs. They like to begin things. Libra likes to experience a variety of relationships to help define the self through experiencing others. At this full Moon, it’s not calling us to see where we don’t measure up, it is more to question, does that interaction feel good to me? Do I like who I am when I behave or speak in such a way?
Aries likes to viscerally experience itself through the pull of the instinctual self. It is experiencing new flashes of itself with each experience. Here I am running. Here I am eating. Here I am sleeping. Here I am nipping our to the shops on impulse and finding just what I need.
We are never done with the unfoldment of our experience. We transition, we evolve, we transform. Each of the days, the seasons, the full and new Moons, can highlight, nudge, loosen, invite, shock, and soothe us. Hang on, hang in, deep breathe in, deep breathe out.
And, we’ve made it through another turn around the wheel of the year. Talking to a friend, talking to oneself, talking with universal forces can all remind us we aren’t alone and we’re all going home.
Love, Lydia
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PISCES NEW MOON 2019

The new Moon in Pisces is conjunct it’s ruler, Neptune and Mercury, who begins retrograde motion through March 28.
Uranus is moving back into Taurus to help us ground the genius available from the heavens and our Higher Selves if we just take the time to attune.
Mercury retrograde in Pisces can help with this attunement, slowing the mind down enough while we restart our phone to get the wonky WIFI connection to hear, see and assimilate something we were racing too fast to notice last week.
Speaking of slowing down, Mars is also in Taurus.
Once the fixed Bull resolves to engage with a project or idea, it will steadfastly move through the process of completing that project.
Mercury retrograde just asks us to check our work as we go.
Jupiter turns retrograde on April 10 through August 11, so March is a food month to get projects in motion. Once the Jupiter retrograde begins, it’s good to have at least a first draft to review and expand.
Now about this new Moon. The dark of a watery Moon can bring an in breath of renewed faith and desire to attract that which our whole self desires.
The desire to eat chips while lying on the couch and watching the unfurling of other people’s dream on TV or IG could also be on the table.
The Pisces fish swim in opposite directions, one not seeing the other.
One may turn it’s face to the sun, the rays expanding as they ripple into the water.
The other fish may be solidly resting among the reeds on the sandy bottom – invisible world to all, including its sunnier self. The Mercury retrograde in Pisces may have us in a loop of old dreams and desires, replaying them in the sandy bottom like a scratchy old DVD. Be aware of the here and now and the evolution of that which you dream for and desire in this moment— not the past you, but the now you. These new dreams and desires stream effortlessly when we swim clear of historic debris.
Both aspects are useful. Frolic and silence each have their place.
The new Moon makes us aware of the strong connection between the two fish — the lifeline can link us to our Higher Self.
Our Higher Self can see up above the waves. It can see around corners and sometimes into next week.
The broader perspective may call us up out of our monk’s cell down in the reeds and bring us back into action. Pisces breaks down the barriers between the ego self and the timeless ultimate truth of our souls. When encountering even a bit of this freedom from time and the physical, a spiritual practice and can come in handy to help to stabilized and integrate the larger experience.
Rest, fresh air, salty baths and nice food ease the journey.
Pisces is the twelfth sign of the Zodiac. Because it holds the energy of all twelve signs it can be the feeling of knowing all and knowing nothing.
There can be a feeling of “I thought if I knew the point I would be fulfilled and now that I know the point, I feel empty.
This old saying is pertinent at this time:
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
Allowing for rest and assimilation at the new Pisces Moon is recommended.
We have travelled, once more, around the wheel of the year. It is a time of reflection and assimilation. The wise adage “look back but don’t stare” is useful here.
By the next new Moon we are in Aries, reborn, energetic, curious, instinctual, questing.
The Pisces new Moon is internal, it is resting, it is digesting all that has been seen, experienced, assimilated and left behind over the course of the last year.
It is right to be, perhaps, in a state of unknowing, of torpor, of loss, of fulfillment, of peace, of confusion, of grace.
Flowing through all of the emotions, all of the experiences, all of the dreams and connections on the inner and the outer is the Pisces experience.
Allowing oneself to be conscious of all of it, moment to moment, prepares us for the diving in, one episode again, to come.
Happy Floating on the Sea of Consciousness.
Love, Lydia
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VIRGO FULL MOON 2019
A Full Moon at 0 degrees Virgo when the Sun has just entered Pisces packs a powerful energy.
The Full Virgo Moon asks us above all, to let go. To let go of that which takes up too much space in our head, too much emotional or psychic energy.
The Sun is now in Neptune-ruled Pisces, bringing to light our dreams wishes hopes desires illusions and delusions.
The Virgo Moon can help to makes sense of what arises at this time.
Virgo’s ruler, Mercury, is transiting Pisces and is conjunct Neptune. That which has been obscured from the conscious mind may be revealed in the light of this full Moon.
Virgo is expert at organizing and analyzing thoughts and ideas.
Pisces deals in the dream state, the place between sleeping and waking. Pisces Knows the heart’s desire.
Virgo can help to discern which yearnings and occupations of the mind are useful to us. Virgo, being an Earth sign, is practical and can spin the thread of dreams into reality. Virgo can lift that which we want to attract from the cobwebby haze of the day dream into the light of day — to a tarot spread, a vision board, a list of requests from our higher Selves.
A helping hand is being given by Venus conjunct Saturn in Capricorn. Venus is the lower octave of Neptune— accessible in an earthly way. Venus understands the nature of our desires and Saturn, especially in its ruler, Capricorn, can give form and structure to what we’ve conceived and organized in the mind with the full Moon in Virgo.
Dreams becoming a reality is a reality.
Love, Lydia
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AQUARIUS NEW MOON 2019
GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE HIGHER MIND

Hi All!
Aquarius rules friends and community, so I want to say hi to my friends and the community that reads and shares these twice monthly posts that I have been writing and painting for some years now.
A new Moon closes the door to the preceding month (moonth) and opens the door to the next.
With each ending we have the morph into anew beginning. Rarely is it a hard stop. Time is an illusion, anyway, and I have Neptune on the IC so I can be forgiven vagueness and run-on sentences.
The new Aquarius Moon, conjunct the Sun, conjunct Mercury ( in Aquarius) are sextiling Jupiter.
Jupiter is the optimistic Benefic who infuses us with a feeling of a comfortably full belly – or the way to get a full belly on all levels.
When sextiling three personal planets in Aquarius we are being opened to the Higher Mind. The Higher Mind is everything that is too big to fit into our pea-sized human brain. It is the CLOUD of all clouds that holds the way to ALL THAT IS.
Mercury in Aquarius sextiling Jupiter likes all caps. Jupiter in the sign it rules – Sagittarius- definitely likes all caps. It likes the expansion of the mind. It will travel to the ends of the Earth or the end of its meditational playground to expand and grow into a new and more evolved consciousness.
Now, that is what most of us are doing here, anyway. Here on earth, galumphing or gliding around our homes and minds – we are here for expansion.
So right now is a great time to get in there and see what our higher selves have to say to our human minds and hearts.
Anyone with a bookstore or Netflix may have spent January 2019 giving at least a tip of the hat to some light Marie Kondoing or the Swedish Death Clean which is a bit more up my street. Some conscious examination of our space and possessions is being made. The practice must, by extension, connect to our beliefs, our dreams, wishes, hopes and desires. That said, there should be enough space, now, for some cosmic expansion and attunement.
Mars is finishing up its transit through Aries – entering Taurus on Feb 14.
If you have been working with the initiatory and freshly energized fire within, then the Mars Pluto Square on the second of February allowed some transformation of how we move about the earth plane and interact with others — all wanting to express and evolve.
When Mars moves into Taurus, we can ground some of these new ways of being in a way that serves our very survival and the comfort of our nest.
Did we share how we’ve been feeling and ask for and give understanding?
Did we honor our own explosive feelings and channel them in a useful way?
Aquarius is ruled by Uranus. Mars in Aries will conjunct Uranus on 12 February.
The energy of liberation is available to us. It can come as a feeling of new beginning, like an awakening in the morning to find that which held us in bondage yesterday- physically, ideologically, experientially, is well in the rear view mirror and we are able to assume forward motion unhindered.
Another example of liberating from conditions installed during Capricornian energy is the scaffolding that helps us to build the house.
Once the house is complete, it is no longer needed and the scaffolding is obscuring the view. We do need structure and the authority of physical rules on the Earth plane.
In Capricorn we learn about authority. We see where we fit in the structure of family and society. In Aquarius, we shake loose the bounds of authority that no longer serve us.
When we are conscious about the process, we can take down the scaffolding in a way that doesn’t damage the building or the passers by.
If the Aquarian energy is received like an earthquake or a tornado it could take down the scaffolding and the building we took such care to erect.
Often we are somewhere in the middle. We are aware and conscious. We are blindsided and shaken.
We are conscious and maybe a little wobbly.
It is all grist for the mill.
Aquarius tells us what is needed without any sugar coating.
That is why the gods can sometimes seem cruel and careless with their lessons. They don’t sugar coat, but they do share what is needed in perfect timing.
Come on, human, you wanted the truth! You wanted to awaken! You wanted to evolve! I am handing the Truth to you on a plate!
So at this new moon, detachment is useful. Detachment helps us to take the big truths a bit less personally – reviewing them from a broader perspective. Rest is always helpful to carry us into new ways of being.
Upon awakening, if we rest on the bed a few minutes before checking the phone or hopping up to do planks or whatever, we can feel the Self we are awakening to in this new day.
Shifts can happen while the mind is elsewhere, at rest and in deep communion with the Higher Self.
Evolution can happen incrementally, and overnight, if we let it.
Leo is creatively self expressing and its polarity, Aquarius is Self expressing in a broader, more expansive, more universal way.
We see our own growth and release from the bondage of authority that does not serve the path of our individuation.
Sure, there can be a wobble when we are seeing a more authentic self and taking that self out on the town where others can see it.
The objectivity and detachment of Aquarius helps us. It is the second to last sign of the Zodiac. Aquarius shows us how to take ourselves a bit less seriously and to see where our authentic selves are of far greater service to the whole. Each true voice is needed and wants to be heard.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Lydia
Evolutionary Astrologer
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LEO FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE 2019
The full super Moon at 0 degrees Leo with an eclipse is giving an amazing burst of creativity.
Waking up in the morning, arms open wide to the strains of your dear self singing “I Gotta Be Me” is a fantastic way to celebrate this full Moon.
Letting what is inside and has been yearning, growing, developing and destined to be expressed OUT is key.
It can be rough, it can be a work in progress (we always are —- a work in progress) it can be scratched on your hand, doodled in the margins, flung against the wall to see what sticks.
It’s gotta be me. It’s gotta be you. The most authentic creative expressions of self are flowing now.
The Sun, Leo’s ruler, in Aquarius at 0 degrees during this Supermoon Eclipse says allow the self to be informed by the cosmos, by the All That Is, by your neighbor, your favorite tree, your most beloved TV show.
Allow the inspiration that is coursing through the veins of everything to breathe with you.
All of the planets are in forward motion until March 4 when Venus goes retrograde.
If you’ve been feeling more motivated to make your world more comfortable, more flowy, more to your liking, you are already on board.
On January 22, Venus aligns with Jupiter in its home sign of Sagittarius.
What a time to wake up into the New Year and use the intuitive inner guide and any signs and portents we like to employ to expand into how we want to feel, what we want to experience, to have, and to do, and how we want to feel in the experiencing, and having, and doing of it.
On the Full Moon Venus is square to Neptune which puts a grain is sand in our oyster shell, pushing us to dream up that pearl.
The Leo/Aquarius axis invites us to inhabit our creative expression and to allow that radiation to interact with the expression of other individuals, and the expression that is the whole.
Leo says this is me. Aquarius says here we are! And how are we, together? And how do we synchronize and synthesize our collective genius without losing the beauty and unique expression of the individual?
Snowflakes, indeed, can join up to drift and to avalanche – changing a landscape. Drops of water in the ocean make waves, water crops, render tsunamis. Rivers full of water droplets rub down plains into canyons.
You get the picture. We are blessedly individual. Together, we are a force of nature that creates and utterly transforms worlds. We are, also, all stardust.
It’s fun at this time to play with both of these ideas and the in between of it.
All of that said, both Sagittarius and Aquarius relish freedom and neither likes to be preached at.
Community may not always be about consensus.
I love the idea of dancing along the polarity between Aquarius and Leo like a squirrel on a phone line.
I’ll paint a little over here I Leo. I’ll share it on a social media platform over here in Aquarius… I can join, I can retreat and stew in creative juices at home, I can rally and I can meditate— together, alone. It can be in person or in dreams, visions,
or FaceTime.
Creativity and Community are ours to build and today is a great time to feel our relationship with all of it and see where to go from here.
Much love, Lydia
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CAPRICORN NEW MOON AND SOLAR ECLIPSE 2019
Happy New Year 2019, fellow travelers!
We are starting 2019 with a new Capricorn Moon and Solar Eclipse.
We have a fresh start for what we want to build in the New Year.
Capricorn rules the timing and structure of things.
The Solar Eclipse is a new cycle that affects us for the next six months or so. This gives additional oomph to the New Yea/New Moon energy.
Capricorn is a Cardinal sign. Cardinal signs initiate things, so we have an extra fresh start feeling this new year.
Within hours of the exact point, the new Moon is conjunct Saturn, Capricorn’s ruling planet.
Saturn is currently making a happy aspect to Neptune in Pisces. The time to frame our dreams wishes hopes and desires for 2019 is now.
Mars entered its home sign of Aries. Mars will be in Aries until February 14. Being a Cardinal sign and the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries has the fire of initiatory energy. Capricorn can Earth the new beginnings and help to make them manifest as we get in alignment with the unfoldment of that which we wish to attract.
Jupiter in its home sign of Sagittarius makes a mutable square to Neptune at the new Moon adding fuel for the expansion and intuitive awareness of our desires. Squares get our attention and attend to our evolution. Mutable signs are willing to change and shift and transmute.
Capricorn rules time and Karma and authority.
It is the grownup of the Zodiac and it can give a a structure to that which we intend to create. For some of us, a routine helps us to feel ease so that our awareness in the day to day has a place to drop into consciousness, a regular place of opening — for instance in journaling or meditation upon awakening each day.
Capricorn makes a natural trine to Taurus and Taurus likes a routine.
The planets move in a predictable way, for the most part, and their predictability gives us many of the gifts that astrology brings.
It is a good time to initiate routines that allow the life to flow with ease.
Capricorn makes a natural trine to Virgo, the third Earth sign. Virgo invites us to take stock, clean house and re-examine our dreams and goals in its natural opposition to Pisces.
A fresh look at what we want and what we think or thought we wanted can be helpful at this time. Feel into long term dreams and goals, see how the achievement of them feels as they are held in the mind and body.
Has the initial motivation of that desire evolved into something more clear?
Has it evolved that dream or goal right out of existence into something new?
There could even be an experience at this time that asks, why am I even doing this thing I thought was so important, this thing into which I have been pouring so much life force?
It can be interesting, even for a few minutes, an hour, a day, to allow even the most closely held and dearest of dreams and goals to be released — to see what it feels like to drop all that tugs on the psyche through plans and ambitions — and just be free of it all.
This is what a New Moon and Eclipse invites us to do in Capricorn.
Release all that binds the self to the day to day, to the life, to the drive to achieve — give the inner taskmaster, the achiever, the boss, a day and night off. Feeling the freedom and any other emotions that come up- of the things that have cloaked who and what the entity is - in its most pure essence, in its natural environment, unfettered.
It can be dizzying the emptiness, and it can be very refreshing. It can pare the self back to a state of relaxation that only welcomes back that which is truly wanted and needed by the Self.
I wish you all a very wonderful, enriching and fulfilling 2019 on all levels.
Love Lydia
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CANCER FULL MOON 2018
Happy Solstice!
The Cancer Full Moon is at 0 degrees. It occurs the day that the Sun enters Capricorn.
Cancer and Capricorn are Cardinal signs- it is an initiatory energy.
Zero degrees of any sign has an enormous amount of Oomph.
It is extra oomph as we also have the Solstice energy.
The wheel of the year is at a crucial point. We have the culmination of the longest light or darkness depending on the hemisphere, and the deepening of dark or increase of light is imminent.
We are always moving, our planet Earth is always moving, the other planets are always moving.
As we have a moment of Full Moon, it will then begin to wane. We have a culmination at the full moon from the last new Moon in Sagittarius on 6 December.
There is also a culmination, at this Full Moon from the last eclipse cycle with the Solar Eclipse at 18 degrees Leo on August 10th.
We can look at the last few months and how things have unfolded for us, creatively, since then.
A new eclipse cycle begins with the New Moon in Capricorn on January 5, 2019.
It’s nice that we have a culmination point so close to the Solstice and to the end of the calendar year.
Each ending flows into a new beginning, but rarely is it a hard stop. Most things in life are variegated and meld one to the next.
With a Cancer Full Moon we have good access to our emotional body and how emotions inform our intuition, and in turn, our actions and choices.
The trine at the Full Moon of Venus in Scorpio to Neptune in Pisces brings our hopes, dreams, wishes and desires into the here and now in a more palpable way.
I don’t tend to make resolutions, but I do make lists at the turn of each year if things I’d like to do, see and experience.
With a light touch I refer to the list throughout the year and make notes and adjustments.
This is a good time to feel into what I liked about 2018, and what I’d like to feel and see and do in the coming year.
I make lists of what went on over the course of the year — daily life stuff – the new recipe I loved all summer, the new art supplies I bought- to bigger stuff – astrology talks given, connections made with old friends, trips to new places…
I take into account how the experiences and acquisitions and interactions felt to me.
In the new year, as my life carries on, what would I like more of? What can I release and leave to the rear view mirror?
Where did things come with ease? What felt like waaaay too much pushing or pulling to achieve?
Was it actually an achievement, then?
The full Moon in Cancer and Sun in Capricorn axis is a powerful and important one.
Cancer rules the stomach — it will feel queasy as an indicator that I might be ingesting a food, a conversation, or an experience that doesn’t serve me. Cancer also rules the breasts in the physical body, so I am in tune with nurturing on all levels at this full Moon.
Capricorn rules Time and authority and karma and the structure of all things, including government, and how we govern ourselves.
Cancer and Capricorn is the father/mother energy and the female/male energy and the whole spectrum they encompass.
We feel into how our schedules and time spent are working for our well-being.
We are met with the expansion and contraction of time in our daily lives and the idea of the span of the life.
Mundane actions can be observed to give clarity on our relationship to or own unfoldment.
Look at the drink you are drinking and as you drink, feel the liquid, Cancer energy, flowing into and informing the physical vessel, the body — Capricorn.
The liquid nourishes and hydrated the body. The body gives a vessel for the liquid and puts the liquid to use — Capricorn.
Cancer informs fluidly. Capricorn uses resources to fuel human life on the earth plane.
At the full Cancer Moon we feel into what and how we are ingesting ideas, food and experiences and we can check their effect on our human experience on all levels.
We can use that review to see how we’d like our structure of life to be formed moving forward — Capricorn.
The zero degree Sun and full Moon gives a whole lot of new beginning energy to our musings, our year-end reviews and our hopes, wishes, and dreams for the year ahead.
Happy Solstice.
The wheel of the year turns and more is revealed in perfect timing.
Much love to you.
Lydia 💗
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Full Moon December 2018 Times and Dates

Los Angeles – 22 December, 9:48 am
New York – 22 December, 12:48 pm
London – 22 December, 5:48 pm
Delhi – 22 December, 11:18 pm
Sydney – 22 December, 4:48 am

SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON 2018

The new Sagittarius Moon coincides with Mercury resuming forward motion.
That gives a boost to the culmination and subsequent new beginning feeling this New Moon.
While Sagittarius can get on its high horse, it is a mutable sign that is willing to transform its beliefs ideas and ambitions.
A good root around in our past experience of power dynamics in relationship colored the Mercury retrograde into Scorpio.
With Sagittarius’ ruler recently entering its home sign of Sag, we get a burst of optimism about how we tune into our relationship to our own lives and goals and how we interact with others on the way.
The Sagittarius energy wants to set out into parts unknown – on the inner and the outer planes. The arrow flies true when the journey is lead by the archer’s Intuition.
It is helpful to start the day with a quiet reminder that our higher self is available to organize all kinds of assistance for us.
We can rely on the wisdom available throughout the day, asking that our mind, heart and feet be given direction.
Jupiter is the ruler of Sagittarius and is transiting for the next year or so through Sagittarius.
Jupiter is the Greater Benefic, the Expander, the Optimist.
Sagittarius riles growth, expansion and long distance travel.
As we expand, we are more likely to encounter others and their expansion experience.
If my expansion is mostly on the inner, the world still feels that and I attract the world to me. One way or another, as we expand we will join up with others on the way. We share experiences, we share histories. We share new experiences because of our histories.
We are bringing ourselves forward as Mercury comes out of its retrograde shadow in Scorpio and in forward motion enters Sagittarius on December 12.
We are empowered by memory of past experience. The deepened and wider Truth that we now embody fuels our expansion with a new Moon, Sun and Jupiter in Sagittarius.
As Sagittarius is a natural teacher we prepare to share the fleshed our truths we’ve experienced. And around our hearth fire in the Northern hemisphere and our barbecue or campfire in the Southern hemisphere, we share what we have found.
Each of us has a Truth, a story, a narrative that is unfolding. When we meet each other and share, we may see how the narratives intertwine and inform the others.
We tune in, regularly, to our own intuition to see how the evolution of our story rings with our inner bell and our higher selves.
We take what rings True and leave the rest.
Sagittarius is big and wise and wonderful and shows us the way with a wink and a laugh and an urging to know ourselves. It reminds us “To Thine Own Self Be True.
Lots of love, Lydia
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GEMINI FULL MOON 2018
The Sun enters Sagittarius and we have a full Moon at 0 degrees Gemini.
There is an enormous amount of power to transmute/transform the way we see the truths- universal and personal.
We have an invitation to be guided by our inner compass/intuition/guide.
We have to opportunity to see that we do have the information already to make a next step and a next one and a next one into our own authenticity.
Venus resumes forward motion on Nov 16 and we are incorporating awarenesses that came into our consciousness in regard to key relationships in this and other lives.
Some of the cultural film that covers our true desires and our happiest impulses can be cleared away.
We can see where we’ve walked onto a track that looked interesting but lead us to an unnavigable thicket.
We can see a way to a feeling that leads to a path that not only serves our needs, but our wants, too.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury. Mercury is retrograde, mostly in Sagittarius until it resumes forward motion at 27 degrees Scorpio on December 6.
We have some time, then, to see what is going on inside. We can view memories and experiences like a film or a sitcom or a slide show and fill in some blanks about our motivations, our mysteries and our habitual trains of thought.
Sagittarius and Gemini are mutable signs. One fire, one air.
They can use creative force to change minds and hearts.
They are willing to see things in new ways if it interests them.
Sagittarius distills the information gathered by Gemini into something meaningful, into a belief system.
Sag may try to impose that belief system on others as it is a natural teacher. A lesson here is to remember we gather, distill, and integrate knowledge and awareness on our own timelines, each to our own need.
At this full Moon in Gemini with Mercury retrograde we may see where the formation of our belief systems have been influenced by family, culture and nation… and marketing.
We may see a way clear to what we personally believe, because of, or despite our conditioning.
Some conditioning is so ingrained we think it is the yarn and the hat the yarn makes.
To tease out what is us from what we’ve been told, sometimes from birth, and also lifetime upon lifetime, can happen all of a sudden at this time. Scales truly can fall from the eyes.
And we get a rush of energy as we disentangle from the injected mores and belief systems of the collective. We are a step closer to individuation.
Sometimes our soul and psyche are only missing one puzzle piece.
During a Mercury retrograde like this one, that puzzle piece may come to the forefront of our consciousness to allow us quite a new freedom from sometimes ancient constraints.
Mercury retrograde may slow down your trip to the farmers market.
And in that delay, the genius that has been trying to find you will drop right into your mind.
Notice the delays. Watch and listen to what comes in in the wind.
The time is now to awaken from that torpor and Know.
Thank you for joining with the unfoldment. 💗
Lots of love.
Lydia
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SCORPIO NEW MOON 2018
The Scorpio New Moon invites new beginnings on all levels. Scorpio likes to dig deep.
The choices we make, have made, will make, and why we make them are in the realm of Scorpio.
The choices roll our paths out in front of us.
We can ask, is this choice leading me closer to who and what and how I want to be or will it lead me away from the path of my desires. Does this choice lead me to greater connection with All That Is or does it lead me to disconnection and a barren landscape.
In Scorpio the desire is twofold: toward Union with Source is one and moving away from Union with Source is the other.
We are always choosing and we are learning the choice that feels right for us. Truly right. This is about our own internal compass and our own relationship with our Higher Self and the Divine.
This time can reveal secrets previously hidden, especially if we use unexpected senses to explore. Like when we are blindfolded, our other senses are heightened.
We may find a vision/memory/breakthrough/healing through tasting a long-forgotten food from our childhood or from another life or feeling the vibration of music through the floorboards.
Venus is still retrograde until November 16 and revelations continue to make their way to the conscious mind/heart.
Jupiter, planet of hope and expansion and optimism, moves into Sagittarius on November 8.
Jupiter rules Sagittarius, so is quite at home there.
Jupiter takes about a year to move through each sign. So, for the next year we can open to expansion, change, and inner knowledge.
Sagittarius is a mutable sign, it can transform what we have been learning and practicing and teaching into useful endeavors.
Sagittarius wants to expand its mind and its spiritual experience. It wants to see and know it all.
It yearns to travel in the physical to explore new places. It also wants to travel on the inner to expand awareness and inner vision.
One lesson is to remember that each of us is on the path to truth and Union. The journey and experience is tailor made for each of us by our desire, our choices and our karma. We get where we are going in our individual timing.
Jupiter in Sagittarius brings out the preacher, the I know what’s right, the desire to dictate what one believes as the only way. We see it in our communities and in our “leaders” as well as in ourselves. Sagittarius energy is to learn the sound of our own inner voice.
The Sagittarius mission is to expand the inner world of intuition, our own guidance system.
To tune in with optimism and to enjoy the expansion into our dreams of how life is unfolding is especially fun and easy with Jupiter in Sagittarius. We don’t always need to know how we will get there. We can practice the feeling of fulfilled desires before they manifest in the physical experience.
The new Moon in Scorpio helps us to clear the way. The magic is Scorpio is it sees the minutia of a situation in the Scorpion aspect. It sees the big picture in the Eagle aspect of the sign. It experiences the willingness to burn away, in itself, that which is no longer serving so that it can, in Phoenix aspect, rise up anew, refreshed, unburdened, and ready to move into the Sagittarian expansion of learning and experience.
Scorpio likes to share resources. It is deep and probing but it isn’t a loner. Share with friends and neighbors – the journey does not have to be a solitary one.
Scorpio is about meaningful Union with Source and we all are a spark of that Divine Energy. We find our way Home by sharing the path, at least some of the time.
Lots of love,
Lydia
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