AQUARIUS FULL MOON 2020
EUREKA!
The Full Aquarius Moon is at 11 degrees 45 minutes at 5:58 AM EST on 3 August, 2020.
The Sun then, is at the same degree Leo.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, in Taurus is making a T- Square to the Sun and Moon. The empty leg of the T-Square is Scorpio. Scorpio as the empty leg of the T-Square calls us to engage with others – sharing resources and information in new ways.
Venus, ruler of Taurus, is conjunct the North Node at 26 degrees Gemini. We are asked to have a mature look at how we value ourselves and others through self talk and how we communicate with others.
With the Sun in Leo, the way we are able to creatively express as individuals with love for the collective is highlighted here. Keep an eye on what makes you feel radiant and open hearted. The Sun of Leo shines on all and can shine its rays with exuberance and generosity.
We may feel electrified. We may feel jangled. It can be fun to align with the electricity with a feeling of excitement, welcome and anticipation.
The Uranian energy of the full Moon reminds us to ground any excess energy so that the new information that is downloaded can link with associated subconscious memories.
Uranus rules the individuated unconscious. Uranus will begin retrograde motion on August 15th which will increase the ability to link with our own unconscious and work with what is revealed.
Uranus/Aquarius’ role is to speed up evolution and liberation from conditioning that has been ingrained over lifetimes. The upcoming Uranus retrograde cycle may pick up the thread dangled in the form of lightning at this full Moon. Keep an eye out for reactions/responses that may be conditioned habits rather than authentic interactions coming from one’s own being in the here and now.
The Aquarius full Moon can shake us awake, and the upcoming Uranus retrograde can reveal where liberation from conditioning – familial, genetic, nationalistic, cultural, religious is called for. The liberation is called for by the Soul that wants to evolve.
The union of Leo and Aquarius can make for some very creative solutions to questions we’ve been holding.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, in Taurus will ask us to walk the knife edge between security, routine, and the revolutionary.
Taurus can roll with change when it becomes accustomed to new routines and ways of doing things – especially if Taurus agrees that the changes are practical — especially if they enhance safety and security.
Mercury, the lower octave of Uranus, is in Cancer opposing Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn
At the full Moon. The ways we use our words of power and actions of authority is under reconstruction with Saturn and Pluto retrograde.
How can our thoughts and words help and heal and soothe this world as it is under massive renovation. Mars in Aries will square retrograde Jupiter in Capricorn on 4 August.
If we continue to ground during this time -- imagine roots coming from the feet being nourished by the Earth-- we can invite the intuitive, structured wisdom of Jupiter to inform the instinctual drive of Mars to make some exciting new pathways in our minds, in our hearts and in the physical body.
At this time, everyone on the planet has been learning new habits of communication, of personal hygiene, of daily routine. Mars loves to join the march, so be sure to engage the higher wisdom and the healthy instincts of the body when choosing where to enlist the energy of the day.
The Jupiter/Mars square can be used to make great new useful and healthy habits instinctual and kinesthetic.
Then we can move on to developing even bigger ideas, plans and projects.
We are in creative, inspired, evolutionary times.
See where that which we love to create can join with the needs of the whole as we roll into the new life.
All the very best,
Lydia
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CANCER NEW MOON NUMBER TWO 2020
Sometimes we will have a new or full moon in the same sign when the first one is very early in the sign and the other very late. We had the first Cancer new Moon on June 20th at 0 degrees.
This second Cancer new moon, is at 28 degrees Cancer on July 20th at 1:32 PM EMT.
Very shortly after that, the Sun will move into Leo.
Th water of Cancer and the fire of Leo make for a steamy new Moon. It’s great to imagine the evaporation, with the steam, of old emotional habits and sticky entanglements. This new Moon has an element of a deep steam clean.
We’ve done so much emotional work through this last cycle of eclipses and two Cancer new Moons sandwiching the Capricorn full Moon.
It’s time to let the old resentments, reactions and hurts float away and to allow the creative freedom to flow in.
The release of emotions that no longer serve us welcomes in the desire to creatively self express that comes with Leo.
We have the Sun/Moon opposition to Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn.
Cancer is learning how to be guided by its emotional body, but not to be overwhelmed by its emotional body.
The polarity to Saturn- ruled Capricorn- asks us to be guided by our emotions to greater strength, better boundaries, new ways of working, and an increased willingness to step into our own personal authority.
Cancer is where we “come from,” our family of origin and our home of homes in our hearts and souls.
Capricorn is who we are, as adults on the stage of the world. How do we make our mark? What makes us an authority, an experienced person in our field(s)?
Who do we look to as mentors and guides?
How do we mentor and guide others without falling into the trap of gurudom or despotism?
How do we examine the structure of authority in the world around us — be it at the family dinner table or on the corporate or political stage — and determine where we can take responsibility. Where can we take responsibility for our own reactions, our own fears (Capricorn rules fear), our own apathy, frustration, or our own willingness to embody what we feel is right?
Cancer is very much in the realm of the self. The evolution of the soul is guided by the moon, and by the emotions. The soul wants to individuate and embody an ever greater sense of personal authority.
Some of us may be scanning the horizon for the grown up who is going to take the current global situation in hand and offer guidance, hold our hands and offer reassuring words and magical, normalizing solutions.
Then I, for one, remember, No one is swooping in to say they will fix it for all of us. Don’t worry, this is all just a dream.
On one level all of the life experience can be construed a dream. Dreaming, with Pisces retrograde in Pisces, is appropriate on the visioning a new world level.
On the wake up level, we are being given an opportunity. As no one is rescuing us damsels from the tower, we all need to contribute ways through and into a new way of being.
We each have abilities, experience, knowledge, and awarenesses that can contribute to ways through our current situation.
This is where the Moon zipping right into Leo, with the Sun following on 22 July comes in.
Creative self-expression is Leo’s milieu.
When we meditate, write, and brainstorm, we open ourselves to ways forward and through, the ideas do come.
And as I’ll address at the next full Moon - Aquarius’ polarity to Leo asks us to come up with creative ways to go onward that will benefit the good of the whole.
So, at this new Moon in Cancer, we can breathe, relax, dip a toe in some water and gaze deeply into our inner pool.
We can ask our inner self, our higher self, not just who do I want to be, but how do I want to be?
How do I want to embody my suited and booted grown up self (yes I know, we are all still in our jim jams or bathing suits – but you know ). How do I want to feel as I navigate this earth plane as a fully- fledged adult embodying my ever-evolving authority and my ever more rich and safely held emotional body?
What step can I take today to be the embodiment of my richest (I’m not necessarily talking money here) self? My most relaxed self, my most at ease self? My most in tune self? Coming from an awareness of these feelings will net coherent results. We can walk forward as an integrated person, where no piece of the puzzle is left behind or lost or unincorporated.
It’s time to coalesce. It is time to assume the identity that we have been tailor making for ourselves in this life and perhaps have been building over multiple life times.
Now is the time and we are the ones. We chose to embody at this time so we are the ones to acknowledge our personal presence and that of our fellow travelers.
You may have noticed that some of our beloved fellow travelers are continuing their evolution from the other side of the veil.
They are no less with us, though we may sorely miss their physical presence.
I will choose to admit that I may not be fully cooked. I am aiming to be fully present. I am going to commit to the structure that my life is becoming that will enable me to share what I’ve learned, how I’ve felt, and what I’ve done so that I can continue to contribute to the puzzle we are all filling in together.
Much love
Lydia
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CAPRICORN FULL MOON ECLIPSE JULY 2020
Pick your battles

The Full Moon Eclipse is at 13degrees Capricorn at 12:44 AM EST on 5 July, 2020.
Jupiter and Pluto are conjunct at 23 degrees Capricorn. Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, is their neighbor at 29 degrees Capricorn.
The lineup opposes the Sun at 13 degrees Cancer. In Evolutionary Astrology we use wide orbs.
Uranus at 10 degrees Taurus is trining the Capricorn planets and sextiling the Moon and Mercury, who is retrograde at 7 Cancer. Mercury resumes forward motion on 12 July.
Mars at 4 degrees Aries is making a Cardinal square to the Sun, Moon and Mercury.
We are. Ring asked to begin and begin again. Cardinal energy has a two steps forward, one step back dance. We begin, we review, we readjust, and we resume forward motion. We stop along the trail, adjust the backpack, jettison what we don’t need after all, on this journey, and get moving again.
Full moons bring things to fruition. This one is also the last in a three-eclipse cycle that will affect at least the next six months.
The signature of Cancer is management of the emotional body. Typically it is the personal emotional body for which we become increasingly more responsible, or the pain caused by not taking responsibility increases.
The hermit crab, when the old house on its back begins to chafe, migrates to a new, better fitting house. We can shed emotional patterns that have begun to chafe at this time. Maybe they’ve been chafing so much, for so long, we have some scars. This makes it even a better time to move to emotional practices that work better for us.
Capricorn gives us the lesson of responsibility. In Capricorn we realized the limits of our personal authority and we may want to empower ourselves to increase our personal authority. Is this starting to sound like a current theme on the inner and the outer?
Typically, the Capricorn/Cancer axis represents the father/mother energy. There comes a time in the individuation process, that we can no longer simply look to our parental figures - government, corporations, schools, actual parents for how to navigate our lives - for how to behave. We must become the adult and bewill empower the individual and the collective.
With Pluto and Jupiter involved, especially, the intention is to expand our power and to take ownership of that increased power — like getting a superhero suit and experimenting with all of the cool stuff it allows us to demonstrate in the world.
Getting familiar with our own, bespoke superhero suits would be a fun exercise this full Moon.
We embodied this time to build and wear these suits that allow us to embody our own, personalized abilities, strengths and gifts.
This suit puts all of them in a package together to be utilized for the greatest evolution and service to the self and to the whole.
When we start to fully embody the truth of who we are, we may find some surprise features - strengthens and abilities that we didn’t even know we had.
These are a by-product, a bonus, that comes with the steps toward engagement and empowerment.
When we move into the fullness of life on all levels, life will move more and more in harmony with us.
May this full Moon continue to reveal the truth of who we are, the empowerment of the fullness of our being – on the individual and the collective level — for the good of all.
Love, Lydia
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CANCER NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE
First of all, Happy Solstice!
The wheel of the year continues to turn.
The New Moon Solar eclipse is at 2:41 EST on June 21, 2020 at 00 degrees 21 minutes Cancer.
Zero degrees of any dig in a chart is particularly potent.
We have the opportunity to commune with, and heal our emotional body at this new Moon.
When the Moon is new, she is not visible to us. This can cause us to feel bereft.
We may feel a bit lost, and the remedy is to go within and commune with the eternal light of the hearth/heart within.
My own mother moved on to the wider realms this past week, so this Cancer new Moon is especially poignant for me.
We have all been asked, on the individual and as a collective, to find ways to calm and soothe the emotional body as the events in the world have unfolded.
We all have the baseline of the pandemic. The energy of ecological shifts and social revolution have been added to the experience.
On the individual level, life has proceeded – changes in career, in fortune. We have experienced births and deaths and the change from one season to the next.
We are human animals and all of these experiences call us to find ways to adapt and cope and soothe the emotional body so that we can carry on, and so that we can participate in the evolution that is under way.
The Moon, which is Cancer’s ruling body, leads the way.
It is useful to know where your Moon is in your natal chart to become familiar with how you experienced and process emotions. This is what leads us in the life journey.
At the moment, we have Mercury retrograde at 14 degrees Cancer. Old words or ideas may come back to haunt us. If they do, they have come back to enlighten and heal us, and to remind us that we have dominion over our own thoughts and feelings. How we felt about a conversation held years ago may be released.
The way to move forward is to give the mind and heart new and encouraging words, thoughts and feelings that invite us to start again in the way we wish to move forward.
Make a new dish that is inviting and delicious that you want to devour.
No more ruminating on the whys and wherefores of old conversations.
Proclaim it healed and invite in a new vocabulary and a new mindset that soothes the spirit. Give yourself permission.
The Cancer/Capricorn axis asks us to take up the mantle of our own authority and to be responsible for our own emotional bodies.
Venus is retrograde at 5 Gemini and will resume forward motion on 25 June.
As Cancer Moon is early home life and Gemini is our siblings, it’s possible that the family history could be up for review and healing. Secrets may be revealed.
Neptune, the higher octave of Venus will go retrograde on June 22 at 20 degrees Pisces. Saturn and Jupiter continue their retrograde motion.
A quincunx with the Sun, Moon in Cancer, and Saturn at 0 degrees Aquarius, will be a wild card asking for attention to how we experience and react to and process events involving authority and institutions.
Taking a vacation from social media and news at this time will be beneficial. The call is to the within, to examine what is true through the lens of our own inner authority.
The wheel of the year is turning. Our days in the Northern Hemisphere are now shortening, and the Antipodeans get to see the increase of the light. Many blessings to us all, in every realm and in every state of being.
May we feel love, May we feel compassion, May we experience ever deepening understanding. And as we experience a greater unfoldment, we will radiate these qualities to all.
Much love, Lydia
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TIME FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
SAGITTARIUS FULL MOON AND LUNAR ECLIPSE

We have the first of three eclipses in this twice annual eclipse cycle.
The full moon is at 15 degrees Sagittarius at 3:12 PM EST.
This eclipse cycle features two Lunar eclipses with a solar eclipse in between. This happens from time to time.
Eclipses affect the group, the community, those in authority, and the leaders, if we can identify them. They initiate energy for the next six months.
Mars in Pisces squares the Sun at this full Moon. Mars in Pisces connects us to our very souls on a visceral level. Actions and words may ease some tension but true union and interaction with the inner Self is the only thing that will steady and satisfy our inner fires.
Venus retrograde at 12 degrees Gemini is conjunct the Sun. The Venus, then also squares Mars. Venus retrograde in Gemini guides us to ways to review our self talk – how do we feed ourselves with care, love and the value we want and need?
It is a journey, Life, that we share with others. But it is in the quiet of the first morning light and how we greet ourselves on return from our nighttime sojourns in the cosmic pool that indicate the direction of self care.
Starting the day with a good morning to the self and then to our surrounding nature, pets, plants and partners is a good practice during the Venus retrograde in Gemini.
If we treat ourselves with care and consideration, the care and consideration will radiate outward to all we encounter in the course of the day — on all levels – physical, emotional, mental.
Gemini Sun wants information. Sagittarius Full Moon wants to find the Truth in that information. It wants to synthesize that information into a worldview that makes sense.
Sagittarius energy is learning to hold a piece of information and run it through the lens of its intuition. Does that feel true to me? Can I add that piece of information to others I am holding in my consciousness to make a cohesive story?
Telling a truth from a lie is part of the business Sagittarius/Gemini axis.
The North Node in Gemini is widely conjunct the Sun at the full Moon. We are asked to use experience, intuition and maturity when picking up, evaluating and sharing pieces of information.
We ask if it is helpful, is it true, does it advance the evolution of my consciousness and the consciousness of others who may see it and take it on board?
Saturn, presently retrograde at 1 degree of Aquarius is ready for a transformation in the structure of society and authority. We are experiencing this now.
We examine the information we see and evaluate ourselves to reveal and work through and release prejudices — we all have some.
We look at what is True with the full Moon eclipse in Sagittarius opposing Sun in Gemini.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is squaring Saturn. Uranus, currently in Taurus, is the higher Mind asking us to value and care about information that is circulating in “the Field” of human awareness.
Uranus rules Aquarius – the sign of community, of equality, without small-minded compartmentalization.
Uranus is the larger mind, the Higher Mind, the detached mind that doesn’t have time for, or interest in, preferences or prejudices. Uranus knows what it’s like to be cast out and Aquarius wants equality.
In Taurus, Uranus asks us to value and care for all in a level playing field. Revolution ensues when Saturn enters Aquarius and the old authorities with their death grip on power are met with those who want to love all and serve all.
We are experiencing a round of this call to action and reformation.
Taurus rules the throat. It rules the throat. Uranus in Taurus and Taurus rules the throat. The current wave of the Civil Rights Movement was inflamed when George Floyd was lynched by a boot on his fifth chakra – Taurus.
This brought on a global, unifying outcry – Uranus.
We need to have a clear fifth chakra to breathe and to speak. Taurus is ruled by Venus and Venus is about Love. Venus is also about safety and value of the self. Venus is conjunct the Sun at this full Moon eclipse. Engagement with the retrograde Venus can mean sending healing to everyone who has been silenced, breath cut off, life cut short.
The color of the fifth chakra, the throat, is blue. Sending blue light to the throats of every being — forward and backward in time, starting with our own throats, is an action we can take to liberation, healing, freedom, unity.
We can speak up, speak out. We can admit what we know and what we don’t know. Gemini Sun wants to know more.
The Sagittarius polarity is about about Truth and Justice. We can shine a light on the lies and shine a light on the Truth. The Saturn dip into Aquarius says it’s time for the community of humans to gather for Truth and Justice.
We can Learn the Truth. Our intuition will guide us to information to enlighten and inform. We can share helpful information and we can support our friends who want to know more. Share what we learn. Share the love. 🖤 Black lives matter.🖤
Lots of love to everyone.
Lydia
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GEMINI NEW MOON
The May 2020 New Moon is at 2degrees Gemini on May 22 at 1:38 PM EST.
Gemini’s ruler, Mercury, is currently at 20 degrees Gemini exactly conjunct retrograde Venus at the time of the new Moon. Retrograde Venus not only reveals depths of relationship with others, it opens up the Union with the inner Self— the way to love, to value, to care for, to provide for the self— on all levels.
It’s Time to talk to the self about love. It’s Time to talk to the self with love. I found myself talking to myself using sweet words my mother called me, long ago and forgotten. They welled up in my mind as I started another quiet day.
Gemini is of the mind, as the first air sign. It has the ability to be gentle, as only mutable signs know how to be. It can help us to redirect the mind and the conversation to one that is increasingly caring, loving, encouraging, and useful.
With Gemini’s polarity to Sagittarius, we can join the mind and intuitive bodies together to shine a light that reveals more of the true Self.
Mercury and Venus are trine to Neptune in Pisces at the new Moon. Neptune is the higher mind of Venus. Mercury is thus thinking of love, care, relationship, nurturing, and connection to Spirit in a profound way at this new Moon.
Mercury likes to gather bits of information. Dots may be connected while we sleep, daydream or even stream more tv if we ask the higher Self, the inner Self to help.
Ask that all we see and hear and dream be a talisman, a shining light, a guide. Ask that the relevant pieces we have collected over days, months, years, lifetimes, be lit up brightly — to be understood, to be accepted, to be assimilated.
Neptune is timeless and retrograde Venus conjunct Mercury at the new Moon helps us to reach into the pool of all yearning, of all knowing, and retrieve that which we want to find and know.
If we stand in a pool, a tide, a bath, a puddle, and connect to the infinite wisdom that can focus on each one of us, answers can arise and fill us.
We can retrieve pieces that had been lying on the riverbed. We can begin to know.
As we stand in the water we can know that all elements connect to all others. Water is the biggest conductor of emotion. The Moon dictates the tidal movement and the emotional body.
All evolution stems from the Moon, the emotional body. This is what stirs us to seek, to ask, to meditate, to reach inward, to reach outward.
Stand quietly, in stillness in the pool of all that is, when the Moon is hidden from us and we are called within.
See what lights up…
Ask to be lit up.
Short and sweet in true Gemini fashion.
Lots of love to you and blessings on the connection to the Twin that awaits you — within.

The Full Moon in Scorpio takes place on May 7 at 6:45 EST.
The Scorpio/Taurus axis makes for a powerful full moon every time.
The Moon is asking us to reform how we look at the comfort and security that Sun in Taurus craves. It asks us to to look at what we value and how that affects our daily life and our transformational experience.
It draws Taurus, from its couch or sunny garden, into a deepening experience of our higher selves, our inner selves— which are one in the same.
Taurus is learning self sufficiency and the Scorpio full Moon teaches us to explore the resources available all around us and within us that we can share - and that the material world, and the inner world have on offer.
The first relationship that can be deepened and valued at this time is that with our higher/inner Self; that with Spirit.
When we listen, we have a constant friend, companion and advisor.
We may be getting lots of downloads from Source a Mercury speeds from Taurus to Gemini on 12 May then into Cancer on May 29. Keep your voice messaging open or a pen handy.
Things are starting to get interesting. We have Taurus’s ruler, Venus, currently in Gemini, starting Retrograde motion on the 13th of May at 2:45 am EST. Venus will resume forward motion on the 25th of June at 5 degrees Gemini. More about values and how we communicate and value the relationship with self and others.
Pluto is already retrograde at 24 degrees Capricorn calling for us to be adults and own our own authority when dealing with those “ in authority.”
Saturn will turn retrograde on 11 May at nearly 2 degrees Aquarius - which will call on us to ratchet up the desire to have a system that actually serves its people and its environment. Come July, the Saturn retrograde will dip back into Capricorn for another opportunity to really see how we are doing with personal authority and its relationship with the System.
Jupiter begins retrograde motion on 15 May at 27 degrees Capricorn which may incite some internalization of the idea that we CAN actually have a new kind of system. The caterpillar to butterfly transformation is in process.
We might be approaching the goo phase. We have been in the chrysalis phase for some months now. Parts of our caterpillar selves are melting away as we commune with our inner forces in isolation.
The revelations and reclaiming and retching and reviewing and renewing and recycling and retreating and refusing and reacting and rethinking and replacing and resisting and reevaluating and reposing that we have been and will be doing will all be included in the soup we are each becoming. That soup will be fuel for the ultimate transformation we make into the butterflies as a result of the current experience. Eventually we will emerge, sweaty from the exertion of transformation and rebirth.
Pluto and Jupiter are still in orb of their conjunction that asks us to deepen the relationship we have with our own individual power — getting to know it, allowing it to fill us up and to see how we want to use it for our highest and best good.
Taurus is about internal resources and value. Scorpio is about power and how we use it, how we embody it.
At this full moon, allow the love of the self and the power that grows in our hearts and spirits to glow. It will light each step along the path ahead.
Love, Lydia
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TAURUS NEW MOON 2020
The new Moon takes place at 3 degrees 23 minutes Taurus at 10:26 PM EST on April 22 - Earth Day and this astrologer’s Solar Return. For many, the New Moon will already be on 23 April.
Taurus’s primary need is for safety and security. It knows how to hunker down and enjoy it’s own patch of couch and Sunshine and apple tree.
We have The Sun moving toward a conjunction with Uranus on this New Moon.
Taurus likes routine, safety and security. Uranus likes to shake our tree and remind us that safety and security are one thing, and torpor is another.
We are being asked to look at how we live on the earth in new ways and join with our individual higher minds, and the higher minds of our fellow humans and unseen realms to steady ourselves; to calm our hearts and minds and become more engaged consciously with each moment.
In the quiet, the genius higher mind that is with us always, is able to be heard.
The Taurus Sun/ Uranus conjunction gives an opportunity to ground our connection with the higher mind, the human mind and the Earth.
Being quiet for a while, upon awakening, sipping tea or coffee, looking out the window, writing in the journal, cleaning up the last of last night’s dishes, we will get answers to our questions to help to navigate daily life.
When we follow the guidance of the part of ourselves that can see further down the road, we are rewarded by a smoother flow in the life.
At this new Moon, we also have Jupiter conjunct Pluto in Capricorn with Saturn close by in Aquarius.
Pluto and Jupiter together are showing us, in an exaggerated way, where the cracks are in the system, what works and what doesn’t. What needs to be transformed is revealed in ever greater relief. The transformation begins with a vision, a desire, and focus on the good.
Now that Saturn has moved, for a while, into Aquarius, we are getting hints of how we can move forward in ways that are better for individuals and the whole.
With the Pluto/Jupiter conjunction— The old guard – Capricorn - is putting up a fight in an exaggerated and sometimes dishonest way (part of Jupiter’s M. O. ) and Saturn in Aquarius, ruler of Capricorn- is going to strongly encourage us to find new structures. We are aided by the individual and group vision and desire for that which is happier, healthier, and more satisfying. The focus must be on the evolution of the Good in our hearts, minds and home World.
At this New Moon, with Uranus Sun Moon and Mercury all clustered together, the time is ideal for the human mind to make a lasting connection with the Higher Self.
With all of the Capricorn energy, discipline can be called in.
When we start to fret, worry, complain, get fearful, start to freak out, we can use Taurus to make a new habit.
Mercury moves into Taurus on 28 May, so loving communications on all levels is called for: thoughts, words, writing, self-talk and interaction with others.
The steps we make on the Earth are a communication, to our home planet, so walking meditation can be helpful at this time. It will help ground, connect and to release excess energy and emotion.
When fretting begins, redirect the thoughts and energy to to strengthen the connection with the Higher Self, the Higher Mind that is with us always, offering help, guidance, solace and silence.
We can turn the mind to prayer/love/light/good vibes for others, sending hopeful healing thoughts to individuals, families, organizations, and institutions.
This is how we walk the talk of Love and Light and Healing thoughts. 😊
We actually send them, as a big beam of light, to whatever entity comes to mind.
We can replace the worried thoughts as soon as we catch ourselves and reform them into a ball of love and send that ball of love to whatever comes to mind first.
You can’t run out of it and the more of it you send the more of it there is.
We are not powerless here. We can choose the thought that helps and heals every time if we get in the habit of doing it.
Like attracts like so having a habit of thoughts that feel good will lift the spirits and the immune system.
If finding a more easeful thought is too much, then be mindful and grateful in the moment.
Thank you for this warm running water! Thank you for this egg! Thank you for this bloom on the plant I put in the ground last summer with no idea what it would become! Thank you for the sun coming up and the squirrels entertaining me in the garden.
Like attracts like. Be what you want to be, and think how you want to feel!
Taurus loves habits so we can makes new grooves in our structure for habits that are useful and that make us feel better.
The Higher Self is a part of us, so can be addressed as a constant companion. You can ask it it’s name or give it a name to encourage conversation. Have a chat as to a best friend who is always willing to sit, listen and when best for you, to advise.
This is the best way to value the self and value the Earth and all of its inhabitants, seen and unseen.
Much love to you all on this Earth Day. Remember, every day is Earth Day. 🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚
Lydia
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LIBRA FULL MOON 2020

This Sun is currently in Aries, so our full Moon on 7 April at 10:35 PM EST is at 18 degrees Libra.
The polarity between Aries and Libra is a Cardinal trajectory. These two signs are beginners of things. Fiery Aries Sun, ruled by Mars, uses instinct to drive its way through situations. It is ruled by the head, and it butts it’s way, trusting it will make its way to the horn of the issue. Once there, it may sniff the air, crop the grass, and reassess what it has done so far.
Libra, an air sign, of the mind, is making its first forays into relationship. It is using relationship for reference and observation of others – to discern what it is itself, what it is not; what it does and does not want to become or experience itself.
Libra also will look for what it does not have in its own toolkit. It will observe who might have what it wants and make an alliance in order to procure it.
With a Libra full Moon, we may be looking outside of ourselves for emotional shoring up, support and reassurance we aren’t, at the moment, able to supply to ourselves.
We are experiencing and evolving new ways of being on our own, and new ways of being with others.
With the natural square of Aries and Libra to Cancer and Capricorn, ruled by the Moon and Saturn, respectively, we may be looking to shore up an area of the emotional body that has been historically weak, wounded, and perhaps affected by the authority/oppression by others.
At times of significant change and realignment like the ones we are now experiencing, attention to how we care for our emotional body is of primary importance.
All evolution starts with the moon, with the emotional body.
Attending now to how our instincts are guiding us, and how our searching for emotional succor is leading us, will guide us to ways to comfort and heal and rebuild our system on firmer and firmer ground.
The Full Moon/Sun are square to Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The Pluto and Jupiter conjunction is in Capricorn. We experience expansion and contraction. We experience an enormous sea change in power, law and societal structure. Even the societal structure of the home is restructured, reconsidered. Our path to internal empowerment is being catalyzed from a place of external confinement.
Saturn and Mars are now in Aquarius. Aquarius holds the internet, the group mind. The ways we find to serve with our inspired ideas and physical energy, not just ourselves, but the greater whole, can enlighten whole societies.
My local community gardens usually grow food for and with our local Senior citizens. Now, the seniors are at home. The community gardeners are phoning the seniors, emailing them in their isolation, to offer comfort and to see what they might need.
That is adaptation. That is evolution. That is service.
The square of all four planets to the full Libra Moon rubs us from the inside like the follicle and the egg, causing internal stirring, fertilization, awakening, transformation/evolution.
This conjunction of Saturn/Pluto in Capricorn will be in orb for a good part of the year as we participate in a naturally ordained shut down of outmoded systems. The earth is taking a rest, giving the ground and air and water something more streamlined, efficient and sustainable.
That said, Saturn has, for now, moved into Aquarius where we are making new ways of being. The structures of society are for the common good. The commitment confinement and physical distance is for the good of people we may never meet or know. By confining ourselves to our homes, we could save their lives.
With Aquarius we are thinking of the greater good. In our isolation we are feeling the greater connection we have to all that is.
It is a good time to meditate alone but also to join group meditations online or just through the desire to connect.
We see the bigger picture of natural law and man made authority with Saturn in Aquarius. I might see some of the unfolding picture, and another sees another piece of the puzzle and when we join together the jigsaw puzzle pieces fall into place. We start to see the beautiful picture coming more clearly.
Saturn will begin a retrograde cycle on May 11 at 1 degree 57 minutes Aquarius and will resume forward motion on September 29 at 25 degrees
The hallway can be drafty, this place in between. We can prepare our own elemental systems at this time: our bodies, minds, and homes.
Maybe the store shelf doesn’t have that comfort food, so we borrow it from a neighbor, or we learn to make a healthier version or we make something entirely new.
As we are more insulated from the outside, the structure of our days leading inward, Inspiration has a way in to our minds, hearts and voices. We can practice acting on the intuition we innately have which now is increasing.
Aries Sun lives by its instincts. The full Libra Moon learns and assimilates ways of being from observation.
We are learning from our feelings, from our experience and from seeing how others are responding to their experiences and emotions.
We are in this life experience together. We are in it in isolation and we’re sharing it with the world. Stay in touch.
Love, Lydia
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NEW ARIES MOON
The first new Moon of the astrological year is at 5:28 AM EST on Tuesday, March 24th 2020.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It is fire. It is Cardinal- a beginner of things. Aries has a best friend - it’s intuition.
It might be a fun time to make a relationship with your intuition that you can see.
Make a collage, a drawing, a playdo or clay or flour and water sculpture of your intuitive body. Hold it to you, invite it to be awake within you.
We are animals and animal intuition helps to steer us in the safe and right direction, at the right time.
It can lead us to the right time to make a phone call to a friend who is in need, to know which vegetables we should eat and in what combination.
Aries is courageous and loves the unknown. Excitement and fear are two sides of the same coin. We can choose which wave to ride.
We have a reset button st the new Moon. Aries is the initial reset. Certainly the world doesn’t start over and effects of things coming before may be with us.
And the reminder is that I can, in my mind, heart, and body start my day over again at any time.
I can approach my day anew. I can approach the tools I use to help myself and others to move through the day anew.
I have spent many years learning practices and reading spiritual, self improvement, astrological and psychological texts and YouTube videos to get help, answers, and to frankly, calm myself down.
When I get into my cozy routine, I sometimes let those teachings and practices fall away in search of new hobbies, activities, and general lounging about.
With this new Moon in Aries, meaning the Sun is in Aries, too, I begin again.
I dust off my old and disused texts and practices and teachers and I begin again to deepen my practice.
My hands instinctually go to the pile of books, to wise friends, to meditations I once faithfully practiced.
I start again. The muscle memory kicks in and I find myself feeling more grounded and more prepared to engage in the next minutes and hours of my life.
A beginner is curious and a beginner may be teachable.
A beginner can also think it knows it all and run headlong into all sorts of experiences.
We are all beginners at some things and we all have a back catalogue of wisdom we can turn to in these times.
Chiron, Hercules’ teacher, the wounded healer, is conjunct this new Moon. Right where we think we are most flawed, where our “ouch” point is, we can be most useful to others.
When you get the instinct, inner urge, nudge, or shove to reach out to a certain friend, perhaps one you haven’t contacted in ages, do it! The may be in need of just your brand of healing.
The polarity point to Aries is Libra, which is all about partnerships and the steps we make toward union with our human family.
If we can’t reach others by the usual modern methods, we can quiet the mind and reach out in prayer or meditation and wish the best for the other.
The New Moon is square to the moons nodes: south in Capricorn and North in Cancer. We take the knowledge of structure and authority we gained in the Capricorn South Node and bring it home with ya in the North Node in Cancer. We are, many of us, at home most of the time. We are reflecting on family of origin and our histories.
We are nurturing ourselves as best we can and nurturing others perhaps from a distance.
Saturn, Capricorn’s ruler just moved into Aquarius. We take our awareness of structure and authority and we move toward new structures. Aquarius is in charge of community, and the internet and Zoom meetings and finding new ways to serve while the world changes around us and within us.
We will, together, find new ways of being and new ways of being together.
Venus, ruler of Libra and Taurus, is in Taurus and is trining Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto in Capricorn. Taurus knows how to calm itself. It knows how to hunker down and make lemons from lemonade and how to make a game from a cardboard box. It knows how to make new romaine lettuce sprout from the bottom of and old romaine heart by sticking it in a pot with soil and watering it.
Taurus also knows how to tell a goofy joke to break up the tension.
We can start our day all over again in Aries.
We can breathe and calm ourselves and reach out to a friend. We can use our intuition, make friends with it, and grow the ability to know what to do, and when to do it. It will also tell us when to stay put and do some jumping jacks.
Lots of love, Lydia 💗🐏
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