VIRGO NEW MOON 2021
The New Moon at 14 degrees 37 minutes Virgo occurs on 6 September 2021 at 8:51 PM EST.
The Sun and Moon make an earth trine to retrograde Uranus in Taurus. Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury. We have greater access to higher wisdom that can be accessed by going within.
The New Moon invites us to take time to listen to the Higher Self to see how it can give insight, information and wisdom to the regular old walking/talking/interacting/
chatting self. We can then take the wisdom on board and integrate it into our daily life, our daily mindset.
Perhaps new ways of engaging the Self are called for: how is your self talk game? Is it kind, encouraging and soothing? Does it bring in fun, new ideas and illuminating projects?
Perhaps trying new ways of interacting with others is called for.
Virgo likes to organize, sift, and sort. It likes to joke around and have fun with words and games. It likes to find ever better and wiser and more efficient ways to get things done so there is more time and space for new ideas, inner and outer journeys and interesting conversations.
There is a reason they say we have to do a clear out if we want to welcome the new into our lives. Virgo is a dab hand at rearranging and clearing so that there is room for the New that we are attracting into our experience.
On 10 September, Venus enters Scorpio.
On 14 September Mars enters Libra. With these two personal planets in signs of relating and the sharing of resources, it is a great time to relate with others in new ways: finding ways to partner up, share ideas, projects, fun and adventures.
It can be a bit of a Stone Soup time- starting with an empty pot and seeing what kind of soup can be made when each of us contributes the to the party.
Virgo is in charge of healing. We turn attention, as we approach the Equinox later this month, to adjusting to the changing of season. Just as we may prepare our wardrobe for the change in temperature, we can also can prepare the body and mind for the time to come. Our inner nature can inform us what foods will support our system in the new season. Our inner nature can inform us of when to join with others and when to conserve energy.
Virgo is at the half way point of the astrological year. It is the sixth of the 12 signs. The first five are focused on building the self as an individual.
Virgo takes time to review that self we have been building before we embark on the next six signs which have a more outward social/communal/group minded focus.
The energy to for the season ahead comes from the new Moon’s time of quiet reflection, nourishing food and rest.
Then, refreshed and renewed, we proceed with good.orderly.direction.
Love, Lydia
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Aquarius Full Moon 2021 – AGAIN!
We have a second Aquarius Full Moon in a row. This is a rare occasion. The first one was at 1 degree on July 23rd.
This one is at 29 degrees Aquarius Sun in Leo at the same degree on August 22 at 8:01 AM EST.
The Sun will enter Virgo a few hours later, at 5:34 PM EST and by then the Moon will be in Pisces. Still, this full Moon is firmly in Aquarius, bringing its revolutionary, wild-eyed ideas and rebellion to the fore.
This time,Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is in a retrograde motion in the middle degrees of Taurus. It will continue retrograde until January 18, 2022.
It is important to find ways to keep the energy flow moving in our bodies through grounding, self soothing, taking electrolytes and having a nice dance or walk or yoga session. Time spent tuning in to trees, flowers, the earth, and insects you might see crawling or hovering around will also be useful.
Retrograde Jupiter in Aquarius pretty much conjunct the full Moon may blow ideas, conversations and hot-headedness out of proportion so a screen-free day or two could be beneficial and save some backtracking later.
Sticking the hands into some dough, the sea, the sky, or the earth is going to be more fun than the keyboard at the moment.
Mars and Mercury are already in level-headed Virgo and at the full Moon they are widely opposing Neptune in Pisces. Both Virgo and Pisces are linked to service, Leo is generous, and Aquarius can be community-minded.
We can take some creative dream time to temper the more frenetic influences of another Aquarius Full Moon.
They can also help us to consider which flashes of insight, idea, creative fire we actually want to bring into form, into action. If these concepts and creations can benefit the community on a micro or macro level, even better! Aquarius rules friends and community and it’s energies are channeled well when the greater good is considered. Venus is already in Libra bringing a cool aesthetic eye to the party.
The last blast of Leo’s creative fire can be taken advantage of before the sun heads into Virgo’s calm, considered guise a few hours after the full Moon.
We are moving from Fire to Earth. We move from fixed energy to Virgo’s Mercurial-ruled mutability. How can we clear the decks to make room for more love, more friendship, more collaborative creativity in our lives?
Until next time, a warm heart and a clear eye and a dreamy soul can make for an interesting and fulfilling day.
Love, Lydia
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LEO NEW MOON 2021
The New Moon at 16 degrees 24 minutes Leo shines on us August 8 2021 at 9:50 AM EST. Leo is a fixed fire sign. Creative Self Expression is Leo’s purview.
Mars and Venus are now in Virgo. They will help to clarify the creative energies of the Leo new Moon.
Leo is creative self-expression. With the physicality of Mars and the beauty/creativity/relationship energy of Venus, the Sun’s expression can be refining, honing and healing.
Venus is opposing Neptune on August 9th inviting us to reach into the dream space while maintaining a firm footing in ordinary reality. This allows the creative and expansive nature of the dream time to be available to us in the day to day: for creating, for imagining, for planning, for enjoying life in new/enhanced and/or different ways.
This New Moon opposes the outer planets which affect global issues. It is best to tend our own patch at this time, remembering that what we do on the personal level radiates outward to affect, and we hope, benefit the whole anyway.
The personal fire of Leo can invite us to actually put paint to paper, spoon to batter- to make, to create.🌻 Mercury in Leo highlights the willingness to make it so.
Mercury quincunx to Neptune can make a swirl of the message so we might as well make a beautiful abstract creation.
On August 11, Mercury moves into Virgo to help us to refine our ideas and creations.
We can look at what we have said and done with a new eye and perspective.
On 17 August Venus enters Libra breathing a different kind of aesthetic into the way we shape our lives.
The Leo New Moon invites us to remember with each sunrise, with each moment, we can start our day, our mindset, over again. We can imagine our to do list, our intentions, our methods in new and different ways. We can dive into co-creation – with our higher selves, with our angels, with our environment, with our challenges, with our desires.
Leo is creative self expression. It is ruled by the Sun. It illuminates, it enlightens and it has the attention and focus of a fixed sign to bring ideas out of the heart (ruled by Leo) and into reality.
Leo is fun and creative and generous. Leo lies in the ray of sunlight cast on the living room carpet. It knows when to hunt, to love, to create and to doze.
Happy Leo New Moon to you all. May the Sun rise again and again to illuminate and comfort the heart, the mind, and the spirit. May the Sun warm and heal. May the Sun be a daily reminder that we can rise again and again to a live and create in new day.
Love, Lydia 🌻🦁🌻
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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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