The partial lunar eclipse at 24 degrees 04 minutes Capricorn completes the cycle started with the new Moon in Cancer on July 1.
The Cancer/Capricorn axis is so much about where we come from – the swirling waters in which we gestate and become human form in Cancer and the more linear time in which we operate in Capricorn.
Cancer is, in a broad sense, as a water sign, about feeling. Cancer teaches us to be responsible for and to understand our emotional body. Capricorn, as an Earth sign, is about doing. It asks us to be responsible for our physical body and how we use it as we move about on the Earth plane.
We are, at any moment experiencing a bit or a lot of one or the other, or both.
The eclipsed full Capricorn Moon asks, or perhaps commands us to be centered in our authority. When centered in our personal authority, we know intuitively when to plan and when to move. We know when to retreat and when to forge ahead.
Saturn, Capricorn’s ruler, is in charge of time.
If you are feeling like there are brakes keeping you from going full speed ahead, it could mean the timing needs to be set to a trot not a gallop.
A slower speed allows for adjustments, realignments and recalibration to the plan.
With Mercury retrograde until July 31st, reviews and rewrites Are part of the mix, anyway.
By the way, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are all currently retrograde, as well.
Because Mercury affects our day to day travels, technology and interactions, we hear more about it.
The way we approach expansion, limitation and structures, dreams and hopes and the very evolution of our souls are all up for review and restructuring.
Two steps forward one step back is actually a gentle way to approach and engage with our development.
We can review what we missed the first time, we can look at things from a different angle. We can gain insight, perspective, and information that will make for a robust journey and outcome.
We have two eclipse cycles each year.
The next one starts on December 25 with a Capricorn New Moon.
The next six months can be influenced by this July’s eclipses.
We have new and full Moons every month (moonth) and the opportunity to start again, or more likely, to reengage is available again and again. The threads of cosmic and planetary energies can be picked up and woven into our unfolding stories again and again.
If we miss the bus, another one will be along eventually or maybe in five minutes time.
There may be “missed chances” but the opportunity for alignment with our ever refining goals is also present for us.
The Capricorn/Cancer trajectory is concrete and it is dreamy.
It can show us when to say Yes! It can reveal the limitations in embarking right now wider scope available in a few weeks if we can but tune into our own personal time signature.
Cancer and Capricorn are Cardinal signs. They like to begin things. We can use that energy to begin again.
If we have backed up, taken a rest stop, we can resume forward motion, perhaps taking a lesser known road or taking along a companion – a human companion or the companion that is wisdom and experience.
Capricorn is the adult. It is authority. Cancer is the water and Capricorn is the cup. The limitation of the cup holding the water allows us to gaze at the water and the reflection of the moon in it.
It is when the cup becomes a thimble that we may need to remember to expand our gaze, and remember that the seashore holds the ocean in much the same way as the thimble. The scope is much larger.
Each has its usefulness and purpose.
We can adjust our actions and our view to fit the pond in which we swim, the glass from which we drink, the moon on which we gaze.
Size and shape and our relationship to our engagement in the world and with our desires and ambitions can be assessed, understood and integrated at times like a full Capricorn Moon and eclipse.
We are large and we are small. We can fit just right into the situations of our lives. By dipping into our histories, our learning, our self-perception and our maturation, we can walk with the strength and awareness of our own ever-refining stature into each new day.

CANCER NEW MOON 2019
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
A new eclipse cycle begins with the new Moon at 10 degrees 38 minutes Cancer on July 2, 2019.
If you have planets or angles within a few degrees orb in aspect to the new Moon, the effect may be more profound, more pointed, for you.
There will be a partial Lunar eclipse on the full Moon on July 16th at 24 degrees four minutes Capricorn.
The Cancer new Moon eclipse invites us to have a new emotional beginning. We can reset our thoughts and reactions in regard to emotional triggers. We can allow in the idea that we can choose how we feel by directing our thoughts to things, ideas and memories that make us feel good.
In Cancer we take responsibility for our own emotional body. We release the idea that people, places, things or circumstances can “make us feel” a certain way.
Certainly some things will take more focus than others to keep our focus on feeling well.
The ego – also related to Cancer – sometimes wants to project/deflect emotional responsibility onto someone or something else.
The dark of the Moon can leave us with our the stark nature of our own thoughts and feelings.
Cancer is ruled by the Moon. It is the time to practice finding thoughts that feel good, that feel uplifting or peaceful or hopeful. We can be hopeful while we move through historical experiences, memories, hopes and desires.
Mercury will go retrograde on July 7th at 4 degrees Leo, and will resume forward motion at 24 degrees Cancer on July 31.
We can rewire our mental reactions to emotional trips.
We can get creative with how we frame our emotional histories to allow our paths to be lit in new ways.
Mars entered Leo on July 1, and will journey through a sunny, creative, special-feeling space until August 17.
We will be physically inspired for creative self expression for the next 7 weeks.
We will be truly energized by the Sun. With the effect of the Cancer/Capricorn eclipse cycle we may be able to tune into a sense of timing on how, when and where to expend the energy on creative endeavors.
When I say creative endeavors, it can mean anything you are wanting to bring about, to manifest.
Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, is in charge of timing, and Cancer can intuit the when and where.
When we bask in our own energetic field — whether lying in bed, on the beach or in an actual field, we can act, more and more, from a place of ease and right timing.
There is less effort and more allowing.
If we are busy reviewing, for the thousandth time, old hurts or pains or blames, we can miss the easy timing found when we focus on what feels better.
Neptune is retrograde in Pisces until November 28th.
We can take this time to release old wounds and worries back into the cosmic pool for purification.
We can drink new and delicious dreams into our system of thought and feeling.
We can’t always see the end of the road. If we know when to step on it, though, the unfoldment can be completely magical, energizing, peaceful, happy, creative and fulfilling.
Relax and enjoy.
Life is but a dream. Dream a dream you like dreaming. Then it can grow.
All the very best,
Lydia
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SAGITTARIUS FULL MOON 2019

The Sagittarius full Moon calls us to trust and listen to our intuition. It is time to stoke and fan the fires of your inner hearth, the inner Truth.
Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, is expansive. When ideas or circumstances expand, we can see them a bit better.
We can discern the truth from a lie. We can see where an ambition is lead by society or old rules, rather than by our own inner guidance and desire.
Since the Sun is in Gemini, who likes shiny new things, perhaps some new ways of tuning in can be adopted at this time. These ways can illuminate what has come to the fore in importance for us.
Fires are an ancient means by which we can open hidden doorways. They show us new and different pictures each time we gaze upon them and experience their warmth.
If you don’t have access to an actual campfire or hearth fire at this full Moon, you can always gaze into a candle or one of those holiday fireplace videos.
When we gaze into the fire, we can let the modern world subside.
We can let the day to day retreat and we can access the eternal.
We may see places we’ve never known in the life rise up in the flame. Perhaps we will see a face we recognize only in our heart’s eye, the face we wore more than a millennial ago.
Perhaps we see only the magic of the flame and all of its hues, drawing us in – for calm, for relaxation, for refreshment and for purification.
Striving is not necessary – just a willingness to gaze and forget the rest.
If thoughts arise again and again, they can be given to the fire, causing it to flare up and burn away what no longer needs to be on our minds.
Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, who is currently at 19 degrees Sagittarius retrograde.
Retrograde Jupiter invites us to inner expansion and acquaintance with our higher self, our inner yearnings and desires to know ourselves, our paths and what step we may want to take next.
Look for that which glimmers on the path, that which catches our eye and draws us forward.
Jupiter is in opposition to the Sun in the full Moon and the inquisitive, Mercurial Gemini nature wants to play and explore.
Sag likes to play and joke, too. Its goal, though, is self-knowledge and understanding. When we have fun, it is easier to open to the pathways that lead to the joy and fulfillment that is most harmonious for us.
That which is most profound can often be the thing that is hiding in plain sight. We knew it all along, we just needed to see it in the light of openness, timing and alignment.
Set your sights on your own personal guidance. The arrow is on its way to landing on the Truth.
All the very best to you.
Lydia
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Gemini New Moon 2019
New Moons give us a new start, but, there are not really hard stops in our timeline. We are moving through the wheel of the year, through and with the seasons and the schedules and surprises of our lives.
As has been very clear where I live this year, March 21 did not reveal a full show of buds on trees and flowers in bloom. As I write, snow is falling in the mountains and rain is falling on the bachelor buttons, some of whom have been bent double by wind.
The point is, one season often flows or washes or butts into the next as does one moon cycle to another.
The Sun was moving through fixed, earthy Taurus and now the Sun and Moon are in mutable, changeable, curious Gemini.
The other planets are in other signs, all moving at different speeds and at different distances from our Sun.
The Sun and Moon we can see. If we can’t see them on any given day from our physical location, we rest assured that they are visible from someone else’s physical location on the globe. We can confirm this by using modern technology.
I am often amused that my curious Gemini friends will ask me a question about some fact out there in the world and fully expect me to cough up the answer.
And I wonder why this most curious of signs doesn’t just google it.
I think, in part, it is not just the information they are seeking, but the connection of conversation, the kinesthetic experience of hearing the voice, it’s vibration, the tap of the texted response— the connection with people in the world that makes them ask a trusted friend first, rather than consulting the zeitgeist.
After all, Uranus is the higher mind and it rules Aquarius.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury— a more familiar and tactile energy that lives to be able to pick up shiny bits from the actual ground, to turn them over in its finger or claw. It wants that physical experience of acquisition and it wants to know its source.
Gemini takes the apple that grew from the seed that was dropped by the bird on its way south. It takes the apple from the tree that Taurus tended and nurtured.
Gemini holds that apple in its hand and says do I make applejack? It seems to tart to just eat. I’ll see if the farmer has a sweeter fruit in the next field so I can make applesauce or pie.
While they move from orchard to orchard, collecting apples to transform into treats, Gemini will also collect news, stories and hot gossip to turn into yarns. When Gemini lands at the next tavern for lunch having spun information and observations into news and yarns about the goings on of marriages, deaths, weather, crops and intrigues.
Jupiter is making a mutable square to Neptune. And Mercury will move into Cancer tomorrow.
When acting as town crier or whisperer of secrets or other people’s business, remember that stories aren’t always heard as we intend them words are easily misunderstood, distorted or heard by ears that weren’t meant to hear them.
When sharing information with others, stop and think if it is helpful to pass it along.
How will you feel tomorrow, out of the dim light of the tavern or phone screen, to have revealed something you can’t take back?
Air signs like Gemini can be a bit detached from human emotion. They live the receipt of information so much they don’t always consider how the subject of the conversation or the recipient is going to receive it.
The old three questions
Does it need to be said?
Does it need to be said by me?
Does it need to be said right now?
are really helpful always, but especially now.
Being mindful of what we stuff into our heads, and how we release communications in the myriad streams available, is also helpful to all.
Upon awakening, throughout the day, and when resting the head to sleep at night, it is useful to see if what thoughts are running through the mind are bubbling like a happy, chuckling stream, or are they more like an open sewer, clogged with the detritus of criticism, ill will and hard feelings.
We can redirect thoughts to beauty, to the gentle unfoldment of dreams, to the memory of a favorite day or delicious meal. When I am hard up for a better feeling thought I might remember a funny moment in a favorite tv show and it will make me laugh.
Gemini is Mercurial and it can be redirected to sunnier more useful thoughts and ideas.
This new Moon is a great time to do a mental housecleaning and to keep the muddy boots of mean-spiritedness, criticism of self and others outside on the mat.
We can make a habit of thinking thoughts that make us feel good.
As like attracts like, we will attract sunnier and shinier and not magnetic thoughts as we increase this practice.
The shiny thoughts lead to shinier people, experiences and things in our lives.
I write this as much for myself as I do for you. Many times a day I need to remember to find that thought that makes me feel better.
I am then more likely to have a far better day and so will the people with whom I come into contact.
Saturn in Capricorn is currently in opposition to the North Node in Cancer.
The practice of cleaning up the thoughts will be backed up by Saturns love of restructuring and Cancers love of care for our own emotional bodies.
I have friends who are working on having happier, more comfortable thoughts and we share stories of how well things turn out when we remember to practice attention to the kinds of ideas that are running through our heads.
Lots of love to you.
Lydia Trettis
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SCORPIO FULL MOON 2019

The full Moon at 27 degrees Scorpio is a powerful agent for transformation.
Scorpio is human. Like it’s partner in polarity, Taurus, it craves security.
The desire of Scorpio, however, when it has developed a large enough head of steam, will release the chains of the every day and open to what we can become next.
There are three symbols of Scorpio. The Scorpion, is tiny, and carries a large sting for whoever threatens its safety and security. It strikes out in retaliation or fear.
The eagle takes to the sky and can survey the bigger picture. In its ability to see the broad view, it is powerful and is no victim. It kills to eat and feed it’s young.
The third iteration, the Phoenix, is in a state that transcends ordinary existence. In its multidimensionality, it is able to take the plunge into other worlds, other experiences, knowing that death is a momentary and existence is eternal. It is able to risk the fire of transformation in order to see and experience what may rise from that fire.
We all have Scorpio and Taurus energy in us, in our charts. If you don’t have planets in those signs, see what planets you have in the second and eighth houses – the Taurus and Scorpio houses, respectively.
Look at what the rulers of those signs are up to by birth and by transit in your chart – Venus and Pluto, respectively.
Even as the Sun and Moon move through these signs they affect how we approach security, self care, and evolution/transformation in our lives.
Taurus is focused on itself, and its resources, sometimes to the exclusion of all else.
Scorpio is concerned with shared resources. It has a wider perspective on how transformation and other aims can be achieved.
Close up and wide views both have their place.
With Venus, ruler of Taurus, conjunct Uranus in Taurus at this full Moon, we could even use a kaleidoscope to receive a new, weird, and enlightening perspective.
Mercury is conjunct the Sun opposing the full Moon which will give us information about what serves us best and illuminate what serves us best in union with and in regard to others in our lives.
The opportunity here is to be open to the most current and sincere version of how we value and care for ourselves and others.
Some physical grounding — bare feet in the garden or park— while welcoming the shine of the full Moon into the cells of the body, can be both nourishing and transformative.
Lots of love, Lydia
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TAURUS NEW MOON 2019
The New Taurus Moon brings us home to ourselves.
Aries bursts forth from the beyond and says, “I am here!”
Pure instinct.
Taurus says, “Now what?”
I am here. I need to get oriented.
Is this air I can breathe? Is there a safe place to set up my homestead?
Is there clean water nearby? Will the soil bear fruit?
What do I eat until the earth does bear fruit?
What might eat me?
At core, these are the Taurus questions.
What do I need to survive?
What do I need to acquire?
If you wonder why Taurus clings on to people, things, habits and memories as if it’s life depended on it, it is because they do feel like life depends on it.
Taurus’s basic instinct and need and focus is survival. That is the underlying motivation.
Then, once survival feels secured, comfort comes next. Feathering the best, the Quonset hut, the fallout shelter.
The Taurus energy is resourceful and is often looking for the back exit, for the gas mask.
Safety first.
It is nice, then, at this time, to get back to basics.
Is my bed giving me a good night’s sleep? Do I at least need to turn the mattress?
Is my food nurturing and sustaining me or does it taste good but hurt my tummy. On my he other end of the pendulum swing,
have I become over obsessed with clean eating to the point of stoicism? Am I so careful about getting to bed on time that I never go out and have fun?
Of course, we want to survive. And hopefully, life can go beyond mere survival to lush sensory experiences. These don’t have to break the bank.
Bathing in the multitude of a forest’s spring greens can make all of that work to survive worthwhile.
Now that we are fed and clothed, what makes a life worth living?
A stable home, diet and income are the initial Taurus desire.
It then wants to experience beauty on every level.
Venus, ruler of Taurus, is halfway through its journey through Aries. We feel the urge to find new passions, pursuits and adventures.
Mars, ruler of Aries, is in Gemini, opposing Jupiter retrograde in Sagittarius. We can go within to find the passions we wish to open to at this time.
Our intuition will guide and awaken the conscious mind. Gemini and Sagittarius are mutable signs that help us to welcome transition, transformation and change.
Saturn and Pluto, both retrograde in Capricorn are within a few degrees of a conjunction at the moment.
We are considering how/if our timing and the structure of our life and livelihood are serving us on all levels for our best and highest good.
How we spend our time, how we invest our time in ourselves and our lives is up for reformation and review.
Taurus likes to take the time to ruminate. The rumination is aided by soft colors, comfy surroundings, and our favorite foods.
Life’s unfoldment can be a picnic. 💗
Love, Lydia
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SECOND LIBRA FOR FULL MOON 2019
I neglected to mention we were having two libra full Moons in a row. One at 0 degrees in March and this one, at 29 degrees Libra.
We are bookending our light and dark and all the twilights, sunrises, and sunsets of the soul in between.
In the last degree of Libra, making a wide square to Pluto and Saturn and the South Node within orb of each other in the early 20’s degrees of Capricorn, we have a moment to look again at the structure of our relationships.
With the Moon opposing the Sun in Aries, we look at how we relate to ourselves and to others. Final degrees of signs give a bit of an strength and momentum to make some moves.
Libra’s ruler, Venus, is in Pisces. Pisces asks us to look at our dreams, wishes, desires, illusions and delusions around relationship. The sun in Aries regards our primary relationship- the one with ourselves.
The Moon in Libra highlights how we choose to relate to others and how those relationships cause us to reflect on ourselves.
The second Libra Full Moon may reveal, as if waking from a long torpor, true illumination regarding how and why we relate the way we do.
The Sun will enter more slow and considerate Taurus tomorrow. Taurus can bring determination to relate in new ways as a result of the illumination received during the double Libra full Moon cycle of the past month. Taurus, when it decides to move or change, does so with great determination.
Worth a mention, as well, is that Pluto and Saturn are preparing to begin retrograde motion within the next week or so. Jupiter in its home sign of Sag has already begun its retrograde journey.
There may be some end of a beginning that wants attention today.
Now retrograde motion doesn’t mean that evolution stops. In fact, a deeper connection to past and present actions, motivations and energy to move forward are all part of retrograde cycles.
Life is all about our relationships – with ourselves, with our routines, time, our work, our feelings, our friends, loves, families.
We are never at a standstill with any of it, though we could feel stuck. Changes can be so tiny we don’t notice them. Withdrawal can be so incremental we don’t realize we are now almost entirely alone. The opening to the new can be a burst or a lengthy unfoldment. Libra’s sense of balance is an experience of all places on the spectrum. It is where we test the extremes on the journey to our own equilibrium.
The movement of the planets highlights different areas of life so that we can find new ways to be.The light can come on and shine the way down a different tributary, a path that is revealed only now, because the stars are aligned and we are ready.
There are so many alignments and so many new opportunities to arise, again - to awaken, anew.
Chose to allow for the illumination that awaits us with the coming of each dawn, with each end of day.
Dream on, live on, and the revelation arrives.
Love, Lydia
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ARIES NEW MOON 2019
Happy Aries! Happy first new Moon of the Astrological year.
Most systems are go.
Mercury has resumed forward motion.
This Aries Full Moon has a full speed ahead feeling as all planets are in a rare moment of forward motion.
Statement of intention is called for, as is making a step toward the intention.
The steps can be internal, almost blind - like saying to oneself, wow! I feel like I want to paint a mural!
I want to paint a mural, or a miniature! I feel like painting!
Picturing a painting, scribbling a sketch, looking at where the mural will go, feeling like a painter— these are all steps.
Aries is so instinctual. It says I am here and I am going to be!
It charges in, it sticks its finger in the paint and makes a mark.
It not only isn’t thinking about the critics, it doesn’t even know what a critic is!
This state of innocent creation, the face of a goofy lamb looking at its mother like, ain’t life grand and then jumping around like a maniac because it feels amazing!
That is Aries energy. The ewe looks at the lamb and says, “meh.” Already she is world weary. She has responsibility. She has this nutty, exuberant lamb.
Tapping into friskiness - jumping around because it feels amazing, smearing the paint for now reason other than to feel it squished between the fingers, coming back to the instinctual impulse, if not joy, of life in human form, can lead to new ways of being.
Life wants to live and Mars/Aries gives us the instinctual fire to frolic and the instinctual guide and impulse to start.
Mars is currently in Gemini.
So picking up shiny things and gathering ideas and pictures that instinctually feel good to us will help stoke the fire.
An instinctual vision board or altar can be fun and helpful at this time.
The How/When it is going to manifest doesn’t matter. Just the gathering and assembling of a tableau that feels good is the only remit. The less real world sense it makes the better.
Go toward what lights the fire of the senses.
We have lots of opportunities for new starts over the course of the year, and Aries New Moon is one of the most natural of them. Find The feet moving, and allow it to turn into a dance. Find yourself humming and allow it to morph into song.
Let the voice and the limbs and the digits and the appetite lead the way to sounds and textures and tastes that open up new pathways in the mind, in the body, in the life.
Love, Lydia
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PS Jupiter turns retrograde on April 10th at 24 degrees Sagittarius. Jupiter rules Sagittarius, a fire sign. We have the opportunity to allow our deep seated beliefs to be revealed and healed, and evolved.
This can happen societally, as well.
On the 23rd Pluto goes retrograde at 23 degrees Capricorn, and Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, goes retrograde at 21 Capricorn.💗

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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