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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VIRGO FULL MOON
Experiencing Totality
The Virgo full Moon is on Monday March 9 at 1:48 PM EST.
The Pisces/Virgo axis invites us to experience the spiritual through the physical. The Sun in Pisces energy highlights the energy of all of the astrological signs as it is the last of the twelve.
Pisces’ ruler, Neptune is conjunct the Sun at the full Moon emphasizing the fact that we are all made of water and that, as humans, we are all swimming in the same pond, breathing the same air, sharing dreams and visions.
If we are porous in our energetic fields, we may share the emotional run off of others.
The Full Virgo Moon can help us to put the focus on ourselves, to see where the run off of other people’s dreams, fears and anxieties can be sidestepped. We can then have a look at our own mind and what is moving through it.
Virgo is ruled by Mercury. Mercury is in charge of our day to day thoughts. Virgo organizes the mind and decides what can stay and what can go.
Mercury resumes forward motion at 11:49 PM EST at 28 degrees Aquarius. Mercury will move forward back into Pisces on 16 March.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, helps us to detach enough from the small mind to see ourselves from the outside in and to define where we are as individuals, separate from the herd.
Venus is conjunct Uranus in Taurus. The call is to use the higher mind and the wisdom of the whole to care for ourselves, to be aware of our personal safety and security. Uranus conjunct Venus, ruler of Taurus can jangle our electrical system, our sense of physical security. Grounding exercises are key at this time.
Uranus’ realm is the individuated unconscious, with all of its memories, including repressed and traumatic memories. Uranus also holds the concept of our future individuated selves.
If we can take the time out, separate from others, that we are being offered at the moment due to circumstances that are fast going global, we can take time to see what and who we are. The subconscious mind may reveal old thought patterns, memories or wounds that can be healed and released for our improved health. It is like a virus running in the background, impeding the whole system, slowing it down and we don’t know why. When we have time out, the subconscious offers up its hidden bounty and we can engage, and heal.
Saturn rules restriction, timelines and rules themselves. The 12th house and Pisces rule incarceration and/or-isolation from others.
The 12th house can be the monastic cell relished for quiet rest and contemplation or the prison cell or the psych ward. During a time of self-isolation or quarantine that many may face in the coming weeks, how will it feel to each individual?
Virgo likes to have a routine and an organizational structure.
Virgo rules health. Virgo rules how we take care of the physical vehicle we are given to navigate the time on the Earth plane.
With many planets still in Capricorn there is a sense of responsibility in caring for own physicality.
Will all of these self-isolated, quarantined humans take this time out to do a big spring clean of the home and the mind?
No doubt the dusty thoughts and feelings brought up by our own sublimated memories of trauma, global nerves and attempts not to bite our nails or touch our face in any way, 😆 could use some rest, relaxation, review, and release.
Pisces likes a time of quiet reflection and a Virgo Full Moon is happy to use the time to get some things straight on all levels.
Virgo can organize the mind , emotion and physicality to a freeing and useful effect.
We can only bring so much into the home. We live, much of the time, in our minds. We can only truly focus on one thing at a time. What we choose to focus on, to think about, is more important than ever. When we find ourselves nervous, afraid, swimming in a sea of the unknown, redirecting thoughts to something soothing and useful can be a true lifeline.
At the moment, or in the near future, in many people’s cases, we will be encouraged to sit there with all of that stuff we brought in, created, accumulated. How will each of us respond when our stuff, day after day, is staring us, literally, in the face?
If there is room in our home, in our hearts, in our minds for anything else, what are we making space for during this time?
Are we moving to calibrate our energy in a way that allows us to receive intuition that will allow us to move through this unpredictable time with as much grace, ease, and toilet paper as possible?
Socrates invited , “grant me a beautiful soul in which the inner and outer self are united as one.”
Pisces Sun and Virgo Moon know how to answer Socrates’ request. The calibration of all of our whole selves, one to the other to the other – the physical, mental, spiritual, worker, friend, family member, dreamer, consumer, joiner, isolater… on and on we go.
We go on, one moment at a time, with a breath, with a conscious step, with a repeated soothing word or phrase --
I like “all is very well” as a statement I can run aloud or in my head to preempt or override any other recurring, less than helpful thoughts.
Calming, breathing, and letting the excess energy flow out the bottoms of the feet into the earth for recycling can be a useful pattern to run whenever the mind gets carried to distracted places.
We are all swimming in the same pond, but we are propelled by our own fins, flippers, instinct, intuition, conscious and subconscious minds.
We have a choice about how to react to any situation. Virgo has the beautiful ability to take a breathe, Assess any situation, see what is needed, roll up their sleeves, and dive in.
Pisces gives us the guidance, the faith and the vision to carry on, one moment at a time.
Lots of love to all you fellow walkers, swimmers and dreamers. 🍃🐠🍃🐠
Lydia xxx
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PISCES NEW MOON
The Pisces new moon takes place on February 23 at 10:32 AM EST. It takes place at 4 degrees 29 minutes Pises. Pisces is a mutable water sign. It is the last sign of the zodiac and contains the energy of all the signs. It is a culmination of the entire wheel of the year.
This makes the Pisces New Moon a great time to look back at the previous 12 months and forward to the coming year.
As Pisces is ruled by Neptune, this new Moon invites us to dream, and to envision what we want to attract; where we want to spend our time and energy.
With Pisces we can also look at where we have been deluded, waylaid or sidetracked by ideas that may not be what we truly want.
We can be sidetracked by outmoded ideas, by thinking we want a life presented by social media that would, in truth and practice, not suit our disposition at all.
Getting a clear look at who we are and how we want life to unfold can be aided by meditation, by writing, by consulting oracles, by vision boards, by dream journals…..
Mercury is still retrograde in Pisces. It will dip its toe back into Aquarius to 28 degrees before resuming forward motion on March 10.
The bulk of the retrograde time is spent in Pisces, inviting us to see where we are foggy, where we are clear and where we might want to stay in the mist of potential until clarity arrives.
Saturn, lord of karma and timing, is getting ready to end the two year journey through Capricorn, the planet’s home sign. Saturn will move into revolutionary, ground breaking, rut shaking Aquarius on March 22.
Before Saturn leaves Capricorn, it will make some parting shots.
At the time of the new Moon, Mars is at 4 degrees Capricorn and Jupiter is at 18 degrees Capricorn. Pluto is at 24 degrees Cap and Saturn is at 27 degrees.
The South Node is nearly conjunct Mars at 6 degrees Capricorn.
We are face to face with the structure of our lives — the physicality and the plans and the timing.
What needs to be let go can be taken or shaken from our very hands at times like this so that we can be present for a deeper experience, the one we’ve been planning for with our higher selves.
We’ve been sitting in the Higher Self’s tree house, with a Guardian angel and our soul and a stick scratching out plans in the earthen floor that our ordinary selves may know nothing about. Perhaps only a glimmer or a nudge til now.
The part of us that visits with other realms while we are sleeping or doing the shopping or making plans for greatness has been quietly been plotting for an unfolding beyond our simple human imagining.
The sudden appearance of these machinations of our higher selves can pull us up and out of the every day.
I have seen it happening with several people I know this very week.
A healing crisis, the addiction that finally gets big enough for the job to be lost and for recovery to begin. These are Pisces/Neptune meets Capricorn experiences. Where we are lost from life, we are called back to the light of day.
The path we truly desire opens up in perhaps a sudden and possibly shocking way - where part of or all our whole existence may need to be reconsidered— Mercury retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius. Uranus in Taurus trining Mars in Capricorn can flush us from our rut to find deeper value in our activities and relationships.
Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn in Capricorn are square to Venus in Aries at this new Moon. Venus is the lower octave of Pisces’ ruler Neptune. Aries is led by instinct. Both Pisces and Capricorn are Cardinal signs that want to begin and begin again. Aries may break down barriers with its head to get the soul moving on the next leg of the journey while the personality is left rubbing the resultant lump and trying to keep up.
Pisces is the dream and delusion. It is also a culmination readying for another turn around the wheel of the year. Capricorn is the timing and structure. Uranus/Aquarius is the group and the lighting bolt that sets our pants and mind on fire with change of body and ideas.
These energies are all at play this new Moon.
While sitting in the dark of the Sun/Moon conjunction in Pisces, we can relate to the alternate awareness the fish has naturally that we can tap into. We are all swimming in the same pool of spirit that is beyond time and space. We are able to feel the ripple of what is approaching— sometimes hard by, sometimes many moons away. Both may be relevant to the here and now. The sense we used to pick up on these ripples may be intuition, instinct and connection to our Higher Self, rather than, or in addition to sight, sound, taste etc.
Expansion into love of self and love of each moments variety of experience is the best friend at this time.
When the waves come, by diving deeper we find stillness, comfort and wisdom.
Love, Lydia 💜
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