NAVIGATING by the stars

Relationship is a charged word.  A word imbued with implications that we don’t often consider.  We most often use it in terms of romance or a significant other, but the truth is we are...

In the ancient world, the sky was seen as a canvas upon which the Gods wrote messages. Eclipses and other phenomena were viewed as portents of the divine. Even today, beyond words or logic, when we...

We all remember the children's rhyme: sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.  Though I understand the sentiment, if there was ever a statement that is incorrect,...

The Pisces New Moon each year is the Moon that carries our intentions forward into the Vernal Equinox. The last sign on the zodiacal wheel, Pisces, prepares us for Aries, the sign of individuality and...

This Sunday, February 23, Mars stations and goes direct, moving forward for the first time in 2025.   Mars’ retrograde motion has given us a somewhat slow start to the beginning of the...

Full Moons are notoriously powerful. They shift the tides, both literally but also metaphorically within our lives. Guided by the light corals spawn for a few days following the Full Moon.  Its...

As I write this, we are actively dwelling in the energy of the New Moon in Aquarius.  Culturally, for most of history, it was commonly believed that we live in an enchanted sentient cosmos....

“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything...

Each month, the Full Moon illuminates our skies.  If you dwell in an urban area flooded with light, the visual power of this period is far more subdued, no matter how radiant the Moon...

Tomorrow, Monday, December 30, at 5:27 pm EST, we have our last New Moon of 2024 in the sign of Capricorn.  I look at this new Moon and I can hear Aretha Franklin singing R-E-S-P-E-C-T  find...

The Winter Solstice is a time often hailed as the return of the light:  On the darkest day of the year, the Sun metaphorically is born again. A seed of possibility is planted during the shortest...

There is an innate wildness within all of us.  A way of moving, a pulse, that silently draws us forward. An instinctive knowing that seemingly, inexplicably draws us along our path. It knows what...

  New Moon in Sagittarius December 1, 1:21 am EST/November 30, 10:21 pm PST I have a long four-foot wooden plaque that is designed to be a Christmas decoration, which is inscribed with...

The way we pay attention to the world around us shapes our world. Our attention, what we focus on,  is a lens that filters both how and what we see, what we are able to receive from the world and...

On Friday, November 15, at 1:29 PST/4:29 EST. our last supermoon of the year, a Full Moon in Taurus takes place.  The Moon is the heavenly body that is the closest to us, both astronomically and...