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Everyday Medicine Woman, Chicago, IL (2026)

09/03/2024

On 9/2/24 at 8:55 pm CST we are provided with a moment to pause on the enormity of the change & movement of the summer with a healing harmonizing 🌑🌾 in mutable earth Virgo. Ruled by Mercury fresh from it’s recent retrograde cycle, this reunion of the sun and moon in the sign of the practical magician offers clarity, cleansing & the power of to reimagine our divine map from the viewpoint of tangible steps that will lead us to the goals and aspirations of the heart and soul.

Virgo is the only sign with a glyph of a person, a woman - goddess of the harvest not leading p***e yet tending to the well-being of the entire growing season from seeding to harvest. She is the virgin whole unto herself - dedicated to the art of perfecting the mundance that opens the doorway to the possible. Where ever Virgo lives in your 🌟chart, there is a tendency to overfunction to the point of burn out or depletion from giving without care for the inner needs. Remembering that this is an earth sign, the goddess glyth can also symbolize the container or boundaries that are essential to our health & life force.

This 🌑 connects to the 🌕 in Virgo earlier in the year on 2/24/24 - that lunation & the next 🌕 usher in eclipse seasons. Take time to reflect on all that changed throughout the past 6 months; the growth, shifts, healing & lessons. What needs to be released into the dark soil of the night & what will be alchemized from suffering to knowledge for the season ahead.

Pluto is reentering Capricorn for it’s final walk through of making meaning of legacy that is worthy of our true self vs duty to tradition.

Virgo season brings a special kind of magic with the incremental, subtle changes in light, temperature and calling to bring order into our lives. Pay attention to the beauty as well as the power of spinning wheat into gold via our intentional actions in harmony with our higher compass for self and humanity.

Happy New Moon 🌑🌾

07/06/2024

On 7/5/24 at 5:57 PM CST we are offered a sacred moment to move into the seas of remembrance, worthiness & the infinite power of emotional presence. All new moons offer a potent medicinal message influencing us individually & as a collective. Cancer, a cardinal water sign is ruled by the 🌝 our inner luminary that holds the vibrational 🧬intergenerational 🧶 connecting us to home, in our bodies, on 🌎 & as a humanity. Venus also in ♋️ adds the sweetness to the elixir for our hearts. This lunation reanimates the unconditional capacity we each hold to offer the generousity of nourishment and care for ourselves as well as others.

Cancer 🦀 is the only water sign with a home 🐚 that teaches us about trusting that we can take the journey where ever the currents may go as we have a source of protection. The tarot card associated with ♋️ is The Chariot for this very reason. Yet with the 🌛as its ruler, the seas are in rythym with the goddess of the waters and she is a powerful source and map. Every culture and lineages connect the 🌝with the divine grandmother, the sacred knowledge transmitted throught generation and time. She is the luminary that takes us into our emotional intelligence, our soul ancestry, as like those creatures that dwell in the dark of the shell, have travelled through the roughest seas, the scariest storms, the most magestic starry nights only to be delivered on to the shore unharmed. The saying no grit, no pearl is the mantra of this star sign🐚.

It is time to surrender to the waters within and give your salty tears to the great waters, your saddness or confusion about direction and feel the profound comfort of the ancient source of remembrance - the mother of the waters and the cosmic weaver of life force - the moon. Find the place this love wishes to anchor inside of you and allow this inscription of intrinsic knowing to be one within your great mystery beyond the mind. Where the sign Cancer lives in your 🌟chart it is receiving this beautiful medicine of cleansing and restoration. It takes courage to create boundaries, curiosity to step out of them and a deepening of self love to honor both.

🌚 Blessings

06/21/2024

Every year when the sun moves into cardinal water Cancer we are suspended into two days of communion with the power, warmth and sweetness of the Summer Solstice. Cardinal signs serve as activators of movement, from one season to another like the turning of a wheel of time that conspires with needs of our potential via the mysterious harmony of nature with the universe.

As we celebrate the infusion of light and the invitation to feel the warm nourishment of the Sun, the heart opens like a flower that turns it’s head toward the vibrance of life- to grow without limits.

The summer solstice is revered and honored throughout the world (with the winter solstice occurring in the southern hemisphere) yet the sign Cancer that launches this moment is ruled by the Moon that moves the tides & waterways like a weaver connecting and sustaining all of life ☀️🌊

Summer invites us to leave that which is unfinished inside to the call of the wam winds and beautiful moments of being 🪁🌻

Tomorrow 🌕 will ask us to contemplate but today complells us to feel 🌅

04/08/2024

On 4/8/24 we are in the midst of a sacred moment - at 1:20 CST a 🌑 total solar eclipse in cardinal 🔥aries ruled by Mars at 19 degrees with Chiron which holds a mythic story of the wounded healer, one who can create remedies for others but not for the self. along with 🌑☀️Chiron is venus, mercury rx, a small planet Eris sister of Mars who was discovered just before the last sequence of Aries/Libra eclipses 19 years ago that shines the dark light of power imbalance or exclusion based on human created standards. This extaordinary moment when the 🌑 eclipses the light of the ☀️ signifies the north node that opens a destiny gate of potential for evolutionary growth. To say this moment is intense is an understatement. Where aries lives in your 🌟 chart gives more clues for the treasure hunt as well as what themes began on 4/8/2005 or even last april 19th and 10/14 when this round of ecipses focusing on self/me & balancing that with consideration for relationships/we are coming to a close.

Total solar eclipses are like when the power goes out & surges back on. How do we feel when it happens, what do we notice in the quiet darkness when the power comes back on, what choas does it create until we readjust to the shifts? Some speak of the metophors of blinding & then seeing clearly …… You are your own teacher, be present free of old mindets, fears, expectations or looking for what it means.

Many indigenious and Vedic teachings and practices instruct the importance of stillness, honoring this power of nature by remaining inside, fasting, praying & quiet within the self. Whether we look up 🕶️ or look within, this is a map we are co-creating, a new story of our life journey. Aries is an instinctive primal force of nature pushing movement, birthing the Spring of possiblities. It is that moment of seperation when the soul meets body in a very unique iteration of selfhood. This is a birth to reclaim empowerment. Chiron is planting seeds in this new moon that has 🧬 for self healing - reflect on the hidden thoughts that may have originated from early imprinting that hold us back from believing in our worthiness. The recipe for the remedy will reveal 🪞
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03/25/2024

n 3/25/23 at 2:00 am CST a consequential Full Moon penumbral south node eclipse in cardinal air Libra will awaken us with it’s synchronistic shifts into the places within & around that are out of alignment or reached a culmination in our lives. 🌕 generally bring the seeds planted in the 🌑 to fruition yet eclipses disrupt patterns rather than follow them. As the 🌎 does a dance intercepting the reflecting light of the moon, it can give the appearance of a red or “blood moon” cast when a a total eclipse perfects.

Like all astrological transits & cycles moves in a certain kind of rhythm, timing and order, working in opposing sign pairs, ⚡️ offer the opportunity to deepen the understanding of our motives, challenges, desires & if we are open to engaging with mystery, insight at soul + practical levels.

This 🌕 has a time thread to the 🌑 solar ⚡️ on 10/14/23 both in ♎️ ruled by Venus which centers it’s attention on the themes that connect one with the other so that we coexist with mutuality in the air we share - the love or strife we exchange & the importance of walking the beauty way - to live in balance, harmony and equality ⚖️ Knowing balance is not static but dynamic, it requires a commitment & choice to honor the values & actions that seek this path of self in context with our relationships. 🔍 to the changes this lunation reveals can be found in the season ♎️ ushers in as the fall teaches us that once the harvest, the extreme beauty of the summer wanes, 🌬️change to assist that which is over to release or separate from it’s system to return to it’s source. As SN eclipses help us to unwind with a suction cup kind of energy that extracts or brings something we are complete with to it’s resolution or directional shift. SN 🌕 eclipses can 🪞 a mood board of what we have been feeling or where we have been.

This moment helps us prep for 🌱 It is time to practice the gentle art of letting go whatever is complete or stagnant.

A new ⚡️ story is asking us to collaborate as co-authors to a more purposeful life journey - each clue is magic, karmic. It can be scary to enter into the unknown yet that is where the greatest discoveries await ✨🌝💎

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03/20/2024

On 3/19/24 at 10:04 CST the Sun moves into the cardinal fire sign Aries 🔥🐏 taking us into the annual moment of reset with the Spring Equinox ~equal day/equal night. From this day forward until the matching fall equinox, we experience progressively longer days of light & warmth in the northern hemisphere.

Aries is wildest of the three 🔥 signs as it propels the courage and primal force to move through the inner earth following that call of life to grow forth from the seed of potential into the expression of it’s code. Like the zero card of The Fool in the tarot, it is the first step on to the game board of life, full of energy & courage yet lacking any real understanding of what the journey might entail, ask of us or challenge us to stay the path course.

While we trust the regularity of Sun, Moon and Earth to take us through it’s time bound cycles, this particular Aries season is full of the change making pattern disruptions associated with eclipses. Aries can be inpatient and willful as a steady state yet when amplified by the power of the transits in play for this month, it is essential to utilize this moment of balance that this equinox inspires whether mind/body/spirit, our light/shadow,healing, presence/action - the connective tissue that holds our dual nature is our consciousness and our breath.

🔆Connect deeply with the heart beat of the Mother Earth surrendering to the power of her life force, allowing her rhythm to inform your movement forward taking the time to remember where you have been while being open to the mystery of where you may be going. Happy Spring and take your compass as you will need it 💮🌀♾️✨🔆🌏🌑☀️

03/12/2024

Thrilled to be to be sharing with the glorious Moonwise once again as Spring launches us into new growth & change 🌿

Eclipse season is coming! Are you ready? Learn how to collaborate with the invisible and be prepared for this powerful astrological window.

Beginning with a Full Moon eclipse in Libra on March 25 and ending with a New Moon eclipse in Aries on April 8, 2024, this window has a fated quality that will disrupt patterns, illuminate where we need to release and help us come into balance around our identity and desires.

Join us to get a sense of the rhythm and opportunities of the upcoming eclipse season, engage in guided self reflection and learn about how the stars are influencing us personally and collectively.

We will go over:

✨Important astrological dates and how to collaborate with them

⚡️Do's and don'ts for eclipse season (hint: not a good time for ritual or manifestation work)

✍🏼A prompt for personal reflection (bring your journal!)

🌟Q&A time with Susan about this current astrological moment

“I truly believe this is an incredible time to collaborate with the invisible and for remedies to come forth to expedite our healing.” - Susan Lipshutz 🩵

A recording will be sent to all participants whether you can attend live or not. We look forward to being with you!

Link in the comments ⤵️

03/10/2024

Stunning image via .lingua

3/10/24 takes us on a journey into the mystical waters of oceanic proportions with a new moon in mutable 🌊Pisces. This new cycle begins with the influence of Neptune on one side and saturn on the other that both talks about the magnitude of our transpersonal psyche and the importance of remembering the dream 🔱 disolves when we wake if not contextualized with our life purpose 🪐.

Pisces is the last sign in the zodiac wheel where the sumation of our experiences all merge into the ultimate swirl of color, sound and essence. The wisdom comes with unconditional surrender to love, to understanding that there is a force greater than what we have been taught so that we may discover what we know. The tarot card associated with Pisces is the 🌙 & 🌙 The HIgh Priestless 🧜🏽‍♀️. In every lineage there is a goddess of the waters associated with the Moon. She moves the waters, the tides and holds the invisible pathways throughout the 🌏. In Quechuan the Mother of the waters is called Mamacocha. The ancient collective womb where all life begins and ends 🐚

This is the last new moon is the astro year that will take us into a powerful current of eclipes cycles.
Saturn has been in ♓️ for one year teaching us that it is time to take our dreams seriously - to devote to the work of building out the possiblity into visaiblity.
Imagine you are in the ocean and feel a sand bar beneath the feet or a floating pier to climb onto and catch your breath. That is the magic of Saturnian influence showing that is it attainble to build something definable in the deepest and grandest of the waters. Catch your breath, feel the movement of life force within and around. This is a bridge from one world to the next not a destination. Pay attention to symbols, dreams and signs that and most of all the inner guidance of the awakening soul pulling us onward to our real work as part of a humanity in dire need of our higher medicine 🩵

Happy New Moon 🌑🌊🐋✨

02/10/2024

On 2/9/2024 a pitoval new moon in fixed 🌬️ Aquarius ushers in the first lunation cycle introducing the formidable presence of Pluto begining a 20 year walkabout into our individual & collective experience. Pluto goes deep and gets real. At 00 degrees ♒️ while Pluto as a transpersonal change agent, it will stand at the entrance of every planet that moves into the sign of the water bearer activating elements of the self to the surface via an echo from the soul. This adds an entirely different quality to Aquarian season where as the tarot card associated with The Star 🌟 speaks to an intellectually curious inspired cosmic costillation thread linking us to the direct source material. Aquarius as a signature breaks us free to find our own path as a unique being while understanding there is an inexplicable web linking us all together as one.

All air signs have a tendency to fly rather than walk yet this new moon with Pluto’s force pulling us down to the bone, origin & essence, this lunation cycle is giving us clues and psychic notes as we enter this paradoxical era of rebellion, revolution & loyalty to a kind of freedom that requires reverence rather than chaos.

The second 🌑 of a year is auspicious in the beginning of the Lunar New Year - the Year of the Wood Dragon 🐉 What better spirit guide to initate us into the prelude to the Age of Aquarius than the undomesticated mythical creature that challenges us to dance with magic in search of our warrior 🔥💎

This image may look serene for the energies of this 🌑 yet it illustrates how we carry the elementals, the teachings, growth cycles and power of the earth within our sacred vessels, the body. This body is electrified by beauty, tatooed with our cosmic story, some of which has not been brought into form. What is the song that needs to be sung that will give us the joy, the courage to move forward into the unknown? ♒️ represents the power of breath, the connector of all world seen & unseen - the spirit of the four winds🌬️

We are standing in an evolutionary portal taking us into the self or out to the world yet both are needed for true change to bring the new story to life 🐲

🌑🌎☄️🌬️🌟🩵

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01/26/2024

On 1/25/24 we are taken into a powerful sphere of heart centered medicine with the first full moon of the year in fixed 🔥Leo.
Ruled by the ☀️ no matter where Leo lives in your 🌟 birth chart, both this area and your sun sign will feel the boost of radiant solar power reawakening a call to live from the center or heart of the self.
Full moons bring to wholeness the seeds planted during the new moon phase it is associated with so reflecting back to 8/16/23 during Leo 🌑 and first harvest may help to understand what is being shown in the mandala of this moon story.

Leo is unafraid to lead, to be seen, to hold the warm hot creative joy that defines the heart of the summer season. The Sun has no off switch, it is the center of the universe that the other planets revolve around. this full moon brings up our discomfort with power, visability and strength of character or lack there of holding a solar 🪞 up challenging us to center our egos with the devotional promise & path of a ❤️‍🔥warrior.

Leo’s animistic symbol is 🦁 yet January full moon is known as the 🐺 as it howls with the cold nights of the still fixed air of the Aquarion season. This polarity of 🔥🌕 + 🌬️☀️ offers the teaching of me & we as Leo focuses on the very nature of our own self centered drives and desires to experience the joy of an embodied life while Aquarius loves with it’s mind by exploring the inventive possiblities of bending existing concepts/systems until they break to be set free in search of a more advanced version for the collective & humanity. Both are highly creative and are held together by the epicenter of life - the heart.

This 🌕 will resuscitate some part of our heart that has gone numb or dark from a lack of vital purpose or love reminding us of our inner calling or connection to the collective 🌏 if we are lucky it will be both.
May we translate the message into action like our four legged spirit guides 🦁🐺 while the night’s 🔥 is still strong to light our way ✨

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12/13/2023

The last new moon of 2023 arrives on 12/12 which holds a reverence as the feast day of the virgin of Guadalupe 🌹 This new moon is in the mutable fire sign of Sagittarius, the mythic centaur that embues the qualities of a sign that inspires us to look up, to wish upon a star in the cold still night sky, to have the courage to dream our dream, to follow that vision of possiblity & bring it forward into the future.

This archer is a teacher. Ruled by Jupiter it expands our consciousness asking us to ascend from absorbing information into understanding what the deeper meaning is for us. The tarot card associated with Sagittarius is Alchemy. This the is kind of fire that has a higher frequency similiar to a candlelight or tiny holiday lights we see this time of year. LIke the archer, this is a light that requires intention, poise & willingness to release that which we can not create on our own - it requires magic 💫

♐️ seeks to know what is beyond the limits of our reality, to discover what is on the other side of the 🌍. Yet unlike a bonfire, this candle holds it greatest power at the moment of bringing it to life. The key is to keep the dream alive after the actual fire burns out like the alchemist that blows glass or creates gold from metal - a practice in the power of belief 🔥

Mercury beings it’s last rx of the year on 12/13 - 1/1/24. It begins it’s journey as a throughtful 🐐 until the solstice then reentering 🏹 to examine our beliefs we hold as truths. It will ask us to rethink the stories we live by, the power they hold and how we might open to the cocreation of a new story, a new dream and the possiblity of a new map for ourselves and the collective.

This new moon invites us to step into the dark as a keeper of a light that understands that even if it is the only star visible in the night’s sky it is part of a constellation tells the bigger story, a luminous web connecting us all. May we all remember we are each a part of one another. ✨🌑🏹🙏🏼

The beautiful image created by Jen Fountainlingua 🌟

11/27/2023

On 11/27/23 the 12th lunation grows into wholeness in mutable air Gemini. Full moons bring to 💡what has grown from a seed point (new moon in Gemini on 6/17/23) holding one side of the polarity with the ☀️in it’s opposite sign. It is said to know a sign, you need to understand the opposite sign -
♊️ is to share/learn/speak
♐️ is to know/understand
While both offer high vibe conversation, growth and exploration of the mind, it is often
🔹the listening
🔹digesting
🔹developing the ability to critically think through what we are exposed to so that we might aquire the art of discernment that this axis of our life journey invites us to explore 💠

Gemini is ruled by Mercury which sits across the bow with Mars, ☀️ & Ceres/Demeter a strong Mother Goddess all in Sagittarius ▪️Saturn in ♓️. The tarot card associated with Gemini is the lovers as it is said that Gemini is always looking for it’s sacred twin. All 🌬️signs aerate inner & outer spaces rising or elevating the frequency of the conversation as a dynamic force. While, ♎️ earate relationsips and enviroments & ♒️ strive to a higher plane of humanitarian aspirations, a Gemini is exploring pathways of curiousity, questions, ideas to learn & to share. While this level of exuburance can be energizing & enchanting, it can also create a perpetual inpatience toward others to catch up with a mind that moves faster then the world around + subsequent boredom as there are always so many choices with such little time. The lovers reminds this part of our desire for connection to cultivate a sacred relationhip with ourselves, with the divine & nature. Mercury it’s ruler is associated with the tarot card the Magician & Sagittarius the card Alchemy. It is our assignment as we grow to take time to assimilate information we are exposed to understand how it feels at a deeper soul level - how it serves not only our lives but that of the collective & what ultimately is worthy to guide ourselves and offering as our truth which can shift over time.

The messages are strong from this lunation that include an ancient cosmic knowing about what is fundamental to who we are -
How we share this may be as impt as what we convey 💙🏹

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