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11/08/2025

Winter Begins in the LunarSolar Calendar. May you be warm and well. Image Credit: The Last Leaf, by Victor Nizovtsev

11/07/2025

This Full Moon in Ta**us (11/5/2025) shines a light on our inherent value and the beauty we wish to bring forth with which to flower the Earth. She brings a light of illumination to the Deep Truth that the Scorpio Sun brings to the surface for acknowledgement and clearing. When this polarity works well together, Ta**us can make compost to enrich our soil out of the Deep Cleaning that Scorpio delights in. Kindness and Truth can enrich our lives with beauty and abundance.

Venus, who rules Ta**us, and thus this Full Moon, is in quite a stressed position. Now in the last degrees of Libra (another sign she rules), Venus has to make adjustments between many points of view brought forth in sudden bursts, and the demands of aligning with Spirit and respecting Structure/Reality. How do we value ourselves and treat ourselves and each other kindly with so much diversity of experience and ways of seeing the World? How do we ground ourselves in Spirit and Oneness despite the turmoil and swirls of change? Venus in Libra seeks this tall order of harmony and balance while opposing Chiron Retrograde (Rx) in Aries. This added challenge calls them both to cooperate toward the goal of a healed sense of Self and Self-worth in order to forge a new path forward, a new identity, in alignment with our Highest Good.

No relationship can be in alignment without the sacredness of Self and Other equally honored. Issues of self worth and values (Ta**us) have come to the surface (Scorpio) for review and for alignment with Spirit (Neptune Rx in Pisces). Differing ways of experiencing and communicating that experience (Uranus Rx Gemini) must be grounded in reality in a mature and responsible way (Saturn Rx in Pisces) honoring the sacredness of All. A Kite formation pointing to Pluto in Aquarius tells us where we are going with this Very Tall Order: toward a Humanity in alignment with Natural Law and a healed Sacred Masculine and Feminine honoring each other and expressed through a mature, grounded responsibility for kindness and care. This is true Empowerment.

This Kite formation includes a woobly Air/Water Grand Trine. I call it wobbly because it is full of planets at the end or beginning degrees of air or water signs and looks and feels a bit unsteady. Depending on how this Moon effects your chart you may feel woobly, uncertain, or deeply challenged with emotions. Remember your tools: Nature, connection to Spirit, nurturing movement (yoga/tai chi/qigong), clean water and nourishing, grounding foods, like root vegetables.

Uranus Rx changes from Gemini to Ta**us on the Nov. 7th, further accentuating the themes of Deep care and nurture for our Earth, personal and collective.

On a lighter note, both Scorpio and Ta**us are extremely intuitive and creative.

The following quotes from John Sandbach express this Polarity’s Creative urges beautifully. Ta**us: “You love to be able to move and to be free. You think on your feet and are very good at spontaneous expression. All you need is a supportive context in which to create and experiment in direct, open fashion, and your essence will shine forth, continually surprising both yourself and other people.” Scorpio: “…. to express creative urges freely and without need of any support or permission from outside brings us into contact with the power of our own needs and instincts.”

Remember to play, smile and to lift your face up to the wind and the sun and the moon.

Find further support with a video by Nancy Rebecca, Intuitive and Psychic Teacher, called, appropriately, “Entering The Twilight Zone”. Meditation at 33:10

Image Credit: Forever Conscious

09/10/2025

The Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces on 9/7/2025 was personally very challenging for me. I hope you made it through OK. I am taking a lot of time to recover and integrate what for me was an intense activation for release of several key aspects of my natal chart. Having been sick with a virus for several weeks now, I was not able to drive and my car battery ran down. Yes, that is a metaphor. :)

When I was able to drive again and went out to my car I kept smelling what I thought was dog poo. I searched around and found a mostly decomposed rabbit just at the front of the driver’s side of my car. Yes, that is a metaphor. :)
Truly, I have, at times lately, felt just like a dead, rotting rabbit. However, being plugged into the spiritual side of things, I looked it up. Meet Your Psychic says that this occurrence can indicate an initiation into a period of profound transformation and spiritual awakening. This happening during Ghost Month in the Lunar/Solar calendar adds to it’s potency. I sense the Ghost of the Rabbit guiding me between realms and through life challenges to a deeper honoring of the cycle of Death and Rebirth in my life.

“...the Rabbit is associated with fertility and abundance even to the point of death, reminding us that every ending has a beginning. ...signaling the release of old patterns for new opportunities for growth.” Meet Your Psychic

The word on the lips of astrologers, psychics and Intuitives for this month and for October is ‘purge’. It is not a great feeling, from my point of view. However, I do take heart from the profound support I feel all around me, in the skies, in my physical world and from my guides. However this eclipse found you, we are changed from it and supported through that change in countless ways.

The image I chose well before this Full Moon tells me just how to be. Be Water: flowing, adaptable, gentle, rich with resource and life giving relief and release; cleansing, nourishing. Divine Love = Pisces. Filling up where empty, allowing to flow out when it’s too much; Water is life, water is love, water is mystery and magic. Water is All. May you be refreshed, sustained and supported. There is healing after illness and life after every death.

Image Credit: Be Water by Ronnie Biccard

08/24/2025

This Virgo New Moon says "Go to Ground. Go to Seed. Concentrate your essence and be Still. The Spring brings New Beginnings that we will need our energy for."
The New Moon (8/22/25 just before Midnight) finds herself under stress and called inward. She must make internal adjustments that she will need for the huge shifts and changes coming. A Grand Water Trine with Jupiter in Cancer, the North Node in Pisces, and Vesta/Juno in Scorpio nourish her with the Waters of Kindness, Care, Forgiveness and Emotional Truth. Her support is subtle and very Yin/Feminine. She may find a lot of hot air, a lot of mental flotsam and jetsam, flying around that threatens to carry her away from herself.

“Beauty and meaning are ever-present in nature, and transcend words and all other constructs of the human mind. How wonderful and refreshing to get beyond the mind and to see the striking uniqueness and originality in every aspect of cosmic process.
You are aware of all the mind garbage that floats around in the world, and have a gift for being able to look beyond it into higher realms of purity and harmony. Your non-attachment to thought processes can cause you to be more directly in tune with the immediate energies at work in a situation, and to ground and focus others.” John Sandbach

Bury your Truth deep in the soil of a Mother’s Love. Be an earthworm. (Jack Kornfield)

Image Credit:Celia Perarnaud/The Conscious Nest

08/15/2025

The energies of the Full Aquarius Moon on 8/9/2025 are still in effect offering an incredibly strong tail wind for change and clearing. Loads of Fire and Air form 2 Kites, a Golden/Mystic Rectangle and a Grand Air Trine . Be a kite then, tethering your energy deep into the Earth, grounding it to the Core. Trim the wings of your kite to set your direction, clean and clear, to your highest ideals (Aquarius) and intentions as you ground it to the Earth (Saturn Retrograde in Aries) to make it real. Steady your Heart in the middle of this alignment; open, courageous, brave, generous, warm and uniquely creative(Sun in Leo). Leo Shines as the Water Bearer pours the Cosmic Knowing into our Vessel. Meanwhile Jupiter, Sirius and Venus conjoin in Cancer to expand our compassion, kindness and emotional truth in support of our re-Mothering with the Divine Feminine. She is rising, as are we all. Allow yourself to be embraced by this Grand Benevolence. Allow yourself to release the old and embrace the new: an integrated Self, with Divine Feminine and Masculine energies co-creating in Harmony as the Yin/Yang symbol and philosophy teaches us. If you feel overwhelmed, tired, over stimulated or brain dead, you are right on time! Gentleness, self care and releasing self judgement are musts.
All is well, though it certainly does not seem like it. We are being supported and cared for, more than we know. May the Air and Fire guide you and energize you as The Waters of the Mother (Cancer) cleanse you and keep you well.

08/12/2025

Splish Splash, someone's taken' a bath! World Elephant Day! May you be full of Joy and keep Cool! 🐘💦🌬💙

08/08/2025

May Elen of the Ways guide you well as the powerful energies of the Lion's Gate move through you, informing your next steps into and beyond this coming Intense Full Moon of Change, Liberation and Heart Centered attunement. Blessed Be.

“Elen of the Ways is the ancestral antlered goddess of Britain. Elen was the goddess who led us, through the reindeer herds, to safe living in both summer and winter…

Elen guards the quicksilver threads, energy lines, magical pathways that stretch across the sacred Isle of Britain connecting sacred wells, stone circles, quoits, dolmens, hilltops and other sacred sites and yet she is virtually unknown in Britain. These threads are the energy roads that the Wild Hunt travels along. Some are lych or lyke roads, co**se roads, spirit paths that the souls of the dead travel to Otherworld…

Elen’s threads twist and wind through the land along with the rivers and streams, and the paths that animals take – they follow the earth-energies. The paths may also follow geological lines, patterns where one form of rock sits against another; sometimes this shows where ancient boundaries occurred, demarking places guardianed by large spirits of place.”

~ Elen Sentier, “Elen of the Ways”
🎨 The Glittering Fox, “Elen of the Ways”
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08/08/2025

My take on this is what I call "Least Harm Nutrition/Nourishment". It requires that we tune into our bodies and allow them the nourishment that they need for the time of life we are in and our state of health and/or activity. Inherent in 'Least Harm' is the concept of the sacredness of all and gratitude as we nourish ourselves, no matter what we nourish ourselves with. So much harm is done by forcing ourselves, our families and our companion animals to follow what our Mind decides, rather than what a body needs. This also includes least harm to the Earth and her needs as well. We can move through our Earth's (body's) seasons with attention and connection instead of force. Anyway, I love the conversation on ways to tune in and honor diversity and health. 🥰🙏🌾🌻🌏🦁

I was with colleagues at dinner, and they asked me “how I ate.” They talked about themselves as following a vegan, vegetarian, and plant-based approach, with a few of them eating more fish and meat. I responded by saying, “I’m a diversitarian.” They looked at me quizzically. I said, “Because I travel so much, I want to experience the culture through their foods and their gut microbiome. I want to experience life through the varieties of foods.”

Unless I’m truly allergic or intolerant to something, I try to broaden and diversify my intake. The research on dietary diversity is extensive, indicating that it is associated with better nutritional status, gut microbiome adaptability, cognitive function, visual and auditory sustained attention, and less risk for mental health issues, allergic symptoms, and even fractures and falls.

Over the years, as I’ve worked with people and their food intake, I’ve seen that people get into food ruts. Sometimes, we need to shake things up. Aiming for at least 30-50 unique foods weekly is a general guideline, with the premise that everyone’s gut is different and may need a gradual increase.

Diversity is Nature’s principle. It can help people thrive and be more resilient in body and mind. 🌈✨

08/05/2025

Sunning myself in the late morning.
The sweeping breeze perfectly offsets the heat.
Eyes closed; rewire my brain, Sun, and Thank You.
Grass green, sky blue and white.

The cat has stolen my chair and I had to get another.
It’s hard to fault him when he looks so content,
so drunk on the Sun’s Qi.
Late Summer or first day of Autumn, it’s a good day.

A burble of sound erupts from a nearby domicile.
It sounds like geese, birds. All quiet until the next eruption.
Yes, it is Women’s laughter; We do sound like geese!
Only an insult if one hate’s women and geese.

But I love women and geese. I love them dearly.
Our beauty and our laughter.
More evidence of when Women were Birds.
Ahhhh, the glory of it.

Image credit: Ken Archer

08/03/2025

Silver~
"How many years of beauty do I have left?
she asks me.
How many more do you want?
Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.
When you are 80 years old
and your beauty rises in ways
your cells cannot even imagine now
and your wild bones grow luminous and
ripe, having carried the weight
of a passionate life.
When your hair is aflame
with winter
and you have decades of
learning and leaving and loving
sewn into
the corners of your eyes
and your children come home
to find their own history
in your face.
When you know what it feels like to fail
ferociously
and have gained the
capacity
to rise and rise and rise again.
When you can make your tea
on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon
and still have a song in your heart
Queen owl wings beating
beneath the cotton of your sweater.
Because your beauty began there
beneath the sweater and the skin,
remember?
This is when I will take you
into my arms and coo
YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING
you’ve come so far.
I see you.
Your beauty is breathtaking."

Jeannette Encinias

08/01/2025

Lammas Blessings: May all beings receive the nourishment of the Earth.

07/29/2025

World Tiger Day!
Tigers: Unapologetic, supremely present and gloriously magnificent. Nourish your Inner Tiger today. 🐯