The New Year begins with a bright Full Moon shining high in the midnight sky. Moon in home sign Cancer is a boon for productivity and prosperity in this new cycle. Another positive sign is the abundance of holly berries this season. By tradition the more holly berries we have, the more prosperous will be [...]
December begins with a brilliant Full Moon and ends with a Blue Moon high in the sky on New Year’s Eve! These are special Full Moons both Out of Bounds North flying above the zodiac and directly over Orion, the celestial Hero. A Full Moon north of the zodiacal boundary brings more latitude and consciousness [...]
MOON MAGIC Astrological Timing for Success – November 2009
This month’s highlights are the Nov 1-2 Tripuri Purnima Full Moon, the Nov 7 Celtic New Year Samhain / Hallowmas and the Nov 21- 22 Gate of Inspiration. The Nov 7 Full Moon is the most transformational of the year. The cross-quarter fire festival Hallowmas or Samhain [...]
This Harvest Moon month all the planets line up right. Communications and commerce are favored following the Sept 20 ‘New Mercury’ in Virgo. Mercury rising before the Sun this month is ‘Mercury Prometheus’ bringing new ideas, new mental fire to mortals. Venus shines brightly above Mercury signaling a new age of Peace and Love. Brilliant [...]
This Sun-ruled month of Leo begins with Lughnasa, the Celtic festival of the Sun god, Lugh. Also known as Lammas or Loaf-mass, it is the traditional time to share bread of the first harvest. The Moon is growing toward Full on Aug 5 when we have yet another eclipse, the 3rd in 4 weeks! An [...]
This month is highlighted by the July 7th Lunar Eclipse and the July 22nd Total Eclipse of the Sun. For perspective, remember that life on Earth is synchronized with the cycle of the Moon. Oceans rise and fall, plants unfold their leaves and flowers, oysters open and close, all in rhythm with the Moon. Each [...]
The three most important events this month are the June 7 Full Moon, Summer Solstice / Mid-Summer June 20-24 and the First Quarter June 28.
At the Gemini Full Moon the new energies received through May’s Wesak Full Moon are distributed through the world. This brings a global leavening of consciousness including consciousness of what we [...]
May begins with the May Day Gate of Inspiration. As old shadow patterns shatter, energy is freed for a new creation. The Sun in Taurus / Wesak Full Moon on May 8 is widely considered the most powerful of the year and a transcendent power is transmitted in answer to world need. As the Sun [...]
Every five hundred years the Phoenix dies in flames and is born anew from it’s ashes. An old world passes away and a new world is born.
The return of Venus as Morning Star signals the flight of the Phoenix according to the ancient Egyptians.
Psychic renewal comes as Venus rises fresh from the sea of our [...]
MOON MAGIC Astrological Timing for Success – March 2009
The Year ebbs and flows like an ocean tide. The tide comes in at the Spring Equinox and rises upward to Summer Solstice. Life energy is most outgoing at this peak of the year. Sap rising in plant stems and worms rising out of the earth in Spring [...]
