For thousands of years we have understood that a woman’s intuition is unparalleled knowledge.
Athena is first and foremost a protectress. The kind of protection with which she is imbued is knowledge that stems from a deep well of intuition. We see this in the metaphor of her springing from the crown of Zeus’s head (knowledge). Previous to this birth, she had to emerge from the womb of her mother(intuition), swallowed by the records of the patriarchal order, cast away and hidden in Zeus’s belly.
You can’t use a supremacist process to dismantle white supremacy.
Supremacist processes urge instant fixes and perpetuate erasure and trauma because they don’t allow the time and space required by deep healing. We are conditioned to see success through a supremacist lens. Losing this lens is paramount to anti-racist work.
This moon is untamable. Beast, but only a burden if you attempt to bridle it. We have tried to domesticate this virus. To break it in. To subdue it with distance, restrain it with masks, conquer it with soap and vaccines. We have made it our enemy. We have even tried to neutralize it by imagining it as a friend, come to expose the kyriarchy.
People in panic are superficially, perhaps even falsely, preaching togetherness, seeking the reaction of their audiences or worse, the purchase of goods and services. “Togetherness” has become another healing buzzword on which to capitalize.
Saturn understands what it takes to lead. Saturn knows how to save for hard times and how to cut losses. Saturn represents the limits of things and the authorities which determine them, for better or worse.
Pisces and Virgo form the axis that I call the polarity of healing. Healing, by nature, implies a wound. A sickness that causes suffering. A disease that distorts what once was clear.
Pisces is known for its compassion. Interestingly, it's also known for an ability to dissolve boundaries. Sometimes we consider Pisces placements to be flaky, weak, over-sacrificing. This tells us a lot about what is valued in our society.
The full moon in Leo perfects on Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at 11:33pm. If Leo is the heart, Aquarius is the circulatory system. Leo is magnetic, Aquarius electrifies. Leo centers, Aquarius channels. Leo coheres while Aquarius interrupts. Leo is the core, Aquarius is liberation.
Saturn conjoins Pluto at 22°Capricorn at 8:59 AM PST on Sunday, January 12th, 2020. While you may have seen talk of this across the astro internet ether there are a few things you should know about this transit…
The Full Moon at 19°Gemini52’ perfects at 9:12pm PST on December 11th. The Gemini/Sagittarius polarity reveals to us the trials and requite that comes with seeking and circulating truth. It is also a spectrum that flirts with falsehood in many forms. Gemini and Sagittarius are super seekers. Knowledge whores. Information swindlers and sponsors. Philanthropists, faeries and marauders of nuanced narrative material. They are the key keepers and the open doors. They are the library lenders and the avid young readers. They are the curious kids and the adept ascetics. Perhaps most of all, they are the contradictions and their reconcilers.
On Tuesday, November 12th, the Full Moon perfects at 19°Taurus52’ at 5:34am PDT. In preparing to write your horoscopes this month I’ve been meditating on the mythology of Scorpio and Taurus respectively. Mulling over the myth of Artemis which teaches us about intimacy and intensity and the collapse of self-protective walls that gives way to true sharing. About hyper-vigilance and recognition. About revenge and rage and reactivity and the suddenness of death when it arrives.
October 31st, 8:42am PST: Mercury stations retrograde at 27°Scorpio38’ While we can determine exact moments of transits and aspects, the influence of planetary movements stretches out from these points in time and space, far beyond what superficial media might consider worth examining. For the sake of focus, Mercury retrograde (and any planetary retrograde for that matter) has three distinct phases.
On Sunday, October 13th, the Full Moon perfects at 20°Aries14’ at 2:08pm PST. Sitting in a tight square to Pluto and a charitable trine from Jupiter, this full moon, in true Libra Season Fashion, is designed to help us simultaneously converge and diverge. The configuration around this Moon creates the kind of challenge that will illuminate our unique obstacles to healthy relating.
On Friday, September 13th at 9:33PM PST, the Full Moon perfects at 21°Pisces05’. This Moon might fret with our faith. Might offer us myriad diverging choices that bend as soon as we make them. Might have us sending messages in bottles out to sea or collecting them from strange shores. This Moon asks us to engage Virgo’s various potential resources so we can navigate Pisces’ ever-changing waters.
Tuesday, September 10th 12:24am PST: Sun in Virgo opposite Neptune in Pisces, both at 17°18’ As the Sun makes its annual opposition to Neptune, it asks us to confront both our dreams and illusions. About what are you fantasizing that you haven’t taken any practical steps towards? To dream in a world which is so oppressive is a radical act. More radical than this, is to take actions towards that dream.
Monday, September 2nd 3:43am PST: Sun conjunct Mars at 9°Virgo41’ Generally, Sun and Mars together build quite the fire. As Virgo is an internal sign, the Sun and Mars here support us in focusing our efforts inward.
Monday, August 26th 8:38am PST: Venus in Virgo trine UranusRx in Taurus, both at 6°32’ As Venus moves into harmonic flow with Uranus in earth signs, our physical way of relating to one another lands itself in a space of rapid review.
Wednesday, August 21st 2:06am PST: Venus enters Virgo Venus in Virgo gets a bad rap. Sure, if she had it her way, Venus might waltz around whispering sweet nothings and shelling out compliments all year.
Wednesday, August 7th 12:31am PST: Sun in Leo trine Jupiter in Sagittarius, both at 14°32’ This aspect brings heat to our hope. The Sun and Jupiter in harmonious aspect to each other are fuel for whatever fire is being built.
