This Full Moon in Cancer comes as Mars completes its retrograde (January 13), and a week into Mercury’s retrograde. Every successive inner planet retrograde I experience appears more and more as a gift. Like everything in life, retrogrades are here to teach us, if we will let them. I always…

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Why? Because just at the moment of maximum darkness, when the days cannot get any shorter and nights any longer, the light is reborn. Is it any wonder that, for as far back as we can see, our ancestors marked this event…

This Full Moon lights up the Aries-Libra axis– the polarity of self and other. In my last post, on the Libra New Moon, I spoke of the power of deep listening to bring us into relation and union with each other and the divine. This Full Moon develops the theme…

Where do I stop and the rest of the world begins? How do I know who and what I am? Libra teaches that we can only know the world– and ourselves– through relationship. Whatever I am, and whatever you are, can only be revealed through interaction. Every barrier I encounter…

Mercury is retrograde, but don’t freak! It’s not a bad thing. Maybe there will be a few technical snafus, some miscommunications, a few blind alleys… But I always see Mercury retrograde as a gift– a chance to digest the undigested material clogging up your mind, to assimilate the nutrients and…

A New Moon is a time to plant seeds– to turn a new leaf, or at least move to the next paragraph. It is a good time to look within, remind yourself that it’s always an inside job, and inquire as to what you need. With this New Moon in…

The message of the Leo-Aquarius polarity, illuminated by this Full Moon, is “be who you are”. So who are you? Are you, as Leo would see it, a special, unique, individual soul come to Earth to play your part in the Cosmic Drama? Or are you just one of 8…

When you change your consciousness, you change your reality. I chased my tail for years trying to be who I thought I should be– someone special. Sure, I developed some skills and accomplished wonderful things pursuing a career as a composer. But it all came at a steep price. I…