ASTROLOGY ::

THE ART OF AWARENESS

Tag: Saturn

Life As Art

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Jupiter Hurling ThunderMercury Rx in Libra underscores elegance, grace, beauty, and harmony in communicating to others what we value in life.  Libra, the ruling sign for aesthetic beauty, accentuates our pleasuring of body, mind, and spirit by encouraging us to live our life as a work of art; attending to detail, discovering nuance, cultivating skill, and aligning our inner harmony by forging meaning from external chaos……...these were the last words I wrote on September 7 before feeling sucked inside a vortex of family relationships that, six weeks later, has left me feeling as fragile as a lone leaf amidst a raging tornado. The chthonic forces of nature, like a raging tornado ruthlessly uprooting our ever-so-carefully constructed realities, is reflected in the universal archetype of Pluto; the furthest known planet from the Sun surviving in abstinence of the radiant light of conscious reasoning. Read the rest of this entry »

Beyond the Familiar

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Today is the waning phase of the New Moon in Pisces and the Moon in  the last degrees of Sagittarius offers a time of still repose and quiet contemplation so that we can integrate our physical, mental, and emotional activities of the past three weeks. A waning Moon is a Moon in conflict with the Sun suggesting that something in our unconscious is fighting for conscious awareness and that the ensuing battle is taking place within ourself reflecting emotional behavior that is preventing us from expressing our authentic self. A Sagittarius Moon stimulates emotional restlessness and discontent with the familiar which is one reason why this is a good week to reflect upon less familiar aspects of ourself in anticipation of the New Moon in Aries, March 26, heralding a new birth in self-awareness. Read the rest of this entry »