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Seeking a Little Tenderness — Jupiter Retro in Scorpio

We have many planetary retrogrades this year – Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Vesta & Chiron. Retrograde planets turn us inward; we become reflective upon our lives, our

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Festivals and Celebrations Under the Full Moon

We have many festivals again this week, all occurring on Thursday. Chinese New Year, Full Moon, Purim, Holi. Chinese New Year always ends at full moon with the hanging and

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Pisces – Two Fishes Saving the World

We are under the light, love and influence of the Lords of Pisces, sign of two fishes held together by a silken cord, one looking toward heaven, the other looking

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…”of love more careful…” & Capturing Monsters, if Necessary

Wednesday is Valentine’s day. On this day let us “be of love a little more careful than of everything.” (e. e. cummings poem). It is also the day Lent begins.

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Banana Cream Pie

Making banana cream pie, using eggs from the chickens in her back yard and organic cream from the creamery. The mother is dying and she asked her daughter for a

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Candlemas, a Fire Festival

February has a rhythm of festivals, with the purpose of uplifting humanity from the darkness of winter, to the hope for Spring. February 1 & 2 (Thursday & Friday) are

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Lunar Eclipse — The Past Disappears

We have a complex week coming up, preparing us for the super blue moon total lunar eclipse January 31st. Lunar eclipses mean the moon’s light/energy is hidden, something in form

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Lunar Eclipse — The Past Disappears

We have a complex week coming up, preparing us for the super blue moon total lunar eclipse January 31st. Lunar eclipses mean the moon’s light/energy is hidden, something in form

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Becoming Grownups

Uranus is part of the new moon, Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Uranus brings humanity vital and unrelenting change. The question at the new moon, and continuing onto the full blue moon

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Saturn in Capricorn – New Rule of Law

As this column is published five planets (Mercury, Venus, Sun, Saturn and Pluto) are in Capricorn. It is a most potent stellium (gathering of planets). Saturn entered Capricorn at winter