Moon Mondays: Hot tips for the best Mercury retrograde of your life

Moon Mondays: Hot tips for the best Mercury retrograde of your life

Why today’s full moon is asking you to celebrate instead of commiserate The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Mercury is going retrograde today. What impending catastrophe is going to befall us now? Aren’t things already bad enough? Tonight’s a double whammy, the...
Moon Mondays: Drift or Decide

Moon Mondays: Drift or Decide

The Solstice and Food & Wine kick off summer “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” Or… is it? Summer in Aspen totally overwhelms me. It’s the best and the worst. As my great-grandmother used to say, “Damnit to hell,” there’s just too much going on. Forced choices...
Moon Mondays: Astrology in real life

Moon Mondays: Astrology in real life

Gemini new moon meets the Cancer summer solstice I’m so sick of modern astrology. Predictive astrologers drone on endlessly about this or that powerful (fill in the blank) alignment happening this week. “It’s gonna be gnarly. Buckle up, buttercup.” All doom and gloom,...
Moon Mondays: Good girl or bad girl?

Moon Mondays: Good girl or bad girl?

Venus and Jupiter meet in the sky. Who’s afraid of the feminine? Are you a good girl or a bad girl? Which grabs your attention? Which one makes you squirm? I support you either way because I’m a feminist. But when you start trying to control my choices, I get pissed...
Moon Mondays: Pay Mercury no mind

Moon Mondays: Pay Mercury no mind

The elusive little planet shifting into Cancer reveals how you’re really doing Mercury moves into Cancer this morning — big whoop, right? Hard to get excited about the smaller, harder-to-see planets. The sun and moon hog all the attention. Mercury changes signs. Who...
Moon Mondays: Ride the mood swings

Moon Mondays: Ride the mood swings

The moon changes signs every few days – so do we Sometimes I’m stable, even-keeled, productive, balanced, steady. Miraculously, this can go on for days at a time now. Other times — and most of the time in my past — I swing wildly, emotionally all over the place:...
Moon Mondays: Swimming with Jaws

Moon Mondays: Swimming with Jaws

Tonight’s astrology has fins in the water I’m pumped about today’s astrology. Mars, Venus, and the moon are all changing signs, and then the latter two meet up — all tonight. After that, the sun joins the sign-shifting action when it moves into Gemini on Wednesday....
Moon Mondays: Dreams you won’t admit

Moon Mondays: Dreams you won’t admit

Mercury asks what you really want Despite countless efforts to the contrary, I feel like I’ve spent most of my life pretty unconscious. I thought I was aware. I was smart. I devoured self-help books. I dipped my toes into multiple spiritual practices. I imagined I was...
Moon Mondays: Beltane burn notice

Moon Mondays: Beltane burn notice

Spring’s chaos isn’t here to break you — it’s here to awaken you Taurus season, despite the pleasure seeking, can be challenging. It’s hard to drop into our bodies, especially for those of us with physical trauma in our histories. Spring brings constantly changing...