Moon Mondays: Are You Who I Am? The Libra new moon, writer insecurity, and learning to stop looking outside ourselves for permission to be who we are. I’m confident, strong, secure in who I am. Unruffled by the haters, I’m cool with being me — warts and all. Cue the...
Moon Mondays: What Makes You Feel Alive? Venus retrogrades and Mercury in Scorpio: reconsider what we’re making room for in our lives. I first learned to ski at Sun Valley when I was four. I recall old steel cable bindings attaching my brown leather boots to bright...
Moon Mondays: Out of Balance is the New NormalTomorrow’s equinox has me questioning: what’s normal? The first time I got high, I was twelve. That’s not normal. I was at an Aspen Community School overnight, and the teacher supervising us didn’t “bogart” the...
As the goddess prepares to disappear from our evening sky, I’m thinking about what we find in the dark When I first learned Venus, on my astrology chart, was living “in the underworld,” I thought, well, that explains a lot. When a planet disappeared below the horizon...
Drought, women’s rights, and this week’s astrology have me pondering a curious connection I read recently that the ancient Celtic people associated the goddess with all forms of water: streams, rivers, lakes, rain, the ocean, and more. This got me thinking...
Sometimes awareness comes in the form of something bugging the crap out of you until you’re finally motivated to do something about it. Other times, it’s more subtle — wow, I keep doing this thing I say I want to stop. Or, if I made this one slight adjustment, my life...
Thursday’s lunar eclipse illuminates the unconscious forces behind the things we can’t seem to stop doing The lunar eclipse is coming! The lunar eclipse is coming! Chicken Little, “The sky is falling,” nonsense aside, Thursday night brings one of the most visually...
Eclipse season has me taking a closer look at what fills me up — and what costs too much We’re in the midst of the eclipse portal now. Can you feel it? I’m kind of kidding, but I do know folks who really feel the changing astrology in their bodies. I’m not one of...
As eclipse season begins, I’m saying goodbye to a piece of my childhood I found myself standing at the top of Aspen Street, watching the guys from Leitner-Poma, in blaze orange safety shirts, unload trucks, tools, and massive spools to remove the cable from 1A,...
Chiron retrograde dares us to revisit the wounds that still shape our lives Journaling gets me through life’s ups and downs. Writing is how I make sense of what’s going on for me, big and small. My laptop is the first place I go when life leaves a mark. Trauma makes a...
