by Sheridan Semple | Nov 24, 2025 | Astrology
Moon Mondays: Saturn, Mercury & Staying True to Yourself This Holiday Season As Saturn and Mercury both station direct this week, our minds and systems start moving forward again. Our structures and foundations begin to stabilize, and life picks up speed—right on...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 24, 2025 | Astrology
Two planets turn direct this Thanksgiving week — you can, too, without slipping back into your childhood self As Saturn and Mercury both station direct (end their retrograde cycles), our minds, bodies, and lives move forward again. After an offseason of peace, quiet,...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 17, 2025 | Astrology
Here’s the truth: just setting intentions with the new moon just isn’t enough. Wishing on a moonbeam, fingers crossed, essential oils dripped on the altar—it’s just not gonna cut it. The cosmos doesn’t work like that. Manifesting isn’t passive. It’s participatory. We...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 17, 2025 | Astrology
The Scorpio new moon isn’t about magical wishes — it’s a cosmic summons to dig deep to make real change For years, I was the queen of new moon intention-setting. Ceremony after ceremony, moon after moon, relentlessly without fail, I’d gather under the stars or at my...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 10, 2025 | Astrology
Are you feeling a little worried that Mercury went retrograde yesterday? Like the last thing you need right now is more stress or chaos? I get it. With the world seemingly falling apart—madness, violence, hate everywhere—it’s easy to feel like we’re all losing our...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 10, 2025 | Astrology
Are you fretting over Mercury going retrograde yesterday? Does it feel like the last thing you need right now is more stress — tech glitches, distractions, misunderstandings? Is the world about to finally succumb to complete chaos? Humanity feels like it’s lost its...
by Sheridan Semple | Nov 3, 2025 | Astrology
Crazy as it sounds, I used to buy precious organic raspberries and then let them rot in my fridge. Why? Because they felt too special. I was unconsciously saving them for some future rainy day when I’d finally deserve them. Of course, raspberries don’t wait — they...
by Rhiannon Stivarius | Nov 3, 2025 | Astrology
Crazy as it sounds, I used to buy precious organic raspberries — the good ones, that cost extra — and then let them rot in my fridge. Why? Because they felt too special. I was unconsciously saving them for an imaginary rainy day, awaiting the perfect raspberry-eating...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 27, 2025 | Astrology
Hiking up one of the mountains here last weekend, I was struck by the beauty of fall. Not the standard sunlit yellows and vibrant reds — though there have been so many reds this year — but the subtle beauty after the leaves have fallen: the evergreens against the gray...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 27, 2025 | Astrology
Standing atop Tiehack last weekend, I was taken by autumn’s hush — the beauty that follows the blaze. Dispersed of the all-hailed foliage, the sunstruck yellows and striking reds, abundant from our drought-turned-monsoon harvest, the season now reveals a nuanced...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 20, 2025 | Astrology
How the Libra New Moon Taught Me to Hold Boundaries—With Myself For years, I’ve been watching more TV than I really want to. Just streaming, zoning out—especially at the end of a long day. And here’s the thing: I love to read. As a writer, I could even argue that I...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 20, 2025 | Astrology
I watch too much TV. I stream way more than I want. I love to read, and as a writer, I could argue, I need to read more. But at the end of a busy day, I numbingly plop down with my iPad. It’s been bugging me for years, but have I changed this annoying habit with any...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 13, 2025 | Astrology
What Venus Can Teach Us About Boundaries, Peace, and the Power of the Feminine In my very first college class, we read The Feminine Mystique, and it cracked something wide open in me. Suddenly, I could see sexism everywhere—it was like a spiritual awakening that...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 13, 2025 | Astrology
In my very first university class, I read “The Feminine Mystique,” and it cracked something wide open in me. Suddenly, I woke up and could see sexism everywhere. It was like a spiritual awakening that expanded my fledgling female world. Unintentionally, I’d landed...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 6, 2025 | Astrology
Stop Deflecting Compliments: What the Aries Full Moon is Trying to Tell You 🌕🔥 I used to deflect every single compliment. If someone told me I looked great or praised my work, I’d brush it off with an awkward laugh or a quick “oh, it’s nothing.” I thought I was being...
by Sheridan Semple | Oct 6, 2025 | Astrology
I used to deflect every single compliment. If someone told me I looked great or praised my work, I’d brush it off with an awkward laugh or quick, “Oh, it’s nothing.” Appreciation made me uncomfortable. I mistakenly thought I was being humble — but, in truth, I didn’t...
by Sheridan Semple | Sep 29, 2025 | Astrology
I Stopped Making New Year’s Resolutions—and This Ancient Practice Changed Everything I used to set New Year’s resolutions every single year. And, year after year, nothing really changed. Honestly, by the middle of January, I had practically forgotten what they even...
by Sheridan Semple | Sep 29, 2025 | Astrology
I used to religiously set New Year’s resolutions. I’d write them down, full of hope and determination, and by mid-January, I’d practically forgotten what they even were. Nothing got accomplished. Until I had a breakthrough. I realized the winter solstice is the true...
by Sheridan Semple | Sep 22, 2025 | Astrology
Happy Equinox! It’s the day of equal day and equal night, when the sun rises due east and sets due west. Unlike the solstices, when the sun swings to extremes, the equinox is all about balance—light and dark, within us and in the cosmos. I just came back from an...
by Sheridan Semple | Sep 22, 2025 | Astrology
Happy autumnal equinox! Now, you can finally say fall is here — yesterday was still summer. Today, the sun enters Libra, the marker astronomers and astrologers use to signal the shift of the seasons. The equinox is one of only two days each year when the sun rises...
