Virgo New Moon | Saturday | 8.27.22 Saturday’s Virgo new moon takes place after a long summer full of humbling and transformative ego work. It calls us inward for rituals of harvesting what we’ve learned. Virgo thrives when honoring practices that firmly root our values into our daily lives. Ironically, this orderly moon’s tightest formation is a square to the scrappy chaos magic of Mars in Gemini, so the vibe is tense. While this weekend may seem like any other that tasks us with wrangling together the opposing energies of chaos and order, this event actually foreshadows a denser series of events that shape the entire fall and winter, so it gives us an opportunity to set longer-term intentions for integration. Mars will be in Gemini for 7 months due to its upcoming retrograde this oct - jan. This is a semi-rare event occurring only every other year, and it transforms the way we approach both creative and destructive energies. It transforms the ways we fight. The square between Mars and this new moon make this a potent time to familiarize with our aspirations as we prepare for Mars’ renovations. Due to a heavily mercurial set of energies, the most pressing task is to get present with how we use language to navigate, shape our own and others’ experiences. Language is how we connect beyond ourselves. Brene Brown calls it “the greatest human portal that we have.” It maps our experiences toward or away from one another. It creates the frameworks through which we learn to respect or devalue one another. Mercury will retrograde through Libra on sept 9, pointing toward revision of our peacemaking and communication skills. Mars however loves to fight, differentiate, and separate. This combination leads us to the martial arts. In the mercurial martial arts, language becomes the tool we use to identify and respect our differences, and, where appropriate, to build bridges across our them. This new moon points to many questions, but here are some to start: How can we practice sharpening our language without using it as a weapon against each other? How do we cut apart the categories that no longer fit so we have space to create new ways of identifying ourselves?

Aquarius Full Moon | 8.11.22 Thursday hosts a full moon in Aquarius, creating a transitional breaking point in our journey. Wherever we’re going, today’s moon calls us to transform the methods we use to get there. Questions to ask during this full moon: how can I enjoy arriving to each moment and challenge within the journey? How can I use my ideals to water my garden without forgetting what else it might need for to grow? Does the garden need pruning, harvesting, maybe some conversation or time spent in joy and relaxation? This full moon conjuncts Saturn and squares Uranus, so we have the chance to welcome radical change while challenging the impulsive volatility of Uranus. We can slow down for this full moon, honor our limitations, and hone in on commitment and intention. Aquarius calls us to craft new definitions of liberation. What does liberation look like when it is not predicated on hierarchy, exploitation, or the flattening of difference? What is liberation that is born of respect, limitation, and the bonds that tether us to one another in all our highly differentiated selfhoods? Leo season continues, and Venus has freshly entered Leo, so our liberation really depends upon our capacities to affirm one another and ourselves. Saturn is also the lord of time and thanks to the ongoing Saturn-Uranus square, we are involved in the project of queering our experience of time. That is emphasized today. We know that the past is something we often experience as real in the present, but in After the Party, Joshua Chambers-Letson makes the point that the future is already alive in the troubled present as well. He helps us see that we cannot deny the present of the past or the future, both of which are embedded within it. What does it mean to identify how you want to feel and what you want for your future? What if the only thing between you and what you want is a construct of time put in place by a ruling class that wants to control your time? What if nothing real separates you from now and then? What if you imagine what you want and how you want to feel, and you begin living and practicing as if it were here now? for more check the blog post | link in bio :)

LEO SPECIAL ☀️🦁🌺 Discounted and sliding scale sessions available 7.22-7.24 Today Mercury enters Leo. The Sun will follow it into this playful and performative landscape on Friday 7/22, and Venus will follow significantly later, on 8/11. Leo tends to be seek joy, vitality, and the warm atmosphere of affirmations for self and others. However as all these personal planets pass through Leo, they pass through tight formations with the rigged and heated Taurus brigade (Mars and Uranus, both of whom like to unsettle and dismantle rather than affirm), and with the chillingly sober presence of Saturn in Aquarius. With this kind of weather shaping up, affirmation of self and others will mean the affirmation of the self as disentangled from the ego. This means the affirmation of our capacities to transform. We can use this time to seek new language to shape our stories, and new performance techniques so we can share our stories as we actually want them shared. There are plenty of nuances and textures to this astrological weather. For example Venus is currently in Cancer, offering contemplative contact with our origin stories and the familial imprints that inform our relationships to this day. We can sit with this work before Venus follows the team of personal planets into Leo, which is when we’ll become more eager to shine as the self we know we can become beyond these first imprints. To get y’all a little more in contact with the nuances of how this inner work can flow with time, (and because it’s been a while since I’ve done this!) I’m offering a special this weekend. These specials are opportunities to work with me at a sliding scale and discounted rate. To book for the special, please DM me with a few of the times listed below that are available for you, and I’ll reply with the information we need to move forward. Sliding scale for QTBIPOC folks: $60-$120 Sliding scale for White folks: $100-$120 Available times (in CST; pls convert to your local time zone!) Friday 7.22 12-1pm 2-3pm 4-5pm 6-7pm Saturday 7.23 12-1pm 2-3pm 4-5pm 6-7pm Sunday 7.24 12-1pm 2-3pm 4-5pm 6-7pm #astrology #astrologypost #leo #leoseason #transformation #ego #selfcare #selfhealing

Capricorn Full Moon 🌕 7.13.22 Wednesday’s Capricorn full moon is a step into the brambles. Since the portal of this full moon is conjunct hell’s own gatekeeper Pluto, this is a place where there are thorns that will fuck with our flesh. The time is now to make sacrifices of our comfort to attend to an ambition. As we go in we want to be in connection with that ambition. What did you learn about what your heart was yearning for during the Cancer new moon two weeks ago? Now is the culmination of that cycle. The stage lights crackle and shine unapologetically into the eyes of your heart’s desire. There is a show to be put on here, and it will require your truth and your vulnerability. One theme of that new moon that today’s full moon expands upon is the transient taste of belonging. Belonging that cannot be complete, belonging that we have to build brick by brick. Belonging that we have to create new and innovative structures to house, because we won’t find the formulas pre-existing. Because a full moon in Capricorn, conjunct Pluto, shows us the failures of pre-existing systems. It shows us which of our practices need the demolition ball. Square Chiron in Aries, this full moon moment indicates that our egos need to break. Don’t let the idea of who you should be lead you to fight your own energy. Own and surrender to your energy, and see what shapes you begin creating around you, what kind of conversations arise. As we begin to change into ourselves, conflict can arise between what was and what is becoming. Malidoma Somé offers: “Conflict is the spirit of the relationship asking itself to deepen.” By staying with the conflict, we learn so much about the nature of what each relationship wants to be. Whatever portals we may be coltishly stumbling into, with practice we can grow our faith in what we begin building here. Thanks to the Neptune connection, there is extra-dimensional access during this time as though a strange wind carrying seeds from an elsewhere were breathing something new into the earth. Connect with the unseen, flirt with the impossible. Dream into the unknown, and practice your way into it. link to the full post in bio art: @tincanforest

Cancer New Moon | Tuesday | 6.28.22 This Cancer new moon seeks containers in which to learn the stories our emotions tell us. The myth Cancer likes to fall for is that if you stay in the past by excessively running its narratives or trying to solve its problems, you’ll finally find belonging. This can look like constantly identifying the same story all around you, and repeatedly asking what ifs. As in, if I could just figure out how never to experience this traumatizing circumstance again, could l finally belong with myself and others? First, it’s important to normalize that. That is you responding to how you desired to live in the past, even when your annihilation was near you. Your organism has always had this desire to live. You can cherish that. And what you can do now is ask yourself, what does it look like to respond to that desire to live now? In the present. It’s very ok to not know. The courage to not know is admirable, and it’s made more available through the Aries Jupiter—Gemini Venus sextile, which also helps us toward exploring language as a method of learning. Natalie Diaz once said “Language is one of our desires to live.” See if you can expand your concept of language to something including and beyond words and grammars. What about touch, sound, etc. as language? Seek whatever you need to more precisely convey your experiences as you learn how to share them. As you go, remember that Cancer exists in the ebb and flow of belonging. It knows that we have to be careful of the alluring sea and its obliterating riptides. It knows that every umbilical cord is severed and remains so. Cancer knows no belonging can be complete without the disappearance of the self. Finding our way back home is never a repetition of what was once belonging. It’s the creation of a new and different experience of belonging. Finding belonging can feel like a sweet and lulling memory, and it can feel disastrously uncomfortable because it isn’t a memory. So with this moon let us learn how to intend and eventually build containers safe enough to expand into new experiences of I, us, and we. Full post on the blog! Link in bio 🫶🏽

Gemini New Moon 🌑♊️ | Monday 5.30.22 The Gemini new moon invites us to forego names, maps, and systems of knowledge as we’ve known them. With that release, a portal opens into regions of ourselves we’ve been waiting to explore and name as our own. In healthy Gemini fashion, we can let curiosity leads us onward here. Thanks to Mercury’s ongoing retrograde and a seductive glance from Neptune, we may find ourselves in the presence of the illusions and narratives that have kept us wound up and spinning circles. Luckily the friendly aspect between Mercury and Neptune also offers helpful ways of approaching these illusions. We could imagine them from a different vantage point, say as a film projected onto a screen, instead of as fear/fantasy projected onto other beings … and we can begin to pick and choose our narratives to create a new present reality. Any intentions you set for these changes get a boost from the Mars Jupiter conjunction, so keep your pen and paper nearby today, and record your inspirations. The Mars Jupiter duo may tempt toward overdrive. You may want to go fast and hard but frankly this is not the time. Thanks to Mercury still retrograding, the moon being dark, and Neptune casting daydreams upon us, for now we’ll fare better by going slowly and bending deadlines as far away from ourselves as possible. (cont. 👇🏽) Instead, as the polymorphous being of Eros comes out through Mars and Jupiter, cultivate Gemini’s hidden talent for listening and learning. Get curious about what you feel, and after deep listening, seek out conversations about what you learn. See what it means to explore the regions beyond how you’ve been conditioned to repress desire. This is a rich time to locate your desires and name them in ways you’ve never heard them named. If you have to resist something, resist the binary, capitalistic framework that has been naming our desires for us for centuries. The contemplative days surrounding the dark moon also help us to trust that the changes necessary to bring our desires to fruition will happen at their own pace. The task of creating change is not all on your shoulders.

Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio | Sunday | 5.15.22 | 11:14pm CST 🌕🌑🌕 • [what follows is excerpts from the full piece of writing published on the blog | link in bio 👆🏽] • Tonight’s event is a south node/Ketu lunar eclipse in Scorpio. This means the Moon is passing through the ass of the dragon. The idea here is release. What are we releasing? … Mythically speaking, eclipses are times when we’re seeking the elixir of immortality, or at least remembering our perilous ancestral journeys to do so. The nervous system may be running high and feelings of linear time may collapse. We may be feeling caught in the Scorpionic struggle of defending ourselves against possible loss, death, or danger. These emotions and sensations can snare us into binary thinking that there is only life or death, loss or gain, light or dark, legal or illegal. However there is much in between, and one of those in-between things is shadow. … During eclipses, shadows are out to play. What happens when we play with the shadows? … Shadows hide things. How do we become intentional about what our shadows hide? When a shadow falls on something or someone around us, we can trick ourselves into thinking they’re less real. Be careful of falling for illusions of “otherness.” … In studying your shadow, choose carefully where you cast it. You can always move over a few inches to see what’s behind it. When you do…you can familiarize yourself with the mysteries and brilliance of a whole being you might have forgotten was there. … Cultivate curiosity about what you are hiding out of reflex, and think carefully about what you want to hide intentionally, and from whom. … Scorpio wants to know who your body can trust, and with whom you can let go to share in the connective act of holding vulnerability. … There is no escaping the shadow, the eerie in-between that evades definition or capture. There is no escaping our fugitive parts of self. So my proposal is this: can you care for your fugitivity, and for the fugitivity of those around you who are also in process of breaking their chains and creating their freedoms? • #astrology #lunareclipse #scorpio #fugitive #freedom #shadow #vulnerability #intention

Calling Toni Morrison, MLK, and Assata Shakur in to rearrange power, break down extant power structures, linearity, and faulty walls. Good luck with these Mercury and Venus Retrogrades, I’ll be back with y’all more soon 🦦 • Venus Rx: 12.19.21 - 1.29.22 Mercury Rx: 1.14.22 - 2.3.22 • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #mercuryretrograde #venusretrograde #power #assatashakur #mlk #mlkjr #rememory #rearrange #powerofrefusal #refusal #healing

On letting go in a culture of shame 💆🏽 • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #fullmoon #pisces #piscesfullmoon #lettinggo #compassion #forgiveness #shame #healing #trauma #climatecrisis #service #mythology #myth #archetypes #virgo #dike #typhon #aphrodite #eros #relationship #connection

Full Blue Moon in Aquarius : understanding what needs to break for us to reconnect with personal power, lineage, water, earth, and community. • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #aquarius #fullmoon #rupture #trauma #healing #integration #gettinglost #questions #disassociation #waterislife #community #humanity #lineage #ancestors #mythology #ganymede #aquariusfullmoon #bluemoon

Venus enters domicile 🌬This transit is a soothing balm for our relationships as we negotiate with what feels like end times. Shoutouts to @adriennemareebrown , @chironarmand , James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler. • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #love #relationships #harmony #transformativejustice #repair #venus #libra #fresh #sofreshandsoclean #apocalypse #endtimes #prepping #octaviabutler #jamesbaldwin #emergentstrategy #liberatedrelationships

Venus enters Virgo offering us a new set of resources with which to shape the material that was activated through the tense dynamics of Venus in Leo. Exploring “small but sure” steps toward establishing practices that keep us centered and grounded —while straddling multiple worlds 🦉 • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #venus #virgo #practice #gradual #innerchild #trauma #layers #strategy #gradual #clarissapinkolaestes #medialnature #betweenworlds #connection #communication #mindfulness #relating

🌑 | Friday | 7.9.21 • Friday’s skies host the New Moon in Cancer. A lyrical dream drifts across turbulent waters and blankets the shore in a mist. This is our first lunation that’s not an eclipse and not in detriment since early May. It invites us back into spaces of tenderness we’ve been blindly groping for throughout the month, and it opens pockets of safety for innovation and incubation. While the present keeps churning up fresh storms, Cancer insists on a moment of letting time bend toward the past —toward what we've inherited from the underworld and from our ancestors. Through these layered timelines, it opens up new pathways of evolution. As we lean into this, we may feel like we’re going backwards, downwards, or scuttling sideways like the crab, but trust that direction doesn’t matter so much right now. What matters is that this moment signals a conception. A new arrangement of cells and consciousness, and so, a call for tending. • This New Moon is in various stages of aspect with every outer planet, so it points us toward studying our own agency and making quiet acts of care toward the small or seemingly insignificant. Our task now is to craft the micro dimension of the macro changes occurring beyond our immediate reach. • Of course there’s a louder drama occurring in the skies as this quiet New Moon does its blooming. Mars has been in Leo hitting the Saturn-Uranus square hard, trailblazing through 2021’s heavyweight transformations and helping us clarify what we need to abolish if we’re going to stay current to the changes of the times. Venus has been following Mars through Leo, reminding us of what we do want after we’ve relinquished whatever’s been weighing us down. Mars + Venus in Leo bring in the missing piece of 2021’s fixed axis: as Saturn and Uranus stir resource and social instability, now we’re factoring in more of the self: “What am I doing in all of this?” • Venus and Mars meeting Saturn highlight the personal boundaries we’ll need to exercise in order to break through to the collective emancipations Uranus presses for: emancipation for our communities, our earth, our resources, our ideas, our erotic satisfactions, etc. (cont. 👇🏽)

As we emerge from Mercury retrograde and into the summer season, there’s lots of attention granted to integrating all the material we’ve gathered from the underworld. Listen for material on reclaiming narratives, imaging our ways deeper into neglected parts of self, and inventing anew the ways we create archives. Essay cited: “Venus in Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartmann • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #summersolstice #summer #cancer #cancerseason #mercury #mercurydirect #narrative #story #storytelling #underworld #ancestors #archive #criticalfabulation #violence #healing #saidiyahartman #octaviabutler

Mutualism and symbiotic relationships open up through this eclipse as we reflect upon ourselves, our backstories, understories, underworlds, and as we reflect one another. The cthonic waters of Cancerian wisdom open up and serpents and crabs show us thresholds to deep understanding. Happy Solar Eclipse in Gemini ☀️🌑☀️ • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #gemini #solareclipse #eclipseseason #solareclipseingemini #serpent #dragon #underworld #mercuryretrograde #mutualism #symbiosis #shadow #light #relationship #cancer #interdimensional #nonbinary #beyondbinaries #meaningmaking #meaningbreaking #wisdom #queertime

Tomorrow Mercury stations retrograde in Gemini, ferrying us into full contact with the underworld and with shadow, particularly in relation to love, desire, and interdependence. This event will multiply perspectives and dismantle binaries via good humor and consistent crossing-over exploration. • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #gemini #mercuryretrograde #love #queer #venus #neptune #shadow #humor #crossing #crossdressing #mutating #beyondthebinary #hermaphrodite #curiosity #explore #underworld

Back for Eclipse Season. Listen in for thoughts on centaurs, hybridity and mobility, truth and illusion, how eclipses make time warps happen, and the play of light and shadows 🌺 • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #sagittarius #eclipse #eclipseseason #sagittariusfullmoon #quickening #timewarp #education #mobility #conversation #illusion #truth #evolution #hybridity

Trying something new. • Today Venus enters Taurus, greeting the current revolutionary resident, Uranus. Venus arrives and grounds happily here, though the earth is shaking. The earth, volcanically active, welcomes Venus. The immersion into life on earth begins. Taurus earth is Venus’ home, whether the ground is breaking apart or not. Even after the entropic heat deaths and edgy emergences of Aries Season, Venus knows how to root here. This is a place from which Venus can teach. If we listen, we learn our own erotics. We learn why the revolution is irresistible. We learn to let the chemistry of love alter our blood and bind us to one another like plants rooted in the wholeness of ecosystem. The experience is seismic. We each become new and see each other new, until our relationships themselves become a revolution, and the foundation of change is in each of us, unthreatened by the shaking of the earth. • inspirations: adrienne mariee brown Alexis Pauline Gumbs Toni Cade Bambara Elvia Wilk’s essay “The Erotics of Rot” • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #taurus #venus #revolution #irresistible #pleasure #pleasureactivism #freedom #liberation #abolition #wholeness #ecosystem #interdependence #learn #teach #evolve

Happy New Moon in Aries (one day late)! On the messiness of initiation, becoming new while welcoming endings, and remaining centered in oneself. • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #aries #newmoon #ariesnewmoon #initiation #beginnings #endings #lettinggo #release #growth #messiness #centered #jamesbaldwin #thefirenexttime @adriennemareebrown #emergentstrategy #fabulosity #becomingnew

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! The Sun and Venus recently reached conjunction with Chiron, and we have wide open portals to our authenticity, vulnerability, and the messiness of coming alive and finding ourselves in a totally new structure of reality. Also included, a reading from Undrowned by @alexispauline . Enjoy! • #astrology #astrologyposts #astrologersofinstagram #dailyastrology #selfhealing #selfhealers #selfawareness #awareness #transdayofvisibility #visibility #invisibility #blackliberation #transliberation #ariesseason #chiron #polarity #variation #portal #opening #witness #authenticity