dark moon recommendation

new moon in aries | march 24 @ 5:28AM EST:

may you & yours be protected, provided for, & well resourced.

may you uncover miracles in every moment.

may interconnection be your sovereignty. may your sovereignty be interconnected.

may you make love to joy and make joy with love.

may you give yourself room to change. may you give them room to change. may you give the world room to change.

may curiosity be your deepest commitment. may grief be a beloved companion of your love.

may you move forward and stay open. may you swim deep and fly higher.

may your own pleasure be the most delicious taste. may paths generate themselves at the dead ends of “there is no way.”

may you remember yourself as a realization of the multitudinous dimensions of the divine. may freedom never forget you.

may this moment radicalize your love & clarify your contribution. may you be like the pure irreverence of laughing in church, the way joy insists on bursting from every cell, like life starting all over again as many times as there are stars.

dark moon recommendation

new moon in pisces | February 23 @ 10:32AM EST

I’m sinking deep into exploring my own emotional availability during this dark moon. it’s bringing up all the things that are taking up space. kinda like my phone keeps telling me there’s no more storage. I tried just deleting stuff but I actually need an upgrade, a whole new phone. which also challenges my ability to trust the resources for that will show up.

this has me thinking about how not holding on to more than we need offers us emotional availability. knowing when we actually need more & being willing to receive it generates emotional generosity. generous = giving that exceeds expectation without promise of equal exchange. you can only sustainably do that if you’re emotionally available to yourself, first & foremost. this may require tapping into your unconditional lovability.

what would being emotionally available to yourself feel like? what could you let go of so a different, more supportive iteration showed up? do you believe that’s possible? how would you bravely experiment with it?

in the prelude for the March horoscopes, I write about shame as the inverse of resentment/ the relationship between anger, grief work, & unconditional lovability/ why boundaries protect love/ using your agency to create clear containers & more.

at least until the new moon, hydrate like every drink is a benediction & breathe like every inhale is a gift you give right back to the world.

oxo
ARI

dark moon recommendation

NEW MOON IN VIRGO
AUGUST 30 @ 6:37AM EST | 6 DEGREES

trying to create permanence out of anything (especially who you think you are) is wasted effort.

you’re not doing something wrong if newness makes you nervous. that just means your system is rewiring, shifting, in motion.

you’re not doing something wrong if you have no idea what you’re doing but are trying anyway. that just means you’ve stopped playing prophet & started living with presence.

you’re not doing something wrong if you feel messy, discombobulated, completely foreign to your own damn self. that just means you’re doing what so many live forever afraid to do— surrendering to the reality that change is truth & the truth changes.

the dark moon (the day(s) before a new moon) is for cleansing, contemplation, & intentional resting. skipping ahead to new moon intentions/plans/actions is great yet so much more effective when we take the time to make room for those seeds to grow, to be honest about what might be in the way. taking the time to get to the root of what we want & need is never wasted effort. don’t make it a mission, just make a moment.

virgo is the pattern maker & identifier. ruled by Mercury, virgo works with the concept of fractals. this is the understanding that the macro is made up of the way multitudes of the micro overlap. consider that the themes of your self/life are not anything you’re stuck in but rather, opportunities to practice change in small ways that inevitably begin new patterns. this is how you tell new stories about yourself, your life, & what is possible for all of us.

when the new moon comes, it’s your cue to begin again. do not wait for someone or something to give you a new story or make your dreams come true. those things only happen when you take response-ability for being present to your own life & let enough of the past go to be available to forward movement. unmake up your mind about what you’re capable of or what is inevitable for you. I don’t like to beg but please, my starling, leave room for something different.

if you have been waiting for the stars to align, I must tell you that that is a matter of perspective, maybe even a matter of decision. because the future arrives when you realize it is already here. but, I must also tell you that moments as beautifully poised to support you as this one are infrequent. so abandon your complacency or self-judgement & join the conspiracy of the multiverse to turn your shine into an eternal summer.


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oxo
ari

dark moon recommendation

MARCH 6 @ 11:04AM EST | 15 DEGREES

pray to yourself. document the sacred. know you’re going to time travel. forget about staying relevant. love this new moon like the multilayered portal into the past & future it is, tethering yourself to the present with patience. hold onto your most resonant medicine: prioritize it, expand it, deepen it. begin nothing & everything again & again until you emerge on the other side cleansed by the waters of ambiguity that teach you to surrender control. then you can begin for real (aries season got you, don’t worry). because fantasies are delicate at this time. you can fill the spaces between dissolving illusions with them if you wish, just know they may not stay. not here, not now, not yet. try becoming comfortable with people/places/things feeling on pause, feeling far away. it’s okay, you’re okay.

everyone & especially those of us with delicate relationships to our mental/physical health: take your ebb & flow seriously. tend to your needs with the most tangible strategies you can weave together. ask for support. practice the kind of vulnerability that makes you want to run & hide forever afterwards but that allows you to be held in the lingering. honor your edges; don’t be reckless with them no matter how tempting it may be to think that would relieve you from having to hold on anymore. refuse to subscribe to ideas of self-sufficiency or reliance that only serve to separate you further when what we need right now is a more embodied understanding|praxis of interdependence & interconnectivity. most importantly, b o u n d a r i e s.

on Mars in taurus & Saturn in capricorn: the planet of drive & the planet of linearity itself are supporting the New Moon from the realms of earthy sensuality & structure. there is not as much fragility as it may feel like if you’re able to tap into the pleasure of the pragmatic. give yourself food, give yourself sex, give yourself ground. open your hands to receive the fulfillment of taurean needs for desire-rooted pleasure. simultaneously, let Saturn show you the sexy ways of designing a life-framework of practice making progress, no fucks being given to perfection. it’s all back to basics in honor of the future you’re building. let rest be your default, if only for the month.

make them prayers wide & dreams deep to carry you floward…

oxo
saltwater & stars