Sometimes we have no choice but allow ourselves to be pulled out to sea—and to realize that adrift does not always equal lost. Sometimes we need to spend time being passive, receptive, listening to the tides and transits of our internal landscapes.
New Moon in Virgo Writing Prompts + Ritual—Devotion
Virgo is the Virgin, the devotee to the Goddess, cleaning and purifying the temple, ritualizing their devotion, offering themselves in service to something larger than themselves. And while I’ve certainly been feeling the back-to-school, prepare-for-winter vibes to clean out the closets and stock the pantry, I am also feeling, deeply, the call to recommit to my practices of writing, meditating, sitting with the sun each morning, making my bed, sweeping space and time for my own connection with something greater, my own devotion and service to the gifts and talents I must hone and create in offering to the world. My payment in exchange for this one wild world, this one short and exquisite life.
Full Moon in Aquarius Writing Prompts + Ritual: Changes
Full Moon in Aquarius Ritual + Writing Prompt—Shine
Welcome to Leo season, sun babies! Leo is often known as the drama queen, the performer, the one standing in the spotlight. But what Leo truly represents in its most evolved form, is the deeply individual, unique creative self-expression each of us, and only us, has to offer this world. The challenge here, is that Leo can sometimes come to depend on, to crave, the applause, the attention and approval of others. That’s why (in the lovely symmetry that is the zodiac), it sits across from Aquarius, who, on the other end of the polarity, teaches us to embrace our weird quirky uniqueness and own that authentic individuality without shame.
New Moon in Cancer Ritual + Writing Prompts—Feel
The moon conjuncts the sun at 18º of Cancer on July 9, initiating a new moon cycle and a moment of pattern-setting for the next two week period—as well as the next six months (until we return for the full moon in Cancer, January 17 2022, closing the cycle). The constellation of the crab spans the portion of the sky assigned to Cancer—the word cancer itself is Latin for crab—and this crustacean spirit animal has much to teach us about the lessons and journeys of Cancer season, and this Cancer new moon in particular.
Full Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts and Ritual—Ascend
As is always the case with a full moon, the moon sits across the sky from the sun in the opposite side of the zodiac, staring each other down, and therefore shining the full light of the sun onto the reflective moon. The moon rules Cancer, so it doesn’t fare well in the opposite sign, Capricorn (it’s in its fall here, a debilitated placement). Capricorn is rather dry and harsh for the watery moon. Ruled by Saturn, planet of boundaries, Capricorn is known for rational thinking, rules and structure—quite different from oceanic Cancer.
Summer Solstice Writing Ritual + Prompts
Summer solstice marks the longest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), the height of its brightness, and the beginning of summer. The summer solstice is analogous to the full moon—a time of celebration, culmination, climax. After today—though we still have much summer and heat before us—the days will shorten, slowly and ever so slightly, as we move toward the autumnal equinox. But for now, we revel in the height and heat of summer, partake in its hedonistic pleasures, languish in its languorous afternoons. We consume the fruits of our labor, imbibe what we’ve fermented into wine.
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius—Molt
Full moons are times of exfoliation, of sloughing off dead layers of self—and eclipses are when we shed our skin entire. Snake-like, we leave husks of our former selves, our past lives, our previous dreams in our wake. We change directions, change paths, change our minds—or they are changed for us. We form new skin—new layers grow over our raw vulnerability—but at first we are naked, exposed, tender and new. Go gentle through this eclipse, dear ones. Take care of the fresh and untried iterations you are evolving into.
New Moon in Taurus Writing Prompts + Ritual: PLANT
Stop spinning, stop running and rushing and getting it all done. Plant your feet on the soil, the grass, the concrete if that’s what you have. Look up at the dark sky of the new moon. See those extra stars. Take a deep breath. And another. Root. Feel the mother earth beneath you. Her soils dark and dank and fecund, her dirt the womb wrapping all the birthing seeds of spring, ready to break, ready to unravel. Yes, this is a powerful moon to manifest… But before you do. Breathe. Stand on the earth. Look at the sky.
Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual + Writing Prompts—Sex, Death + Transformation
Scorpio is not a light and easy sign. It is intense; it asks nothing less than the full transmutation of everything you were into who will become. The Full Moon in Scorpio in the spring reminds us that every birth requires—contains inside of it—a death, loss, grief. The seed must be cracked and hollowed to become a plant. The caterpillar must dissolve before the butterfly will emerge.
New Moon in Aries Ritual + Writing Prompts—The Process is the Process
Currently, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and now the moon (as of April 10) are in Aries, and as the first sign, and Cardinal Fire, Aries encapsulates the energy of spring, birth, initiation, beginning and winning. But this feeling has been held back, restrained, by the moon, which was not yet here in this place of the new, but still traversing the old, reflecting, looking back, and releasing the last year, as it moved through Pisces. If it has felt like things in your life were raring to go but something was holding them back, or like you’ve had your foot on both the gas and the brake—this is why. And this moon marks a major shift.
Full Moon in Libra Writing Prompts + Ritual—Release + Revitalize
Full moons are always oppositions, so the moon in Libra sits across the sky—staring down, and reflecting the light—from the sun in Aries. Libra, as the opposite sign from Aries, is deeply concerned with connection and relationship to others. Where Aries is “I am,” Libra is “I balance.” Libra’s focus is on finding balance through connection and compromise to the other. The Libra-Aries axis, then, is about finding balance and integration between an independent individualistic sense of self and a being integrated into an interdependent network.
New Moon in Pisces Ritual + Writing Prompt—Dream Weaving
Pisces is the end of the zodiac, the twelfth house, the final resting place where everything dissolves back into the cosmic ocean. It is the end of the astrological year, the close to the cycle. And Pisces is also the beginning. It is the grave and the womb, the place where energy separates and disintegrates and then recombines to give birth to spring, to the first house, the beginning of the cycle, to the I AM that is Aries season. Aries is our birth; Pisces is the womb that gives birth to us, the mother ocean, and also the place of our death, ego death or physical death. This new moon in Pisces reminds us that every ending is a beginning, every beginning contains an end.
Full Moon in Virgo Ritual + Writing Prompts—Tethered
This is the Virgo-Pisces paradox, in the vastness of our smallness, and the tininess of our grandiosity. It asks us to hold both giant cosmic awareness, and the mundane tasks of taking out the garbage and making to do lists, in our mind’s eye, at once. And to value both with love and honor. The gift these signs offer us, when we work with their guidance and use them well, is the ability to use Virgo’s rituals, practices, and the beauty of daily routines and details to connect with, empower, and bring to earth the creative and healing power of Pisces’ waters.
New Moon in Aquarius Ritual—Cosmic Possibilities
Happy lovely new moon in Aquarius! After so much intense astrology (13 months, and more to come… Saturn/Uranus squares begin next week, whew), PLEASE enjoy the deep joyful breath of this new moon, sharing the day with a conjunction between the two most beneficial planets in the solar system—Venus and Jupiter.
Full Moon in Leo Writing Prompts + Ritual—Passion
New Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts + Ritual—Regeneration
Happy first new moon of the new year! I know we were all hoping for a reset after 2020, and I’m sorry to say based on the current events and the astrology, that we’re not there… yet. 2021 will bring a big change in energy—it is the dawning of a new era—but we will have struggles to grapple with yet, both lingering from 2020 and new ones, stamped with the signature of change, innovation, and upheaval, thanks to so much Aquarian, Uranian, and (continued) Plutonian energy at play.
Full Moon in Cancer Ritual Bath + Writing Prompts
It’s the final full moon of 2020, and at last we end on a lovely sort of note. The full moon is in Cancer, its sign of rulership, where the moon feels its happiest, glowiest, and fullest self. Enjoy this moment of brightness in the dark season of winter solstice and the dark year that has been 2020. Use this full moon to celebrate and honor what you personally, and we as a collective, have learned and begun to evolve into in these past six months, especially around emotional intelligence, awareness, and honoring, and the nurturing of our most deep, dark, and beautiful emotions—and also to acknowledge and recognize where we still need to grow.
Winter Solstice + The Great Conjunction
On December 21, the winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere), one of the most important astrological moments of our lifetimes will occur. This moment is the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. Jupiter and Saturn conjunct (meet together in the sky) and meld their very different energies approximately every 20 years. They last conjoined on May 28, 2000. Making this a generational cycle at any time—however, this year they meet in an air sign, setting off a new pattern that will last for the next 200 years.
New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—The Macro to the Micro-Cosmic
The centaur, Sagittarius is the adventurer of the zodiac. Aspects of our lives that may be intensified include goals and plans that expand our horizons and lead to deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the grander scheme—our beliefs, our visions, our FAITH. Do the work here to examine your belief systems and spiritual values, and root out anything toxic, bypassing, or that just no longer resonates for where you are now—so that you don’t carry it forward in your future patterns, and in the annual intention-setting energy that arrives with the winter solstice.