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Understanding the Blue Moon

August 12th, 2008

In a recent Sky and Telescope article we learn the original definition of a Blue Moon is referring to 4 Full Moons in one season. In this instance a season is defined as the time between a Solstice and Equinox or an Equinox and Solstice. (See Table below) There are four seasons in a year and generally three Full Moons in each season or 12 Full Moons per year. Occasionally we find there are 4 Full Moons in one season and 13 Full Moons in a year marking the annual solar and lunar cycle from December Solstice to Solstice. More…

Mercury Retrograde

January 31st, 2008

The planet Mercury symbolizes the alchemical magic of the mind, how we process information, how we perceive our reality and how we communicate. It is also noted for its quickness and speed as it completes one orbit around the Sun in 88 days. Thus, Mercury’s speed is also linked to the quickness of the mind. Our minds, our thoughts, our perceptions are not necessarily limited by time and space. Our thoughts can take us beyond these boundaries in an instant. More…

The Chiron Return and Reflections on Being 52

January 1st, 2008

by Daniel Giamario

Shamanic Astrology occupies a niche within the larger context of the astrological world. Whilst rejecting many of the dogma’s of western traditional astrology, it frequently will incorporate useful elements of many astrological and shamanic traditions, Eastern, Western, Mayan or aboriginal. The Mayans, for example, in their sacred calendrics, reset to 0 at 52 years as that is where the sacred and secular calendars intersect. Their ideas seem to be a convergence of starting over and of entering into the ‘Council of Elders’. More…

The Alchemy of Chiron

January 1st, 2008

by Cayelin K Castell

Astrological patterns are recognized in terms of the meaning
that we bring to inner and outer experiences,
although we are perhaps in turn predisposed to the quality
of our experiences by the patterns themselves.
However, rather than trying to pre-empt fate,
to ward it off or pretend it does not exist,
we may perhaps work with it as consciously as we are able:

thus we participate in the alchemical opus,
the hero’s journey, the philosopher’s stone,
or the finding of the long lost kingdom.

Chiron and the Healing Journey
An Astrological and Psychological Perspective
By Melanie Reinhart More…

Planet transits through Scorpio

January 25th, 2005
Edgewalking and Renewing Our Vision of Passion, Ecstasy, and Right Use of Will Saturn enters Scorpio on October 5, 2012

by Cayelin K Castell

The Scorpio Mantra…
I Will, My Will, Be Thy Will. More…