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Full Moon in Scorpio. 04/23/2024

Venom as a medicine. The Scorpio lunation after an Eclipse season, after Jupiter/Uranus conjunction, with Mercury still retrograde is a point of necessary internal rupture, pronounced need for cutting off the energetically draining practices, connections and internal attitudes.

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Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Taurus. 04/20/2024

Dare to declare who you are. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. - St. Hildegard of Bingen, natal Jupiter with Uranus in Taurus

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New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries. 04/08/2024

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. - Émile Zola

The desire for life not diluted by the external opinions and deeply seated fears, the piercing to the core need for self expression is the theme of this Eclipse.

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Mercury Retrograde in Aries. April 1st to April 25th

Mercury retrograde starts on April 1st at 27º of Aries and ends on April 25th at 16º of Aries (the pre-shadow started on March 19th and post-shadow ends on May 13th). The retrograde begins on the midpoint between Eclipses…

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Aries Season. Spring Equinox of 2024.

Temperance and Fire.

On March 19th the Sun crosses 0º degrees of Aries and we welcome Spring Equinox. This is one of the 4 pivotal points in the wheel of the year, the cardinal energy opening the way. The brief moment of perfect balance happens on this day

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Full Moon in Virgo. 02/24/2024

Full Moon in Virgo arrives in the early hours of Saturday and opens a two week period for us to intentionally clear, purify and release some of the toxic material that we have accumulated in the past months.

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New Moon in Aquarius. 02/09/2024

The New Moon in Aquarius arrives on Friday evening and she is calling to the parts within us that are hungry for the radically new passages, the parts that are inherently rebellious and are ready to stir us out of the stagnation and complacency.

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Aquarius Season 2024.

The Sun enters Aquarius on Saturn day and is illuminating the path for Pluto that follows closely behind. We have two ingresses of Pluto in Aquarius this year. First is on January 20th and second on November 19th, and after that it is a 20 year long passage…

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Winter Solstice. Capricorn Season 2023

Winter Solstice arrives on December 21st and marks the beginning of the Capricorn Season. Sun starts returning to its power from this moment forward. This sacred point is a shift from the mutable energy…

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New Moon at 20º of Sagittarius. 12/12/2023

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.” - Joan Didion

The New Moon in Sagittarius arrives on December 12th and is the last New Moon of 2023. This lunation takes place at the darkest time of the year, when the days are the shortest and we are on our way to the Winter Solstice..

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Sun conjunct Mars at 25º of Scorpio. 11/17/2023

Piercing into the essence of truth. Every two years Sun, the primary source of light in our system, the archetype of an ego, sense of self, of our core desires meets with Mars, the warrior principle, the will to overcome, to exercise courage and determination.

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Week of October 9th to 15th. 2023

Welcome to Eclipse Week. The complex web of current transits are deconstructing a lot of long standing attachments and habits, lessening our persistent resistance to change and desire for control by the ways of the physical restraints…

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The First Week of October, 2023

What a month is ahead of us, the changes start rolling. After a few months of going inward, redefining certain areas in our life, taking it easy, we are quickly moving into the month when all the internal work…

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Full Moon in Aries. 09/29/2023

Tension mounts, and it yearns for release. Peace is the result of seeing tension for what it is, an opportunity for creation.

In the early hours of Friday, the Full Moon in Aries rushes through the fog and confusion of the last days to light our inner spirits on fire, to weed the stagnation out of our systems and to allow the primal howl of our needs to come through.

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New Moon at 21º of Virgo. 09/14/2023

The discernment in service of the spirit.

The New Moon in Virgo takes place on Thursday evening and brings forward momentum to start moving out of uncertainty of the last weeks, out of the space that held us in a state of vacillating thoughts and shifting priorities…

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Full Moon at 9º of Aquarius. 08/01/2023

Full Moon In Aquarius arrives on Tuesday afternoon and is going to highlight our sensitivity to the collective currents and our need to be a part of the community that is ready to make changes in accordance to these rapidly changing currents.

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