How Your Moon Helps You Cope With Challenging Times

At various life intervals, you sit up and take notice. A full load of lemons lands in your lap, and you're not sure you can make drinkable lemonade. Shock, awe, and confusion. That's what's left. Ignoring it will only prolong the discomfort or escalate the problem. Challenges may appear in the form of accidents, bankruptcy, broken engagements or divorce, conflicts in business and personal relationships, death of loved ones or close friends, financial difficulties, diverse fraud scenarios, gossip that ruins credibility, homelessness due to lack of assets or damage from natural disasters, illness, loss of employment, mental pressure, psychological outlook, and the ravages of war and ...

Use Your Moon Phase to Meet Your Moment

If you're into astrology at all, you probably know your sun, moon, and rising signs. If you practice pagan traditions or work with moon magic, you know about moon phases. But if you don't know your personal moon phase—the lunar phase you were born under—you're missing out on a powerful tool for self-discovery and self-actualization. I like working with astrology in practical ways that make my life better and more meaningful. Working with your moon phase energy helps you meet each moment more naturally and effectively. It symbolizes the way you're wired to engage in life and live your purpose. When you consciously sync up with and embody this energy, you get more flow. Even ...

Moon Signs and Mood Swings

Moon signs. What do they actually mean? Like the Sun, the Moon—and the rest of the planets and other heavenly bodies—are in constant motion against the backdrop of the constellations, the signs. Each of these signs holds the potential for different traits and characteristics. The Sun takes a year to move through all of the signs, but the Moon only takes around twenty-nine days. Its impact is fleeting because of its speed, but the Moon is the closest heavenly body to your own physical body, and therefore its influence—though brief—is also powerful. Astrologers read (or interpret) a natal birth chart by looking at the signs the planets were in on the date when ...

Two Quick Clues in a Birth Chart that Tell You What Someone Is Really Like

Imagine you have been asked on a date, or maybe to go into business with someone. How can you judge whether to say yes or no? Relationships of any sort are minefields. It often takes months, if not years, to really know someone, and by then we may be emotionally, physically, and/or financially involved—by which time extricating ourselves is not so easy. Having invested so much of ourselves, we often choose to go forward anyway, ignoring that little voice telling us it isn't going to work, because the alternative is going to be painful, or costly, or both. This is where astrology comes into its own. And you don't have to be an expert to quickly suss out someone. But you do need a ...