NEW MOON IN TAURUS
Monday, May 5, 2008
5:18 am PDT / 8:18 am EDT
Sun and Moon at 15.22 Taurus

Opening the Window

Taurus symbolizes all that is sympathetic with our desire to maintain the status quo, to hold on to situations and possessions that are "ours" and that lend us a sense of security. But during this Taurus season, with the Sun and Moon squaring Neptune, we are encouraged - nay, ordered - to let some of it flow, both in and out. And not just the situations and possessions, but our illusions about the nature of security are also in question.....

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FULL MOON IN SCORPIO
Sunday, April 20, 2008
3:25 am PDT/6:25 am EDT
Sun at 0.43 Taurus
Moon at 0.43 Scorpio

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Each year during the Sun in Taurus season, the Scorpio Full Moon asks us to halt our hedonistic Spring revels and take a moment to remember those unhappy truths we would prefer to ignore, such as suffering, destruction, and mortality. But this year, I’m learning something new: namely, the same penetrating Scorpio insight that needles us with inconvenient truths can also make us keenly, ecstatically aware of our blessings.... (go to article)

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NEW MOON IN ARIES
Saturday, April 5, 2008
8:55 pm PDT / 11:55 pm EDT
Sun and Moon joined
at 16.44 Aries

Faces of Mars
Energy — that fine, pure dominion of Mars -- is, in fact, the common denominator of life and death; hence, its astrological rulership of both Aries (birth) and Scorpio (death). In the garden, there is no life without death; foul, impolite, Scorpionic matter gets turned over and around and makes the soil a rich and nutritious thing. The hard labor of insects and enzymes, the vibrant energy of breaking down organic material into a usable state, is the foundation on which spring's brave and tender beauty is built. So if all we celebrate of spring is the Aries emergence of green and vibrant foliage, then we've lost half the story of Mars — the dark, earthy, breaking-down Mars of Scorpio.... 
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FULL MOON IN LIBRA
Friday, March 21, 2008
9:14 am PDT / 12:14 pm EDT
Sun at 1.31 Aries
Moon at 1.31 Libra

Each year at the Aries New Moon, I imagine the great mass of humanity bursting out of the starting gate like the bulls running in Pamplona – highly charged with vim and vitality, impatient to get on with the business of … what, exactly? At the New Moon, we’re not exactly sure. We’re long on energy, but short on perspective. And Aries, of all the signs, exemplifies this New Moon spirit. At the Libra Full Moon, our task is to cast the cool eye of appraisal over the ideas and ventures that were - or will be - initiated at the Aries New Moon. Do they seem revolutionary and creative, or merely impetuous - even reckless?...
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