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Cancer Full Moon: The Mother You Never Had
I had a dream recently. I was in a room with a tiger. I felt threatened and quite terrified. I was crying and kept calling out for my mother. I knew she was nearby, but she didn’t come. When she finally arrived, angry and in tears I asked where she had been. She nonchalantly replied that she was “out to lunch” – apt for my real-life experience of my mother, and that my current tiger situation was “no big deal”. As I awoke, I reflected on how my internal mother shaped how I have historically...
Sagittarius New Moon: Shift Your Holiday Energy
Every year around mid-November, it begins. It creeps upon me so slowly that I don’t even realize it’s happening. Like a frog being boiled alive in water, the temperature increasing ever so slightly. Holiday energy. Buzziness, wanting to jump out of my skin, the feeling that I should be doing something, waking up at night with the feeling I’ve forgotten or am avoiding something, and the persistent feeling of being caught up in an exaggerated, larger than life energy… Holiday energy. My teacher...
Scorpio New Moon: Managing Energetic Overwhelm
Scorpio rules the deep invisible realms, what the five senses cannot detect, but we “know” and “feel” in our gut – like energy. Energy is invisible, moving around us all the time. That is the truth. Yet we don’t often acknowledge the truth that the funk we’re feeling is actually funky stuff we’re picking up on around us. We tend to think something is “off” with us, when the reality is we’re either overtly, or unconsciously tuned into an energy field(s) that isn’t our own. Then, like a fly...
Taurus Full Moon: Good Grief
I had a moment last week, not one of my clearer ones, even though it yielded some good, profound realizations. I had been interacting with a lot of people in grief energy, which I in turn thought was mine, which is always tricky. So, for some time, I went deep into the energy of grief. I can say now that I got to take a master class on grief. As an energy packet, I intimately know how it feels: heavy, thick, tired, foggy (especially when not being processed), sad, angry and intense, dark,...
Libra New Moon: Love Is
I’ve been making a lot of decisions to do things differently, lately. I made a decision to quit my guitar class. It was a difficult one because I really enjoy learning guitar. In fact, I enjoyed riding my little beach bike to the university twice a week with guitar on my back...feeling the quintessential cross between Gidget and an aspiring Sheryl Crow. But those good reasons didn’t outweigh the fact that the class itself, several aspects of it, were not working for me to the point of...
Changes: A Note to Readers, Clients
“Well, I’ve been afraid of changin’ ‘Cause I’ve built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I’m getting older, too…” –Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Changes have been brewing over here at Moonkissd.com, dear reader. Maybe you’ve noticed I’ve been writing a lot more about energy and spirituality. Or perhaps you’ve seen the new look of my site, or the way I’ve dropped the “Astrology” from Moonkissd. Under my services tab, instead of astrology readings, you’ll now...
Aries Full Moon: Anchor Your Energy
I recently visited Santa Fe again, my hometown. I love the high, mountainous, desert. The energy is so clear and earthy, and truly I charge up my grounding cords for the coming year when I visit. Sitting in the patio enclosure, feet on the warm brick floor with a blanket, the ozone scented air of a late afternoon monsoon rain embracing me like the gently curving lines of adobe, I am in my earth element. A clear eyed desert Goddess. When I got home I realized that my energetic “door” has been...
Pisces Full Moon: Paradise Lost and Found
I took my first inter-island trip this past weekend, alone, to Kauai, a neighboring isle. My rental car, a huge boat of a Cadillac, belonged in Texas not backroad beaches, was what I call a “God car"-- a big boss of a car. It set the tone for the trip. I figured this weekend was about owning it, owning my Divinity. In my God car, I would feel what it’s like to be all-knowing and everywhere all at once, to part seas (of crowds and cars). Sometimes you own it... and sometimes you lose it to find...
Leo New Moon Eclipse: Spread Your Wings
My relationship with my creative identity has been in flux for awhile now. While I love astrology my singular "astrologer” identity does not any longer encompass the whole of what I do. I am, I have been slowly realizing over the years, primarily, a healer. While astrology is one framework I use, it is only one piece. Often I can facilitate greater shifts for someone by simply listening to the energy of the person and responding with little or no assistance from the chart. In fact, the chart...
Aquarius Full Moon Eclipse: Full Stop
I had been looking forward to attending a concert all week. I had even gotten buy-in from my husband, whose musical tastes are vastly different from mine (we have Venus square Venus), so this was an exciting and huge accomplishment in and of itself! Yet by the time Friday night rolled around I had a headache. I’ve learned that sudden physical symptoms can be an intuitive premonition about what's to come, so I checked in with myself, scanning all aspects of the concert. The venue. The venue...
