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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, Sunday, April 23, 2005 3:06 AM PST Biting into a crisp Asian pear, a white nectarine. Smelling an exquisite tea rose. Drinking the expanse of crisp linen clouds on a perfect azure sky. Body...

Libra Full Moon, Friday, March 25, 2005 12:58 PM PST Spring is here! The promise of Aries is eager to get on with things, yet we face the challenge of renewal. To do so, we must clear out our winter cupboards of the past, a space bigger than a bread box, to make room for new. Both forward and backward thinking are required-'huh? Your overwrought mind asks, 'how can I look backward to correct the future?' Clear some mental clutter: what do I need to drop off before I can spring ahead? Here's...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin Pisces New Moon, Thursday, March 10, 1:10 AM PST Where were you on 3/04 when Mercury tumbled out of Pisces long dream and announced the first call of spring? Were you asleep and dreaming or did you hear Aries ram hooves shuffling outside your door of consciousness? In the Bay Area, we could sense the change with the weather. A co-worker pinpointed the exact hour his hay fever...

I would love to kiss you. -The price of kissing is your life. Now my loving is running toward my life shouting, What a bargain, let's buy it! -Rumi New Moon Aquarius, Tuesday, February 8, 2005 2:28 PM PST The astrological weather changes again, and aren't things different from even a few weeks ago. The ancient Roman holiday of Saturnalia loosens the wool bindings at Saturn's feet. The God of nose-to-the-grindstone loosens up. It would behoove you to perform some equally liberating ceremony,...

New Moon Capricorn, Monday, January 10, 2005 4:03 AM PST What a New Year! I am incredibly saddened by the devastation in Southeast Asia. When we are becoming increasingly sensitized to the world's suffering, how do we make meaning of the suffering? The earth hangs like an earring in the universe, so delicate and small. We often forget that we serve the earth, that she is a living, breathing thing- she absorbs all of it so quietly and gracefully. Until she has been pushed too far, & like the...

I had been hungry all the years; my noon had come, to dine; I, trembling, drew the table near, and touched the curious wine. 'T was this on tables I had seen, when turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows,for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'T was so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's dining-room. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new, -- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry;...

Come, come, whoever you are, this caravan has no despair. Even though you have broken your vows perhaps ten thousand times Still, come again, come, whoever you are, Whoever you are, come. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, come! -Rumi New Moon Sagittarius, Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:29 PM PST A second lunation for Sagittarius, another opportunity to cultivate the seeker. The full moon illumined the inkling of a seed something. We read the lay of the land with its many paths and...

Scorpio New Moon, Friday, November 12, 2004, 6:27 AM PST In Ancient Greece, Medusa was the most beautiful woman in the world. Her beauty had the power to captivate any man. Original cast member of ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’, Medusa incurred the wrath of Artemis when she took the coveted Poseidon as a lover—in a temple of Artemis, no less. As punishment, Artemis turned Medusa and her sisters into hags, making Medusa hideously ugly, with snakes for hair. Imagine Medusa’s power and...

Full Harvest Moon Aries, Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:09 AM The Harvest Moon is the first fall moon that falls after the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere. The gap in light between sunset and moonrise has shortened, with only 1/2 hour between sunset and moonrise. So named Harvest moon as the moonlight allowed farmers to harvest their crops in the evening, as daylight dwindled and there was still work to be done. The sign of Virgo is one of harvest, the Virgo energy of the last month...

New Moon Virgo, Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:29 AM Virgo is in a precarious position on the zodiac wheel; it’s located at the point where the physical body makes an adjustment or tune up before it crosses into the southern half of the circle. I see the symbol in my life as I sit down to write and realize I’m experiencing minor back pain from a late night yoga posture turned jiu-jitsu maneuver. I had fun doing it! says the preceding sign, Leo. After Leo’s fun, Virgo steps back and...