by Jessica | Feb 14, 2018 | Aquarius, Eclipses, Illuminated Lunations
This morning the tropical rain comes down in deluges, pattering against the roof, made all the more loud for the fact that our house has jalousie windows- glass slats that never truly close, creating newfound intimacy with the outdoors. I look out from the high porch,...
by Jessica | Aug 5, 2017 | Aquarius, Illuminated Lunations
Last December I did something bold, and something absolutely terrifying. I told my husband I wanted to move. Out of state. Away from California, our home for twenty years. Actually, I had been telling him I wanted to move for months, but I wasn’t being received. He...
by Jessica | Jan 26, 2017 | Aquarius, Uranus, Venus the Love Goddess
It’s Aquarius Moon time –time to nurture your inner radical. If you think of rioters, hippies and uni-bombers when you think of radicals, you may be surprised to learn the etymology of the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, which means root....
by Jessica | Aug 17, 2016 | Aquarius, Illuminated Lunations
The eleventh is the natural house of Aquarius, associated with visions and dreams, hopes and goals for the future, friendships and allies. When I first began studying astrology, the eleventh house was enigmatic. I’d think: A planet in the house of “wishes? Well,...
by Jessica | Feb 6, 2016 | Aquarius, Illuminated Lunations
“I’m harboring a fugitive, a defector of a kind, and she lives in my soul and drinks of my wine, and I’d give my last breath to keep us alive.” – Fugitive by Indigo Girls Every year at about this time I feel my skin start to crawl. Feeling housebound and...
by Jessica | Jul 29, 2015 | Aquarius, Illuminated Lunations
Thoughts about “future plans” have been buzzing around my head like flies. Choices I want and need to make loom imminent and large. Should I sign up for this class that could be inspiring (but what if I do, and I’m bored out of my mind)? Will a book project I’d once...