by Jessica | Jun 23, 2017 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations, Moon
It’s Cancer season. If Cancer season had a soundtrack it would be that of waves gently lapping on an ocean beach. If it had a taste, it would be sweet ripe berries. As the Sun warms the soul, when nostalgia beckons from the corner of our memories, this is the season...
by Jessica | Jan 11, 2017 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
Cancer is the sign traditionally associated with family, home and the past. And whimsy. Yes, whimsy. It’s our best kept secret, perhaps the secret to surviving emotional ups and downs. Whimsy is good for the soul. So when, during an emotionally exhausting...
by Jessica | Jul 2, 2016 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
“Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” -Rumi I moved out to California, my home for almost two decades now, shortly after graduating from college and my mother’s death. San Francisco proved to be far foggier and colder than I...
by Jessica | Dec 23, 2015 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
I grew up in one of those “weird” families. Maybe yours was, too. The parental units weren’t exactly hippies, but they didn’t mix well with the status quo, either. They didn’t wear Birkenstocks or smoke pot with their guitar-playing friends (or, not that I know of),...
by Jessica | Jul 14, 2015 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
This Cancer New Moon is a Goddess Moon. Like the summer season itself, Cancer holds our nostalgia for and faith in good things: family, patriotism, apple pie, watermelon on a hot day, unconditional love and our belief in others’ good kind hearts. This innocence...
by Jessica | Jan 2, 2015 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
Thoughtless, heartless, unkind, cruel…these were some of the words used by the author of the blog, Algorithmic Cruelty, and in the reader comments, to describe what it felt like to have his Facebook “Year in Review” feature a picture of his dead 8- year-old...
