by Jessica | Jan 14, 2014 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
As we turned the corners of the new year, I returned home after living in Stockholm, Sweden for four months. I am finally where I belong. Home. In Northern California where the air has an otherworldly perfume of damp peaty musk and fresh green. Home. As David Byrne of...
by Jessica | Jun 22, 2013 | Cancer, Jupiter
Lately, the waterworks are turned ON. Last weekend I found myself blubbering about the loss of traditional cooking skills, nostalgically yearning for a time when folks gathered together in the kitchen, made, and ate real food together, a time when women gathered,...
by Jessica | Aug 7, 2012 | Cancer, Venus the Love Goddess
While Venus transits the sign of Cancer some will find partnering, nesting, stoking the fires of heart and hearth desirable. Others will be challenged to address the emotional defenses keeping us from giving and receiving love. “I don’t want to live- I...
by Jessica | Jul 17, 2012 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
One morning, my husband and I were driving into the city and I was happy and felt good. For no good reason. First, I’m not a morning person. Second, I had just stopped drinking coffee. Third, I was having a massive Pluto-Uranus-Sun-Mars-Pluto transit, which had just...
by Jessica | Jan 18, 2011 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
People come to astrologers for many reasons, but a big one is to unlock a mystery, put perspective around an area of life that has become a tremendous source of pain or confusion. Often they (we) are conditioned to think our life should be otherwise. Pick any subject....
by Jessica | Jul 8, 2010 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
This week we cooked dinner for thirty people. I made the curry zucchinni soup and salad. John made the homemade spelt bread with goat milk and honey. The goal was to cook enough food for 30 people with a budget of 30 dollars, which sounds a bit insane in this economy....