Living with the Stars

  Full Moon tonight, folks. Yesterday's post was about the Solstice and the Lunar Standstill and tonight, we have a Full Moon in the early hours of the 22nd June. Let's have a look at what story the sky is offering us.  From the diagram on the left, you can see how the Sun and Moon are opposite each other. The exact moment of the Full Moon occurs as the Moon is setting in the west (position at 3 o' clock is where the West lies in a zodiac chart). The Moon is also out-of-bounds, making its nature something of a wild card. Hence, this Full Moon is highly charged, especially because of the aspects it makes to Neptune. The nebulous Neptune is a planet associated with illusion and delusion and can be deceptive. It tends to have a dissolving nature; whenever Neptune is involved in an aspect, it can don artistic genius but also take you down the rabbit hole.  Whatever the case, be aware of Neptune's nebulous power. This is a Full Moon, which means that the intentions set at th

  On Thursday night, at 21:50, we celebrate the Summer Solstice. the time of year which celebrates the first astronomical day of the Summer season in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that tomorrow marks the longest day of the year and also the shortest night, measured in terms of daylight.  https://www.umass.edu/sunwheel/pages/moonteaching.html The Solstice marks a point in the year when the Sun is at its northernmost point. This point is an abstract one, on the celestial Tropic of Cancer (the Tropic of Cancer projected out into space), a parallel 23.5 degree north of the celestial equator (the equator projected out into space). At this solstice, as opposed to the Winter Solstice, the Northern Hemisphere is most tilted towards the Sun by a maximum angle of 23.5 degrees.  The Ancient ones knew about this day and gave it the utmost importance. They tracked the Sun's path across the sky and the length of daylight hours.  Scientifically, the summer solstice represents a key moment i

  This is extraordinarily late, as the New Moon graced our skies three days ago on the 6th June at 14:37. Still, I wanted to get this post out there as I know there are readers who do enjoy reading these posts.  New Moons mark the start of the lunar month, a time when intentions are made, bringing with it the hope of new beginnings. Gemini is the sign of the heavenly twins and one wonders, all those thousand of years ago, when (wo)mankind looked at the skies in an attempt to understand earthly events, how and why did they come up with the constellation of Gemini being a set of twins? Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac after Aries and Taurus and if we try to map the development of human consciousness, first we are aware of ourselves, then come our needs, then our 'going out into the world'. Gemini therefore talks about how we communicate with others. According to Bernadette Brady, the notion of two 'twin' stars embody the human psyche, with its capacity for light and