Posts by Laura Orcutt
JANUARY 2018 FULL MOON IN CANCER
HIGH TIDE window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘263iACVqcS27eExW32nAQi’,{dontShowFor:’1d’,domain:’results.lpages.co’});}); We’re ringing in 2018 with emotions running high, and not just because of the date on the calendar. The bigger reason? The Moon is Full in her watery home sign of Cancer. I’ve summed up the energies in my own Full Moon forecast: “We’re christening the New Year with an emotional salt…
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HERE COMES THE SUN What if you could experience peace and calm in the midst of the holiday season? Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? It’s not. This time of year has a moment that has been cosmically engineered for precisely that. And simple, ancient traditions are the pathway. That moment is the Winter Solstice. Astrologically speaking,…
Read MoreDECEMBER 2017 SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON
WORDS TO THE WISE window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘141ac0c73f72a2:9447e3ade’,{dontShowFor:’0d’,domain:’results.lpages.co’});}); This year’s Sagittarius New Moon on Dec. 17/18 has traits that ordinarily don’t surface till New Year’s Eve. It brings awareness of time passing and chapters ending, even as it orients us to the future. It stirs optimism and possibility in the midst of somberness. And instead of resolutions, it…
Read MoreIO, SATURNALIA!
Two thousand years ago, the Romans celebrated Saturn in style—with feasting, songs, humor, and gift-giving. Saturnalia was the direct forerunner of the holiday we now call Christmas. Though this seems a far cry from modern astrology’s gloomy and dire warnings about a visit by “Saturn the Taskmaster,” in the context of Saturn’s “origin story,” it…
Read MoreSATURN IN CAPRICORN 2017
BEFRIENDING SATURN IN SIX SIMPLE STEPS Get ready to get real. Order-loving Saturn returns to his Spartan home of Capricorn on Dec. 19/20, 2017. After the chaos of recent years – and the wild, fiery frenzy of 2017 – this move will hit with a jolt. It’s as if an alarm goes off and we’re…
Read MoreDECEMBER 2017 FULL MOON IN GEMINI
DAZE & DUALITY window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘14269aff3f72a2:9447e3ade’,{dontShowFor:’0d’,domain:’results.lpages.co’});}); The time has come for the annual paradox that is the Dec. 3 Gemini Full Moon. Chatty, mental, prone to duality and flitting about, this one has a slipperiness that makes it hard to know what to believe or who to trust. I describe the dynamics in my Mooncast at Empowerment…
Read MoreNOVEMBER 2017 NEW MOON IN SCORPIO
REGENERATION window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘141ac0c73f72a2:9447e3ade’,{dontShowFor:’0d’,domain:’results.lpages.co’});}); This year’s Scorpio New Moon brings the sign’s usual mix of intensity, purging and regeneration, but with a twist. Or rather, shove. What lies beneath? Astrologers around the Web have divergent views, with a defining commonality:Â the power to transform and potential to heal. Scorpio New Moon To a traditional astrologer, courageous and…
Read MoreNOVEMBER 2017 FULL MOON IN TAURUS
FOOD FOR LOVE Full Moons are a regularly recurring status report on the state of our emotions. In Taurus, the first of the earth signs, the November 2017 Full Moon measures comfort with worldly existence. What we have, how this feeds us, what we want and to what extent we share are all up for…
Read MoreOCTOBER 2017 NEW MOON IN LIBRA
SHATTERED BOOM! Is it possible to predict the unpredictable? Perhaps we’ll find out this week as the Oct. 19/20 New Moon in Libra heralds a cosmic shift that may force us to think about our lives – especially our relationships — in new ways. window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘141ac0c73f72a2:9447e3ade’,{dontShowFor:’1d’,domain:’results.lpusercontent.com’});}); If Libra represents how we see ourselves reflected in the…
Read MoreOCTOBER 2017 FULL MOON IN ARIES
ENTANGLED Perhaps one of the most potent lunations of the year, the October 2017 Full Moon in Aries is a tightly interwoven collection of planet energies that offer no simple answers, only yearning. window.addEventListener(‘LPLeadboxesReady’,function(){LPLeadboxes.setExitIntent(‘14269aff3f72a2:9447e3ade’,{dontShowFor:’1d’});}); Savor Zodiac Poetess Cristina’s elegant summary of this complex Moon “Some of us might feel as though we have reached our…
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 2017 NEW MOON IN VIRGO
EARTHBOUND STARLIGHT If you’ve been feeling the urge to step back from the whirlwind and take some time to get grounded, you’re in luck. The Virgo New Moon on Sept. 19/20 will bring the respite for which you’ve been yearning. Kathy Biehl, Empowerment Unlimited, sums up the energy shift: “This New Moon is as cool,…
Read MoreSUN UNLEASHES MOST POWERFUL SOLAR FLARE IN OVER A DECADE
(Last updated Sept. 8) In a stunning burst of light on Sept. 6, the Sun unleashed the strongest solar flare in over a decade. At 12:02 am UT (that’s 5:02 am Pacific) a powerful, X9.3-class solar flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere and caused a strong shortwave blackout over the Sun-facing side of the…
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