We begin this week in the New Phase in the sign of Gemini.

This week the Moon shows us that it’s time to allow our thinking and ways of dealing with our responsibilities and problem solving to mature to another level. It’s an opportunity to find the stillness in our minds where we can see things more clearly, understand the significances of our choices, understand our responsibilities in a situation. This week we are shown how to settle our minds when dealing with a situation and not get brain zoomies. It’s not a magical solution; we have to do the work to actually calm our minds, but the Moon is offering supportive energies to help us do just that.

It’s also a week to let go of childhood illusions. This means knowing ourselves and being able to discern between illusions and our soul-centered dreams. Our childhood illusions and dreams are connected to emotions, so calming our minds to see them clearly is a powerful way to determine what we need to release and what we can build with/on to manifest our dreams in our lives.

I know from personal experience with Gemini that it’s hard to calm our minds when Gemini is involved. It takes commitment, focus, work, and grounding to quiet your mind. It may help to have very quiet music playing while meditating. This can give your “zoomie brain” something to focus on while you’re working to find that sweet, quiet spot where wisdom lives.

You can also sit in quiet space, and imagine yourself grounded to the Earth through your feet and connected to the Divine Source through the top of your head. Focus on belly breathing. When thoughts come up, just let them float by. Know you can come back to any thought when you’ve finished meditating. This takes practice, so a few minutes everyday is helpful.

The beauty of all of this is that we don’t have to get there or be there in one magical moment. Life is a growth process, a series of cycles and when we are patient with ourselves we can get there one step at a time. So don’t worry if you don’t get to that quiet place right away. This week is a doorway into that place. We start by walking through the door.

This week offers us an opportunity to consider whether or not we’re “givers” or “receivers” and we may be both depending on the situation/relationship. This calls us to do a deep dive into our worth so we know ourselves, our boundaries, and our truths. Where do you do the giving and where do you sit back and expect to receive? Where can you be more giving and where can you ask others to be more giving, fairly? Check yourself to see make sure you’re being heart-centered and authentic when giving. Be open to receiving. Know that you are worthy of receiving. But know that not everyone gives freely and lovingly. There is going to be an uptick in what appears to be giving but is really just trying to get something for themselves. This can be manipulative and trying to cover up for something else.

The Sun in Taurus brings energies of second chances and new beginnings. This week teaches us that no matter where we are in life, we can always begin again. That’s another beauty of cycles. This energy connects with the Moon’s energies this week by saying that the best way to work with our second chances is to be mature about it, seek a deeper understanding of the possibilities so we can make choices and take actions for the right/best reasons. This week gives us support to find something(s) to be passionate about.

Sending you all bright blessings and lots of love…

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Abundance, Self-Love, & Inner Knowing

The Moon loves being in Taurus! There is love, dreamy earthiness, abundance of everything in life, green growth, flowers, birds & bees, sunshine, and beauty everywhere. Everything is about creation/creating, nurturing with the love of the Divine Mother and Mama Earth. We just have to open our eyes and see it.

We’re extra intuitive with this Moon cycle. It’s really helping us connect with our own inner selves. This Moon cycle is about us going deep withing to discover our worth and our values. Our intuition is guiding us to our truths, our communication with ourselves, and the magic of us connecting with our ability to use our divine minds to find ourselves and create/manifest our visions and dreams.

The Goddess asteroid Kassandra figures prominently in this Moon cycle. Kassandra can point out where we struggle to be heard, especially when we’re are speaking truth. She shows us where we don’t listen to ourselves. Kassandra is where we have a deep knowing and prophetic insights but we’re not easily believed by ourselves or others. Kassandra also shows us where, while we may know something and know it’s true, we need to keep quiet about it because it’s a lesson for someone else and for them to figure out. Discernment is the keyword. That doesn’t mean we sit on the sidelines. We can still actively pursue our truths.

Another Goddess energy that stands out now is Kore – the maiden aspect of Persephone. We’re going through an initiation right now. This initiation can lead us to our deepest truths and gifts – the ones that are buried deep in our darkest places. The ones that are our power base and make us the leaders in our own lives.

Taurus rules our hearts and our voices. This New Moon gifts us with the wisdom to use our words – voices, writing, singing, poetry, our communication with other worldly realms – and when we use them from our hearts, we stand a chance to help others see things differently, see things from a brighter, more beautiful place. We may not see success right away, but we’ll never see success if we don’t try.

This gift can work both ways. People will try to use communication to get their way through manipulation. So be mindful when people talk to you. Whether it’s in your personal life or out in the world.

Taurus is associated with resources, money/finances, and abundance. It’s also associated with love, beauty, art, the kind of innocent joyfulness and playfulness we see in toddlers and preschoolers. It’s fertility and growth. It’s the growing power of the Divine Feminine as She matures and cares for Her earth and life itself.

Ceres is another Goddess asteroid that’s very powerful right now. We use the Ceres archetype to represent how we nurture ourselves and others, she’s our love language, and our deepest emotional needs for comfort and security. Ceres also represents agriculture. This New Moon cycle will focus our attention on care, food, agriculture, our emotional needs and the emotional needs of those around us and how all of that is connected with our politics.

The Sun and Moon are also conjunct Mercury so we can expect that every aspect of communication is going to be in the spotlight with this Moon cycle. Speaking, written word, music, listening, writing, even our communication with the other dimensions.

The Moon, Ceres, and the Sun conjunct Mercury, when blended together, create the energies of working together in partnership and cooperation. To achieve the desired results, it’s important to work with others who are of equal skill and/or similar interests. When we work together in cooperation we are sharing our gifts, skills, talents, and passions. Venus is one of the guardians of Taurus and She loves harmony, and that’s what we’re working for now.

We need to watch out for others who want to take all the credit for our work, which makes it all the more important to work with others who have the same goals and integrity we do. We also need to be working on things that are really important to us, not just “busy work”.

Taurus, with all of the Venus, Gaia, and fairy energies brings out our desires for harmonious, beautiful, loving, romantic aesthetics. Part of what we are creating in our personal lives and in our world is not only deep and honest knowing of ourselves, but a beautiful world as well.

This entire Moon cycle is, at its core, about the abundance of life and how we are all, each and every single one of us, worthy of the blessings of abundance from the Divine. Abundance is not just about money and finances, it’s about everything – love, good health, loving relationships, doing work that is fulfilling and in alignment with our heart and soul purpose, and more. Venus and Taurus are heart energies, so open your heart and believe you are worthy of the love of the Divine and worthy of living a life filled with all beautiful things. Taurus is also hard working, so be ready to do the work that is needed to open your heart, discover your worth and know what your values are. And if your values aren’t in alignment with your heart and soul, be willing to, with love, compassion, joy, and seeking harmony with yourself, work to get in alignment.

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This week begins in a loving, relationship focused energy. We’re focused emotionally on relationships, aesthetics, the beauty of the Earth, how to be in an harmonious relationship with the Earth in particular, how to be in an harmonious relationship with our money and finances, and what our relationship dreams and aspirations are. We’ve been experiencing so much that’s really stressful and dark, but this week gives us a bit of a break to focus on what are the beautiful, harmonious, relationship related things that will make the world a better place. As hard as it keeps getting, we cannot sustain all of this darkness so it’s important to already be working on and dreaming what we want to create as the darkness shatters and we will need to replace it. This is the week to tap into your dreamy world.

At the same time, we’re starting the week in a 3^rd quarter Moon phase – a “doing”, yang energy. What can you do that’s related to your New Moon intentions that expresses where you’re at right now, that gives back to the world from your heart and soul?

At the same time, these are the values we want to live by. This week is a good week to “practice” living by those values. Really think about and feel who you are from your heart and soul and live them this week. And hopefully we can continue to live by those moving forward.

Hand in hand with living our values, we’re discovering our worth. We’re discovering that, with the Moon in Pisces, we are all worthy. We’re all valuable because we’re all beautiful souls experiencing a journey on this Earth. Together. Loved by the creator (whatever you choose to call it). This week we are given the opportunity to really feel, see, and express not only our own worth, but lovingly allow others to do the same. As we all share our true Selves from a place of harmony, love, worth, we can make that beautiful world happen.

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With the Moon in Sagittarius right now (Monday and Tuesday), we’re in the space of faith. Last week we had a Libra Moon where we explored our partnership with the Universe. We then experienced a Scorpio Moon (with Beltane and the Full Moon) where we discovered our ability to magnetize what we want/need to manifest our dreams. Now, with the Moon in Sagittarius, we take a breath and have faith that the Universe has our back and that we are worthy of manifesting our dreams and that we can do this. This week’s energies overall ask us to go with the flow, live, play, be in harmony with nature and others while maintaining your sense of Self and truth. Going with the flow is also about trusting that the Universe will bring us what we need. It may not always look like what we think it will, but that’s where the trust comes in – to trust the Universe knows at a higher wisdom. So we begin this week in the energetic space of faith, trust, and love. Playing and being in harmony with nature and all other life is part of this week’s energies, too. This will raise vibrations. This image of being at the beach, playing in the sand and water, seashells, birds, the ebb and flow of the water - these are all images for this week! Have faith, trust, and fun!

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This was a tough piece to write. It feels like there are some really new and powerful energies, information, and new changes beginning to come through. Which for me means finding the words to express these new, deep ideas. So here we go my friends!

The “negative” side of these energies is political game playing and who knows who and what is the cash value of that or the power that can be gained by a relationship. They don’t care about the true value of anything unless it benefits them financially and/or to amass power and control. The image for this is a ballroom. Which I find really interesting. The light side of a ballroom is bringing many people together to share fun, dancing, food, music, and celebration of life. There is still a sense of the “right” behavior and protocol in being invited to and attending a ball, so…

Are you being your true, natural Self or are your “putting on a show for others”? Are you behaving in a certain way in order to feel a part of something, some group that you think is the cool place to be, or a group that allows you to express your anger and dark issues in a seemingly socially acceptable way? And it would be so easy to point fingers at the politics of those currently in power. And we should rightfully be shining the light on their darkness. But if we really want to move forward, we also need to address the shadows within ourselves.

This Full Moon is going to really shine its light on where we have areas we can work on to get closer to our own light truths, and to our own Soul truths, and to the truths in our hearts.

There is an interesting Neptune-Pluto energy underneath the energies. This energy could be about shattering the dark, shadow things and the things that keep us held prisoner to our fears and ego – the things that keep us from our true, heart and soul dreams and visions. This is happening individually and collectively. To move through this with grace and love, be open to seeing the shadows, be kind to yourself and others because whether we are consciously working with these hard energies or they’re working on us, this is a really hard time. It’s like going through a dense, dark forest riddled with thorny branches in order to get out of the forest and into the bright, beautiful light of the sweet meadow.

We can think of Scorpio energy as the magnetic energy we work with to draw to us what we desire, and what we need to create our lives and our world. In order to activate that magnetic energy, we need to be centered in our power and that power needs to be in harmony with love and clarity. Look at the politicians and others who have “power” and misuse it to do dark things. They are using a power that isn’t rooted in love. It’s rooted in ego and fear. They may have clarity about what they want, but it’s not in harmony with love, and in the end it won’t work. And when we come from ego and fear we often attract the things we don’t really want. But our true, love based power is covered up with all of our traumas, fears, our ego voices, what we think we desire and need based on the “shoulds” of our culture. Our behaviors and beliefs are even based in the fear of being hurt through verbal, emotional, and physical violence against ourselves, our loved ones, and innocent people around the world.

Scorpio is an interesting journey to our power. It has no problem going deep and dark. When we are intentional with it, we can take that journey to discover what keeps us in the shadows and away from our own light. And that kind of journey leads us to our deeper truths, and to our Divine magnetic Self. Our divine feminine is the magnetic energy that we use to draw what the Universe offers us to ourselves to manifest our trues dreams, visions, desires. We magnetize all the time, but just how intentional and conscious are we of where we’re magnetizing from?

This Full Moon, on Beltane, is a beautiful showing of the blossoming of our intentions and dreams, and with Beltane, there is an energy of abundance, joy, the fecundity of the Earth and life, a fire celebration and a time of cleansing of the old energies. The image I see is the brightness of the Moon and our inner shadows coming up like blossoms from deep within us while at the same time Beltane and the Earth share their joy, the abundance of life, the beauty of life itself. Beltane, as a fire sabbat, is burning the shadow stuff we’re bringing up in order to purify the energies and clear our inner paths to get to our true, Soul and Heart power and love.

The placement of the Sun at the full Moon is about dreaming and looking at/for what you want for and in your life. It’s about honoring and embracing your TRUE worth, the worth that comes from you being a beautiful Soul on this Earth journey. These energies are asking you to look at you and others Soul worth rather than looking at material worth and what you may feel you are lacking materially.

You may only be “window shopping” for it right now, but it’s an important step in manifesting your dreams. Done with joy and excitement, it can help draw what we desire to us. Be careful of trying to get things before the resources are in place. Be careful, too, that you are being true to your Soul and not getting caught up in consumerism, or bandwagon mentality. Right now, in addition to dealing with our shadow stuff, we’re doing double duty by also connecting with the things that of inner value and worth. And realizing that those true things of value are actually available to us right now.

There is a lot of feminine energy around us right now. The feminine, or yin energies are similar to Scorpio in that they are magnetic energies. This adds another layer to our ability to draw to us what we need to create our visions.

Persephone continues to lead us to our deep, inner, scary places. She helps guide us to our own beauty, power, and gifts that come from knowing our shadow selves and healing/transforming them and stepping back into the light of day to grow our lives with new, bright, joyful energy.

The Scorpio Moon and Taurus Sun at Beltane all come together to show us that by working together we can build and accomplish something great. It gives us hope and the strength to keep moving forward – with one another and with all of the aspects of our own rich, beautiful inner selves.

Enjoy the Sun, the birds, the wind, the rain, the blossoming flora and fauna and life itself. Use your courage and love to face your shadow areas and heal them. We need you and you need yourself! Many bright blessings to you. Hold the love, hold the light, hold the line my loves.

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Although we begin the week in a 1^st quarter Moon phase, we move into the Gibbous phase by early Monday afternoon. The Moon is in Virgo. We’re being asked to trust – take a breath and in the space after you release the breath feel, be trust. Trust in the Universe, trust in your dreams, trust in yourself. This phase is a “being” phase, so make sure you make time to just be.

The Moon in Virgo could make it challenging to get out of your head and into a place of quiet trust. But we can do this. Virgo is an Earth sign so we can change the story of Virgo being a purely Mercurial Vulcan-like energy to it’s proper place of Earthy and grounded energy that balances with practical, thoughtful ideas and activities.

This week is a good time to do grounding activities like walking or even simply sitting on the porch and watching the rain clouds roll in. Listen to the sounds of nature. Breathe in the fresh air. Really look at the flowers and leaves on the trees.

This is also a good week to take a look at your New Moon intentions and see if they need any tweaking. Trust with the confidence of Virgo that you know from your heart what to change and what to leave. We’re heading toward the Full Moon and Beltane where we’ll see our dreams and intentions fully lit by the light of the Moon.

Mercury in Aries is conjunct Mars in Aries and Persephone in Aries this week. This combination can be volatile and take us to our deep selves. You may find your thoughts are angry and/or impatient. Watch out that your words aren’t filled with anger, possibly creating battles that will be hard to back away from. I know I’ve been struggling with my own inner anger issues as well as struggling to not speak out when it may do more harm than good. Challenges for sure.

Understand that when these issues come up they are signs posts about shadow things you need to heal. Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, guides us to really see our deepest fears and shadow patterns. She gives us the safe inner space to embrace and release the things within us that hold us back from being our own best selves and from being the leader of our own lives. The anger and fears are cries from our Souls to love ourselves; to work our way through the darkness and find our light. To let go of the things that are keeping us stuck, scared, not being the bright Soul we came here to be. Honor yourself and your shadow issues as part of your healing journey to find and express your most beautiful Self in our world.

Hekate in Aquarius and opposite Mary Magdelene in Leo offers us the idea that the best way to transform our lives, release our shadows is to embrace our uniqueness, to love ourselves, to open to our creative natures (and we are ALL creative in different and beautiful ways). Courage is a key component. Courage and love come from the same place – our hearts.

With the Sun in Taurus, an Earth sign, and the Moon in the Earth sign of Virgo, this week is about the Earth, being fully conscious in our bodies, and about healing in our physical realm. With Taurus, who is ruled by Venus, Mary Magdelene, Mother Mary, and Artemis, there is a focus on love, the fierce love of Mother/Divine Feminine, the power of alchemical transformation of our natural resources, and the expression of beauty, harmony, and justice. Also the idea of food as medicine for our bodies, our Souls, and as an expression of love and creativity.

Today, Tuesday April 28, 2026, the Moon moves into Libra. We begin to get some relief from the harshness of all the Aries energies. We can feel beauty in the world in spite of everything going on. We desire harmony, love, and partnership in our lives. In the Gibbous Moon phase, we are asked to trust that the Universe is our ultimate partner and always has our best at heart. As we head toward the full Moon on Friday, we are being given the opportunity to open our hearts and minds to our partnership with the Universe. And as we open up, we are seeking our truth and aligning with our Soul’s path and purpose. All of the things that are coming up that feel dark, scary, confusing, causing anger, are coming up for us to shed so we can get to our light and our truth.

Have patience with yourself and others. Be in a grounded place of love to the best of your ability. Trust that any anger you feel is a sign pointing you toward where you need to heal. Trust that your intentions are supported and you are loved. Be courageous and find the path of love and don’t be afraid to make changes to your intentions. It’s okay to change your mind. Life is an adventure and meant for us to explore. Finding our truths and expressing those truths is an exploration for us to enjoy and experience.

Much love to you all my friends.

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We begin this week at the end of the New phase of this Aries Moon cycle with the Moon in Gemini and the Sun now in Taurus.

This week is all about communication of all kinds. Writing, speaking, listening, reading, intuitive sensing. And communication that comes in the forms of symbols and all forms of art (music, painting, pottery, design, and so on) as well as words. This takes place in the third dimension and in other dimensions.

It’s also about standing up for yourself as an individual and as part of any group. We’ll feel the need to create solutions to the problems in order to make things more equitable and create better conditions and environments. There are several different energetic positions that are creating challenges to finding solutions that work for everyone. There is a square between the Moon and the North and South Nodes. With the South Node (our past, old habits, past lives) in Virgo, this could be starting out with communication in a kind of picky way – looking for details too soon and looking for a level of perfection that simply cannot exist when working to blend together different energies – whether you’re working with different things within yourself or working with other people/groups. The good thing with Virgo here is that it can offer a way to create a logical expression of different views to create an atmosphere that is grounded and focused. The Moon is also squaring the North Node (where we’re growing toward) in Pisces – our goal is to creatively, intuitively, spiritually connect with one another to empathically join the different feelings, ideas, beliefs together to create a new, more beautiful oneness that cares for everyone with equity. We can work with the Virgo energies to give form and shape to the free-flowing Pisces energies and use our hearts, our minds, and our communication skills with the Moon to bring the three pieces together to work toward success. We’re also looking at how we can create bridges of communication between and with marginalized groups. And those who are not part of a marginalized or bullied group can seek ways to be an ally voice for them.

Now the things is, there may be points where you/we need to step away from everything to get some perspective and to let others see what it’s like without you. We can gain greater self-confidence this week by literally removing our energies from the larger dynamic. It may also be important to our mental health to not give our energy to the things that are not from love, that do not feed our creative passions, that do not drive and nurture our visions. By giving our energies to what doesn’t care for us we are nurturing all of that harm, destruction, fear, pain, and violence. This week will be an opportunity to see and feel just how important it is to nurture what you desire from your heart. We may see just how the energies that are harmful shrink when we don’t feed them with our precious energies. And we can see substantial growth with our visions of love and beauty when we focus on and nurture those.

The Sun is now in Taurus and we can feel more grounded, more focused on creating security for ourselves and our loved ones, and we may be more interested in food and art than usual. Money and resources will be a focal point – individually and collectively. We may see an uptick and/or revelations of transactional activities where we should really be focusing on the sharing of resources and on the care of humanity and the planet. Let your creative self shine. Open the windows and let fresh air in your spaces. Get outside and connect with Mother Nature. Find joy in life itself. Enjoy life, enjoy nature, enjoy love and loving.

Uranus move into Gemini on April 25. That will get its own article, but know we will be experiencing some big shifts with this right off the bat. Although Uranus is not as comfortable in Taurus, where it’s been for the past 8 or so years, it is much more comfortable in Gemini. It’s what we call the higher octave of Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, so it’s essentially a higher vibration of Mercury/Gemini. We’ll be seeing a lot of changes to communication systems, with technology, within ourselves and between ourselves and other elements and beings energetically. Our minds may feel like they’re in overdrive, so make sure you have a lot of healthy ways to ground yourself and ground your ideas. Find ways to calm your mind through things like meditation, yoga, walking, listening to music, moving your body without thinking like just having an impromptu dance jam. Share your ideas with others. Keep or start a journal – it could be written, a video journal, recordings, and even an art journal or a kind of vision board where you draw or paste pictures and images that express your thoughts on a regular basis. And take your time – this is a seven year transit.

We still have a number of planets and asteroids in Aries, including Mars, Saturn, Mercury, and Neptune along with Chiron and Persephone. So we’re still heavily focused on the Aries energies like anger, fighting, bullying, new beginnings, springtime beauty, passion and creativity, warrior spirit and taking up causes, exploration of ourselves and our world, infusing our dreams with the warmth of the Sun’s drives, discovering what we need to nurture our dreams and move them forward. For the first few days of the week Mars, Saturn, and Mercury will be conjunct in Aries. Watch for a lot of fiery talk, more structured and specific threats for war. I’m hoping that with Mercury there it will just be talk and nothing more.

The things that make you angry right now are triggers for you. Areas where you need healing and forgiving. Be mindful of what you say and do, too. Be self-aware more than ever this week. Allow the lower vibrating energies be guides to help you heal as you work toward expressing the best of yourself.

We move into the Crescent phase of this Moon cycle early Monday afternoon, April 20, 2026. The Moon is still in Gemini. We’re still focused on communication. The Crescent phase is a yin, or “being” phase so for a few days we can breathe more gently as we are in the phase of aligning with our intentions. Allow yourself to feel the dream and intentions. No need to work on them. Just bring your mind, heart, and the feel of your intentions manifesting to fill you with joy.

On Thursday April 23 we move into the 1^st quarter Moon phase in the sign of Leo. We’ll be moving into a yang, or “doing” phase. Here we’ll be bringing greater love to our intentions and dreams, like the ways we bring love to our children or to projects we create. Now we make a commitment to working with and toward our intentions and we begin to actively work toward them. This is about romancing our resources – what do we want to attract to ourselves to manifest our dreams? We begin to make commitments to our dreams/intentions now. We have aligned with them in the Crescent phase, and now we actively look at what actions we need to take to begin to make them happen.

Be patient with yourself and others this week. It will be a challenging one. But there is great joy with the Gemini Moon and the Taurus Sun. Find your creative selves and express them. Ground yourself and let your troubles be your guides to what you need to let go of and transform on this beautiful journey of life. Much love to you all.

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Anyone who knows me and/or follows my astrological writings knows that I may quietly refer to politics and the lower vibrations or negativity of things but only a little bit. My astrology focuses on the higher vibrations of the energies and how to approach them from the perspective of evolving and being heart/love centered and bringing in the Divine Feminine. But with this New Moon I feel I have to address some of the dark energies with this Moon. Primarily to shine light on them and to help us know how important it is to hang in there with the higher vibrating energies no matter how hard it may feel to stay in the space of light, love, and joy. These dark energies are moments that are passing and if we are observers rather than active participants, focusing our own energies on love and releasing the darkness and creating our new foundation with love, we will get through this with a foundation in place to build our visions of love and beauty on. We will also be able to see our shadow sides so we can shine light on them, heal them, heal ourselves, and step into a higher level of consciousness.

I recently heard someone say that it is in the dark goddess energy that we find our gifts. I’ve been thinking about that a lot. That’s where we hide our truth, our brightest light, our most valuable gifts, to keep them safe until the time we’re able to break open those dark walls and bring them into the light to hone them, embrace them and to share them. The dark goddesses protect them for us. We shouldn’t be afraid of them. But we should approach them with wisdom, maturity, love, strength and respect and not let them be the energies in charge.

For example, your anger may very well be hiding a secret, a Soul gift that you’re afraid to share – even with your conscious self. Watch for what triggers your anger. Don’t let the anger consume you or take control. Be the observer and take note of what makes you feel angry. Ask the shadow side of the goddess to open the door so you may see what the gift is She’s protecting for you.

This Moon cycle carries with it the lower energies of anger – a lot of anger. And the chance for us to discover our hidden, protected gifts and heal them.

We’re going to meet our inner queen with this Moon cycle. She may show up in your darkness – your shadow self. You may feel anger. Let that be your guide to what you need to heal, let go of, forgive (especially yourself), and where to shine healing, loving light to move forward with your life. This Moon shows us what’s keeping us chained to the darknesses that our ego tells us we have to hang on to, or that we need to live. But that’s not living. That’s not really even surviving. That’s doing a slow death that doesn’t let us live. And we all came here to live, to evolve, to love and grow.

The propaganda and lies will continue and probably ramp up. The archetype of Kassandra right now works both ways. Fewer people will be able to hear the lies. More people will be seeking actual truth. Watch for the administration to deepen and widen their exaggerations and their desire for gaining more and more destructive control..

Whether you set New Moon intentions or not, this would be the perfect Moon cycle to at least think about some things you would like to transform in your life. The energies are a perfect combination to discover the light that lies hidden within you because anything that’s difficult, upsetting, hurtful or generally considered to be a dark kind of energy will, if you allow it, guide you to your inner light and gifts. It’s important to work wisely and lovingly with your shadow self right now. And we have a lot of energies to help us with this. So when things feel difficult and dark, take a breath, take a beat, think and feel with your heart, give yourself and others space and grace, and be open to what the lessons are for you. Do the work of embracing your shadow self to create the transformation you came here to do.

We’re going through all of this shadow and transformation stuff on a group consciousness level, too. One of the things making this Moon cycle extra challenging is that while we’re working with our selves, we’re also working on ourselves as a group consciousness. So take it a step at a time and take breaks as needed. We will get through this if we center in our hearts, breathe, find and be joy when we can, and connect with one another with love, joy, and patience.

It’s also important to stand strong in light, love, joy, and a willingness to elevate our energies in the face of darkness that doesn’t choose to transform to love.

Hold on and take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your communities because this could be a difficult but powerful Moon cycle that is offering us opportunities for so much growth. Don’t let yourself fall into self-pity over perceived failures or stumbles – pay attention to them and work with them to readjust, realign, rework, and learn when to push through or when to take a breath. Remember to hold joy, be joy, be love. And continue to be creative – whatever that looks like for YOU. We have to keep working on and toward the beautiful visions and don’t give the dark our fears and energy to feed on. This Moon cycle could easily feel like we’re dragging a huge stone uphill with the wind and rain blowing on us. But remember, the Sun is shining on us and love is everywhere – let yourself receive it. Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Hold the love, hold the light, hold the line.

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There’s a practical focus on the Divine Feminine, and a struggle between the harshness of Saturn and the visionary quality of Uranus with the heart/love as the bridge between the two. This is a week to get centered in your heart and stay centered there. Reach out to whatever Divine Feminine energy you resonate with and ask for guidance, or maybe just be lovingly in Her presence with gratitude and an open heart and open mind. Allow any beliefs that are hard, strict, restricting, to be touched by love and by the brilliance of new ideas being given to us through the energies of Uranus. This is a week of heart and mind connection.

As we move into Monday April 13, the Moon moves into Pisces and later on Monday into the Balsamic phase. And we’ll be back to a yin phase – a “being” phase.

One thing I’m concerned about with respect to feminine/Divine Feminine is that this combination of energies could also go in the opposite direction from helping women. It could very well be used by awful people to use women in a really evil way to cause some serious trouble and damage. Thankfully with some Venus/Libra energy in there justice will also play a big part. It’s just so, well, beyond hurtful that the patriarchy has found yet another way to use women, and use the subject of SA to create chaos, damage, and more pain. As if women need more problems with being heard and helped when SA’ed.

But let’s also do our best to tap into the heart-centering energies and draw the Divine Feminine into our group consciousness and the loving visionary energies to dissolve the old dominator, patriarchal darkness.

As we move into Monday, the Moon moves into Pisces. We’ll feel dreamy, maybe even sleepy. Go ahead and let yourself dream the big dreams. Feel those big dreams because that combination of seeing it in our mind’s eye and feeling it is what will help manifest those dreams.

We also have a Mars-Neptune-Saturn in Aries conjunction with Mercury in Pisces adding its energies to the group. It may feel like it’s hard to ground your dreams, but this isn’t the time for them to manifest – not just yet. Mercury is still helping us dream and Neptune in Aries still brings some dreaminess with it. The Aries energies are still early so they’re helping us get a sense of what kind of passion, fire, creativity and resources we need for our dreams. What do we need to infuse our dreams with now? That’s the vibe I’m getting from this energy combo.

I know so many of us want these really important changes right now. And the Aries energies right now can make us feel impatient. But it’s so important to connect with the higher vibrations of the energies and flow with them in the beautiful Universal ways. Think of it like a rose blooming. It opens when it’s been through the process it needs to be healthy and beautiful. We’re the same way.

In the Balsamic phase we release all we’ve experienced during the current Moon cycle. We literally empty ourselves so we can be open and receptive to the next Moon cycle energies and lessons. There can be some challenges and possibly anxiety because when we’re in-tune with the cycles we feel the need to release. The fear could be that of being empty, having nothing. But this is a time to really breathe, relax into the flow and feel and understand that we are never truly empty. The Moon is all about abundance. There is always energy coming to us. An ebb and flow of energy. Filling up and releasing back. Receiving and giving back to others. When we are in the flow of the abundance of the Moon, we know we are never without what our Soul needs. We learn how to share the abundance in our lives because we feel and know that our own cups are full.

I hope your week is full of love and balance between brilliance, dreams, joy and discovering the right resources to begin to make your dreams manifest. Have patience. Hold the love, hold the light, hold the line my loves.

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you don’t have to DO anything except open your heart and mind and let yourself have the magic, the love, the joy, the abundance. And keep showing up for your life!

Keep holding the line, the joy, and the love!

I know this may seem like the worst time to play, be joyful, have some fun, find your Soul’s purpose, be creative, and blossom. But this Full Moon calls us to do just that. You want to be defiant? You want to be revolutionary? You want to raise your vibrations and the vibrations of the group consciousness of humanity? Then on this Full Moon do something joyful. Do something fun. Do something creative. If you can, do something fun and creative with a child/children. Do something your inner child would be so happy to be doing with the adult you.

It’s really important to be creative, joyful, think and act with your heart, and stand firm in being a balance point for the negative energies/people in the world. This brings balance to the negative energies/people in the world.

We can be aware of things around us - the “war”, other wars, genocides, the general cruelty going on, control, frozen water (you know the group), the economy, threats of voter disenfranchisement, racism, misogyny, and so much more – but not hook into it all. Our actions of joy, creativity, love are all revolutionary acts that can bring more than balance out the darkness. When enough of us BE the balance point of light, and DO our lives with light, love, joy, creativity, fun, we can turn this all around.

We have a lot of energies in Aries right now – Neptune, Persephone, the Sun, Artemis, and Chiron to be precise. One of the things I love about Aries is it’s kind of innocent uniqueness – the energy of Aries is beautiful when it is its true self, without a kind of self-awareness that might stop it from joyfully being alive and sweetly shining its light. Like a lamb frolicking in the fields because that’s simply what baby lambs do. With joy, completely connected with the flow and love of life. Creating joy in the world.

At the Full phase we’re in yang energy and experiencing the illumination and emotional climax of the larger cycle. We are deepening reconnecting with our own emotions and inner world. We are looking at how do we “charge ahead” with our new Moon intention with the yang energy OR how do we change direction if we’re off course in some way. The principle we work with during this phase is that of letting go.

We started this Moon cycle with the idea of balance of light and dark. And releasing the things, the dreams, that no longer serve us, that are not from a place of love, or from a place of our Soul’s truth.

As we experience the Full Moon we continue this energy of balance of light and dark, made deeper by Libra. The Sun in Aries guides us to joy, new beginnings, experiencing the brightness of life, the creativity inherent in everything and everyone, the freshness of new life, and that feeling of the warmth of the Sun after winter. We’re still in the greater cycle of the Pisces New Moon, so we aren’t feeling our joy on our own – we’re experiencing and feeling our lives very deeply connected with one another and all other life. I’m picturing two people holding hands and twirling around, laughing, happy, having fun. In balance because if one pulls harder than the other or lets go, they fall. They are connected to one another through their joy, their actions, their love of life.

The Sun in Aries with this Full Moon is about physicality, light shining on action, drives and desires highlighted, intense spirit energy. The darker side highlights war and fighting (can we hope there will be more in-fighting in the administration and between members of a certain party?), emphasis on power and strength. This is a good time to think about how you define power and strength and how we put that into action. The lower vibe of this energy is toxic masculinity; the higher vibe would be the positive attributes of the idea of action, the yang principle, putting the divine masculine in its most beautiful expression into action. The divine masculine acting on the infusion of the desires of the divine feminine.

The energy of the Sun in Aries with this Full Moon brings us the lesson of how to “be” in explosive situations. It calls us to bring calm in the face of irrational and volatile situations. Especially within ourselves. It brings the lesson of self-restraint and control. Not control as in controlling others, but the ability to focus and act without being irrational, vengeful, cruel. It’s influencing the energies rather than forcing the energies and others to do something you want. Persephone conjunct the Sun and Saturn and opposite the Moon calls us to be the queen of our inner world and of the darkness that lies within each of us. We’re being called to see the light within the darkness and transform it from barbaric to wise, civilized, loving, strong, to lead your inner world with your own inner leader.

In a patriarchal, dominator, colonialist, or capitalist patriarchy society, they use violence, threat of violence, war, pitting “groups” against one another, and believe in a hierarchy that puts one group (usually the white males) over all other groups. They are also very immature and incapable of discovering on their own the darkness within them and transforming that darkness and maturing. We’ve seen the cycles over and over throughout history and now the “toys” are bigger and more dangerous than ever before. It’s hard to expect the less mature energies to simply transform on their own. Which means that the best way to make lasting and real transformation in our world is to tend to our inner worlds. To shine light on our own dark spaces and transform ourselves first.

We don’t expect toddlers to simply change their behavior because we tell them to, or because we hold our adult “power” over them. No, we understand they have big emotions that they literally don’t know what to do with yet. But if we, as adults don’t have ourselves under control, we can’t respond to the situation with the grace and love that is needed.

I’m not saying that we should let the “leaders” keep doing what they’re doing. Not by a long shot! But I’m saying this Full Moon is a perfect opportunity for each of us to go deep within our own selves and heal our own darknesses – our own fears, limiting beliefs, prejudices, lack of love for ourselves and others, our disconnect from one another and the Earth from our hearts to their hearts. Any area where we disrespect life – including our own.

Saturn with this Full Moon shows us that by using our creativity we have all we need within us to create solutions to things. Don’t let yourself get stuck in fears, feeling trapped, ungrounded, or unfocused. You have all you need within you. Just look within and let your light shine. Remember: we’re all light.

So as always, hold the light, hold the love, hold the line. Let your Soul shine brightly – the world needs you!

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As we head into Spring Equinox, a day where light and dark are in balance and hopefully harmony, we first experience the Pisces New Moon. The Moon and Sun in Pisces are one with Neptune and Saturn in Aries. This is a cycle of transformation, rejuvenation, and regeneration. Perfect for springtime, new beginnings, new growth.

This New Moon is specifically about the possibility of seeing the “dreams” that are no longer sustainable, valid, moral, right, or from a place of divine love, being shattered. We can surely hope this happens to the destructive, violent, just awful and hurtful things going on right now. We have a Neptune/Uranus/Pluto combination of energies with this New Moon. Neptune dissolves, Uranus detaches, and Pluto destroys. Destroys doesn’t always mean something bad – it can mean becoming aware of what’s harmful, not from love, and letting it go to make room for what is life giving – life affirming – love itself. That’s on the big world stage as well as in our personal lives. If we have beliefs that are no longer what’s best for us, things may happen that give us pause to let them go – or they may just let go of us. So stay flexible and open to letting go of old ways and open to more beautiful ideas and beliefs that are in greater alignment with the higher vibrations we’re all evolving toward. This is a great time to open with love to the deeper truths of your Soul.

Our intuition and psychic selves will be really sensitive with this Moon and the entire Moon cycle. Give yourself and others the space and regenerating time you need to cope with the influx of intuitive information coming our way. Be patient with the information. We can get the information but it often takes time for the big picture to manifest. The answers will come if we just allow them and don’t try to force them.

Don’t hold onto an idea or belief out of comfort or stubbornness. It’s time to let go and open to receiving new ideas because as this old world breaks down we NEED the new visions to replace the old. Trust me, someone(s) will fill that void. Let’s be the visionaries and loving light beings who fill the void and create a world that is beautiful and filled with love, partnership, and joy. A world where all life is respected, embraced, loved, supported, and cared for.

This is the time to bring your visions to some kind of creative expression. It’s important to dig deep and discover what YOUR unique dreams and visions are. And to do something, anything, to bring them into the 3^rd dimension. Look back at what you loved doing in the past (this could be in this life and what you know or feel drawn to from past lives). These will be keys to how to bring your dreams to life right now that will help guide us into a future that is beyond what we have now. As we move deeper into spring and feel the pull to do our “spring cleaning”, you may find that you “stumble” across things that your heart and soul will remember and that will remind you of what you used to dream about doing. Trust that. It’s already happening with me!

The Goddess Iris is important with this Pisces Moon cycle. She’s in the sign of Virgo and is currently about tuning in to the world of the “unseen” – the world of imagination, dreams, visions. Don’t worry if they seem like fairy tales, or illusions. That’s where the magic to create lies. With Neptune and Saturn in Aries, well, this is one powerful combination to help us give clarity and form to the visions that we’re meant to bring into the world now as the old structures and paradigms are being literally destroyed, leaving an opening that needs to be filled – so let’s fill it with OUR beautiful, loving visions!

This New Moon is symbolized by the idea of light through a prism that breaks down into many colors. Representing that though we come from one Source, we are many different Souls, different gifts, different strands of different colors of threads that create a tapestry of great beauty and diversity. And the many different colors can go back into one white light source. We come here to evolve, to love and be loved. We come here to express the Divine through our own unique selves. We take the light and make it brighter and more colorful through our lives. All those colors, experiences, all that love, goes back to the one Source and we all expand and evolve. This is why it’s so very important that we understand one another, embrace one another and what are the perceived differences between us. Those differences are just our unique Soul colors shining into the world. No color is “better” than the other – they’re all beautiful. They’re all from the one Source of love. Where we all come from. And where we all go back to. Where we all connect to.

As always, hold the love, hold the light, hold the line. Much love and peace to you. May your brightest dreams flow like the beauty of Pisces flowing through the Universe.

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I’d love to work with you! Love and gratitude to all - Patti

I’m back! I’ve been away for a little while with 2 small fractures in my L2. But things are good where that’s concerned – still have some other health issues to work through, but at least I can walk and sit to write again!

This Moon cycle will open the portal to us seeing more clearly what our ultimate divine purpose(s) is/are, personally and collectively. It remains up to each of us whether or not and when we walk through that portal and embrace our true Soul self.

We can balance this work with love, creativity, and passion.

Finding and being our authentic selves is critical at this time as we go through this huge transformation. What we say, think, feel, do, needs to be honest and true. We may find that what we say is met with disbelief from others, but hold on to your truths because those people are coming from a place of deep fear and ignorance. Some people will be on the lookout to deliberately get the better of others and not give any thought to being their best selves. The lower vibration of this energy is the used car salesman. This is a vulnerable time and there will be those who try to take advantage of the vulnerability and try to get what they want at the cost of others in need and those who are doing the work of raising their vibrations and expressing their true selves.

As we do our own work, it remains critical to continue to make caring for others important work as well. And that includes anyone or group that is vulnerable, especially right now.

As we let go of the old structures, we need to continue to hold the visions of the world and our lives that we want to create as we move into the future. Old structures are crumbling away and we need to build new ones. This Moon cycle combined with the eclipse and the upcoming Neptune/Saturn in Aries conjunction move us from the dreaming phase into the giving our dreams structure phase. But we have to hold that dream and vision as we begin to gather the energy, resources, actions and connections to build the new structures of life.

One of the potential outcomes of this period of transformation is that we will find ourselves re-evaluating the value of everything – including how we value ourselves and one another. As challenging as money and prices are right now, if we can make it through this time and embrace our higher selves, we will find ways to bring the concept of paying for services and goods back to reasonable levels with respect and honor.

We are really experiencing intense intuitive sensitivity with this New Moon/Eclipse. Being like a barometer is how we enter into the New Moon. We’re ALL sensitive to all the energies around us, so give yourself grace, and give others grace as well. I know there’s so much going on in the world right now, but do your best to find some quiet time to unplug and surround your precious self with light, love, healthy protections (music, nature, playing with your cats, meditation, drumming, being lovingly with your children and partner). This is an opportunity to not only get a really deep sense of what’s going on at an energetic level, but it’s also a way to see just how powerful we can be and how deeply we can sense energy. After that, it’s up to each of us to decide how to work with these energies in our lives. Or not. The choice is ours.

The lights to help us see within ourselves where we may feel we’re not good enough, or strong enough, or worthy enough are shining brightly right now. We’re being helped to see what we need to let go of on our journey to our Soul’s evolution to finding and being our true Selves. If we choose to, we can see what we need and already have within us to create the space we need to create the world we envision in all of it’s beauty, love, and joy. It’s up to each of us whether we let go of the old and embrace the new and move forward into our Souls purposes.

In practical terms, if you are feeling down on yourself, understand that is Saturn and archetype of Hekate can help show you what is false and to let it go so you can see the truth behind the false beliefs – where your strengths, gifts, and beauty lie. Hestia gives us the sacred space to face our truths in love so we can let go of the false beliefs with love and gratitude. And lovingly, joyfully embrace the light, the future, the present, the gifts, strengths, and your beautiful light.

We will continue to see a deepening, acceptance, loving, and embracing of the LGBTQIA+ community as well as transformation in the idea of gender and gender roles (which also means we’ll see the digging in of heels to oppose it as well out of fear) – fear of change, fear of personal desires). We’ll also see the shaking up of structures and foundations involving money, love, sex and what some mistake for love or intimacy.

The Lord of Karma is popping up everywhere right now. So watch for karma to show up in all kinds of ways. Don’t get stuck in the karma; it’s coming up so we can let it go, forgive others and ourselves, and move forward, ready to embrace and express our gifts, our true Soul selves. Karma can show us good things in us, too, so watch for the good information in the midst of the difficult things.

This New Moon/Eclipse is really about us, individually and collectively, emerging from our cocoons. So think of any of the karma, fears, old beliefs holding us back, as the old caterpillar and the cocoon itself that we move on from as we flutter out in our new, transformed selves. Obviously this won’t happen in one instant this week, and we’re all at different stages of transformation, but it’s happening.

Eclipses represent beginnings and endings. And that’s what is happening right now. They’re kind of unpredictable in the sense that you can never be sure what is beginning and what is ending, so let yourself be amazed at what happens for you. Where it happens in your chart will show you what area will most likely be impacted the most. Just keep an open mind and heart and let it be a gift that will help you grow and evolve.

Those in “power” will feel the rope tighten around them. They’re really going to feel trapped and not sure where to go or how to move. Their past actions and choices are going to be revealed for all to see and they will be, in one way or another, unable to escape. Whether that’s here in the 3rd dimension or on the other side, karma is here for them. Eclipses can take up to six months to unfold, so we have to be a little more patient. Now is not the time to allow impatience to take over. Breathe and ground yourself.

What we’re all learning is that power isn’t about “over”, but rather power is within each of us and power is best used when we share our power with one another, in partnership and love, honoring and respecting the sacredness of all life. It is through divine love that the alchemical transformation will happen for us. Even as the darkness feels like it’s going to swallow us whole, hold the line of love and light and we will get through this.

If you like what I share, please subscribe. You’ll be notified when I post and you won’t miss the good stuff. If you would like to help support my work, please consider a paid subscription. And if you would like to work more in-depth with the Moon, how to work with the cycle and phases, the seasons, and Goddess energies to transform your life, reach out. I also do natal readings and right now I have Spring Equinox and Beltane readings available. And if you know someone who would love a reading, I offer gift certificates. I also offer Tarot readings! You can also find me on Facebook at The Celestial Garden. Check out my website at:

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I’d love to work with you! Love and gratitude to all - Patti

Today the Moon has moved into Taurus and is unleashing a lot of energy. A lot. The overall coloring of this 1^st Quarter Moon, as I wrote about in my previous article, is about things coming back up for us to pursue again or let go of. That remains the theme, but now the energies are ramping up and it can feel overwhelming and very intense. The energies may cause us to feel like we have no power or control over anything going on. It may feel like we’re in the midst of a huge storm. Hold on. Taurus is an Earth sign, and on its own rules our resources. Personal and Earth resources. Taurus seeks security and will work to gain security, so if you’re feeling anxious, scared, or powerless, take a breath, ground yourself in some healthy way, and see if you can connect with what it is you are really in need of to feel secure. This storm of energy may also stir up desires, old dreams and passions, and old ideas. It’s another way the Universe is helping us bring up old things we’ve been holding onto, consciously or not but we need to release in order to embrace and express our true selves. Taurus can hang onto things when it’s in fear mode – fear of lack in particular. We may need these nudges to release these fears as well as remember the dreams we had that are ready to bubble up, and know what are really blocks to our moving closer to our true selves and our natural connection to and flow within the abundance of the Universe. When Taurus isn’t in fear, its faith is solid and beautiul. Taurus also helps us uncover our true personal gifts, talents and resources, and not just financial resources, although Taurus does rule financial resources and finances in general.

So even if you’re feeling all the unsettling feelings today and tomorrow, hold onto the faith and trust we entered into this 1^st Quarter Moon phase with and know it’s moving us in the right direction. If we work with the energies in a positive way we’ll get there faster, but even if we don’t work with them in a positive way we’ll get there eventually, it will just be more difficult and take longer. The Universe and Love work beautifully that way.

If you like what I share, please subscribe. You’ll be notified when I post and you won’t miss the good stuff. If you would like to help support my work, please consider a paid subscription. And if you would like to work more in-depth with the Moon, how to work with the cycle and phases, the seasons, and Goddess energies to transform your life, reach out. I also do natal readings and right now I have Yule and 2026 readings available. And if you know someone who would love a reading, I offer gift certificates. I also offer Tarot readings! You can also find me on Facebook at The Celestial Garden where I have regular lives. And check out my website at:

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I’d love to work with you! Love and gratitude to all - Patti

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As we near the end of 2025 (phew!), we are in the Moon phase of the 1^st Quarter in the sign of Aries. We’re back to the phase of movement, which is perfect for this particular Moon because we’re reconnecting with things we though were lost – dreams, ideas, things like that. And if we are reconnecting, we most likely have been holding them in our bodies. So moving and shaking our bodies will help us bring them up to the surface and out for us to take a look at and decide if we no longer want to pursue them, or if we still desire and dream about them but maybe they need some changing since we’ve changed and the world has changed.

We’re looking for opportunities now – ways to grow our lives, our businesses, our dreams, the manifestation of our purpose on Earth. This is going to stir up our inner creative energies. It’s important to believe that what you need to do is possible. Create the image in your mind. And with Mercury in Sagittarius, that helps with optimism and expansion of energy. Know that you can succeed when you put your mind to it. Believe that there is the energy to find what you thought was lost.

Visualization and patience are very important during this phase. Picture what you want, feel it, believe it can happen, expect it to happen. And give it time to manifest. And remember, we don’t always get things the way we imagine them – the Universe will always be working on our behalf to give us better, if we get out of our own controlling ways and allow ourselves to be in the flow of love, trust, and abundance.

This phase is about hope renewed, second chances, forgiveness and forgiving, making up for losses, and a word I love – imagineering – devising new creative ideas. Which is best shown as a rainbow – the blending of two different ideas to create a beautiful, new thing – water and light to create a rainbow.

Watch out for self-pity as a means to recover these ideas rather than joy, excitement, openness, creativity, faith, and trust. Also, watch out for not noticing the solutions to problems. Don’t try to control, but rather let yourself be inspired from your joy and creative energy.

And watch out for obsessing over lost opportunities rather than embracing the joy and gratitude of finding old dreams and the opportunities to reimagine them and move forward.

These are great energies to be in as we celebrate the New Year on Thursday and the Full Moon on Saturday the 3^rd.

So release the old with gratitude and love (no matter how difficult that might be), and welcome an opportunity to be creative and innovative with your dreams and ideas and use the passion of the Moon in Aries to create and the building character of Sun in Capricorn to work together to create new dreams and actions. May this week bring you love, joy, fun, light, and many bright blessings.

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I love how the energies of this week are blending together to create a strong, beautiful tapestry filled with love, joy, and light. It’s our for the transformation if we have the desire and the will to open up to the light and allow ourselves enough grace to transform into our most beautiful beings.

We start the week in the Disseminating phase of the Moon in the sign of Leo. This particular phase and Moon are about love, love, love. But also ego, ego, ego. Creativity is also at a high right now so if you’re decorating for the season or putting together a holiday meal plan, this is a good time to do so. We create in so many ways – we can create a new lifestyle, a new job, new relationships, bake, cook, or, well, anything!

There are a lot of undercurrents that are about caring for others, especially children, so get creative about how you can share light, love, and caring with others, too.

Leo energy is also about children. This phase asks us how do we love children? How do we allow them to play and be joyful as children should be. Think about the children you know personally, and the children around the world. What are we doing to love and care for the children? Venus plays a part in the energies this week, so what are we doing to bring justice to children now, in the past, and as we move into the future?

This is also about our inner child. How do we love that child, the one who did the best they could with the world they were in. The one with big dreams, big visions. Can you find those dreams again? Are they still what you dream of? Have they changed or do you need to update them to fit with who you’ve become? How do you love and care for that child you once were? How do you allow your adult self to play and connect with your child/childhood dreams and joyfulness? This is a perfect time to follow that path of love.

It’s about romantic love, too. But romance can be so much more than within a relationship with another. Romance can be with yourself, so how do you “romance” yourself? This can be self-care like a cup of tea, a blanket, and a favorite movie. Or, taking the time to create a delicious, healthy meal for yourself and sitting down with music and candlelight and eating it with mindfulness. The possibilities are limitless.

Leo, in its basic and lower vibration loves attention. It loves praise. As Leo “matures” it realizes that performance, attention, praise are not for the self or the ego, but the other way around. We put ourselves our there because we are a living representation of the Divine, expressing the Divine Love each in our unique way with the gifts we’ve brought with us and cultivated. Expressing the Divine Love includes loving ourselves and taking care of ourselves.

The disseminating Moon is about inspiring and informing others. Of course, you can inspire and inform yourself, too! But hold yourself accountable for what you share – be mindful of your “audience”, even if that is only you. Read the room. You may have things to share, but the room isn’t ready or the right place for it. Be discerning. It’s especially important to watch what you take in and what you send out – transformation of the world around us begins with and within each of us.

The degree of this Moon is especially tricky for a disseminating phase. The degree is about cautioning about the spread of things that are not loving and supportive. We could see an uptick in false information and ideas. But, if it’s a time of extra spreading of negative things, we can also spread the positive things moreso now than usual, so let’s do that!

The suggested healing path, or “remedy” for this is to find quiet time, which is in perfect alignment with this season. At this time of the year, we’re meant to be quieter, find time to rest, be still, heal from the past year, and allow ourselves to grow in a space of love and non-judgement. It is also a time of year to share and connect with one another in a loving, celebratory way but in the dark time of the year we’re meant to rejuvenate, heal, rest, and restore our inner strength and reconnect with our inner child and our inner connect with Divine Love. Haters are gonna hate anyway, so focus on love, light, and focus on your healing and spiritual journey. Strengthen your heart and heal your soul. Know that light will spread whether you actively go out and share it or not. Because we’re all connected. Be the light and know that your light is stronger than any fear, hatred, or cruelty.

This week the Sun is really beautiful and interesting. There is a beautiful combination of the energies of Venus, Sun, Juno, Hecate, and Mars all in Sagittarius. This offers us the opportunity to grow in balance, understanding the power of our desires, our light, and our knowledge. It’s the perfect blend of the Divine Feminine energies expressing Her desires for beauty, love, balance, joy, justice, and the journey to the Divine Masculine who will take the right action to manifest those desires. So it’s also about trust. All of these energies pass through our spiritual selves, our sense of commitment to creating those desires, and the light that guides us in the right direction. We have to be open to the signs that we’re being shown to head in the right directions. And finally, we reach the Divine Masculine, who will take all of that knowledge, desire, love, and light and create the dream. And yes, we all have all of these abilities within ourselves.

This week our words have greater than usual meaning and power so take a breath before you speak. Mercury is still in Scorpio giving a power boost to our communication, especially energetically and Scorpio can give a sharp edge to the energy behind what we communicate, so before you speak or write, or create something, make sure you’re grounded and centered in your heart and with love. No matter what it is you’re communicating. Jupiter and Sagittarius create an expansion of whatever it is you’re sharing, too. Mars in this mix can either help you manifest and come together with another, or it can drive a wedge of ill-will and combativeness (or war if you’re looking at the world stage). So speak and communicate with love and kindness. And remember to communicate with yourself with love and kindness. That will radiate outward.

Saturn and Neptune continue to dance together in the last degrees of Pisces before they head into Aries. We’re continuing to experience the lessons that have to do with what we’ve been taught are “illusions” and our dreams. That our lives, our world, are built first from our dreams, not from an outdated idea that we create from an old rulebook first, and that our dreams are just illusions and of little consequence. We’re now literally rewriting the way we create and manifest because the truth is that without our dreams and our visions, there can be no creation of our lives and the world that is built on beauty, love, partnership, caring, and joy. So dreams come first, then we create a structure to manifest them.

On Thursday, December 11, 2025 the Moon shifts into the 3^rd quarter phase in the sign of Virgo. A 3^rd quarter Moon phase asks us to release old wounds, beliefs, and the things that will not help us move forward and allow our dreams, our intentions, our visions, to manifest into this world. If we hold onto these old fears, wounds, beliefs, we cannot more forward with our dreams as easily as we could if we release them.

We don’t have to do all of this at once, and if we don’t release everything right now, that okay. We’ll still get there. We just have to keep doing our work of love and acknowledging our fears and old beliefs and let them go. It’s always about love, but right now Spirit is really shining a light on the power of the gentleness of love.

What are you committing yourself to? Where do you want your resources (material and spiritual) going to? Where our resources go is also a ripple of light, love, or fear, anger, hatred. Those who communicate from fear and hatred are stoking fear in others and that’s what they feed off of. It’s like feeding cancer with sugar. Stay in a space of love. Don’t feed them with more fear.

Take time to really delve into what you desire, what your dreams are, what you want life to be like. Listen to others input, but make sure you’re listening to yourself.

Our differences are what makes us and will make us stronger, better, a more beautiful world to live in. Others will continue to try to make our differences something to fear and hate, but we don’t have to go along with that. Embrace your differences and open to the beauty of how others are different from you.

If you like what I share, please subscribe. You’ll be notified when I post and you won’t miss the good stuff. If you would like to help support my work, please consider a paid subscription. And if you would like to work more in-depth with the Moon, how to work with the cycle and phases, the seasons, and Goddess energies to transform your life, reach out. I also do natal readings and right now I have Yule and 2026 readings available. And if you know someone who would love a reading, I offer gift certificates. I also offer Tarot readings! You can also find me on Facebook at The Celestial Garden where I have regular lives. I’d love to work with you! Love and gratitude to all - Patti

Once again we’re being shown that we must continue to fight for the rights of others, especially the children. Seems like we’re on-time with what the Universe is asking of us…Epstein files, holding back SNAP to feed the children, the atrocities in Gaza in general and how horrific it’s been to the children, the horrors in Ukraine, the atrocities in Africa, and so much more.

The Moon and Sun are conjunct Mercury, Hekate, and Juno, all in Scorpio and that’s a powerful combination to speak up and set the stage for taking action to protect others and prepare for some phenomenal changes. Additionally, there are other energies that point to compassion but with solid boundaries and very specific goals – especially about children, women, and the LGBTQIA+ community. That also includes adults who were abused as children.

The combination of Hekate and Juno act as guideposts, or lanterns, in the dark, guiding us to our commitment. Juno is enraged by inequalities, so be aware of what triggers you in your life and the world that is out of balance and unfair. Mercury in this mix helps us find our thoughts about these problems and allows to find the words that are the most powerful to make things better.

Juno also shows us where we are fiercely loyal but also unhappy. Hekate and Juno will help us see where we may need to really reevaluate certain relationships and where our power really is – within us – and not with someone else in a toxic, unbalanced relationship. That could be a person, a job, a governing official, and more.

Our spirits, souls, and subconscious minds are all focused on all of this right now.

Scorpio is a powerful healing tool – when used properly. Otherwise, it’s about revenge, control, and even cruelty.

The North Node, where we are heading and growing toward, is all about allowing the flow of creativity – in the sign of Pisces – which also calls us to deep compassion for ALL life. To embrace all life, all love. To me, Pisces is close to Kwan Yin, who also represents gender fluidity and inclusion. Our nature and the calling of our souls is to grow toward these things and manifest them into our world and to understand the magical power of art, music, and creativity. We may also discover the energy and energetic messages and higher wisdom in all forms of art and music.

The new Moon group is opposite Uranus in Taurus which adds to the picture by infusing higher, intuitive thinking to guide us on our Earth journey and to help us, if we are open-minded and open-hearted enough, how to transform our systems of energy exchange (money) and to also elevate and integrate the arts into our lives and the world.

We are challenged by Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary to find a way to connect with and express our creativity, our love for life and our Divine love for children, and for embracing the full beauty of our souls as divine beings of light and joy. All of this as a means to free the world from the lower trappings of this 3rd dimension.

Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary are aided in their teachings by Persephone, calling us to go deep within ourselves to find our true, our true calling, our true purposes, and relax into the flow of our highest intuition and creativity to manifest light, love, and joy into the darkness of the world.

These energies can also come through at a lower vibration, a less mature/evolved side of Scorpio and Pisces. So we will be seeing those who are living in too much fear continue with their lies, anger, fear, revenge, infliction of pain and violence on those who are most vulnerable. They’ll probably ramp it all up, too. We may feel the clash between what the light desires and what the dark desires get more intense. The dark energies aren’t going down without a fight. Stand in the light, love, and joy!

Jupiter in Cancer is opposite Pluto in Aquarius. This is an expansion of the power of love and caring to transform humanity and the world. The lower vibration of this is hurting humanity and the earth in a misguided notion of making things better. The nature of our spiritual journey is that we will eventually get to love, but how are we going to get there? CHOOSE the higher vibration or the lower vibration? This is a serious time of choosing – making a commitment to a path of some kind; hopefully a path of love and caring and visionary manifestation.

The magic of truly seeing the “other” and choosing healing rather harm is so important, especially now. There is no “other”. Pisces and Kwan Yin are awakening us to the truth that we are all connected. That we are all One. And we connect through love, compassion, joy, creativity, and taking care of one another.

Being joyful, being creative, being a light in the darkness, showing up and speaking with truth and with your authentic self, these are all acts of loving rebellion against the lower vibrations. Love, light, and joy are truly all stronger than any of the lower vibrations. Breathe, stand firm and steady, relax into the flow of the forces of love, creativity, compassion, joy, and light. This is how darkness transforms into love, and how the world is transformed into the world of our dreams, our hearts, and our souls.

If you like what I share, please subscribe. You’ll be notified when I post and you won’t miss the good stuff. If you would like to help support my work, please consider a paid subscription. And if you would like to work more in-depth with the Moon, how to work with the cycle and phases, the seasons, and Goddess energies to transform your life, reach out. I’d love to work with you. I also offer Tarot readings! Love and gratitude to all - Patti