…it’s time to reconnect with our inner spark. Life accumulates. The business of surviving - the work, chores, obligations and sheer administrative clutter of being alive - can gradually crowd out what we long to create, build and gift to the world. The further those things drift apart, the more discord we feel. It takes courage to know yourself, to welcome in the risk and mistakes that play and creativity bring. It requires courage to live from your centre, to replot your course when the...

Virgo, the wheat-bearing maiden, was seen by the Greeks as the goddess of Justice, Astraea. According to myth, Astraea fled the earth following her failed efforts to impress upon its ordinary inhabitants the importance of abiding by nature’s laws and inherent order. She could no longer bear humanity’s descent into the wretched depths of crime and corruption, and so, disgusted, she headed for the heavens, where she became the constellation of Virgo. As Liz Greene observed, Astraea embodies the...

Pisces, oasis of the transcendental and deep ocean of the unconscious, hosts tomorrow’s lunar eclipse at 15 degrees. The imaginal, the dreamworld, and the numinous weave the fluid fabric of the Piscean waterscape, where liminality dissolves boundaries and opens experience beyond the self. When I think of the Moon in Pisces, reflecting her diffuse, silvery light upon the swelling waters of ancestral, collective, and personal memory — ebbing and flowing to her earth-circling beat — I am...