Birth & ReBirth Cancer New Moon
This is another spicy and volatile New Moon of 2021—not as calm and cozy as Cancer might like. It has a beauty all its own, well grounded and supported by both Neptune and Uranus. A bit of an odd thing to say about consciousness-raising outer planets, but these are the signs of the time— if you are willing to reach deep down and stretch courageously out to grow new blossoms. Image: Tacoma Amulet Basket, 2013, blown and flame-worked glass piece by Laura Donefer (b.1955). Another photo by author from the Palm Springs Art...
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“The adventures were rich. The surprise of beauty was astonishing, nothing less…” Image: Eclipse Chasers, collage by author, circa 1999.“The adventures were rich. The surprise of beauty was astonishing, nothing less…” Imagine the arrow of Sagittarius piercing the Sun, releasing a kaleidoscope of flowers and geometric shapes, dancing orbs and angelic frequencies, along with morphing clouds and shadows, obscurations and obfuscations. This special eclipse on the ‘Super Flower Full...
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New Moon @ 21 Taurus 18May 11, 2021 @ 3:00pm EDT; 12:00pm PDT; 8:00pm BST; May 12, @ 5:00am AEST Medusa, clay sculpture by author, 1997 Some people call a New Moon ‘Black Moon’. Indeed, a new Moon is in its black phase, disappeared into the light of the Sun, invisible and black. Making this Moon even blacker, Black Moon Lilith is smack dab in the zone, deeply embedded its in Taurus earthiness with subtle, subsurface mycelium intelligence. Have you seen the documentary, ‘Fantastic Fungi’, about this amazing,...
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Full Moon @ 7 Scorpio/TaurusApril 26, 2021 @ 11:31pm EDT, 8:31pm PDT, April 27, 4:31am BST, 1:31pm AEST ‘Rose Wave,’ first application of oil paint to canvas, inspired by close up of a rose. Looks like an implosion to me! With incoming solar waves, let’s see how we can open to welcome such an implosion of light and beauty. Perhaps this image needs more depth and darkness for Scorpio Moon— or can we rise to the high heart transformational pink vibe? This Pink Super Moon pairs with the May 26th totally eclipsed...
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New Moon @ 22Aries25April 11, 2021 @ 10:31pm EDT, 7:31pm PDT,April 12, 3:31am BST, 12:31pm AEST Eris, Goddess of Discord, from author’s Planetary Gods & Goddesses Coloring Book, colored by D’Aine Greene (thanks, D’Aine!). Request full page Eris pdf. to download and color- if you dare; or buy the book on my website (signed, U.S. sales only) or via Amazon in your country. Follow up notes from the March 28 Full MoonMany people had a hard time with that Full Moon. Certainly Chiron brings up issues, particularly wounds...
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Full Moon @ 8 Libra/Aries 18March 28, 2021 @ 2:48pm EDT, 11:48am PDT, 6:48pm GMT, March 29 @ 5:48am AEDT Pseudo-Bombax (Shaving Brush Tree) in blossom under February 2021 Full Moon. Photo by Mary Blazine, taken at Fiddlewood Cottage in St. John, Virgin Islands, bordering National Park, with a choice of two beaches in the neighborhood. I stayed here for 2 weeks in March. You can too! Look it up on VRBO. Email mblazine@yahoo.com for special rates for Cosmic News readers. This Full Moon follows the annual turning point of the...
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New Moon @ 23 Pisces 04March 13, 2021 @ 5:21am EST, 2:21am PST, 10:21am GMT, 9:21pm AEST Image: Waves at Play, photo by Jim Eaton. I love all the blues of the sea, like the multiple nuances of Pisces. Do I see you out there riding a whale? See more of Jim’s photos and the Eaton family on their online Dappled Light Gallery, with affordable prints and free giveaways. “An intense copper calm like a universal yellow lotus was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.”-from...
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Full Moon @ 8 Virgo-Pisces 57February 27, 2021 @3:17am EST, 12:17am PST, 8:17am GMT,7:17pm AEDT Image: Maho Palm, oil by author, circa 2011. Earth and Sea meet at the shoreline on this Full Moon. “The Earth upon her celestial spindle winds her ecstasy-producing dance.” – Kathleen Raine Sun in Pisces/ Moon in Virgo is a change in tone from the Aquarian winds of change that peaked on the February 11 New Moon. We are at the flowering of that very Aquarian New Moon, but the feel of things has shifted and will be...
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New Moon @ 23 Aquarius 17February 11, 2021 @2:06pm EST, 11:06am PST, 7:06pm GMT,February 12 @ 6:06am AEDT Image: Lunar Ox, silver coin issued by the Perth (AU) Mint.Chinese New Year starts on New Moon in Aquarius each year. Chinese New Year of the Ox begins February 12, 2021Steady and productive in a grounded, pragmatic Taurus approach as we advance further into the Age of Aquarius. If you were born in the year of the Ox (1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009), you are also having a Jupiter return this year, as the Chinese...
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New Moon @ 23Capricorn13January 12, 9:00pm PSTJanuary 13, 12:00am EST, 5:00am GMT, 4:00pm AEDT Image: “Pluto and the Underworld Mysteries,” ink drawing by author inspired by first reading of Carl Jung’s Dreams, Memories, Reflections way back when it came out. Pluto conjunct this New Moon indicates quite a potent and transformational moon cycle to begin 2021. After last year, we cannot be too surprised about that, but we are likely to be very surprised in how it plays out. Uranus is too activated for any...
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Full Moon @ 8 Cancer/Capricorn 53December 29, 2020, 10:28pm EST, 7:28pm PSTDecember 30, 3:28am GMT, 2:28pm AEDT Image: A Winter Full Moon, by artist Donna Lefferdo. See more of Donna’s work on her FB page: Donna Lefferdo’s Paintings This last Full Moon of 2020 is the lunar flowering of the Total Solar Eclipse of December 14. Between New and Full Moon we passed through the Solstice portal and entered an historic new era thanks to the glorious joining of Jupiter and Saturn. The conjunction, low in the west, will soon...
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New Moon Total Solar Eclipse @ 23 Sagittarius 08December 14, 2020, 11:16am EST/ 8:16am PST, 4:16pm GMT,December 15, 3:16am AEDT Portal of Light, oil painting by Leilah Ward, shared on one of her recent blogs. See more of her channeled art and messages at https://www.integralsoul.love. This week is a double power portal during which we are surfing a huge wave of incoming galactic light. These two cosmic events, Eclipse and Solstice, are the fireworks and rainbow at the end of a year of immense change. This rigorous year started...
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Full Moon Penumbral Eclipse @8 Gemini/Sagittarius 38November 30, 2020, 4:30am EST, 1:30am PST, 9:30am GMT, 8:30pm AEDT Rose-Arches of Giverny, detail, Claude Monet, 1913. Photographed by author at the Denver Art Museum exhibit, “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,” in December 2019. A penumbral eclipse is not the most dramatic, but an eclipse is an eclipse is an eclipse. We will perceive the shifting tides in our lives in some fashion that may refer back to the reverse eclipse on June 5 of this...
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New Moon @23 Libra 53 October 16, 2020, 3:30pm EDT, 12:30pm PDT, 8:30pm BST,October 17, 5:30am AEST Sunset on San Diego street corner, photo by artist William Giese from September 2020. Follow the arrows to engage the promise of the current cooperation peak between Jupiter in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces. Is this a clue to how to navigate the Mars retrograde Stop sign we ran into in September? This New Moon in Libra clicks in a new cycle amidst a flurry of significant planetary interactions. October continues to look...
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Full Moon @9 Aries/Libra 08October 1, 2020, 5:05pm EDT, 2:05pm PDT, 10:05pm BST,October 2, 9:05am AEST Libra constellation from the astronomical fresco in the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, Italy. They were reproduced in the glorious book, The Glorious Constellations: History and Mythology, by Giuseppe Maria Sesti, one of my best books buys every. See how the Scales of Libra are surrounded by the Scorpion and two serpent’s tales (Hydra and Serpens). The two brightest stars of Libra, Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali, used to be seen...
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New Moon @25 Virgo 01September 17, 2020, 7:00am EDT, 4:00am PDT, 12:00pm BST, 11:00pm AEST Image: Sri Yantra, geometric illustration of the Divine Feminine. ‘Sri’ is an ancient Vedic name of the universal goddess. Artist unknown, photo by author, with night-blooming Cereus. The constellation of Virgo is one of the few star pictures of the Cosmic Feminine. Are we dreaming the Earth or is the Earth dreaming us? This is a relevant question for this New Moon in Virgo, which tunes into the fluid DreamSpace of Neptune...
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Full Moon @ 10 Pisces/Virgo12September 1, 2020 10:22pm PDT, September 2 @ 1:22am EDT, 6:22am BST, 5:22pm AEST Image: Heart of Golden Peony, photo by author. Nature in her Beauty is an inspiration from the immense creative potential inherent in life and a constant reminder of the intimate connection between Heaven and Earth. Uranus in Taurus, strongly involved with this Full Moon, still occupies the same 11th degree of Taurus as on the August New Moon, with the lovely Sabian Symbol: “A Woman Sprinkling Long Rows of...
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New Moon @ 26Leo35August 18, 2020 @ 10:42pm EDT, 7:42pm PDT, August 19, 3:42am BST, 12:42pm AEST Sekhmet, Lion-headed Goddess of Balance and Justice. Chalk on Paper, 20×25 inches, August 2020, by Jill Alison Banting, Cosmic News reader.Web: www.starquillcreative.com Email: starquillcreative@gmail.comWith the August 3 Full Moon conjunct her Black Moon Lilith and square Uranus, Jill wrote, “I could feel the call of the dark goddess for days before and after the full moon. It was an...
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Full Moon @ 11 Aquarius/Leo 48August 3, 2020 @ 11:59am EDT, 8:59am PDT, 4:59pm BST, August 4, 3:59am AEST “Uranus Drum Vision,” sketch by author. Uranus came to me during a guided meditation led by Astrologer Melanie Reinhart. I was surprised! which is the very nature of Uranus. I had to get my drum out and play around a bit. It has been many a year since I took drumming lessons. Alternatively the drum serves as a flower stand or a temporary desk. It wants to talk! The Big News of this Aquarius/Leo Full Moon is its...
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New Moon @ 28Cancer27July 20, 2020 @ 1:33pm EDT, 10:33am PDT, 6:33pm BST, July 21, 5:33am AEST Webinar slide of this New Moon’s dynamic face-off between two new Dwarf Planets—Haumea and Eris. May they inspire you to stretch your own creative limits into some new form. Images from my Planetary Gods & Goddesses Coloring Book. [Haumea was colored by Katherine Pemberthy Veilleux of Aloha-Works.com. Eris was colored during presentation at Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield, Vermont.] This second New Moon in Cancer is...
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