The partial lunar eclipse happened when the moon was low in the sky, and there was a fair amount of cloud here. But after the eclipse, the clouds cleared and the moon rose over the rooftops. I had a bonfire lit and locally picked herbs to burn. Key words for this full moon were: - Compassion - Vulnerability - Imagination - Sensitivity - Avoidance - Procrastination  Questions and Considerations: The power of imagination and intuition. How can we follow our hearts and live a compassionate lifestyle? This is a time of great sensitivity toward the emotions of others, and a yearning to give comfort to anyone who needs it. This willingness to help can grow to feel like a great burden. This can lead a sensitive person to hide away from the world because they feel overwhelmed by the work that needs to be done. In this case, we really need to take care of ourselves, to become emotionally stable and focused on practical goals. The key is to find some small way that you can use your beautiful...

This picture is of the "First Fruits" I harvested on August Eve. They are red currants from my parents' garden. We sat outside and had a plant-based barbecue. I thought about how lucky I am to have food on my plate and a safe place to sleep that night. I'm also grateful to have friends and family who are there for me, through thick and thin.  The Sun is in Leo, the lioness. We can imagine a pack of lions as a network of friends and family who support each other. Leo craves a strong army of comrades to feel secure in life. The energy of Leo naturally draws people to charismatic leaders. When looking in the mirror, Leo inspires self-confidence and ambition. Somebody with strong Leo energy always holds their head up high and presents themselves with a strong self esteem. Leo season inspires us all to find our inner lion. How can we all take leadership within our own lives, and build a strong comradeship? How can we support each other as family, friends, and the wider com...

What does it really mean for something to be considered "New Age"? I'm not sure but I think many of us have this feeling that a new era is on the horizon and that we have been transitioning towards it for some time now. I think it's important for us to imagine a better world, to think about how things can be done differently in the future. The current era of Capitalism has existed since the end of the Middle Ages, about 600 years ago. I think it's about time we move on to the next thing, don't you? Many like to envision time as a cycle of ages based on the zodiac. Each age is said to be roughly 2160 years long, so Capitalism would be considered the final stage of the current Age of Pisces. According to this theory, we should be moving into the Age of Aquarius around the year 2100 CE. So maybe we have 75-100 years left for Capitalism to finally come to and end. I don't expect it to be a smooth transition. It's a shame I won't be around in this curre...

Tarot of Marseilles This card shows a woman pouring liquid both onto dry land and into the water. Eight stars shine above her, symbolising the fact that seventeen can also be seen as 1+7=8. The number eight can also be seen as an infinity symbol, and the stars were believed to be made of an everlasting substance. The eighth Tarot card is Justice, associated with duty, good conduct, virtue, and consequence. Seventeen was an unlucky number for Italians, and it was also considered unlucky by Pythagoreans, who called this number "the Barrier". According to the Seeress of Prevorst, seventeen symbolises the participation in two worlds, celestial and terrestrial. Henry Blanquart agrees that it "represents the junction between the material world and the spiritual world". According to Jâbir Ibn Hayyân, alchimist and Sufi, the number seventeen represents the balance of each thing. The Greeks called this number "antiphraxis" meaning "interposition" bec...

Tarot of Marseilles The wheel of fortune is ever turning. Past, present and future are all on the wheel, and as the wheel turns, the present becomes the past and the future becomes the present. We can't freeze time, we can't stop the wheel from turning. It seems like history repeats itself, and we go round and round in circles. How does the number ten relate to this card? Humans have ten fingers to count, so ten represents a full set. A shape with ten sides is called a decagon, which almost resembles a circle or a wheel. In Pythagoreanism, the number ten played an important role and was symbolized by the tetractys, or tetrad. It's a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. It represents the order of the Universe, comprised of four elements. It's also associated with the ten sephirot of Kabbalah. The sephirot are ten ways in which the Supreme Being or Higher Power is known to us. The number ten...

I don't have a lot of gadgets in my life, all I have is my camera and laptop. Last night when I went to visit my boyfriend's parents, Daddy Evans was keen to show off his new iphone. He had this new app which shows you the stars and planets. All you do is hold the phone up to the sky, or point it in any direction you like, and it will show you exactly which stars and planets are in that direction. This is such a useful tool! When we got home, my boyfriend downloaded a similar app for his android and we had fun walking around the flat, plotting the zodiac around us. It was a cloudy night, not even the moon was visible to the naked eye, so having this app gave us a clear picture of what exactly was around us. I'm grateful to my boyfriend's dad, he always has some neat information to teach me as he's a keen naturalist. He used to be a diver, before health problems got in the way, and he was able to teach me about the tides. I had read about neap tides and spring tide...