Grandtrines

This Winter Solstice on December 21st also marks the first day of Capricorn in the Zodiac Sky.

In Latin, Solstice means “sun set still.”

This is the time of great darkness, the longest night of the year, and also signifies the spiritual cradle into which the sun is born.

Winter Solstice is the time of endings and also the time of new beginnings.

Pagan Europeans had been celebrating the birth of the sun centuries before Christians mirrored the festival with Christ’s Mass (birth of the son) on December 25th.

Solstice is the Silent Night, where all of nature lies dormant and is deemed sacred in its rest before the sun is born of the Goddess, and the God retreats to give way to the light of the Feminine.

We celebrate this time of year with candles and all manner of lights to remind us that we are the keepers of an…

The Moon is in Pisces for the next 2 days.  She will conjunct Neptune and Chiron and will  square  Saturn and the Sun in Sagittarius revealing some possible road blocks on our path.

We are navigating two very different currents.

One has to do with the appraisal of our situation, our direction, and some decisions we have to make because we are grown ups and no one will take care of our stuff if we don’t. It’s a fast and cold current and it can feel like time is slipping away. We could also be painfully aware of where it hurts at the moment. Remember that the wound is where the light enters you and stay sincere and realistic about your needs.

Roberto Ferri – Et in tenebris

The other current is a timeless psychic wave where we access information/directions about our life through the ephemeral landscape of dreams, synchronicity and…

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun will be exactly conjunct or aligned with Pluto, the furthest planet from the Sun this weekend, visible as the evening star following the Sun on the western horizon just after sunset. In astrological symbolism this is a powerful time, where Mercury – the winged messenger and archetype of communication and clear thinking, aligns with Pluto – lord of the underworld and all that is hidden, secret or taboo. In other words this is the time for in depth research, and more particularly for the investigative mind to discover hidden secrets or to get to the bottom of the issue. The resourceful mind, combined with intensified willpower, should enable any detective or truth seeker to penetrate the mysteries and discover what is really going on around here. For truth is more important than comfort at this time, and so illusions can be dispelled for…