A New Continent Rising Out of the Ocean

New Moon in Taurus on Tuesday, May 7, 2023 at 11:22 pm EDT

photo: Bruce Lhuiller

‘A New Continent Rising Out of the Ocean. KEYNOTE: The surge of new potentiality after the crisis. When the mind has been emptied and light, a new release of life can emerge out of the infinite Ocean of potentiality. What will it be used for?   SPONTANEITY. ‘

This is the Sabian Symbol* for the degree of Sun and Moon today as they combine to begin a new lunar cycle. The new Moon gives us a chance each month, to stop, look at where we are and set our sights for the next adventure.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

I have used two different images of Mont Saint Michel, as a way to say: We are a combination of intended and unconscious forces at work. Saint Michel has been an abbey, a monastery, a fort, a prison, a place of pilgrimage, originally designated by Saint Michel. It has been owned by innumerable tribes and forces, but is always at the mercy of the tides, and, I suppose, must now be under siege from the rising ocean.

The planet Saturn is now in the sign of Pisces, and makes an aspect to the new Moon/Sun combination. Saturn is the builder, but in Pisces he constructs from dreams and visions. This is a time of deep listening. We have just celebrated the festival of Beltane in my Druid grove, and in the Northern Hemisphere, we know this tradition as the open gate to spring. All of this is reflected in each of us, the season, and the arrangements of the planets for this moment of new beginning. It is, as the Sabian Symbol for the Sun and Moon suggests: a moment of spontaneity.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Spontaneity is a moment when we receive messages from new or untapped sources: Inspiration. The power of spontaneity is revealed in the close proximity of planets Uranus and Jupiter to the Sun/Moon duo. Uranus delivers unexpected messages in unexpected ways. Jupiter suggests a blessed and beneficial aspect to these messages, muchness. A bell rings and we hear it……

photo: Robert Fuhro

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality, and be found online at http://www.mindfire.ca

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

I find my Moon compass in the Lunar Calendar. The 2024 edition filled with art, poetry and Lunar information is still available for purchase.….www.thelunapress.com

A Rocky Shore (and the pounding sea)

A full Moon in Scorpio. April 23, 2024 7:49 PM EDT

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

On Tuesday, the Sun and Moon will face off in the signs of Scorpio and Taurus. They will be encouraged to oppose and blend their special gifts by Pluto who squares off to their position. Water and Earth: Scorpio and Taurus are fighting over the shoreline of our stability. Scorpio (Moon) encourages us to release what we don’t need any more, but Taurus (Sun) says: Hold Tight. Pluto grins from Aquarius and says: the future needs both.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The tides of the sea wash in and out encouraged by the rhythms of the Moon. But we know there is a larger wave coming toward the shore because of the melting of long held ice. We have just joined together to experience a total solar eclipse, but now it is time, as a planet, to negotiate with climate reality. Where do we, conscious of this necessity fit into this full Moon moment?

This is where the Sabian Symbol* for the degree of the Scorpio Moon comes into the discussion.

‘A MASSIVE ROCKY SHORE RESISTS THE POUNDING OF THE SEA. KEYNOTE: The inertia of all institutionalized procedures. Slow is the rise of the land from the vast ocean, but once it is formed it develops a formidable resistance to change in spite of storms. Likewise, once a culture has expressed its basic symbols and its particular way of thinking, feeling and acting in concrete institutions, these change very slowly indeed….. We see in it how binding and resistant a communal way of life can become. In this there is strength and stability, and these are necessary factors in the social life of man — until new horizons beckon. The Keyword is STABILITY.’

Jupiter and Uranus are about to conjunct in sturdy, Earth sign, Taurus. Hello, Earth, they say: we are about to worth with Saturn, Mars and Neptune. Neptune is in his favorite sign, visionary Pisces. Neptune dreams up possible visions for the Earth’s next cycle. Mars and Saturn, also in Pisces will do the work necessary to create the change. Jupiter and Uranus say there is no choice. Change will be revolutionary (Uranus) and far reaching (Jupiter).

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Oh, but there is a problem. It is money (Taurus) or greed, or desire to be very, very, safe (Scorpio). Yet these fixed signs can turn it around: Taurus can be very generous with resources because of Venus; Scorpio can touch the absolute (Pluto), the absolute necessity to care for our body, the Earth. May we find our true treasure in the Earth’s health and bounty!

photo: Sarah Fuhro

This is a photo of a Crocus floating in pure spring water, suffused with sunlight. This is how I make my flower essences. The process combines earth, water, light and fire from the Sun. The flower (Taurus) shares her essence, her unique pattern with the water ( Scorpio). A support, a supplement, a healing remedy is created. The Crocus Flower Essence gives me, and my clients, a fresh new start, but with many lessons learned from the past. Enjoy this powerful full Moon in Scorpio as she rises above the horizon while the Sun sets!

I teach a monthly astrology class on Zoom. The next seminar is on the planet Mercury, and will be on Tuesday, May 7th from 7:00-9:00 PM EDT $35. Each seminar consists of discussion, meditation and a look at participants’ charts. If you are interested, register at sarahfuhro@gmail.com

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality, and be found online at http://www.mindfire.ca

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

I find my Moon compass in the Lunar Calendar. The 2024 edition filled with art, poetry and Lunar information is still available for purchase.….www.thelunapress.com

‘Overcoming Crisis Through Compassion’

New Moon in Aries April 8, 2024, 2:21 pm EDT

Painting: Amelia Leonards Hamadryad

The Sabian Symbol for Sun, Moon and Chiron at this potent moment has a powerful message:

‘A YOUNG GIRL FEEDING BIRDS IN WINTER. KEYNOTE: Overcoming crises through compassion.

‘Nature’s seasonal rhythms imply an oscillation between living and dying. Through creative imagination man can “fly over” the cycle, and discover means not only to escape from the fatality of seasonal decay or deprivation, but to assist other living entities to survive through crises. Migrating birds fly south, but by establishing a partnership with other creatures unable to escape wintry deprivation or death, (we) can maintain the life of the spirit (symbolized by birds) steady through all crises if, like a “young girl,” (we are) widely open to the promptings of love and sympathy.  The theme is THE TRANSMUTATION OF LIFE INTO LOVE.’*

The new Moon in the sign of Spring: Aries, will blot out the Sun for a short but memorable period….a total solar eclipse. But maybe we should call this a New Sun as well as a New Moon. The Sun is quite at home in the sign of Aries. And to make this chart very interesting from a numerological point of the view, the Sun is associated with the number 19. I was immediately struck by the location of Sun, Moon and Chiron in the 19th degree of Aries. And to further play upon the Sun’s ‘number’ we have Jupiter at 19 degrees of Taurus. The Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s degree of the Zodiac is: ‘The awareness of spiritual forces at work.’

The Sun Tarot card # 19, shows a young child on a white horse, with a red feather in his Sunflower crown. He holds a red banner which he waves, a symbol of following one’s intuition, the Red Road, a trust in light, the return of the Sun at each new morning, and after an eclipse.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

At this moment of an Aries eclipse of the Sun, we might want to look at the symbolism of the ram, and at the energy that is imbued in this moment of time in the Northern Hemisphere. There is an adamant, headstrong aspect to the season and to the sign of Aries in astrological interpretation. Aries is fiery, and ruled by the god of war and sexual energy, Mars. Sadly we are surrounded by terrible news of war and rape as a weapon of war, but the Sabian Symbols for this eclipse carry a different message, one of compassion, and deep connection between creatures human and otherwise: ‘the transformation of life into love.’ It feels as if there is a world wide energy of compassion which is just as strong as the destructive energy of war and destruction, which we can grasp, and broaden into universal evolution.

photo: Bruce Lhuiller

‘WISPS OF WING-LIKE CLOUDS STREAMING ACROSS THE SKY. KEYNOTE: The awareness of spiritual forces at work.

The individual who has taken a new step in their evolution should look for the “Signature” of divine Powers confirming their progress. It may reveal the meaning of what is to come next. The “wing-like clouds” may also symbolize the presence of celestial beings (devas, angels) blessing and subtly revealing the direction to take, the direction of “the wind” of destiny.  BLESSINGS of super-natural forces.‘

This is the Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s position at 19 Taurus during the time of the eclipse. All of this is a promise, if we are courageous and conscious enough to take the reins of our development, and understand our connection to the help available. Jupiter’s proximity to Uranus in Taurus, and a sextile to Saturn and Mars in Pisces, offers the energy and compassion to allow for an evolutionary change in consciousness. As I write this on March 4, a few days before the eclipse, it is snowing and raining, after a long non-existent winter by New England standards. Yet the birds and rabbits and flowers celebrate spring in courtship and blossom. They know time, in a way we have forgotten, but are now trying to re-embrace.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The Business of Birds          

The business of birds

is my work,

and yours as well.

Birds do not sit still.

They occupy space

and talk about it,

while Moon waxes and wanes,

Each bird, an artist

in feather and voice.

And birds must be seen,

seen and heard until

the hawk comes.

We all dance until then.

Birds never stop the dance ,

except the heron,

who moves only once,

and with precision.  

Sarah Fuhro

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Amelia Leonards is an artist illustrator who lives in Vermont. Her beautiful artwork is available as an original painting, a print or on cards. Find her at https://www.amelialeonards.com/ and Amelialeonardsart@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

You can still order the 2024 Lunar Calendar. With this Calendar will help find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign, and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Each page is dedicated to the Tree of that cycle and you will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

 

I teach a monthly astrology class on Zoom. The next session is a look at Mercury and will be on, Tuesday, May 7 from 7-9 EDT. The class consists of a conversation about the planet Mercury from both a traditional and psychological point of view. We then look at the natal charts of each participant. You can join the fun when you register with me at Sarahfuhro@gmail.com. $35

Visualization!

As a potter, I am most often frustrated by glazing. I imagine how I want a piece in its finished state, I compose a vision of my object glazed, and am sometimes delighted but often disappointed with the final effect after the heat of the kiln has done it’s work. Pottery is usually fired twice, once to harden the clay body so that it can accept glaze, and again with glaze on the piece. When it goes into the kiln it is totally draped in non-descript, dusty colors which harden up into something very beautiful after the firing.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Since we have four planets in Pisces (vision) and four planets in Aries (action), this full Moon and Lunar eclipse would seem like a good time to stop, visualize and then take action.

‘A man watches his ideals taking concrete form before his inner vision.’ This is the Sabian Symbol* for the degree of the Moon. What will be the way we each take this gift and use it to put our visualization into a dream come true. Libra is about one to one relationships, marriage, partnerships. The sign is ruled by Venus, but with a strong Saturn in put. Karma is especially powerful in Libra. We harvest what we have sown in relationship. The scales in balance which is the symbol of the sign Libra suggest that in business, money, absolute fairness is a necessity.

photo: Bruce Lhuiller

This lunar eclipse will be visible for many of us, but in the Standard Time Zone, it may require sleeplessness to view it! 3:00 is a time many people awaken, so how interesting that is exactly on the hour here in Eastern United States

Jupiter and Uranus in the other sign of Venus, Taurus. They continue to keep company, which suggests, much (Jupiter) and perhaps unusual, unexpected (Uranus) expressions of love. Venus in Pisces is in contact with Jupiter and Uranus (sextile) and this is true also of Saturn. When Saturn and Venus work together they create very beautiful and poignant understanding in our heart.

Here is a poem by Robert Hayden which I think illustrates this combination:

Those Winter Sundays

BY ROBERT HAYDEN

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Copyright ©1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Source: Collected Poems of Robert Hayden (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1985)

Clay tile: Sarah Fuhro

The theme of visualization front and center at this new Moon gives a clue from the gods who took many forms. This is a picture of Hathor as a hawk. Like the Moon Hathor Hathor is always changing. She plays the roles of many of the planets we now use in astrology. She is a Moon goddess, a representation of Venus and in her many forms she takes some of the characteristics of Mercury and Uranus. This is a message to all of us that we don’t need to remain in a small niche of identity.

I teach a monthly class in astrology. The next one is Tuesday, April 8 7:00-9:00 on Zoom. This class will be an in depth look at Venus and Mars. I will need your date, time and place of birth as we will look at the participant charts to get a close look at Venus and Mars for you. If you are interested you register at sarahfuhro@gmail.com $35 check or venmo.

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and tarot reader/teacher. In her consultations with astrology and tarot clients she uses the gifts of the natural world in the form of flower essences which she has gathered. Each new and full Moon she calls upon the patterns of the planets and luminaries to share their wisdom with friends and compatriots. She is a Druid member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. You can learn about classes or make an appointment for an astrology and/or Tarot reading at sarahfuhro@gmail.com or find her on Facebook at Sarah Fuhro.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who currently lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

You can still order the 2024 Lunar Calendar, a unique Calendar to help you find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign, and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Plant your garden according to the Moon’s sign! Each page is dedicated to the Tree designated by Robert Graves to that cycle. You will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

Bouquet!

New Moon in Pisces 2024, March 10, 2024, 5:00 AM EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The planets remain locked in a tiny crescent or bowl pattern, which has been with us for many lunar cycles. The new Moon on Sunday takes place in this beautiful pattern once again. Does this suggest a brewing soup, Cerridwen’s cauldron, a slingshot full of planets to be flung across the sky? If so, is it something about past experience which will be the target? The South Node lies almost directly across from this huge gathering of planets. The South Node hints at what has been well developed, and yearns for new experience in the North Node, which is conjunct the planet of healing, Chiron. If we are tired of the same old wounds, Chiron promises to suggest new remedies.

Even if you know NOTHING about astrology, this chart has a visual impact. The pattern displays a message which suggests: compact energy, focus, cooperation among the planets and luminaries (the Sun and Moon). It does look as if Jupiter and Uranus are leading a crowd toward new territory, or is this a bouquet of spring flowers gathered from an awakening meadow?

So if Jupiter symbolizes expansive energy and Uranus is all about the revolution, how can we each use these forces to enhance and enrich our lives, hopes, and comprehension? Another item to be noted is that not a single planet is in retrograde. Everything moves forward in this chart, the cosmos is pulling us along towards….well, towards, what?

The Moon Smith-Waite deck

The Tarot card, which symbolizes the constellation Pisces where this new Moon takes place, illustrates evolution, but not an easy path. The little armored beast (lobster? cray fish?) who emerges from her Pisces watery home, will have to face fears, and the anxiety about how others will observe and judge her journey. Yet the path has great promise. The heavenly face of Sun and Moon (like their conjunction at the beginning of a new Moon cycle) watches with concern for our adventure into new territory, and scatters a shower of Yods over the path. Yods are the first letter (in Hebrew) of a name of the divine. As they shower down on the brave little armored beast they suggest cosmic approval of a rough path.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier sculpture in Cairo, New York

Maybe what is needed at this new Moon moment is light. Some bright guidance, must be searched for and then followed. It is the way of the dark Moon, as she slips into the bright light of the Sun to leave us behind without guidance. It is now the moment for each of us to notice light from hidden places, a glimpse, a tiny spark, a lantern where least expected.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The Lantern

Tonight I will enter

a dark garden.

I will hold the lantern

I carved in a black stone.

This stone nudged my toe

as I walked

along the beach,

alone, and imagined love.

What mysteries are pressed

into the dark angles

of my light giving stone,

the Moon, as she grows.       

Sarah Fuhro 2024

The Hermit card from the Smith-Waite Tarot deck

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and tarot reader/teacher. In her consultations with astrology and tarot clients she uses the gifts of the natural world in the form of flower essences which she has gathered. Each new and full Moon she calls upon the patterns of the planets and luminaries to share their wisdom with friends and compatriots. She is a Druid member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. You can learn about classes or make an appointment for an astrology and/or Tarot reading at sarahfuhro@gmail.com or find her on Facebook at Sarah Fuhro.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who currently lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

You can still order the 2024 Lunar Calendar, a unique Calendar to help you find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign, and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Plant your garden according to the Moon’s sign! Each page is dedicated to the Tree designated by Robert Graves to that cycle. You will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

Merry Go Round

A Full Moon in Virgo February 24, 2024 7:30 am EST

 Artist: Christopher Guilfoil Card X (The Wheel of Fortune) from the Inner Child Tarot

The Moon in Virgo watches the rest of the planets in the full Moon chart for February 24. Once again we see a sky with all planets (and Sun) in a tight crescent. It is the Moon who watches this drama from across the heavens. And, as much as the full Moon is always an important moment in the lunar cycle each month, this pattern speaks as witness to a potent message. It is also noteworthy that no planets are in retrograde at this moment and this provides an opportunity to move forward.

The Moon is not only the observer, but also is observed by the Sun, Mercury and Saturnwho lie in opposition to her. What does the Moon’s position as the lone sky body symbolize for this moment? At this moment, when the Sun’s reflection is strongest on the Moon, she is alone, much like a performer in the spotlight on stage. And like a performer, it may be difficult for her to observe the audience she faces. She must go on in the faith and hope that her art, her message will be observed, and understood by those across the footlights from her. Can she be heard? What does the Moon see and what does she want to communicate?

photo: Robert Fuhro

I wonder if the Moon, ensconced in her Earthy sign of practical Virgo, will give voice to the Sun, Neptune, Saturn and Mercury in visionary Pisces. Like most prophets, these bodies might need an interpreter to hear them, and to let the rest of us in on their message. This image of an ice man trying to be heard seemed just right for this February full Moon. Virgo is ruled by the planet, Mercury, the communicator, but can he be heard in Pisces’ watery grasp. Saturn, Neptune and Sun also swim in the waters of Pisces. It is up to the soloist Virgo Moon to tell us what might be helpful to us who watch her from below.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Each degree in the astrology chart has a verbal description of a visual image. I like to use these 360 images (Sabian Symbols) to give me insight into charts as I try to analyze their message. They seem especially appropriate at this turn of the cosmic wheel. A psychic, Else Wheeler saw each, and an astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones inscribed them. They were later reinterpreted by another astrologer, Dane Rudhyar. Perhaps, the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at this moment is the interpretation of what all those Pisces planets are telling us: A MERRY-GO-ROUND. AN OBJECTIVE APPROACH TO THE LIFE FORCE. We constantly go around, and around, and, at the same time, we go up and down. It is the full acceptance of this whirling circle which frees us from feeling we are under its mastery.

Artist: Pamela Coleman Smith from the Smith-Waite Tarot

This Tarot card, the Wheel of Fortune, like the Merry Go Round card at the top of the page has an astrological connection to Jupiter. Jupiter is the ruling planet of Pisces, and at this moment forms a lovely square to Venus and Mars in conjunction. Early in the morning the three planets make a beautiful sight in the morning sky. Jupiter, in Earth centered Taurus forms a loose trine (same element) to the full Moon in Virgo. Our planet is blessed by this arrangement of planets, and as much as we can feel the sadness and despair of so much scary news about the degradation of the Earth by human beings, it may be an important moment to focus on what possible evolutionary steps are possible to make us worthy of our home.

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

Dragon Delight

A New Moon in Aquarius, Friday February 9, 2024 5:59 PM EST 

Artist: Will Worthington from the Druid Animal Oracle    Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm

The new Moon in Aquarius is the marker for the Chinese New Year. This year, we enter the Year of the Dragon, considered to be the most fortunate of all the twelve signs.  It’s interesting to compare Asian and Western notions about dragons. Dragons in the West are terrifying monsters, destructive and greedy. The Christian saints killed the last of the dragons, yet they reappear in story and song. Occasionally they are wise guides and helpers, but most of the time, they are the beast to be killed by the hero.  In Asian countries, the dragon represents good fortune, the powers of the Earth, and is courted and thanked for blessings. It is time to come back to earth spirit roots of the dragon, and this year is the perfect time to get reacquainted! 

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

As Western people we now are in the throes of realization. Christianity and capitalism broke our connection to the Earth. We have imposed that same confusion upon indigenous people as colonialism spread through out the world. We have damaged the ground beneath our feet, polluted the air we breath and the water we drink. Let us hope the year of the Dragon awakens our connection to the elements and to the beauty and wonder which surrounds us. 

The keyword for the Sabian Symbol of this new Moon in Aquarius is ‘Resilience.’ The sign of Aquarius carries the gift of novel insights, new ways of looking at new and old problems.  The lunar cycle is the gift of a new start every twenty eight days. Friday evening we begin anew. Uranus who is the co-ruler of Aquarius was discovered at a time of revolution in the Western world. This planet was discovered by means of new technology, the telescope. On the day of the new Moon, Uranus will be in a tight square to the new Moon and Sun. If you have an intractable problem, this might be the moment to see things in a new way…a way of courage in the face of adversity.  

Photo: Bruce Lhuiller

The Sabian Symbol* for the degree where Uranus is located: ’WISPS OF WING-LIKE CLOUDS STREAMING ACROSS THE SKY. The awareness of spiritual forces at work.’ Uranus deepens the message of the new Moon in Aquarius. It suggests we have guides, and teachers all around us, willing to communicate through the natural world, the constellation of Taurus where Uranus is located. That Taurus Uranus is in a tight Earth embrace with Venus in Capricorn. They promise to celebrate the new Moon in Aquarius with us, in excitement and beauty. 

photo: Robert Fuhro 

 

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

Star Dance

Full Moon in Leo January 25, 2024 12:54 PM EST  Sarah Fuhro

photo: Bruce Lhuillier 

There are some powerful lights in the sky on Thursday,                      dancing in powerful patterns…take a peek.                            

photo: Sarah Fuhro 

Yes, Sun and Moon in reflection. As the Sun sets, Lady Moon rises; Aquarius Air, Moon Fire. 

Pluto stands guard with the Sun and bows deeply to the Moon as if, he too, were the Sun. Sun and Pluto entered Aquarius in tandem on Saturday, when a New Plutonic generation was given birth. Yes, Pluto will retreat momentarily back to Earthy Capricorn, but he has worn out his turmoil in that sign, and needs new stones to overturn, new depths of comprehension to explore. 

Chiron squares Mars and Mercury, keeps company with the Moon’s North Node, and shares Fire with the Part of Fortune.  Uranus makes a trine to Mars and Mercury as well and is the powerful co-ruler of Aquarius. 

The dance continues with Jupiter in an almost perfect square to Sun/Pluto Moon. ‘Glad to help in any way.’ Jupiter sends out a friendly hand to Saturn who responds in kind. And they both are in synch with a Capricorn form of Venus. 

Neptune stands alone, knee deep in Pisces, and presents the vision which the closely knit company might urge us to accomplish at this moment in time. The Sabian Symbol for the degree of Pisces tells what this is all about: ’WATCHING THE VERY THIN MOON CRESCENT APPEARING AT SUNSET, DIFFERENT PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO GO AHEAD WITH THEIR DIFFERENT PROJECTS. KEYNOTE: A keen appreciation of the value of individualized responses to any challenge of life. The fallacy of totalitarianism. ‘ 

 

This pattern of planets and luminaries has a feeling of ritual, of a circle of Druids or tree nymphs celebrating the season. And we are quickly approaching an important celebration in the wheel of the year, Imbolc, Candlemas, GroundHog’s Day.  This is the time when lambs are born and the light begins to increase in the Northern Hemisphere. Is there a worldwide circle of ritual, where we can all join hands? What would we have to give up to live on a planet of peace and inter communication? On Friday, February 2nd, light a candle as the Half Moon makes a square from Scorpio to the Sun in Aquarius 6:18 pm EST.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier 

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro teaches Astrology and Tarot workshops in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an Astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

You can still order the 2024 Lunar Calendar. With this Calendar will help find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign, and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Each page is dedicated to the Tree of that cycle and you will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

Message in the Clouds

A new Moon in Capricorn January 11, 2024 6:57 AM EST.

This new Moon in Capricorn promises to support us in our evolution, if we have the courage to take a step into the darkness of the Moon’s seed moment. We are not alone in our travels, and the clouds move through the sky to reflect our spiritual activity down below. As the first new Moon of a new year, there is a connection to the promises we make, our ‘resolutions.’ The winter new Moon begins the year in the sign of materialization, Capricorn, ruled by Saturn. Yet that ruling planet (Saturn) is in Pisces, a visionary and very watery sign. 

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

So, the new Moon is in solid earthy Capricorn, but may be a bit watery. Much like this very solid structure built of stone serving as a watery passageway to a pond. 

We are warned: ‘the best laid plans…’ may take unexpected turns.  Uranus who makes a comfy trine to the Sun and Moon, could also be disruptive to our plans. Or we may suddenly understand how revolutionary aspect of New Year’s desires . ’The individual who has taken a new step in their evolution should look for the “Signature” of divine Powers confirming their progress. It may reveal the meaning of what is to come next.’ This is part of the explanation for that Uranus trine to the seed new Moon. 

photo: Robert Fuhro

The chart for this new Moon has no planets in an Air sign. So how are we to ‘lift off’? If you watch a heron prepare and then take flight, you will understand this moment. Everything is done with great care and precision. The huge wings unfold and this very large and gangly bird lifts in the air and flies with perfect grace until she lowers herself almost vertically into the next fishing grounds.   

Saturn and Jupiter conspire in their sextile to one another to help us out with vision (Saturn in Pisces) and optimistic energy (Jupiter in Taurus). They say they will be happy to help out, if we have a plan: a demand of Capricorn’s new Moon. Capricorn is strong and steady when approaching a high summit. My very Capricorn dog always looked around and found the highest place in the landscape on a walk. This is where he felt he belonged and where could get the best view of the surrounding countryside.    

photo: Robert Fuhro

This is part of the Capricorn process of manifestation. From the very best vantage point, look out to the horizon. Then there is the courage supplied by Mars in Capricorn as part of your process. He makes a perfect trine to Jupiter and a sextile to Saturn. There is nothing blocking the path to your desired outcome, which his warrior energy cannot take on. 

photo: Bruce Lhuillier 

Venus in Sagittarius is in perfect trine to Chiron in Aries.  They form a powerful combination of love and healing to protect this new Moon as she couples with the Sun to begin a journey round the Earth. This is definitely a good time to begin the long contemplated project, which is calling you. As the *Sabian Symbol for Uranus says: ’WISPS OF WING-LIKE CLOUDS STREAMING ACROSS THE SKY. KEYNOTE: The awareness of spiritual forces at work.‘

Dark hoof. Clay foot,

old black figure of earth.

Horns twirl round, deep soot eyes,

his smile is sunrise,  he watches night,  

from his domain where none are lost.

The color of earth, the smell of green

quick goat hoofs clack and click

as he travels to his hillside stone,

his perch to honor his lady, the Moon.  

       

 

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and Tarot reader.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who currently lives between the Catskill Mountains of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

The 2024 Lunar Calendar will help find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Each page is dedicated to Robert Grave’s Tree of that cycle and you will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

Do You Remember?

Full Moon in Cancer 2023  December 26, 2023 7:33 PM ET  Sarah Fuhro 

NASA site for Saturn Jupiter conjunction on December 21 2020

Do you remember the ‘Great Conjunction,’ which took place on the Solstice (December 21) of 2020? Did you stand under the sky and marvel at the beauty of that special moment, during a tumultuous time, a contested election, a pandemic in full blossom? I remember I looked up at the night sky on that winter Solstice with friends, and felt the beauty and mystery of those two planets in close connection. It felt momentous. I knew this would be the beginning of a twenty year cycle with a Gemini theme, and remembered the last time the conjunction took place (May of 2000) in Taurus. That new cycle, twenty years ago was a new beginning for me on a personal level; I would now add a flower essences practice to my astrology consultations. Not long after that 2000 conjunction 9/11 changed my country and our relationship to the world. This Great Conjunction in 2021 also felt as if it was about the larger community, humanity, and how we care for one another and our planet. 

So why bring this up now, three years later? Because, when I looked at thie chart for this full Moon, I see Jupiter and Saturn once again as central players in the astrology of the moment. Jupiter is in Taurus and makes a sextile (60 degrees) to the Moon, and a trine (90 degrees) to the Sun. Saturn is in a sextile position to the Sun and makes a trine to the Moon. These two planers are in a sextile (harmonious) aspect to each other. Despite terrible wars and suffering it feels as if we are in a very beautiful and melodic moment, with potential for peace and kindness.  Jupiter is often represented as ‘expansive’ and Saturn as ‘constrictive’. Perhaps Saturn energy takes the expansion of Jupiter and puts it into form. All this could allow us to feel the energy of the these two very powerful planets in sync with the Luminaries….(Sun and Moon) as they face each other across the chart! And as we roll closer to this full Moon in Cancer we can see her decorated with Jupiter’s close proximity. 

Here is the Sabian Symbol for Jupiter at the moment of the full Moon this Tuesday :     ‘CANTILEVER BRIDGE ACROSS A DEEP GORGE. The conquest of separativeness through group-cooperation.‘* A bridge is always an act of cooperation. The beautiful picture below is not a cantilever, nor does it ‘bridge cross a deep gorge,’ but it was built by people standing on both sides of the water, which divided them. Jupiter is locate in an Earth sign, Taurus, but the bridge over water image works well with the message of this chart! 

photo: Bruce Lhuiller 

Saturn is in a water sign (Pisces), but his Sabian Symbol is very much an Earth image: ’PETRIFIED TREE TRUNKS LIE BROKEN ON DESERT SAND.   INDESTRUCTABILITY ‘ This image is ‘fixed’ in the way Taurus is ‘fixed,’ and refers to the Earth element. Saturn is a reminder of construction, and what remains of our human doings. These two images, the bridge and the trees turned to stone by time hint at the power of these planets in the message of this moment of the full Moon. Saturn is in his ‘dignity/rulership’ in Capricorn.

photo: Robert Fuhro

This is a full Moon in Cancer, the sign where she is at home! She is basking in Earth and Water, but there is plenty of Fire here as well. Let us call this a festival dance, close to the Solstice moment and full of harmonious aspects. I hope this joy in festivity is true for you as well, and the holiday season opens you to the beauty of earth reflected in the sky. The Sun is returning to the Northern Hemisphere and the Moon lights a path for his journey

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and Tarot reader. In her consultations with clients she often calls upon the natural world in the form of flower essences which she has gathered. Each new and full Moon she shares what she sees in the patterns of the planets and luminaries to share their wisdom with friends and compatriots. https://wordpress.com/post/sarahfuhro.wordpress.com. She is a Druid member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. You can learn about classes or make an appointment for an astrology and/or Tarot reading at sarahfuhro@gmail.com or find her on Facebook and Instragram at Sarah Fuhro.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who currently lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

The 2024 Lunar Calendar will help find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Each page is dedicated to Robert Grave’s Tree of that cycle and you will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

NATURE SPIRITS AT WORK

New Moon in Sagittarius Tuesday December 12 6:32 pm EST Sarah Fuhro

We usually associate nature spirits with spring and MidSummer night, yet they also play a role in the turn of the Sun towards the North and the Winter Solstice. And, much like the Sun they are always available somewhere to those who turn off other voices and listen to the ‘music of the spheres.’ This is a hopeful reminder as we notice this new Moon in Sagittarius has in interesting aspect with Mars, located close to the Sun and Moon duo and with Chiron in a fiery trine to that Mars.

” NATURE SPIRITS ARE SEEN AT WORK IN THE LIGHT OF SUNSET. ” 

“KEYNOTE: Attunement to the potency of invisible forces, of nature.”                 

“In the light of personal fulfillment (symbol of sunset and wisdom) man may be able to establish a life-giving contact with natural forces. These are active any time growth processes take place, but man’s individualized mind is usually too focused on working for consciously set goals to be able to realize concretely the presence of invisible (or “occult”) forces in operation. These forces constitute a specific realm of any planetary life. They are inherent in all “biospheres,” on whatever planet. They are non-individualized and un-free energies forming in the substratum of all life processes – thus of the process of integration at the level of the planet-as-a-whole, i.e. the planet as an organism with its automatic systems of growth, maintenance and organic multiplication. In this planetary organism those nature forces act as guiding and balancing-harmonizing factors – somewhat as the endocrine system does in a human body, and behind this system the more occult web of chakra energies related to prana – the solar energy. It is when this energy becomes less dominant – thus symbolically at sunset – or when the body energy is weakened by illness, fasting or sensory deprivation, that it becomes easier to perceive these “nature spirits” and to give them forms that symbolize the character of their activities. These forms differ with the cultural imagery of each human collectivity, retaining nevertheless some basically similar characteristics.”

“When this Sabian symbol reaches into the consciousness of a man seeking meaning, it should be seen as an invitation to open his mind to the possibility of approaching life in a holistic and nonrational, intuitive manner. This is the first stage of the fourth five-fold sequence of cyclic phases. It implies a call to REPOTENTIALIZATION. What this means also is the process of “becoming like a little child.”

Taken from the Sabian symbols of Marc Edmund Jones and Elsie Wheeler as rephrased in An Astrological Mandala: Dane Rudhyar.

My life, like yours, is attuned to the larger story of our beautiful planet. This particular Sabian symbol speaks to my question of where we are headed, and why there is so much pain and suffering in the midst of so much love and beauty. I suppose that is why I write these new and full Moon chats each lunar cycle. They help me feel positioned in a journey where I am not alone, but traveling together with the planets and luminaries which are the canopy of light above us. Sunset gives us the the chance to become one with the light, and to see what is invisible at noon.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Is it possible that this new Moon in the philosophical sign of Sagittarius with a fire trine between Mars the energized warrior, the surgeon, the outspoken voice of the human animal, and Chiron the warrior healer is an opportunity to see things in a ‘new light’? Mars is also in Sagittarius close to the new seed of this lunar cycle. Sagittarius is always interested in differences between and among human cultures. Will it be possible for us, to stand back and watch how ‘Nature Spirits’ might solve the problems which seem so daunting to us at this moment, whether universal or personal?

When we open our eyes to the possibility of ‘nature spirits’ we may not be in in a pristine natural setting. We may be in despair rather than in ecstasy. We may not have the eyes or the ears to the hear ‘an angel carrying a harp. ‘ Yet at this new Moon on Tuesday, Mercury, the messenger, the alchemist, the physician will be in a harmonic aspect to Venus, and will be at the Sabian degree of that tuneful angel. A little later, Mercury slips into retrograde, which gives yet another chance to hear that musical angel when he turns direct. And so, dear friends, attune yourself to world of Fae and the angels who fly over with good news.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Heron Waxes and Wanes  

Heron, like the quarter Moon,

her neck takes both curves,

coming and going,

she waxes and wanes. 

She bends to the lake and gulps

what catches her fancy,

just like the Moon.

Fills herself with fish,

and frogs, even….a turtle,

slides down her long neck,

round and large as a full Moon. 

And then: what of the waning Moon?

Heron turned neck backwards,

still, as all herons are still, until

she makes the stab and the gulp,

and gathers huge wings,

a gigantic crescent, rises,

and, like the Moon,

circles the pond.    

Sarah Fuhro

 

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and tarot teacher and consultant. In her consultations with astrology and tarot clients she often calls upon the natural world in the form of flower essences which she has gathered. Each new and full Moon she calls upon the patterns of the planets and luminaries to share their wisdom with friends and compatriots. She is a Druid member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. You can learn about classes or make an appointment for an astrology and/or Tarot reading at sarahfuhro@gmail.com or find her on Facebook at Sarah Fuhro.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who currently lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

The 2024 Lunar Calendar is available. This Calendar will help find your way through each Lunar cycle, find the Moon’s sign, the Void of Course period for each sign and it will give you the time of the Moon rise and set. Each page is dedicated to the Tree of that cycle and you will find art and poetry inspired by the season and nature of that Moon. Don’t go further in life without it! Send it to a luna friend….www.thelunapress.com

Owl and Windmill

photo: Robert Fuhro

‘AN OLD OWL SITS ALONE ON THE BRANCH OF A LARGE TREE. KEYNOTE: A poised and wise approach to existence based on a clear perception of unconscious factors and their operation.’ * Sabian Symbol for the Sun.

Leading up to Monday morning, when the Moon and Sun are exactly opposite one another, we can expect the usual churning and whirling of the full Moon reflected in our thoughts (Gemini) and feelings (the Moon). Then will be a moment of exquisite silence at the center of that opposition where silence and wisdom sit like the owl on her tree branch. With the windmill’s turn, all our contradictions are ground into nutricious flour to kneed into bread and cake.

‘PHASE 65 (GEMINI 5°): A REVOLUTIONARY MAGAZINE ASKING FOR ACTION. KEYNOTE: The explosive tendency of repressed feelings and root emotions. ‘ *Sabian Symbol for the Moon.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

All full Moons represent a challenge to feel the opposition between the two lights (luminaries) of our planet, and this is well represented in the Sabian Symbols for each of them. Sagittarius, the Sun’s position in the sky is represented by the image of the owl who sits in wisdom and patience and studies the deep and repressed emotions of the Moon in expressive Gemini. To find the words for thoughts and feelings and communicate them is the special gift of Gemini energy. Neither side is right or wrong. They happen to balance each other in action and restraint. Sagittarius likes to apply the power of philosophical thought and is aided by Mercury in Sagittarius at this moment. Gemini Moon says: I will not be silenced by notions of balance. There is too much injustice which has not been addressed. And so they meander in our minds and hearts as we feel and hear all sides of an argument.

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

There is another lovely *Sabian Symbol for this moment in time. Saturn, who has just entered Pisces, and is in a position of witness (square Sun and Moon) says there is room for both of these impulses.

‘IN A CROWDED MARKETPLACE FARMERS AND MIDDLEMEN DISPLAY A GREAT VARIETY OF PRODUCTS. KEYNOTE: The process of commingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community.’

Warrior Mars, in close proximity to the Sun has another *Sabian Symbol of integration: ‘TWO MEN PLAYING CHESS. KEYNOTE: The transcendent ritualization of conflict.‘

The owl of the Sagittarian Sun cannot sit on her perch in the tree in peace unless the roots of tree are well situated and go deep into the dark earth. The wise owl must listen to the voices of the forest, the Gemini Moon. She is not alone in the woods.

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro is an astrologer and Tarot reader. She teaches astrology and Tarot workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

The 2024 Lunar Calendar is now available! Place an order for your calendar and gift a friend! www.thelunarpess.com .

Come to my pottery open house: Sunday November 26 from 1-4

Going Deeper While the Ground Shakes

New Moon in Scorpio Monday, November 13, 2023 4:27 AM EST

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Scorpio Sun and Moon invite us to travel inward, into dark realms where we are both frightened and intrigued. Yet this new Moon in Scorpio suggests an earthquake in that underground chamber. Mars is a close companion to the luminaries and revolutionary Uranus is right across the sky creating a strong shaking motion.

The Sabian Symbol* for the degree where the Sun and Moon are meeting on Monday seems very appropriate. ‘Obeying his conscience, a soldier resists orders.’ Going deep into the Earth is not necessarily safe. Listening to inner voices can get us in trouble.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

At the present moment there is more and more interest in mushrooms, mycelium and the mysteries of interconnection between plants and trees and humans. Mushrooms are no longer just the foragers delight or nightmare, they are clues as to kinship between the animal and plant kingdoms. We need time to intuit and study the interdependence we share with all of life, and this Sun Moon Mars Scorpio says: dig deep,’ and don’t be afraid of what you might find in those depths.

Give yourself the gift of journeys in nature to discover this new Moon’s tight linkage between Mercury in Sagittarius and Venus in Libra, which will allows us to receive the benefit of this liason between Venus and Jupiter. Our ‘conscience’ has to do with large and karmic love: Venus in Libra. Mercury in Sagittarius pushes us to speak out when our conscience is in conflict with the norms of our society or family or workplace. That can feel a bit lonely like this treehouse, but it can also give us the space to clear our heads and listen to our hearts, and to feel our connection to a much larger community.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Sometimes our conscience is painful, and can’t rise to the occasion. That is the moment when it is time to walk someplace where we can sort out fear from art. Then we know we belong to something larger than the family or society. Or maybe we need to create new forms of family and social organizations. The Sabian Symbol for Mars, the close companion to this new Moon is: ‘A rabbit metamorphoses in to a nature spirit.’ Like the mushroom, the timid rabbit may have some interesting clues to human development if we are going to survive on this beautiful planet. Camouflage and listening are keys to rabbit survival.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

It’s a strange combination of energies at this new Moon…yes, find deep shelter someplace in yourself. And, yes, speak up about what you find there (Mercury in Sagittarius). Mercury’s degree says it all in a very clear Sabian Symbol: ‘An old owl sits alone on the branch of a large tree. A poised and wise approach to existence based on a clear perception of unconscious factors and their operation.’

Owl image from a pottery bowl: Sarah Fuhro

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro teaches astrology and Tarot workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment for an astrology or Tarot consultation @sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist who lives between the Catskills Mountain of New York and French Britany. His love for nature fuels his adventurous personality and pursuit of sacred forest and historic relics. He loves exploring symbols in nature and spirituality that connect us all to one other.

pottery tray: Sarah Fuhro

Come to my first pottery open house of the season on November 26, 1-4pm in Natick Massachusetts

So happy to share this announcement: The Lunar Calendar is a unique publication, she connects you to Lunar cycles and wisdom, the tree calendar and wonderful poetry and art.

We are delighted to announce publication of the 2024 annual edition of THE LUNAR CALENDAR: DEDICATED TO THE GODDESS IN HER MANY GUISES! You may place your order online or by mail now. Current staff shortage may limit our ability to take phone orders.Shipping will commence before American Thanksgiving, Providence willing. https://www.thelunapress.com/

What is a Bridge?

Full Moon in Taurus (partial Eclipse) October 28, 2023 4:24 PM ET

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Every full Moon is an opposition between Sun and Moon from the view point of the Earth. This is what gives the powerful energy many of us experience as the Moon ‘fills’ with the Sun’s light. The *Sabian Symbol for this particular Moon reflects not only the opposition of the two luminaries, but the pattern of the chart, which seems to be divided in two groups across the sky from one another. ‘CANTILEVER BRIDGE ACROSS A DEEP GORGE. KEYNOTE: The conquest of separativeness through group-cooperation.‘ So much in the world seems pitted in opposition. The bridge is often destroyed during conflict. Yet the image of the bridge says it well: it takes both sides to make an opposition, and both sides to build a way to cross the ravine.

You don’t have to be an astrologer, to see the clear pattern of opposition of all (or most ) of the planets in this chart which marks the moment of the full Moon on Saturday. The Moon is ‘exalted’ in Taurus. She likes to be in this sign of Earth pleasures. The full Moon in Taurus marks the end of the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere, a last blast of Venus before we withdraw into darkness. The opposite sign, where the Sun is located is Scorpio: ruled by Mars, and deeply concerned with depth of experience, transformation from compost to rich soil, when the Taurus Sun will wake up the Earth. The Sun is low and creates beauty in the leaves which have turned to colors in celebration of the season.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Jupiter and Mars are also in exact opposition at this moment. Jupiter in Taurus celebrates the Earth’s bounty in this season of mushrooms……And, have you noticed the size and brightness of Jupiter lately. He is very close and and very beautiful!

photo: Sarah Fuhro

While Mars in Scorpio speaks for the arrival of darkness and mystery we celebrate at Samhain, Halloween.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The three ‘outer planets’ are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, discovered with the help of the telescope. In this chart they create a neat arc around the Moon’s side of the sky. They are voices from a distant part of the solar system. They may have a powerful message for us at this moment of a Lunar eclipse in Taurus, the ancient sign of the Earth mother. There is so much chaos and sorrow for us to share at this moment. We are aware of each other’s human pain and disfunction, but the balm may lie in guidance from the patterns of the planets.

Sculpture: Yolande Daniels photo: Bruce Lhuillier

In this chart we can easily see the opposition from Moon side to Sun side, but the human side is to create a way to cross over from one side to the other, a bridge. A bridge cannot have only one side, nor does it exist where there is no challenge to further travel. There must be two sides and a chasm in between. And somehow there has to ‘group cooperation’ to join the two sides.

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier’s photos and other work can be found on instagram@ http://barkenstone.photo.

Astrology Seminar on the Lunar Nodes In Honor of this new Moon and Ring of Fire eclipse, I offer a seminar on the Lunar Nodes. This is always a fun class with revelations from the birth chart, which often make our choices in life less perplexing. The Nodes mark where the eclipses fall.Sunday, November 5th from 11:00-1:00 pm EDT. Zoom!! $35 or something like it! sarahfuhro@gmail.com to join

Child at a Fountain

A New Moon (and partial eclipse) in Libra October 14, 2023 1:55 pm EDT

Painting of a girl with a watering can Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Each New Moon brings us a fresh drink of water, a new start in a new element. The degree where the Sun and Moon are located carries the *Sabian Symbol:A CHILD GIVING BIRDS A DRINK AT A FOUNTAIN.

But this new cycle is also about the Moon’s shadow on the Sun in an annular eclipse. For this effect of a ‘ring of fire’, Moon has to be at her farthest point from the Earth, visually small as we watch her. Last full Moon was a ‘super’ Moon because she was at her closest point to the Earth….two weeks later she has pulled away, and is unable to to completely block out the Sun. Moon is always invisible at a new Moon, but at a solar eclipse both luminaries become invisible, or, like Saturday almost invisible. And it promises to rain here in New England, so we will be hard pressed to see the beauty of this special event. All of this must be felt instead of observed.

NASA photograph from another annular eclipse.

This new Sun-Moon couple receive a lot energy from a connection (Yod) with Neptune and Uranus. I see this as an outpouring of the energy of loving imagination from Neptune, and bold inspiration to ground this fantasy by Uranus. Here is the Sabian Symbol for Neptune’s position: ‘WATCHING THE VERY THIN MOON CRESCENT APPEARING AT SUNSET, DIFFERENT PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO GO AHEAD WITH THEIR DIFFERENT PROJECTS.‘ * What project would you wish to push forward?

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The degree for Uranus promises ‘CERTIFICATION OF PERSONAL WORTH.’ Uranus was discovered during the French revolution, shortly after the American revolution. This was a period when the the ‘Rights of Man’ were shouted in the streets and the divinity of kings was overthrown. Uranus is always an indicator of what comes next as we envision what it is to be human. My hopes and prayers are that Neptune and Uranus will somehow interject a deep promise in the human heart: we will not murder each other’s children

Libra is ruled by Venus, Neptune is Venus in her ‘higher octave.’ Libra is also considered a sign of Karma….the Justice card in the Tarot deck. I recently purchased the Gustave Doré Tarot Deck at the wonderful Ritual Arts store in Allston. The Justice card in this deck pictures Solomon and two women who claim the same infant. Solomon suggests the baby be cut in half in order to give each woman a share. The story goes that the woman who was the true mother begged for the baby to be spared and offered to give up her claim to the child. Somehow this all seems all too familiar at this moment in history.

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier’s photos and other work can be found on instagram@ http://barkenstone.photo.

Astrology Seminar on the Lunar Nodes In Honor of this new Moon and Ring of Fire eclipse, I offer a seminar on the Lunar Nodes. This is always a fun class with revelations from the birth chart, which often make our choices in life less perplexing. The Nodes mark where the eclipses fall.Sunday, November 5th from 11:00-1:00 pm EDT. Zoom!! $35 or something like it! sarahfuhro@gmail.com to join

A Fan Shaped Path to Love

Full Moon in Aries September 29, 5:58 AM EDT

Sarah Fuhro

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Friday we celebrate a full Moon after her close pass to Earth. As Moon continues her journey through Aries, Venus and Uranus make a fan shaped pattern called a ‘square’. This creates a vital relationship between the planet of love, Venus in fiery Leo, and electrical Uranus in a sign ‘ruled’ by Venus, Taurus. This might feel like a ‘heart opening,’ an expression which suggests a gift of deep perception. Take a moment Friday (Venus’s day) to feel the love flowing between these two planets as they celebrate the moment of fullness. The Sun is also in a sign ruled by Venus and gazes out towards Moon in Mars driven Aries.

This fan shaped chasm between Venus and Uranus and the opposition between Sun in Libra and Moon in Aries has a tremendous vitality, which is repeated again with Mars in Libra opposite Chiron, the healer, in Aries. This opposition is close to the Lunar Nodes and gives an extra shot of power in preparation for the Lunar eclipse next month . Venus and Mars (Aphrodite and Ares) never married, but were passionate lovers who caused all kinds of trouble in the ancient world. They are the representatives of two opposing forces all around us…the out going energy of Mars and the magnetic power of Venus. Here they are on a Greek vase painting celebrating a relatively quiet moment together.

When the Moon is in Aries and the Sun in Libra, it is as if they are trying on each other’s clothes as a way to understand each other better. This can be an important moment in any relationship, when we put ourselves in another person’s ‘shoes,’ and awaken to their thoughts and feelings. This is repeated in the fan shaped pattern between Venus in Leo (Fire) and Uranus in Taurus (Earth).

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

To sit by a fire next to a river under a starry sky, is the essence of this full Moon moment. Feel the cosmic patterns of the planets as they travel through the sky pouring their blessing of love and understanding on all of us, their children.

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

Gems and Jewelry

a new Moon in Virgo, September 14, 2023 9:40 PM EDT Sarah Fuhro

photo: Sarah Fuhro

A Royal Coat of Arms Enriched with Precious Stones: The Sabian Symbol for the degree of this new Moon in Virgo.

A Jewelry Shop Filled with Valuable Gems: the Sabian Symbol for the degree of Uranus in Taurus who makes a lovely trine to the Sun and Moon in Virgo.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

We seem to be receiving a message about value here, a theme of gifts from the Earth. Do all cultures of humans value precious gems in the same way? Uranus always throws the unexpected into the mix. As much as Virgo is related to a season of careful choice and solid footing, Uranus, even in another Earth sign may surprise us all. With all the retrograde motion in this chart, the surprise may come from the distant past.

This is a chart with a lot of Earth energy. Six planets are visiting constellations in Earth signs. Yet Uranus in the mix makes it all a bit unexpected. And the Virgo Mercury across from Saturn in Pisces suggests new ways of looking at the assumptions we make in general.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Jewels occur everywhere…the bright light in our beloved’s eyes and the dew of the morning! The Mercury Saturn opposition ask us to take another look at the value of visions, especially visions and visionaries we have buried in time. Both planets are in retrograde. This is a time when we may appreciate treasures from the past. In the last few days, I have had reminders of occult exploration, which went underground, and is now reemerging.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The period we call the ’60’s was a time of revolution. Uranus and Pluto were conjunct in Virgo. At this new Moon, Pluto and Uranus are in trine with Sun and Moon in Virgo. Something of value from this period of heavy experimentation may be ready to be reconsidered. It’s a bit like archaeology, when treasures and secrets long buried may emerge, rediscovered and valued, jewels from the past. As we enter a new cycle of the Moon, you may rediscover treasures from the past, which have new life in the present.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac, channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Bruce Lhuillier’s photos and other work can be found on instagram@ http://barkenstone.photo.

Sound the Bugle

The Full Moon in Pisces August 30, 2023 9:36 PM EDT Sarah Fuhro sarahfuhro@gmail.com

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier barknstone.photo

For each degree of the zodiac, there is a written symbol, gathered by the occultist and astrologer Marc Edmund Jones from the 360 visions of the psychic, Elsie Wheeler. These are called Sabian Symbols and they often provide me with a sign post as I journey through the Wheel of the Year. At this full Moon in Pisces the symbol reads: ‘A GIRL BLOWING A BUGLE. KEYNOTE: A call to participation in the service of the (human) race, as an evolutionary crisis approaches. This symbolic picture presents another aspect of the emotional relationship between the individual and the collectivity of human beings. A new race of human beings may well be slowly unfolding some of its potential of consciousness and fulfillment. The individual who envisions this evolutionary development “sounds the call.” He or she is both seer-herald and mutant. In that sense such a human being is both an individual true to his original nature and a dedicated person — dedicated to the future he or she holds in latency as does a seed in mutation.’

An Astrological Mandala: Dane Rudhyar

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

At this lovely Blue Moon we watch the powerful outer planets: Pluto, Neptune and Uranus in sync as they continue to travel in sextile to one another. THEY know this is a time of evolutionary action, but here on our beautiful planet, we cannot hear the Bugle as it sounds. Saturn, our planet’s guardian and teacher is pressed close to the Moon to say: evolve into gratitude or become extinct.

Can you see how Venus pedaling backwards is in cahoots with Jupiter in her lovely sign of Taurus? Yes, they are in square, which just means: if you didn’t hear it from one of us, then hear it from both of us! ‘Love is more important than gain’! This Blue Moon is so very full of tight interactions between planets. Let us gather in groups: at work (Virgo) in family (Cancer) in art/theater (Leo).

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Saturn is very close to the Moon at this Moment. Saturn Moon conjunctions are are often difficult because the Moon is full of emotion and Saturn says: feeling is fleeting. This is especially true in Pisces. The Moon wants to rejoice, to weep, to prophecy and to feel. Saturn says you must ‘make something’ of all of this feeling. But it is Saturn who tells us how to get off the ever turning Wheel of Fortune. It is through taking the middle way and turning the Wheel so we are not turned upon it. Some people are very good at manipulating Time. Instead of feeling anxious and demands pile up, these folk go about ‘what comes next.’

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Here we see an image of the angels of time cranking the Wheel of the Year. Virgo ends as the season changes from Summer to Autumn. Mercury and the Sun are in this mutable sign. As you bask in the late August Moonlight of Pisces feel the shift which will take place before the next full Moon. This is the last of Summer. The crickets take the place of cicadas, the grape takes the place of the berry. Rejoice and find a way to become a seed of this evolutionary moment!

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Before We Go             

Before we go,

into the green mist,

beyond the lake,

which cannot be crossed

without the black leather boat,

we must put a few items

into the bag we carry.

Before we go,

into the grey mist

which covers the lake,

our heart must be strong,

and ready to remember

those we will meet,

the companions who wait.

Before we go,

into the brightness

which blinds our eyes,

and keeps us from sight,

we must be ready

to attend to the voice

who sings till our heart breaks.

Sarah Fuhro

Funnel Focus

A New Moon in Leo August 16, 2023 ‘

I don’t often begin my Moon chat with an astrological chart…(sounds like a chant)! But this time, I would like to start with an astrological pattern which lies in this moment. The Yod is an astrological aspect between several planets, which brings focus to a dynamic place in the chart. This chart features a powerful combination between Neptune in his sign of rulership, Pisces, and Pluto in Capricorn where his skills are powerfully magnified. The two of them funnel their energy into the new Moon moment in Leo, which takes place on Wednesday, August 16.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Let’s start with Neptune in Pisces. He is the god of the oceans, and despite all the damage done to our watery planet, despite terrible droughts over much of the globe, he promises abundance at the degree where he is located. He is one wall of the funnel shaped aspect of the Yod.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Pluto, Lord of the Underworld is the other side of the funnel. He is located in Capricorn an Earth sign with roots into the distant past. Yet this stoney character makes an interesting connection to the Neptune in Pisces. They pour their combined energy into the Sun and Moon as they meet and begin a new lunar cycle. It’s as if these powerful outer planets, have showered their blessings into a new beginning, the conjunction of Sun, and Moon in a sign which signifies self expression, and royal perogatives.

Pluto’s Sabian Symbol for the degree where he is located is: ‘a woman reading tea leaves.’ This image makes a strong connection to Neptune in Pisces. Clairvoyance comes not from the direction of the watery planet and sign, but from the stoney structure of Pluto in Capricorn. This could be a time of deep seated messages from your roots. Listen carefully, the new Moon is always a time of new beginning, and you may be receiving information you can only hear in solitude.

photo: Eleanor Bingham Miller

The powerful energy from Neptune and Pluto merge into the fiery sign of Leo. You must acknowledge your own power to bring some form of benefit to the earth. Feel the energy of the funnel. This Yod is part of an aroused earth moment. Don’t let the sense of Earth’s pain blind you to your power to make a difference. Leo is the energy of the individual to roar her truth.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

In preparation for this powerful new Moon in Leo, feel the roots of your soul in this beautiful planet. Wander paths in your commitment to your body, your home, find some way, to take the power of the Pluto’s earthy vision and Neptune’s promise of fertility to roar like a Lion.

Photo: Sarah Fuhro

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Bread and Festival

Sarah Fuhro

Full Moon in Aquarius August 1, 2023 2:32 PM EDT

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This year the full Moon in Aquarius falls close to the solar date for the festival of Lughnasadh, the first harvest festival. It was and is a time of celebration, a day for weddings and games. As the Sun approaches the midway point in the sign of Leo a sacred moment occurs on Earth. This was and is a time when widely separated families and tribes might come together to mingle and marry and celebrate the earth’s bounty.

photo: Grace Elin

It is a time of bread, celebrated in the Christian church as Lammas.

photo: Aaron Oakland Greene

An undercurrent exists beneath this celebration of harvest and community. And this year it might be reflected in the close proximity of Pluto, god of the Underworld and the Moon. As much as this is a time gratitude for harvest, there is also a mourning for the loss of the nomadic life which came before the agricultural revolution. Agriculture made food more secure, but it also created the notion of land ownership, and the class differences which are still today largely based on property.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The Moon’s sign of Aquarius is connected to the various ways we come together as humans, our social structure and how we care for each other….or don’t. The Sun’s sign of Leo has more to do with our personal destiny and ability to shine from our particular source of light as a soul. These signs are ‘in opposition’ as are all signs of Sun and Moon at the Full Moon. The Leo self can feel either helped or hindered by the social structure and circumstances into which s/he was born and raised.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Most of us are not farmers anymore. Yet we might harvest some lettuce and herbs from a windowbox or garden. More and more of us appreciate what we can forage from what is left to be wild around us. Berries and mushrooms and dandelions (herbs) grow everywhere, especially in the neglected and overgrown places of our over exploited world. In these ways we can return to small pieces of our ancestors’ stories.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Perhaps tonight you will watch the almost full Moon. You will feel the tug of the Leo Sun toward your individual destiny and promise, and at the same time feel the Moon’s Aquarian joy of companionship with close friends, or a group with a special purpose and destiny as together you celebrate the feast of Lughnasadh. You might look towards the future vision (Aquarius) of a healthy planet and people, while honoring the gifts of your ancestors (Leo).

Aquarius has a special connection to the stars and astrology. Revel in the sky above as once our nomadic ancestors traveled with their guidance.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The Long Tunnel Ahead

New Moon in Cancer on Monday July 17 at 2:32 PM EDT

When a new Moon starts at the end of Sun’s journey through a sign of the Zodiac, it represents both a beginning and an end. The new Moon in Cancer on Monday is an opportunity to look forward and back.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

It’s a new Moon with Sun and Moon meeting in the sign of Cancer, but very quickly, the Sun moves on to his next sign in Leo. Sun and Moon have already met and celebrated the full Moon in Capricorn a few weeks ago, and their rendezvous at 24 degrees of Cancer, does not seem to be about new beginnings, but, rather, tying up old ends. This finality is emphasized by an opposition to the luminaries from Pluto in his last degree of Capricorn. Pluto in Capricorn, which began in 2008 has been a period of crisis for the structures of government and business.

Something solid has been built but is now too heavy to provide inspiration for a new journey into new territory. The Sabian Symbol for Pluto in this position resonates with the news from many angles: ‘a secret meeting of men responsible for executive decisions in world affairs.’ We are watching from the side lines as big shots gather to make decisions which affect us all, but leave us out of the process.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Yet the Sun and Moon in Cancer suggest another kind of power. Here the Sabian Symbol: ‘a man who uses his will and positive imagination in facing his life problems,’ receives the ‘mantle of power’ from ‘providential sources.’ I see this amazing tree in the photo above as signpost of the development of inner power, awarded with a mantle of individual beauty!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

There are a large number of outer planets in signs of Earth and Water who make connection to Sun and Moon and Pluto in this chart. Uranus, who loves to shake things up is in sync with his earthy sign of Taurus, the Moon’s sign of delight. Both Sun and Moon celebrate the Moon in Cancer and she may be the best guide to this moment of inner and outer power. Take the bridge over the water to a place which is new to you.

The next step may be to acknowledge we are in the middle of a mystery. Neptune continues to travel through Water sign Pisces, is part of the chorus. He promises there is a mystery around you. Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, the three planets discovered with the use of the telescope, are all in this mix and pointing to the new Moon. This is a moment of advanced wake up celebration. Choose how you will honor the new/old Moon.

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

 

The Sabian Symbol for the degree of the New Moon in Cancer:

A WILL-FULL MAN IS OVERSHADOWED BY A DESCENT OF SUPERIOR POWER.

KEYNOTE: The response of spiritual forces to the integration of personality through positive will-full endeavors.

We are dealing here with a man who uses his will and positive imagination in facing his life problems. To him comes a pentecostal descent of power. He receives the “mantle of power,” the grace (baraka in Sufi philosophy) or the Providential assistance which can make him a true leader in his culture.

In this fifth symbol we witness a more transcendent expression of “success.” It is not merely external success (as is given by society to its prima donnas), but a spiritual response, a sign of inner strength and uncommon ENDOWMENT.

The Sabian Symbol for Pluto opposite the New Moon and the Sun:

A SECRET MEETING OF MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR EXECUTIVE DECISIONS IN WORLD AFFAIRS.

KEYNOTE: The power to assume responsibility for crucial choices arrived at after mature discussions with those who share this power.

We are all aware now of the work of secret committees in the White House and at all levels of the government. The student of esoteric philosophy believes in the existence of what has been called an “inner Government” which has the power to direct or guide the evolution of our planet and of mankind. Some people speak of “occult Hierarchy,” or of the “White Lodge.” Here again what is at stake is a “seeing through” the facts of telluric processes and human history — assuming that these facts are at least in part the outcome of the decisions of a supreme Council of quasi-divine Beings. Obviously the symbol can also refer to what occurs at the more ordinary level of business and politics. At any level, it refers to the highest form of social interaction.

This is the last symbol belonging to Scene Twenty and related to the zodiacal sign Capricorn. We see in it the culmination of social responsibility and a reference to EXECUTIVE POWER.

A Close Look

A Full Moon in Capricorn, July 3, 2023 7:39 am Sarah Fuhro

photo: Sarah Fuhro

I dedicate this appreciation of the full Moon in Capricorn to Elderflowers. They grow profusely at the time of the solstice into the first few days of July. They are constructed in parasols of tiny white flowers, each shaped like a star. I gather them, take them away from their bush with many thanks, and then at home cut the little starlets into vodka with lemons to hold them down. When a few weeks have passed they are mixed with pure well water, lemon and honey funneled into bottles to share as liqueur. In a month or two I will return to ask for Elderberries to make syrup as a support for the immune system and to add a delicious touch to tea or the Elderflower liqueur.

As with all foraging, Elderflowers show themselves only when it suits them. This year has been a very beautiful crop of the white flowers because it has been cool and wet, a change from the past few years. I stand under their cosmic umbrellas and see them as heavenly constellations of tiny five petalled stars.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Elderflowers are occasionally inhabited by tiny green bugs, which I don’t see anywhere else. I have made them homeless, although I take them out side to explore mullein leaves or comfrey. I suspect they are only really at home in the elderflowers.

Ah but what has this to do with the full Moon we will dance under Sunday night reaching perfection on Monday morning?

Each full Moon presents an opposition of energy and season to integrate in whatever way is right for each of us. Cancer, the sign of the Sun is the gate to the Summer Solstice. In old dramas reenacted by Druids, the Oak King (Sun) is conquered by the Holly King (darkness) at this hight point of light. Light in the Northern Hemisphere will begin to diminish until the Winter Solstice, when the Oak King wins the battle and we celebrate the return of the Sun as he enters the sign of Capricorn. So at this full Moon we are juggling the two constellations who increase and diminish light. The Sign of Cancer where the Sun is located is wet and connected to home, mother, Moon, ocean, the element of Water. The Moon in Capricorn gives us the restless need to create something which will last the seasons and grounds us in the element of Earth. Home (Cancer) and Work (Capricorn) might be the push and pull of this moment, the sense of high energy and sleepless nights.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

People who came before us, before paper and phones looked to the Earth, the Sun and the Moon as calendar. They gathered to feast and celebrate the turn of the wheel of the year. Before agriculture, people gathered what Earth has to offer with each season. They marked the the travel of the Sun and Moon and the constellations as they moved overhead and on the horizon. This is always available to us as well, and this moment might be whispering the help we will receive as we return to honor light and dark.

Jupiter and Saturn are in a neat trine which lets each taste something of the other. Jupiter is in the sign of Taurus, Earthy and solid, a reminder of the Age of Taurus when the Bull was celebrated as the entry to spring.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Saturn is waving to Jupiter from Pisces, a sign Jupiter rules, watery and mystical. They are weaving new , but very old forms of inhabiting (Cancer) our beautiful planet (Capricorn). Chiron blesses the Sun Moon opposition with healing energy.

And we must not ignore Venus and Mars dancing in tandem in the sign of Leo, as they celebrate the Sun, summer and fiery self expression. Uranus, who always adds a note of excitement and on summer days, may be a bolt of lightening in the mix.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Take the hand of your beloved, or bring along some part of yourself long forgotten, and enter the green pleasures of summer and a full Moon in Capricorn! The Sabian Symbol for this Moon urges us to look closely at Nature. If not now, when?

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Emerge from the Forest

New Moon in Gemini June 18, 2023 12:37 AM EDT Sarah Fuhro

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

In a moment of new Moon energy, we emerge from the background, the deep forest of our doings, to see, to think, to feel in absolute clarity. To protect the wild, the tribal home, our planet, our body, we have to step out of the very environment we long to embrace and preserve. All has been said clearly in the degree of the new Gemini Moon this weekend. For this, according to the Sabian Symbol for this degree, ‘is a period of transition, a more or less clear yearning for a new state of consciousness and ….for inner transformation.. ‘ Sabian Symbol for the degree of the New Moon in Gemini.

Neptune adds the vision of Pisces to the precious new cycle in Gemini. Pisces and Neptune are the essence of Water. Sun and Moon in Airy Gemini risk dryness without the element of dreams . Gemini is often associated with children and childhood. Allow the impossible to come into your dreams for the future next step.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Those of us who love Earth and see her as our top priority must keep our connection to this body consciousness. Pluto has returned to the sign of Capricorn after a brief sojourn into Aquarius. The slow grinding character of Pluto works well in this deep Earth sign. This is our chance to remember we are the Earth. If we become phantom figures in a computer concocted role playing game, we are lost forever. The steps are before us.

photo: Bruce Lhuilier

The Power of Spiritual Ancestry

A full Moon in Sagittarius, June 3, 2023 11:42 pm EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro Fogg Art Museum

Saturday’s full Moon in Sagittarius is a reminder we have a geneology of occult wisdom just as important, and for some of us, more important than our genetic ancestry.

Take any child to an art museum and where do they come alive? In the Egyptian exhibit! Sagittarius is the constellation of this ancient wisdom, and this full Moon is located at the degree symbolized by the ‘the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.’ We can’t let go of this ancient African civilization on the Nile, which is the basis for Western mystery. We know the imagery of Egypt has something to teach us which can never be forgotten, yet is largely non-verbal, a well kept secret, which we are always trying to explore.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier Mount Auburn Cemetery

Our very word for mystery is Sphinx. It is not a mystery to be solved but to return to over and over. Here in a New England cemetery we find a very 19th Century sphinx to represent the mystery of the feminine through a very particular culture! Sagittarius deeply appreciates the occult and spiritual and mysterious in all forms. And those blessed with Sagittarius energy often love to travel long and arduous journeys to find those poetic mysteries in whatever form they take.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

There is healing in each sign of the zodiac. And to make that clear we can take note of Chiron in this full Moon chart. Chiron is trine to the Moon and sextile to the Sun, which is another way to say, his energy is moving with these luminaries.

And why not: Sagittarius is a centaur, Man and Horse. Chiron is also a centaur, wounded in the thigh by his dear friend, Achilles. Is there a message here about healing? We must become conscious of our animal nature to heal from sickness or wounds. Chiron was wounded in the thigh joint. Each zodiacal sign rules a part of our body, and Sagittarius rules the thigh area. There are many stories of sacred wounds to this part of the body. When Jacob wrestled with the angel, he was wounded in the thigh. In the Arthurian tales the Fisher King suffered from an incurable wound to the thigh which left his kingdom in deep despair and infertility. And, yes, the thigh bone is very close to the genitals, and the energy of sexuality and reproduction.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

In honor of this beautiful month of June, Mars and Venus are in a tender conjunction which reflect the Sun and Moon. Mars (outgoing masculine energy) is in the fiery sign of the Sun, Leo. Venus (magnetic feminine energy) is in the Water sign of the Moon, Cancer. They look across the sky towards Pluto who lies opposite them in Aquarius. Pluto is the symbol of Underground power, what is invisible to our perception, yet impacts us in a myriad of ways. This Moon invites us to wonder and delve deep into roots and sources.

The Moon sheds her light from a powerful point in the cosmos. Here is the Sabian Symbol for her location at her moment of fulness:

THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE SPHINX.

KEYNOTE: The enduring power of occult knowledge and of its quasi-divine Custodians, “Seed-men” of a previous cycle of existence.

The belief in an Original Tradition based on the perfect knowledge of the archetypal principles and forms which underlie all manifestations of life on this Earth (and by extension in the cosmos) is deeply rooted in man’s consciousness. The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx are witnesses to such a Tradition, especially for the Western world. The symbol implies that such an archetypal knowledge remains the foundation upon which men’s minds can still build solid and valid formulations, as new evolutionary developments are pending. This fourth stage symbol suggests that this occult knowledge and the traditional process of acquiring it is still available, and that by accepting their principles modern man can best meet the challenge of our present world crisis. The symbol, interpreted from a personal point of view, points to the greatness of a Soul’s past achievements and the value of trying to re-evoke this past. What is revealed is THE POWER OF SPIRITUAL ANCESTRY.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. 

Tree Spirit

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This is a new Moon…as always, a new start, which offers the potential for awakened community with trees. Of course, we are always in relationship with trees. In the spring, trees open their leaves to shade us, and, let’s face it, rain down pollen to make us sneeze. We breath their out breath and send them back ours. We eat their fruit and admire their beauty, but now, at this new Taurus Moon, we might feel our kinship and take new joy from our deep roots in their presence.

photo: Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post/via Getty Images

I dedicate this Moon report to a protestor shot by police in Georgia. 26-year-old Manuel Teran from Panama, known as ‘Tortuguita’ (little turtle), was shot 57 times by Georgia state troopers, in Weelaunee People’s Park near Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 21, 2023. They (his prefered pronoun) were among a group of tree protectors who tried to prevent the destruction of a forest in order to build a police training center, to be known as ‘Cop City.’

Tortuguita was killed on January 21, also a day of the new Moon, a new Moon in Aquarius. Pluto has recently entered Aquarius. You will see him in the chart above, opposite Mars in Cancer. Pluto is the god of the deep earth. There is no way to get around him. Mars and Pluto make a powerful T-square with Jupiter, newly arrived in Taurus, the sign of the Earth. Moon in Taurus is exalted. She says those who love the earth: the trees and the animals and plants and stones know a great secret which has been forgotten in the wreckage of greed and pollution. Tortuguita and his friends had not forgotten these truths and tried to share them with the people of Georgia. We will not forget this man and his friends who attempted love and protection for the trees.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

I have little else to say, for while I wrote this new Moon blog, filled with the Earth loving sign of Taurus, my little dog Teddy died. He was on my lap for his last breaths. He was eighteen years old, our dog for 14 of those years. He loved what we love, woods, meadows, the ocean, food, and companionship. He took his time leaving for he knew we loved him so. Thank you for finding us, Teddy, thank you for your joy and humor!

A New Continent Rising out of the Ocean

A full Moon and Lunar Eclipse on Friday, May 5 at 1:34 pm EDT

photo: Robert Fuhro

A new continent arises after the earthquake, the volcano, the bomb, the flood. There is an empty space, nothing is left. Out of the crisis appears the potential for a new season of possibility. Since this full Moon celebrate with a Lunar eclipse, you can be sure the potential for new life will resonate for a long time. It is time see what blocks our view of the new continent….and remove it or simply maneuver around it.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

One way to understand the possibility of this challenge, is to celebrate the festivals of the year. As the seasons shift so does our view of possibility. At the Spring equinox this year, there was a new Moon! The day before this full Moon in Scorpio, we celebrate a Fire Festival: Beltane. This makes us more aware of the cosmos and the synchronicity of the Sun and Moon in alliance with the seasons.

There is evidence that the Fire Festivals: Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain are extremely ancient celebrations. Each occurs at the midpoint of the Fixed Signs in astrology: February 2 (Aquarius), May 5 (Taurus), August 2 (Leo) and the three days of Samhain (Scorpio) between October 31 and November 2. This is a powerful form of energy which takes place during these times of the year and gatherings, fires, and reunions are traditional ways they were celebrated in the past and the present. Some of us are fortunate enough to find a group of friends who want to celebrate with us! The Wheel of the Year turns, and instead of ‘good’ season, ‘bad’ season, we find joy in every transformation of light and dark, cold and warm, birth and harvest and death. This year I began my celebration of Beltane on May 1st as I passed through a gateway in a forest, and will continue with my Druid Grove celebration on Saturday, May 6 with a full Moon to light our circle.

photo: Jada Willard

Beltane is another gate, a lintel into a new aspect of the year. When we celebrate the journey of the Moon, or the seasons of the year, we acknowledge that we too are always in flux, and that there is something about this change which presents us with new possibilities for creative expression. Our astrology chart does the same. Transits are gates and modes of transportation to new adventures in a new land.

Notice the Sun’s companions, Uranus and Mercury, two diverse expressions of mental energy and magic. The Moon in her ‘full expression’ has a distant view of the planets grouped around the Sun and reflects back her long distance understanding. The opposition between Sun, Mercury, and Uranus in Taurus gives us the gift Earth joy and connection. The Moon in Scorpio on the other side of the chart reminds us that our budding spring gardens are refreshed and fed during the season of Samhain, when vegetation is cut and becomes mulch for the soil. So it is with our lives. Moon in a Water sign, Scorpio, and Taurus in an Earth sign play back and forth at this moment of fullness.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Mars and Neptune stand as guardians, ‘trine’ to one another, both in Water signs. It’s not a surprise we have enough rain to quench the thirsty earth. As Neptune makes a square to Venus, they may inspire you to write poetry and to celebrate Mercury in retrograde, for this is the opportunity to fall in love with words, and not mind whether or not you make sense. The light you shed upon the ‘new continent arising from the sea’ will be uniquely your own. The future awaits your decision to pass between the gates of a new season, when Beltane fires heat our desire.

Second Time Around

New Moon in Aries (again) April 20, 2023 12:12:00 AM EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Is a new Moon a new beginning? A new Moon in Aries is a new beginning at the onset of the Zodiacal year. What does it mean when a new Moon in Aries happens twice in the same year? What is the energy at play when there are two new Moons in the same sign? If we take the message of the Sun and Moon and planets to heart, we might need an interpreter! This new Moon’s location is at the absolute last moment of Aries. 17 minutes later, the Moon moves into Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac where the fire of Aries is rooted in the Earth. Three hours later, the Sun moves into Taurus, and to make this moment all the more pregnant with meaning, we have a rare ‘hybrid’ solar eclipse.* The Moon moves between Earth and Sun and casts her shadow on the Sun. The Eclipse will be visible in Western Australia, East Timor, and the eastern Indonesian islands.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Wait! What happens to Taurus in all of this? Taurus won’t have a new Moon this year! Is Pluto responsible? The planet Pluto who entered Aquarius days after the first new Moon in Aries is now positioned in square to 0 degree of Taurus. Is he responsible for the mysterious absence of a new Moon in Taurus? Taurus is the spring maiden of the year, ruled by Venus and a favorite of the Moon. Let’s remember Pluto has a history with the disappearance of maidens! It was Pluto (Hades), lord of the Underworld, who stole Persephone and took her as bride to his dark kingdom. But doesn’t he release her at spring, and return her to her mother, Earth goddess, Demeter? All this suggests we must celebrate the return of the Maiden with extra fanfare and joy! The Fifth of May (Beltane) will come when the Moon is full and residing in Scorpio. On that day, there will be a Lunar Eclipse, visible over Asia and Australia and will be seen rising over Africa and much of Europe.

painting: Frederic Leighton The Return of Persephone

Mars in the sign of Cancer (Moon) is the ruler of Aries and so important in the chart of the new Moon on April 20. Does his stay in the Moon’s sign make him eager to repeat an Aries (Martian) cycle? He is busy with a square to Chiron, the centaur healer, and sextile to Mercury (another healer) and Uranus. It was Mercury (Hermes) who fetched Persephone from Pluto. You can expect surprises with this Mercury Uranus combination. Perhaps we will have further action around the weird case of a judge who has decided that a safe medication for abortion is now illegal.

The Sabian Symbol for Mars is ‘A very old man facing the dark space to the Northeast. ‘ We receive a message here about eternal processes. Spring is always about impermanence. So it would be best to dance and celebrate on this new Moon because there is so much happening in sky and on earth, which will require both awe and gratitude.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/

*This eclipse(April 20) is known as a hybrid eclipse because it will shift from a total eclipse to annular solar eclipse as the moon’s shadow races over Earth. For some locations in the solar eclipse’s path, viewers will witness a total solar eclipse, whereas in other parts, they’ll witness the ring-like annular solar eclipse. In both cases, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, blocking out all or most of the sun’s light across a portion of the Earth’s surface.

Sarah Fuhro teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both and clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Collective Enjoyment

A full Moon in Libra April 6, 2023 12:34 AM EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

I chose the title ‘Collective Enjoyment’ from the Sabian Symbol for the position of Venus in Taurus. This full Moon in Libra is ruled by Venus, and Venus also rules Taurus where the planet Venus is located at this moment. This full Moon offers a celebration of love, a deep and passionate love of the Earth.

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Lots of Fire in this chart. We are deeply immersed in the sign of Aries, when the Northern Hemisphere awakens to spring. The Sun is embraced by Chiron in Aries on one side and Jupiter in Aries on the other. Fire is considered the first element, and Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, an opportunity to begin a new year cosmically. Desire is part of that Fire, and we can feel it all around us and in us as we walk the earth, and celebrate spring festivals like Passover and Easter. Fire liberates and destroys, cooks and burns, enlightens and blinds us!

Venus in her sign of Taurus makes a sextile to the planet called her ‘higher octave,’ Neptune. Neptune is located in Watery Pisces where he is comfortable and very much at home. Neptune is the ecstatic, who can forget all and become immersed in the currents of water. There is something about this combination of Neptune in his natural location in sync with Venus in hers which suggests we lose ourself in the currents of the day! I am thinking of the opening lines of Alice in Wonderland as Alice sits with her sister by the riverside on a spring day, and is surprised by the White Rabbit as he hurries by checking his pocket watch.

Illustration: William Tenniel

Following the White Rabbit into Wonderland is tricky, but under this full Moon we might take the watery courage of Mars in the Moon’s sign of Cancer and ‘wade into the water’! Mars is hitched to Saturn by a water trine, and the tricks of Time might be part of this adventure, because Saturn is also wading around in that very watery sign of Pisces! If you are under the full Moon and near water, look in and see if you have a new insight on time (Saturn), and action (Mars).

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/

Sarah Fuhro The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms: including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both and clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

A Seal Embraces a Woman

The Spring Equinox, and a new Moon in Aries

New Moon March 21, 2023 1:23 pm

Spring Equinox, Sun enters Aries March 20, 2023 at 5:24 pm

photo: Robert Fuhro

‘A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER.’ *

This image of seal and woman emerging from the sea is the Sabian Symbol for the first degree of the Zodiac. It represents the power of this new Moon, which is within a few hours of the Spring Equinox. Truly a beginning moment. We rise from the sea of undifferentiated consciousness after several days when Neptune (sea god) made a conjunction to the Sun, our consciousness. As I write this I am in that sea struggling to keep my eye on the new Moon and new season, while still immersed in the old! I feel the energy of the seal, who emerges from the sea, and then resubmmerges. We are all water creatures, not that far removed from the seal and while we can no longer survive in the ocean, most of us are happy to be reunited with our former home…..

photo: Robert Fuhro

This is another moment when there is a very tight group of planets. Sun, Moon, Mercury, Chiron and Jupiter are all in Aries, a fiery sign of Spring, new beginnings and Fire! But we have to swim to get there! Saturn has just entered the water sign of Pisces and offers very little in the way of sturdy construction. Neptune has been initiating Sun Moon and Mercury into the watery baptism of Pisces in preparation for the trial by Fire which entry Aries and the new season will bring all of us. Jupiter and Chiron have been in Aries for some time and promise there is a healing energy to be found in the flames.

While the seal embraces the woman in the Sabian Symbol, Pluto and Mars seem to embrace this moment in time. Pluto is sometimes called the ‘higher expression’ of Mars. Mars is the ruler of the sign of Aries. He represents the thrusting energy of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Plants are coming out of their dark winter domain, or their seed husk, and pushing into sunlight and rain…or for some through snow banks! Mars and Pluto are located at the outer limits of all the other planets in this chart. They are the container for the Fire and Earth of Aries and Taurus. In the human domain, we may find we are being kicked into action or wanting to kick someone else in our life into action, when perhaps we might give this a moment of thought (Mercury) and Meditation (Neptune).

Painting: Amelia Leonards, Four of Cups for 78 Tarot Halloween

This new Moon and new season are full of dynamic possibility. But we prepare for this fiery entry into new possibilities by first embracing the Water element over the next few days. Love this image by artist Amelia Leonards which says there are gifts to be had by sitting in silence near water like this Froggy mermaid. Drink a lot of water and submerge with your seal as you prepare for a new season and new Moon all in fiery Aries. Amelia’s magical being suggests you might even be a bit grumpy, as is often suggested by the Four of Cups. We never quite notice how magical the world really is until that Fourth Cup lands! It’s a perfect image for Pluto teetering on the edge of watery Pisces after a twenty year stay in Earthy Capricorn, while Mars prepares to land in Water sign, Cancer.

Hey, have you noticed we are back to big bank failures? That was exactly what happened when Pluto entered the sign of Capricorn in 2008. But this time, as Pluto moves into Capricorn, we have a more Piscean reaction! Instead of the federal government (Capricorn) picking up the pieces for the wealthy, we now have banks coming in to ‘bail’ (Pisces) each other out. It’s not really compassion, but it could look that way!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

So with the dynamic movement of water pouring over the edge of the land in the Catskill Mountains, may you feel the pleasures of a delightfully watery weekend in preparation for a fiery new week of discovery.

Night View from a Hammock

Within high crystal mountains

under harvest moon, silver stars

in constellations embroider indigo sky.

I reach my arm to touch the moon

so large, bright and close. Or is she

dipping down to welcome me?

Ensconced in folds of green

and white checkered cloth folds

earth’s rotation gently rocks me.

.

An alto flute sounds sotto voce as

a quiet wind chants “home,

home, home.”

Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene 2020

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/

Sarah Fuhro The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms: including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both and clients and students knowledge powerfully rotted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene is a local poet and musician. https://the-time-project.org/

Amelia Leonards works with watercolor and graphite to create fantastical imagery.  She draws upon world folklore, mythology and her imagination  to create pieces imbued with sensitive and emotive storytelling. Throughout her work you will find an emphasis on feminine and natural elements, along with a hefty dose of humor and antlers. Instagram@amelialeonardsart.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

A Volcanic Eruption

A full Moon in Virgo March 7, 7:40 AM EST

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

According to the Sabian Symbol* for Tuesday’s Virgo full Moon, we will experience ‘the explosive energy of long-repressed contents of the subconscious.’ Hmmmmm……Virgo is a representative of the Earth element. We think of the earth and Earth as being dark and silent, ‘silent as the grave.’ But nothing ever remains silent or hidden forever, and all of us have felt that volcanic energy which burbles up in love and hate, or maybe even in enthusiasm and inspiration! As we stand under this growing Moon, as she moves into opposition to the Sun, as she becomes brighter and rounder, and more full of light, we may feel our own deep stirrings, rise up into consciousness. And like all movement from what has been forgotten or repressed, this moment may contain heat and lava.

Within the contradictory forces of each full Moon, we also have the potential healing force as well. In this case, a polarity of stolid Virgo Moon and ever mobil Pisces Sun. Together they are the perfect aid for this fiery emergency. Virgo is the ever analytical doctor, and Pisces is an entirely compassionate nurse. The volcanic element may be coming from Uranus, who makes a strong connection to both Sun and Moon. Uranus loves to stir the pot, and fire up the volcano. He is the reminder: there is never a dull moment, all the world moves forward, but we are always always potently here and now. Choice both large and small is always before us.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

At this moment there is a fiery trio of planets in Aries. They are Jupiter and Venus newly separated from their recent conjunction which filled the early evening sky with a vision of planetary jewels. In their midst is healer Chiron. At a volcanic explosion we need a fire department as well as the medical team. Today, as I taste my own volcanic fire and ash, I feel the energy of all the planets in this chart.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

This is a moment of suspended animation. In less than an hour from the moment of the full Moon, Saturn will enter the sign of Pisces where he will travel for the next three years. Pluto who moves through each sign over several decades, will make his first entry into Aquarius on March 23. His entrance into Capricorn coincided with the worldwide financial explosion of 2008. He and Saturn met during the Covid pandemic and the crisis over the presidential election of 2020. He returned to the sign and degree he occupied when the Declaration of Independence was signed. With both of them holding on to the last degree of a sign, we are once again holding our breath. Saturn in Pisces has a face of organized compassion with mystical roots. Pluto in Aquarius may be the entry to even more technological transformation. But Aquarius always has the surprise factor of futuristic and humanistic vision. How will each of us choose to interact with these energies?

Only a poem can say all of this:

The Second Coming 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/

Sarah Fuhro The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms: including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both and clients and students knowledge powerfully rotted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work at instagram.com/@barknstone.photo.

I will teach a year long course on the Houses of the astrology chart. Each month for twelve months, we will explore a house, a sign, the planetary rulers and how this plays out in your chart. This is a way to begin or to deepen your knowledge of astrology at a leisurely pace. For more information contact me at sarahfuhro@gmail.com

Not This, Not That

A Full Moon in Leo, Sunday February 5, 2023 1:29 pm EST

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

There is, right now, a crisis in education at every level. Many teachers, exhausted by the tumult of the pandemic are leaving, and new teachers step into old ways of teaching and learning which no longer fit. Problems left underground for too long are like earthquakes under schools. Teachers may feel like this sentinel of ice, watching over rushing waters, and aware of the ancient walls cut by those streams, and their temporary status in ice. They know their potential to teach what they were taught is about to melt into that stream.

Smith Waite Tarot Deck

This is always where The Fool steps in. The Fool in the Tarot card has come to represent the planet Uranus. He no longer has the structure of the past, the highway, the road, the path to follow and so he is shown ready to step off a cliff into the sweet unknown! But then we notice he has many guides to help him along the way. The little dog next to him might be the sweet confidence of a beloved pet who knows the way. He has chosen a red feather to wear in his hat, to represent his trust in his intuition and spirit guides. His tunic is decorated with the wheel of the Zodiac. Ancient wisdom will continue to turn him towards a goal, chosen even before his incarnation. He carries a white rose, the deep intent to create something new and separate from personal ambition. And, most important his way is lit not by the Sun in the sky, but by a psychic Sun. The title for this Moon chat comes from a Zen saying: ‘Not this, Not that.’ This is a reminder: there is no help for us in answers from the past when we face serious trouble. Like The Fool we might have to step into the void. The Sabian Symbol for the degree of Uranus reads:   ‘AN OLD TEACHER FAILS TO INTEREST HIS PUPILS IN TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE. KEYNOTE: The inadequacy of past knowledge in time of crisis.  Creative Frustration.’*

Why start with the planet Uranus when this chart is set for the moment when Sun and full Moon face each other across the sky at the turning point in this lunar cycle? Every full Moon is a moment to walk a tightrope between concepts which seem to contradict each other. And many times the energy of the full Moon brings in a quandary which feels like that Zen notion: ‘not this, not that.’ The Sun at this moment is in the sign of Aquarius which has a connection to the ways of the future and to unimaginable solutions to old problems! Aquarius has a traditional ruler, Saturn, the teacher, the wise elder, the stern ruler. But Aquarius was given Uranus as a ruler after that planet was discovered during the French revolution. The old ways were turned on their head, as many lost theirs!

photo: Eleanor Bingham Miller

The full Moon in Leo is a reminder that if traditional wisdom has no ‘answers’ to the problems of a post industrial world, it might have some comfort. This full Moon in Leo always falls on or near the festival of Imbolc, Groundhog’s Day, February 2nd, when the light of the Northern Hemisphere begins to stay a little longer in the afternoon, and peek into our morning sooner. The Groundhog comes out from his deep sleep in the Earth to see the lay of the land. The Goddess Bride awaits him with new born lambs and Snowdrops. Leo, the Sun’s sign is dedicated to the eternal child who celebrates the Earth at every turn of the year’s wheel.

*Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/

Sarah Fuhro The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms: including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes in person and on line. She offers both and clients and students knowledge powerfully rotted in the past, in the language of the present. You can subscribe to her newsletters or make an appointment: sarahfuhro@gmail.com or text 508 740 7039.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone

The very beautiful ’23 Lunar Calendar is available now at www.thelunapress.com or call:617-327-8000

An Unexpected Thunderstorm

New Moon in Aquarius January 21, 2023 3:53 pm EST

The Tower Smith Waite Tarot deck

Last weekend I spoke to my brother who lives in San Francisco. He was in the middle of a rare experience: lightning, thunder and a hail storm in an area where this does not happen. His dog was listening and found the whole thing disquieting. Animals often see the whole of a situation which we hide beneath.

So I wasn’t surprised when I read the Sabian Symbol for the degree of Sun and Moon when they conjoin this Saturday to begin a new lunar cycle and a new year for the Chinese. ‘AN UNEXPECTED THUNDERSTORM. KEYNOTE: The need to develop the inner security which will enable us to meet unexpected crises.‘

The unexpected thunderstorm connected me to the Tower Card in Tarot, which has a connection with Mars, who is important player in this chart. Mars is at 8 degrees of Gemini, at this moment the same degree and sign where it was located at the moment when America was founded.

The message of The Tower card is about the end of isolation. We are blown out of a situation which has become constrictive. When I see The Tower card, I think of the story of Merlin, and Vortigern’s Tower.

The British prince Vortigern had been at war with the Picts (pre-Celtic tribes), and had invited Saxons to come into his territory as a way to defend his castle and lands. He decided to build a tower for himself and his family in case either group should take over. This was in violation of his responsibilities to defend all of his people.

The tower would not stand over night, but kept tumbling down after three attempts. He asked his magicians for help. They recommended the sacrifice of a virgin child.

Merlin was fourteen years old. His mother was a noblewoman who had born a mysterious child out of wedlock. Her story was of a demon who had entered her bedroom without permission. The young Merlin had no father to defend him and his mother was disgraced, so he was clearly marked for sacrifice.

He was taken to the site of the tower, and prepared for sacrifice. Instead, he began to ‘see.’ “Because you are ignorant of what it is that hinders the foundation of the tower, you have recommended the shedding of my blood for cement to it, as if that would presently make it stand. But tell me now, what is there under the foundation? For something there is that will not suffer it to stand.” The magicians began to be afraid, and made him no answer.

THEN said Merlin, who was also called Ambrose,  command your workmen to dig into the ground, and you will find a pond which causes the foundation to sink.” 

This accordingly was done. They found a pond deep under ground, which had made it give way. Merlin after this went again to the magicians, and said, “Tell me, ye false sycophants, what is there under the pond.” But they were silent. Then said he again to the king, “Command the pond to be drained, and at the bottom you will see two hollow stones, and in them two dragons asleep.”

And it was just so. Two dragons burst from the stones, one white and one red. They rose and twisted in the air and became symbols for the struggle between the Celtic and Saxon people. When Merlin saw them, he broke into tears, and at that moment, he became the great magician of the British people forever after. Now the tower could be built to last, but it did not save the coward Vortigern, who was soon overthrown by the Saxons.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This moment of the new Moon in Aquarius has a connection to the Merlin-Vortgern story. The destruction of the Vortigern’s tower and Merlin’s projection into his magicianship came in a bolt of energy, so powerful it released two dragons on the land. World wide weather events continue to roll out over the land like booming thunder. These events mark the end of the industrial age. What has been built upon the Earth since Western culture went into a tower of destructive isolation cannot stand. The tower will tumble and a new relationship, which acknowledges the earth as a living entity will form, or, we will cease to exist as a species, just as humans have sent so many other species into ‘the great extinction.’

Once again we see a pattern of constriction in this chart of the new Moon moment. Asmall bowl is formed with Mars and Mercury on the rim. Mars is in the sign of Mercury, Gemini. There is a lot of mental energy released between them, because they are in aspects (angles of relationship), which cannot see each other well. Mercury went direct on Wednesday.

This year, the planet Uranus, a co-ruler of Aquarius goes ‘direct’ the day after the new Moon. Sun and Moon are very close to the planet Pluto, a representation of all that cannot be avoided, hidden or denied. Open to what cannot be postponed or denied and light a candle to represent something which must be seen in a new way, an Aquarian way.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

You might choose to light that candle on February 2nd, Groundhog’s Day…..Imbolc, the celebration of the goddess Brighid. She is goddess of poetry, childbirth and craft, specifically the craft of the blacksmith. Imbolc this year, will be in the sign of Cancer, the sign of the home, the mother, the sea. Find the dark corner, which needs light, attention.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   

For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone

The very beautiful ’23 Lunar Calendar is available now at www.thelunapress.com or call:617-327-8000

A Sprouting Seed

In Honor of the Full Moon in Cancer, January 6, 2023, 6:08 PM EST

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Special notice must be paid the full Moon in Cancer each winter! Cancer is the Moon’s sign of ‘dignity’ and the full Moon is especially bright, large and beautiful in the Winter months. The Sun had abandoned us for warmer climes in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Moon rises higher and seems to shine brighter as we see her through bare branches. And even if she does not warm us like the Sun, she reminds us that her light is full of Lunar conversation. We are poets under her beams, and we connect to our ancestral roots, to the honor paid the Moon, and the power of women to continue life.

Clay Tile of Moon Woman: Sarah Fuhro

This particular full Moon seems especially important, for if we look at the chart we see that the Moon and Sun create a pattern which resembles a bowl. The Luminaries (Sun and Moon) are the rim, the boundary of this bowl. Within the vessel they create (visually) are the planets and the North Node of the Lunar cycle in Taurus….another sign favored by the Moon, her joy.

Moon and Sun might represent our parents of this moment. Both are in signs, Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Cancer considered feminine, and Cardinal. Cardinal signs stand at the change of each season. Their energy is magnetic and creative and they stand as markers for dynamic changes which we feel on Earth. Capricorn is Earthy and solid and demands outer manifestation of inner vision. The Winter Solstice is the entry of the Sun into Capricorn. Cancer is Watery and full of movement. Cancer marks the constellation the Sun enters at the Summer Solstice.

Look at the chart above. Even if many of the symbols are unfamiliar, you will probably recognize the glyphs for Sun and Moon. Understand that this bowl will look ‘right side up’ in other time zones, but the pattern of this full Moon is the bowl with Sun and Moon creating the outer edge. They hold this moment between them as they stand in perfect opposition at this moment.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

If we look at the pattern in the chart of the full Moon in Capricorn, we see the bowl pattern, but perhaps this is not a simple bowl, but actually a mortar and pestle. Mortar and pestle are the tools of the herbalist, and Chiron, the healer is at right angles to the Sun and Moon. Perhaps Chiron is the pestle. What is that needs healing in your life which can be called from this beautiful moment of healing pattern? So much we hear from the world outside us seems to beg for the healing kindness of a good physician. Each of us can access this moment of Chiron as pestle to the full Moon’s mortar.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Cancer stands in for the mother in each of us who knows what we need at a time of fever and chills. Earth opens her arms to us with plants who are the basis of all medicine. This is old knowledge, to which we each have access. The Lunar cycle in itself is medicine. To be in rhythm with Moon and Sun is a form of rehabilitation. Let the Moon in Cancer, the Sun in Cancer dance you into a new year with joy.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   

For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone

Desire

Winter Solstice December 21, 2022 4:48 pm EST and New Moon in Capricorn December 23, 2022 5:17 am EST

photo: Robert Fuhro Solstice Sunrise at Pegan Hill, Natick Massachusetts December 21, 2022

More than 350 years ago, Pegan Hill marked the southern edge of the 4,000-acre “Praying Indian” village of Natick, established in 1651 at the urging of the Reverend John Eliot. Here the ‘praying’ Indians of Natick sought refuge from the destruction of their culture and way of life. That ended with King Philip’s War in 1675 when they were shipped off to Deer Island in Boston Harbor without food, blankets or hunting weapons in the middle of winter. Most died; those who returned were lost in this new colonial culture which had no place for them.

Pegan Hill has become an informal cosmic watch area. People come here to view comets, Moon events, asteroids, and sunrise. As I watched the Sun rise this morning of the Winter Solstice, I felt the deep potential of a new relationship to Earth, which may be in development. During the morning I noticed how many people greeted me with ‘Happy Solstice!’ And wonder if, we are, at last, feeling at home here, acknowledging we are part of this beautiful body, immersed in this beautiful cosmos.

Friday, when we experience the New Moon in Capricorn, we have entered the early degrees of a zoodiacal sign which is all about structure, organization, business, leadership, power and government. Like the people who lived on this land for thousands of years, and who, in a few short years saw disease and invasion decimate their culture, we may be on the verge of total or partial destruction, not from the invasion of an alien culture, but because we have alienated ourselves from the ground and the sky above us.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

When I look at this picture of ice crystals, I wonder if the very technology which is destroying the earth, also has the potential to turn our hearts back to the infinite beauty of the world around us, the moment we live in and the sacred place where we stand.

One day before the Winter Solstice, Jupiter entered the sign of Aries. He is now at 0 degrees, the moment where the Zoodiac begins with the entry into the Spring equinox. This sends a message of alignment with new beginnings. Jupiter in Aries and the Sun and Moon in Capricorn are in a square consisting of two seasons. They are in Cardinal signs pushing on the energy of structure.

Here is the Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s degree: “A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER.  KEYNOTE: Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness. IMPULSE TO BE.”

Painting: Amelia Leonards Instagram@amelialeonardsart.

When I saw this image yesterday, I knew it was the symbol of the Solstice/New Moon which is lighting our way into a new season. Jupiter is associated with lightning. The Moon marks time on this planet and says it is time for the earth to awaken to the energies Western culture has ignored. We are learning the role of fungi, and the mushrooms are alive and singing. They are singing with us, not of a distant heavenly power, but of the beauty and wisdom visible and beyond our vision all around us.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Amelia Leonards works with watercolor and graphite to create fantastical imagery.  She draws upon world folklore, mythology and her imagination  to create pieces imbued with sensitive and emotive storytelling. Throughout her work you will find an emphasis on feminine and natural elements, along with a hefty dose of humor and antlers. Instagram@amelialeonardsart.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

Time To Speak Up

Full Moon in Gemini December 7, 2022, 11:08 pm EST

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Gemini is about thinking and talking and selling and teaching. Gemini is about small children, the kind of small children who are curious and uninhibited, and ask questions. Moon in Gemini believes that emotions (Moon) can be turned into thoughts and words (Mercury) to make them safe. Gemini is also about the child in each of us, and the children around us: our siblings, our biological children and the children who ask us for explanations. Gemini moves about quickly, like the god Hermes, so the sign rules our everyday journeys….errands, restlessness, and our neighborhood and neighbors. Yesterday I was selling my pottery and a neighbor who remembered me from the days when I owned a toy store came to my sale. Many years before he had sold me tapes with songs for each letter of the alphabet, which were popular in our store. That was Gemini wrapped up in a reunion…a neighbor, children, the alphabet and the marketplace.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

If we look at the Sabian Symbol for this Moon, it is about heads….’The head of a robust youth turns into a mature thinker. Mental metamorphosis’ They are illustrated by two stone heads in the woods of Carlisle by the sculptor Joseph Wheelwright. There is always the aspect of youth and mental development in the sign of Gemini. Nothing stays still with this sign of the Zodiac, and yet the moment demands articulation.

Mars is in perfect conjunction with the Moon. He’s been in Gemini since October 30 and won’t leave until next March. It’s been a long period for Mars to stay in one sign. Now, in retrograde he is conjunct the full Moon and it’s as if he must have the last word, or say one more thing. The whole mess with Twitter seems somehow associated with this energy of Mars, retrograde and in the blabby sign of Gemini. And, just for fun, I looked up the natal chart for Elon Musk. His Mars is retrograde and at 17 degrees of Gemini. He’s back where he started at a crisis moment in his life.

Bruce Lhuillier

As we admire the full Moon on Wednesday (or Thursday) we might not notice that Mercury has recently moved into Capricorn. Mercury is the ruler of all of this Gemini energy, and Capricorn is an Earth sign, with strong connection to structure of all kinds. During this Lunar cycle, the Sun will also enter Capricorn and we will celebrate the Sun’s return to the Northern Hemisphere at the Winter Solstice. The entry of Mercury into this sign says change is in the offing. Will the Earth speak? Will you speak for the Earth? Take inspiration and heart from Jupiter who has been brilliantly shining in the early night sky. He is in cahoots with Mercury and Venus. Jupiter is the planet of joy (Joviality) and might inspire you and me to speak not in gloom, but in the ecstasy of Earth’s beauty and bounty.

Sarah Fuhro https://sarahfuhro.wordpress.com/

Season of Water and Air

new Moon in Sagittarius on Wednesday November 23, 5:57 pm EST

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Wednesday’s Saggitarian new Moon begins the day before America’s feast day of gratitude, and ends with the Northern Hemisphere’s first day of Winter Solstice. This is the Month sacred to Ruis, Elder, the healer. Elder provides us with the medicine found in her blossoms, and then again in her berries. Each heal in different ways. The Elder grows close to water, at the edge of meadows and streams. Each June I gather the flowers to make a healing liquere. In July I watch for the berries which I cook into sauce to add to teas when friends or family are sick with flu or colds. With both, I know I must be slow to take what belongs to this beautiful, graceful small tree/bush.

Tile: Sarah Fuhro

This is the season of festivity and and isolation. Where I live in New England, water conspires with air to take many forms and shapes: frost, ice, snow. The Sabian Symbol for the degree where Sun and Moon have their meeting in Sagittarius reads: ‘White capped waves display the power of wind over sea. The mobilization of of unconscious energies under the pressure of superpersonal motives.’ We are part of a planet where mood is often reflected in weather, emotions are illustrated in the changes of wind and water. We are blown about by seasonal changes, and the cosmic drama of the planets as they dance together and apart

Each new Moon is the opportunity to weave a new tapestry in our lives. We can bring together our hopes and concerns for the future, yet feel the stillness of the moment. For it is on each occasion when Moon finds Sun and disappears completely from our vision of her in the sky. We can feel the two within. They are whole. It is a new Moon, and is honored in many traditions where sky was still part of Earth. This is a season of celebration. Sagittarius is ruled by the ‘jovial’ planet, Jupiter. Enjoy the gifts of the ancestors who felt the encroaching darkness much more than our over illuminated culture. Feel the depths of the darkness, even as we know there is a turnabout before this Lunar cycle is finished. Welcome the Solstice with food, and fire, and song and dance, and the love and poetry of Venus and Mercury in Sagittarius as well.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   

For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone

The very beautiful ’23 Lunar Calendar is available now at www.thelunapress.com or call:617-327-8000

A Battle Between Swords and Torches

Full MOON on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 6:02 am EST

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The full Moon in Taurus is also a total Lunar eclipse. This year it occurs on the day of America’s national election. Everything about this moment suggests balance or stasis, power so equally divided that it is locked up. As I looked at the chart, I thought of the few times I have paddled in a kayak. The paddle rises and falls, but must be held in equilibrium. The visual impact of the chart is also reflected in the Sabian Symbol for the Moon/Uranus degree. ‘A Symbolical battle between Swords and Torches. Salvation is attained through the emergent individual’s readiness to face all issues as if there were only two opposed sides. a stage of POLARIZATION OF VALUES.’

But as I read this I yearn for another way to look at the chart and the potential for some other way of dealing conflict between equally matched sides. The Sun in Scorpio, sandwiched between Mercury and Venus has a different approach: ‘This is the transpersonal way of existence…the way that leads to creative mutations.’ Like the paddle of the kayak, it is not in conflict but rather forms the mode of movement. The visual effect of this ‘opposition’ might also be the look of a dragonfly.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

And who might be the one to paddle this full Moon/Lunar eclipse in Taurus? I think Saturn in Aquarius looks like the pilot. He squares the paddle ends, and is the pilot who has: the skill and courage necessary to bring under control the destructive potential of carelessness. Saturn must make the paddle into a means of transportation rather than a weapon or an ‘either or’ proposition.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

This week I traveled in the Berkshires. I marveled at the beauty which was everywhere as we clambered up and down the steep edges next to waterfalls. Several times I found stones to balance on the ledges which make up the mountains of New England. The way I was taught to balance rocks was to hear inside my head: ‘this is impossible, but we (the stone and I) can do it.’ I was thinking of the beauty of the world around me, and the terrible damage my species and my nation have done to Earth. The rocks I balanced held a new place in the landscape. Might you and I also find a balance which seems ‘impossible’?

photo: Sarah Fuhro

May this full Moon, this tender moment of balance and imbalance, inspire a new relationship between my culture and the natural world. After all, Taurus, the Moon’s sign is all about beauty and Earth, value and love. Scorpio, the Sun’s sign, is about radical depth of feeling, of internal exploration and facing the cost of action. The figures above are created by artist, Rose B. Simpson, a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo. The figures watch over this meadow high in the Berkshire mountains. They remind me a bit of the balancing rocks. They seem to see the land as it once was. They each have holes in the back of their heads, like eyes which see forward and backward. I felt their presence as both a reminder of the people of the Mohican tribe who once lived in these mountains, but where removed, and the Earth spirits of this land, who cannot be removed.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality. http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Three Stripped Bare

A new Moon in Scorpio with a partial eclipse of the Sun on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 6:49 EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The Sun, Moon and Venus are at the same degree of Scorpio Tuesday morning as the Lunar Cycle begins anew. Scorpio has a traditional ruler, Mars and a modern ruler, Pluto. The Sabian Symbol for Mars is ‘Frost Covered Trees Against Winter Skies.’ This degree of the ruler of the new Moon speaks to ‘The revelation of archetypal form and essential rhythm of existence.‘ This is a new Moon with a deep commitment to what is ‘essential.’

And, according to the symbol for the three who have gathered for this new Moon in Scorpio, Sun, Moon and Venus, what is essential is cooperation. So is this a contradiction? Mars wants us to strip down to ‘what is essential about ourselves, our archetypal form, ‘ but the three main characters in this cosmic drama are involved in ‘a house raising party,’ and their placement and degree speak of community cooperation.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Scorpio is a season when the Northern Hemisphere is stripped bare. It is associated with the fire festival of Samhain, a time to take stock of the growing year which has ended and prepare a banquet for the ancestors: for the dead who no longer walk and feast among us. It is a time to feel ‘stripped bare’ and yet to feel connected and grateful for those who lived before us, and prepared a place for us.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The ancestors are not only our immediate family members, but all who left clues for us to live a deep and sacred life on this beautiful planet. In that way, when we consider the meaning of this degree where the Sun, Moon and Venus are placed at this particular moment, we know ‘the feeling of community demonstrated in basic joint effort.’ We look through the eyes of this long departed community.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Pluto are intertwined in this chart at this moment. They too are building something in community. Perhaps they are there to hold up torches, for this is a partial eclipse of the Sun. Venus who warms us with love, is part of this monthly rendezvous between Sun and Moon. Maybe this old etching of the Luminaries at a tender moment might give us the best image of what is happening Tuesday. Scorpio is a Water sign, it is a sign of going deep into what is essential, but maybe this image reminds us we come back from depth (or eclipse) ready for a tender hug.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   

For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone

The very beautiful ’23 Lunar Calendar is available now at www.thelunapress or call:617-327-8000

In all Fairness

Full Moon in Aries will manifest Sunday, October 9, at 4:55 pm EDT

Yes, this full Moon is in Aries! The Aries Moon looks across at the Sun in Libra and together they provide balance to the qualities of both signs. The full Moon in Aries, might have a quality of fiery indignation to upset the concern for balance of the Libra Sun. The challenge is to create something of alchemical value at the moment of opposition. I notice as the Moon has fattened toward Aries, my own heat (anger) has risen to meet that orb. I hope I will also take notice of the loving Venus in Libra close on to the Sun; and incorporate Chiron, the healer, who lies next to the Martian Moon. Alchemical formulas always depend upon the marriage of opposites. Each side must give over certain qualities in order to create something new, which will benefit them both! There seem to be lessons about human marriage in this transformation!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Libra is under the rulership of Venus, Aphrodite, Love in all its forms. Mars is the ruler of Aries and is associated with battle and sexuality. Libra is the sign of marriage, partnership, but there is a strong aspect of karma to Libra as well. Both sides must feel their relationship is in balance, ‘fair’ or it will crumble. Aries provides the fire to keep the marriage magnetic, or heat will be sought elsewhere and the hearth will grow cold. Aries is the sign of the ‘first’ house in the astrology chart, and this is where each of us gets to know our most essential self. Libra is the ‘seventh’ house of partnership, marriage, and one to one relationship in the astrology chart. Somehow at this full Moon, both sides must have a place at the marriage feast.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Their companions, Venus with the Sun and Chiron with the Moon want to us to pay special attention to the potential of this full Moon for deep transformation through the dance of opposites. Of course, every year there is a full Moon in Aries, but each one has a slightly different flavor or melody. Venus is close to Libra Sun. And, while it’s true, Venus is never far from the Sun, this is an especially tight companionship. The emphasis is upon love and balance and the deepest appreciation of beauty. Gratitude is the word that might be even more important than love. In the Northern Hemisphere this moment is the time of rest after harvest, of a deep appreciation for all that has been given to us by Earth. The Sabian Symbols for the degree of both Sun and Venus have to do with healing and recuperation with the emphasis on an objective and calm mind.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Meanwhile the full Moon in Aries is in close company with Chiron who was the healer on the battlefield, and who was deeply wounded by his close friend, Hercules. Chiron in the astrological chart speaks of the wound which will not heal, but which gives us the insight to understand the wounds of others. Chiron and Venus have their own conversation at this moment of luminary opposition. As you watch the Sun set and the full Moon rise on Sunday, don’t forget Venus and Chiron are rising and setting as well! Jupiter will be brightly visible as well if the skies are clear. It will be a very special evening, no matter what the visibility because the energy of these cosmic dancers will be felt in our core!

photo: Eleanor Bigham Miller

There is more to this moment which we can also absorb into our lives and consciousness from the sky. Neptune, Mars, and Mercury are in a bowl pattern which might be a reflection of the chalice photo above. Pisces, the dreamer, Mercury the communicator and Mars the activist will come together to create something powerful and new. Perhaps this will be a piece of art, a song you will share with others, an idea, a poem. Look for it as the Aries Moon rises and the Libra Sun sets, and let it permeate your life and your consciousness.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

Balance, Justice, Gratitude

New Moon in Libra….for all of us…on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 5:55 pm EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro
Mandela for The Autumn Equinox created by the Mystic River Druid Grove

“Each of us comes from people who were once indigenous. We can reclaim our membership in the cultures of gratitude that once formed our old relationships with the living earth.

Gratitude is a powerful antidote to Windigo psychosis.

A deep awareness of the gifts of the earth and of each other is medicine.

It celebrates cultures, where wealth is understood to be having enough to share.

…Besides, it makes us happy.

It’s easy to write that, harder to do. “

Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote these brilliant words in Braiding Sweetgrass. She gives me a talisman to carry with me in daily interactions internal and external with my environment, my family and friends, and my own body. Our culture does not often reference our relationship to the earth. It is only in extremes of hot cold wet dry, we notice where we are and acknowledge our complete dependence upon this beautiful, plentiful, mysterious home. We are of the earth, but cannot easily feel and see ourselves that way, because, like adolescents we want to cut off our roots and fly around in space. It is very parallel to our ignorance of our human bodies, which we never thank or acknowledge; unless we experience illness or threats of death.

St. Louis Museum of Art

Scary things often take the form of imbalance. Like this mask: we feel something outside of us is in imbalance, but there is internal imbalance as well. Over the past few months I hear often from friends and clients who look to rebalance in their life and work. This new Moon, which also ushers in Rosh Hashanah- Jewish New Year, might be the moment to find some equity of time and effort and money and need.

It takes a pause. Maybe in that pause, we can offer gratitude for what we already have, take a deep breath (Libra is an Air sign), and look towards a harmonious way to live life. It will come undone again, but it can call us back to rebalance, when it does!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Balancing rocks provides a moment of balance and gratitude for something which is both impossible and beautiful. Those with Libra Moons or Sun know this equilibrium well. They are able to take something out of whack and reharmonize it with the larger environment, to say: at least this is OK. The larger implication of this Libran gift is Justice.

A nation must also find balance, and in balance, justice. There is only one Druid Prayer, and it is universal to all Druids. It speaks to what Justice truly is:

Grant, oh Spirit, thy protection,

and in protection, strength,

and in strength, understanding,

and in understanding, knowledge,

and in knowledge, the knowledge of justice,

and in the knowledge of justice, the love of it,

and in the love of it, the love of all existences,

and in the love of all existences,

the love of Spirit and all goodness.

A new Moon in Libra gives us a perfect opportunity to begin anew, with all relationships, with a deep sense of gratitude, and from gratitude, justice and balance. Libra is a sign of rebalance. The first degree is the moment of the Autumn Equinox, when light and dark are in perfect harmony. We have to opportunity to remember and deeply appreciate the wonder of this planet, which is tilted to just the perfect degree for equity between dark and light, Sun and Moon.

The Sabian Symbol for this new Moon says it very succinctly: ‘The Dawn of a new day reveals everything is changed. The ever present possibility of beginning again on a new foundation of values.’ And perhaps we are ready for this new foundation to be: balance, justice, and gratitude.

photo: Sarah Fuhro Sun Rise at Heard Farm

It’s interesting that many issues of Justice are central to our country’s internal dialogue at this moment. There is also much about Justice in the world’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These events are reflected in the chart of this new Moon. Directly across from the Sun and Moon in Libra is Jupiter in Aries. Jupiter is associated with Justice, Aries is a sign of fiery energy. This can turn into righteous indignation, which has a place, but needs balance, Libra. In our desire for Justice we need, as the Druid’s prayer suggests: strength (not acting from fear), understanding, being willing to listen to the other side, knowledge, but also love and gratitude for those wise ancestors who created a system based upon the principles of Justice, even though these principles have often been neglected or abused.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Gratitude has deep connections to love. The ruling planet of Libra is Venus, she who represents love and beauty in all its forms.

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   

For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass 2013

The very beautiful ’23 Lunar Calendar is available now at www.thelunapress or call:617-327-8000

A Ouija Board/ A Large Tent

Full Moon in Pisces, Saturday, September 10 at 5:59 am EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

It might be better to say about this full Moon in Pisces: What I learn from ‘Inner Guidance’ (the Ouija board) I share in a ‘Gigantic Tent.’ These are the two Sabian Symbols for the degree of the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Pisces. The full Moon Saturday might be the perfect moment to listen to, and then share our inner vision. Mars in Gemini stands in ‘square’ to the two luminaries. He may demand the communication we have received in quiet times, in meditation, in dreams be put out into the world in direct conversation, or the written word, or in music or visual art. Please consider giving your wisdom the freedom to explore reception!

The Planet Uranus has some influence in the chart as well. He is still at a degree of Taurus (18) which was recently the location of a powerful combination he made with Mars and the North Node. By retrograde, Uranus is back at that degree. It seems our attention is pulled to his Sabian message: A new continent rising out of the ocean.’ This leads us back to the potential for new ideas about the crisis we all face in the environment and our human, political response.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier Chateau Pierrefonds, France

Maybe we are always in crisis? A gargoyle in the medieval village of Pierrefonds might agree. And is there such as thing as Time? Jupiter and Mercury are in a hurry to talk to us about this at the full Moon. Mercury in Libra says something about balance, and reminds us we come soon to the Equinox when dark and light will keep the scales in perfect harmony. Jupiter in Aries speaks of our responsibility to take action. Today is primary election day in Massachusetts and the polls are uncharacteristically mobbed with people who take democracy more seriously than usual. Action and balance…always an interesting pair and not just for a tightrope walker.

painting by Katherine Bradford

There is another contrasting pair to notice at this moment. Neptune is in a sextile relationship with Pluto. Sandwiched between them is Saturn. This image of swimmers and a large sailing boat suggests the interplay between these heavy outer planets. Neptune who is dreamer and master of sea mysteries seems oblivious to the presence of the ominous double masted vessel (Pluto?) on the horizon. Is this a mirage (Neptune) of the powerful ship from another time? Saturn in Aquarius does not cling to images of the past but rather reminds us that the Sabian Symbol of the ‘new continent arising from the sea’ is imminent.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

The 2023 Lunar Calendar is now available at https://www.thelunapress.com .

The Gates of Perception

A New Moon in Virgo, Saturday, August 27, 2022 4:17 am EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

This is the Moon of Muin, the Vine. Muin is associated with ‘exhilaration, joy, and wrath’ according to Robert Graves*, and this must have something to do with grapes and wine, which come ripe in this season. Wine gives emotions of pleasure which can easily turn to melancholy and wrath. But this Moon also begins the cycle with harvest festivals, passes through a perfect balance of light and dark (Autumnal Equinox) and then descends into a new season marked by the loss of the Sun’s warmth and comfort.

And speaking of wrath, at this moment, there is a perfect square in the relationship between Mars (the warrior) in Gemini, and Sun/Moon in Virgo. Both Gemini and Virgo are ruled by Mercury, and quick emotional turnarounds are associated with this planet named for the god of swift communication, magic and healing. Like the description of Vine (Muin) this could be a time of lightning quick transformation from joke to anger, from joy to wrath. But with awareness this could also be a moment of wit, wisdom and clarity around complicated feelings. Mercury is a reminder of the many traditions of spirits who live on yet are not an accepted part of Christianity. They are neither good nor evil but, like wine can be joyful, mischievious, or dangerous.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

The betwixt and between aspect of this Moon in the ‘mutable’ sign of Virgo is deepened by aspects to other planets. Jupiter in the sign of Mars (Aries) almost exactly opposite Mercury in Libra, both in contact with the new Moon pair. Mercury in Libra, specializes in diplomatic communication. Libra Mercury trines Mars in Gemini and this may help bring balance, kindness and consideration to any battles you may enter this weekend.

Painting: Amelia Leonards

But now, let’s explore the exact degree of this new Moon moment, this conjunction of Sun and Moon in Virgo. The Sabian Symbol for the new Lunar cycle is: ‘A MAN BECOMING AWARE OF NATURE SPIRITS AND NORMALLY UNSEEN SPIRITUAL AGENCIES. KEYNOTE: The opening of new levels of consciousness.‘ This new Moon allows us to look at how we perceive the ever changing energies and emotions associated with Muin, the Vine.

Emotions are constructed from past experiences, but often create future experiences and how we perceive them. I believe humans need the assistance of ‘nature spirits’ as did our prehistoric ancestors. The many realms of Fae have no interest in our emotional history, they suggest another level of reality. Perceptions can be widened with the energies of this new Moon. Don’t be afraid to enter new territory, by releasing old constructions.

*Robert Graves The White Goddess

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

Amelia Leonards works with watercolor and graphite to create fantastical imagery.  She draws upon world folklore, mythology and her imagination  to create pieces imbued with sensitive and emotive storytelling. Throughout her work you will find an emphasis on feminine and natural elements, along with a hefty dose of humor and antlers. https://www.amelialeonards.com  and https://www.etsy.com/shop/amelialeonards.

I am informed and enlightened by The Lunar Calendar. You can find this source of Moon wisdom and delight at https://www.thelunapress.com/

What Shall We Make Together?

Full Moon in Aquarius: Thursday, August 11, 2022, 9:36 pm EDT

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Thursday the full Moon will rise on many parts of the world after a crisis in Heat or Water. Here in New England we are in recovery from many days of extremely high temperature on top of a long drought. But this Aquarius Moon comes with a promise: ‘A LARGE WHITE DOVE BEARING A MESSAGE. KEYNOTE: The answer of spiritual agencies to thorough, sustained and victorious individual efforts.The individual who has gone courageously and with indomitable spirit through (a) crucial crisis receives, as it were, a deep spiritual blessing from the Soul-realm, Every real spiritual step a man takes in his development is the result of a victory over forces of inertia or destruction. ‘ Sabian Symbol for the Moon’s degree.

The full Moon in Aquarius has a close connection to the planet Saturn, and it is the promise of Saturn which is so well expressed in the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at this time. .

For me, Astrology is the opportunity fo find patterns, relationships, messages from the arrangement of the planets and stars at a particular moment. In this chart I am intrigued by the close relationship between the two planets who are considered the ‘rulers’ of Aquarius to the Aquarius Moon. Saturn is the traditional ruler of Aquarius. He is cheek and jowl with the Aquarian Moon. Uranus is the ‘modern’ ruler of Aquarius and he is making a tight square to the Moon and to her companion, Saturn. The Uranus square also relates to the Leo Sun as well, and is like a finger plucking a guitar string to make a song which can be heard very clearly at this moment of full Moon opposition. Saturn’s proximity to the Moon also means he is opposite to the Leo Sun. All of this feels alchemical to me….something new is created from the recipe of their design. At this moment when our beautiful Earth so needs our love and attention, the White Dove referenced in the Moon’s degree, speaks to each of us.

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Uranus always is ready for a new start. His Sabian Symbol reaffirms the Moon’s message: ‘A NEW CONTINENT RISING OUT OF THE OCEAN. KEYNOTE: The surge of new potentiality after the crisis. A new release of life can emerge out of the infinite Ocean of potentiality, the Virgin SPACE. What will it be used for? ‘  When you combine the strong constructive power of the Aquarian Saturn with the Earthy power of electrical Uranus in Taurus, a new element may emerge. And here is the process of Alchemy, a new element emerges from a mixture of other sources.

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Any form of evolution, revolution or alchemical process contains male and female elements. The relationship between Sun and Moon creates the lunar cycle which is the measure of time the world over. It does not matter that the Sun is a star and the Moon is a small satellite of Earth. Distance and size are not what they represent. With these two mismatched bodies of light, and their monthly (Moonthly) dance we understand mystery. All attempts to minimize or ignore this mystery ends in confusion. As the full Moon rises on Thursday night, feel the pull of what you will create in this beautiful moment, which happens all over Earth at the same moment, but in different times. Hear the message of the White Dove of the Moon and Saturn, and look in wonder at the emergence of the new continent held in Uranus. All the ingredients are available to turn the Lead of Saturn into the Sun’s element of Gold.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

I am informed and enlightened by The Lunar Calendar. You can find this source of Moon wisdom and delight at https://www.thelunapress.com/

Speak–A New Moon in Leo

Speak, your lips are free.
Speak, it is your own tongue.
Speak, it is your own body.
Speak, your life is still yours.

See how in the blacksmith’s shop
The flame burns wild, the iron glows red;
The locks open their jaws,
And every chain begins to break.

Speak, this brief hour is long enough
Before the death of body and tongue:
Speak, ’cause the truth is not dead yet,
Speak, speak, whatever you must speak.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

I chose this poem because the moment of the new Moon in Leo features a strong link between Mercury and Uranus. Mercury is about words and thought and speech and the magic and power of our words. I chose it because Uranus, sometimes called the ‘higher octave’ of Mercury is a revolutionary and a shape shifter, a magician on a whole other level. The two of the them: Mercury and Uranus are held in a square at this moment and they will not be silent. They are located in constellations represented by two animals, Lion and Bull found in so many stories and songs. Mercury is in Leo and Uranus is in Taurus. These are fixed signs. By the nature of their Mode, they will not move on until their work has been accomplished.

Uranus is poised between the North Node of the Moon and Mars. There is more than enough energy in this position to feed the blacksmith’s fire referred to in the poem. Mercury is in a Fire sign and has further fuel from Chiron, who is in the Fiery sign of Aries.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Chiron is the healing power of nature, the animal within who knows what we need to move into this new Moon. Look carefully around you today. Tomorrow you will have the urging of the new Moon in Leo to speak, and indeed as the poem reminds us that chance to speak is not yet disappeared. Is there a poem of joy and freedom waiting to flower from your tongue or pen? The freedoms now being threatened with extinction were not given to us. They were forged by those with the courage to speak and speak no matter what the price.

Smith Waite Tarot Deck

Helping us to speak from a new revelation is Jupiter at 9 degrees of Aries. His Fire is in trine to the new Moon and Sun as they begin their journey into Leo. Have courage and know the words will come if you honor the generosity of Jupiter. His Sabian Symbol adds to the fire of this lunar moment: ‘A crystal gazer. The development of an inner realization of an organic wholeness.’

Merlin’s Moon

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Ambience

The nymph of the forest, only in whose honour

These birds perform, provides an ambience

But never leads the chorus: …… Robert Graves

photo: Robert Fuhro Warbler

Wednesday, the full Moon will be big, because she is leaning down, close to Earth, with small but, powerful Pluto close by her side. If we see Moon as a barren rock satellite, waiting to be mined for precious metals, we make a terrible mistake of her power. Her connection to tides of the Earth, our internal tides, and our ever changing emotions, is not to be trifled with or Earth may perish. She is big because, she is, like the tiny wren, who fills the garden with sweet sounds at dawn. Pluto is so small he was ‘demoted’ from planet status, yet any one who knows the story of Persephone’s journey into Pluto’s realm of Hades grasps his power. When do we learn that size and power have no direct connection?

Saturn and Venus make an interesting trine in the full Moon chart. Their trine (relationship) is in the element of Air. I believe they may be co-conspirators in a plot to bring nature spirits into higher visibility. They recall the mysterious story of Merlin and Nimue. Saturn might be the aged magician and teacher, Merlin, while Venus may represent, the equally magical and powerful fae, Nimue. They travel together to Forest of Brocéliande and Merlin enters a tomb or cave from which he will emerge in a future time, when most needed by humanity. This is often told as a sneering comment on his aged folly, an old man’s foolish love of a young woman. Yet, there is nothing in this story to say what their relationship was, or might be. Was Nimue stealing his magical powers? Or was there an exchange of wisdom between the human and fairy realms? Does the Venus Saturn trine at this full Moon, suggest a possible alliance? Was Merlin lured into the cave by Nimue or was this his ultimate power, the survival of human/nature spirit connection which we desperately need now?

Nimue and Merlin Gustave Doré

Saturn in Aquarius represents the teaching of the future….what we need to know to transform the desperate condition of the planet. Saturn rules Capricorn, the sign of this very powerful full Moon. Venus in Gemini is a good representation of Nimue who speaks (Gemini) to us of magical powers, the ‘technology’ of the the Nature Spirits.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The Arthurian legends hold a clue, perhaps a map to the last vestiges of a culture still in touch with the spirit of the land. Merlin and the Ladies of the Lake are a reminder that Earth does not belong only to the human realm of warriors and kings, but is shared with another, parallel realm. Human survival may depend upon reconnection to that other side of the human/fae connection.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This full Moon and the next, in August are in signs ruled by Saturn. He is well represented by Merlin, ever renewed with no permanent loyalty to either the human or Sidhe side of his story. Like the planet Saturn who is the last visible planet in the solar system, Merlin links us to what is beyond the obvious and accepted notions of our moment in time. He brings us a gift from this delicious full Moon.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

I am informed and enlightened by The Lunar Calendar. You can find this source of Moon wisdom and delight at https://www.thelunapress.com/

Moon, Moon, Sun

Today, June 28 10 :52 pm EDT

photo: Sarah Fuhro

This is the Sun’s moment to disguise his light and imitate the Moon. He is in her sign, Cancer, a water sign and the gate to Summertime. Next Lunar cycle will begin with the Moon and Sun in Leo, and each will shine with solar strength, and fire. The astrological year begins at the Spring Equinox in the sign of Mars (Aries) and then as the seasons changes from spring to summer, there is a period of balance between solar and lunar light during these two new Moons. The Sun and Moon are called the luminaries. They are our lights, each powerful in particular ways. And they may also light our deepest notions of male and female power and archetype.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

They are lights which are contained within each of us and the more we can move between them, the happier and and more whole we become. In the image above we see the feminine in a solar light and the masculine in a lunar light…each reading from a sacred manuscript, and held within a mirror, the symbol of Venus.

Jupiter and Venus share a position also at 7 degrees. Jupiter squares the new Moon/Sun from Aries. Venus is in Gemini. They might be a promise of cosmic care in this new beginning, this new Moon. The cycle of the Moon is a spiral, which circles inward and then outward. Each of us is given this opportunity to begin at this seed moment to begin the spiral with the luminaries.

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Blue Bird Perched on a Cottage Gate

Full Moon on Tuesday, June 14 at 7:52 AM EDT

photo: Robert Fuhro

Each degree, each moment in the zodiac has a verbal image, called a Sabian Symbol. They were gathered in 1925 by the psychic Elsie Wheeler and the astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones. Another astrologer, Dane Rudhyar, groomed them. I am often jolted by the clarity they provide in a chart. They open a visual gate to the esoteric meaning of a planet’s degree, but use very concrete images.

Kind of delightful to discover the Sabian Symbol for this full Moon: “A BLUEBIRD PERCHED ON THE GATE OF A COTTAGE. The reward which meets every effort at integrating into a social environment for those who remain true to their own selves.  The bluebird is a symbol of happiness, but also it refers to what one might call a spiritually oriented mind – to which the color blue relates, especially when a ‘bird’ is mentioned. A cottage is normally a part of a community, and the implication is that its inhabitants are well-adapted, either to the life of the community, or to their’ more or less isolated togetherness, and it suggests that the essential technique for successful living is the development of a consciousness in which peace and happiness dwell. There is also a hint that GOOD FORTUNE is going to bless your life.”

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The news of the day does not often mention the reward for remaining true to one’s self. Nor is it concerned with ‘the development of a consciousness in which peace and happiness dwell.’ Yet listening to the news gives each of us the chance to feel compassion, admiration or disdain for other people, and to wonder if and how we can make a difference in perilous times.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Looking at this chart, and this photo, it seems complexity calls for resourcefulness. That is the universal lesson of the pandemic which has swept the world in the last two years. There is no way to resist change.

Neptune, a planet of water, of feeling squares the Sun and Moon at this moment of lunar fullness. The Sabian Symbol for his placement might push us to new conclusions about this moment in time.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

‘WATCHING THE VERY THIN MOON CRESCENT APPEARING AT SUNSET, DIFFERENT PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO GO AHEAD WITH THEIR DIFFERENT PROJECTS‘ The first few days of the new Moon are spent in darkness, at last the tiny crescent at sundown says: we may begin. But the message from Neptune says this is moment is different for each of us, and we may not comprehend the projects of other people, nor they, ours. Neptune reminds us of the power in all that is not categorized, not accepted, not comprehended. ‘THE FALLACY OF TOTALITARIANISM: at times we can all act like despots, demanding that others react to any situation exactly as we do.’

The Visionary Hare from The Sidhe Oracle of the Fleeting Hare John Mathews
image by Will Kinghan

And now, this is my crescent Moon project given energy and encouragement at this full Moon in Sagittarius. The Sabian Symbol for a conjunction between Mars (the warrior) and Chiron (the healer) is an image that gives me great hope and encouragement. Here is the Sabian Symbol for Mars and Chiron: ‘NATURE SPIRITS ARE SEEN AT WORK IN THE LIGHT OF SUNSET.  Attunement to the potency of invisible forces, of nature.‘    At the time of the new Moon in Gemini, I was struck with an inspiration for a seminar: Earthspirit Astrology. Over the last two weeks, I have puzzled….what is this? Will it be acceptable to the other realm? Where do I begin? I have no sources from those who have gone before me. But encouraged by the this very powerful full Moon, and the Sabian Symbol of ‘Nature Spirits’ of Neptune, I will dive into this project as best I can, hoping the Blue Bird will favor my cottage.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes text 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living in the Catskill Mountains of New York.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

I am informed and enlightened by The Lunar Calendar. You can find this source of Moon wisdom and delight at https://www.thelunapress.com/