The 2021 Scorpio New Moon Opposite Uranus

The new moon in Scorpio is coming up on Thursday.

This new moon is opposite retrograding Uranus in Taurus and brings some major potential to courageously step into your own power and truth.

The energy here points to the challenging truth that no matter what happens externally, and no matter what happens in the outer, earthly realm, you have a significant and infinite power within you that is at your disposal.

The power within you is the potency of your life-force energy, which is what is represented by Scorpio.

In this new moon, you have the power to take true stock of where you find yourself now, and to direct your energy toward your highest aim. When you do this, Uranus' presence has the potential to catapult you into higher levels of your own embodiment, so that the next 13 month cycle is significantly more empowering than the last.
 

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice garland pose (Malasana)

To practice this pose:

1. From standing, turn the knees and toes out slightly
2. Bend your knees and descend your hips toward the ground
3. Draw your hands to heart center
4. Broaden your chest and breathe

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The Aries Full Moon and Directing Your Energy

The full moon in Aries is here to offer you a chance to redefine your intention and your direction.

This full moon is opposite Mars in Libra. Mars rules the physical drive and directional force in life.

Mars in the zodiac reminds you that the manner and location in which you direct your life force matters. 

Mars rules two signs: Aries and Scorpio. This week has major energy from both, as this Aries full moon directly precedes the Sun moving into Scorpio.

These placements are here to offer you a chance to reflect, recommit, or redirect your energy.

Ask yourself if what you're seeking with your life force is also actively seeking you.

Offer yourself the chance to redirect your energy toward what you truly seek on a soul-level.

Give your true commitments a reaffirmation that you'll continue to spend your energy toward their benefit, as well.

Use this moon well, and you'll have the release and energy you need to make your way through Scorpio season with the directional energy of Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto now direct after their retrograde periods.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice standing wide-legged forward bend (Prasarita Padottanasana)


To practice this pose:

1. Take a wide stance
2. From the pelvis, fold forward with a long spine
3. Either place the hands under the face OR grab the big toes with the pointer and index fingers
4. Stay and breathe

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

Yoga Announcement for Scorpio Season!

Tuesday 10/26/21 I'm offering a special Scorpio and Your Inner Power Yoga Flow 

Whether you're trying to find your inner strength or tap into your intuition to find your true path forward, one of the best things you can do during this Scorpio season is draw yourself into your inner depths to receive these powerful energetic gifts.

When you do this, you can:

✨ Live life from a place of inner knowing rather than external direction 

✨ Transmute frustration, indecision, and anger into direction and self-nourishment  

✨ Experience more integration in your intentionality so that you feel safe and protected by your own being

You don't need to know how to read astrology in order to do this, you simply have to set the proper intentions, and do the right activities that invite this energy into your physical form. Then you can transmute, act, and grow in alignment with the cosmos.

Claim your spot in the Special Scorpio and Your Inner Power Yoga Flow Class  >>>>

The energies are shifting this week, with Saturn and Pluto recently turning direct from their retrogrades, and Mercury and Jupiter turning direct on Monday the 18th.

This final week of Mercury retrograde is here to give your mind and your efforts a moment of clarity and reflection, especially in terms of how your actions, words, and thoughts align with one another.

Check in with yourself. From the perspective that seeks your highest good, what do you want in your life, and who do you want to be?

Use the answer to that question to take a look within. 

Do your thoughts and communications reflect the direction that heads toward your highest good? Do you conscious efforts and automatic habits move you toward your most wonderful wellbeing? 

What needs to shift to take you toward head, heart, and body alignment? What needs to be taken up or released?

Let the answers to these questions guide you toward deeper self-integration throughout the end of these retrograde cycles, and you’re sure to see positive forward motion in the coming season.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice Eagle Pose (Garudasana)

To practice this pose:
1. Ground the right foot evenly on the earth or floor
2. Lift the left leg and cross it over the right (option to continue to wrap the ankle or leave it free)
3. Wrap the right arm over the left and place the palms together
4. Bend the right knee and descend the hips back in space
5. Pause, then practice bowing forward, drawing elbows toward knees
6. Repeat on the other side

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The October 5 Fiery New Moon in Libra 2021

Wednesday, October 6 is the New Moon in Libra. 

This new moon brings in some major fresh energy, and has three notable boosts from (1) a harmonious formation with Mars, Saturn, and the Lunar North Node; (2) oppositional energy with Chiron in Aries; and (3) temporal alignment with the end of Pluto retrograde.

What this means is that this new moon can bring you the fire and perspectives needed to move fresh, healing energy into your life.

If you’ve had an old dynamic that was waiting to be resolved, now is the prefect time to do this. 

Allow yourself to take actions that align with how you truly want to relate, act, and be in this life. 

Remember that who you are today has grown in the last cycle, so allow old desires to fall away in favor of the desires that truly align in the perpetual now.
 

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice Bending Tree Pose 


To practice this pose:

1. From standing, bend your right knee and place your right foot on your inner calf or inner thigh
2. Lift your arms overhead
3. Stay, or tilt your torso forward with a long spine
4. Stay, breathe, and balance
5. Repeat on the other side
 

Embrace the paradox of simultaneously hugging into your midline (sushumna nadi) and expanding forward, behind, up, down, and in all directions.

Can you live, breathe, and grow in a place of balance? Can you invite ease and expansiveness into your life through deep breaths in this posture? 

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

Want to know about this new moon and YOUR CHART?

Or how this retrograde cycle affects you?

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Mercury Retrograde, October 2021

Welcome to Mercury Retrograde!

Mercury retrograde is a phenomenon that gets a lot of pop-culture attention these days, with people calling out the tendency for interruption in communication, technology, travel, and the social (and legal) spheres of life.

The reason communication and technology slow in this time is because Mercury’s energy has turned inward.

Mercury is the planet of communication, thought, and travel, and generally, these Mercurial themes move among people and places. When Mercury retrogrades, this energy is turned inward so that you can communicate within yourself.

Mercury retrograde is the perfect time to solve old issues, look within, and have a deep conversation with the various parts of your psyche.

This particular Mercury retrograde takes place in Libra and is favorably aspected, indicating that interpersonal issues can now be solved, provided you reconcile your position within yourself first.

Use this time to dive deep. Let your ideas percolate and resolve paradox within yourself first.
 

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice Goddess Pose on Toes (Durgasana)

To practice this pose:

1. Take a wide stance with your toes and knees pointing in the same direction
2. Bend your knees to descend your hips
3. Draw your arms up in a cactus-shape
4. Lift your heels
5. Stay, breathe, and balance

Try practicing Lion's Breath with this position. To do this, inhale deeply and exhale as a roar out the mouth--tongue out; eyes looking to your middle brow; with a strong, audible roar.

Lion's breath fills out this pose by bringing out your inner Shakti--the feminine-encoded energy of yoga--in a way that encourages you to express yourself and connect with your deep inner knowing.

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

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Full Moon Release and Equinox Energy

Yesterday was the full moon in Pisces, and tomorrow is the equinox and start of Libra season, so you may have felt some shifts in the air. 

The equinox marks a change in season, and the full moon marks a big release. This is a moment when physical and psychic toxins can be released in order to move into the next phase of the year with renewed energy.

If you find that your body needs more rest, give yourself that gift. If you find a sudden urge to activate your body, listen to that too. The sun entering Libra is all about realizing that the law of cause and effect (karma) is at play.

When you see the law of cause and effect at play clearly, you suddenly understand what you need to do in order to find the results you seek.

Take some time to see how altered actions might produce what you wish more easily. Sometimes the very action you need is counter intuitive to your current course, so remember to dig deep and look at the full spectrum of what is possible for you, from rest to activity in the body and mind.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice Warrior 3 (Virabhadrasana III)

To practice this pose:

1. Stand in tadasana (mountain pose) and shift your weight onto the right foot
2. Lift your left leg and tilt your torso forward in one long line
3. Draw hands overhead OR palms together in anjali mudra 
4. Optional: take the pose to balancing stick by bending over even further and lifting the leg more
5. Repeat on left foot
 

Create integrity in the pose by keeping a long spine, and lifting the ribcage slightly (so the core is engaged and the heart is supported from above and below). If this feels good, then begin to focus on the floating leg, lifting the inner thigh slightly so that the toes and knee point down.

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

Special Yoga Invite for Thursday!

Thursday 9/23/21 I'm offering a special Libra and the Cosmic Balance Yoga Flow which will help you:

✨ Call in the cosmic powers of balance, alignment and beauty into your physical body 

✨ Receive the gifts already present within you in seed form, waiting to manifest

✨ Transmute challenging energy from the last season of life so that the second half of the year is facing in the proper direction

✨ Align, Activate, and Energize your body in a way that makes both body and mind fit for the present moment


Everyone who signs up will receive the recording of the class whether you attend live or not. Class time is at 5-6:15 pm Pacific Time via Zoom. 

When you practice in alignment, good things are coming your way. 

Claim your spot in the Special Libra and the Cosmic Balance Yoga Flow Class  >>>>

Venus, Mars, and the Pisces Full Moon

The energies are shifting in preparation for the full moon in Pisces next Monday.

Venus is now in Scorpio and Mars is entering Libra tonight. Venus is Libra’s ruler and Mars is the original ruler of Scorpio. In astrology, this formation is known as mutual reception, a phenomenon where two zodiac signs are each housing the other’s ruler.

This formation creates powerful energy where desire, action, and the fulfillment that’s always already present come together in the Libra and Scorpio ruled areas of your chart. 

You might find yourself opening to that beautiful balance of dreaming, desires, and action. This is a winning formula for finding and achieving what you truly want in this life. Ask yourself what you want to do, who you want to be, and what (or whom) you truly want to have in your life.

Monday’s full moon in Pisces offers a spiritual, emotional, and energetic release to these placements, allowing you to draw the abstract notions of your emotional and mental self into the material world. Let yourself open to practical projects that support your most beautiful imagined ideas about who you can be and where you can go in life.

If you open to the present moment with vision, love, and action, what you desire is sure to manifest.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice triangle pose (trikonasana)!



To practice this pose:

1. Take a wide stance with your right toes turned out
2. Reach your right arm forward, keeping your spine long
3. Descend your right arm to your right toes (or a block, or the floor) and your left arm to the sky
4. Broaden your chest and breathe
5. Repeat on the other side

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

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✨Adding time to readings so I can answer more specific questions about astrocartography, specific life decisions, transits, and progressions

✨Offering seven days of unlimited follow-up questions in case you need anything clarified from our time together

Schedule your appointment before the equinox, you'll receive the new, deluxe astrology reading at the old, lower price!

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Shifting Energies after the Virgo New Moon

Last night was the new moon in Virgo, and today, the energy begins to shift again, as the moon grows and Venus prepares to leave its zodiac home of Libra to enter Scorpio.

This is a configuration that will challenge you to move into places of depth. 

The shallower vibrations of these placements can cause conflict, stubbornness, and needless criticisms that can be directed inward toward yourself or toward others, but don’t let this fool you! 

Even though you might run into these energies out in the world, keep in mind that this is a moment to go deep. When you do this, you’ll enter into the higher vibrations of these energies.

At their highest, these energies can open you to the energies of compassion, growth, and deep nourishment.

These energies can encourage you to tap into the pieces of you that are willing to do the deep inner work along with the surface-level organizational efforts of your daily tasks.

When you do this, you’ll find the abiding truth that each being is working diligently, each according to their own consciousness, and that every effort deserves to be met with compassion.

Remember to direct a large part of this compassion inwardly, and you’ll find that your Virgo New Moon intentions are sure to blossom.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice twisted pyramid pose (parivrttatrikonasana)!

To practice this pose:

1. Stand with your right foot a large step in front of your left foot
2. Angle the left toes out so that the foot is comfortable
3. On an inhale lengthen your spine
4. Exhale and fold over the leg with the spine long
5. Place the left foot on the floor, your foot, or a block
6. Lift the right hand to your hip or to the sky
7. Breathe and notice
8. Repeat on the other side

PRO TIP

It can be tempting to reach the hand up to the sky when doing this pose. Rather than focusing on pressing the fingers skyward, focus on widening the collarbones so that there is width in your chest. Once you do that, check in with the hips to see if they're relatively level. In this stance, you'll be better able to work toward deeper twists. 

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

Special Reminder!

I am adding even more value to astrology readings! I am:

✨Adding time to readings so I can answer more specific questions about astrocartography, specific life decisions, transits, and progressions

✨Offering seven days of unlimited follow-up questions in case you need anything clarified from our time together

Schedule your appointment before the equinox, you'll receive the new, deluxe astrology reading at the old, lower price!

Claim your deluxe reading today!  >>>>

Aligning for the 2021 New Moon in Virgo

This week, we’re heading into the September 6 New Moon in Virgo.

This energy carries with it the potential for deep integration and understanding, as both Mercury and Venus are in Libra, a sign that carries fairness, beauty, and understanding as some of its core powers.

As the new moon approaches, these Libra placements can help with your inquiry into your day-to-day life, who you are at your core, and your relationships with others.

The moment of the new moon has harmonious energy with Uranus in Taurus, and challenging energy with Neptune in Pisces. This means it's time to set intentions to integrate your dreams with the shifts in reality, as well as line up your present reality with the direction you’d like to go for your dreams.

Successful navigation of this moon requires a deep surrender to the highest good, as well as a reaffirmation of self-responsibility in regard to directing yourself toward your dreams.

Give yourself time to get to know yourself as you are today. What has shifted since last month? What has shifted since last week? Pay attention to yourself and see how much simpler it is to call your desires to yourself.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice twisted half moon pose (parivrtta ardha chandrasana)!



To practice this pose:

1. Start in Warrior 3 (on your right foot with torso reaching forward and left leg reaching back).
2. Reach your left hand down toward the floor (or a block) and your right hand up toward the sky
3. Stay and breathe
4. Repeat on the other side

PRO TIP

Keep the body enlivened by breathing deeply, broadening the chest, and reaching powerfully with the legs.

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

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AstroYoga Teacher Training is now ON-DEMAND through the end of 2021! Until September 22, you can receive it at a special rate ($277 off). You can take the course on your own time AND receive YOGA ALLIANCE credit. This is possible until the temporary remote guidelines end at the end of the year. Questions? Respond to this email. Details about the course here.

Welcome to Virgo Season 2021

Welcome to Virgo season! Virgo season is a time of heightened integration which takes place in the body and in the tangible areas of life.

Virgo rules digestion, which is literally the process of inviting in what you need and releasing what you don't.

Energetically, Virgo season works the same way, inviting you to digest your experiences so that the pain and challenge is released, while the joy, lessons, and wisdom become integrated into your spirit.

This integration is key, because it is the very means by which you can manifest what you truly want in this life. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron are all retrograde right now, making this Virgo season even more powerful in terms of integrating deep experiences from your life.

Healing and manifestation are now made more possible as you offer yourself the digestion, compassion, and love that constitute this season. 

This week's AstroYoga pose aids in energetic digestion and opens the Virgo-ruled areas of the body.

ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK 

Practice twisted high lunge (parivrtta ashta chandrasana)!

To practice this pose:

1. Stand in a lunge position with your right foot forward
2. Take a deep inhale and lengthen your spine forward
3. As you exhale, twist the torso to the right
4. Either place palms together in anjali mudra or spread the arms wide
5. Choose whether you'd like to take the option to bind the arms by reaching the left hand under the leg to meet the right hand
6. Repeat on the other side

PRO TIP

Try to create one long line from the back foot to the top of the head. More important than binding or twisting deeply is good alignment.

Also note: sometimes reaching for the bind can confuse the body. Sometimes, I find it helps to use the other arm to help the arm moving under the knee to find its place.

My advice on how this asana connects with astrology is general. Your personal chart will offer more specific advice on what sorts of activities could fortify your best qualities and encourage growth where there’s unrealized potential.

Virgo season is all about creating order on the micro level in order to see big magic in the macro level of life. Virgo energy represents the potency of taking care of your body in order to see positive shifts in every area of life. In short, it's one of the most powerful energies that AstroYoga itself is based on.

When you integrate Virgo energy into your life, you become an unstoppable force of manifestation and creating what you truly desire.

8/25/21 I'm offering a special Virgo Season and the Cosmic Body Yoga Flow which will help you:

✨ Call in the physical resources, health, and physical awareness that will help you manifest your dreams
✨ Receive the gifts of Virgo Energy so that your life force organizes itself toward your highest good.
✨ Transmute challenging energy to prepare for a smooth autumn
✨ Align, Activate, and Energize your body in a way that makes both body and mind fit for the present moment

When you practice in alignment, good things are coming your way. 

Claim your spot in the Special Virgo Season and the Cosmic Body Yoga Flow Class  >>>>

Everyone who signs up will receive the recording of the class whether you attend live or not. Class time is at 5-6:15 pm Pacific Time via Zoom.