The Taurus Partial Solar Eclipse 2022
Eclipse season is here, and the first one is a partial solar eclipse during the new moon in Taurus.
Energy has been building toward this moment for some time. The eclipse is conjoining Uranus, square to Saturn, and at the very moment that Venus conjoins Jupiter.
Wondering what all this means?
Essentially, this is a portal moment, marking a time when circumstances can shift beyond your current state of imagination. Pay attention to what enters or exits your life during this time.
Saturn's placement and Neptune's influence suggest that things might feel difficult and seem unclear at first, but Venus and Jupiter promise a favorable outcome for the greatest expression of your soul's purpose.
My advice: Consider what your life would look like in your best-case scenario. Then, begin embodying that energy in your now moment. How would a person who knew everything was working in their favor think, feel, and behave the present?
(AND, if you'd like to ground this into your body, join me for Taurus Season AstroYoga Flow on Wednesday!).
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice plow pose (Halasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Lie on your back
2. Lift the legs to the sky at a 90 degree angle
3. Stay OR lift the hips to the hands, keeping the torso at a 45 degree angle to the floor
4. Stay OR double check that all neck vertebrae are lifted and shift the torso to a 90 degree angle
5. Stay OR bend the hips, lowering the feet behind you
If you do practice full plow pose, be sure to follow with a fish posture!
2.22.2022 Twos-day
Today is 2.22.2022, and a great day to mention that astrology is closely intertwined with numerology and tarot. These modalities are different ways to express and understand the hidden truths of the universe.
Today celebrates the number two and Pisces season. Both these energies have a close connection to the idea of the moon in astrology.
The simple explanation of the moon is that it represents emotions, nurture, and how you deeply connect with others.
The more complicated understanding of the moon recognizes it as the subconscious principle which draws manifestation into existence. This can take some time to fully grasp, as it is operational on various levels of life.
Physically, the moon centers in the brain help us to draw connections, offer healing energy, and grow in ways aligned with our desires and assumptions.
Emotionally, the moon principle in the body draws what is hidden to our external world to be reflected back to us. Reflection is a key theme of the moon.
Universally, the moon represents the force of magnetism, or the connections drawn between all beings, matter, and energy at any given moment.
These powers of the moon combined with Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces offer you a gift:
Today, you have the heightened potential to use the power of memory to 1) call out of you what is ready to be honored and released; 2) release the weight of old burdens; and 3) rewrite the story of your past so that it leads to a happy, powerful, deeply inspired present moment.
Let yourself be at ease, and consider how everything in existence is conspiring for your great benefit, from the air you breathe, to your body that keeps your heart beating, to those happy companions you meet on your path.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice One Legged Toe Stand (Padangusthasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Kneel on both knees with your toes tucked under
2. Shift weight into your feet
3. Lift your knees
4. Draw one knee into the chest and straighten the leg
5. Bring hands to Anjali mudra OR rest hands on a block for added balance
6. Stay, balance, and breathe
7. Repeat on the other side
Please note: This is a posture for practice and fun, and falling is a part of that sometimes. What do you notice when you move toward this pose?
Pisces Season Flow
Tomorrow, the Sun moves into Pisces.
This is an important moment when you can more easily lay your burdens down and enter into your intuitive flow state.
When you do this, you become able to receive the blessings that have always been there, but you've been unable to access or even recognize.
You banish the need to control outcomes and instead enter into an intuitive dance with life.
Whether you're trying to allow more blessings in or open to a life experience that feels amazing, one of the best things you can do during this Pisces season is explore the intrinsic pathways in yourself to receive these powerful energetic gifts.
When you do this, you can:
✨ Surrender burdens and open to gifts greater than you previously imagined
✨ Transmute your past
✨ Experience the joy that comes from releasing your grip on suffering, and picking up something dreamy instead
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.
I have something to help you with this.
Wednesday 2/23/22 I'm offering a special Zodiac AstroYoga Flow for Pisces Season and Realizing Your Dreams which will help you:
✨ Call in the cosmic power of flow and alignment to your physical and energetic body
✨ Receive the gifts already present within you in seed form, waiting to manifest
✨ Transmute challenging energy so that you can move forward in alignment
✨ 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.
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The Dance of the Cosmic Lovers: Mars and Venus 2022
In astrology, Mars and Venus are a pair of cosmic lovers. They dance through the zodiac, and when they come together, we see a kind of magic happen. Mythology likens this to falling in love, and indeed, when these qualities are integrated in your chart or your transits, it can feel like falling in love with yourself.
Mars represents the principle of action, and Venus represents desire and delight. They teach a comic truth that when you desires and your actions align, you become an unstoppable force for love.
Right now Mars and Venus are conjunct and will travel the zodiac together a bit longer than usual.
This gives you an opportunity: Take steps toward what you truly want, and release all false premises, identity constructs, or mistaken urges from your past.
The Sun entering Pisces this Thursday will help you let go of what's been stopping you, and Mars will help you drive forward toward your aim. Make sure you're pointing yourself toward where you actually want to go (and not just what you think is practical or believe is possible within a set of constraints).
You are free, and steady steps toward your greatest love will take you to where you most long to be.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice Hand to Big Toe pose (Hasta Padangusthasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Stand in tadasana (mountain pose) and shift weight into your left foot
2. Lift your right foot and grab the big toe (or you can bend your knee and hold the knee)
3. Open your arms and lifted leg wide
4. Repeat on the other side
Aquarius and Capricorn 2022
It's Aquarius season, but Capricorn energy is sharing the spotlight.
Yesterday Mars moved into Capricorn, which is the good news. Mars is in his exaltation in Capricorn, which means that Mars is there to really shine.
At its best, Mars energy encourages action and protection, and in Capricorn this means that you'll have a heightened capacity to take measured steps toward building what you want.
Pluto, Retrograding Mercury (as of tonight), and Retrograding Venus are also in Capricorn, so use Mars' action and protection to help you sort out relational and communication issues the old-fashioned way (with effort and a little time).
Meanwhile, the Sun and Saturn are steady in Aquarius, giving you steadiness and insight into how to move into the future with the insights you're gaining in Capricorn.
Both Capricorn and Aquarius are associated with the root chakra. So take time to ground and meet your own needs this week. Next week we're leaving retrograde season and welcoming a new moon, so this week is a moment of reconciliation before the fresh energy of the lunar new year.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice chair pose on your tip toes (utkatasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Stand in tadasana (mountain pose) and lift up onto your tip toes
2. Sit your hips back in space, keeping your core strong and heart lifted
3. Draw hands overhead OR palms together in anjali mudra
4. Optional: practice putting the heels down and then lifting them back up
The Gemini Full Moon, Venus Retrograde, and the Wounded Healer
This week leads to the full moon in Gemini, Venus stationing retrograde, and the end of Chiron retrograde.
Wondering what this all means?
The relationship this full moon has with Jupiter and Neptune brings a theme of releasing false or limiting thought patterns. If you pay attention, you may start to recognize habitual thought patterns that limit you in some way. This can manifest as finally seeing the patterns of judgement or limiting beliefs you have about yourself, or perhaps you'll notice how your emotions come into play when you make assumptions about what others think of you.
The more you draw these thought patterns into consciousness, the more you can make use of Venus and Chiron changing directions. Venus retrograde begins with a Pluto conjunction, indicating that now is a time to courageously face the shadows, clearing the way for more beauty and love in the cycle to come.
Likewise, Chiron is the healer of the zodiac, and as he turns direct, the possibility to integrate, grow, and transform is here, provided you look at what's leaving with the firm knowledge that your ultimate wellbeing is your divine birthright.
Overall, this is a time of setting fear aside in order to see others and ourselves clearly. Offering compassion to your shadows can be a tricky business, but the outcome is always greater happiness, love, and inspiration.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice Humble Warrior (Bandha Virabhadrasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Take a wide stance, turning your right toes out
2. Bend your right knee
3. Clasp your hands behind your back
4. Bow your torso between your legs, lifting your hands away from your hips
5. Stay and breathe
6. Repeat on the other side
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Swirling Energies Leading into Solstice 2021
This week's energy is swirling with change. We're coming off of the solar eclipse last weekend, and now energies are shifting, leading up to solstice two weeks from now.
Eclipses have the tendency to rapidly shift circumstances, calling you into a new way of being. So, it may feel like you're operating from a different vantage now than you were last week.
This week, the eclipse is integrating as Mars moves into Sagittarius, and Mercury moves into Capricorn. Additionally, Venus is conjunct Pluto in Capricorn as she prepares for her retrograde period (which you may already be feeling).
Wondering what all this means for your life?
Essentially, now is a time to think deeply and focus with your mind, while allowing your physical energy to move freely and joyfully through the world.
Allow your mental focus to have definite aims (for example, have a purpose when you speak to people: are you catching up, communicating a request, asking a question?).
During this time, the more clear you get through your mental focus, the more joy and understanding you'll experience in your daily actions. Experiment with thinking clearly while simultaneously allowing your actions to follow your unique, wayward path.
Ask yourself what it is you need in order to experience expansion and joy, and allow yourself to take actions simply for the pleasure of being alive and curious.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice Figure Four Pose (Eka Pada Utkatasana)
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 at the ankle, flexing your foot
3. Sit the hips back in space
4. Draw hands to heart center in anjali mudra
5. Pause, then practice bowing forward
6. Repeat on the other side
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Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius
This Friday-Saturday (depending on your time zone) is the total solar eclipse in Sagittarius. Eclipses are powerful portal moments of great power that allow for the birth of the unexpected.
This particular eclipse is especially powerful because it closes a cycle of eclipses in Sagittarius and Gemini, and because it's a total eclipse (meaning the sun will be completely obscured from some viewing locations).
This eclipse comes right after Neptune turns direct after five months of retrograde, and the eclipse itself has powerful aspects with several planets.
Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all come into play, creating a complex moment when healing old wounds and patterns is deeply possible, if you're willing to face the facts of what happened, and set appropriate boundaries (both externally and in your mental emotional plane).
Whatever you've been shifting and working on in life these last 18 months is ready to see its final moments of change.
Old chapters are ready to end, and new ones are in the process of beginning.
Don't be afraid to align with what you truly want (your inner truth will tell you this, which is a bonus of Sagittarius-energy yoga practices!). You may not be able to see what's coming, but try to focus on the positive future, even as you acknowledge and release the painful aspects of the past.
Set your new moon eclipse intention to receive the good you've been waiting for.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice Supta Baddhakonasana (the Reclined Bound Angle Pose)
To practice this pose:
1. Lie on your back
2. Place the soles of your feet together and allow your knees to open wide (blocks or pillows are an option under the knees)
3. Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your low belly
4. Stay still for several minutes, watching your breath
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✨ Call in the cosmic power of clarity, joy, and truth to your physical and energetic body
✨ Receive the gifts already present within you in seed form, waiting to manifest
✨ Transmute challenging energy from your past (especially from these last 18 months!) so that you can move forward with a fresh slate
✨ Align, Activate, and Energize your body in a way that makes both body and mind fit for the present moment
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Full Moon Eclipse in Taurus
Here comes the Taurus Full Moon Eclipse. This is the first of a series of eclipses along the Scorpio/Taurus axis. This eclipse is making a t-square, which is a paradoxical aspect, with Jupiter in Aquarius.
This means that the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter are all showing us ways to sustain ourselves in the worlds, but they're showing us through different modalities.
This full moon asks you to release your dedication to the solely manifest, tangible areas of life, in order to see the riches that exist in the mind and within the creative depths of your being.
When you do this, you'll be able to see possibilities and potential where you previously saw roadblocks and heartache. You'll be able to more consciously create your circumstances in your now moment in a way that acknowledges and uses your inner light.
Let your desire for what you truly want be your guide, and know that letting go of what does not fit into this moment in your life is clearing the path for what does.
ASTRO YOGA TIP OF THE WEEK
Practice fish pose (Matsyasana)
To practice this pose:
1. Lie on your back
2. If you have lotus in your practice, set legs in lotus, otherwise extend legs long
3. Place your elbows on the floor
4. Arch your back so your heart lifts and your throat opens
5. Place the top of your head on the mat
6. If you legs are in lotus, grab your big toes with your pointer and middle fingers
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