The Aquarius full moon is showing you where you stopped asking questions
The moon goes full at 6 degrees of Aquarius on July 29, sitting with Pluto and Juno, staring straight across at the sun and Jupiter in Leo.
Dispatches from Independence St.
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What the sky is doing, what the moon is asking, and what the cards have to say about it. Written as it happens, in New Orleans, by Jamie.
Four degrees: the alignment nobody is talking about
Four outer planets at the same degree, and why the number four keeps pointing back at the Emperor.
Dark moon in Cancer, right in the middle of a Mercury retrograde
Everything is up in the air, and that is genuinely what this part of the cycle is for.
Stop being scared of Mercury retrograde
Mercury is not the trickster. He is the messenger, and a retrograde is a recalibration.
How I make the oils: dark moon bottles, full moon fills
Empty vials cleansed in the void of a Gemini dark moon, filled on a Capricorn full moon. Here is the reasoning.
Pick a card: Venus in Leo
Venus is in Leo until July 9. Two crystal cards fell out, so we are working with both.
Full moon in Capricorn: stop taping it together
The first full moon of summer, and a hard look at the quick fix as a form of toxic masculine energy.
Chiron moves into Taurus while Venus is in Leo
The wounded healer arrives in the sign of the earth just as Venus gets her confidence back.
The Gemini dark super moon and the conversation you are having with yourself
The void, the twins, and three goddesses asking whether you are in right relationship with yourself.
Venus and Jupiter meet in Cancer, and they only do this every twelve years
Both at 25 degrees of Cancer, in the degrees of mastery, with twelve years of material to compare notes on.
Pick a card: what is coming next for you
The Empress and the Fool for one pile. Two fives and the Queen of Wands for the other.
Sagittarius full moon: are you staying small, or are you ready to grow?
A dynamic full moon that is here to push, and one card about the anxiety that keeps you in place.
Capricorns and Libras: here is why you have been so sensitive
Two cardinal signs, one transit, and four cards from the Wild Unknown Alchemy deck.
Uranus in Gemini is not the disaster you have been told it is
The planet that breaks every rule moves into the sign of communication. This is not the war story you were sold.
Taurus dark moon: go to the temple
Taurus just finished eight years of renovation. Now she is absorbing everything the outer planets have to say.
Every dispatch here started as a live reading on YouTube. Jamie writes them up for the site so you can read them at your own pace, and each one links back to the original video.
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