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Harvest Full Moon in Pisces – Time for Letting Go
The full Moon in sidereal Pisces peaks tomorrow morning at 11:40 am (PDT), and aligns with the very last of the 27 Vedic nakshatras, Revati. This energy brings forth a wave of open-hearted surrender and ushers us to let go of everything from the past season, as we...
Maha Navaratri 2017 :: Nine Nights of the Goddess
Maha Navaratri 2017 begins today! In this important Hindu holiday, we celebrate the Goddess through "the great nine nights" (nav = nine, ratri = night). This festival will run through September 30th, the first ten days of this new lunar cycle. Goddess, Devi, Shakti,...
New Moon in Virgo :: Navaratri + Many Planetary Shifts
New Moon in Virgo The new lunar cycle begins Tuesday, September 19th, at 10:30 pm PDT, with Sun and Moon in sidereal Virgo. After a couple of months full of a lot of emotion and fire with many planets (and eclipses!) in Cancer and Leo, we have a chance to ground out a...
Full Moon in Aquarius in Shatabisha Nakshatra
Title Photo by Martina Hoffman Full Moon in Aquarius in Shatabisha Nakshatra The Full Moon in Aquarius in Shatabisha nakshatra is happening tonight! The Moon reaches peak fullness at 12:03 am (just after midnight) Pacific time on September 6th, in the middle of...
Great American Eclipse – Power Shifts
Where & When The Total Solar Eclipse coming this Monday, August 21st, 2017, will cast a shadow over the Sun, obscuring it from view from coast to coast across the United States. The map below (from timeanddate.com where you can see a video visual of the eclipse...
Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, and Wake-up Calls!
Title Photo: "Howling at the Moon," by Paree. The Moon will reach peak fullness for this cycle in sidereal Capricorn on August 7th, at 11:11 am PDT, shortly before the partial lunar eclipse reaches fullness at 11:20 am. The eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa,...
Cancer Moon Cycle Leads us into Powerful Eclipses
Cancer Moon Cycle The New Moon cycle in Cancer begins at 2:46 am PDT on Sunday, July 23rd. The Moon, Sun, and Mars will all come together near 7 degrees of sidereal Cancer, in the Vedic nakshatra known as Pushya, “the nourisher.” This month will be a time to allow...
Guru Purnima – Full Moon in Sagittarius
Guru Purnima - Full Moon in Sagittarius Each year, the full Moon in the Hindu month of Ashadha is dedicated to celebrating our gurus. This year’s Guru Purnima falls on the night of July 8th in North America and India, with the Moon reaching peak fullness at 9:07 pm...
New Moon in Ardra Nakshatra
The new lunar cycle begins tonight at 7:31 pm PDT. This dark Moon night finds four planets in the Vedic nakshatra called Ardra, located within the Gemini section of the sky. This nakshatra is actually located at the star Betelguese (also known as Alpha Orionis), a red...
