What’s an Eclipse Anyway?

Imagine you’re playing with two balls and a flashlight. One ball represents the moon, and the other, the Earth or the sun.

Now, if you move one ball in front of the other, blocking the flashlight, you've created a mini-eclipse in your living room!

Solar...

This week begins with the Moon transiting Shravana, which means “she who listens.” This planetary transit, in sync with the changing seasons, presents us with a golden opportunity for introspection. It's a call to pause, reflect, and align ourselves with our higher Self.

In the realm...

Hello, dear readers! As we approach the autumnal equinox, there's a beautiful balance unfolding both in nature and the skies, particularly influenced by the planetary transits. The equinox brings a perfect harmony between day and night, and this week, as per Vedic astrology, it's complemented by...

Recently on the Monday Moon Muse podcast, we took our listeners on a journey through the week's Vedic astrology forecast, focusing on the intriguing Ashlesha Vedic Moon Sign (Nakshatra) and the ongoing planetary transits that are influencing your Vedic birth chart—and your life!

Let me...

 Understanding the planetary transits each week, especially through the lens of Vedic astrology, offers a profound tool for self-awareness and growth. This week, as the Moon journeys through Bharani— “She Who Bears”—we’re provided insights that are especially...

I’ve got my eyes on the lunar eclipse happening May 15 and 16!

On this same full moon eclipse within Vishakha, “the radical change of direction,” Buddha was born, left home and discovered enlightenment. His life story reveals what this eclipse can mean for us.

Soon after the...

Outside my gate here in India the neighborhood is a sea of orange-robed ascetics arriving to beg for alms.

It happens every year on January 14th when the Sun enters the sign of Capricorn. It’s Makara Sankranti, an astrological moment when the Sun appears to head north.

It’s believed...

As the year winds to a close, I wish you a warm and happy New Year!

Reading over my journal from this same time last year, I came across this quote from St. Augustine I’d written as my guiding reflection for the year ahead:

“Love and do what you will.”

So many times over 2021 I...

Welcome to the grande finale of the year!

December is a jitterbug of ironies, pelleting us one by one with confusing oppositions. What you see isn’t what you get. The senseless makes sense. The reverse is also true.

Our journey through the misty moors of irony begins on December 4th with...

Eclipses provide a moment of wonder. They interrupt the constancy of the sun and moon - our emotions and the "I" who feels them. They make us aware of a bigger Presence behind all we experience.

For this reason, eclipses are good for some things and not good for others.

If you crave certainty...