First I Do The Yoga, Then I Do The Things…. - I Like To Stick To My Normal Morning Routine On Holiday,

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Shared traits between the neighbouring signs: Pisces/Aries – Innocence Aries/Taurus – Persistence Taurus/Gemini – Productivity Gemini/Cancer – Curiosity Cancer/Leo – Loyalty Leo/Virgo – Particularity Virgo/Libra – Sociability Libra/Scorpio – Magnetism Scorpio/Sagittarius – Passion Sagittarius/Capricorn – Endurance Capricorn/Aquarius – Ambition Aquarius/Pisces – Solidarity

Conjunction of Mars and Saturn

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goddesses for the signs

Aries: Pele - Hawaiian volcano goddess. Is both creator and destroyer of land // Ishtar - Mesopotamian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and war

Taurus: Flora - Roman Goddess of flowers // Inanna - Sumerian Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare

Gemini: Baubo - Greek Goddess of mirth, jests, and bawdy humour // Saraswati - Hindu Goddess of Knowledge, the Arts, Mathematics, Education, and cosmic Wisdom 

Cancer: Yemaya - Yoruban Mother Goddess, Goddess of the Ocean // Artemis/Diana - Greek/Roman Goddess of the hunt, virginity, and childbirth. Associated with the moon

Leo: Amaterasu - Japanese sun Goddess // Kuan Yin - Chinese Goddess of Mercy and Compassion

Virgo: Brighid - Celtic Goddess of poetry, healing, and crafts // Sophia - Greek Goddess of wisdom

Libra: Lalita - Hindu goddess of beauty. Name means beautiful, playful, beloved // Ma'at - Egyptian Goddess, personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order

Scorpio: Hectate - Greek Goddess of witchcraft and magick, crossroads, and the harvest moon // Eos - Greek Goddess of the dawn

Sagittarius: Cerridwen - Celtic Goddess of transformation // Tara - Hindu, Mother Goddess, the absolute, unquenchable hunger that propels all life.

Capricorn: Cybele - Greek Earth Mother // Fortuna - Roman Goddess of fortune

Aquarius: Athena - Greek Goddess of wisdom, defensive and strategic wars // Isis - Egyptian Mother Goddess, matron of nature and magick, Goddess of creativity and the underdog

Pisces: Hestia - Greek Goddess of the hearth and domestic life // Maya - Hindu Goddess of Illusion and Mystery

🌊water sign playlists🌊

“There is a philosophy, that the world we perceive through our senses, is only a version of a deeper reality. The Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato, taught that the world of our senses is a distortion, a mirage… like a shadow playing across a wall. Many historians believe that the Greeks were influenced by spiritual thinkers from India, where the idea of a deeper reality has a very long history. In Sanskrit, the word "maya” refers to this illusion and the selective view of reality we perceive through our senses. Beyond our manifest physical universe, there is a field of energy, information, and intelligence that orchestrates and governs the material environment. This ground state of creation is called the conscious energy field.

The conscious energy field does not exist independently of our perception of it. In other words, reality is a two-way street. We are both transmitters and receivers of information. We are both the creation and the creators of the conscious energy field, and are participants in a consciousness-created universe. This doesn’t mean that there’s no external reality, or that the universe literally takes place inside our heads. What it means is that the physical universe has no qualities or attributes in the absence of a conscious observer. For example, we see color as an attribute of physical reality. But color is not really inherent to reality. Instead, the phenomenon of color is a response made by the human nervous system to stimuli from the environment. We experience color as if it’s happening outside us, but we’re actually projecting it from inside us, and creating the phenomenon of color in the conscious energy field. This knowledge, combined with the power of intent, can allow you to create other phenomena in your life. By simply intending to create something, you have now begun to nurture that result in the physical world.“ -Deepak Chopra / Artwork by @tropicalgloom

The Moon 🌙

Rising quietly amidst black curtains of clouds, the Moon is the ultimate celestial representation of feminine energies on Earth and is also the yin counterpart of the Sun’s yang and radiating energy. While the Sun symbolizes our ability to identify ourselves with some kind of individual purpose and consciousness, the Moon offers us the ability to identify ourselves subjectively and unconsciously with our surroundings.

The Moon’s feminine or yin characteristics start with the basic fact that she acts as a mysterious, silvery mirror for the Sun’s confident rays. When the Moon glows in our skies, she can only do so by reflecting sunlight. This is a powerful symbol of the Moon’s receptive capabilities, which are transposed into all humans on Earth in some way or another.

For example, as children, we were very much unable to react to external stimuli at first. Emotionally, children soak in their surroundings, absorbing emotional information of what’s projected onto them and reflecting other people’s sunny lights, like the Moon does. The Moon’s placement by sign and house, then, describes one’s emotional structure, which manifests in adult life as inexplicable and repetitive emotional reactions and habits. Inexplicable, because the origins of all emotional links and identifications are long lost in the watery memory of a time when there was no emotional consciousness. Such is the reasoning behind the Moon’s correlation to the emotional realm, memories and the past. And this is also why conditions of the 4th house, analogous to Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon, symbolize one’s upbringing and emotional environment at infancy.

Conditions of the Moon and of the 4th house also correlate to one’s ability to adapt. Through the Moon’s ever-changing nature, moving rapidly around Earth and reflecting various amounts of light on her way, we discover the ability to receive and accept change, an important yin attitude that allows us a more flexible path on our way to our Sun’s final purpose. This can be easily analyzed through the modality of the sign you’re looking at, in the sense that fixed signs are much more resistant to big changes than the mutable signs, for example, which are on the other side of the spectrum.

Ruling over the sign of Cancer, the Moon also describes where one finds emotional security, mimicking the child’s need to feel protected, loved and cared for. I’ll talk more deeply on emotional security on an upcoming post on Cancer Moons.

This planet’s correlation to intuition and sensitivity can also be better understood considering the Moon’s association with childhood. Babies cannot perceive themselves as individuals with an unique force of will and an unique body. Under the weak and warm moonlight, it becomes impossible to recognize the boundaries that separate their minds from the minds of those around them, and so they become one with the world they live in; their needs become those of whoever’s around and vice-versa, until, through their relatives or guardians, they finally perceive their needs are different from anyone else’s, producing an internal Sun… Watery Moons mimic this primal mechanism through which we, as adults, may discover intuition: knowledge and information from unconscious sources hidden behind the hard structures of the material and tangible Capricorn world.

I’m hoping this helps in understanding where all those meanings come from~

Giant fairy ring of Leucopaxillus albissimus (click the photo for the full panorama)