Kristine Marie

The ritual of setting up my reading space prepares me, and the space, for the reading. What is most important is that it feels right. What colors support you? Which fabrics feel right? What stones are you attracted to?

“Though forced to be on the go, the High Priestess is comfortable as the Charioteer. The Chariot itself raises her up, protects her and carries her forward without effort.” ~Georgianna - TheTarotRoom.com

People are anchors of light, connecting the cosmic to the earthly. This eclipse represents an embodied experience of completeness and a return to our natural power. Instead of seeking fulfillment from outside ourselves, we affirm the mystical inner marriage of body and spirit, that is at the center of our being.

Ring the bells that still can ring...Forget your perfect offering...There is a crack, a crack in everything...That's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen

“The Moon in Pisces, or High Priestess dressed as the Moon, is a time of increased perception…Be still, aware and fearless. It might be dark outside, but if there was ever a time you can navigate the unknown, this is it. Listen, breathe, flow.” ~TheTarotRoom.com

With this new moon in Aquarius that also marks the start of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger, I feel inspired to take my tiger by the tail and do the shadow work this situation is offering to me. With Saturn sidling up to the new moon in Aquarius, I appear to be receiving the planetary energetic support to really take it up!

What patterns am I being invited to let go by this teacher named cancer? The possibility of critical illness brings the preciousness of life and the importance of love into focus. I feel vulnerable and mortal and also incredibly grateful for the support and connection of friends and community surrounding me. And everything is looking just a bit more beautiful...

In this moment its as if the magician (mercury) is weaving all the elements together as the catalyst of the great attractor magnifies the deep intuition and knowing of the high priestess (moon) charged and illuminated by the sun in the dance of the eclipse. And in the midst of that eclipse, with one foot anchored in the material world and one foot in the deep watery emotional unconscious, the angel of Temperance (representing Sagittarius) is continually alchemizing and pouring the healing balancing waters of unconditional love from one chalice another, continually integrating light into dark and dark into light.

Leading up to this Scorpio season and the new moon, I’ve been deeply engaged with shadow; shadow in my family line/ancestry, personal shadow, professional shadow and cultural shadow. 

‍"In Scorpio, Venus shines her golden gleam into the dimmest parts of us, sees our lost beauty, and loves our pain. Venus in the sign of the Scorpion gazes into the gray mist, and spies our own preciousness, our radiant self."~Joy Vernon

Virgo (The Hermit) New Moon - Trines Uranus (The Fool) in Taurus (Hierophant) & Mercury (the Magician) in Libra (Justice)

New Moon in Leo (Strength) with Chiron (Hanged Man) in Aries, & Venus (Empress) in Virgo

Relationship to self mixes and flows with relationship to other so that we are able to creatively dance with life and bring our whole selves forward. 

The Aries (The Emperor) New Moon (The Fool) Gets Support from Jupiter (Wheel of Fortune): Let Go of the Old and Begin Again with Enthusiasm!

Pisces season is perhaps the most difficult of them all, yet it never fails to be deeply cathartic. Pisces represents all that we ignore, deny, or suppress...

As the Charioteer, steers his chariot with the Hanab Ku (Mayan Butterfly/Galactic Center), harnessing to shadow and light for momentum, we are all being asked to integrate our shadows, take full responsibly for the realities we’re creating and anchor our light more fully in the world with us.