In life, death is only the beginning. An excerpt from “The Smitten God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition,” decrees, “For bones are like seeds: whatever dies goes to Earth, and from it new life is born in the sacred cycle of existence.” Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, honors that sacred cycle by […]
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Welcome to November, stars! After a whirlwind round of October eclipses, we’re headed for a different kind of reckoning: election season and the onslaught of holidays, both of which will test our tact, strength, and ability to breathe through emotional triage. Fun. For most of this month, the sun will shine in the dark waters
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Gather, my babies; this week, we have a powerful opposition between Pluto, the planet of death and destruction, and Mars, the planet of conflict, action and aggression. If that sounds yikes, that’s because it is. The opposition is correct on November 3, but we will feel the effects and dizzying consequences of this showdown for
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All Hallow’s Eve is upon us and with it a number of ways to while away the dark hours of the most haunted day of the year. While pagan practitioners may choose to kick off the classic with a solemn Samhain celebration and joke haters will be batting their lids, we’ve got a list of
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As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing gold can stay.” In October, the daylight fades, the fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns to full memento mori. All this death is not without ceremony, which is most commonly found in Halloween, a holiday whose origins date back to the Iron Age
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It’s time to reach for your shadows and shake hands with your demons, folks—there’s a new moon shining in the sign of Scorpio. The new moon in Scorpio peaks on November 1st at 8:47 am EST. Scorpio is ruled by Mars, the planet of vitality, and Pluto, the luminary of death. It is through the
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Retrograde. A word of encouragement if ever there was one. Retrogrades are known to cause drama, confusion, delays, and stagnation regarding topics related to the planet in question. But it’s not all bad. The word retrograde comes from Latin retrogradus, meaning “to go backwards.” And while the planets don’t technically move in the opposite direction,
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Astrologer and tarot card reader Shaina Emily has taken to TikTok to share her insights on birth chart placements that make someone unlikable on a first date, a starter, if you will. Emily points out, “It’s just the first impression; this does not mean that you are an unpleasant personality when they get to know
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Pluto, our power planet of seismic change, is going direct in the sign of the capricorn for the last time in our lifetimes. On Friday, October 11, Pluto will go direct at a fateful 29 degrees of Capricorn, effectively ending its retrograde and beginning the final gasp of its passage through the sign of strategy
‘Tis the season for schnapps and wellies, my friends. National Liquor Day arrives on October 16, and with it, the call to raise a glass and spread a rose. Not without irony, October 16 is also the birthday of the fantastic drunk, the beloved author, the peak of Libra and the charmer to the end,
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