The Moon is the Earth’s biggest and well-known, well-loved satellite. In astrology the energy of the Moon governs over the 7th sign of the zodiac’s constellations – Cancer, the Crab, and represents maternal energy, emotions and protection, the subtle and hidden forces of instinct and the unconscious. In the tarot, the Moon stands for the Major Arcana number 18th which paradoxically governs Piscean energy, even if the card confusingly depicts a crayfish coming out of the water and two dogs howling at the moon. No matter how it is depicted, la Luna is powerful. Its energy and movement affects the tides here our Earth and to our ancestors (who had a mostly agrarian existence) the Moon was a weather and travel guide and a fertility forecaster, as it could synch up with women’s monthly menstrual rhythms before the pill was invented. In addition, the Moon influences cultural & religious production as it exists in thousands of songs, poems, paintings and on countless tumblr walls 🙂 while some Indian marriages are also organized according to the phases of the Moon. I recently finished reading Tamara Driessen’s excellent book “Luna: Harness the Magic of the Moon for Life, Love and Contentment“ and I would like to share with you my interpretation of some of the things Tamara was discussing in her book. I hope these key aspects on how the Moon might influence your energy can serve you all and help you understand your Self in a new light.

Lunar Phases (& your birth)

New Moon

For people born under the energy of a New Moon, it’s perhaps significant to say that this is a self-starter vibration. New Moon natives are usually self-made individuals. If you have this marker in your chart, it’s important to know that you are meant to bring new things into being in your lifetime here on Earth. You could start your own company, come up with a new invention that makes our lives easier, write a tell-all book, or make small adjustments in your life and work that ease everyone’s daily struggles. You have the spirit of a pioneer and you are meant to create situations of fresh energy around you, since you are born with a blank-slate, from a karmic point of view. Your past-life debts are mostly cleared but you need to be mindful how you use your energy and what you will create so as not to open up painful new karmic cycles. When in doubt as to which path to take in life, create something! Your energy is similar to the Ace of Cups card in the tarot, but the cup you were born with might have felt initially empty. This is because you must fill it with all the experiences you will undertake in your lifetime. By the end of this beautiful journey, towards the later part of your life your cup should ‘runeth over’, as the bard said, with everything you have created, lived and experienced.

Waxing Crescent

If you were born under this lunar influence, then you are a person who can summon up incipient energy or put in grassroots efforts to get things of the ground and get them going. You are an awakener and you can use your voice, your emotions, your thoughts, your words and your actions to instigate things around you. For example, you could be a whistle-blower on a company’s or a political campaign’s secrets. You could easily create specific social groups or rally support for a cause. You’re a vibrant and green kind of a person that will always feel like their life is leading them someplace. Your energy is that of the 3 of Wands in the tarot, a Seeker ready to embark on their next adventure. You might also be a ‘sandwich kid’ in your family or an only child, a birth-order situation that gives you the ambition to do something that sets you apart from your relatives or peers.

First Quarter (also called Waxing Moon)

This is a balanced energy, as the Moon looks up in the sky like a perfect slice of mid-parted cake. If you have this energy in your chart then you are a balanced individual, one who is able to weight the pros and cons of any situation and finds an adequate and fair solution. You are a negotiator, a good judge of character and a fair friend. You also like to keep things in a state of equilibrium and you like to drink and eat in moderation or compensate if there was an excess in one area of life by focusing on another part of your life, just to even-out your energy. The downside is that passion might frighten you, since it feels so irrational and a threat to your Temperance (which is the card in the tarot that also represents you the best!).

Waxing Gibbous

This is a beautiful phase of the Moon to be born under. I especially enjoy it since it combines the passionate nature of a Full Moon person with the tempered energy of a first quarter person, as it sits in between the two. A waning gibbous individual is optimistic, full of faith and excited about life. Your energy feels like it always replenishes itself after each setback from unknown forces. You might also easily recover from illnesses. You can quickly dispel the negative energy of evil-eye spells and you were born to break a few cruses. The downside is that you might feel slightly overlooked in life, that people might take you very seriously as they might confuse your enthusiasm for hot air. You might compare yourself to other people and feel that you come up short, so be mindful of turning the pleasure of a game into ruthless competitiveness. You’re an optimistic motivator & 9 of Cups in the tarot!

Full Moon

Wolves were born to praise you, and under your energy most traffic accidents occur! Hello, lunar superstar 🙂 Full Moon individuals are the lunar darlings since they are the ones that benefit the most from the Moon’s energy, as it is at its fullest capacity at their birth. This makes you highly attractive, fertile and abundant. The downside to this blessing is that your life could be marred by unconscious undercurrents of drama if there aren’t more stabilizing energies in your natal chart. No matter what sign your Moon is in, you are heavily influenced by Cancerian sensitivity and Moon-like ebbs and flows in your daily life (consequently the Moon card in the tarot, is the card I’d associate with you too). You might have the tendency to exaggerate but your weaknesses are also your strengths since you could be an excellent performer with such a powerful capacity to feel and to shed a bright light on the collective’s hidden desires and needs. You charm those around you with your feelings even if you can be a bit much.

Waning Gibbous (also called Disseminating)

If you were born under this energy, then we share the same placement 🙂 My intimate experience of living life under a Waning Gibbous energy, is that it feels like coming down from what has been a rough ride or a crazy, party-bender. Your feet land on safer ground now after the lunar roller-coaster ride, and as such you are meant to create stability in your life. Your life has a patient and steady rhythm to it, and you are meant to spend a lot of your time here on Earth resting and recuperating. You can easily be a beacon of hope for other people and can create safe-spaces for others to share their stories and to heal. You are calming and nurturing to others but because your energy is slowly depleting as you were born when the moon was losing its Full Moon shine, you must take time in solitude to replenish. I think the Hermit or the High Priestess cards of the tarot (which signify the Virgo/Pisces axis in astrology) represent this vibration most accurately – studying in privacy then sharing your work with the world and then retreating again is your natural flow, while intuitive discernment is your super-power!

Third Quarter (also called Waning Moon)

If you are born under this energy then it is time to clean up your karmic connections in this incarnation. You will meet many souls which you must say “no” to during your lifetime, as you close up karmic contracts and let the energy between you and them settle down to be released. This is the ‘letting go’ Moon and you might find it strange to spend most of your emotional energy investing in something or someone only to then pass it on or watch it go by, but there is a lot of sweetness and peace coming into your life once the letting go process eventually starts. Like the cooling and refreshing feel of summer rain after a very long and hot day, you are deeply sweet, sensitive and melancholic in the best possible way and your poetic heart knows very well how to purge and release (or is learning at the moment). You will easily bring people together and act as a helper, serving the needs of the collective with your wisdom during your life, and this is why I feel that your tarot card is the 6 of Swords.

Dark Moon (also called Balsamic)

You were born under a very special lunar energy, or better said – under the absence of lunar energy. This is a time of the month when tiredness overwhelms the collective and whatever is planted will not grow. Witches, shamans and spellcasters are usually born with this marker, as well as important cultural figures, who live very rich internal lives which are seemingly devoid of material acquisitions. This is a the kind of energy that, if well-understood and well-harnessed, could help one practice towards becoming a bodhisattva, or an enlightened being walking the Earth to help souls fulfill their destiny while sacrificing their own chances of reaching Nirvana, or heaven. Balsamic lunar people are soothing, nocturnal, mysterious and solitary. They are pensive and withdrawn but they also possess fascinating inner worlds, populated with visions of both darkness and demons and also light and angels. You thread the fine line that separates the material world from the spiritual world and your own existence could feel deeply private and elusive to others. You are a Spirit whisperer & your tarot card is the Death/Rebirth one.

Special Events

Lunar Eclipses

A Lunar eclipse happens when the Earth is placed in between the Sun and the Moon in an almost perfect alignment; so the Earth blocks solar light. This makes a person born on a Lunar eclipse a person that is strongly protected by the Earth’s energies and usually an individual with a Moon sign opposite their Sun sign in their natal astrological chart (for example, you are a Sun in Sagittarius but your Moon is in the opposite sign of Sagittarius on the zodiac wheel, which is Gemini or your Moon is in Taurus but your Sun sign is in Scorpio). An eclipse is an excess of energy because the Moon is super-charged during such a time, so if you are born on the day of an eclipse your energy is heightened – you could have more energy than your peers and you might exhibit certain extra-sensorial abilities (clairaudience – hearing things beyond the visible realm, clairvoyance – seeing in different dimensions, precognition or extreme empathy etc.). Lunar eclipses only happen during a Full Moon so it’s safe to say, you are a powerhouse of passion and energy since you were born when the Moon was at it’s most powerful, although obscured. This means that your biggest challenge in this lifetime will be to navigate your emotions and combine lighter feelings with darker ones. Your strong emotions and super-human intuition will take you on some fun adventures in this lifetime, so I see this energy as that of a charismatic leader and the Emperor card in the tarot.

Solar Eclipses

A Solar eclipse happens when the Moon finds itself in between the Sun and the Earth during its rotation cycle around our globe; so the Moon blocks the Sun’s light. This means that the native is born under the energy of something other-worldly, and under the Moon’s direct guidance. Solar eclipses always happen on New Moons and this means that a person born on such a day has their Sun sign conjunct their Moon sign in their natal astrological chart (so you are a double Taurus, with both your Sun and your Moon signs in Taurus, or a double Pisces with both your Sun and Moon in this Neptune-blessed sign). New Moons are times to slowly grow into something, so you might be a young soul at your first incarnations here on karma loca, or you could feel the impulse to pioneer something on Earth during your lifetime, by appealing to the power of your unconscious mind (since the Moon governs over the hidden parts of the human Self, the unconscious and its dreams). This is a good indications that you might be a natural-born intuitive healer, an introverted soul who is here to do some major studying in this lifetime and this is why I feel that your tarot card is the Magician!

This article is dedicated to a fellow crew member, Andreas. Sorry it took me so long to write this & thank you for the inspiration!

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.

– Aristotle

We’ve just wrapped up 2021, which for me personally was my year of self-imposed solitude. Bizarrely, after the collective restrictions to our individuals freedoms, imposed by the spread of the Covid-pandemic in 2020, once the vaccine appeared and the personal freedom to move has been somewhat re-stimulated, I chose to go deeper with-in rather than explore with-out. It felt natural & instinctive to make such a choice, like yawning or stretching. And I don’t regret it at all.

In the early part of 2021 I moved into a new flat, in the city center of Bucharest and spent my birthday and all significant holidays by myself. I was alone for Easter, for Halloween, for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It could’ve been the influence of the astrological transits which I was experiencing (both Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius were transiting my 4th house, which is traditionally the most private and intimate point in a person’s birth-chart). So going within and keeping solo felt like the most normal thing to do under such an energetic influence. I slept a lot, I cried a lot, I journaled, I read, I took many long walks, I listened to music and I prayed. However, I do need to explain that I was placed in a rather privileged position: my business was doing well and it allowed me to live like this, and that for most of my life I had travelled, so the fear of missing out was completely dissolved in my case. I was actually looking forward to standing still for once.

I left my parents’ home and the country I grew up in, when I was 20 years old. And up until the moment I turned 33 in 2020, I did not stop moving. Travelling either for love, work or study, I kept going and exploring and expanding. Blame it on my natal Sagittarian Moon, Saturn and Uranus placements, which I associate with an unconscious thirst for adventure and feeling the pressure to emotionally nourish myself by seeking my own freedom in unexpected global places. When I travelled, I felt alive, vital and dynamic. A fire was burning within me, each time I jumped on a train, bus or plane. It was risky, as many dangers could have come about. I felt like I tempted fate and fate never disappointed me; it sheltered me and showed me the world was beautiful and safe to discover. I felt accepted and loved by an invisible force, as I underwent a lot of karmic tests. The moment I arrived someplace completely new and strange, it was an indescribable feeling which gradually became mildly addicting. I always felt connected to the Divine when I was wandering around the world, whether I was getting a higher degree, learning German, visiting my friends, holidaying in the South of France or conducting research in the USA. And by contrast, as if to test myself but also because I was following the limiting conditions of the Zeitgeist, in 2021 I made the conscious choice to stop moving. I didn’t know at the time that I was searching for the Divine within, when I made the decision to stand still. I just felt tired and in need of deep rest.

As I stopped chasing, adventuring, and escaping from my feelings on some level, all of this experience I had gathered but did not have the time to reflect upon, suddenly washed over me. Like a giant wave I was surfing upon which splashed me down the moment I paused and became aware of it. See the thing is, I was gathering all these life experiences but there was never enough time to process them on an emotional level, and thereby turn knowledge into wisdom. As a consequence, I only had knowledge at hand but I remained emotionally immature, afraid of being alone, thrill-seeking and unaware of my co-dependencies. Deciding to be alone was then a moment of deep courage to face everything I was not dealing with. So I returned home and I decided to grow on a deeper level than before, at a root-level. I am grateful I took this time away from the beautiful distractions of the world and from other people, even though I need to admit it hasn’t been easy. Sitting with my feelings has been difficult in 2021, as well as truly carving out a space to be alone. In this process, I paradoxically discovered that being alone is an illusion.

The more I kept saying ‘no’ the more life kept cropping up at the personal boundaries I had established, by bringing me in touch with people that wanted to give to me, to know me and to enjoy me. So I had to resist and kept affirming my ‘no’s. I just couldn’t give off my energy so freely as I could in the past, because something extraordinary happened during this solitary time: my creativity exploded! I poured all of the energy that I would have otherwise given to other people into my creative work and I started developing my business, The Spiritual Social. I enjoyed this process so much that nothing else appeared to matter, as I allowed myself to exist in the creative flow and imagine, divinate, interpret and make use of all the skills I had acquired throughout my life and silently dismissed as ‘hobbies’. These hobbies were actually my true, authentic Self expressing itself. The more I grew The Spiritual Social, the more it became a mirror, reflecting back to me who I really was. In turn, other beautiful souls noticed this and decided to join this authentic space I created for myself and others, in the process of fully accepting who I was. Again, in a paradoxical stroke of good fortune, the more I went within and focused on being my authentic Self and expressing this creatively, the less alone I found myself to be.

The monotony and silence of a quiet life, stimulate the creative mind.

– Albert Einstein

So what you could take from this post and my shared experience is that: a) major transits to your 4th house will require you to go within, to seek solitude and nurture privacy in your home – you will need to deal with your emotions to make the most of such a transit (whether it is a Saturn, Uranus, Pluto or Jupiter one); b) the more time you spend standing still and feeling your emotions the more you will heal and awaken to your innate creativity, so time alone is never ‘wasted time’; c) you will discover that the more you seek solitude, the more impossible it will become to create it – you awaken to the richness of your inner world and will attract solitude’s counterpart, connection. I assume this happens because once you transformed a core ‘need’ into ‘a desire’ then you have empowered yourself, because a desire can be fulfilled more consciously than a compulsive need.

As this process takes place and you start to sensitize more to the events in your life – because they happen more slowly or less frequently than before. As you allow yourself to be sensitive and intuitive, co-dependencies can be more easily dissolved through attentive self-observation. I believe that slowing down is good for your humane sensitivity and mental health. Solitude is deeply healing for a broken heart and replenishing in terms of your identity, if you forgot who you are and what your purpose in life is. You become empowered in solitude and thereby more magnetic, attractive and authentically pure. I learned in 2021 that there is nothing more irresistible than being your Self, as I spent a lot of time by mySelf. To truly get to know someone/something you need to spend time with it, focusing on it and valuing it. And now, I am excited to witness in 2022 in which direction my Self will grow and how this will bring me closer together to members of my soul family.

With universal love,

Lexi

This article is a spiritual book review, and the line in the title is from a song called ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ by the American rock band Nirvana. Whenever I hear it I think of extreme sensitivity. Imagine cutting yourself on something as light and tender as angel’s hair or as milky soft as baby’s breath. Only an empath would understand, not only what these words mean but also how this experience feels. When I first heard the beautiful cover to this song created by the British rock band Glass Animals – and which drew my attention to these particular lyrics – I had a physical reaction as if my skin was envelopped in silk. Sometimes the most powerful impressions are left by whispers than by loud blows. I usually get these physical sensations when I listen to music and when I am around people. I sometimes feel the unspoken pain of other people around me as I simply sit or stand next to them in the subway or in a car, in various public spaces.

I never thought of myself as an empath and growing up in a rather survivalist and traditionally-patriarchal Romanian culture, I was taught to think that being an empath is ‘weird’ or ‘wrong’. One had to be tough, confident and pragmatic to survive. It is only through my Psychology undergraduate studies that I started to get more familiar with this word and understand what it represents and why it is important. This awareness gradually liberated a part of myself I had kept hidden from others, for fear that I would be rejected. The story of an empath described me, who I felt I was at the core, since I was small.

It also described a collective that was somehow living a secret life in the background of other peoples’ more extroverted or less sensitive, daily experiences. I cannot count the times I heard growing up, that: “You’re too sensitive”, “Why are you so careful?” and “Don’t be so shy” and how many hours I had to spend by myself, in stillness, to regroup, after I came into contact with another person’s energy. For a very long time I thought I was sick and unable to function properly in society, until I understood how other people’s presence, energy and emotions affected me. An empath absorbs impressions from their environment and from other people, and can feel their way through life more often than other people, but empaths are not necessarily emotional sponges as the author to the book I am introducing here, describes:

(…) empaths don’t expose themselves to hidden feelings, as if wading through toxic waste without a hazmat suit. And not every impression received is from the “bleak and hopeless” basket of human emotions (…) I’m not just an observer off to the side because I have my own responses to my life. Joy begets joy, love recognizes love, and pain can have profound depths when united with others’ pain. This is part of the emotional broadband that we empathic people possess and learn to manage. I have learned to lean into these moments and physically express the emotions, if possible through actions like clapping, cheering, or crying (p. 116-117)

Signe wrote a beautiful book about the experiences she has had living as an empath and growing into this role. She illustrates her book with intimate examples of moments when she took on the pain of another person and placed herself in their shoes. Such descriptions felt so familiar to me that I couldn’t help nodding and ‘oohhing’ as I was reading her book. Signe believes that one is not born an empath but that one becomes such and that sensitivity is not sufficient without an awareness of this role in the empath’s life, or as she writes:

From my experience, there’s an evolutionary arc from being an overly sensitive person who tries to survive in their environment by feeling separate, to that of being an engaged and functional empath who witnesses what’s out of balance and honors that connection. Admittedly, the awareness that we’re all connected takes cultivation, and for some, it remains theoretical. For empathic people, however, its application is very much a part of our reality, which is poignantly ironic considering that many of us relish time alone. It’s exactly why we sometimes struggle to feel comfortable in our own skin. The boundary between the external and internal can certainly be hard to define when you’re able to feel so much. It’s also why we continually question if our sensitivities are a blessing or a curse (p. XVII)

I agree with this viewpoint and I think that learning what healthy boundaries are and how and when to establish them in social contexts can help an empath deal slightly better with the sudden flow of random, sensorial information that floods them on the regular.

Although feeling overwhelmed is a constant state that I find myself fighting with – but perhaps it is because I am still young and I have still have a long way to go to truly harness this energy and my role as a ‘feeler’. The interesting thing is that Signe dedicates an entire chapter to this almost untalked about aspect: how age and empathy work together. In her book’s final chapter titled “The Fied of Mystery” the author talks about the aging empath and what happens as one gets older and how the relationship the empath has to their senses changes, also in the light of their many different empathic experiences throughout the years. I thought this was so unique and a perfect way to end this beautiful book!

In spite of the fact that Signe tells the reader that the book was designed to be read slowly, I finished it in two days because the writing flowed so well and the examples offered were immersive. I also felt that a friend was talking to me and I didn’t want to put the book down. Perhaps I’m biased, as the topic spoke to me since I self-identify as an empath and I work in the spiritual and occult area of life, but even if you might not be an empath yourself, maybe you love an empath or work with one and are curious to find out more about their inner worlds.

This book offers such a tender and well-organised glimpse into the empath’s world. Signe divided the larger field of percetion that empath are part of and interact with on a daily basis into: the field of reflection, the field of definition, the field of sensing, the field of experience and the field of mystery. I really enjoyed this categorization because it moves the discussion from dry psychological research on empathy to a more intimately felt glimpe into an empath’s inner world; and it is a very rich world, as you can tell.

I loved this book and I feel that if you were to give it a chance you would too! Each section of the book comes with a list of important guide-posts which contain a summary or questions to help you develop your empathic skills or to identify them. Reading this book felt like I was given a present alongside a tender acknowledgement that how I am matters and that there indeed can be some space carved out in society for highly sensitive individuals to share their experiences, to thrive and to heal others.

The book will be officially released next week (12th October) and will be available to purchase from She Writes Press. Visit the author’s website here: https://www.smhovem.com

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

Telepathic communication is a weird one to write about. On one hand, I’ve experienced it so often that it has become something commonplace in my life and on the other hand as soon as I start talking about it, I sound crazy 🙂 But you’ve come to the write place to discuss ‘crazy’. I received a number of requests from you to write about this beautiful phenomenon and I decided to put together some of my astrological knowledge and personal experiences in this post, in the hopes I can inspire and validate your own experiences:

Usually, telepathic abilites are indicated by the following astrological markers in the birth-chart of an individual:

• Sun to 8th House aspects or the Moon in the 8th house
• Chiron, the asteroid of the Wounded Healer, in the 8th house or aspecting to the 8th house
• Strong Sun to Saturn links in the 12th house
• Neptune in the 12th house or aspecting the 12th house
• Being a Cancer, Pisces, Scorpio Sun sign or a Gemini, Libra and Aquarius Sun (especially if placed in the 5th, 11th and 12th houses) – because these are the most intuitive and communication-savy signs.

With all these aspects there is a sense of responsibility and karma (and the potential for deep wounding) but also an unseen way of transmitting your thoughts and feelings to another person. Having other astrological might also work, and I’d be curious to know in the comments sections below how you experience telepathy if you have none of the aspects mentioned above.

Ok, fine Lexi but what is telepathy? I need to know! 🙂 Settle down buttercup and read this definition below from Wiki:

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning “distant” and πάθος/-πάθεια, pathos or -patheia meaning “feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience”) is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

Wikipedia

And if you need some more knowledge bites because you happen to be very knowledge hungry today, I’ll thrown in the ‘telepath’ as well. A person who is able to emit their thoughts to other people without using verbal communication, is a telepath. Here is how the Oxford English Dictionary defines a telepath:

So telepath (ˈtɛlɪpæθ) n., teˈlepathist, an adept in, subject of, or believer in telepathy; ˈtelepath v., (a) trans. to convey or transmit by means of telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy; telepaˈthetic (rare), teleˈpathic adjs., pertaining to, of the nature of, or effected by telepathy; teleˈpathically adv., in a telepathic manner, by means of telepathy; telepathize (ˈtɛlɪpəθaɪz, tɪˈlɛpəθaɪz) v., (a) trans. to communicate with or affect (a person) by telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy; (c) trans., to discern by means of telepathy. rare.

OED

Hunger soothed? Good, let’s move on to some desert.

Telepathy is a skill, which can be awknowledge and trained, much like muscles are trained for sports competitions or voices are trained to hit beautiful notes. The more you do it the better you become at it. The deeper you go the more magical it becomes, as you can transmit not only words and sentences but whole images and scenarios.

It’s important to underline, that telepathy has ceased to be considered ‘witchcraft’ and current sleep researchers are working on thinking how they can train minds to improve this skill, since it can be a valuable ability. It is believed that once the brain reaches the levels of Theta or Delta frequencies, which are naturally produced during meditation, hypnosis, when we relax or when we sleep, then it can emit thoughts which link to a signficant other person’s thoughts, potentially travelling throug the astral realm. For the sceptics among you, here is an article describing how scientific research is increasingly backing up the trend towards our development of extra-sensorial communication abilities: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-prove-that-telepathic-communication-is-within-reach-180952868/

In the world of divination now, I have two Oracle decks which tackle the subject of telepathy. These are from the Oracle of the Mermaids by Lucy Cavendish and The White Light Oracle by Alana Fairchild. I would like to share with you an abbreviated version of the two texts which accompany these cards, in the hopes that I can inspire you to pursue either the practice of telepathy or to gain clarity over the special ability you might own:

“If you receive this card, you may be one of the people who feel lost when it comes to words, or less open to have conversations as they seem to never express what it is you feel so deeply. You prefer to let your energy shine through and speak for you. Many people are labelled with medical terminology if they are silent, when in fact they are constantly communicating, just in ways that are advanced, subtle, yet ancient. They are open-energied, and communicate effectively and are in harmonious attunement with animals, plants, crystals and song, more so than with conversation, and the jousting competitive turn much of that can take. You may also find yourself connecting telepathically with memories stored in crystals, trees, and sacred sites. You too can connect with your telepathy and true wisdom by connecting with these sacrdc spaces, crystals and trees. Huge bodies of water, like the Pacific, are brimming with energies and memories, and you are one who can read them, one who can speak the language of energy.”

From the Oracle of Mermaids

“The pathway for your spiritual fulfillement and the sacred manifestation of your purpose is not necessarily logical and will evolve organically. The skilfull and unpredictable workings of the Earth Mother are supporting your soul journey unconditionally. Following up on inspired ideas and allowing for unexpected shifts in (this) direction are integral to the manifestation of your soul purpose. Commit to an idea that feels good to your heart. Even if it seems improbable or unattainable, it will manifest successfully.”

From the White Light Oracle

Now what I can add to Lucy’s beautiful text is that Labradorite and Blue Kyanite are the best crystals for facilitating both telepathy and astral projection (the experience of feeling your soul existing your body to travel different realms during sleep – more on this in an upcoming post). Also, by stimulating the Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) you can enter not only deeply meditative states but also send messages across dimensions. And I need to say that we tend to communicate telepathically with people whom we love, we have known for a long time and with our past-life soulmates. It will be harder to use telepathy on someone we have not establish a connection with (either in this lifetime or in our past lives). This is why you should be mindful or having random sex with people since you can easily give them access to your energy, as the connection can be established in a purely sexual way since it doesn’t have to be emotional (although the emotional channel is the strongest telepathic link is linked in telepathy to the functionin of the amygdala and the pituitary gland in our brain).

Another important distinction is that talking to ancestors or the departed is not telepathic communication. If the person is disembodied, that experiences is called ‘channelling’ since you are dealing with spirits and not with the energetic emissions of another lively human brain. Telepathic communication happens at some relative physical distance between two alive human brains which are not using words or sounds to communicate. It can happen between you and your lover over-seas or between you and your mother who is cooking in the room next to you. It can also happen as you fill in the sentences for your child or finish your lover’s sentences, or those of another family member whose ‘normal’ speech capacities are affected. There are various levels and an array of complex experiences and I hope that with this article I wetted your appetite for telepathic explorations.

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

Inspiration struck me in the shower (as always, since I’m a water sign) and suddenly I felt the urge to write this post in the hopes that you too will feel contaminated by curiousity, and pull up your own chart to see if any of these significant conjunctions appear. As always, my intention is to inspire you to seek your own truth while having fun with astrology. Below are some of the most interesting and tricky-to-interpret combinations which I very often see in the charts of my clients. So this post can serve as a useful reference for those of you who practice astrology:

Saturn conjunct Uranus – This is the energy of an electric storm brewing in the closet. You have the energy of the stern and stoic Repressor (Saturn) combined with the rebellious and inquisitive Maverick (Uranus). So you experience circumstances in life which show you the limits of your goals, love, energy, dreams and desires (or the limits of your wealth and body, if Saturn is placed in more material houses like the 2nd, 6th or 10th). But as soon as you become aware of specific limitations in your life, you suddenly take some form of innovative action to break through that limitation. And you will be successful enough to lead other people towards their own liberation, by teaching them how to overcome such perceived limitations. You are the living embodiment of the Doors’ song ‘Break on Through (to the Other Side)’ This placement also shows a life-long inability to stick to habits and schedules since they will be frequently changed or turned into creative forms of living (so try not to conform or place yourself in a box). If this placement is difficult to hold down a steady routine, the good news is that it also protects you from addictive habits (you’ll just get bored and feel the compulsion to switch things up pretty soon).

Saturn conjunct Jupiter – This is a confusing placement because you carry the energy of restrictions and limitations in the same energy as that of expansion and growth! Saturn is the stern father telling you to come home at 9Pm sharp and not to drive drunk, and Jupiter is the optimistic wingman who tells you one more drink is not gonna hurt and you also have some darts to finish playing with your friends. So you will experience a lot of stops and starts in your life and even the energy of the same day can be divided into ‘hardship in the morning’ and ‘good luck at sundown’ 🙂 It’s a tricky placement to navigate, but it denotes that your greatest achievements in life will come with the greatest hardships. It also shows that if you put in the work things will grow quicker and larger for you than for your peers. An example would be: you fight for an inheritance with your siblings and then you settle legally and get a much larger sum than expected (3rd and 8th house hard aspects to the Moon and Venus). Or you start practicing ballet and you end up being chosen as the leading dancer at a much earlier age than your peers or the job is for a presitigous ballet company (5th and 11th house oppositions to Sun and Mars). This placement can sometimes denote a highly influential granfather, someone who serves as your spiritual teacher.

The Moon conjunct The North Node (or Rahu, in vedic astrology) – This placement indicated emotional chaos. It is a difficult indicator for both sexes, but it is believed to be more difficult for women. When you get the energy of unconscious emotions which can bubble up to the surface in random ways in combination with the Head of the Dragon, that destined point of the Moon which indicated the things we find uncomfortable in this incarnation and yet we feel compelled to follow the path of our destiny, then you get obsessive emotions and a rollecoaster of feelings. This combo shows a person who might feel nothing for a while and then everything all at once, a person who loves you today and hates you tomorrow, or someone who is simply never satisfied with how much love they get so they constantly seek out intense feelings and drama in order to fulfill a deep inner need. Depending on other aspects in the chart (trines to Venus, a high-functioning Jupiter, a well-aspected Sun) the individual can experience some softeness, but it’s important to underline that this conjunction needs to be lived out. There isn’t much to do about this transit since it is this person’s destiny to experience the highs and lows of love, betrayal, depression, joy, envy, lust etc. This marker can sometimes indicate a person that needs to be medicated to function appropriately in society, and a famous example is the chart of the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who has this combo in Pisces. She channeled this energy so beautifully in her profession as an actress (Pisces), however she has also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Mars conjunct Venus – You have the God of War and Lust combined with the Goddess of Beauty and Love all wrapped up in your energy core. So you act of love, and love to take action! You are a romantic daredevill and can easily become a womanizer or maneater if working with the lowest vibration of this combo. Also, this means these two opposing forces within yourself are constantly ‘making love’, which grants you an incredibly magnetic power. You don’t have to chase love commitments or sexual encounters, these easily come to you. This is because you ooze desire, fertility and a sexy kind of beauty. People of all ages, sexual orientations, and different walks of life are drawn to you like moths to a flame. However, you can easily manipulate people with the promise of love or sexual satisfaction so be mindful of how you use this power. Depending on the astrological sign of this conjunction you can experience satisfactory benefits (such as when Mars and Venus are conjunct in Taurus or Libra) or this type of conjunction can reveal some hidden sexual or romantic abused (such as when the conjunction is in Virgo or Aquarius – because these two signs are usually energeticaly pure and emotionally detached, and they dislike being dragged into sexual and romantic murkiness), especially if this combo is placed in the 8th, 4th or 12th houses of the chart. Many celebrities have this combo in their charts, such as Lupita Nyong’o and The Rock (Dwayne Johnson).

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

So I was reading Bernadette Brady‘s fascinating book but had to stop and give you this article “by popular request” – i.e. you guys DM-img me a couple of days in a row to ask me the same thing over and over again :)) And because I love you, I thought I’d prepare a short post where I feature some of the books that have inspired me, served me and taught throughout the years. These are books on astrology, tarot booklets and some miscelania ones on witchcraft and lucid dreaming. It’s important to keep in mind that one doesn’t need books to practice tarot or astrology, but deeper learning will always make you better, since you’ll train your mind to analyse and interpret clues in birth-charts and the cards (also, you can add brag-value to your work, and occult books are pretty fab in general!)

Astrology

I learned astrology throughout many years (roughly 15 now), from Liz Greene, Donna Cunningham, Stephen Aroyo, Susan Miller, Lada Duncheva, and more recently Pam Gregory and Karni Zor. For all of these authors, I strongly recommend their work and resources: Liz’, Donna’s, Susan’s and Stephen’s are primarily to be found in books or online articles, while Lada, Karni and Pam have their own Youtube channel under the same names. I also recommend the reports of the wonderful and mysterious Mystic Medusa: https://mysticmedusa.com/

Delving into the work of all or just some of these experienced astrologers should set you up nicely for a career in the same field. Donna Cunningham‘s astrological books especially felt cathartic to me when I was reading them. Donna is a Cancer Sun Sign and you can tell how motherly and nurturing the tone of her writing is as she unpacks some difficult to digest astrological discussions of rape and abuse. For someone like myself, who was born with a very strong Pluto and an afflicted Moon in her chart, she made me understand the deeper layer of my astrological placements and find empowerment in them. Her insights also help me see the charts of my clients in a more positive and empowering light rather than as a something pre-destined and doomed.

On the other hand, Stephen Arroyo has a more associative approach to the discussion of astrology. He made me aware of the Eastern philosophical undercurrents and symbols which Western astrology borrows from, and how karma and astrology are combined. Stephen is a Libra Sun Sign, and you can tell this by the deep level of analysis his work comprises – he also helped me understand how to read complexities in a birth-chart and why someone’s Saturn placement can be a blessing when activated by the right transit. I absolutely loved his book ‘Astrology, Karma and Transformation” so much so that I took it with me on a romantic holiday with a boyfriend and we had an argument in the train-ride back home about why I was paying more attention to the book than to him – well…honestly now, I prefer astrology to men 🙂 (a view toppled only by maybe ‘astrological men’ like Stephen). Stephen also wrote a book on Jupiter which I have as an ebook and frequently refer to when I need some clarification on a Jupiter sign (for example I was always intrigued by how Jupiter in Cancer works in the 9th house since that is contradictory energy, but Stephen got me covered).

Now potentially the most well-known and astute astrologer of the ones listed above, is Liz Greene. A Virgo Sun Sign with enciclopedic knowledge of literature, fairy-tales and ancient myths she has a very no-nonsense approach to the study of astrology. She regularly contributes with articles on www.astrodienst.com and I highly recommend her audio-courses on myths and folk-tales in astrology, but I also loved that she is one of the few teachers who comprehensively made me understand my own ruling planet, Neptune. Although mostly known for her acerbic discussion of Saturn and how it distributes karma in our lives, I enjoyed more her book ‘Relating’ which helps one reflect on parent-child dynamics in your own life and generational aspects, as well as love and romance issues.

And speaking of relating, I feel that Debra Silverman‘s book on astrological elements (Fire, Air, Water, Earth) was a fun and useful update to Liz’s work, so these go together like a cup with its saucer (although remind me again who is still using saucers in 2021?!) Also for more details on Debra’s book please read my previous post here.

Speaking of relating, the ever-fascinating subject of astrological romantic and erotic compatibility is well-captured in two entertaining books. I really enjoyed the funny and in-depth, astrological guide to men, provided by the Astro Twins or Tali and Ophira Edut, two Sagittarius Sun lifestyle astrologers from New York who get into such rich detail regarding the romantic expectations women should have with their specific Sun sign lover (it’s all done in good fun, so don’t take it too seriously but the typologies described are sometimes so accurate it hurts).

In addition to the Love Zodiac ‘massive’ book, I remember purchasing some years ago, during one of those procrastination bouts from my PhD, a book that actually gathered interview data with people of a given astrological sign about their sexual experiences and erotic fantasies. All these impressions, collected from real people, give life to Myrna Lamb’s “The Astrology of Great Sex”. From this collection I specifically remember how one Libra woman described making love to her partner, with the windows open during winter time, while watching the snow fall – poetic ❤

Tarot & Miscelanea

With tarot it’s relatively easy because usually each tarot deck comes equipped with a tarot booklet that describes the symbols, the mythology behind the cards and their meanings, in both upright and reversed positions…usually. I found that some decks are richer than others and have some better designed booklets. There are some exceptions, for example the famous Italian company Lo Scarabeo offers some gorgeous tarot decks but also infamously has very brief and cheap-looking accompanying booklets that do not provide much information. The upside is that they leave space for multi-lingual descriptions, so you might be able to read the concise meaning of the cards in your own language.

But I’d like to show you my favourite tarot booklets, which are in my opinion the most complete, since they are clearly based on some scholarship and tarot experience, they are packed with information for both upright and reversed positioned cards, and they are just well made and beautifully illustrated (plus they look like actual books): 1) The Mary El Tarot, 2) The Linestrider’s Tarot, 3) The Dreams of Gaia Tarot and 4) The Mystical Dream Tarot.

And finally the two other books I thought are worth mentioning are like a beginner’s manual on how to get into practical witchcraft and handle your bouts of lucid dreamings (and understand what these might mean). I received both of them as gifts (plus, they make great gifts!) and simply fell in love with the word ‘oenirounautics’ and the candle spells in the witch’s spell book:

That’s all I could think of for the time being, but stay tuned because my ebook occult library harbors 89 books at the moment and I’m slowly (but surely) making my way through them all. Will report back with other gems I’ll find. Enjoy your readings in the meantime and feel free to share your favourites below!

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

If you are finally ready to embrace your occult personality type and are thinking of practicing as a modern witch, below are some things you might want to consider as you embark on this journey of cosmic self-knowledge and self-development:

• Figure out what type of witch you are

What I’d wish I’d known beforehand was the grand variety of witches that are out there! Gone are the days when a witch was a lonely, ostracized woman living on the outskirts of society, in a hut in the forest, with her cats, broom and potions (that is a tired old stereotype in all likelihood).. Nowadays, as our knowledge develops and we kept evolving, so do our occult identities, as we blend spirituality with science and technological advancements.

First there is the color spectrum (and here I refer to the form of witchcraft practiced and the entities invoked in such a practice and not to the skin color of any particular witch). So there are Black/Dark Witches who dabble mostly with curses and hook-spells, invoking creatures of darkness and serving Lucifer. The aim of their work is to control other people, but they can also transmute energy. Mars, Saturn and Pluto-ruled Sun signs such as Scorpio, Capricorn and Aries can practice this form of witch-craft better than other astrological signs, due to how comfortable they are exploring the depths of human darkness. I do not recommend practicing as a Dark Witch if you do not know what you are doing since spiritual possession and cursing your bloodline might accidentally occur.

Their counterparts are White Witches (also known as Light-workers). These are usually people that have experienced a couple of ‘dark nights of the soul’ in their lifetime and have begun their journey into spirituality and the occult due to some traumas. But rather then succumbing to the darkness, White witches have chosen to improve, purify and better themselves. As such White Witches serve Spirit and its Archangels, and usually invoke or summon beings of Light during their rituals. White Witches are aware of the surrounding pain, drama and darkness of reality but they consciously chose to bring light and love into deeply painful situations. They are usually tasked to undo the damage done by Dark Witches and their corresponding sentinels. Any zodiac sing can become a Light-worker.

There are also Green Witches (also known as Earth Angels, the servants of Gaia) who are highly in tune with the bounty of the earth and they know how to respectfully harvest it and to transform it into alternative forms of healing medicine. These are the alternative apothecaries of the occult world, who not only use the bounty of the flora and fauna around but also work to preserve it and sustain it. They are some of my favorites as they have extensive knowledge of botany and zoology, they can harvest herbs, spices, fruits, berries, vegetables and dry them up or create preserves, they ground and process food and also make medicine and healing ointments, they create oils, bake their own bread and plant fresh seeds. They are expert tea-makers and incense-makers, or herb-bundle creators. They are also versed in crystals and use them in their daily energetic practices. Sensual earth signs such as Taurus and Virgo, and wild-loving Sagittarians make the best Green witches.

Then there are Grey Witches who tread the fine line between a Dark and a White witch, and I was lucky to come into contact with one who educated me on this topic and gifted me the ‘Divine Feminine Oracle’ (pictured below). Grey witches serve both the Divine and the Unholy, and they can summon beings of light as well as those who lurk in the shadows. Grey witches feel comfortable working in-between these two realms, and have a strong past-life link to the Oracles of Delphi, the high priestesses who served Apollo and who had the gift of foresight. There is however more work involved if you are thinking this is a good choice for you, so keep in mind the inner dualities you need to contain and the many forms of cleansing that you will require to perform since the amount of work is double to that of a Dark and White Witch. Also, the communities you might be part of might brand you as ‘undecided’ and push you into picking a side – I would suggest resisting and standing your ground, especially if you feel that being a Grey witch is your calling. Mutable Sun signs such as Pisces, Virgo, Gemini and Sagittarius can cope better with duality and are better suited for this type of practice.

Lastly, there are the Hybrids of the Age of Information: starseeds, steam-punk witches or priestesses, sentinel cleaners, shadow workers, techno-witches/robo-witches. This latter group combines advancements in technology with occult ancient practices, and they have a hacker’s agenda’s alongside more environmentally aware and eco-feminist goals. Expansive, knowledgeable and independent signs such as Aquarius and Gemini make the best Techno-witches.

These are just some of the types of witches I am currently aware of; there might be more. Feel free to comment below from your experiences and help us all learn.

• Cleaning & cleansing

The second thing to be aware of is that being a witch involves a lot of daily cleaning and cleansing! I never expected to have to clean my body (both inside and out), my living space and my invisible/energetic Self as much as when I chose to finally embody my occult personality type. As a Pisces Sun, I was focused early on in my life on creating space and stillness in my life, on finding spaces where I could be alone and experience my freedom and solitary interests, and I reflected a lot on the spiritual nature of my identity, on my breathing, on meditation and psychological analysis but in order to fully own my white witch identity I realized that the older I got and the more I practiced my craft, I also had to incorporate my Virgo Shadow and to be very attentive to cleanliness. This point was brought home to me after I experienced some bizarre energetic shifts, where I began to feel slimed, tired, and drained for no apparent medical reason at all. But my intuition was guiding me towards sorting out the clutter in my space and I also felt guided to shower my body with salt which at the time to me, looked so pure and different than how I was feeling energetically. As I tended to my bodily and material needs, the energy started returning to me, and thse experiences further solidified my belief than in such a line of work you need to balance spirituality with materiality to flow with ease.

• Notice cues & train your intuition

This month for about a week I had an incessant eye-flicker which did not resolve even after I took my doctor’s prescribed Magnesium supplements. I tried resting more and still no change. Eventually, I realized that this flicker intensified whenever I had to go outside and connect with people who I could feel were ‘unhealed’. So I burned some incense at home and did a chord-cutting ritual, after I had some negative interactions with people in my city’s local administration, and my eye-flicker stopped. Now I never leave the house without obsidian and black tourmaline in my pockets.

On another occasion, I visited an old neighbor and as were talking over coffee and biscuits, but I felt like moments into our conversations her stare was became mildly intrusive and unkind (like her words stopped matching her inner thoughts). After that encounter I started to feel sick in my stomach and I started yawning a lot which are my usually bodily cues that I am under the spell of the evil eye (something my mother taught me to identify and cleanse early on in life). After rubbing my wrist with essential rosemary oil diluted in grapeseed oil and repeating the most powerful prayer I know, I yawned the evil eye away and felt better. Such daily encounters, taught me the value of cleaning the materials around me (including my clothes) and of spiritual cleansing (through prayer, affirmations and incantations). They also helped me become more aware of my intuition and they helped train it.

• Cleanse with the cosmic cycles (New/Full Moons, Retrogrades and Portals)

So now, I clean and bless the space in which I live and work each day. Not only that but I also clean the energy between each tarot reading and after the completion of each birth-chart. Cleaning can be done by sweeping dust and dirt with the traditional broom, or by vacuuming and washing the floors and the materials you use, and it is especially powerful around a Full and New Moon. Cleansing the space can be done through: a) sound (with bells, wind chimes, whistles or Tibetan bowls), b) speech & will power (by chanting, saying affirmations, whispering prayers and intentions, incantations, mantras), c) air & smoke (by burning incense, with candles or by diffusing essential oils, by using an air purifier in the room), c) water (by spraying some rose water, an essential oil mix, some holy water). You will find that the cleaner the spaces the better and calmer the energy around you will become and in turn you will also feel more settled and peaceful.

We feed off each other, as the environment and we are always linked so you should begin to pay attention to your environment and if there is something you feel is not right/doesn’t fit, always honor this intuitive insight and correct accordingly in your practice. For years, I felt weakened during Mercury retrogrades but only this year I decided to actually take time off from work (also this year, I managed to make work-based decisions that allowed me this luxury). Mercury retrogrades are excellent time to study, revise, correct, improve and just go on a holiday. They happen 3 times per year, for roughly 3 weeks each time. It’s a slap in the face of capitalism to take this much time ‘off’ but think about the importance of resting, cultivating your mind, catching up on reading, practicing new rituals and spells and just letting your tarot cards rest for a while. Whenever I return I feel I went up a notch in my spiritual development, so even if you aren’t doing the ‘usual’ service work for individuals, you are working nonetheless and what feels or looks like rest is actually deep, unconscious processing of everything that happened too quickly as Mercury was direct.

Also use the energy of Portals and Eclipses to boost your intentions and help you give up bad habits. Every year the Lion’s Gate Portal in August gives us an opportunity to reset our capacity to shine and implement new goals (think of this as you spiritual birthday and who wouldn’t want to celebrate two birthday a year, the physical and the spiritual one). Again for any of these energetic corridors you’ll want to remember the most important step of your witch-craft: that cleanliness is next to Spirit! As you keep practicing the craft you’ll notice how sensitive you will become to any bit of lingering dirt or grime that could cramp your energy and dim your mood. You’ll also feel how your energetic tendrils are blending with those existent in your environment. So using incense, essential oil sprays, taking iodized salt showers or rose petal baths alongside the usual ways of cleaning your body and your space (with soap, shampoo, commercial cleaning products) are important parts of your spiritual journey.

I need to underline that the material and the spiritual support each other, it is not a case of either/or. A good spiritual practitioner understands and supports things which we have been taught to consider opposites, but especially if you are a Grey witch or a Shadow worker, getting comfortable with the in-between of human experience, with spectrums, scales and gradients of human feeling and identity are essential in fully owning your witch’s role.

• Tools

Most of the guides to witch-craft which I have read start you off with a list of objects you can make you own magical tools. Firstly, you’ll need to source a broom and a knife/dagger. These are the two most important objects in a beginner witch’s kit. The broom is for the first reason stated above, to clean. Cleaning on a spiritual level means transmuting and shifting energy. The image of the witch on a broom, snarling and cursing at the moon is a sexist one propagated by the mostly Christian patriarchy to dissuade women from owning their powers and practice the craft, but the broom was from the beginning merely the symbol of grounding and cleansing and it is essential that you also own one – it can be in any shape or form (a fine feathered cleansing broom, or a more traditional and bigger straw one). Avoid using the vacuum cleaner or roomba if you can, at least around your altar because it could accidentally aspire some of your crystals, runes or flower petals (it could also aspire some tarot cards and unnecessarily bend them). The knife is important in chord-cutting rituals, in scrying, in spell-baking, and to help you unpack and bless new tarot and oracle decks. Other tools include you Book of Shadows, your herb bundles (Palo Santo and Sage), a fumigation shell/receptacle, you lighter and candles, your incense sticks and incense burner, your crystals, your singing bowl/bell/wind chimes, your crystal jewelry and even your magick wand. I like to re-use ice-cream plastic containers and food glass jars, empty wine or cider bottles to keep and store my tools, because in this way it is more eco-friendly.

• Some thoughts on Protection

After you’ve been practicing the craft for a while you’ll see that your spiritual journey will involve confronting less savory aspects of your Self which you are not yet aware of – this means you’ll need to do some Shadow Work. This happens as you manifest some avatars, some contenders and cynics or potentially mentally ill people that will give you some negative feedback. You’ll want to devise some auric protection spells as you walk on this path especially since you’ll go through moments of extreme sensitivity and healing when you will be energetically vulnerable. However, I do need to underline that as long as your connection to Spirit remains fluid and strong, protection spells are not that necessary. It’s just that sometimes a strong Saturn or Pluto transit to your Moon, 12th/4th/8th houses, or a Mars return or even some natal squares and oppositions that get activated in your natal birth-chart, will hinder you capacity to feel connected to the Divine- the delays are usually meant to level you up and indeed you might experience a lot of illusions and imaginary fears during such transits; they are meant to bring up insecurities and anxieties to your consciousness, and grim thoughts about being somehow ‘abandoned’ or ‘punished’ by the Divine, in order for you to face them and dissolve them. It is not the actual case that you are abandoned by the Divine, but an illusion created by one of these malefic aspects or planets. During such transits, keep in mind that each one of them has an expiration date and that you’ll need to either get savvy at using protection rituals or get deeper into your praying, meditation and bodily movement routines to flow with Spirit’s energy again. Lastly, you can also do both, and begin vibrating to a higher frequency altogether. Such periods normally leave you stronger and wiser than how you were previously to such a transit.

Lastly, there are many resources you can use to keep improving, learning and growing. The more you allow your passions and intuition to guide you the better at this craft you will become. Your increasing in sensitivity is a gift, for you will pick up on more subtle energy shifts and you can even protect yourself better from lies or deceit in your environment since you might develop strong physical reactions as your emotions are more finely tuned to your mind. You will be able to pick up some occult skills as well such as astral travel, lucid dreaming, telepathy, clair-audience, clair-voyance, divination or enhance the ones you are naturally gifted with.

Ultimately this is a beautiful journey to be one and we are fortunate that in 2021 we can practice freely in the context of a society that while still rather close-minded to alternative forms of being, is not burning you on a stick or stoning you to death. Change is inevitable and even if slow; it is bringing us into a whole new realm of existence. At the end of the day, I do hope you can bravely listen to your heart and decide to walk on this path!

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

(Your Resident Light-worker/White Witch)

In this post I’d like to talk about a transit that I’m currently experiencing, and which started in 2018. I feel I gathered sufficient personal experience in the last two years, to share with you now, how Uranus transiting my natal Mars feels like and give you some insight on what you can expect. This is not an easy transit and I feel I need to provide some guidance for those of you who are currently undergoing this transit and are wondering ‘What the hell is going on?’ or for those of you who will face this transit as soon as Uranus hits Gemini in 2025 (because being prepared usually softens the blow).

Uranus takes about 84 years to complete its rotation around the Sun, and as it tracks on its orbit it often beams its energy through a particular constellation on the Earth’s ecliptic belt (comprised of the 12 astrological constelations identified by our Spiritual Ancestors). This means that you might not experience Uranus transiting over any of your personal planets in your lifetime, or maybe over all at once (if you have a stellium, for example). Uranus might not conjunct a personal planet but it might make aspects to your personal planets (such as a square, an opposition, a trine or a sextile), urging you on some level to pay attention to the insights it is randomly producing in your life.

Outer planets are those considered to lie beyond what we can normally spot with our eyes from Earth. So our personal planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn (with the honorable exception of the Sun, which is a star), while the outer planets are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Whenever an outer-planet switches astrological signs there is usually an important fated or karmic mass change taking place in the collective. These transits usually mark generations, and they reshape the fabric of our social world and how we perceive it and relate to it. For example, when Pluto switched from Sagittarius to Capricorn in 2008 there was the Lehman Brothers financial crash which had ripple economic effects on the whole globe, or when Neptune shifted from Aquarius to Pisces in 2012 a 10-metre long tsunami affected a nuclear power plant in Japan. Now when an outer planet conjuncts a personal planet, this normally is a high-order activation which means that fated events will take place in that house of your chart where the planet is transiting. So I would suggest sutdying the deeper meaning of that house well to get ready to integrate this energy in your life with more awareness. I’ll be using my personal example for analysis because it is what I know best.

As Uranus is transiting closer to my natal Mars, it is activating my personal will-power and courage in the 7th house (the house traditionally ruled by lovely Libra, that place in our chart were we co-operate, relate, communicate, love, get married or sign long-term contracts). As you can imagine having Mars in this house is not the best placement since it foretells frequent arguments and conflicts with lovers and business partners. In addition, having Uranus transiting this house, it means I cannot ignore how anger plays a really important role in my love life and in how I handle parternships. This is because on a soul level, the 7th house is the house of repressed emotions, our unconscious self, or our Shadow Self (that blindspot within ourself that shows what Others see about us that we are not so aware of).

Uranus brings in a certain chaotic energy in a particular house of you chart and tends to electrify any personal planets. So ever since this transit started I kept being confronted with problematic people who are mirroring back to myself my own shortcomings, so that I may work through integrating my Shadow side by becoming aware of my flaws, my limitations, my love patterns and the boundaries of my Self in relation to Other people. The goal is loving myself more, reclaiming my self-respect and functioning in relationships on a higher, more mature level. I have also been energised to act differently than I had in the past, and I am experiencing moments of either excited and constant energy or low peaks in my energy when I procrastinate, feel weak and tired. This is because Uranus gives lightning-bolts of mental awareness which are then slowly processed on an emotional level. That processing slows us down on the surface level, but inwardly we are levelling up to higher states of consciousness. If it sounds scary, stay with me – I promise you it is worth going through this strange and random process of dismantling a previous version of your Self that just wasn’t helping you find peace and be happy in the world.

Bye, bye Stagnation! Hello, Untamable Energy

Uranus has been in Aries for the majority of the Pluto in Capricorn era, creating a number of Cardinal Cross moments and tense squares to Pluto. That was a historical period, which one astrologer whom I love and admire, Mystic Medusa, called ‘The Zap Zone’ – a time of great social upheavals around the world and military rebellious insurgencies. Then in 2018 Uranus switched signs into the Earth-bound and Venusian sign of Taurus, and for a while there was a sense of increased stability – one which was broken in 2020 when Saturn entered for a short while in Aquarius and thereby creating another tense energetic aspect of forced growth (and which astrologers call ‘a square’). We are now in an environment where work and the stability or the prosperity it brought is being reconfigured, where there is a sense of financial and environmental chaos that is also affecting our relationships to our stable sense of self and our health and bodies (all of these areas are ruled by sturdy and fertile Taurus). The material realm is currently reconfigured by making us face our own vulnerability to fast-mutating viruses and living in a quickly shifting new weather and environmental climate (and whether we enjoy the ‘ride’ or not, we are given the opportunity to use our minds to find solutions).

The first period of Saturn in Aquarius squaring Uranus in Taurus saw the beginning of lockdowns in the world. I personally was more creative than I have ever been and growing my You Tube channel ‘The Spiritual Social’, momentarily kept me from experiencing deep fear and disillusionment. This is because I have a natal Venus in Aquarius and a natal Mars in Taurus (so the transiting heavenly square activated the natal Yin-Yang square I have in my natal chart, or better said the energy I carry within me since birth). Any squares which are activated in our charts produce a lot of energy which must be processed externally in creative and innovative ways. But the second time Saturn dipped into Aquarius and joined Jupiter as well during the great conjunction on last year’s Winter Solstice (21st December), I felt as if my entire stability was crumbling beneath my feet and I had to come up quickly with an overwhelming amount of solutions. Below are some of the core traits that I personally witnessed with Uranus activating a natal Mars placement:

1. When Uranus hits your Mars placement (it doesn’t even need to be conjunct but just in the same house), I would suggest making it easier on yourself and prepare to let go of what you thought your schedule was. Your daily habits will inevitably change as you will go through erratic energy levels. One moment you have the strength and courage of a legion, the next you need 4 cups of coffee just to roll out of bed. It’s a ‘bender’ kind of energy, where you receive jolts of action, followed by moments of pasivity where you cannot do much but rest. Give these moments a clever name such as ‘my powering up stage’, ‘I’m juicing myself up’, ‘filling in my batteries’ or ‘re-loading’, just to help you cope and to make you feel like you are not just sitting around being lazy, but are actually gathering your energy for the next part of the learning curve, and keep in mind that Uranus will keep you up on that steeo learning curve like you’re on a rollercoaster ride, until it leaves that house!
2. Figure out how long the transit lasts. The current transit of Uranus in Taurus began on the 16th of May 2018 and will end on the 27th of April 2026. You can easily check the dates of the planets by consulting an Astrodienst ephemeris (basically a map of the sky in a given year). Knowing how long something lasts, can help you plan, organise and prepare. If it’s a good transit then you can decide to enjoy the ride, but it’s a difficult transit, being aware of its expiration date can help you overcome it.
3. Another thing that helps is figuring out which aspects it makes to other houses or planets in your chart. I am aware that this transit is activating a really difficult square in my chart (Venus square Mars) so I prefer to remain single as I integrate a lot of unconscious aggression back into my system. Most astrologers call this aspect ‘the domestic violence marker’ and because I am aware of this potential I control it by actively owning my anger, acknowleging it and training myself not to react on it (although there are days when I somehow ‘get it’ and others when I fail at it and can lash out). As this process unfolds what I discovered is that I am brimming with creativity and I feel inspired to produce a lot of things (clips, services, articles etc.). By knowing that the higher vibration of Mars is profound creativity and intuition, I set daily intentions to be guided in this direction rather than in the lower-energies of violence and conflict.

Erratic and Episodic Love

If you are Venusian (i.e with planets in Libra and Taurus), this transit might not be a ‘joy ride’ since you’ll find it hard to plan or to stick to a plan, and make it look elegant and poised. And this is also because Uranus is re-organizing you at a primal level, as Mars rules over our instincts. In general, Uranus teaches emotional detachment because it wants you to pay attention to the new insights it will bless you with. But in order to help you change your energetic pattern or relationship to your basic instincts, it first has to show you where you are wrong and are mis-using your energy. And that is the humbling part of the ride, the uncomfortable trigger that pushes you to change something. I had so many moments of saying ‘Enough!’ to people, places, routines and my own inner critic, since this transit started; and in this way I empowered myself. At the same time I burned some bridges, so I am in the process on understanding how I can form relationships with this new sense of self-respect now.

As you will begin to analyze your life from a brand new light, it helps if sit down from time to time in stillness to integrate the messy emotions that overwhelm your clear insights in this period (similar to the period when Uranus transits over your Moon, in which case your emotions are key to accessing higher states of consciousness).

So with Uranus on your Mars – which represents your willpower and life-force, your energy and creativity, your charisma and courage – you will enter a period of time when you will either have little to almost no energy for days and then followed by a massive downpouring of energy that keeps you up for a potential period of 72 hours straight. Uranus’s electricity will affect your willpower and energy in fantastically unpredictable ways, making you feel messy and disorganized. I would suggest not trying to control this energy by rigidly keeping it within a 9 to 5 because it won’t work – it will backfire on you and eventually might even get you fired from a conventional job with strictly delimited and stable parameters. Uranus wants you to get out of any comfort zones you might have willingly or unwillingly placed yourself into, so you can ‘think big’ and grow into your authenticity.

What is it that you’ve always love doing? When Uranus hits your Mars and unleashes your primal drive in small and shocking spurts, then you will be faced with the inevitability of following your heart. The only way to ‘control’ this energy is by deciding to commit to following your own path, going solo or doing your thing for a while and as you are doing so, accept the social disapproval or backlash which might ensue in your social circle. After all, Uranian energy wants you to rebel against the status quo and defragment old patterns of your thinking (usually inherited from your parents, cultural and religious backgrounds). So you might as well give into this energy and allow it to creatively lead you down previously untrodden new pathways in life.

Genius Shocks

Basically, when Uranus travels over your Mars it creates a power dynamo, so you’re better off letting it roll than holding it tightly in your palms and risk being burned by its sheer intensity. I have a South Node in Libra and the major defects with this placement are a tendency to people-please and be indecisive – well, at the moment Uranus is not allowing me to do either of these things. Every time I fall into that comfort pattern a conflict ensues that teaches me to step into my own power and reclaim my energy. At times I also experience these briefly humorous moments when it’s almost as if the Divine steps in to remove something or someone from my life that was harming me. The best thing about this transit is that you are unconsciously pushed into action to deal with things that you previously disliked but somehow tolerated.

Uranus unleashes the cool warrior within. In this way, Uranus liberates you – it shows you that you must take action now, because that job or that relationship has become intolerable and tomorrow is not guaranteed. To be honest a part of me is slightly dreading the moment when Uranus will hit 16 degrees and will exactly conjunct my Mars, just by judging how this transit went so far. But my case is more difficult because I am having this transit opposite my Pluto in Scorpio in the first house and squared by my Venus in the 4th house ( which is also under Saturn’s clutch for the next 2 years)….so it’s not exactly a smooth walk in the park. Some of you have this transit with a lot of trines, and some of you have this aspect natally. However, the higher the number of the degree the riper the energy of a sign and the slower the pace of the karmic lessons which are delivered at a more manageable pace. I’m not sure what the future brings, but I can say that once Uranus will hit 29 degress Taurus in 2026 the environmental and financial landscape of the collective will be a brave new world…and maybe by then these random bouts of energy will subside and I can get on with my love life in a more consistent manner 🙂 The best part however, will be looking back on all the creative outputs I brought into being during this transit and how freer I will feel on an energetic level. And this is the gift that Uranus leaves you with: the levelling up on a lifetime!

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

This article is a spiritual book review. I recently got the chance to review Debra Silverman’s ‘The Missing Element’. And I need to say how much I loved reading this book! Deborah has been a person I used to learn astrology from a while ago (before astrology became popular on Youtube, in the dawn of the Pluto in Sagittarius era). I remember her witty and theatrical rendition of each of the 12 zodiac signs’ characteristics, and was impressed by how well she captured their essence (both the flaws and the qualities). So being sent her book was a welcomed surprise. In this post, as I’m describing the reasons why I enjoyed reading her book, I also hope to equip you with some inspiring astrological knowledge.

Debra is a famous American astrologer with a background academic education in Psychology (a thing we share in common). She’s been practicing astrology for the past 40 years, and furthermore she is a Gemini Sun – which means that she is a natural at verbal and written, communicative skills. I’m really suprised to see that given her experience, this is her first astrology book! To give you some insight, I’m placing below the editorial description of her book:

In The Missing Element, author Debra Silverman describes human nature in a compassionate and succinct way. We are all made of four basic elements – Water, Air, Earth, and Fire. When we’re in pain, it means these elements are out of balance in our lives. The key is to be able to discern your own personality and understand where you can strengthen the parts of your elemental nature that are out of balance.  But even more important, this book is about waking up the Observer in you, so you can experience the beauty and fullness of who you are far away from judgment. Becoming the Observer inspires your compassion and nurtures your wisdom for all of us. When we aren’t judging ourselves and others we are more loving. And when we are loving we take better care of ourselves and other people and the planet. The Missing Element will help you understand that your life and all its stories were designed by your soul to get your attention right now. It is inviting you to seek the wisdom of the ages to help you grow. By gaining an awareness of unique behavioral tendencies under stress, you will gain an understanding and compassion for yourself and others.

I thought it was interesting how the book focused on how understanding the elemental differences between our personalities (that some are Airy, others are Watery, some more Fiery and other more Earthy) served the purpose of living together with more compassion. The core idea of the book is that an awareness of our innate elemental differences helps us mend ‘broken bridges’ in our personal relationships, where previously there was a lack of understanding, intolerance and division. I think that is such a beautiful and necessary message for the upcoming collective upgrade of the Age of Aquarius. Although, I must admit it is also hard to put into practice such a beautifully ideatic perspective.

For example, I used to live next to some neighbours who would blast me with loud and repetitive music each night (even as I was trying to write this blogpost 🙂 My fiery neighbours don’t fit so well with my watery nature (seeing as I am Pisces Sun). So my need for peace and tranquility clashed with my neighbour’s need for daily disco. It was either a case of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ or the flight response. I chose the latter, as the only way I could solve that conflict was by finally moving out. So on a pragmatic level, some elemental differences are better left as they are (even if they can be mentally understood and processed into more noble nuggets of wisdom – i.e. that perhaps my neighbour found it hard to stil in stillnes and listen to his own thoughts due to some childhood wounding).

But coming back to the book, I love the way the book is structured, especially the sections about the story of each element and how to work with them. As a reader you get a useful list with the characteristics of each element and then also their shadow aspects. Even if you have little time to spare, you can open the book and quickly skimm it for quick facts to use in your coaching/counselling practice (although I would recommend reading the book fully, for sheer enjoyment). There are also condensed chapters on the elemental man and the elemental woman. I thought it was interesting to describe them in such a way, although my Millenial mind kept thinking about how tran-sex individuals might use this book. Maybe in a subsequent edition (and I’m sure there will be many), the book can be enhanced by including an elemental analysis on the gender spectrum.

In conclusion, as a young astrologer and socio-psychologist I find this book to be useful because it helps me link the signs to their element and then connect these to their deep psychological needs. For example, the watery trio of Cancer/Pisces/Scorpio, who have watery natures also have different and specific needs compared to the earthy trio represented by Virgo/Taurus and Capricorn. By understanding the elemental needs of each trio you can then figure out how to love them, work with them, teach or coach them and just relax or have fun with them. This elemental approach to astrology reminds me of the Chinese Zodiac and how each of the 12 animals represented in the Chinese Lunar calendar also come equipped with a specific elemental charge (Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire and Water). The book is also really fun to read, so I would strongly recommend purchasing and enjoying it!

If you’ve made it this far, let me know down in the comments section: What astrology books have you been reading and would recommend?

With universal love,

Lexi ❤

When we think of change, we are often frightened by the perspective ahead. Those who are astrology-savy usually think of Saturn and Pluto and pain or upheaval. We imagine that what will come in our lives will be swift, irreparable and dramatic, in order to get us to change our habits, leave toxic places and people and take those pro-active leaps of faith. And indeed, a Pluto or a Saturn transit with a lot of squares and oppositions to the Sun, Moon or the Ascendant of a person, will feel deeply painful and traumatic. But sometimes change doesn’t always have to come with fragments of drama. Change can sometimes come about as easy as taking your coat off, or realizing something and acting on it without resistance or impediments. Often a change of mind, heart or residency, set us back into alignment with Source energy or Spirit. Leaving a person that you no longer resonate with or a lover you no longer love can feel like a relief, liberating and hopeful. Dropping a job that kept you bound and bored, can also feel like a breath of fresh air has entered your career. Moving from one location to another can renew your life and bring a sense of adventure in your heart. So when you feel the winds of change entering your life, look to your chart to discover whether they are bringing in some painful karmic endings (Satun and Pluto) or helping you let go of what you naturally have outgrown (Jupiter). Even in the midst of a dark knight of the soul, I would encourage you to turn to Jupiter to find your ‘happy place’ since we always carry this energy in our charts, from our birth until our physical demise.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our small solar system, according to NASA. Our South-European ancestors represented this largesse in their Greek pantheon through the image of Zeus, the God who ruled over Gods and who enacted moral order by appealing to wit, chance, a gamble, joy for life, unlimited creative potential and occasionaly his flaming thunder. For a primer on the Jupiter/Zeus’ myth go here: Roman mythology/the Greek God Zeus

Jupiter governs the wildly lucky, optimistic and studious sign of Sagittarius (and before Neptune was discovered it also co-ruled imaginative and dreamy Pisces); it also rules over the 9th house of faith, the higher mind and mentorship. In general, having a Jupiter return means that for aproximately one year, you are blessed with dharmic rewards and abundance (considering the aspects Jupiter is making to your personal planets). But why is Jupiter considered to be such a benefic influence compared to Mars, Saturn and Pluto, who get a bad rep in astrology? Well for one thing, it’s because the planet Jupiter protects Earth from being obliterated by comets. Some astronomers believe that it is the lucky relationship between Jupiter – who blocks incoming and outer-galactic entities because of its sheer mass – and Saturn – whose magnetic pull absorbs the debris of Jupiter’s impacts and arranges them neatly in concentric rings around its axis; these two planets provide us with our saving grace and allow life to flourish unencumbered here on Earth.

On a spiritual level, we are protected by Jupiter since as mortals we are its creations. If in pagan times, Zeus had a pretty earthy and sensual image, in the New Testament’s Christian times he was transformed in a pure source of love and light, and worshipped for many years under the guise of a universal God, who fathered a son called Jesus Christ and in complete purity with the Virgin Mary.

More recently, through the really insightful astrological teachings of Liz Greene and Stephen Arroyo (two of my favourite astrologers and the mentors I initially learned astrology from), the study of the esoteric meaning of the planet Jupiter experienced a revival. We now know that one can become aware of the energy that Jupiter offers a native in his/her chart, by the sign and position that Jupiter individually governs (the astrological sign, and the house it resides in, as well as the aspects it makes to all the other planets in a chart). We can thereby learn to work with this energy to experience and create good luck and prosperity in our lives, on an ongoing basis.

At a personal level, Jupiter represents joy, luck, effortless growth and how you attract opportunities. It liberates you in a joyous way, it makes things come to you easier, since it is the energy of the ‘Great Attractor’ or ‘Superattractor’. This planet shows you the best things about your life, and the house it resides in your chart is the place where you can always turn to for constant blessings. Jupiter shows how you grow and what you are here to learn and thrive at. It is believed the from birth until about the age of 7, we are protected by Jupiter – our early and formative years cover us in a coating of fun, adventure and humor that keeps us alive and active, even if we are born in pretty difficult circumstances; this could be one of the reasons why children are so naturally playful, curious and adventurous. Another aspect is that according to Ernst Wilhelm, Jupiter represents the spiritual husband or the ideal man in a woman’s chart (while Mars shows what physical features she will find arrousing in a man). With a Jupiter partner (i.e. the Sun of your husband is the same as your Jupiter sign), a woman experiences abundance and constant growth, while with a Mars partner a woman might be sexually satisfied but she also runs the risk of arguing a lot or suffering at the hands of a man whose Sun sign shares her Mars placement.

I could focus more on the two books above, but I’d rather just leave them here as references, since I know my crew are highly intelligent and self-taught so I encourage you to read them for yourself (here is a brief esoteric summary). What I want to continue with is to give you a glimpse of how I understand them, in the hopes that it can inspire you to develop your own way of thinking about Jupiter’s energy in a birth-chart. Having read and interpreted birth-charts for many years now, I developped a deeply personal way of understanding Jupiter. Below is the gathered intuitive and learned knowledge I have so far about Jupiter as it is manifesting its energy through each zodiac sign:

• Jupiter in Aries – This is Jupiter amped up by militant Mars. So you attract abundance when you relate to others directly, confidently and curtly in your everyday affairs. You can risk coming across as more ‘bossy’ or creatively impatient in how you handle others, because this authentic sense of self will make you very charismatic and popular. You grow when you do rather than when you over-think things. You are asked to embody the role of the leader if you want to gain prosperity in this lifetime. Don’t elaborate too much or use a lot of polite words, but rather show people in creative ways what makes you happy. Fight the need to procrastinate and delay acting on your decisions. Aries is the first sign and represents the primal fire of spirit, virility, action and in some cases even violent self-expression. Take control of nurturing a deep connection to Spirit, and act in tandem with your heart’s impulse regarding what is right and wrong; then watch how you’ll receive amazing and inspiring ideas to create something unique in this life, for others to enjoy. While I don’t encourage you to be violent, it’s essential that you listen to and cultivate your intuition. It’s really important to trust you own feelings rather than to rely on the advice of other people, because if you do you not, will miss out on a lot of abundance in life. Say what you mean and mean what you say, and definitely own your pleasures. Whatever the case, feel free to live your life without asking others for permission. The more risks you take the more prosperity you unlock.

• Jupiter in Taurus – Jupiter meets Earthy Venus! With Taurus energy here, you have luck in the acquisition, conservation and enjoyment of material wealth and financial resources. You are meant to create and experience pleasures of many kinds. People perceive you as a reliable and sensual presence and they naturally like and trust you. Your body could have some curvy features and overall you tend to look healthy, strong and fertile. People instinctively are drawn to you and they like to have you around because you project an earthy and grounded type of confidence. You also calm people’s energies, so be careful because you might attract energetic vampires and chaos addicts who feed on your energy (this might also affect your monetary abundance so I advise setting strong boundaries in your personal life). With a Jupiter in Taurus you can be playful and pull occasional pranks on people. You tend to see the positive side in any unfortunate situation and are very good at knowing the worth of objects and at saving money, or at spending it on things that are genuinely valuable. You are generally perceived as a stable, prosperous and sensually alluring co-worker/business partner, but watch out for over-indulging in your creature comforts or being too stubborn to budge. You easily attract money to you, wherever you go.

• Jupiter in Gemini – With a Mercurian Jupiter, you grow through how you communicate. You might generally like to have two of each (relationships, options and opportunities, for example). You are truly happy when engaged in simple common-sense things and when you chat or use technology, as part of your daily routine. You grow by reading, acquiring and consuming facts, so education in general makes you happy and gives you a feeling of being intellectually rich. One potentially negative aspect with this placement is that you can easily create and enjoy gossip, so watch out for the tendency to spread negative and unverified rumours. You feel the happiest when you are co-operating or partnered-up. In your best days, you are drawn to communicate and engage with others in some fun chit-chat. You like to expand your mental energy to others and might enjoy board-game nights or exchanging facts or watching a game at a local cafe/bar. You just enjoy getting to know a lot of people and connecting with them. When you are sad, the best thing to do is to be together with other people and talk to them. Allow others to teach you things about yourself. You also enjoy discussing partnerships and ideas and you might enjoy dressing in rebellious and anti-Zeitgeist ways. Education and technological gadgets, using the Internet and downloading new apps is also a great way to stay in touch with your loved ones in light and slightly detached ways.

• Jupiter in Cancer – This is abundant energy in the sign ruled by the Moon, so your feelings and unconscious desires can help you manifest new opportunities and good luck. Express yourself, baby! You are naturally filled up with healing and maternal energy, and you can attract the most luck when you nurture people by feeding them, holding them, making them feel safe and relaxed, when you tackle your daily chores with thoughtful and kind communication. The key to your prosperity is flowing with your emotions, and learning to become more aware of your intuition and emotions so you can allow them to guide you to the right people, places and chances for you. You also have a lot of luck in terms of saving up money, having a supportive family life (your own or the one you come from, or at least the relationship with the mother), acquiring property and feeling good in your home. Childhood sweethearts, old-school mentors, nostalgic groups of which you were once part of, your culture and your nation, all give you a sense of hopeful belonging. Cancer is the sign of emotional safety, so turn to your children, the privacy of your home, photo albums and family heirlooms when life becomes difficult. I see you having a house with a lot of books, creative details (such as tarot cards) and spiritual symbols that reflect your soul. Cooking can also be incredibly soothing to you and a happy experience.

• Jupiter in Leo – The Great Attractor meets the Sun! With this placement you attract good luck when you are generous, enthusiastic and optimistic. Leo is the proud Lion type of energy, so the more you express yourself and take the lead in a social situation, the more you will attract good opportunities towards you. You are meant to inspire others, to make them laugh and encourage them to reach their goals. People will see you as a role-model, if you act on these impulses. With this placement you are energized by coming in contact with famous people, by practicing self-care and by focusing on creative self-expression. You are also drawn to/manifesting celebrations and festivities, and you feel the happiest when you celebrate something, especially in your family life. You easily attract well-known people to yourself or hang around with people who have a star-like quality. Leo energy is super creative and energetic, so if you start your own business and one that involves fun, empowering and creative aspects, you will earn a lot of money. The older you get, the larger your social circle will become and the more people you will attract for both business and pleasure. By being fun, loyal and strong you pull in everything you need.

• Jupiter in Virgo – When Jupiter meets Earthy Mercury, this is a true marker of a witch or shaman, because spiritual enlightenment requires daily material and physical dedication and you excel at that! You grow a lot through the information you gather in your everyday life and through analyzing the information and resources received. Jupiter is placed in the Earth-based sign of Virgo, so this means that anything related to curing and treating diseases, medical and plant-based advice and products, anything related to wellbeing and mindfulness are especially attractive to you and make you feel happy and expansive. You like to work towards tangible results, and could work in a profession where you deal with medicine, health and wellbeing and even alternative practices (such as Reiki or Ayurveda practices, the use of crystals, or the best organic markets where to shop from). You attract opportunities when you act from your integrity, work in the service of others, stay clean and well-put together. Being helpful and hard-working rather than critical is your way to prosperity. You actually feel happiest if you can sort or organize something that has to do with careful attention to details, such as: constructing or repairing computers, preparing an education programme, writing and editing, creating clothes and patterns, sorting out your clothes or colour-coding them, managing online comments or creating a website from scratch. You attract good luck when you clean, declutter and organize things, and when you apply logic to make sense of life.

• Jupiter in Libra – Here Jupiter meets Airy Venus. So you are blessed in the realm of love, you are a lover and a refined communicator. You feel the luckiest when you are partenered up in long-term business partnerships or a solid marriage. You enjoy finding out things about your Shadow Self and you use this knowledge to improve relationships, to educate or to create art. You grow through connecting with other people, by learning and communicating with them about your own beliefs and desires. The best way to manifest is to ‘ask and you shall receive’, so let people know of the things you enjoy or the fact that you are undergoing problems, and then see how they help you achieve them. You grow by negotiating your way through life. Libra is a beautiful energy and it is the least solitary sign, so whenever you feel low, reach out to talk to people, ask them for advice or create something beautiful. You are often in love with the idea of love with such a placement and this means that you might marry more than once in your life – but remember that your soul craves adventures rather than stagnation and safety, so feed it new love experiences that will inspire you to create beautiful and innovative art. Playing fair, creating beauty and establishing many different relationships are key to your success.

• Jupiter in Scorpio – Jupiter meets Pluto, and becomes ‘Dark Jupiter’. So with this placement you grow by establishing bonds of trust and respect with others, through how you intimately relate to others, and how you use your power (and you have a lot of it!). Secret opportunities for earning money, disclosed information and sexual partners arrive to you easily. Scorpio governs over sex, magic, taxes, shared finances and the occult, so you will have many opportunities to gain material goods from close partnerships, especially long-term ones that will teach you a lot about the unconscious behaviors your might have. Relationships have the power to transform your finances. Once the lesson is learned you will purge that relationship and move on to another, to learn even more about your Shadow-self (that place in the unconscious parts of our psyche where we store our fears, our defects, unwanted parts of ourselves and secret desires). You heal so quickly from intimate trauma and can regenerate faster than anyone. The more you transform in life, the more luck you attract and the more prosperity you will create. The dark is actual a place of joy for you (death might fascinate you) and you have an uncommon attraction towards understanding and unpacking the grittier aspects of life. Nobody is more resilient than you are and very few understand your dark sense of humour, but you are loyal to a fault.

• Jupiter in Sagittarius – The exalted placement! Jupiter loves to be at home, in the sign it rules, the lucky, expansive and truth-seeking sign of Sagittarius. You attract and create a sense of freedom wherever you go, and you will enjoy travelling. You are bold, honest, idealistic and a little bit wild. It takes you a while to commit to something because you see the whole world as a wonderful playground, you have faith in a higher forces and feel inspired to pursue lofty goals. Inside of you beats a passionate heart, armed with a healthy doses of daily enthusiasm. What guides this optimism is your direct line to the Divine. Having the God of luck in the exalted sign of Sagittarius, means that you can easily manifest what you think, say and feel. Knowing this, please keep an optimistic mindset and see how your life changes for the better when you turn each challenge in life into a wise lesson. Wake up daily and bless yourself and others by saying beautiful things; you can change your life and luck just by what you choose to enunciate. There is nothing to fear with this placement since any hidden enemies are removed from you – you truly are protected by God. You could also enjoy tantric sex and have many children with this fertile and abundant placement. Commit to happiness and to the emotional transformation of any negativity, on a daily basis and then sit back and enjoy the fruits of your manifestation.

• Jupiter in Capricorn – Jupiter is not very happy when it meets the limits of Saturn; this is why many astrologers consider this as a ‘detriment’ position, because the luck and the blessings of a Jupiter in Capricorn native come about slowly, in time and with effort. So with Capricorn energy here, you grow the most in life when you are building solid material foundations and are achieving tangible results in this lifetime. Arm yourself with patience and determination, and God will continue to bless your goals. However, you must infuse your practical achievements with a sense of spirituality and with a genuine desire to do good and to help others. You can literally bring your dreams into being with this placement, but you also create and receive instant karma, so be careful and check that what you say and do is in alignment with your values (integrity is key). The more spiritual, systematic and profound you are in your everyday work and in how you communicate, then the luckier you will become. You will be very happy when you settle down and have your own family since stability makes you happy. This is because you enjoy watching your hard work grow and to receive rewards for all that hard-work. Your children and home life will be foundational for you in this lifetime because you see them as your legacy. Your family will also teach you important lessons about how to express your emotions and thereby enhance your intuition in your professional life as well. With such a placement, if you follow tradition you will always receive support.

• Jupiter in Aquarius – Jupiter meets Uranus, so anything goes! With this placement you are highly intelligent, even brilliant, and are attracted in equal amounts to the occult and to scientific research. You manifest lucky opportunities through what you say and how you speak, so watch that your words are positive. You grow in this lifetime by acquiring many different forms of knowledge and with the local support of your social group or through technology. You have the capacity to bring together groups of people, to educate large groups of people and also to play the match-maker with your friends. You might feel at times like your identity is merged with that of your group of friends and there might be power struggles involved, but it all works out in your favor. You feel the happiest when you can communicate the knowledge you have gathered, you have the support of your local community groups (especially school friends), and you could speak many different languages as well. God will always find a way to bless you with spontaneous bouts of awareness, so you will always be ahead of anyone else in your life, but these moments of ‘genius’ might also make you alone and misunderstood. Don’t give up on others simply because they function at a lower level of awareness but rather share your generous resources with others and teach others how to become independent thinkers (like you).

• Jupiter in Pisces – Jupiter meets idealistic and dreamy Neptune. Many astrologers think that this placement portends great spiritual wealth because of the self-sacrificing disposition that it gives to its native. A Piscean Jupiter creates a lot of dharma (rewards). So you grow through having a humanitarian goal in mind and working to make your hopes and wishes come through. The more creative and idealistic you are in life, the better. You can help people who struggle with mysterious needs or desires, because you have the capacity to download messages from the Ether. You need a creative outlet for all the inspiration you are receiving on a daily basis. The more giving and self-sacrificing you are, the more luck and support you attract from others. When you let go, opportunities magically come back to you, in a ‘spiritual sling-shot’ effect. With this soft Piscean energy that you project into the world, you are a natural born sweetheart; so share your unconditional love with the world and this love will come find you in mysterious ways and through unexpected gifts, money, resources and benefactors that will float to you when you need them the most. You attract opportunities in life the more open-hearted, idealistic and ready to help others you are. For example, helping the down-trodden, the outcasts, the homeless, people who struggle with spiritual faith, or simply friends who suffer from heart-ache are what bring you a boost of happiness and good luck in life.

If you felt that these descriptions did not resonate with you, it might be that you are not working your Jupiter well or that there might be blocks to your Jupiterian energy (squares, oppositions or interceptions). In addition, looking at the house placement of Jupiter will nuance the meaning in a deeper way.

Jupiter’s Special Significance Through the Astrological Houses

There are some other interesting clues to look for, as you take into account Jupiter’s house placement in a given chart: a 1st and 2nd house Jupiter indicate that many pregnancies are possible/you are highly fertile and that keeping your weight down will be difficult in life // a 3rd and 9th house Jupiter mean that you can learn things really quickly and can distribute them just as well, but you can easily get overwhelmed; in both scenarios you are blessed with the gift of random friendships // an 8th and 12th house Jupiter means that you are very good at bed pleasures and that you can tap into occult and psychic sources of knowledge which you should learn to master rather than be afraid of; you also make money from mysterious and secret sources // a 4th house Jupiter is all about privacy, just as much as a 10th house Jupiter is all about the public status earned through their hard-work // finally, Jupiter loves the 5th house which is the house of play and leisure, as much as it loves the 11th house, the house of hopes and dreams coming true.

As always, I hoped this helped, inspired and served! Let me know your thoughts/experiences/book recommendations in the comments down below.

With universal love,

Lexi ❤