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Planetary news this week: Venus in Scorpio and falling stars with Neptune

Astrological update for the week of December 4-11, 2023

Neptune turns direct. This month we have three planets changing signs which means a shift in planetary energies, and that begins with Neptune turning direct this week. This is especially significant if you are experiencing a transit of Neptune to your own chart as it will intensify during this time. Neptune stations can be somewhat destabilizing since Neptune urges us to detach from the practical and embrace the creative and mystical. Neptune won’t begin […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-12-04T07:13:39-05:00December 4th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Sunday Poetry for a Venus/Pluto dance

photo by me

A challenging square from Venus to Pluto has been building all week, have you felt it? Venus in Libra, longing for harmony and connection, antagonized by Pluto’s need to strip away artifice and the niceness which Libra craves. That square aspect peaks today and offers an opportunity to face those hard truths and still hold onto the beauty. This poem speaks perfectly to that tension and I hope you enjoy it! 💖

“Being alive,
it seems,
means learning to bear the weight of the passing of all things.

It means […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-12-04T06:16:24-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Inspiration|0 Comments

Planetary news this week: Mercury in Capricorn & relationship issues

Astrological update for the week of November 27 – December 4, 2023

art by Ecem B

I wrote about the Full Moon in last week’s post and again yesterday, so you can catch up on the details there – by the time you read this post the lunation will have culminated (4:16 am EST/9:16 am UTC) and the Moon will begin its waning phase. The waning phase of the Moon is a time of letting go and release, there is a sense […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-27T08:24:48-05:00November 27th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Sunday inspiration from Albert Einstein for this Gemini Full Moon

artist unknown?

The Gemini Full Moon culminates tomorrow (November 27th) at 4:16 am EST/9:16 am UTC. You may know that the Full Moon is the midpoint of the lunar cycle which waxes and wanes each month in the dance between Sun and Moon, stirring the ocean tides and the tides of our own emotions.

The Full Moon takes us through the experiences of the zodiac just as the Sun does, but the Moon is opposite the Sun when it is full and we have an opportunity to balance the zodiacal polarities. […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-26T07:52:27-05:00November 26th, 2023|Inspiration|0 Comments

Thanksgiving and the essence of gratitude

I love Thanksgiving as much as the next person. Sharing a feast with friends and family, a few days off at home – cranberry sauce and mashed sweet potatoes with caramelized apples. Not to mention the pumpkin pie that Rich bakes from scratch, using fresh pumpkins from local farms.

Still, history is written by the winners, and like so many of our holidays the actual history of the Thanksgiving holiday is lost to the mists of legend. According to most accounts, our Thanksgiving holiday commemorates the feast held by the Pilgrims […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-20T08:13:17-05:00November 23rd, 2023|Holidays|3 Comments

Planetary news this week, and catching up:

As many of you know, I took a bit of a writing sabbatical this fall. I expected it to last through the end of the year, but I found I was eager to get back to my life as planetary oracle. Staying closely tied to the movement of the planets is a more powerful support to me than I thought, and if I only learned this one thing in my sabbatical it was well worth it!

There have been no major planetary alignments during this time which made it easier to […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-21T09:16:47-05:00November 20th, 2023|Planetary news this week|1 Comment

Sunday inspiration for the Mars Cazimi

Cazimi occurs when a planet is within a degree of the Sun, and that is the situation this weekend. Mars and the Sun, both in Mars-ruled Scorpio, have been within a degree of each other since last Wednesday and the exact conjunction occurred very early Saturday morning EST. We still have a few days of this fiery alignment but so far rumors of disaster have not come to pass.

These fiery planetary alignments can inspire and energize us, especially in Scorpio where we are driven to seek Truth in everything we do; to delve into experiences that offer real meaning and […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-18T16:16:01-05:00November 19th, 2023|Inspiration|3 Comments

The astrology of the current Middle East crisis

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Everyone has very strong feelings about this situation but please keep any comments confined to the astrology and I will do the same. 💖

First, some history of the Age of Pisces

The region known as Palestine has been occupied by many nations over the millennia and has been a hotbed of conflict since the beginning of the Piscean age. Pisces is traditionally ruled by Jupiter, the planet which presides over theology and philosophy as well as religion, and the Piscean age has been marked by a dominance of […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-19T11:01:15-05:00November 17th, 2023|Politics|32 Comments

Sunday inspiration: The path of descent at the Scorpio New Moon

Tomorrow’s Scorpio New Moon offers an opportunity to delve into a deeper state of being and learn what is true beyond the fluff of every day life. This is my path right now (here’s an update on my sabbatical if you missed it!) and I found this piece to be inspirational in keeping me on the path of awakening. 💖

A growing down so often necessitates a “sinking to the depths.” If we do not consciously choose the journey, the journey will choose us on its own. […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-12T10:04:35-05:00November 12th, 2023|Inspiration|5 Comments

Sunday poetry: Can you feel it?

art by Helga Joy

In honor of the big transits that are happening in my own chart right now (details at the bottom of the post) and my own inner explorations, I offer this beautiful piece of inspiration to let go of blocks and anxieties that keep us locked in a prison of our own story and help us convert this prison into a prism of possibilities. 💖

Can you feel it?

Life breaking through inside us like an undeniable rising tide of wild brilliance and truth..

Asking us to wake up […]

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