by Heather Roan Robbins This week is full of real opportunity that will not grab us but needs our attention and cooperation to live up to its potential. We need to get busy with wise and steady effort. And whatever we do, the outcome is likely more complicated, or may not turn out as we [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. – Rainer Maria Rilke It could be a blustery weekend in the inner realms unless we listen to Rilke, spend some time housecleaning the soul and getting comfortable in our solitude, but lovingly greet one another when [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver Mayday marks the peak of springtime, the end of the un-farmable half of the year, traditionally celebrated with a raucous appreciation of life returning to the earth, and in some literal or [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Memory or intention. That is the choice. Always. When you come from your memory, you create one kind of experience of relationship… When you come from your intention, you create another kind of experience altogether. – Neale Donald Walsh Get ready to work the garden. Whether seedlings, ideas, intentions or karma, [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. – Wilson Mitzner This Friday the thirteenth could earn back its bad-boy reputation. As the weekend begins, energy that has felt stuck begins to flow, and it can be a bumpy ride. Last week Mercury turns direct after three weeks [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. – Vladimir Nabokov By the end of next week the stars help us be practically competent and our plans can build momentum. But first we’ve got [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins “Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want–oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! It seems to you that [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins We have an unusual opportunity now to go outside and see the planets form big astrological patterns in real time. In the evening, look to the west and see Venus and Jupiter still dancing together in Taurus. This is what a conjunction looks like. Look to the east and see Mars [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Buckle up, it could be a bumpy ride, but the air is fresh and the mood is inventive as we welcome in springtime. What we set in motion this week can build momentum in the months to come, so let’s be careful what we start. Fresh, brash, direct, impatient Aries gives [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins It’s an earthy, complex week as Mercury retrogrades for three weeks this Monday (although we’ve already been feeling it for a few days as it approaches) and complicates our life. Now this Mercury retrograde could be something special, Mercury conjunct Uranus last week in Aries and we had a record number [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Get ready for changes of mind, and changes of circumstances, and consider how to best motivate and midwife those changes in a wise and productive way. Over the next week situations may arise that irritate us like a burr on skin, something that we accepted only a week ago now may [...]
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by Heather Roan Robbins Jupiter is talking this week. As the weekend begins, Jupiter dances with the Moon in twilight western sky, they conjunct exactly Sunday night, then the Moon waltzes off while Venus sidles closer to Jupiter over the next few weeks. Both Jupiter aspects can lighten our mood and open the aperture on [...]
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