Tag Archives: Astrology with Michelle Gregg

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Nov 8 2025

Standing at the Threshold: A Season of Gratitude Offering

We’re in the deep time now—the season when veils grow thin and the world turns inward. The air shimmers with something ancient. The light slants gold through bare branches. We stand at a threshold.

This is the season of gratitude, yes—but it’s more than that. It’s a liminal space, a holy pause between what was and what wants to become. A moment to stop. To breathe. To look back at the path you’ve walked and forward to the one still emerging in the mist.

The earth knows this rhythm. The trees remember. And so do you.

This is the time to ask: What do I give thanks for? What have I learned? What wants to grow in my hands and heart when I’m standing here, in this moment, wildly alive?

I’m inviting you to pause with me. To reflect. To honor the journey. To stand at this threshold and let yourself be seen—by the stars, by yourself, by the great turning wheel of the year.

Woman pausing in stillness on autumn path framed by golden fall foliage, contemplative threshold moment for Michelle Gregg's Season of Gratitude astrology offering
Standing still in the liminal space—
the holy pause between what was and what wants to emerge.

🍁 Gratitude Sessions: $144 (regularly $205)

A full session to anchor you in this season of reflection and possibility. To honor where you’ve been, to see where you are now, and to illuminate what’s calling you forward.

This is my way of saying thank you—for trusting this work, for showing up, for doing the soul-deep labor of evolving into who you truly are. For believing.

Available through November 30. Only 10 sessions available.

These sessions are a gift of time, of presence, of sacred conversation. Come sit with me. Let’s explore what the stars are whispering as you stand at this year’s threshold.

Book your Gratitude Session here

🍂 Gratitude Mini Sessions: $77 (30 minutes)

Sometimes you don’t need the whole map—just a lantern for the next few steps. Maybe there’s one burning question. One piece that needs unraveling. One thread of clarity that would change everything.

These mini sessions are for that. Quick, focused, and deeply held.

Available through November 30. Limited to 6 sessions,
scheduled around my regular client appointments as space allows.

Book your Mini Session here

✨ Looking Ahead: Cosmic Resilience Class

Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month | Starting January 13, 2026 | Via Zoom

After this season of gratitude and threshold-standing comes the work of staying grounded as the new year unfolds. Join Saivite Wilson and me for Cosmic Resilience—a class where we’ll explore the astrological energies shaping 2026, practice gentle embodiment techniques for centering, and learn how to hold your own axis steady as the stars turn.

This is about reigniting your capacity. Feeling hopeful. Touching into the greater cycles shaping us all.

Learn more about Cosmic Resilience

🧡 A Note from Michelle

Lovely clients,

I‘m so delighted to extend this Season of Gratitude offering to all of you. So many of you have been supporting my practice for years—whether through sitting with me once or twice a year, or every week over many years—and I simply want to say thank you. Thank you for believing in this work. Mostly, thank you for actually doing the work and moving through your life easier, better, happier. That’s the satisfaction that keeps me here with you, year after year.

So please, accept this offer and come sit with me again.

It’s the season of the threshold, of liminal space that moves one direction or another, and I can’t wait to learn what possibilities lay before you now.

With so much love, and tons of gratitude,
xx Michelle

Michelle Gregg is a counseling astrologer based in Atlanta, Georgia, offering astrology sessions, birth chart readings, and astrological guidance for individuals, couples, and families. With over 30 years of experience in Jungian depth astrology, Michelle helps clients understand their natal charts and navigate life transitions through the wisdom of the Cosmos. Sessions are available via Zoom worldwide.

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Aug 20 2025

Join Me on the Air – A Soulful Conversation About Astrology, Purpose and Sacred Timing

Thursday, August 21 | 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
🎧 Listen live at HealthyLife.net

This Thursday, August 21st at 2 PM Eastern, I’ll be a guest on Making Sense of the World—a soulful and heart-centered podcast hosted by the luminous Frenesa Hall.

We’ll be diving into astrology as a sacred language of transformation—one that helps us reorient to meaning in times of change, reconnect with our purpose, and find beauty in the thresholds of life.

We’ll speak to:

  • How astrology came into my life—and the ways it continues to deepen me
  • The role of symbolic language in navigating transitions and uncertainty
  • Why this ancient practice still matters in a modern world
  • What’s unfolding in the sky right now—including Saturn and Neptune’s historic meeting in Aries, and the collective invitation of every outer planet entering a new sign

I’ll also share a glimpse of what’s coming this fall, including:

  • Cosmic Resilience, a new monthly class I’m co-teaching with Saivite Wilson beginning in October, where we combine astrological transits with spiritual embodiment practices.
  • Beginner’s Astrology: Term 1, a 12-week foundational course for those beginning their journey with the stars

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit with me in sacred conversation—this is a beautiful moment to join me.

🗓 Thursday, August 21
2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
🎧 Listen live at HealthyLife.net

Come curious. Leave inspired.

With warmth and starlight,
Michelle

Sunlight pours through blooming honeysuckle and wild roses, capturing the golden warmth and lush abundance of Summer Solstice.
Jun 20 2025

The Longest Light: Summer Solstice and the Spirit of Cancer Season

Woman lying in sunlit summer grass, eyes closed in warmth and reverie.
The Sun lingers. Let yourself linger too.

Today, the Sun lingers.

He pauses in his journey, as if the heavens themselves are holding their breath. This is the longest light—the fullness of gold before the great turning inward begins again.

And here you are: open, alive, brimming with possibility.

Today the Sun moves into Cancer, and the warmth of the familiar wants to spread your arms wide to include something or someone new. With this fresh and gorgeous Cancer lens, there’s sweet longing to expand the heart’s circle. You might feel the nudge to gather your people close. To express your love in bigger, bolder ways. To feel them brighter, yet still long to keep them safe.

Within your circle, you might also feel a burning to shift the shape of your family dynamics, your relationships, your very definition of belonging – because you feel yourself growing and expanding toward something you might not yet know the shape of. But the urge to explore it is real.

Red-haired woman running through a sunlit summer field, barefoot and free, hair flying like wildfire—alive with purpose and joy
Answer the Sun’s invitation to bloom in full, erotic aliveness.

This is a moment to feel. To let your sensitivity guide you. Let light seep into every corner of your desire to be alive and whole and lush. Summer ignites an understanding of the eros of life—that creativity is erotic.

The Sun and Jupiter in tandem proclaim:
More is possible.
More love.
More truth.
More safety in your own skin.

A part of you may feel wide open to the “more.” You may answer the call because you feel an urge to sort your space, to clear the table and name what you’re ready to do next. You may feel called to bring order to your outer world, because of some clarity that wasn’t there last week. Or maybe your focus sharpens around how you show up for others, what you give, and how to make it count. You suddenly recognize how you want to show up to serve in the world – and you’re feeling the need to assess what that means and how it’s possible. The challenges that arise are the ignition and the motivation. Let them light you up. Let them call you.

Within that light, that calling, is a beautiful ache—a knowing that change doesn’t always require chaos. Sometimes it only takes a turn of the dial, a conscious clearing of what has overstayed, and the future rushes in like light through an opened door.

The dreams you’ve whispered to stars?
They want your hands.
They want your structure.
And even if your heart trembles a little at their bigness,
you are more than ready to hold them.

Let today be your still point.
Your sunlit center.
The place you pause, just long enough, to feel the light of what’s arriving.

A beam of joy.
A living solstice.
The day that doesn’t end.

A handwritten letter floats in the air above a sunlit path lined with wildflowers, as petals and leaves swirl gently in the breeze.
May 23 2025

The Magic of a Mind Made New: Gemini Season 2025

Two golden twin figures standing back to back, surrounded by cosmic light and symbols of duality, glowing with ethereal illumination.

Gemini Season has arrived like a breeze through an open window, carrying late Spring perfumes, poems, and possibilities. The Sun now shines in the sign of cleverness, curiosity, contradiction—and connection. And under this sky, the story you’re telling yourself is not the final draft. And the winds of change are blowing through the air like spells. We’re restless. We’re suddenly full of ideas we can’t quite wrangle.

While Gemini is often thought of as just a light flirtation with ideas, the sign actually goes much deeper. This particular Gemini Season is a sacred invitation to rethink the beliefs that bind you, rewrite the inner scripts that might have been keeping you small, and to rise into a new rhythm of self-expression. And this year, it’s personal.

Something essential is stirring—something in you, something in the wind, in the rhythm, in the light of longer days. And Gemini knows how to catch that breeze and translate it into words, ideas, and connections that take flight.

Gemini is mutable air. It shifts. It thinks. It flirts. It dances. And this season invites us to do the same—with our thinking, with our language, with our self-concept.

Gemini Season says:

  • Let’s choose a story that grows with us.
  • Let’s speak in fresh, living languages.
  • Let’s breathe into beliefs that sparkle with vitality.

This is the season for curious re-evaluation, for unlearning with love, for letting our thoughts take wing.

What must also be known is that the Sun entered Gemini in a precise trine to Pluto in Aquarius. This is rare. This is electric. This is transformation through thought—alchemy through language. While Gemini brings agility, adaptability, and dazzling multiplicity, Pluto adds depth, power, and an unflinching gaze into the soul of our mental patterns. We’re not just having new ideas—we’re entering soul-level editing.

This is the time to remember that your words hold power—and that they can empower. You can choose to speak in ways that shape your relationships toward evolution.

Your words, both thought and spoken, tune your frequency. You get to choose what that frequency feels like, and the direction you take.

In a Gemini-ruled world with Pluto present, language is a spell.

  • So be curious about the spells you’re casting.
  • Be attentive to the metaphors you live by.
  • Be playful with how you speak to yourself.

The twins of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, remind us that duality lives in all of us—the immortal and the mortal, the visible and the hidden, the speaker and the one who listens. Pluto’s trine to the Gemini Sun shines light into the places we’ve kept mentally compartmentalized, forcing open the doors between parts of the psyche we thought we had to keep separate.

The twins teach us that there’s never just one truth. There’s never just one version of reality. There’s always another perspective. Another voice. Another curiosity waiting to be followed.

A softly lit, enchanted workspace featuring an open journal, glowing candle, fresh flowers, and ethereal details like magical sparkles and gentle morning light. This image evokes the feeling of personal spellcraft, quiet reflection, and the sacred power of language. It captures the heart of Gemini season’s invitation to rethink, rewrite, and rise—starting right at your own kitchen table.

And when Mercury is active (as it always is during Gemini Season), our minds are extra tuned into all that’s moving.

This is a good time to:

  • Journal your questions instead of your answers
  • Read something you normally wouldn’t
  • Rewrite the About Me page of your life
  • Reconnect with the part of yourself that loves to think, to speak, to connect, to learn

Add to this the grounding presence of Mercury in Taurus, still holding the reins of the season’s ruler with slow, sensual thoughtfulness. Mercury in Taurus reminds us to think with the body, to speak with the breath, to choose words that build rather than break. He is trining the South Node in Virgo and sextiling the North Node in Pisces—a cosmic invitation to release perfectionism and control in favor of compassion, fluidity, and trust.

This is the beauty of cosmic choreography.

You may feel the pull to rewrite an old story. You may feel the itch of an outdated label that no longer fits. You may suddenly find yourself speaking words that feel more like spells than sentences.

Let them rise.

Let the mind make new myths.

Gemini Season isn’t here to help you master a message. It’s here to remind you that you are the message. That you are allowed to grow, adapt, shapeshift—and speak from the spark, not the script.

  1. Write your contradictions. Make a list of all the seemingly incompatible truths about you. Then ask: what if none of them are wrong?
  2. Speak out loud to the mirror. Choose one thought you believe about yourself. Say it out loud. How does it land in the body? Shift it if needed. Say it again.
  3. Walk and talk. Go for a walk and speak to yourself as if you’re speaking to your future self. Let the movement stir the words. Let the wind carry what no longer serves.

Remember: this is Mercury’s realm. Language is sacred. Thought is magic. And curiosity might just be the key that unlocks your next becoming.

Gemini says: Ask it. Try it. Say the wild thing.

You are not here to be consistent. You are here to be true.

And if you need permission to change the story? Gemini offers it freely.

Think of it as spring cleaning—but for the self.

Rethink. Rewrite. Rise.

Let this season be a flirtation with possibility. Let your words open doors. Let your thoughts lead you somewhere new.

Happy Gemini Season, my loves.

🖋 Michelle Gregg
Counseling Astrologer | michellegregg.com

Mar 13 2025

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo – Perfecting Your Vision During this Time of Uncertainty

In the hushed hours before dawn tomorrow, March 14, 2025, at 2:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, we collectively experience a Total Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in the late degrees of Virgo. This marks the first Eclipse this year, and it is made quite powerful by very close alignments with:

  • The North and South Nodes of the Moon which are about balancing Karma and Dharma – your past and your future – your comfort zone with what you’re meant to be stretching toward, which probably feels a little scary.
  • Saturn who symbolizes building a new solid foundation, your ambition, and your absolute AUTHENTICITY of Self.
  • Chiron who asks “where do you belong now?” And who let’s you know it’s time to heal your past and move on to a wiser, more integrated version of you.
  • Uranus, who requires you to live out your one-of-kind unique characteristics, and insists that it’s time for a huge paradigm shift. If you haven’t offered up your quirky, outside-the-box talents, the rest of us are missing them and need you to bring them forth.
  • And Neptune, who fuels your imagination, your inspiration, your connection to beauty, and who pushes you to reach for the Divine in Self and Other, all with unconditional love and acceptance.

This Lunar Eclipse is a powerful moment of culmination and release, in anticipation of birth and renewal heralded by the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries on March 29.

This Virgo energy invites you to enter this Eclipse Cycle by evaluating what is being illuminated for you right now. Is this glowing reflected light bringing clarity and consciousness to something you’ve been envisioning or dreaming about for some time? Is your dream coming into clearer focus? This full-moon moment of culmination is about celebrating what has been achieved and what WILL be achieved, and releasing what no longer serves. This practice creates a psychological and emotional gateway to new beginnings.

Virgo Glyph
Glyph for Virgo

One of the beautiful things about the energy of the Virgo/Pisces Axis (the Full Moon is in Virgo, opposing the Sun and many other planets in Pisces) is the potential to bring balance between the dream and reality – helping to push the vision in your head into tangible reality. Virgo energy assists you in pulling the seed from your imagination and planting it into the fertile soil of earthy manifestation. And she loves doing that. Virgo’s focus is to serve.

Part of the energy of this Full Moon Eclipse is the connection between Uranus and Saturn, making it clear that you are inhabiting a time when your foundation isn’t as solid as you’ve believed. And this uncertainty leaves you open to all kinds of possibilities that you probably haven’t encountered or thought about before. As long as you can be flexible of emotion, spirit and mind, this can be an incredibly fertile place to occupy, showing you multiple avenues of potential as you process the best ways to move forward.

The Virgo Moon and South Node asks you to call on previously honed powers of discernment and analysis, so that you can make sense of all the possibilities that are lining the road to the future. All those planets currently in Pisces are opening you up to so many visions of possibility and inspiring you toward so many dreams! But with this Lunar Eclipse, the Virgo Moon and South Node also lend you the capacity to say “yes, this” and “no, that.” Virgo’s energy is naturally aligned with reality, and with the capacity to judge what’s useful now. Virgo energy inherently knows what is most likely to grow and ripen to maturity so that it can be harvested when the time is right. The Virgo Full Moon can help you choose what to plant and grow, and she will direct you to the most nourishing choices for your body, mind, and spirit. Choosing wisely means that your health and well-being will be maintained and honed to perfection – or as close to perfection as possible. Once again, Virgo functions in service to who you are.

This Total Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo is truly a cosmic reset, urging you to release what no longer serves you and align with your higher purpose. It’s a time to TRUST YOURSELF, trust the process, embrace change, and step into a new chapter with clarity and intention. Use this Virgo energy to bring your dreams and visions into tangible reality so that your creative imagination serves us all. We need you, and the world will be better for your offerings!

For those of you interested in seeing the actual chart of the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, here you go! This one is drawn for March 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time in Decatur, GA, USA.
Sep 20 2024

Reminder – Autumn Equinox Workshop happens this Sunday at 2 PM Eastern on Zoom. Join me!

Harvesting Transformation:
An Autumn Equinox Celebration of Light and Shadow

Sunday, September 22, 2024
2 – 4 PM Eastern on Zoom
$30 via Zelle or Venmo

Join me for this evocative 2-hours of magical communion together! We’ll explore the profound connections between Astrology and Nature-Based Spirituality.

Here’s what you’ll experience:

  1. An Illuminating exploration of the Astrological Energy available during the Autumn Season. Includes the Eclipses on September 17 and October 2.
  2. The beauty of an Autumn Equinox Altar.
  3. The classic & empowering Autumn myth of Persephone, Hades & Demeter
  4. A beautiful and provocative Gratitude & Release Candle Ritual
  5. An Autumn Guided Imagery Meditation
  6. Prayer of Thanksgiving  

This workshop fosters a deep connection and understanding of the natural cycles of Nature, as well as personal growth and holistic well-being. I invite you to honor the changing of the season in this lovely and grounding celebration of balance, light, and shadow.

Be enchanted with me! 

Registration is Simple

Send an email to astrology@michellegregg

Send $30 payment via Zelle (astrology@michellegregg.com)

or Venmo (MichelleGreggAstro)

I’ll email you the Zoom link and password right away! That’s it! Then you’re registered!

Date: Sunday, September 22, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Place: Zoom
Cost: $30

Sep 17 2024

Surrender to the Beauty of the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces – Sept. 17, 2024

I’m having so many feelings about this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces tonight at 10:34 PM Eastern. I suppose that’s very appropriate for a lunation that’s super infused with the energy of Neptune.

Many are talking of the dramatic transformative energies of this Eclipse. Some see it as a portal. Others mention a paradigm shift. And while all of that is quite true, I’m feeling this energy as something shimmering and intangible that allows us a glimpse of the Sublime. A glimpse of something that is so filled with beauty that it inspires Awe. This is the highest possible vibration of both Pisces and Neptune, the planet that rules Pisces. This Eclipse can offer, if we open ourselves to it, at least a fleeting recognition of Self and Other as perfectly Divine.

Eclipses accelerate and intensify the energy that we occupy; the goals and achievements we’re working toward or longing for; the changes we want to make. I want to suggest that, if only for one night, we fully step into the dream and flesh it out to such tangible reality in our minds that it feels real. Because, as some of us have been taught, and others of us have certainly heard, that what we focus on becomes our reality.

If that is true, then this balancing act between the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Pisces at this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, is all about bringing whatever is in your imagination, as a dream, or as a longing (Pisces & Neptune), into the tangible, earthy realm that is our everyday, practical lives (Virgo).

Virgo, where the Sun is now, is about analysis, compartmentalizing, and perfecting, and it is grounded earthy energy that functions best in the reality of the material world. Pisces, where the Moon is now, is about everything that is opposite to that – it is the urge to blend and merge into One with no distinctions. It is beauty, compassion, empathy, and spirituality. It doesn’t exist to make sense of the tangible; it exists to transcend the tangible and enter a state of Bliss. And this Pisces Moon has Neptune sitting right beside it, in Communion with our feeling natures, deepening us, opening us, priming us for Beauty.

Remember, where we put our focus grows and becomes our reality. If, during this Eclipse tonight, and hopefully during the next two weeks until the second Eclipse on Oct. 2, you focus on what is loving, what is beautiful, and what inspires Awe within you, you may get more of that as your reality going forward. It will perhaps require letting go of personal doubts and fears, or seeing the path around obstacles, rather than simply seeing the obstacles themselves. And that is so very doable.

So, to answer the call of this very Neptunian Lunar Eclipse, I suggest that you surrender to your Spiritual Nature and engage in your Spiritual Practice, whatever that is. Surrender to the call to love, to beauty, to your Infinite Self. Meditate. Pray. Be willing to be porous! Go outside and commune with the natural world. Paint. Dance. Sing. Do that thing that always makes you feel closest to Source. If you don’t know what that is, this is an ideal time to find it. Open your heart to wonder. Let yourself feel the Awe of what it means to be Human. Let yourself be inspired to see life with open, compassionate, and loving eyes… even yourself.

Thank you so much for joining me for this Eclipse energy. And as always, may you bloom into the fullness of your cosmic promise. May the kindness that you give always be returned, and may you find peace and joy in the eternal dance of the Universe.

With love, Michelle

P.S. Think about what was going on in March/April and September of 2015. That year we had Eclipses in almost exactly the same place as these Eclipses tonight and on Oct. 2. See if you can find a thread or a narrative that ties then with now. Is there something that began then that it’s time to release? Time to let go of? Is there a way in which you’ve grown beyond whatever that was, and are now ready to embrace something new in its place? Give yourself the time and space to ponder this during this Eclipse Season.

Sep 10 2024

An Autumn Equinox Workshop – Harvesting Transformation: An Autumn Equinox Celebration of Light and Shadow

As the air begins to cool, the leaves begin to change, and the days begin to grow shorter, I invite you to join me for an enchanting Autumn Equinox Workshop on Sunday, September 22 at 2 PM EDT on Zoom.

This special gathering will invite you into a magical moment of self-discovery and personal growth, as we celebrate the significance of the brief and delicate balance of light and dark.

In this workshop, we’ll delve into the Astrology Chart for the Autumn Season, exploring the celestial influences that will set the tone for the coming four months. They are truly transformational! I’ll share the beauty and symbolism of my Autumn Equinox Altar, a space filled with Nature’s miracles, intention and gratitude. We’ll explore the powerfully transformative Greek myth of Persephone, Hades, and Demeter, uncovering lessons that honor the cycles of life, appropriate timing, and the process of transforming into empowerment. Then, prepare to relax and breathe into the rhythm of the Earth during an Autumn Equinox Guided Imagery Meditation, where you will connect deeply with nature and your inner self. And finally, to honor the Earth Mother Goddesses, we’ll conclude with a heartfelt Seasonal Prayer of Thanksgiving, celebrating our connection to the Natural World.

This workshop is more than just an event; it’s a rich opportunity to deepen your spirituality and foster a profound relationship with gratitude and the cadence of nature. Join me for this unique blend of astrology, guided imagery, and mythology, all through a heart-opening lens that emphasizes self-awareness and self-enrichment.

*Just a note: You might enjoy creating your own Autumn Equinox Altar prior to our Workshop. Gathering symbols, nature’s gifts, and treasured objects that represent the beauty of this time of year can help you deepen your seasonal experience and make it much more experiential and meaningful.

Register for the Workshop: email astrology@michellegregg.com

Registration is simple.

Send an email to astrology@michellegregg.com and let me know that you’d like to attend (providing me with your email address), and then send your $30 payment via Zelle (to astrology@michellegregg.com) or Venmo (to MichelleGreggAstro). I’ll email you the Zoom link and password right away! That’s it! Then you’re registered!

Date: Sunday, September 22, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Place: Zoom
Cost: $30

About Michelle

Michelle Gregg is a professional Counseling Astrologer, writer, and personal catalyst. She has over 30 years’ experience working with clients from an astrological and Jungian model, helping them live more joyful, meaningful and fulfilled lives. Her forte is offering her clients new perspectives for moving through old patterns and issues that previously prevented them from fulfilling their true life-path and maintaining happy relationships. “In the proper hands, Astrology is one of the most profound tools available for finding insights and truths, and for learning how to best relate to our loved ones, and ourselves.  It is the spring-board to self-mastery and wisdom.”

Michelle has a thriving private practice with clients all over the world, blogs, and teaches a beginner’s astrology course annually. www.michellegregg.com, astrology@michellegregg.com

Sep 4 2024

Mars in Cancer: Embracing Intuitive Action for Emotional Fulfillment

You may be feeling a shift in the energy around how we go about taking action in our lives. Mars is leaving the sign of Gemini, and moving into Cancer for the next nearly seven months. Anytime a planet shifts from one sign into the next, our focus around what that planet symbolizes shifts as well. And it’s especially true this time, as Mars goes Retrograde in this sensitive, indirect, and deeply loving sign.

Mars represents how we connect with our own will and how we go about taking action to achieve our will and to get our desires met. In Gemini, the focus was on gathering information and acting on the information we learned and collected. Now however, the emphasis for taking action shifts to being emotionally motivated, rather than mentally motivated, as was true while Mars was in Gemini for the past two months.

For the next several months we’re meant to take action more intuitively, from a feeling place. The sign Cancer is ruled by the lovely Moon, and she is all about our emotional responses to what’s happening in our lives. Cancer encompasses all things home and family and focuses our energy on what nurtures and nourishes us, and how we can nurture and nourish those we love. Cancer energy is also very connected to the past, so it’s appropriate to look to the past to see how it might inform what we’re doing now. 

The crab (Cancer’s familiar) scuttles about on the beach in circles, rather than in a direct line, in order to protect itself from seagulls. In a similar way, when Mars is in Cancer it’s good to find a circuitous route to follow, and to let our emotions rise to each occasion. Mars in Cancer is about taking indirect action… which doesn’t mean never making a decision, or never taking any action at all. Rather, it means a slower approach that is safety oriented, and that doesn’t go directly toward a goal, but circles it to understand the many ways in which something can be accomplished. It may be best to observe and hold back to see how things will naturally evolve, rather than pushing for an ego driven end. 

For those who have Mars or other personal planets in Water Signs natally (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) this shift of Mars into Cancer can feel very comfortable, like coming home. For those with Mars or other personal planets in Earth Signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), Mars moving into Cancer can feel quite nourishing and supportive. If you have a dominant theme in your natal chart of either Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) or Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) this shift might feel a bit more challenging for you. Think of it as learning a lesson around patience and care. Also, the Cardinal Signs other than Cancer (Aries, Libra, Capricorn) may also feel out-of-sorts with this shift, and again, learning patience and redirecting the will may help to navigate this energy.

Enjoy Mars in Cancer! Because it asks for higher sensitivity, we can be more imaginative and creative in the way we pursue our goals. We can feel our way into what we want, and take more time. We want to feel safe with Mars in this position, and we want to take actions to protect our families and loved ones. If you can, spend more time with them. Show them how much you love them in all the myriad little ways that make home and friendship beautiful. 

There are downsides to Mars in Cancer (passive aggression comes to mind), just like there are for every astrological energy… but recognize that we can choose, and that there’s always a higher vibration that we can reach for. Afterall, that’s how we learn, grow, and evolve.

As always, may you bloom into the fullness of your cosmic promise. May the kindness that you give always be returned, and may you find peace and joy in the eternal dance of the Universe.

With love, Michelle

Sep 1 2024

Virgo Season, the Virgo New Moon, and You – A September Ode to the Time of Harvest

I'm longing for Autumn crisp mornings.

I’m longing for Autumn crisp mornings. I can close my eyes and see the leaves of trees in vibrant reds, oranges, and golds as they prepare to let go and spiral gently down to become the sheltering carpet for tree roots, the soil, and the wee seeds that will hibernate beneath them. I want the burst of sweet crunchy apples, pumpkin bread, communing with friends around my fire bowl on the back patio, sweaters and boots, and the warming fragrance of cinnamon. Autumn is my jam! And September 1st has always been my favorite day of the year. It’s the doorway into the fall of the year. Autumn is not quite within our grasp yet as Summer lingers, but Virgo Season, which started on August 22, and the Sept. 2 New Moon in Virgo tomorrow, are priming us for nature’s transformations that are on the way!

As we enter the month of September, just beginning to leave the ripening heat of Summer behind, we move closer and closer to Autumn. Ten days ago, we entered the time of year that belongs to Virgo, and into the time of harvest. Harvest is a beautiful word that is intricately connected to the symbolism of Virgo, and evokes thoughts and images of toiling in the fields that were planted in Spring, in order to gather in the fruits of our labors that will nourish and sustain us through the Winter.

On a farm, the harvest is, by necessity, a time of discernment, perhaps the most Virgo quality of all. Farmers must analyze the bounty they’ve gathered and decide what to eat now, what is worth putting up for later, and what needs to be plowed back into the field, left to rot and nourish the soil for next year. When harvesting wheat, the millennia old symbol of Virgo, they must take discernment a bit further, so that it becomes an action of effort, separation, and organization. They must thresh the wheat to remove the husks, so that the edible part of the wheat is exposed. And then they must winnow it. Winnow is another beautiful word that means that a strong wind must stir and blow the husks away, removing the chaff – the husks that have been threshed away.

The protective husk is light and easily winnowed from the heart of the grain that is edible and nourishing. The husk serves its purpose as a protector so that that the kernel of the grain can incubate, mature, and ripen. But if the husk were to remain intact, the perfected fruit inside would never fulfill its purpose, which is to be in service to the nourishment of others. That nourishment can be literal, but also means to be in service to others in a way that nurtures their purpose, while living your own.

The beauty of using the metaphor of wheat here is that Virgo, the second Earth sign of the Zodiac, is of the soil. She is of the Earth. She is profoundly connected to its rhythms, the cycles of light and heat of the Sun, and the gravitational pulls of the Moon, and the movement of the waters of life. She is the embodiment of earthy intelligence. Virgo understands and desires everything that nourishes the body, and brings it into the most perfected state of health and well-being possible. Just as wheat is known as the “bread of life,” Virgo, from a more personal perspective, can be understood as the “bread of Self.” During this Virgo Season, which beautifully offers us a New Moon in Virgo as well (new beginnings in a Virgo fashion), be prepared to harvest your true and natural Self. Meticulously work toward separating the chaff, or what is no longer useful in your thoughts, habits and patterns, from the nourishing wheat that is your true purpose now.

The ”now” part is where you might find a bit of a hiccup. As a human doing your best, you still may hold on to old patterns – old chaff that protects a story you tell yourself about who you are, or a goal you once wanted to achieve, or an expectation of self that you haven’t fulfilled. If you really analyze it, that goal or expectation may not have been yours at all, but someone else’s for you. Or you may have evolved beyond the limitations of that particular dream. The old story you’re holding may simply no longer be viable or true. Virgo is the symbol that discerns what’s appropriate for where you are now, and separates you from what’s no longer necessary or serving the path to a more perfected you.

Virgo is about harvesting and honoring the natural kernel of Self; analyzing what you’ve learned, what you’ve accomplished, and with acclaimed common sense and prudence, what you haven’t. The questions become, “How can I separate the chaff from the wheat of what is truly, naturally, me? And if I can do that, how do I release the chaff that isn’t necessary to me anymore, and then maintain and perfect the wheat that is divinely me?” If you’re asking these kinds of questions, you have truly entered the higher vibrational meaning and understanding of Virgo.

I wish for you a healthy Self Harvest during this Virgo Season, and honest and practical new beginnings that serve you well during this Virgo New Moon.

May you bloom into the fullness of your cosmic promise. May the kindness that you give always be returned, and may you find peace and joy in the dance of the Universe.

With love, Michelle