Category: Lunation
In A Bardo
In Tibetan Buddhism, the book “Bardo Thodol” describes, and is intended to guide through, the experiences that the consciousness has in the bardo: the interval between death and the next rebirth. It is primarily meant to be a guide for a better rebirth, or for no rebirth at all (enlightenment), even though it also includes…
Knowledge Amid Chaos
Due to having two new moons in Virgo, the last of which happened in the final degree, the current lunation had Sun in Libra in all but its initial day. Indeed, the full moon in Aries already occurred ahead of the Libra new moon that will similarly initiate a lunar cycle with Sun in Scorpio.…
Relationships Season
As we saw in the last article, the September equinox arrived just a few hours after we had a solar eclipse in the last degree of Virgo, the last eclipse of the 2025 season. Astronomically speaking, the equinoxes are moments in time when the daytime and the nighttime are of equal length. In terms of…
Point of No Return
The total lunar eclipse brought key events all over the world as expected. On Sunday, the day of the eclipse, the Primer Minister of Japan resigned while Kyiv’s plainly-named “government building” was seen on fire after a Russian attack that involved hundreds of drones. On the tenth, three days later, the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk…
End of Rehearsal
On Monday, a day after the current lunation’s First Quarter phase, Saturn reentered Pisces; the first of three slow planets to return to their previous sign. Everything structured in the last three months will be dissolved once more, only to be reformulated after Saturn reenters Aries next February. In addition to discussing Saturn’s return to…
Critical Reflections
There will be two new moons in Virgo this year, falling in the first and last degrees of the sign, perhaps to balance the expressive energy we had from Leo and Aquarius—Virgo being the confirmation symbol of Leo. At the new moon in Leo, you may recall, Sun and Moon formed an exact opposition with…