11/30 - Tuesday: The Moon at 24CAN05 at 5:51 pm(EST) is in her Disseminating Moon Phase (135-90 degrees behind the Sun - 3 1/2 - 7 days following the full moon). In order to share the message of our inner visions with others, sufficient inner/outer strength is needed to harvest the first fruits of whatever was seeded during the New Moon.

 

Since vitality may be low (and food allergies up), seeing a Wholistic Health practitioner, making necessary dietary adjustments,and taking periodic breaks to rest or meditate can be helpful. Don't forget your loved ones and pet's well being as well. With Mercury now retrograde in Sagittarius, patience and determination will be needed to stay on time, keep on track and follow thru on opportunities presented. Some creative/performing artists, politicians may find themselves suddenly forming fortunate connections and gaining the financial backing they may need for their endeavors. Others may feel their capabilities are not being recognized or needs being met and act out in a tough, belligerent manner. Since Mercury retrograde is an excellent time for re-vision none need give up their urge to attain success, but instead can continue to go back and hone their 'craft' in preparation of going forth once again "to meet their destiny". Teachers, in having to go back over material time and time again in class, may suddenly find they are able to connect better with students on their own unique wave-lengths, showing patience and understanding to little stars, every one. Mercury goes direct December 20th and does not retrograde again until March 20 of 2005.

 

Moon conjunct Saturn at 11:28 pm (EST) may have some feeling lonely and cut-off tonight. Make sure and let your elders know you care, even if it's just to 'sit' quietly with them...surprisin' how much you'll learn.  xo, Seacrone

11/29 - Monday Afternoon. Given the early morning's Jupiter trine to Neptune, and thanks in part to the Cancer Moon trining Venus at 10:53 am (EST) and then trining Mars at 6:29 pm (EST) tonite, there's a wonderful feeling of low-key ease and contentment with good health and enough energy floating around to help us tend to the domestic chores that usually come with a Cancer Moon. Women and Men should be able to get along well tonight,  with mates puttering around on projects. Don't be surprised though if your mate urges you to join him to walk the dog or go out looking at electronic equipment, books, or even cars. Just be sure to use good financial judgement as the Moon squares Jupiter tonite at 7:34 pm (EST). People may start feeling stingy if they have already spent extra on the holidays. Remember to buy good quality merchandise, however in order to get your money's worth.

 

Me? I'm buzzing away, trying to get webpages updated, which should be interesting given the fact that Mercury goes Retrograde in Sag. Tuesday morning at 7:17 (EST). One will need to stay disciplined and get organized in order to meet the challenge of everyday affairs - which is just what I'm trying to do.

Blessings, Seacrone

 

11/28 - Sunday Afternoon: Shivering, I'm drinking sage tea while trying to stay warm in front of the stove. I've decided to add some finely chopped sage to the carrots and potatoes while the roast beef finishes cooking. I find it helps me with cold (& hot) flashes and eases my mind and tummy. Today, I've been wondering how my remaining 4 siblings and I got to be so much older than the mental picture I carry around of us in my head. The woman looking back at me in the mirror this morning resembled my mother and I notice more hair in my comb. I remember how my father always kept a little pan of black tea on the stove just for the purpose of dipping his comb in to keep the grey away. Hmmm, since I've read Salvia Officinalis is useful for mental clarity as well, I think I'll brew some more up, let it cool down and dump some on my head! Who cares about the grey!? Think I'll smudge the house too. As ever, Seacrone

Friday, 11/26 - Full Moon was at 3:07 pm (EST). (Moon 180-125 degrees behind Sun). Once the budding/building process of any projects I started at New Moon time have been achieved and start coming into their fullness,the Moon during this phase gradually moves back towards the Sun. It becomes time to take a look at those projects for better or worse under the light of a Full Moon/Sun polarity.  Like a sand painting, I can decide to let them disintegrate and blow away during the Dark of the Moon and begin anew at the New Moon, or I can keep all or parts of them intact and begin to share even more of their value and meaning during the Disseminating Moon Phase which occurs approx. 3 1/2 days after the Full Moon.

 

I noticed this particular Gemini Full Moon arrived with a spontaneous, restless conversational air to the day's overall tone, with people rather spacy, milling around, talking on their cell phones and not looking where they were going. The toy and hobby shops were especially crowded with long lines. With the polarity of a Gemini/Sag. moon, I find people usually desire a wide variety of experiences. With Uranus squaring the Sun and Moon jolting people's nervous systems, people are also thinking very independantly, feeling the need for freedom, wanting to do their own thing and heading in many different directions. Therefore, over the weekend it may be  necessary to develop adaptability to sudden events and be able to work around any differences of opinions in the midst of communications in order to avoid misunderstandings.  Me? After playing catch-up and taxi all day (and with the kids off in their own directions doing other things tonite), I'm bundling up, heading out with my husband to view this Mercurial Moon!  Blessings, Seacrone

11/23 - Tuesday - Moon turned Void of Course today at 1:47 p.m. (EST) and moved into Taurus at 7:16 pm (EST)...I had been looking thru the pictures of our last family reunion this evening, thinking how I miss my first born who is my older, married daughter when she calls, missing me as well. It is so good to hear her voice across the miles and I long to see her. As we talk, her little sister, my youngest, almost 11 now, climbs onto my lap for a hug wanting me to read her to sleep. Here we are Maid, Mother and Baby Crone together, reflections of one another. I hang up, put my "little one" to bed and then call her "big sister" back, settling in with a cup of tea for a good, long talk. I so cherish these late nite talks in the dark.

 

Earlier in the day, my father-in-law returned home from the hospital, hissing, hurling expletives at everyone's concern, refusing offers of help, intent only on getting back home and to his customary routine. It will be no picnic for my mother-in-law trying to deal with him, nor for us as they both get even older, but after 55 years of marriage she knows how to handle him.

 

11/24 - Wednesday. The Taurus Moon transits my natal 3rd house of short trips, phone calls, errands,  books, communications, etc. and I'm off to Town Hall, the bank and Post Office.  It's only a half day of school with holiday preparation time getting short.

 

Later on, the pie crust rolls out well on the lst try, but the only one seeing my tears is the spider sitting silently on her web in the corner of my kitchen window.  I  found her one day having taken up residence behind a quartz crystal I had placed on the sill to catch the sun's rays. I had not the heart to sweep her away. She's been there for a month now, a tiny, silent companion watching me cook. This time of year always finds me homesick for Maine and the old family farm that still looks out over Mt. Katahdin. I long for the smell of the woods I played in, the trees I sat in as a child, and the special, lone huge pine tree in the lower pasture still standing, but split in half now by lightening.  I cry for my Mother who died almost a decade ago, remembering an old quilt she had pieced together that I now can't find. I long to wrap myself up in it and go to bed in the dark to cry for her and the beloved brother I lost only a year after her passing. But...my moodiness is changed as the lights suddenly go off thru the house. I laugh, realizing that I had perhaps gotten my wish! The Universe's timing had given me the perfect opportunity to sit with my feelings in the dark, to honor them and then release them to the light and move forward. My husband and I light the candles, making a game out of it by playing 20 questions with our daughter, waiting for the power to come back on, my son outside with his friends and flashlights in the fog. An hour later with the lights back on I bake my pie. 

 

11/25 - Taurus Moon Void of Course tonite at 11:37 pm (EST)

The wind and rain called to me thru the window all afternoon to come out.  I walk outside after a quiet, family holiday meal (which surprisingly everyone had helped prepare) to visit with the nearly Full Moon in the wild nite sky, the clouds racing by, sea and tide pulling me near.    Hugs, Seacrone

Monday - 11/22  Gibbous Moon today at 4:42 (EST). The Gibbous Lunar Phase is when the Moon is 135-180 degrees ahead of the Sun. Like buds waiting to bloom into fullness, the Moon moves towards Hers. Time for me to evaluate and improve upon anything I've set in motion during the New Moon. A great time to edit my website, which is still far from done.  I notice this morning that my Christmas cactus (which I spelled 'Christman' lst), which was a gift from one of my clients years ago is heavy with blossoms. Every year around this time, and usually following an eclipse she starts to bloom, and each year there have always been 6 blossoms, one for each of my children. Today, I see there are Seven. As I move thru Menopause, my own Moon cycles have become far and few between, so I am reminded to be mindful of birth control.  I see the gift of this 7th flower as the unfolding of my work. I like this number Seven. It reminds me of the 7 Sisters of the Pleiades, The Seven Mothers, The Seven Mid-Wives, the Seven Hathors and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom and more. Hmm....I think I feel an essay coming on, but first my promise to my dogs and myself to go for a much needed walk thru the salt marshes to visit the Egrets and Blue Heron must be kept. They are used to our forays over the years and pay us no mind, allowing us to appreciate their peaceful beauty.  I need to go soon as the gulls were screeching and moving inland this morning heralding rainy weather.  Blessings,  Seacrone

 

11/21 - The Void of Course Moon at 10:35 (EST) this morning moves into Aries and the Sun goes into Sagittarius over my MH at 6:22 pm (EST) tonite. After a long day of running around yesterday, I would have much preferred to sleep in, but the Waxing Gibbous Moon in Aries pulls me out of bed. At night for weeks now, we have listened to the fluttering and rustling of a flock of sparrows gathering and roosting under the eaves of our farm house, but today when we finally found the energy to rake leaves and clean the gutters, they are no where to be found.  They roost here every year, and it seems quiet without them.  My husband who has lost one father already in WWII is quiet as well, and I begin to think about the herbs that might help to heal his step-dad who has sight in only one eye, but sees more than most with two.  As ever, Seacrone

11/17 - Late Wednesday nite, thanks, in part to transiting Saturn in Cancer harnessing the energy of my 6th house Mars/Uranus conjunction, I am able to set up the structural framework of my websiste.  Thank you, dear old Saturn. We've become old buddies you and I.

 

11/18 - Very early Thursday Morn: As I work on into the morning, I check the ephemeris to see what the Aquarian Moon is up to. I find her transiting my lst house in a Grand Trine formation with my natal 4th house Mercury/S.Node conjunction in Gemini, and natal 8th house Neptune in Libra. Her steadily increasing light graces me with gentle soli/lunar energy, helping to establish a firm root structure to the projects/dreams I have started during the New Moon and whose leaves are beginning to unfold. Having been born during a Crescent Lunar Moon Phase (Moon 45-90 degrees ahead of the Sun) I know the importance of fighting against inertia and focusing my energy in order to move forwards in actualization of my dreams.  I notice that just after 3 a.m. (EST) the asteroids Pallas Athena and Juno are also in trine formation, encouraging us to work creatively with one another and help to bring harmony and balance to male/female polarities. I am at Peace, grateful for this cosmic validation, knowing that I'm right where I'm supposed to be, utilizing the gifts of my S.Node (that I came into this life with) and working steadily on my present life's path (my 10th house N. Node in Sag). Blessings, seacrone

 

11/19 - Moon in Pisces - Ingress 5:38a.m (EST) The crows came to the tree near my bedside window this morning to visit, raucously reminding me to "Caw" things as I see 'em. The asteroid Vesta conjuncts the Moon this morning at 9 a.m (EST) which can be a reminder to not become a martyr on the altar of Motherhood and the need to Mother oneself at times. With a Cancer Sun, a husband, 6 children (4 adult, 2 still at home) and 5 grandkids it's easy to forget my own needs.  I decide to take care of me today with a trip to the Health food store to stock up. Since Neptune rules Pisces and tootsies, it sounds like a good time to soak mine and sip some Raspberry tea as my husband puts on a little music, cooks a nice dinner and off  to an early bedtime....G'nite all.