Libration Vol. 35

An Astrological Newsletter. Saturn & Neptune finally do the damn thing. Eclipse Season, Mercury Retrograde and more.

You come and go. The doors swing closed
ever more gently, almost without a shudder.
Of all who move through the quiet houses,
you are the quietest.

We become so accustomed to you,
we no longer look up
when your shadow falls over the book we are reading
and makes it glow. For all things
sing you: at times
we just hear them more clearly. 

Often when I imagine you
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer
and I am dark, I am forest.

You are a wheel at which I stand,
whose dark spokes sometimes catch me up,
revolve me nearer to the center.
Then all the work I put my hand to
widens from turn to turn.

-From RILKE'S Book of Hours translation by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy 

Welcome to the second lunar month of the decade—I mean year. We are still in one of the arguably busiest quarters of the year, and so again have much astrology to discuss. In light of this fact, I am changing the format of this newsletter just a bit. Each section will begin with key …