August is bookended by Full Moons! Venus ends and starts a new 19-month cycle of the Goddess. We have the cross-quarter celebration of Lammas. Mars changes signs. Mercury goes retrograde on the same day the Sun enters Virgo. There is A LOT going on in the sky!

The psychiatrist M. Scott Peck wrote a beautiful book on personal discipline, love, and grace called The Road Less Travelled. He called it that because most people never take up this inner journey, choosing instead to remain hypnotized by the unending presentation of shiny objects fabricated within the collective waking dream. 

July is feeling mellower, astrologically speaking. There are lots of minutiae connections between the planets, especially the Moon, but let’s focus on the big items and feel a little ease with the astrology in July!

June is packed with astrological happenings! Two major planets go retrograde, Pluto moves back into Capricorn, and it’s officially summer with the Solstice. There’s so much going on. Let’s jump right in!

This month at True Nature we honor sacred Mother Earth—her power, nurturance, and beauty. We only have to walk through the forest, swim in the ocean, or climb a mountain to feel her majesty.

May starts while we’re still in eclipse season, leading us into the lunar eclipse on the full Moon. Mercury stations direct and kicks off a new Mercury cycle.

This month at True Nature we are exploring love and compassion. Love is our inherent nature, compassion is love mixed with understanding.  I offer two pathways to love and compassion, and without a doubt, there are others.

This month at True Nature we are exploring the topic of inner strength and personal power. This aspect of our being is associated with the solar plexus, the third chakra, and the center of will.

April brings us into the start of eclipse season with a solar eclipse at the second Aries New Moon.

Buckle up, March is a massive month astrologically! Phew! Huge stuff is going down or up as the case may be.

As we near the Spring Equinox what seeds do you want to plant in the garden of your heart? What intentions do you want to germinate? We each have an important role to play in creation. 

There’s a deep ocean of love inside us, in fact, we are in it. Not only are we in it, we are it.

February brings the Celtic celebration of Imbolc. This marks the halfway point between the December Solstice and the March Equinox. We start to feel the returning light and notice the days are indeed getting longer.

January starts while Mercury is retrograde, out of the linear box. I think this bodes well for this year’s theme of looking within. Retrograde Mercury invites us to look through the right hemisphere of our brains. To perceive in new and novel ways, filled with cyclical thinking instead of unidirectional, harkening back into our ancestral brains where we looked at the whole.

2023 is filled with astrological happenings, of course. Here are a few highlights to look forward to as well as themes you can tune into throughout this year.

Building A Strong Foundation For The Future 

Looking back on 2022, we accomplished a lot. We transitioned to a non-profit 501c3 Foundation…

November rises from the depths of the Underworld into the heights of the Celestial World. We start off with Celtic Samhain and the Lunar Eclipse all on the Scorpio/Taurus axis, then move rapidly out into the fires of Sagittarius. We swing from the depths to the heights in one quick swoop.

I personally would like to express my deepest gratitude to each of you who have visited the Peace Garden this season. Each footstep, every breath, the shared moments, the silent realizations - your interactions are what makes this garden what it is. Thank you. I bow my head in deep gratitude to each of you.

This month at True Nature we are focusing our intention on gratitude. Most of the world lives in a state of lack, grasping for more—more money, power, control, and attention—but what if the aforementioned were a grand distraction?

October is filled with a solar eclipse, Underworld themes, and Scorpio depths.