by Ariel Harper Nave | Aug 28, 2019 | Call to action
Call me crazy, but I love folding linens. Smoothing the sheets, matching the pillowcases, tucking the fitted sheets into manageable squares, wrapping the whole into stackable bundles and then stashing them in their closet…order. Somewhere deep in my soul,...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Aug 21, 2019 | Astro-Varia
Families. Kinfolk. Where you’re from: the ancestors, demanding attention and respect, translated through the present bloodlines. Dynamic minefields through which we must pass. Astrological signatures run through families, too, describing them, articulating...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Aug 14, 2019 | Call to action
So I’m back. New day: Blog Tuesday has morphed into Writing Wednesday; but still—BACK. In December, when I stopped writing, I thought I had said everything I wanted to say up to that point about astrology. I was going through a period of intense personal grief and...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Dec 18, 2018 | Astro-Lore
We are sitting in darkness. ‘Tis the time of year: in North America the days are officially shortest this week. We crave the light: for warmth; for perspective; for something by which to see. And, on locating it, we rush in, crowding each other for a place in its...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Dec 5, 2018 | Astro-Lore
A day late and a dollar short, runs the old saying. A friend of mine used to say, “There are only twenty-four hours in a day.” Well, I ran out of them, yesterday: Blog Tuesday appears this week on Blog Wednesday—the day before Mercury Retrograde ends. But I got to...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Nov 27, 2018 | Astro-Lore
What going on in the sky today? Does it matter? Are the planets disagreeing with one another, or are they getting along? Where’s the Moon? Is anything retrograde, or about to be? Can I live my life without knowing any of these things? You betcha. You can spend...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Nov 20, 2018 | Astro-Weather
The next few weeks (until New Year’s Day) might be hard to navigate for the oddest of reasons: compassion. ‘Tis the season, after all… Yet the milk of human kindness has the distinct likelihood of curdling, if we are not careful. Let me explain: we want to be kind,...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Nov 13, 2018 | Astro-Weather
Here we are, at the end of Venus Retrograde—Friday morning—rich and redolent of relationships revisited—about to plunge into a Retrograde Mercury—Friday evening. Jupiter has moved into Sagittarius, its own sign; and Mars is headed for Pisces on Thursday. ...
by Ariel Harper Nave | Nov 6, 2018 | Astro-Lore
Here’s a quick primer on planets moving backwards: Mercury – Review your thinking. Venus – Review your heart and your finances. Mars – Review your actions. Jupiter – Review your philosophy. Saturn – Review your commitments. Uranus – Review your creative impulses....
