The Empress calls us to embrace pleasure alongside sorrow. That hope sprouts forth even during and after the dark times. She reminds us that the wheel of the year continues to turn, and with each spin, we come back a little wiser, a little (or a lot) changed, and that while the cycles remain the same, the world and the self reemerge a little different than we’ve ever been before.

The partial lunar eclipse on November 19 begins a series of eclipses on the Taurus-Scorpio axis that will last almost two years (ending on 10/28/23). With the luxurious, earthy…

As we begin to enter the darker half of the year, we’re often called to explore our shadows. There’s a tendency in the spiritual space to talk about our shadows as something that we need to “overcome” or “banish.”