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Year: 2014

The Perfect Goth Refrigerator

…filled with bottles of my last batch of mead, prior to labeling. Yes, the bottles are red. 🙂 This mead batch is a black morat rhodomel, meaning that it is made with black currant juice, mulberry juice, and roses. Like all of my meads it is a metheglin, meaning that it is made with herbs (in addition to the roses), and was brewed with magical intent as part of a 15-month cycle, with the steps in its process corresponding to lunar cycles and...

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Cardinal Grand Cross 2014

Today is the day of a long-anticipated Grand Cross in Cardinal signs, with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Jupiter in Cancer, both squared to Uranus in Aries opposing Mars retrograde in Libra. This configuration is highlighting where we have been stuck in our lives, what is in need of changing, and what can no longer remain if we are to move forward. With my natal Uranus in Libra, Sun/Mercury/Venus in Capricorn, Black Moon Lilith/Part of Fortune in...

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Inaugural Post: On Lunar Nodes and Karmic Process

I almost didn’t launch this blog this week. After getting the basic site structure worked out enough to feel comfortable with posting to it, I was still experiencing a bit of perfectionist discomfort about it, which of course resulted in writer’s block for a couple of days. Thursday night I thought I’d take advantage of the Venus-Jupiter trine’s favorable environment for writing and publishing to help myself get over my nervousness. But then an...

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