✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West

Hey y’all — I hope you’ve been enjoying the season’s Ancestral blessings and keeping your people close. It’ll likely pay off in the year to come! 2025 is already feeling like a big paradigm shift as I tune in. This week literally starts off with a BANG! Our first peak Mars-Pluto Opposition occurs on Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. This will be the first in a sequence of THREE oppositions occurring bet...

Ahh yes, spooky season. Perhaps most magickal time of year, especially if you identify as “wicce”, or wise person, from the original use of the word. The veil is thinning, the doors to the otherworld are open, and we are surrounded by the closeness of our more-than-human kin. This time of year is very dear to me. It is a time when Ancestral Veneration + Ceremonial Celebrations of the dead are wide...

Ahhh yes, my favorite time of year again. *Stretches out Bat wings* … SCORPIO SEASON! All the good ghoulies are out, and the Sun begins its journey of illuminating that which has been waiting in the shadows, all year long. In my experience, Scorpio is one of the most understood signs. Above all else, when I share Astrological readings with folks who have Scorpio Suns, their most frequent reflectio...

This week brings our first lunation after the clearing of Eclipse Season -- a Full Moon in Aries on Thursday, October 17th at 7:26am EST. This is also the first Full Moon we've had in Aries that HASN'T been an eclipse in over a year. The moment presents an opportunity to truly hit the refresh button in the Aries domain of our charts, and celebrate the ways we've learned SO much from that territory...

We have a Grand Water Trine being initiated by the ruler of last week's Eclipse -- Venus in Scorpio. As the Dark Goddess dances with Saturn in Pisces & Mars in Cancer, we're invited to tend to the waters within, and all the emotions they're likely still digesting. I speak about the Myth of the Minotaur as a mirror for Venus' process in Scorpio, and touch on Jupiters upcoming Retrograde in Gemini a...

For the past year, we’ve been cycling thru Eclipses on the Aries-Libra axis. If you’ve been here awhile, you’re probably already aware that this week brings our LAST eclipse in Libra on this side of the axis. The South Node has been threshing this territory, supporting us in releasing old patterns of fawning, self-abandonment, and people-pleasing on behalf of “keeping the peace”. Libra knows that...

Libra has a HUGE responsibility, as Cardinal Air and the initiator of the Autumn Equinox. Whereas its counterpart Aries gets all the fun of initiating us back into full-bursting spring, Libra must do the gentle work of reminding us that we must too descend into the darker half of the year. Every year, the spirit of Libra comes as a loving yet knowing reminder of what must be. The truth of this sig...

Hi my friends! There has been a LOT coming thru around the upcoming Eclipses, especially tuning into the energies along the Virgo/Pisces axis. Shouldn’t be surprising, as Piscean energy can tend to stir a LOT of information incoming from the liminal realms. However, these particular messages felt big, like something to keep in our back pocket as we maneuver the next two years of eclipses on this a...

My friends! This week is big. We’ve already entered eclipse season, making our way through those velvet curtains into the halls of great Karmic undoing. But there is an added layer of emphasis here, as we are ALSO being initiated into our first (partial) Eclipse on the Pisces-Virgo axis. On Tuesday, September 17th at 10:34pm EST, we will have our very first Pisces eclipse. The eclipses occur on th...

Hekate, looking very Kali Mā with her hounds. The moment is alive, full, important; considering the impact of these next few weeks within the larger space of our timeline will serve us well. Pay attention to what’s stirring, knowing that its implications will continue to reveal their significance in the larger teachings of your life into 2025 and beyond. This week, it felt necessary to unpack the...

Beloved Virgo, Vestal Virgin, Maiden of the Harvest. This week, we have a new moon occuring at 11* of this gracious Earth sign. As the luminaries come together in Virgo's sanctum, we are invited to consider the preciousness of our attention, as perhaps our greatest currency. Where our attention goes, energy flows. If our mind is scattered, thus will be our experience of reality. Yet if we are focu...

Virgo season has arrived, in full swing. As the maiden sweeps through the landscape, she is veiled and true as we are ripe for transformation. Summer brought us BIG energies, both sweet and challenging, and now it is time to thresh the wheat from the chaff. To cut away the excess. This is the wisdom of refinement, that Virgo is attuned to like a fine instrument. The intelligence of the Earth in al...

The Full Moon in Aquarius occurs on Monday August 19th, at 2:25pm EST. It answers to Lord Saturn, a harbinger of necessary limitation. Realism can be a welcomed ally when overwhelm sets in. Refinement is a gift to any process. Thresh away the excess. Honoring the limitations of what is, allows us to be at peace with wherever we're at in the process. A sobering reality check, yes. But also, how can...

Oof. Mercury is in the microwave, and it’s showing. How ya feelin out there? Are things a lil crunchy edgy, or perhaps smooth sailing? Without labeling the conditions as good or bad, simply noticing without judgement what IS. That is the practice for these times. Mercury retrograde is from August 5-28th. It began its retrograde in Virgo (ouch) and will regress back into Leo this week. We are retra...

The Leo New Moon peaks in the morning, on Sunday August 4th at 7:13am EST. This weekend, IMHO, is a time to recenter amidst the otherwise bumpy energies afoot. Leo has taught me that self-acknowledgement is one of the most powerful practices of returning home to my power. Celebrating my little victories + triumphs along the way not only reminds me of my strength, but also creates a foundation of s...

The heat’s turned WAY up this Summer y’all. Lots of fire energy in the mix, especially Leo / Aries. How you feelin’? If it’s present — what’s the agitation trying to tell you? I have often said that the discomfort in this sacred agitation is evidence of old ways of being, rubbing up against new ones. In that space, friction emerges. That very friction creates the fire of transformation, that spark...

Once in a Blue Moon… How big, how blue, how beautiful! This Full blue moon in Capricorn is our SECOND of two full lunations since the beginning of Cancer season. It is a call-back moment to the full moon we had on the day after the Summer Solstice, June 22nd! Cancer-Capricorn, Sun + Moon, these primordial ancestors want to support us in creating systems of CARE. As opposing signs, Cancer-Capricorn...

Firstly to say, big astrological events like this are not meant to be feared. They might not affect you personally at all. However, this is one that hold implications for the collective family in big ways. Uranus has been in Taurus for many years now, shaking up our foundations to reveal what new life is ready to come thru. When we fight this process, it makes it all the more uncomfortable. Like t...

During the New Moon, the Sun and Moon were in cahoots, whispering dreams and seeding prayers for all that we are becoming. Something has been planted in the fertile soil of our subconscious, that will grow in us as the moon builds into the Full Blue Capricorn Moon at the end of July. Cancerian reminds us that we are, indeed, the dream of our Ancestors, even though we may not have consciously chose...

Discipline gives way to freedom. Becoming emotionally invested in what we want allows for true devotion to fuel us. Allow your care to chart your course. This week, Saturn stations retrograde (on June 29th) in Pisces, asking us to review and renew the commitments we made to ourselves in March 2023. Notice how far you’ve come, and what your emotional investment has allowed you to cultivate in your...

The wisdom of Cancer reveals to us the untapped well of MAGICK that is constantly flowing thru our emotional bodies. When we refine the listening practice to this lunar realm within, it can be honed like a fine-tuned instrument, guiding us towards larger truths in our lives that only the body can pick up on. Cancer rules all the fluids in our body, from the plasma to milk. The only zodiac ruled by...

This week, the Sun enters Cancer, ushering us across the threshold of the Summer Solstice. I talk about the rituals of our ancestors + the deeply animist ways of relating to Earth + Stars, that these thresholds specifically remind us of. Venus + Mercury ALSO enter Cancer this week, bringing a welcome tone shift from all the Gemini energy we've been swirling in! Enter tenderness, vulnerability, and...

Edgy, Clunky, Friction — these are the words that emerge in the face of this weeks somewhat activating astrology. Mars enters Taurus, where it begs us to slow TF down. The momentum we've been building for the past month or so needs a sustainable pace. Move at the speed of Nature - which is likely much slower than you'd think. Recommit to a longer timeline. Mars will immediately square Pluto in Aqu...

As Above, So Below. Gemini - the Magician, the Sacred Trickster, Hermes. Within the wisdom of Gemini lives the Gem of Truth that everything in this Manifestation is filtered through MIND. Our mind is the unique lens we look thru at the world, to write our stories of reality as seen through our unique vantage point. The experiences we’ve been thru and the unique context we’re living in have shaped...

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