✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West

With Jupiter having freshly entered Gemini, we are ushered into a new foundational energy for the rest of the year. As outer planets, Jupiter + Saturn’s placement gives us the backdrop of our shared collective reality + its energetic expression. While Jupiter was moving slowly but surely thru Taurus, we were collectively in a time of preparation; gathering resources for what is to come, preparing...

This lunation asks us to consider the intersection of our personal wisdom and the collective reality, examining what it is that our unique gifts are offering to the world. Learning the systems and gathering data is the work of Gemini, as Sagittarius implements strategy through lived wisdom + experience. How do both interact as we cocreate the world with one another, holding multiple realities at o...

Like the sacred bee, Gemini takes what’s been growing in our garden and allows it to spread across the landscape through its service as the pollinator. This week, as Sun, Venus + Jupiter all enter Gemini, the dream of Taurus now expands into the powerful potential for collective growth. Take a minute to celebrate all that you’ve grown in the past year, especially the things that maybe didn’t look...

This week, the potentiating miracle-gro of Jupiter in Taurus reaches its culmination through a Cazimi with the Sun, on May 18th! SUCH a beautiful gift in celebration of all we’ve been growing for the past year and beyond — taking a moment to boost and fortify our soil as we prepare to actualize our dreams of what’s been growing. This moment presents the wisdom of craftsmanship, and the potentiatin...

Abundance abounds! This is perhaps one of THE MOST fertile weeks of the year, for so many cosmological reasons! This week, we have a New Moon in Taurus on Tuesday May 7th, making an exact sextile to Saturn; Slow Magick embodied! The soil of the Earth is FERTILE + black like the moon, ready to provide resource + abundance to the gentle gardener that is willing to tend the seeds in a way that fortif...

Beltane is here, the Celtic Cross-Quarter Holiday that beckons the Sun in its glory to nourish the fields of our lives. To give thanks in celebration for the gift of life that has been handed to use directly from our Ancestors. A Fire Festival that welcomes Belenus, the Sun God, to once again bless the Earth with the force of life itself, that gifts us with abundance + resource. Taurus season huzz...

Fresh out the gates of Taurus season with an electrifying conjunction between Jupiter + Uranus, we enter this week with a renewed sense of clarity in regards to the path ahead. Tuesday the Full Scorpio Moon reminds us of the power of our emotionality, our sense of self deeply informed by the Truth of our emotional experience. Give yourself time to process + compost some of what emerged for you ove...

DURGA MĀ : Om Dum Durgayei Namaha (Sanskrit: ॐ दुं दुर्गायै नमः) This week brings the calm after the storm, an INTEGRATION from the past month of eclipse season! Sharing a favorite myth of Durga's origin in honor of Navaratri! Navaratri (9 nights of the Goddess) began the day after the Solar Eclipse in Aries, so having this fierce goddess energy in the field felt like a perfect opportunity to illu...

My friends! It’s safe to say this week holds some BIG energy, with our Total Solar Eclipse in Aries occuring on Monday, April 8th. What I want to highlight about this moment is that not only with the Sun + Moon be coming together exactly conjunct at 19* of Aries, but ALSO Chiron will be joining them at this exact degree! Which means we have a CHIRON CAZIMI occuring within the same moment as the Ec...

Painting by mk Cooper // @bearded_artist_studio This week brings a heavy dose of slowness, along with a reality check that we can't always move at the pace we're accustomed to. Or at least, that it's not always helpful to. Mercury stations retrograde on Monday April 1st at 27*, and will subsequently move backwards thru the entire constellation of Aries over the next 3 weeks. We are collectively hi...

Vedic Depiction of the Headless God of Karma, KETU - the dragon’s tail… Wow, what a humble reminder of the wisdom of the Eclipses. The karmic portal of reality opens, revealing all of its timeless wisdom. Sense impressions from past experience, unprocessed memories, unconsious patterns — all rising to the surface to be seen, known & understood. As I always say, to see is to free it. As we turn the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com The Full Eclipse Download for the Aries/Libra axis! * Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon) in Libra conjunct South Node: March 25th, 2024 * Solar Eclipse (New Moon) in Aries conjunct North Node: April 8th, 2024

Wheel of Samsara — life is anything but normal. This week, we enter the shadow of eclipse season. We are in the vestibule; the space between cycles, the liminal territory where anything is possible. When we let our minds get out of the way, we can see the true nature of this moment, and all that it holds for our soul-level process in this life. There are massive karmic implications to eclipse cycl...

THE MOON // THOTH TAROT DECK — PISCES This week brings a time of transition, as we integrate the Pisces New Moon and begin to prepare for Eclipse Season! In this space, there is a sense of timelessness, a liminal nature that only Piscean wisdom can truly help us understand. It is the porousness of the veil between form & formlessness, the subtle sensitivity to our more-than-human reality. If we at...

PISCES // Vesica Piscis — the Womb of the Cosmos. The Center of the Whole — The Heart of the Universe.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com Settle in for this 40min guided somatic practice, to create a bridge between our Dreaming Body, and the Dreaming Earth. This Saturn-Mercury-Sun Cazimi in Pisces is the perfect moment to create a bridge between the unseen & the tangible, through our bodies

What would it look like if we took our Magick seriously? If we gave as much credit to the unseen world, as we do the seen & tangible? These ways of knowing and sensing into the more-than-human world were second-nature to our ancestors, yet we have lost this powerful ability to dream with the Earth. This week, as Saturn and Mercury meet in the temple of the Sun at 9* of Pisces, there is the possibi...

Hello my loves! I have exciting news to share! Thus begins the long awaited RUNE STUDY Journey! Over the coming months, I will be sharing the esoteric interpretations of each of the 24 Runes in the Elder Futhark system, one at a time! I have been sitting with the Runes as part of a personal exploration & reclamation of Ancestral Divination tools, as instructed by my Scandinavian ancestry! This sys...

This week brings a huge tone shift to the collective field of reality, as the axis of Virgo/Pisces gets activated with the dance of Sun & Moon. This axis turns our attention to the multidimensional nature of Healing & Service in the world. How do you offer yourself in service to the collective human family, that actually energizes and nourishes YOU in return? Reciprocity is the nature of true serv...

This week offers a deepening into the true heart of Aquarius Magick, which holds the potential to create a bridge between the seen & unseen forces in our reality that intersect within each of us. Connecting us to the radical visioning of personal & collective responsibility, this week builds upon the seeds of potential that the New Moon planted within us, allowing our visions to crystallize with e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com My friends! I wanted to offer one of THE MOST potent practices I’ve created for visioning & bringing our ideas into a more tangible reality. This is a significantly somatic practice, one that involves bringing our ideas thru the nervous system & energy centers of the body to identify stored limitations & experi...

This week brings a flowering New Moon in Aquarius, that ushers us into the heart of Aquarian energy in such a powerful way. We've been moving with quite a bit of new and powerful planetary shifts into Aquarius, and this New Moon moment serves as a true initiation into this territory of our collective lives. Crystallization is the word of the week; we are beginning to see the potentiality of new wo...

Within an emergency, there is the potential for emergence - for a new reality or potential to burst forth from the tension created within an emergency. It is safe to say the collective soul is in the midst of a spiritual emergency, and this week reminds us of the potential for breakthru in these moments. With Uranus freshly redirected in Taurus, in a harmonizing trine with Mars + Mercury conjunct...

This powerful Full Moon in Leo occurs on January 25th, 2024 at 12:54pm EST. If there was one deity that could embody this week, it is the Essence of Sekhmet. The powerful Egyptian goddess, a symbol for BOTH war & healing. Within her grace holds the potential to fight for what we believe in, using the power of love. This Leo force of the heartfire is the essence that connects all things. It gives u...

Mercury re-enters Capricorn and brings clarity, grounding, and the power of planning into our thought processes. This refers back to our process in December 2023, and gives us a second look at what we were thinking with new eyes. Slow medicine is still key for being able to see clearly! PLUTO ENTERS AQUARIUS on January 20th! Paradigm shift, Worldbuilding new realities, envisioning what is possible...