Field Notes
Field Notes is a collection of essays on astrology, creativity, and the changing landscape of everyday life. Part journal, part observation, and part symbolic inquiry, these essays explore the correspondence between planetary movements and the stories unfolding in our lives.
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The Unglamorous Labor of Becoming Yourself
The Aquarius Full Moon reveals how we find our power through one another, even as things fall apart. My friend, a Leo Sun, has a birthday approaching, and the weeks before her solar return have been marked by a string of mildly unfortunate events. She can’t seem to find a worthwhile date, she twisted her…
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The Sun Comes Home
Lately I’ve been inhabiting someone else’s life. Like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, I suddenly find myself in someone else’s body, feeling strange in a familiar place and performing a role I don’t identify with. I move through obligations that belong to someone I barely recognize, wondering when exactly I agreed to all of this.…
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It’s Not About the Cake
Mercury stationed retrograde in Cancer on June 29, Jupiter entered Leo the following day after more than a year in Cancer, and Mars conjoined Uranus in Gemini on July 4. After a relatively quiet start to the year, July feels like an inflection point. Something is shifting, and it’s shifting fast.