Posts in Astrology
What Have You Learned in 2019?
What Have You Learned in 2019?

The lessons of this year are still arriving by the truck full over here, how about you? Maybe the question is more of “What Was Easy in 2019?” The answer, nothing. Entire towns have been engulfed in flames, continuous mass murders proliferate at gunpoint, and the earth is on the brink of an unrecognizable landscape. Our heartbreaks are only deepening at the loss of what has been and now we find ourselves hard at work to face new inconceivable realities. I sense this thematic experience of being jolted into unforeseen new territories as one felt by many in the realms of health, family dynamics, politics, and the environment etc.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, PoliticsCiela Wynter
What Is Death?
What Is Death?

Do you know the sensation of sinking into the earth without a return in sight? When your skin feels as if it is rotting, molting off of itself, and staleness casts a shadow over the moment of what has been? Caught within the transit of dying while still breathing...perhaps through a breakup, a swift change, remorse, pain, surrender, purification, clarity, renewal, and so it goes around and around.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, RelationshipCiela Wynter
Are You Monogamous?
Are You Monogamous?

Yes. In past chapters of my life, I may have moved from one relationship to another with little room to breathe in between. Now, I hold that time between dear, and sometimes I think I am holding on to it perhaps a bit too tight, not truly wanting to let go of my coveted independence once again. Once I do, this next time around will be different than the last, for sure.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, PoliticsCiela Wynter
What’s Your Next Move?
What’s Your Next Move?

Inward bound. I am feeling the gravitational pull into the cocoon of solstice days ahead. For the last three deep winters, I’ve found myself drawn into the Northwest Isles of Canada. It is a land and sea governed by eagles, whales, and mossy mounts of rugged terrain. There is a sweetness, as well as a majesty that has seeped into my soul, is relentless with my heart, and calls me back as if a siren’s song. The allure is profound and it is there that I find myself burrowing into my own unfathomable inner sunlit landscapes beyond time and space.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, EntrepreneurshipCiela Wynter
How Are You Preparing for the Next Decade?
How Are You Preparing for the Next Decade?

Well, first I am in a deep review of the last one. Hmmm, definitely the most powerful, excruciating, inside-outing, heart-pounding, mind-riveting adventure thus far. I continue to peel back the layers of my psychic skin to see what residue has formed over this time from the consequences of my past actions. I’ll tell you, It isn’t pretty. Yet the more band-aids I rip off, the better I feel…eventually.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, PoliticsCiela Wynter
What Do You Regret?
What Do You Regret?

If there is ever a time for this state of being, it is after not listening to my own intuition and inner guidance. I used to live with a very confident personal clause of ‘never having any regrets’. Yet upon further investigation, it simply wasn’t true. And in actuality, there are many more than I would prefer to admit. 

Perhaps it is due to the reality that I am not as conscious as I would like to be. That much of my day is still under the influence of a waking sleep of which I have much less control over my own thoughts, emotions, actions, and words than I would hope. As I write this, I am truly curious...after decades of inner work and process, some years stronger than others for sure, just how much of my mind is still unconscious versus conscious?



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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, PhilosophyCiela Wynter
Are You on the Trajectory of the Churn?
Are You on the Trajectory of the Churn?

If I am a human being on planet earth nearing the new decade of 2020, then there is no way that I am not churning, deeply. And for those of you who are not “in the churn” according to your personal opinion…I respectfully disagree, from my perspective…you are.

What does it mean to be on this trajectory of sorts? From over here, it seems that we are all being fortified, tested, and squeezed if you will. It is up to each of us to approach this consciously or unconsciously. When we have an opportunity to have foresight, it would behoove us to listen rather than dismiss. However, history has shown us that as stubborn as we are as a species, we generally do not learn until we are in a retrospective mood.

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Past, Future, Present, Devotion, Relationship, Philosophy, Wellness, AstrologyCiela Wynter
What is Your True North?
What is Your True North?

When asked this question by a dear friend in her effort to lend support at a moment of crossroads, I immediately went to the page. What is my true north? As an astrologer, I tend to think of the nodes, north, and south. Our lunar nodes in our birth chart reach to the furthest ends of the spectrum, stretching from who and where we have been into who we are becoming and to where we shall go. They bookend a life of purpose, indicating a hero’s/heroine’s journey of deep inner learning, full of trials, cyclops, sirens, and detours along the way.

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Past, Future, Present, Astrology, Entrepreneurship, RelationshipCiela Wynter
Does the Equinox Reflect a Pause?
Does the Equinox Reflect a Pause?

Imagine ‘Balance’ in your mind. What do you see? A spoon on someone’s nose? A yogi in seated meditation? A scale in perfect harmony? Equinox comes from the deliciously intricate Latin word aequinoctium, meaning equal nights. This time of year, for a moment in time we have a 12-hour day with respect to a 12-hour night. And thus, the balance is but a pause in time, a gasp of breath…exhaling into the walk towards winter.

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Past, Future, Present, Devotion, Wellness, AstrologyCiela Wynter
Have You Noticed?
Have You Noticed?

Although every day reveals such utter miracles and complexities, I have noticed a few things about life recently - all drawing toward one simple truth in my heart. Everything is possible in love, in true love that is. In the highest form of love...in the love that pulses in our veins, that radiates from our eyes as beings, that created every cell in our body, that nourishes us with rain and sun, this love. In this love, everything is possible.

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Present, Astrology, Future, Philosophy, PastCiela Wynter
What Does This Moment Say to You?
What Does This Moment Say to You?

It’s a mixed bag baby, it’s a mixed bag. Politics have become mere entertainment, resembling a badly written horror flick that doesn’t end well and yet hope does exist in the hearts of many people I know, including my own. Perhaps beyond hope there is a subtle hum from the most High, a resonance of faith that induces love to spread amongst ourselves as a lasting antidote to the current disasters we are facing.

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Present, Astrology, Future, Philosophy, PastCiela Wynter
Why Is Your Jaw Dropped?
Why Is Your Jaw Dropped?

Anyone else out there feeling like you are growing and churning from the inside out? And although painful, there is some sweetness knowing that it is for the benefit of your future and all of your relations? Me too. Something around these current moon cycles has left a lasting impression upon my psyche in a way I haven’t experienced in many years if ever, truly.

Today’s full moon in Aquarius continues to fortify the unpredictability of the current cosmic mirror. Both Venus and Mars are in opposition to this fullness providing deep inner tugs onto our moods, temper and relationships. Pluto is in the mix, quincunx to the Sun/Venus and the light reflected by this potent moon, asking us to reconcile what is lurking under our friendships and intimate relationships.. This dynamic brings forth the complexities that have been brewing below the surface seeking karmic resolution. Ultimately the challenge is to look within ourselves, assess our own projections onto others, and notice what we notice at a time when the energy is so expansive and outwardly dominate.



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Present, Astrology, Future, Philosophy, Past, Devotion, RelationshipCiela Wynter
What Happened Next?
What Happened Next?

I sat down to breathe, closed my eyes and went in

Where was the earth and where did it begin?

My body convulsed as I birthed a lion cub

Without time as a threshold, I blinked, it grew up

The Lion devoured me in one shocking fell swoop

I became nothing, re-formed, my belly moving like soup

I heaved and I birthed, a second lion cub son 

Another mouth, so fierce, teeth around me…I was done

 

I opened my eyes and I floated with grace

A deep topaz blue, a high mountain lake…

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Past, Astrology, Future, Creativity, Poetry, PresentCiela Wynter
What Was That?
What Was That?

In light of the astrology over the past months, we have now arrived at a moment of pause…in other words a threshold. While we have collectively entered into a sphere of revolution with the cosmic dance between Pluto and Saturn conjoining this past spring, every conversation, relationship, world event, horrific tweet, happening, breakup, or coming together has played a key role in the unfolding of what is to come. 

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Present, Astrology, Future, Philosophy, PastCiela Wynter
Is it Enough?
Is it Enough?

When in observation of the current world stage, courageously keeping my eyes open to the multiplying daily atrocities that currently plague our humanity, I ask myself – when is enough, enough? The human experience is no virgin to the full spectrum of love and hate, yet with the confluence of technological advancements to proliferate propaganda with such ease, are we now simply clearer of what has always been slurping under the surface? Is this the shadow in action? I would say, yes, absolutely and we have seen it again and again…but right now feels different. Why?.

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Present, Past, Astrology, Future, PoliticsCiela Wynter
What is the Mirror of Compassion?
What is the Mirror of Compassion?

The new moon in Gemini has brought forth gifts of new thought, curious inner dialogue and countless ways to see ourselves in the mirror of others. 

How many of us are feeling deep aches running through the center of our bones? A longing for a new future perhaps? An insatiable desire to connect with that which is greater? How about grieving a loss of sorts? Of a loved one or a time past?

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Present, Astrology, Past, Poetry, RelationshipCiela Wynter
Gravity or Levity?
Gravity or Levity?

A new moon in Taurus. Thank God. An opportunity to embrace the pull towards Mother Nature and release the stress and tension of the recent weeks into her soil. Within the act of surrender there is freedom and in that freedom, there is light.

It has often been discussed that if one is only seeking the light, they will miss the very roots of their personal cosmic lesson. As above so below, we need to be grounded in order to reach for the heights. This principle is viscerally clear in the practice of yoga which requires our body to emulate that of a tree, sourcing power, nourishment and strength from that which we touch our feet in order to expand into the ethers beyond our grasp.

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Present, Astrology, PastCiela Wynter
What Does Holy Week Mean to You?
What Does Holy Week Mean to You?

An epic question for epic times. My experience of this time of year has transformed dramatically from my youth and continues to shapeshift as I traverse my own understanding of what “Holy” means. When I was young it meant scavenging for Easter eggs, chocolate and flowers. It was a time when my family would come together, mostly for brunch since they weren’t religious, and share quality time together.

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Present, Astrology, Politics, Philosophy, Poetry, PastCiela Wynter