Imbolc arrives at the end of the week, the feast of Brigid, the perfect point between winter solstice and spring equinox, when we cross from dark to light. This is a crossing of profound ambivalence — not necessarily good defeating evil, or liberation toppling oppression. It’s about the mix, the dance, the painful, delicious tingle at the start of the thaw.
Consider the World card of the Tarot, a radiant woman dancing among the four elements, and the four fixed signs: Leo, Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius. This is a card of Aquarius, and of this moment. With all we know, with all that we cannot resolve or fix, all that we have is the interpretation, the embrace of curiosity, the dance.
Some keys through the ambiguous, the uncanny and the ambivalent:
Pluto in Aquarius horoscopes (these are relevant for the next 20 years)
An Astrologer’s guide to Death (you have to laugh!)
Astro and tarot readings are available through April. Spaces limited, so I’d get on it now.
I have no answers. I am not fully accountable. I am culpable, and complicated. For now, I have a sportsbra, and a dancefloor, and it is here that I will work it out, dancing until dawn arrives, yielding the clarity of an open horizon.
Ever,
David Odyssey
As always great astro articles for Nylon!
Also, big thanks for the dj set, from a semi-retired dance culture freak.