The Full Moon in Scorpio and the Season of Speaking Your Truth

Sign up for the Beltane Ritual next Tuesday at 5pm MST here!I'd love to invite you to my May 5 Zoom ritual “Blossoming into Beltane” (somatic work, a bit of vocalizing, creative practice, and cross-cultural Beltane teachings).

In this full moon episode I riff on the Taurus–Scorpio axis as security and intimacy (throat and genitals) and track it through Human Design: Moon in Gate 44 (alertness/“coming to meet,” splenic instinct, ancestral pattern-recognition) and Sun in Gate 24 (rationalization, getting out of mental loops into invention and silence). I also ground Beltane as a Gaelic fire festival (bonfires, maypole, flowers, fertility) opposite Samhain/Halloween, and share my course “Your Heart is a Compass,” weaving the Wheel of the Year with G-center gates, Inanna dream symbolism, and practices like coherent breathing.00:00 Scorpio Full Moon Welcome01:24 Mayday Timing Clarified02:15 Beltane Ritual Invite03:25 Finding Your Voice05:49 Wheel Polarity Taurus Scorpio09:19 Gate 44 Meeting Shadows12:47 Gate 24 Mind to Silence15:19 Instinct and Reason Integration20:07 Beltane Origins and Traditions23:31 Heart Compass Course Vision31:51 Why We Need New Maps34:26 Grounding Practices and Closing

Uranus moved into Gemini on April 25th, and I wanted to mark this pivotal moment by talking to someone who knows this energy from the inside out.

This is the first episode of a new series I am calling Living the Spiral: Magicians, conversations with practitioners who have not just studied these systems but have been changed by them. There’s a lot more to come, and this Uranian wisdom with the brilliant Christa Hamilton is a wonderful place to start.

Christa Hamilton is a lifelong student of esoteric subjects and an active practitioner of divination. Astrology is the central core of her practice, and she weaves in tarot, plant medicine, animal symbolism, and dreaming as she works. She is a graduate of the Nightlight Astrology School, a founding member of the Asteri Sofia Kairos collective, a contributing writer and lecturer for the Astrologer’s Co-Op, and a volunteer for OPA. She focuses primarily on one-on-one client readings and also creates art, writes, makes videos, and collaborates with other practitioners to make astrology genuinely accessible to anyone who wants it.

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If this conversation is landing for you, I have a course coming in May called Your Heart Is a Compass that feels very much in the spirit of what Christa and I are talking about here. It is built around the idea that the heart is a navigation system, and that when you learn to read it you stop needing external permission to know where you are going. This could be especially useful when Uranus is scrambling all the signals!

I also offer natal astrology chart readings, Human Design readings, and more through my practice at Hearth and Spiral.

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This week we're sitting inside one of the most concentrated astrological moments in recent memory. There are seven planets in Aries, stacked into three Human Design gates, all with Thunder in their foundation. The new moon on April 17th falls in Gate 3 (Orderi out of Chaos) with Chiron and Eris, seeding directly into the wound around new beginnings. Neptune and Mercury are meeting in Gate 25, the gate of innocence and universal love. Mars and Saturn are exactly conjunct in Gate 17, asking for far-sighted leadership over rigidly defended opinion.

I open this episode with a short three-minute coherent breathing practice, then walk through each gate with its I Ching image and Gene Keys shadow, gift, and siddhi. I also revisit the April 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse and why this new moon is a direct continuation of that thread.

Your Heart Is a Compass — Early Bird If something in this episode tugged at you, this course I'm offering starting on May 19th the longer work of it. My five-week live course starts in May and is built around the eight G Center gates, the Pagan Wheel of the Year, the descent of Inanna, and what it actually means to let your heart lead. Early bird pricing is open until May 1st- come play!

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