The month of the Rooster is waning and you may have found that September served you some wake up calls. Certainly communication was hi-lighted; the need to speak up and to be heard. This year of the Ox is Yin Earth, and there are 3 other Earth Zodiac Animals, the Dragon, the Sheep, and the Read More
Author: Nitya Griffith
The Foreboding Astrologies of the USA and Biden
When I first was researching last fall 2020 the astrology forecast for both the USA and President Joe Biden, I knew there was something coming. This foreboding feeling has been rising in me as a palpable anxiety. I hear from so many people how stressful and intense this time of Covid-19 has been. Many of Read More
Waiting on the Line
That storm seems to be forever perched Just over the tops of the trees Just over the furthest rooflines I can smell the rain The flicker at the feeder, The finches waiting on the line. The seed scatters, Sunflowers rise up. There it is, the volunteers, The ones you could never see That are suddenly Read More
Flying Stars Feng Shui for September 2021
As the August month of the Monkey swings out of view, what surprises jumped into your lap last month? Were there any problems solved? Did you feel scattered in thoughts and feel the urge to diversify, multi-task more than usual? Well, all that monkey minded-ness is leaving us now as a Yin Fire Rooster struts Read More
Flying Stars Feng Shui for August 2021
You may be falling into August bruised and scraped for having survived one very problematic July. The Wood Sheep last month, the first of 3 conflicted months in 2021, butted heads with our annual Metal Ox. I saw relationships fall apart, I saw tempers flair and frustrations mount. When pushed to the edge, some can Read More
Homeless Dancing
Homeless Dancing It is an annual tradition of summer yoga camp to take the oldest campers out one day for a couple hours to feed the homeless. This year 2021 we are still in a pandemic from Covid and so the need is even greater as so many people have suffered great losses in the Read More
The Little Red House, a poem
The station wagon with faux wood paneling, The memory of sliding from the car seat down to the wild grasses, The size I was then, My feet already wincing at the briars and sharp hidden things Waiting for me to step down and run painfully for the river. Summer country days smelled like hot grass Read More
Flying Stars Feng Shui for July 2021
So the push and pull of last month’s Wood Horse gives way to a very problematic July. This is the month of the Wood Sheep, the first of 3 conflicted months in 2021 that have the potential for earth shaking kind of activity, seismic shifts are likely in the weeks ahead. The issue with the Read More
Flying Stars Feng Shui for June 2021
Summer time makes me think of music, of the smell of hot grass, and of the longing to be by water. Here it is, the 5th month of the Chinese calendar welcoming in the summer season and the month of the Yang Wood Horse. Being a Horsey person myself, I know so very well the Read More
Reading, a poem by Lydia Nitya Griffith
It takes the setting aside of things, All that distracts and pulls us away from ourselves, To sit idle with a book and get lost in the narrative. Not that getting lost is a needful thing Or a requirement to something else, but more so that reading A book to the accompaniment of rain or Read More