PSYCHO-COSMOS MONTHLY WORKSHOP SERIES
SATURN SESSIONS
INITIATIONS: A workshop on the cardinal signs, the signs which fall at the beginning of the seasons, with Danielle Beinstein and Emmalea Russo. A workshop on beginnings. JULY 26. Come live or get the recording.
Yesterday, the moon was full in Capricorn. Now, the light slowly wanes towards new. What’s peaked? Reached maximum capacity? Ripened? Gotta go? Both Cancer and Capricorn are cardinal signs. Cancer: the beginning of summer. Capricorn: the start of winter. They kick off seasons. They initiate us into light and darkness—the sun’s steady rise and decline.
In Capricorn, the light hits rock bottom then slowly begins to climb. It’s a sign of wild rebirth, confrontation with darknesses, and curious paradox. Highs and lows, both earthly and mystical. This is part of the reason I chose to set my novel, Vivienne, at the start of Capricorn season. It’s a story of a fall from grace and a strange ascension. The sea goat is groovy, serious, and playful. Finds the hidden water, flow, depths in earth: sea + goat.
And yesterday’s full moon feels both fertile and old. It had a harmonious, earthy conversation with Mars in Virgo. How’ve we hurt people with words? How can we be more precise with them? Again, what words need to go? How to be bold, brave, without needlessly cutting? How to cut with grace? After a bond’s been severed (Mars severs) how to build it back up? Mars is the adolescent boy, a forever engine, who finds happy exaltation, crucially, in the sign of Capricorn. Capricorn gives Mars bones and form—offer shape to the drive, necessary limits and edges. Prevents total annihilation and offers gifts of patience and resilience, anti-burn out. Yesterday’s moon was fueled by a Saturn currently in Aries. Again: cardinal, initiations, beginnings. A trial-and-error vibe, the risk of starting.
The moon does struggle in Capricorn under Saturn’s harsh rules, limits, reality testing, and melancholic tendencies. Far from home (Cancer’s womb waters) what can Moon do? Yearn. Make art. Endlessly contemplate. At worst: maddening rumination. But always: the physicality of thinking. Here, the moon finds secret knowledge. Silver in the house of heaviest metal. Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance astrologer, philosopher, priest, was obsessed with Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn. He said we can find Saturn when engaging in the following:
leisure
solitude
sickness
theology
secret philosophy
superstition
magic farming
mourning
Capricorn/Saturn finds god and the sun at the end, limit. (Simone Weil: “Every limit is God”) It is also dark humor. The secret philosophy: light and levity are present in lead, sun in bone. Capricorn full moon: what needs to go so that we can begin, begin again, find rebirth in the unlikeliest of zones? Un-clutter the head and environment. Strip a project down to its essence, then go.
UPCOMING THINGS:
1. PSYCHO-COSMOS MONTHLY WORKSHOP. The summer and early fall lineup of Psycho-Cosmos workshops is my fave. You can join at any time, and get access to all the recordings from previous months and all upcoming workshops, through December. Here's what's coming (join live or get the recordings):
JULY 27, 2025: UNDERWORLD AND UNCONSCIOUS: PLUTO + DREAMS
AUGUST 31, 2025: MOON, MOTHER, MATTER
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025: MADNESS, DREAMS, THE 12TH HOUSE
JOIN HERE
2. SATURN SESSIONS (1.5 hour deep-dive into Saturn (and Jupiter, if you want) in your natal chart and in the sky. Both planets have recently changed signs, so there is much to discuss. Afterward, I email you a bespoke document with key dates for you based on our conversation, and some recommended readings/viewings. Good for those who are stuck on a project, struggling with timing--calendrical or divine, or simply curious about these planetary counterparts. I've got 4 slots in July. Grab your spot HERE
3. JULY 26: INITIATIONS: A workshop on the cardinal signs with Danielle Beinstein and Emmalea Russo. Dani is an excellent astrologer and we're going to talk about all things CARDINAL (beginnings, initiations) as so many planets have moved into cardinal signs recently. There will also be time for your questions. Come live or get the recordings. Reserve your spot HERE