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Solstice, Beginnings, Initiations, Cardinal Signs

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Jun 20, 2025
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INITIATIONS: A workshop on the cardinal signs with

Danielle Beinstein
and Emmalea Russo

SATURN SESSIONS (6 left!)


We begin again and again. Four times a year: a new season. In astrology, the signs that sit at these openings are called cardinal. Tonight, the sun will enter Cancer, the first (cardinal) waters of the zodiac—wombs, growth, shells and enclosures. The longest day, maximum sun. The cardinal cross (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) is teeming with beginnings. Eyes and mouths open, dynamic, moving ceaselessly towards experience. The cardinal signs: initiations, dynamism, risk.

I’m teaching a class with the great astrologer Danielle Beinstein at the end of July called INITIATIONS, focusing on the cardinal signs, as there is so much action there lately (Jupiter into Cancer, Neptune and Saturn into Aries…) More info + reserve your spot HERE.

James Ensor, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1889

Memory wiped clean for a second, as if we’ve never before seen summer. Rinsed, like after seizures or hysterical sobs. Cardinal signs shape seasons and ideas via trial and error, immense energy, boldness, risk. But also:

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