Kristen McCalla Astrology

10/11/2026

✨New Moon in Libra✨

Today’s new moon brings us the gift of action. The shadows within the descent into our internal worlds have begun to come into focus. We are making contact with the inner form that has made its presence known through dreams and symbols as well as through external experiential and relational tension. When we request something from the universe - be it growth, abundance, more cohesion, clarity or pleasure - we must remember that in order to create MORE OF something, we must first create LESS OF whatever it is keeping us from becoming what it is we want.

The first step on the path is to illuminate the impediment. Is it a collection of beliefs? A nervous system disregulated early in development and therefore unable to perceive safety? What about armor thickly built around hearts that have been broken? Or dragons willing to burn down whatever threatens the helpless one trapped in a tower of its own making?

As Libra’s ruling planet is the relational expression of Venus, (and Venus rules this lunation), relationships and partnerships then become the cauldron through which our alchemical processing occurs. We do not need to know everything. What we need today, is to understand the action wanting to take place: a boundary, a conversation, courage to own one’s worth, one’s integrated power, or perhaps it is to recognize a pattern of self-abandonment or to cease accepting the projections of those around you. Maybe we make a vow to no longer be a dumping ground for another’s inability to feel their own feelings- no matter the very real reasons they may not feel safe to do so. Call your power back. Align in your truth. You are worthy.

Tonight we gather ourselves in the dark of this moon, so that we can begin to vocalize where we have fallen short of or where we have gone too far past another’s boundary. It is imperative we remember that harmony cannot truly exist at the expense of our authenticity, or at the denial of another’s. Blessings, voyagers. 🙏✨

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09/15/2026

✨VENUS SQUARES PLUTO✨

Today we receive a message from the depths that manifests through our relationships. This marks the beginning of a 3 month underworld journey that wants to excavate outdated patterns, power dynamics, and distortions that no longer vibrate at the frequencies in which we now live.

Venus just entered Scorpio, and will be retrograding through this sign and back into Libra from October 3rd-November 14th. Beginning today and ending in December will be a series of 3 squares between Venus and Pluto. This speaks to an ongoing story that will continue to unfold through mid-December. The first pass in astrology as a planet moves forward over a degree, then retrogrades past before moving forward again, is akin to the opening act in a 3 part play. It is when we begin to perceive a glimpse of an issue. When Venus is involved we can observe our behaviors and the dynamics in our closest relationships, our financial and material lives, and the beauty and art we connect with and experience.

Depth is what we are after; the wound beneath the trigger. If a need for control begins to overtake our inner harmony, see it for what it is: fear’s behavioral state. What are we afraid of facing? What are we afraid of losing? What are we afraid of, truly? If grief surfaces, allow its presence to complete itself. Anger, rage, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, or anything else we tend to sweep under the rug are wanting integration with this transit. They too deserve to be loved back into wholeness through our attention and our tears.

This is Pluto’s path to ultimate liberation. It may not be a comfortable place to be, but it is nothing else if not thorough. And if we follow that thread of light into our inner worlds, while vowing to stay in conscious communication with those we love, we might just uncover the treasured wisdom found there. Pause and breathe. You are safe and loved.

Blessings, beauties! 🙏🤍

09/03/2024

09/03/2024

🌑NEW MOON IN VIRGO 🌑
Tonight’s New Moon in Virgo has us clearing any debris that has cluttered our relational systems in an effort to buoy us into new patterning that better suits the life we are creating. We have been fast at work over the previous several weeks confronting the discomfort of an obstructed methodology that has long been needing a thorough review.

As Mercury moves out of its retrograde shadow, our conversation with the Divine flows a little freer, allowing the stagnancy we may have been perceiving but not necessarily KNOWing, to begin its righted path. And tonight we set our sights on a new dream, a new world, a new day!

How might we purify our patterning so that the results we need to move forward with our plans come into being? Let us do the necessary work of tending to the necessary elements without delay. For we are on a September journey toward the Pisces Eclipse with this month’s Full Moon and will need our wits about us as we enter the darkness of the Dreamworld. The harvest is here. Let us rejoice! Yes. And let us be grateful for our bounty: that which is abundant even when expectation and reality differ.

Blessings, Holy Reapers. With a steady hand and patience, the joy you seek is yours.

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Art by: The Talened

04/08/2024

🌕 Solar eclipse in Aries ☀️

When your soul begins to know itself, through contemplative silences and life’s myriad of experiences; those that bring strife and wisdom and sorrow and joy, there is a natural process of forgetting. Of healing. Forgetting to please for the promise of love; Healing the heart that was always deserving.

You are holy; your sacredness intact. So offer up those social graces, those thought structures, the limiting beliefs and the ways in which conflict avoidance keeps a smile on other's faces but whittles yours down into a caricature of the real damn thing. Offer them up onto your altar of transformation, your altar of delight. And for Goddess' sake, do yourself a favor and invite in your authenticity. Create space for your sovereignty to be crowned. You are worthy of that and so, so much more.

Blessings, lovers.

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05/04/2023

🌘Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio🌒

Tomorrow, May 5, 2023 at 11:34 am MT the last eclipse in Scorpio occurs when the Moon arrives at 14’58 degrees, opposite the Ta**us Sun. The ‘what’ we have been working with since May of 2022 is coming to a rapid close as we turn the page of our internal apocalyptic story.

Scorpio is a sign that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere around the time when our Natural World tucks itself in for the long winter. It is the moment when the first frosts arrive with skeletal fingers, ushering death to all that bloomed and blossomed during the months of Spring and Summer. The abundant life that acts as annual smelling salts for humanity is peeled back revealing the inevitability of our own mortality, and suddenly our ancestors that we buried over generations are remembered. Out of the mists and fogs their once distant dreams and songs are our own in a perpetual canon of athanasia: Heaven on Earth.

The last two weeks have had us sitting with our own gangrenous constructs, as uncomfortable and harrowing as any we have felt over the last year. To track this internal decay, we must sit in the silence like that provided by a pre-winter’s storm, which can be difficult when the Earth is beckoning us to awaken with its dazzling greenery and beauty-blooms. But when we do sit in silence, when we MAKE the time for stillness in an otherwise buzzing modality, we will hear that ‘what’, that ‘thing’ which is dying within our own life: a dynamic, a behavior, a way of being, or relating to the world around us. Something beneath the surface is laboring for its last breath as Death comes to claim its final rite.

Several years ago a teacher of mine sat with me on the sacred ground and guided me through a passageway of fear after my own near death experience. With courage and with a companion, I learned that even when faced with death, I was held and nurtured by life. That in the moment when I surrendered to my body’s mortality, the trust in my soul, in the infinite possibilities of rebirth, was at its peak.

May we all be so blessed with the deep trust in the Cycle of Life, to release our control over what was or what should have been.
May we each surrender to these petit morts with wisdom, knowing full well that the law of the universe can only then bring about a Great Rebirth. May we do so with companionship of our trusted guides, conscious of the fact that we will receive the exact insight we seek at precisely the right moment.

Organizing ourselves around tomorrow’s final farewell, we may want to sit with the questions of not only what wants to be released, but also what is wanting to be born through us? Indeed, let us bring our attention to what is undoubtedly already sprouting out of us during these times of deep transformation.

Finally, to anoint our inner pilgrimages we may find we need some support. The following list may help with our rituals:

1. Drink plenty of water and herbal teas. Stay hydrated!
2. Bathe in hot herbal water or salts to open and to protect.
3. Rinse with a room temperature herbal infusion (rosemary, thyme, and basil work well) the morning after the eclipse to mark release and closure.
4. Write about what wants be released and burn in a fire safe receptacle OR sing your words of release into a flowing water source, or a glass of water then dump into the Earth.
5. Slow down. Rest.
6. Allow for safe moments of emotion to flow through your body. Your tears are Holy Water.
7. Allow yourself to create the necessary boundaries you need in order to process in your own time.
8. Be gentle with yourselves and with others.
9. Connect in safe space in your supportive relationships.

Blessings voyagers 🙏🏽

Art by: Tino Rodriguez

03/08/2023

FULL MOON IN VIRGO//SATURN MOVES INTO PISCES

And so the dance of the dreamer begins. Just after the moon was at its fullest in the early dawn hours, Saturn, planet of boundaries, responsibilities, lessons and discipline moved into Pisces. For the next 2 1/2 years we will undergo an oceanic initiation into the depths of our mythic imagination.

Our dreams and visions are alive, sending us information from the numinous. The quality of our dreams (Pisces) is directly linked to the quality of our physical and psychic health (Virgo). Pisces encompasses the vast and endless psychic realms- it varies greatly between spiritual wisdom and levity, the worlds of fear and delusion, and everything between. The environment in which Pisces exists will dictate the form it takes. Virgo’s insistence on purification and attention to detail allows the dreamer to stay grounded during their astral travel. When one is not rooted into the Earth, one is easily lost amongst the details, and instead may venture into the lower vibration of trepidation, escapism and incubus. We can just as easily create our terror as we can our joy.

Saturn is here to hold us accountable for the dreams we individually and collectively dream. The extent to which we choose to take responsibility for ourselves as embodied souls enshrouded in co-creative life force, will either open us or close us to the deep connection that pure consciousness brings. What this full moon is highlighting are the crops we are consciously and indeed unconsciously choosing to tend to. This moon in Virgo reminds us that our bodies are our wisest guides, and that our hearts are our most effective barometers, particularly when we venture into the Realms of the Mystical and the Divine.

Blessings 🙏🏽

Art by the Incredible Brianna McCarthy

02/20/2023

New Moon in Pisces

Last night’s new moon at 1 degree of Pisces conjunct Saturn (in the final degrees of Aquarius) represents both a practice in meditative intention as well as transformational new beginnings.

Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, and one that encompasses the duality of the human/soul experience: It is the darkness and the light, the fear and the joy- it is here we meet the wholeness of God(dess). Pisces is a spiritual sign, but it is not one that gives itself to bypassing. Instead Pisces challenges us to sit with and tend to all that is broken. The very depths of our human experience is as much esteemed as the highest achievement. It is in this practice- learning to stay open and still amidst these extremes- that Pisces’ lessons are cultivated.

The function of the planet of conscious control (Saturn) and its coming ingress into the unconscious archetype of Pisces (from March7, 2023-May 24, 2025), is indeed to bring our awareness into our unconscious world: We are beginning to see how our INTENTION affects our REALITY.

Masaru Emoto’s vibrational water experiments are helpful as a guide for us all to understand the profound role our unconscious beliefs have on our realities. Our bodies, for example, are made of 60% water. What might we realize if we were to find the courage to sit still enough and listen to the thoughts and beliefs that constantly saturate our own waters? And do we know- really know- that our beliefs about the world, about ourselves, about our communities and their structures- are all in fact malleable, changeable, and indeed have an evolutionary desire to elevate and transform?

This is profound, to say the least, when we stop to consider the implications of such a deep practice. What stops us from undertaking this internal dive? What keeps us from sitting with the parts of ourselves- or the parts of our community- that represent the shadow? Are we able to gift ourselves sips of time to quietly contemplate how our life experience informs our realities, thereby, in fact, creating them? And what really do these unconscious aspects of ourselves need other than our compassion? Do you know the very vibrations you seek to align with are those beckoning you into this meditative state?

Blessings, water-going warriors. May you learn to allow all things to pass through you with grace. The definition of grace, by the way, is unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification; a virtue coming from God; and a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance.

Art by the incredible Hilma af Klint, entitled The Swan no.1, 1914-1915.

02/06/2023

FULL MOON IN LEO

There are moments in life when we realize, due to mounting pressure felt directly within our psyches or experienced through outer circumstance and relationships, that change is necessary; that deviating from our preconceived path is actually the only way forward. As we have moved with the mounting energy of the full moon this past week, we may have experienced one of these scenarios and are now learning that this new direction is indeed necessary for our continuity. Whatever has been holding us back from fully expressing our authenticity is now up for review. We are acting as detached observers of outdated stimulii, so that our individual creativity and joy are free to live and breathe more fully under the Sun’s benevolent rays.

We each may have buried beneath various layers of lived experience, our unbridled and childlike joy, or the creative genius of a liberated soul. Each of us carries a unique gift that shines through our hearts; one we wish to share with the world. This is where the archetype of Leo lives within us whether or not we have any planets here in our natal charts. Our Sun signs point to the Lion and Lioness within us all, and beckon us in the direction of our heart’s calling.

After this week’s unexpected turn of events, it is no longer necessary for us to try and figure out or force our way into an alternate direction; rather the path resolutely reveals itself to us. As we courageously take our first steps onto this sudden switchback, it is as if each cell of our being has awakened out of a black and white dream into a world of technicolor. Our views of ourselves and our realities has unequivocally altered, and we no longer feel a reason to be tethered to the backwaters of self or socially imposed confinement. There is no going back- our vitality is simply too precious to keep chained.

So won’t you move deeper into your wild heart so as to live amongst the wider community in sovereign exuberance? Will you sing your individual Heart Song so that those around you can find and sing their Sacred Ballad too?

Blessings🌞

Art: Una and the Lion by William Bell Scott

01/21/2023

NEW MOON IN AQUARIUS ♒️

Today’s New Moon lands at 1 degree Aquarius, conjunct Pluto at 28 degrees Capricorn. While emotions may run high and egos may ruminate, what is actually going on beneath reality’s surface is Pluto’s transformational magic. There is a need for some quiet contemplation so that we can open to this alchemical process, or else we may find ourselves in unnecessary battles with whomever we consider “the other”. If we find ourselves in these outer entanglements however, we can simply call on the higher consciousness of Aquarius and allow the inner metamorphosis to begin its dissolution process.

Today can perhaps be considered a second initiatory phase of Pluto’s eventual March entrance into Aquarius (the first being December 2020’s Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on the Winter Solstice). We are entering now the Age of Aquarius where technological advancement on a scale we have never seen is sure to generate a foothold on our collective modality. We have already been experiencing much Aquarian archetypal drama with Saturn’s square to Uranus (us versus them mentality) the past few years, and luckily that square is releasing its grip on the social scene. Hopefully what we have learned from that intense divide, is that when we break into tribal mentality- the Whole is Lost. When we seek freedom not only through a series of actions outside of ourselves, but also as a Spiritual Vessel, this is where true liberation lives and breathes; and indeed where we can integrate our own Radical Thought and Genius into the Great Organism of Life.

There has been so much talk about self-realization the past 50+ years; and while this conversation is worthwhile, for what evolutionary purpose does this serve if not to find our place within the larger human organism? Indeed, we are opening now into a new way of living, and while we do not know what will be birthed out of this process, the surest way to serve our futures is to release all that does not serve. Opening our hearts and minds to all the disparate parts of ourselves, without judgment, will allow Pluto’s fertilization post primordial liquidation.

Blessings, Water Bearers 🐍🏺

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