Anthony Rella's Blog

For a variety of reasons, I am going to experiment with moving my regular contemplations, newsletter information, short essays, and blogs over to Substack. Here is the link. My goal is to be less entangled with Meta products in general, which have felt like a marketing black hole for a number of years even before […]

Mars in Cancer Are you powerless or are you focusing on things that your power cannot influence? Are you powerless or remembering moments as a child when you had no power? The roots of power begin at home. If you are feeling overwhelmed, try cleaning something . Make a meal. Have a conversation with a […]

There was a time several years ago when my regular blog writing started to gain traction and my regular views began to really increase. Then Facebook did something different, acted different, updated the all-mighty algorithm, and I was back to very few clicks a day. Or perhaps it’s convenient to blame technology and it’s just […]

Saturn is the ruler and embodiment of limitations, old age, infirmity, and all the things that most of us try not to think about when we are not forced to do so. And Saturn can teach us what truly matters. All the bluster of trying to prove ourselves or shore up our own ego gets […]

Today Venus appears to me as fierce and magnetic, all tattooed and ready to party and fight while nourishing new life. I am reminded of Aries’s great power to initiate, to use her profound vitality to get things going—a party, a bar brawl, a new project, and life itself. I am also reminded of Aries’s […]

Last week we reflected on how each story and perspective is a filter over perception, and like a colored filter on a lens, each filter reveals certain things and obscures certain things about what is. So to gain more depth of perspective, one needs to hold and perceive through multiple filters. This evokes the classic […]

Today we might feel a cleavage between what seems like the smart move and what feels like the right move. Logic and instinct need not always be at odds, but these moments of opposition may make us feel stuck, agitated, indecisive. And it’s an opportunity for the sacred marriage to renew itself. The moon in […]

"When we stay settled in pain, we risk becoming authoritarians. Our essential resentment of loneliness becomes an accusation against the world, a feeling that somehow we are entitled to dominate it because we are in so much pain. Authoritarian movements draw in lonely, embittered people who have no other belonging and gives them a mission for which their misery is fuel, and repays them with the satisfaction of vengeance against those they blame for their misery."

"The warrior energy of Mars wants to be strong, protective, and move confidently toward what is necessary and useful, but in the nurturing and punitive sign of Cancer he must move crabwise, side to side, with two harsh claws that will quickly register their displeasure with anything that seems threatening. In this sign, that warrior energy becomes highly reactive, easily spooked, dramatically boastful one day and then dramatically victimized the next."#witchsky #occultsky #astrology #astrocontemplation

Today the moon has a brief confrontation with the collective underworld on its way to blooming in fullness with the reflected light of the sun. For those who follow the lunar cycles, this is a potent moment in which what has been growing in shadows is finally ready to come forward, and in Leo this […]