Astrorisa Moon Forecast: Welcoming the 999 Portal

Welcoming the 999 Portal

The 999 portal on September 9, 2025, is a potent numerological event that can be greatly enhanced by understanding its alignment with astrology. The numerological themes of endings, completion, and new beginnings are reflected and amplified by the specific planetary transits occurring today.
The Sun is in Virgo.
The Moon is in Aries.
Mars is in Libra.
Saturn is retrograded in Pisces.
Jupiter is in Gemini.

The combination of these aspects creates a dynamic day for the 999 portal. The impulsive fire of the Aries Moon and the grounded nature of the Virgo Sun create a potent push-pull. You may feel a powerful urge to take immediate action, but the Virgo energy reminds you to do so with careful planning and intention.

With Saturn in Pisces and Mars in Libra, the day is highly focused on a spiritual and relational clearing. It’s a day for releasing karmic baggage and making decisions about relationships that are no longer in alignment with your true purpose.

Jupiter in Gemini encourages mental and social expansion. This transit suggests that as you close out old chapters, your new beginnings will be fueled by new ideas, learning, and communication. The 999 portal could bring about the end of old thought patterns and the beginning of a new intellectual journey, encouraging you to share your newfound wisdom with others.

The overall message of the astrological transits on September 9, 2025, is one of purposeful action. This is not a day for passive waiting. It is a day to consciously and mindfully participate in the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, using the practical and communicative energies available to build a more authentic and purposeful life.

“To Know Your Truest Self, Follow the Moon.”

Iya Omitonade ~Bisi Ade

Apetebi Ifadoyin

Living in Lines vs. Living in Circles

By Dana O’Driscoll

Nature is a perfect system. A tree falls during a thunderstorm. Within several weeks, the wood is colonized by fungi, bugs, and others who begin the years-long process of breaking down the wood and returning all of the nutrients into the web of life. Soon, oyster mushrooms are erupting from the log, bugs burrow in deep, and mice make their home under the old roots. In 10 or 15 years, moss grows thick, and an acorn takes root and begins to grow in the soil that was a stump. The tree’s trunk becomes a nursery tree for many other plants to get a foothold, off of the forest floor. Suddenly where there was death, there is life. This circle continues and continues, connecting us all in a great web of life. There is no waste in this system–every single part of nature can be recycled and reused infinitely.

Serviceberry is part of this beautiful ecosystem!

One of the challenges humans have in this age is that they have built systems that have disregarded the cycle of life, which includes both creating things that do not easily return to nature and removing ourselves entirely from this system. Rather than think in a circle or cycle, we think in a line. This embedded linear thinking currently pervades modern Western human society. The Story of Stuff short film series does a great job of visually describing these problems: many human systems are based on the foundation of greed, quick profit, and short-term linear thinking. What often happens when someone takes up nature spirituality is that their patterns of shifting slowly change from lines to circles. This happens with people connecting to many different nature-connected communities: including nature spirituality, gardening, rewilding, bushcraft, natural building, or permaculture practice. As soon as you start being part of nature, living with nature, and connecting to nature, you are aware of the cycle. The longer you take up these practices, the more profound this cyclical thinking becomes.

Rose Sugar Navettes: Honoring Mary Magdalene

Danielle Prohom Olson

I’m sharing this recipe for Rose Sugar Navettes (little boats) in honor of the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene on July 22nd. Today these were eaten across Provence, as they have been for several centuries, to commemorate the arrival of the “Three Marys” at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (after the crucifixion) in a divinely guided, rudderless boat. While they are traditionally scented with orange blossom water, I’ve substituted rose water in homage to the Magdalene’s secret flower, not to mention the crunchy sugar topping made with fresh rose petals! Positively redolent with a fragrance so divine, it’s no wonder the rose was the sacred flower of goddesses around the world. That’s the beauty of these simple, rustic cakes; they are suitable for any celebration honoring the divine feminine, whether Christian or pagan.

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Your Spiritual Practice is Crucial Right Now

By Krista Mitchell

I know the energy of the collective right now is heavy. Intense. The increased solar and geomagnetic activity is serving to amplify this (it’s also serving to evolve us, but I’ll get into that topic at another time).
We cannot avoid being emotionally impacted by the collective because we are a part of it.
But we don’t have to suffer in darkness, either.
When we’re in fear we feel more disconnected from Source, our intuition, ourselves, and each other, and we can find it hard to cope, function, thrive, or navigate our lives in a way that is beneficial.
It can also make it challenging to be of service to others when we’re needed – trust me, I know this firsthand!
For my part, I’ve come to a place where I feel that as long as I do my daily practice, I’ll be ok.
I’d like that to be true for you, too.

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Sunlight and Sage: Welcoming the Summer Solstice

By Beth Schreibman Gehring

Long before calendars and clocks, before schedules and spreadsheets, there were the sun and the stars and those of us who watched them closely—gardeners, healers, farmers, mothers. The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, was a sacred moment. A time of warmth and waiting, of ripening berries and blooming roses, of hands deep in the soil and hearts lifted to the sun.

For me, this day has always held a special kind of magic.

On Being a Druid and Walking a Druid Path – A Druid’s Garden Guide and Free Online Book on Druidry

Can a price be put on the life in a forest?

Druidry today has both ancient and modern roots. Druids today seek spiritual connection with nature, using nature to guide, inspire, and ground us. Nature has always been a source of everything to humanity, and those of us who pick up the druid tradition work to reconnect with nature in a multitude of ways. The modern Druid tradition has many branches and paths, and I try to be comprehensive in my coverage of this vibrant and growing tradition. The modern druid tradition is inspired by the Ancient Druids, wise sages who kept history and traditions, and guided the spiritual life of their people. The ancient Druids had three branches of study: the bard (a keeper of history, stories, and songs), the ovate (a sage of nature or shaman), and the druid (the keeper of the traditions, leader of spiritual practices, and keeper of the law). Much of what we know about the Ancient Druids today comes through their surviving legends, stories, mythology, and the writings of Roman authors: the druids themselves had a prohibition against writing anything down that was sacred, and so, we have only fragments. The modern druid movement–from which all present druid traditions descend–started in the 1700-1800’s as one response to industrialization. Today, Druidry is a global and vital tradition. I’ve been walking the path of druidry for almost 20 years and currently serve as the head of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (www.aoda.org). As such, I’ve been sharing a great deal about druidry for a long time on this blog. The ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis as much as it is a crisis of culture. Druidry is us finding our way “home”; back into a deep connection with the living earth. Many people today are drawn to the druid tradition, there is “something” missing for them and it is that connection to nature. Continue reading.

Druidry 202: A Guide to Deepening the Druid Path

Druidry 202: A Guide to Deepening the Druid Path

Solace Stones: Retreating into Stone Spirit Medicine ~ Krista Mitchell

There is a solstice occurring tomorrow, Saturday Dec. 21st.

In the northern hemisphere at dawn this will herald the rebirth of the sun and the return of the light.

In the southern hemisphere at sunset there will be a gala of light meant to raise us to ascendency.

Both are rites of passage and devotion that were once held sacred by the wise ones of old.

They would gather or retreat within stone circle and dolmen. They would purify and pray. And then they would prepare to commune with their higher powers, receive the Earth’s song, and heal from the geomagnetic energy that poured through the stones themselves.

While in our modern times this no longer occurs, the stones still stand, and they remember.

I can feel within our own community here an increased desire for fellowship, communion, and to have a genuine experience of the sacred. This is understandable in a world that feels increasingly unsafe, uncertain, disconnected, and cruel.

But it’s also something in our blood: I firmly believe that all of us here walking the spiritual path now have walked it before, in lives past, and we remember the circles and rites of old.

We remember the stones, too.

It’s why we feel a pull to crystal and stone, water and trees, the sun and stars, and each other.

Crystals for deep listening: Nuummite, Moonstone, Labradorite, Amethyst

When I feel lost I know now to retreat into Spirit. I take hold of a crystal that sings to me, close my eyes, and listen for its voice. I drop down deep within, and I listen for my soul’s voice, too.The collective crystalline consciousness that I channel teaches us that Spirit finds us in silence. That all we need to do to reconnect with the Sacred is to simply go quiet, let ourselves have some peace, and listen.Tomorrow there will be plenty of circles (you can join the replay of mine, here), and ritual ideas and tips, but for some of you it may be the simple act of finding your own inner sacred that will bring you the greatest healing, or peace, or revelation.Spirit and consciousness is in all things, which means it’s in you, too.If you can tomorrow, or any time leading up to the end of the year, see if you can carve out some time for quiet for yourself. To sit simply with a crystal, and listen. To let the Earth’s song rise up through and around you, and remember your magic. Wishing you all the best of the season. ~ Krista Mitchell