Every Orbit

Every Orbit

Full Moon

in Capricorn (backbone, joints, knees, skin, hair)

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Laurel Atwell
Jun 29, 2026
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Judgement & The Receptive

Thank you for practicing with me through the Water and Wood of this calendar year. I’m looking forward to taking in the Fire and Earth periods from the angle of study. The home is a personal school now. I’ve been softly carving out the syllabus, stacking the books to read in the kitchen, seeking the teachers to learn from, etc. The tide of knowledge has drawn itself all the way out; all that’s left is the wet sand, wrinkled, packed densely into itself. I’m so looking forward to the extreme expansiveness of the summer to draw the water back in. Basic alchemy, but extreme and demanding.

Will report findings here.

Doing (23 min) Moving through a peacock form, deep lunge repetition into turtle to encourage deeper opening and lengthening throughout the whole body. Balancing out with some upright twisting to move qi throughout the whole body and slough off what isn't needed.

I was so delighted to discover this object resting against a home in Carroll Gardens walking back from teaching in the Red Hook garden that only when I looked at the image here, in this newsletter, did I realize that I didn’t even follow directions. I didn’t look at what it was pointing at. I was thinking about the person placing it just so, prop the wand. I looked at the thing, but didn’t look at what the thing was looking at…the older I get the dumber I am.

The period of time between the first Hypno-Tarot World workshop and the second became a mandorla, as prophesied by Louise by teaching us the word

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