Diana Badger

Migrating to Substack

I’ve moved my online ‘house’, to Substack! I hope you’ll join me there. While my website remains here, Substack is a blogging platform with fertile soil for networking and cross-pollinating of ideas, where I can have more of an impact. But feel free to browse my prior posts here before you go (39 of them!). And then come find my latest Capricorn ‘26 one: Holding Steady in the Face of Change and my book announcement at my new Substack Home!

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Calling in the Light: Sagittarius

Sagittarius is replete with the impulse for higher meaning, gleaned either through travel to distant horizons heights, or through pursuit of higher learning. It’s the archetype that draws people to the stars, to mountaintops, and to astrological readings (!)— to the seeking of new viewpoints, something beyond the known, hopefully a deliverance, an exhilaration, a joy.

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Going Within: Scorpio

…in the end, Scorpio’s often difficult deep diving is done in the name of renewal, truth, and rebirth. And what is deepest and truest within us, that which needs courageous excavation, is entwined with our love.

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Beauty in Restraint: Libra

Libra asks, How can we infuse breath (given that Libra is an Air sign) both literally and time-wise, into our days? Where might we need to apply reasoned, unattached thinking? And as we head into the dark months of the seasonal cycle here in the north, how might we rebalance the amounts of activity and inactivity we engage with? Where might we find, create, and strive for beauty in our lives, and harmony?

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Finding Ease in Struggle: Virgo

Virgo, set to the work of integration and healing, as well as service, is in itself a sign of ‘crisis’—of tackling tasks or problems not easily solved, often overly consumed with a need to perfect (which is technically not what life on earth is about!), and thereby prone to a stressed nervous system

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Becoming Water: Cancer

In this work, Cancer offers to connect and sustain us from a deep, intuitive place—at a remove from the mind and the clattering concerns of the day. To access her gifts, we must continue to be discerning with the amount of news that our nervous systems can handle, and protectively curate spaces to tap into presence and deep listening, while training our focus on what is nourishing and life-sustaining. Despite the noise of outer life, something is gestating inwardly in those of us aligned with the desire to serve the Change. Cancer’s job is to protect and nourish new life within the womb.

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Hold it Lightly: Gemini

Like fellow Air-sign, Libra, Gemini is known for ‘playing both sides’, which can actually come in handy now in terms of loosening up the tension on the polarities we’re seeing, and are perhaps ourselves entrenched in. Yes, even (and especially) when the news of the day describes cultural demise, or moral depravity. In a time of such great volatility (not the first for humanity!), we do well not to take the news of the day too deeply to heart, and to remember to take charge of our minds, and what we set them to. After prior sign Taurus’s tendency to dig its heels in to ensure stability, Gemini arrives to make sure we avoid becoming stuck in the mud. Mix it up!, it exhorts. And let’s play the light side!

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Our Stability & Our Song: Taurus

[…] in this season of the Sun’s pass through fixed earth sign Taurus, we are called into Presence with the embrace of the Earth Mother in her myriad unfolding manifestations—without clinging to or hoarding that which we are given in this realm. Instead, the archetypal invitation of Taurus is that of seeing our bodies, our senses, and the natural world we are inherently one with as loci where the divine incarnates, for a time.

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Weave of Seen & Unseen: Aries Prequel

The wonder-filled fire sign Aries presides over the newborn child, in all its innocence and free self-expression. To embrace this childlike ethos of daring and instinct, we might spend some time reconnecting with our own child self, with its spirit of delight and innovation. What helps us drop into this space? This will be of great assistance to the rebirthing work we have before us, as we need the judgment-free, intuitive parts of our being to be liberated from constraints.

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