jennifer brinn

New Moon in Libra happens Saturday Sept 28, 2019 at 11:27 am The alarm on my phone went off at 4:45am. Yes, it was intentional, and yes, I hit snooze for thirty more minutes. I rolled out of bed, greeted by our cat, Pablo who waits patiently for me on the bedside table. My husband was not in our bed, he slept on the sofa again after a design project consumed him until early morning hours in his studio across the breezeway of our home. As I heard him snore loudly from the livi

New Moon in Cancer happens Tuesday July 2, 2019 at 11:18 am When a baby is born they go from the watery, dreamy, amniotic-filled womb through the birth canal and into this physical realm. That birthing has a fiery, action-packed energy filled with contractions, pushing, effort, hence the term, “labor”. Then there is the landing, the swaddling, the napping, the feeding. Grounding into this earthly realm. An earth energy that’s necessary for early stages of growth. As the child

The New Moon in Aries happens Friday April 5th at 1:50 a.m. PST. This is an auspicious time as we flow into the beginning of the astrological calendar with New Moon in Aries. Aries is the ram, its element is fire. It is the Type-A extrovert to last month in Pisces’ watery, emo, introvert. Last month’s New Moon in Pisces was the end of the astrological calendar. It gave us pause for reflection, a journey into self to help us redefine and ask the question, “Who am I really?” We

A common occurrence amongst servers in the restaurant biz is the recurring nightmare of being in the “weeds”. This state of despair haunts them both in real-time and in dream-time. Years ago as I left my tech job to build my Reiki practice, I took a job waiting tables which provided more flexibility while also paying the bills. At least once a week I’d wake up from a stressful sleep with the nightmare of being in the “weeds”. In the Weeds! In my dream, I’d get “sat” all at on

The New Moon in Aquarius happens Monday, February 4th at 1:04 p.m. PST. One of my favorite quotes by Joseph Campbell about finding your purpose is, “You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.” ~The Hero With a Thousand Faces Life coach and author, Martha Beck calls this being a “wayfinder”

New Moon in Capricorn with partial solar eclipse Saturday, January 5th 5:28 p.m. PST. Full Moon in Leo with a total Lunar Eclipse is Sunday, January 20 at 9:16 p.m. PST. Last Saturday I was asked to go up to Napa Valley and lead a group of twenty people from Equinox Sports Club in San Francisco on a hike and meditation through the vineyards at Liana Estates as part of their Wine & Wellness program. It was a seed I planted with the Events director months ago and now beginning

The New Moon in Sagittarius happens Friday, December 7th at 11:20 p.m. PST. This week we approach the last new moon of the year. It's in Sagittarius which is a fire sign, a perfect polarity to the darkened shades of the winter months. Sagittarius governs themes such as quest for truth, freedom, higher education, justice and optimism. And sometimes we need to go internal, to dig deep, to burrow into the shadows in order to reveal the brightest light within us. This means excav

The New Moon in Virgo happens Sunday, September 9th at 11a.m. PST. The Full Moon in Aries happens Monday, September 24th at 7:52 p.m. PST. "You guys go ahead!" Leading up to the Labor Day holiday my badass-inner-priestess voice beckoned to me. After a super fun summer of hosting pool parties, attending weddings, entertaining weekend guests, and a 10-day family road trip through the southwest, I saw opportunity in the upcoming holiday which potentially offered up four uninterr

The New Moon in Leo happens Saturday, August 12th at 2:57a.m. PST. When we think of lion, there are three images that come to mind. (note: I use the masculine here as Leo is a fire sign and fire represents the sacred masculine in all of us, man or woman.) King of the jungle, the rockstar center of his circle, commanding respect and attention. The fierce hunter, charging ahead and taking control of his biggest prey in a feat of accomplishment. Finally we see the languid lion s

The New Moon in Cancer happens Thursday, July 12th at 6:48 p.m. PST. Since the spring of this year I've been in practice of sitting in a stone circle I constructed on the hillside behind our house. Within the circle I've been called to place crystals, the Hand of Fatima and a small jade statue of the goddess Quan Yin, both represent Divine Goddess or Divine Mother. I didn't really have an understanding why these items wanted to be placed in the circle. Yet, it has been reveal

The Summer Solstice happens Thursday, June 21st at 3:07 a.m. PST. Sitting on the hill in the vision circle yesterday morning I meditated on the energy of summer solstice. Today marks the day of the longest hours of sunlight in the calendar year. It’s essentially the brightest day of the year. As a lover of light, it happens to be my favorite day! So I sat with oracle cards in hand, crystals embedded in the earth, a stone circle surrounding me acting as guardian for this sacre

The New Moon in Gemini happens Wednesday, June 13th at 12:43 p.m. PST. I had a dream last week about a mother bobcat who was hiding her cub in a far corner of a cluttered house. In my dream, everyone wanted to trap and relocate them. I kept telling them if they just gave her space she would find a way to emerge on her own. Everyone went to sleep and as it became very quiet, she emerged with her cub and they both turned into powerful black leopards, freeing themselves from th

It’s tough to stay balanced in a world that is overbooked with meetings, playdates, to-do lists out the wazoo, and date-nights. But when it comes to the big life decisions like starting a new career, moving to a new city, starting a family or relationship transitions we need this balance to help us feel certain as we cross these thresholds into something that will change our entire atmosphere. We need a strong spiritual foundation to help us gain our footing amidst all the am

Have you noticed that the pace of life has increased to warp speed? Do you ever get the feeling there is a much more zen-version of you hanging out on a mountaintop in a parallel universe? Perhaps you wake up with a sense of overwhelm and anxiety. Maybe you feel so burned out that even thinking about your day ahead is too exhausting. You need something deeper than a day off to catch up or a nap or another latte. You may be tired on a soul-level. Your soul needs sanctuary, a s