Snow Moon

This coming Saturday, February 24, we will experience the Snow Moon. The Snow Moon is the traditional name for a full moon in February, and named after abundant snowfall in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a beautiful sight to behold!

Although scientifically not different from any other full moon, historically people have attributed cultural or spiritual significance to this full moon. Some North American tribes named this full moon the Hungry Moon, due to the scarce food sources and hard hunting conditions during mid-winter. Others have named this occurrence a Bear Moon, referring to bear cubs being born this time of year.

The astrological significance of the Snow Moon, also known as the full moon in Virgo, is a lunation around creating a practical and sustainable balance of your material and spiritual needs. This full moon is a reminder that our material side of life should be considered from the point of view of basic human needs - health, wellbeing, and proper nourishment. While in terms of spiritually, the Snow Moon is associated with fullness, energy and the manifestation of new desires and purposes. As the full moon in Virgo arrives, Saturn is on the Sun side in Pisces, while Mercury, the planet of information and communications is combusted by the Sun. Saturn, the planet of responsibility, encroaches on the Sun and demands from us depth, concentration and self-discipline in our spiritual lives.

Why would it be so important to understand all these alignments? Our solar system’s energy will wake up a great source of strength within us to overcome challenges you might have in your life and implement positive changes. A good reason for us to be more aware of our thoughts and how we express ourselves during this Snow Moon. Try out are some recommendations a few days leading up to and around the Snow Moon:

• Formulate a personal goal that is equally important spiritually as well as materially. This dream does not have to be tangible or completely clear just yet – however visualize its true significance in your life. Are you putting in the work to make this goal a reality?
• Reflect on your professional and personal relationships, as two equal and essential parts of one divine whole. Notice how each of you supports one another in life and beyond.
• Avoid self-indulgence and instead focus on improving your habits. Pick up a unique self-care practice to help you move through this lunation with greater balance.
• Strengthen the spiritual core of life through prayer, meditation and mindfulness.
• Practice cleaning, get active with fitness and movement, go for a massage, try the sauna, or take a swim.

Irina’s Story:

Astrology came into my life when I was a teenager. One day Mom bought a book with a description of the Zodiac. I read this book to the holes. It was very interesting and I wanted even more. I dreamed about astrology, and I didn't even think about how difficult it is to realize my dream. In the 90s, astrology came out of the shadows in Russia (it was previously banned), the first educational astrological centers began to appear in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But I lived in a small provincial town in the middle of nowhere. The Internet was not used then either. I was very surprised when a month after I dreamed, an astrology teacher appeared next to me, who was studying astrology in Moscow at the same time. It was a miracle! So a good astrological education appeared in my life, which in the future allowed me to make astrology an additional profession. But I studied astrology for a long time. I came to study at the Moscow Academy of Astrology in 2006. And I made sure that I know astrology well. So my experience in astrology has been more than twenty years. My clients are scattered all over the world. In addition to consultations, I do research projects. I report on the results of my research at astrological conferences. Now I combine astrology and psychology in consultations. I think astropsychology has a great future.

About Irina Tolmacheva:

Irina Tolmacheva is an Astrologer, Psychologist, Political Scientist from Moscow, Russia. She has a master's degree in psychology and a postgraduate degree in political science and has worked as a political journalist and researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, organizing and presenting discussions on lobbying at the Moscow Economic Forum. Over the past few years, her research interest in politics has focused on the specifics of the work of the Russian parliament – the analysis of the effectiveness and specifics of the work of deputies and senators.

She has worked In the realm of astrology since 1993 where she studied at the Moscow Academy of Astrology and worked in astrological consulting for twenty years. She has facilitated the following most notable research proejcts, Features of aspects of Pluto in public policies, analysis of astrological characteristics of deputies of the State Duma of the IV convocation of the Russian Federatio (2006), Astrology in Yoga (2016), Cosmonautics Day on April 12, 1979 – date and fate (2017), Astrological prerequisites of vegetarianism (2018), Psychodiagnostics in the service of astrology: an example of using one projective technique (2022).

Irina Tolmacheva is the author of the books: Lobbying in Russian. Between business and government, Lobbying in Russia, Discussions of the Moscow Economic Forum 2013-2017, Astrology in Yoga, Astrological prerequisites of vegetarianism, as well as many scientific and journalistic articles, columns and interviews for the magazines Vegetarian and Yoga Journal. She is also the presenter and director of the program ‘A Frame From Life’ on the TV channel, The First Vegetarian.

Visit her website http://starsdictate.tilda.ws/

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