Under the lunar eclipse on Tuesday, I started walking towards KFC, debating with myself (yet again) whether to walk straight back home to eat my leftovers of mushroom and butter beans.

I started salivating envisioning the crispiness of the popcorn chicken, like a dog when they hear you crinkling plastic that sounds exactly like their favourite bag of kangaroo jerky.

I often talk at length about listening to and honouring your body’s needs. I honest to goddess believe that this is one of the most important and fundamental skills we can develop as human beans living on earth.

Part of me wishes I could tell you about my very wholesome diet, a very important part of honouring what your body needs.

(WHAT DOES IT WANT THOUGH)

But I would be lying though my teeth though, if I didn’t also mention the times I would delete the KFC app for months, then google in my mobile browser “KFC promo”, and proceed to re-download the app anyway.

I’ve wondered if I should try hypnosis to curb this addiction. My Chinese doctor once asked: ‘do you crave fried oily foods? That’s what your body craves because xyz imbalance’, the precise imbalance promptly forgotten, his advice to stop doing it filed under my dusty basement of “things other people tell me to do that I really ought to heed”

My desire to nourish myself with only the most wholesome of foods, in tension with another primal desire, fleshy and immediate and impulsive.

My inner parent’s like NO, my inner child’s like YES PLEASE!!!!

I walked back home under the baleful rays, thoroughly relishing the tiny snack box of popcorn chicken, fifteen satisfying crunches, just the right amount of saltiness, inner child satiated.

My body was tired, I was cramping like mad, it was hours before the lunar eclipse in Virgo. As an astrologer, I would have given you general advice to eat something nourishing for your body, that your body could digest with ease.

But the key is always discernment and refining how to listen to yourself, another Virgoan lesson.

(which part of you though? Moon or Saturn?)

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Contradictions will always exist.

Tensions and paradoxes and polarities you can never quite seem to resolve, only met with honesty.

How opening to pleasure often reveals resistance.

How expressing a new facet of you illuminates fear.

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When you pay attention to your body, to your birth chart, you spot contradictions everywhere.

Squares and oppositions, hard lines and sharp edges.

What we do together as we work through your body and look at your chart, is massage your relationship to yourself and any area of your life to shift how you perceive yourself and move through the world.

You’re a rubik’s cube, white, yellow, red, orange, blue, and green.

A puzzle to solve over and over, all for the fun of it.

This Venus day, I hope you’re enjoying this experience of being alive - no matter how you’re feeling in this cosmic soup called life.

Tell me a contradiction you’ve been wrestling with - tiny or big… what did you end up landing on?