Part One: The Witness In 1989 I was eight years old, living in Hong Kong. I didn’t understand geopolitics. Children don’t read the news. They read the room. And the room that year had a particular quality I still recognise in my body: the held breath of a city grieving something it hadn’t lost yet but already knew it would. Hong Kong took to the streets in silence, holding candles for the students in Tiananmen Square. A city mourning on behalf of people it could not save, for

This week, astrology reaches an intensity most of us will experience only once: a New Moon solar eclipse at 29° Aquarius - the last breath before dissolution, the point of no return - square Uranus at 28° Taurus, while Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries on February 20th. The cosmic egg cracks open at the zero point of the zodiac. Something entirely new attempts to be born from the ashes. It's like having your fingers plugged into an electrical socket, whether you want it or

Leo governs the heart. Many of us feel something tightening in the chest… This Full Moon brings into the light a very tangible tension: between the mind that observes, analyzes, keeps its distance (Aquarius), and the heart that wants to beat freely, to radiate, to be alive (Leo). We have all built an armor around the heart… out of survival instinct. It protected us, but sometimes what protected us has also created an ongoing state of dissociation. Artwork: Moon Mountain Lion