By Madame Dana Zia On January 2nd at 10:30am, the first New Moon of the year comes charging in. This is a complicated New Moon since it is involved with Venus retrograde…
Category: Astrology
ASTROLOGY: Gemini Full Moon, December 18, 2021
By Madame Dana Zia The very last Full Moon of the 2021 dances in today, December 18th at 8:34pm PST. Historically it is called the “Cold Moon” and is in the mercurial…
Oyster Stew — An old tradition for the holidays
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “Oysters are one of the supreme delights that nature has bestowed on man.” James Beard Oysters are one of the great celebration foods that over the…
ASTROLOGY: New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius 2021
By Madame Dana Zia On December 3rd in the deep velvet of the night, right before midnight, the New Moon Eclipses the Sun in the seeker sign of Sagittarius. This is another…
GOLIGHTLY GOURMET: A New Twist on Sweet Potatoes
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” ~Robert Caspar Lintner Here is an historical twist: there were no sweet potatoes at…
ASTROLOGY: Full Moon in Taurus on November 19th
By Madame Dana Zia This is a very special Full Moon taking place in Taurus and visiting the star cluster Pleiades. It is the longest partial Lunar Eclipse in 580 years and…
New Moon in Scorpio 11/4/21 @2:15 pm PDT; Wizards about, changes a’brewing
By Madame Dana Zia On November 4th at 2:15pm PDT, the Moon will be conjunct the Sun and so new in the sign of Scorpio. This particular Full Moon is going to…
GOLIGHTLY GOURMET: Doing scary things to your food for Halloween
By Dana Zia “Where there is no imagination there is no Horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. I just love everything about Halloween! It has a long and scary history; being it is…
ASTROLOGY: New Moon in Libra – October 6th at 4:05 am PDT
By Madame Dana Zia This New Moon is winging in on the back of Pegasus with the Sun and Mars as companions and they mean business! Mars, the Sun and the Moon…
Apples: Secretly disguised superheroes
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” who knows? The simple and common apple is actually a superhero. Immortal and extraordinary, the apple has been…
