Myxticism

Myxticism: Musings on Mysticism and Magic from the Margins is Bear's Ryver's subscription newsletter. Home to Skyvibe Serial - Bear Ryver's weekly forecast series; Fortnightly Lunacy and Interlunar Etcetera, Bear's long-format lunar writings; and other long form essays.
Nov
10
Skyvibe Serial Week #46: November 12th - 18th

Skyvibe Serial Week #46: November 12th - 18th

18 min read
Nov
10
The Astrology of November 2023

The Astrology of November 2023

The previous Sun/Mars cycle draws to a close as the Sun marches nearer to Mars. If the Moon is our haggard uncle coming off a double-double full of trouble, then this Mars is like Odysseus coming back home rougher for the wear of those epic exploits.
9 min read
Nov
06
Skyvibe Serial Forecast: Week #45 November 5th - 11th

Skyvibe Serial Forecast: Week #45 November 5th - 11th

17 min read
Mar
23
The Astrology of April 2023

The Astrology of April 2023

April arrives with a battery of exams: A test of our faith; an invitation to wrestle with fervor (its fruitful and destructive qualities); a potential to purify our relationship with favor; and then a redo on the Aries New Moon – Eclipse Edition.
12 min read
Mar
22
Skyvibe Serial Forecast: Week #13 - March 26th - April 1st

Skyvibe Serial Forecast: Week #13 - March 26th - April 1st

The undulations of benefic and malefic enclosure (that extend into next week) are what really make this week one that can hold its own in comparison to the big ingresses earlier in the month. Particularly with Thursday's rogue wave right in the middle of the set.
14 min read
Mar
22
Fortnightly Lunacy 2023: Aries New Moon

Fortnightly Lunacy 2023: Aries New Moon

Saturn's overcoming square to the Gemini ascendant is the demand, and Mars in Gemini finally escaping the rays of Neptune's square is the detail's excruciating clarification.
8 min read
Mar
18
Betterthans & B-Sides: Week #12

Betterthans & B-Sides: Week #12

26 min read
Mar
15
Skyvibe Serial 2023: Week #12

Skyvibe Serial 2023: Week #12

If the winds of change were blowing earlier this month, this week we've got some some gale force winds. Pluto changes signs once a generation, and the changing of Pluto's sign from Capricorn into Aquarius is baked into the foundation of the USA as an internationally recognized independent nation.
15 min read
Mar
15
The Astrology of March 2023

The Astrology of March 2023

The month of March is of major passages and portents. Something y'all will likely have already noticed by the time this post goes live. Saturn's departure from home territory is the passage. And Pluto's (preliminary) entry into Aquarius the portent.
9 min read
Mar
15
Fortnightly Lunacy: Virgo Full Moon 2023

Fortnightly Lunacy: Virgo Full Moon 2023

Perhaps it's only fitting that an invitation to "see like Luna" would entail a certain cyclical darkness, and periodic changes of perspective? That there would be moments of pause, and retrospective reflection, in the realm of a planet who 'rejoices in the still silence of night'.
10 min read