This is the first installment of Practical Magic: Working with the Stars, a monthly column where astrology is translated into real-world action via moi. As Your Astrology Coach and resident Dot Connector, I explore how to consciously work with the energy of each season, transit, or moment so it becomes something lived, not just understood.
Sagittarius Season: The Month of Miracles
According to the Kabbalists, Sagittarius is the month of miracles. That’s all very fine and well as a concept, but practically, how do we connect to them? Because yes, we can.
Miracles are made. Every day. And by us too. Let’s get into it.
Kabbalists On Sagittarius
The month of Sagittarius is one of the most positive, if not the most positive, times of the year. – Rav Berg, The Kabbalah Center
In Sagittarius, we are given the mercy when we may not deserve it, the blessing when we may not have earned it, and the miracle when we may not expect it.
– Karen Berg, The Kabbalah Center, on Miracles and Sagittarius
Understanding Your Relationship to Miracles
Can you see a miracle? What’s your relationship to miracles? This will shape not just your month, but your year to come as well as those around you, because it sets up your miracle-making ability. We all affect each other, so you not being all about miracles affects you and those around you. Thinking you are powerless in this vast universe is not what this month is about, so please get into miracle mode and your power, because that is what’s up.
Miracles are only like the best way we can create, so listen up and wake up, ’cause you are the miracle maker we all need. Yes, YOU!
What is a Miracle?
First off: What is a miracle?
Answer: It’s something that goes against what we think will happen; it’s outside of what we believe of nature.
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” – C.S. Lewis
So how do we make a miracle? Be like the above and mindfully operate like nature. Simple, right? Lol.
Again, clues to miracle making lie in this month’s energy and consciousness, according to the Kabbalists. Because yes, we can make miracles.
The Power of Hebrew Letters
First off, the Kabbalists teach that the Hebrew letters have power in them. There is a three-letter sequence for miracle making in the 72 Names of God. It’s number 3. Looks like this. Remember to scan from right to left.
Do you not believe that scanning letters can create miracles? How is your certainty? How do you feel about miracles? If you can’t believe that letters hold power, how can you believe that something opposite of nature can happen? Let alone how can you believe you can make miracles happen?
Knowing and creation. The powerful link.
Miracles Are Our Duty
Rav Berg, Founder of the Kabbalah Center, makes very clear that miracles are not only in our power to create, but it is our duty to do so. Anything less than expecting them is ridiculous. The stories in this month (yes, the Old Testament and Zohar) are all about miracles, and they come in the most absurd, unbelievable, surreal ways. Over and over again. And honestly, isn’t that how you know miracles to be? Oh my gosh, you’d never believe it type things that, voila, happen.
Everyday Miracles
Two people meeting and having a beautiful life together is a miracle. Happens often.
Someone coming up with an idea that cures an illness or solves some public safety issue.
Getting help you need out of the blue.
Getting that parking spot you need so you won’t be late to that important meeting.
Missing the plane that crashes.
Catching the plane to celebrate a family occasion.
What’s your relationship to miracles? Do you talk about them? Do you try to make them for yourself and others? Do you think they are possible? Have you stopped believing in them?
Do you believe in miracles?
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” – Saint Augustine
Miracles Happen Every Day
Listen, miracles happen every second of every day. Miraculous healing. People getting the help they need in their business. Soulmates meet. You find that missing thing. Miracles run the gamut. There are also other miracles. Someone decides to stop settling for crumbs. Someone decides to go for a better job and make more money and improve their quality of life. Someone decides to quit smoking. Quit drinking. Quit those dirty websites. Someone decides to call that family member to reconcile. To call that friend they hurt and apologize. To stop eating that food that hurts them. To stop criticizing. To start eating well and exercising.
These are all miracles.
How often do you think about miracles? Do you expect them? Do you try to make them?
When was your last miracle? Maybe you saw another’s miracle, ’cause that counts too. Does talk of a miracle make you smile or get sad? Do you believe in miracles? Like gravity, they happen, so, you know, do or not, that’s on you, boo. Though that will affect your ability to make them, and you wouldn’t want to do that, right?
“Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.” – David Ben-Gurion
How to Make a Miracle
Back to how to make a miracle. The Kabbalists teach it is a very simple formula. You have to go against nature, including letting go.
Did you ever hear the story of the man who was stuck in a building in a flood? The whole city was flooded and underwater. People fled the building on foot and said to him, come on, our car is leaving and the water is rising. Waiting too much longer and you can’t get out. The man said, no thanks, I’ll wait here. I asked God to save me and He will, so they left.
The water rose and the streets were full of water. A guy floated by in a raft and said, come on, get in, I’ll take you to safety. But the guy said, no thanks, I’m waiting for God. I asked Him to save me. The rowboat went on. Another man came by in a helicopter as the man was on the roof, and he threw down a rope for the man to climb up, but the man said nope, I’m waiting on God.
The water rose above the building and the man drowned, and when he got to heaven he asked God, where were you? I called to you and you never came.
God said, um, hello, I sent your neighbors with the car, the dude in the rowboat, and the plane. (I’m paraphrasing lol.)
Point is: Sometimes our miracle doesn’t look like we thought it would.
Can you see a miracle? Open all your eyes (especially that third one 😉). Do you see the miracle that woke you up today? That allowed your body to function? Your brain to process?
“Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.” – Walt Whitman
The Reality of Miracles
People get married and are so in love. It ends in hatred and animosity and cruelty. What happened? Where was that miracle? They met and married the love of their life. People get a miracle job opportunity that is a dream come true, only to have the job turn sour and them in debt or abused. What happened to that miracle?
Miracles are serious, wonderful, literally wonderful happenings. Sadly, we humans misuse that word, and so don’t appreciate what a miracle is.
When was the last time you listed your miracles? You appreciated getting someplace safely? You appreciated opening your eyes this morning if you could? Moving your limbs at will? Having someone look forward to seeing you?
Miracles require humility. They require awe, too. I once asked someone getting married why they thought they merited their soulmate, and you’d have thought I slapped them across the face, lol. They were insulted. I wasn’t doubting they deserved it; I was curious how they viewed this miraculous partnership in their life.
Where is the humility? Where is the awe and wonder? THE APPRECIATION?! They defensively said they’d suffered bad dates and relationships and so they’d earned it. (Let’s just say a few years on, and it’s clear that the relationship they “earned” is not all wine and roses they portrayed at the start.) Healthy ego requires humility.
How can your glass get full if you’ve already put your hand over it?
The saying is miracles and wonders.
What have you appreciated lately?
Working in Concert with the Cosmos
To work in concert with the cosmos is what we do every day, conscious or not. I’m asking you to be conscious. Miracles ask you to be conscious. To participate.
If you knew you could create miracles, and you can, you would treat your daily actions, your words, your focus differently, no? You’d pay more attention to those around you, their needs. How you can help. You’d feel more empowered to go for that thing you want, to try, to do.
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
Sagittarius Season is Go Time
What is a Sag (at their best, lol)? Someone who learns. A lot. Who is out in the world gathering wisdom. Who is sharing that. Who is leaping, going for it, excited to get out and try, expecting to win something, even if it’s a great story. And so they do. It’s someone who is doing. Showing up. Out there.
You gotta be out there. They say you make your luck, right? Well, making is an action.
They are lucky. Famously lucky (infamously, lol). However, what’s that saying about luck equaling preparation and timing? If you are studied, out there in the world, curious, doing, going with the flow, focusing on others, you get luck…you get miracles.
Formula for Miracle Making
Let’s look at the formula for miracle making: doing what is surprising to nature. Going beyond yourself and expectations.
- Can you do more for others than yourself? That brings miracles.
- Can you do something you’ve been putting off that you know is the right thing? That brings miracles.
- Can you actually go for what you want so you can get it? That brings miracles.
Are you doing?
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
What miracles do you want to make? Are they selfish? Do they elevate the world for everyone? Does it alleviate someone else’s pain? Is it just about you?
Look, NO one is saying you can’t wish for money and love and stuff. Please do! BUT is that really what you want? Or do you want the fulfillment you think these things will bring? ’Cause lots of people have money and love and stuff and are miserable.
Think more this month about what miracles you want in your life and the world and focus on those. How can you make your dreams come true? How can you make others?
According to the Kabbalists, the fastest way to get what you want is to do that for another. Be another’s miracle and watch yours come. But again, you gotta let go.
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” – C.S. Lewis
Kislev: The Month of the Heart
In Hebrew, the month is called Kislev. There is lots of wisdom in the word, but within the word is lev, meaning heart.
Miracles and the heart are in this month’s essence. Use it. Make those miracles only you can make. How cool is that? Yes!
“As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.” – Louise Hay
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Wants to know. Has some questions. Very Sag. Always up for pizza. Planning several trips. Big fan of joy. Wants to talk about it. All of them. Is sure we can figure out this whole living thing. Is rooting for you.
