Happy Full Moon Everyone!Late tonight, early tomorrow morning, the Full Moon is in Taurus. Meanwhile, Venus is opposing Uranus today.Here's what to watch for:* This full Moon is brought to you by Mars and Venus. The Sun is in Mars' sign and the Moon in Venus' sign. Meanwhile, Venus is in her own sign moving through an opposition with Uranus in Mars' sign. So the simplest message is this: watch for the tension between Mars and Venus today and over the weekend.* The tension between Mars and Venus …
Venus Opposite Uranus and Current Events
Venus is closing in on an opposition to Uranus.Here's what to watch for based on the study of previous Venus/Uranus dynamics:* Venus will perfect its opposition to Uranus by early last Friday night/early Saturday morning.* Not many people know that Venus was traditionally related not only to women, beauty, harmony, love, and the goddess but also cleanliness. An affliction to Venus can sometimes represent desecration or a clean environment becoming stained, toxic, or diseased. We can also think …
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Jupiter in Scorpio for Halloween
Today, Halloween tales from Jupiter in Scorpio...* Jupiter in the Mars ruled, feminine/yin water sign of Autumn brings together the qualities of disintegration, death, destruction, depth, and intensity, with wisdom, faith, hope, renewal, growth, and nobility. What do these themes look like when you put them together?* Once upon a time, there was a man who was living by himself and he was gifted a jar of "medically enhanced" butter. He kept it in a jar in his refrigerator because he wasn't …
Venus Opposite Uranus This Week
Venus is moving into an opposition with Uranus this week.Today an I Ching Meditation:* The 27th hexagram of the I Ching is called "Providing Nourishment," and the hexagram image is that of an open mouth.* The 27th hexagram offers a variety of teachings on what comes into and out of our mouths, bodies, and minds. The instruction is to provide nourishment for others we must provide nourishment for ourselves, or that the two are interchangeable. This is a classic teaching.* The 27th hexagram also …
Jupiter/Neptune Coming Soon!
Jupiter in Scorpio is moving slowly toward a trine with Neptune in Pisces.* In order to fully understand what the Jupiter trine to Neptune means we need to begin with a breakdown of Neptune.* I like to think of Neptune as a planet that shares many of the same qualities as the Moon. The Moon at its worst is related to dense materiality: impermanent, in flux, illusory, hungry but never satiated, with no light of its own, a borrowed or "counterfeit" light. However, the Moon at its best is related …
Venus Square Pluto in the News
Venus is just past its square to Pluto.* Two headlines that mirror the Venus/Pluto square. The first is the report that a federal grand jury has approved charges in the Mueller/FBI investigation.* The second is simple and pertains to the ongoing "take a knee" controversy between NFL football players and the owners. Yesterday the owner of the Houston Texans was found to have compared his players to inmates at a prison. Afterward, the owner issued an apology that was clearly an attempt to …
Venus Square Pluto Today
Venus is moving into a square with Pluto today.Here's what to watch for:* When Venus and Pluto combine it's normal to see turmoil in relationships. Why? Because the planet of harmony, friendship, and diplomacy is moving into a Mars-like relationship (squares are of the nature of Mars, traditionally speaking) and Pluto is the lord of the underworld.* The "underworld" is one of those words we should have to put a quarter into a jar for every time we use it mindlessly in astrology. The word …
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Jupiter's entrance into Scorpio, along with the Sun brings to mind a variety of interesting themes, thanks in no small part to Jupiter being the dispositor for the finalizing of the Saturn/Neptune square.* As Saturn and Neptune have been square to one another for quite some time now, we've been in the midst of a crisis of truth. What is truth? Is truth a construction? Is it relative? Is it real? Is anything real? On the one hand, we've seen anyone and everyone challenge the nature of truth, but …
The Temple of Scorpio
The Sun has entered Scorpio this week, and ruling planet Mars is in its exile in Libra.* The Sun in Scorpio represents the most solid and stable time of solar descent in the zodiacal year.* Each day takes us deeper and deeper into darkness.* Darkness is materiality, the unconscious, and also the soul, which can only be found when we see beyond material, sunshine appearances and into the depths, into the invisible.* Scorpio is the feminine home of Mars.* Mars and Scorpio are likened to each …
Old Jupiter This Week
As this week unfolds, Jupiter will conjoin the Sun and Venus will move into a square with Pluto.Here's what to watch for:* Jupiter is dying and being reborn this week. It's a very powerful time for Jupiter ruled things, which include: faith, wisdom, virtue, nobility, honor, people of high rank, officials, lawyers, judges, politicians, religious leaders, justice, truth, belief, philosophy, trust, truth, arrogance, boastfulness, exaggeration, grandiosity, blessings, boons, windfalls, growth or …
Mars/Venus and the Radical 3rd
Mars is entering the sign of Libra today, the home sign of Venus.* Although sometimes we refer to any planet in the sign opposite its own as being it its "detriment," it was also classically said to be in its exile. The connotation of the word exile is completely different from the word "detriment," which sounds technical, dry, and negative to most people's ears.* Mars is in its exile in Venus' sign because Mars becomes the outsider, the wanderer, the foreigner, the stranger in a strange land, …
Venus and Mars in the Week Ahead
Over the next week, Venus will move into a square with Pluto and Mars will also enter Venus' home sign of Libra.What to keep your eyes on over the next ten days or so:* Women in power* Women and the underworld* The transformation of the feminine* Death in relationships* Power struggles and diplomacy* Passive aggression* Feminism and the power of the goddess in the collective* Exposure of dishonest deals or agreements* Sexual perversion, manipulation, or sexual abuse as a continued theme in the …
