Here's what to watch for:Saturn/Uranus* The old, traditional, and ancient together with the modern, the new, the inventive, the original, and progressive.* Retro technology, invention, and improvements upon things from the past.* Avante Garde individualism married to a traditional, conservative, disciplined, serious style.* Rebelliousness and sobriety, progress and form, structure and invention.* Challenging the current paradigm by returning in some way to a previous form or structure.* Breaking …
Venus Jupiter and the I Ching
Venus and Jupiter are coming together in Scorpio right now.Today an I Ching Meditation:* The 17th Hexagram of the I Ching is called "Following," but it is also referred to as "according with," "acquiring followers," "adapting," "adjusting," "to accord with," "to accompany," "concordance," or "conformance to the great work."* The judgment reads, "Following has supreme success. Perseverance furthers. No blame."* Another translation of the judgment reads, "Following is primordial, pervasive, …
Jupiter in Scorpio: Holiness and Desire
More Jupiter in Scorpio wisdom.* How do our desires become the vehicle for our spiritual growth?* Desire is problematic for us for a lot of different reasons. One of the most obvious reasons we struggle with desire is that desire keeps us stuck in a cycle of needing what we don't have, struggling to maintain what we have once we have it (the joy or satisfaction often being stripped in the process), and then being disappointed or suffering when we inevitably lose the object of our desire. All of …
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Venus Opposite Uranus Aftermath
Venus is just separating from it's opposition to Uranus and Mars is now applying to a square with Pluto.* Here in the US another mass/public shooting, this time in a church in Texas. Last week we also saw bicyclers mowed down on a bicycle path in NYC.* Last week I wrote several times about Venus opposite Uranus and the potential challenges, desecrations, disruptions, or violence done toward Venusian people, places, things, etc. Among those places traditionally ruled by Venus, temples, …
Jupiter in Scorpio and “Real” Teachers
More notes on Jupiter in Scorpio.* In addition to officials of all kinds, including politicians and lawyers, Jupiter has long been thought of as the planet of the guru, the teacher, the sage, the priest or priestess, or the professor.* Jupiter in Scorpio is the dark guru, the teacher of the underworld, the sage of shadows, the corruption of the priestly class, and the professor of the subversive. We say these things because Jupiter is in the dark, autumnal sign of Mars.* In yogic philosophy we …
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Full Moon in Taurus
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 …
